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Michele Brunetti publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michele Brunetti sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 183 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Michele Brunetti D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michele Brunetti sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

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

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

    Michele Brunetti;Maurizio Maugeri;Fabio Monti;Teresa Nanni

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

    Reinhard Böhm;Ingeborg Auer;Michele Brunetti;Maurizio Maugeri

  • Benchmarking homogenization algorithms for monthly data

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

  • Benchmarking homogenization algorithms for monthly data

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

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

    Michele Brunetti;Maurizio Maugeri;Teresa Nanni

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

    Michele Brunetti;Letizia Buffoni;Franca Mangianti;Maurizio Maugeri

  • Precipitation concentration changes in Spain 1946-2005

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

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

    Michele Brunetti;Michele Colacino;Maurizio Maugeri;Teresa Nanni

  • Precipitation intensity trends in northern Italy.

    Michele Brunetti;Letizia Buffoni;Maurizio Maugeri;Teresa Nanni

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

    Ingeborg Auer;Reinhard Böhm;Anita Jurković;Alexander Orlik

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

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

  • 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

  • Mediterranean climate variability over the last centuries: a review

    Jürg Luterbacher;Elena Xoplaki;Carlo Casty;Heinz Wanner

  • Changes in seasonal precipitation in the Iberian Peninsula during 1946–2005

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

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

    Michele Brunetti;Maurizio Maugeri;Fabio Monti;Teresa Nanni

  • 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

  • Variations of Temperature and Precipitation in Italy from 1866 to 1995

    M. Brunetti;M. Maugeri;T. Nanni

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

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

  • Droughts and extreme events in regional daily Italian precipitation series

    Michele Brunetti;Maurizio Maugeri;Teresa Nanni;Antonio Navarra

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

    Michele Brunetti;Maurizio Maugeri;Teresa Nanni;Ingeborg Auer

Frequent Co-Authors

Maurizio Maugeri
Maurizio Maugeri University of Milan
José Carlos González-Hidalgo
José Carlos González-Hidalgo University of Zaragoza
Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo
Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo University of Extremadura
Carlo Baroni
Carlo Baroni University of Pisa
Claude N. Williams
Claude N. Williams National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Wolfgang Schöner
Wolfgang Schöner University of Graz
Javier Martin-Vide
Javier Martin-Vide University of Barcelona
Philip Jones
Philip Jones University of East Anglia
Manola Brunet
Manola Brunet University of East Anglia
Jürg Luterbacher
Jürg Luterbacher University of Giessen

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