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Overview

Massimiliano Zappa is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on water science and technology, global and planetary change, and atmospheric science.

Their work covers a range of subfields including:

  • Water Science and Technology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Environmental Chemistry

Key topics in their research include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Climate variability and models
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Tree-ring climate responses

Massimiliano Zappa has contributed to various publications, frequently collaborating with several coauthors. Notable frequent coauthors include Pascal Horton, Daniel Viviroli, Anna E. Sikorska-Senoner, Manuela I. Brunner, and Fabrizio Fenicia.

Their research has appeared in multiple venues, most often published in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Scientific Data
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Massimiliano Zappa are:

  • Hybrid forecasting: blending climate predictions with AI models, 2023, Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Large-scale early-wilting response of Central European forests to the 2018 extreme drought, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • CAMELS-CH: hydro-meteorological time series and landscape attributes for 331 catchments in hydrologic Switzerland, 2023, Earth system science data
  • Four years of daily stable water isotope data in stream water and precipitation from three Swiss catchments, 2022, Scientific Data
  • FORests and HYdrology under Climate Change in Switzerland v1.0: a spatially distributed model combining hydrology and forest dynamics, 2020, Geoscientific model development

Best Publications

  • Are niche-based species distribution models transferable in space?

    Christophe F. Randin;Thomas Dirnböck;Stefan Dullinger;Niklaus E. Zimmermann

  • Climate change and plant distribution: local models predict high-elevation persistence

    Christophe F. Randin;Robin Engler;Signe Normand;Massimiliano Zappa

  • ALPINE3D: a detailed model of mountain surface processes and its application to snow hydrology

    Michael Lehning;Ingo Völksch;David Gustafsson;Tuan Anh Nguyen

  • Quantifying uncertainty sources in an ensemble of hydrological climate-impact projections

    T. Bosshard;M. Carambia;K. Goergen;S. Kotlarski

  • An introduction to the hydrological modelling system PREVAH and its pre- and post-processing-tools

    D. Viviroli;M. Zappa;J. Gurtz;R. Weingartner

  • REAL—Ensemble radar precipitation estimation for hydrology in a mountainous region

    Urs Germann;Marc Berenguer;Daniel Sempere-Torres;Massimiliano Zappa

  • The hydrological role of snow and glaciers in alpine river basins and their distributed modeling

    M. Verbunt;J. Gurtz;K. Jasper;H. Lang

  • Does model performance improve with complexity? : A case study with three hydrological models

    Rene Orth;Maria Staudinger;Sonia I. Seneviratne;Jan Seibert

  • A comparative study in modelling runoff and its components in two mountainous catchments

    Joachim Gurtz;Massimiliano Zappa;Karsten Jasper;Herbert Lang

  • Hybrid forecasting: blending climate predictions with AI models

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  • Swiss prealpine Rietholzbach research catchment and lysimeter: 32 year time series and 2003 drought event

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Irene Lehner;Joachim Gurtz;Adriaan J. Teuling;Adriaan J. Teuling

  • Seasonal Water Balance of an Alpine Catchment as Evaluated by Different Methods for Spatially Distributed Snowmelt Modelling

    M. Zappa;F. Pos;U. Strasser;P.M.M. Warmerdam

  • MAP D-PHASE: Real-Time Demonstration of Weather Forecast Quality in the Alpine region

    Mathias W. Rotach;Paolo Ambrosetti;Felix Ament;Christof Appenzeller

  • Superposition of three sources of uncertainties in operational flood forecasting chains

    Massimiliano Zappa;Simon Jaun;Urs Germann;André Walser

  • Present and future water scarcity in Switzerland: Potential for alleviation through reservoirs and lakes.

    Manuela I. Brunner;Astrid Björnsen Gurung;Massimiliano Zappa;Harry Zekollari

  • Extreme heat and runoff extremes in the Swiss Alps

    M. Zappa;C. Kan

  • MAP D-PHASE: real-time demonstration of hydrological ensemble prediction systems

    Massimiliano Zappa;Mathias W. Rotach;Marco Arpagaus;Manfred Dorninger

  • An operational hydrological ensemble prediction system for the city of Zurich (Switzerland): skill, case studies and scenarios

    N. Addor;N. Addor;N. Addor;S. Jaun;F. Fundel;M. Zappa

  • Large-scale early-wilting response of Central European forests to the 2018 extreme drought.

    Philipp Brun;Achilleas Psomas;Christian Ginzler;Wilfried Thuiller

  • Turbulence Structure and Exchange Processes in an Alpine Valley: The Riviera Project

    Mathias W. Rotach;Pierluigi Calanca;Giovanni Graziani;Joachim Gurtz

  • Continuous simulation for flood estimation in ungauged mesoscale catchments of Switzerland - part I: modelling framework and calibration results

    Daniel Viviroli;Daniel Viviroli;Massimiliano Zappa;Jan Schwanbeck;Jan Schwanbeck;Joachim Gurtz

  • Representation of spatial and temporal variability in large-domain hydrological models: case study for a mesoscale pre-Alpine basin

    Lieke Melsen;Adriaan Teuling;Paul Torfs;Massimilliano Zappa

Frequent Co-Authors

Tobias Jonas
Tobias Jonas Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Rolf Weingartner
Rolf Weingartner University of Bern
Olivia Martius
Olivia Martius University of Bern
Nadine Salzmann
Nadine Salzmann University of Fribourg
Adriaan J. Teuling
Adriaan J. Teuling Wageningen University & Research
Jens M. Turowski
Jens M. Turowski University of Potsdam
Christian Huggel
Christian Huggel University of Zurich
Mathias W. Rotach
Mathias W. Rotach University of Innsbruck

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