2026 Michele Brunetti: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	46	5968	5727	112	112	183	11818

Overview

Michele Brunetti is affiliated with the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable attention to Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change.

Their main scientific interests encompass diverse topics including tree-ring climate responses, climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, cryospheric studies and observations, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, landslides and related hazards, as well as hydrology and watershed management studies.

Brunetti's publication record includes articles across several esteemed journals. Frequent publication venues are the International Journal of Climatology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Remote Sensing, Atmospheric Research, and the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Selected recent papers authored by or involving Brunetti include:

Recent waning snowpack in the Alps is unprecedented in the last six centuries, 2023, Nature Climate Change
Climate and land-use changes drive biodiversity turnover in arthropod assemblages over 150 years, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
High temporal variability not trend dominates Mediterranean precipitation, 2025, Nature
A multi-century meteo-hydrological analysis for the Adda river basin (Central Alps). Part I: Gridded monthly precipitation (1800-2016) records, 2020, International Journal of Climatology
MOTEDAS century: A new high-resolution secular monthly maximum and minimum temperature grid for the Spanish mainland (1916-2015), 2020, International Journal of Climatology

Collaborations have been frequent with researchers such as Maurizio Maugeri, Veronica Manara, Alice Crespi, Riccardo Cerrato, and María Cristina Salvatore.

The subfields of study in which Brunetti has contributed include:

Atmospheric Science
Global and Planetary Change
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Water Science and Technology
Plant Science

Thematically, their work touches on:

Tree-ring climate responses
Climate variability and models
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Cryospheric studies and observations
Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Landslides and related hazards
Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Best Publications

HISTALP—historical instrumental climatological surface time series of the Greater Alpine Region

Ingeborg Auer;Reinhard Böhm;Anita Jurkovic;Wolfgang Lipa

1355
Citations
Temperature and precipitation variability in Italy in the last two centuries from homogenised instrumental time series

Michele Brunetti;Maurizio Maugeri;Fabio Monti;Teresa Nanni

746
Citations
REGIONAL TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY IN THE EUROPEAN ALPS: 1760 -1998 FROM HOMOGENIZED INSTRUMENTAL TIME SERIES

Reinhard Böhm;Ingeborg Auer;Michele Brunetti;Maurizio Maugeri

551
Citations
Benchmarking homogenization algorithms for monthly data

V. K. C. Venema;O. Mestre;E. Aguilar;I. Auer

408
Citations
Benchmarking homogenization algorithms for monthly data

V. K. C. Venema;O. Mestre;E. Aguilar;I. Auer

403
Citations
Changes in total precipitation, rainy days and extreme events in northeastern Italy

Michele Brunetti;Maurizio Maugeri;Teresa Nanni

353
Citations
Temperature, precipitation and extreme events during the last century in Italy

Michele Brunetti;Letizia Buffoni;Franca Mangianti;Maurizio Maugeri

328
Citations
Precipitation concentration changes in Spain 1946-2005

M. de Luis;J. C. González-Hidalgo;M. Brunetti;L. A. Longares

327
Citations
Trends in the daily intensity of precipitation in Italy from 1951 to 1996

Michele Brunetti;Michele Colacino;Maurizio Maugeri;Teresa Nanni

299
Citations
Precipitation intensity trends in northern Italy.

Michele Brunetti;Letizia Buffoni;Maurizio Maugeri;Teresa Nanni

287
Citations
A new instrumental precipitation dataset for the greater alpine region for the period 1800–2002

Ingeborg Auer;Reinhard Böhm;Anita Jurković;Alexander Orlik

274
Citations
The early instrumental warm-bias: a solution for long central European temperature series 1760-2007.

Reinhard Böhm;Philip D. Jones;Johann Hiebl;David Frank

267
Citations
Climate variability and change in the Greater Alpine Region over the last two centuries based on multi-variable analysis

Michele Brunetti;Gianluca Lentini;Maurizio Maugeri;Teresa Nanni

266
Citations
Mediterranean climate variability over the last centuries: a review

Jürg Luterbacher;Elena Xoplaki;Carlo Casty;Heinz Wanner

256
Citations
Changes in seasonal precipitation in the Iberian Peninsula during 1946–2005

Martin de Luis;Michele Brunetti;José Carlos Gonzalez-Hidalgo;Luis Alberto Longares

255
Citations
Changes in daily precipitation frequency and distribution in Italy over the last 120 years

Michele Brunetti;Maurizio Maugeri;Fabio Monti;Teresa Nanni

247
Citations
A new tool for monthly precipitation analysis in Spain: MOPREDAS database (monthly precipitation trends December 1945–November 2005)

Jose Carlos González‐Hidalgo;Michele Brunetti;Martín de Luis

240
Citations
Variations of Temperature and Precipitation in Italy from 1866 to 1995

M. Brunetti;M. Maugeri;T. Nanni

224
Citations
Trends of Minimum and Maximum Daily Temperatures in Italy from 1865 to 1996

M. Brunetti;L. Buffoni;M. Maugeri;T. Nanni

216
Citations
Droughts and extreme events in regional daily Italian precipitation series

Michele Brunetti;Maurizio Maugeri;Teresa Nanni;Antonio Navarra

202
Citations
Precipitation variability and changes in the greater Alpine region over the 1800–2003 period

Michele Brunetti;Maurizio Maugeri;Teresa Nanni;Ingeborg Auer

177
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Maurizio Maugeri University of Milan

José Carlos González-Hidalgo University of Zaragoza

Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo University of Extremadura

Carlo Baroni University of Pisa

Claude N. Williams National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Wolfgang Schöner University of Graz

Javier Martin-Vide University of Barcelona

Philip Jones University of East Anglia

Manola Brunet University of East Anglia

Jürg Luterbacher University of Giessen

External Links

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