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Maria Carmen Llasat

Maria Carmen Llasat

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Environmental Sciences
Spain
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
54
Citations
13269
World Ranking
3983
National Ranking
104

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Maria Carmen Llasat is affiliated with the University of Barcelona in Spain and conducts research primarily in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Sociology and Political Science, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics covered in their research include Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Climate Variability and Models, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research.

Notable recent publications by Maria Carmen Llasat include:

  • Challenges for drought assessment in the Mediterranean region under future climate scenarios, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management, 2022, Nature
  • Current European flood-rich period exceptional compared with past 500 years, 2020, Nature
  • The need to integrate flood and drought disaster risk reduction strategies, 2020, Water Security
  • Climate change impacts on water resources in the Mediterranean, 2020, Regional Environmental Change

Frequent co-authors working with Maria Carmen Llasat include Tomeu Rigo, Montserrat Llasat-Botija, Laura Esbrí, Damián Insúa-Costa, and Manfred A. Lange.

Their research has been published repeatedly in specialized venues such as:

  • Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • Nature
  • Atmospheric Research
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Climate change and interconnected risks to sustainable development in the Mediterranean

    Wolfgang Cramer;Joël Guiot;Marianela Fader;Joaquim Garrabou;Joaquim Garrabou

  • Understanding Flood Regime Changes in Europe: A state of the art assessment

    J Hall;B Arheimer;M Borga;R Brazdil;R Brazdil

  • Challenges for drought assessment in the Mediterranean region under future climate scenarios

    Yves Tramblay;Aristeidis Koutroulis;Luis Samaniego;Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano

  • The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management

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  • Exacerbated fires in Mediterranean Europe due to anthropogenic warming projected with non-stationary climate-fire models.

    Marco Turco;Juan José Rosa-Cánovas;Joaquín Bedia;Sonia Jerez

  • Use of Systematic, Palaeoflood and Historical Data for the Improvement of Flood Risk Estimation. Review of Scientific Methods

    Gerardo Benito;Michel Lang;Mariano Barriendos;M. Carmen Llasat

  • HYMEX , a 10-year Multidisciplinary Program on the mediterranean water cycle.

    P. Drobinski;Véronique Ducrocq;P. Alpert;E. Anagnostou

  • High-impact floods and flash floods in Mediterranean countries: the FLASH preliminary database

    M. C. Llasat;M. Llasat-Botija;M. A. Prat;F. Porcú

  • Current European flood-rich period exceptional compared with past 500 years

    Günter Blöschl;Andrea Kiss;Alberto Viglione;Mariano Barriendos

  • On the key role of droughts in the dynamics of summer fires in Mediterranean Europe.

    Marco Turco;Marco Turco;Jost von Hardenberg;Amir AghaKouchak;Maria Carmen Llasat

  • Adaptation to flood risk: Results of international paired flood event studies

    Heidi Kreibich;Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Sergiy Vorogushyn;Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts

  • The need to integrate flood and drought disaster risk reduction strategies

    Philip J. Ward;Marleen C. de Ruiter;Johanna Mård;Kai Schröter

  • Floods in Catalonia (NE Spain) since the 14th century. Climatological and meteorological aspects from historical documentary sources and old instrumental records

    María-Carmen Llasat;Mariano Barriendos;Antonio Barrera;Tomeu Rigo

  • Decreasing fires in Mediterranean Europe

    Marco Turco;Joaquín Bedia;Fabrizio Di Liberto;Paolo Fiorucci

  • An objective classification of rainfall events on the basis of their convective features: application to rainfall intensity in the northeast of spain

    María-Carmen Llasat

  • Climate change impacts on wildfires in a Mediterranean environment

    Marco Turco;Maria-Carmen Llasat;Jost von Hardenberg;Antonello Provenzale

  • Predicting the potential for lightning activity in Mediterranean storms based on the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model dynamic and microphysical fields

    Yoav Yair;Barry Lynn;Colin Price;Vassiliki Kotroni

  • Towards a database on societal impact of Mediterranean floods within the framework of the HYMEX project

    M. C. Llasat;M. Llasat-Botija;O. Petrucci;A. A. Pasqua

  • Trends in flash flood events versus convective precipitation in the Mediterranean region: The case of Catalonia

    Maria Carmen Llasat;Raul Marcos;Marco Turco;Joan Gilabert

  • Flash flood evolution in North-Western Mediterranean

    Maria Carmen Llasat;Raül Marcos;Montserrat Llasat-Botija;Joan Gilabert

  • Stationarity analysis of historical flood series in France and Spain (14th–20th centuries)

    M. Barriendos;D. Coeur;M. Lang;M. C. Llasat

  • A flood geodatabase and its climatological applications: the case of Catalonia for the last century

    M. Barnolas;M. C. Llasat

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Turco
Marco Turco University of Murcia
Vassiliki Kotroni
Vassiliki Kotroni National Observatory of Athens
Rudolf Brázdil
Rudolf Brázdil Czech Academy of Sciences
Mariano Barriendos
Mariano Barriendos University of Barcelona
Luis Garrote
Luis Garrote Technical University of Madrid
Colin Price
Colin Price Tel Aviv University
Silas Michaelides
Silas Michaelides Cyprus University of Technology
Gonzalo Miguez-Macho
Gonzalo Miguez-Macho University of Santiago de Compostela
Efrat Morin
Efrat Morin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Piero Lionello
Piero Lionello University of Salento

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