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Paolo Burlando

Paolo Burlando

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
62
Citations
11586
World Ranking
2653
National Ranking
74

Overview

Paolo Burlando is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Their scholarly work covers various main topics such as:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Paolo Burlando has published research in multiple academic venues, with frequent contributions to the following journals:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Urban forestry & urban greening
  • Building and Environment

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Paolo Burlando include:

  • "More green and less blue water in the Alps during warmer summers," 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "Tree effects on urban microclimate: Diurnal, seasonal, and climatic temperature differences explained by separating radiation, evapotranspiration, and roughness effects," 2020, Urban forestry & urban greening
  • "Vegetation cover and plant-trait effects on outdoor thermal comfort in a tropical city," 2021, Building and Environment
  • "An urban ecohydrological model to quantify the effect of vegetation on urban climate and hydrology (UT&C v1.0)," 2020, Geoscientific model development
  • "Breaking Down the Computational Barriers to Real-Time Urban Flood Forecasting," 2021, Geophysical Research Letters

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Simone Fatichi
  • Nadav Peleg
  • Péter Molnár
  • Naika Meili
  • Gabriele Manoli

Best Publications

  • Magnitude of urban heat islands largely explained by climate and population

    Gabriele Manoli;Gabriele Manoli;Simone Fatichi;Markus Schläpfer;Kailiang Yu

  • Streamflow trends in Switzerland

    Marius-Victor Birsan;Peter Molnar;Paolo Burlando;Martin Pfaundler

  • An enhanced temperature-index glacier melt model including the shortwave radiation balance: development and testing for Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland

    Francesca Pellicciotti;Ben Brock;Ulrich Strasser;Paolo Burlando

  • Scaling and muitiscaling models of depth-duration-frequency curves for storm precipitation

    Paolo Burlando;Renzo Rosso

  • Tree effects on urban microclimate: Diurnal, seasonal, and climatic temperature differences explained by separating radiation, evapotranspiration, and roughness effects

    Naika Meili;Gabriele Manoli;Paolo Burlando;Jan Carmeliet

  • Field experiments and numerical modeling of mass entrainment in snow avalanches

    Betty Sovilla;Paolo Burlando;P. Bartelt

  • More green and less blue water in the Alps during warmer summers

    Theodoros Mastrotheodoros;Christoforos Pappas;Peter Molnar;Paolo Burlando

  • Wind influence on snow depth distribution and accumulation over glaciers

    R. Dadic;R. Dadic;R. Mott;M. Lehning;P. Burlando

  • Storm type effects on super Clausius–Clapeyron scaling of intense rainstorm properties with air temperature

    P. Molnar;S. Fatichi;L. Gaál;L. Gaál;J. Szolgay

  • Preservation of rainfall properties in stochastic disaggregation by a simple random cascade model

    Peter Molnar;Paolo Burlando

  • Forecasting of short-term rainfall using ARMA models

    Paolo Burlando;Renzo Rosso;Luis G. Cadavid;Jose D. Salas

  • Sensitivity analysis, calibration, and testing of a distributed hydrological model using error-based weighting and one objective function

    L. Foglia;Mary C. Hill;Steffen W. Mehl;P. Burlando

  • An advanced stochastic weather generator for simulating 2-D high-resolution climate variables

    Nadav Peleg;Simone Fatichi;Athanasios Paschalis;Peter Molnar

  • On the effects of small scale space–time variability of rainfall on basin flood response

    Athanasios Paschalis;Athanasios Paschalis;Simone Fatichi;Peter Molnar;Stefan Rimkus

  • A stochastic model for high‐resolution space‐time precipitation simulation

    Athanasios Paschalis;Peter Molnar;Simone Fatichi;Paolo Burlando

  • An urban ecohydrological model to quantify the effect of vegetation on urban climate and hydrology (UT&C v1.0)

    Naika Meili;Gabriele Manoli;Gabriele Manoli;Paolo Burlando;Elie Bou-Zeid

  • Vegetation cover and plant-trait effects on outdoor thermal comfort in a tropical city

    Naika Meili;Juan Angel Acero;Nadav Peleg;Gabriele Manoli

  • Statistical modelling of the snow depth distribution in open alpine terrain

    T. Grünewald;J. Stötter;J. W. Pomeroy;R. Dadic;R. Dadic

  • The value of glacier mass balance, satellite snow cover images, and hourly discharge for improving the performance of a physically based distributed hydrological model

    David Finger;David Finger;Francesca Pellicciotti;Markus Konz;Stefan Rimkus

  • Spatial variability of extreme rainfall at radar subpixel scale

    Nadav Peleg;Francesco Marra;Simone Fatichi;Athanasios Paschalis

  • Dynamics of snow ablation in a small Alpine catchment observed by repeated terrestrial laser scans

    Luca Egli;Tobias Jonas;Thomas Grünewald;Michael Schirmer

  • AWE-GEN-2d: An advanced stochastic weather generator for simulating 2-D high-resolution climate variables

    Nadav Peleg;Simone Fatichi;Athanasios Paschalis;Peter Molnar

Frequent Co-Authors

Simone Fatichi
Simone Fatichi National University of Singapore
Peter Molnar
Peter Molnar University of Colorado Boulder
Francesca Pellicciotti
Francesca Pellicciotti Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Andrea Castelletti
Andrea Castelletti Polytechnic University of Milan
Renzo Rosso
Renzo Rosso Polytechnic University of Milan
Ashish Sharma
Ashish Sharma University of New South Wales
Valeriy Y. Ivanov
Valeriy Y. Ivanov University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Brian W. McArdell
Brian W. McArdell Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Michael Lehning
Michael Lehning École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Gabriel G. Katul
Gabriel G. Katul Duke University

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