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Pier Luigi Vidale is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple aspects of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on atmospheric and climatic dynamics.

Their recent published papers include the following:

  • Impact of Model Resolution on Tropical Cyclone Simulation Using the HighResMIP-PRIMAVERA Multimodel Ensemble, 2020, Journal of Climate
  • Projected Future Changes in Tropical Cyclones Using the CMIP6 HighResMIP Multimodel Ensemble, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Northern Hemisphere blocking simulation in current climate models: evaluating progress from the Climate Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 to 6 and sensitivity to resolution, 2020, Weather and Climate Dynamics
  • Effective resolution in high resolution global atmospheric models for climate studies, 2020, Atmospheric Science Letters
  • Tropical Cyclones in Global Storm-Resolving Models, 2021, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II

Pier Luigi Vidale's frequent co-authors are:

  • Malcolm Roberts
  • Kevin I. Hodges
  • Benoît Vannière
  • Rein Haarsma
  • Enrico Scoccimarro

The major publication venues where Vidale has contributed include:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Weather and Climate Dynamics

Their main fields of study reflect an emphasis on:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, subfields of study include:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Oceanography
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Water Science and Technology

The primary research topics addressed by Vidale encompass:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Best Publications

  • The role of increasing temperature variability in European summer heatwaves

    Christoph Schär;Pier Luigi Vidale;Daniel Lüthi;Christoph Frei

  • Soil Moisture–Atmosphere Interactions during the 2003 European Summer Heat Wave

    E. M. Fischer;S. I. Seneviratne;P. L. Vidale;D. Lüthi

  • High Resolution Model Intercomparison Project (HighResMIP v1.0) for CMIP6

    Reindert J. Haarsma;Malcolm J. Roberts;Pier Luigi Vidale;Catherine A. Senior

  • Future change of precipitation extremes in Europe: Intercomparison of scenarios from regional climate models

    Christoph Frei;Christoph Frei;Regina Schöll;Sophie Fukutome;Jürg Schmidli

  • The HadGEM2 family of Met Office Unified Model climate configurations

    N. Bellouin;W. J. Collins;I. D. Culverwell

  • Coupled Atmosphere–Biophysics–Hydrology Models for Environmental Modeling

    Robert L. Walko;Larry E. Band;Jill Baron;Timothy G. F. Kittel

  • Downscaling from GCM precipitation: a benchmark for dynamical and statistical downscaling methods

    Jürg Schmidli;Christoph Frei;Pier Luigi Vidale

  • DYAMOND: the DYnamics of the Atmospheric general circulation Modeled On Non-hydrostatic Domains

    Bjorn Stevens;Masaki Satoh;Ludovic Auger;Joachim Biercamp

  • Daily precipitation statistics in regional climate models: Evaluation and intercomparison for the European Alps

    Christoph Frei;Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen;Michel Déqué;Daniela Jacob

  • The Met Office Unified Model Global Atmosphere 6.0/6.1 and JULES Global Land 6.0/6.1 configurations

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  • European plant phenology and climate as seen in a 20-year AVHRR land-surface parameter dataset

    R. Stockli;Pier Luigi Vidale

  • Land-atmosphere energy exchange in Arctic tundra and boreal forest: available data and feedbacks to climate.

    Werner Eugster;Wayne R Rouse;Roger A. Pielke Sr;Joseph P. Mcfadden

  • How Well Are Tropical Cyclones Represented in Reanalysis Datasets

    Kevin Hodges;Alison Cobb;Pier Luigi Vidale

  • Challenges in quantifying changes in the global water cycle

    Gabriele C. Hegerl;Emily Black;Richard P. Allan;William J. Ingram

  • U.K. HiGEM: The New U.K. High-Resolution Global Environment Model― Model Description and Basic Evaluation

    Leonard Christopher Shaffrey;I. Stevens;Warwick Norton;M. J. Roberts

  • Impact of Model Resolution on Tropical Cyclone Simulation Using the HighResMIP–PRIMAVERA Multimodel Ensemble

    Malcolm John Roberts;Joanne Camp;Jon Seddon;Pier Luigi Vidale

  • Relative humidity changes in a warmer climate

    Steven C. Sherwood;Steven C. Sherwood;William Ingram;William Ingram;Yoko Tsushima;Masaki Satoh;Masaki Satoh

  • The Influence of Anthropogenic Landscape Changes on Weather in South Florida

    R A Pielke Sr;R L Walko;L T Steyaert;Pier Luigi Vidale

  • Towards an improved and more flexible representation of water stress in coupled photosynthesis-stomatal conductance models.

    Gregorio Egea;Anne Verhoef;Pier Luigi Vidale

  • A comparative study of satellite and ground-based phenology.

    S. Studer;R. Stöckli;R. Stöckli;C. Appenzeller;Pier Luigi Vidale

  • Description of the resolution hierarchy of the global coupled HadGEM3-GC3.1 model as used in CMIP6 HighResMIP experiments

    Malcolm J. Roberts;Alex Baker;Ed W. Blockley;Daley Calvert

  • Investigating Global Tropical Cyclone Activity with a Hierarchy of AGCMs: The Role of Model Resolution

    Jane Strachan;Pier Luigi Vidale;Kevin Hodges;Malcolm Roberts

  • Global high resolution versus Limited Area Model climate change projections over Europe: quantifying confidence level from PRUDENCE results

    M Deque;R G Jones;M Wild;F Giorgi

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne Verhoef
Anne Verhoef University of Reading
Andrew G. Turner
Andrew G. Turner University of Reading
Kevin I. Hodges
Kevin I. Hodges University of Reading
Enrico Scoccimarro
Enrico Scoccimarro Central Maine Community College
Roger A. Pielke
Roger A. Pielke University of Colorado Boulder
Masaki Satoh
Masaki Satoh University of Tokyo
Michael F. Wehner
Michael F. Wehner Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Len Shaffrey
Len Shaffrey University of Reading

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