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Piero Lionello

Piero Lionello

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
59
Citations
17841
World Ranking
3032
National Ranking
41

Overview

Piero Lionello is affiliated with the University of Salento in Italy and has an extensive publication record in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on atmospheric science, global and planetary change, and oceanography, with additional work in earth-surface processes and environmental engineering.

Key topics in Lionello's research include climate variability and models, tropical and extratropical cyclones, meteorological phenomena and simulations, ocean waves and remote sensing, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, coastal and marine dynamics, and hydrology and drought analysis.

Frequent coauthors of Lionello include Abed El Rahman Hassoun, Christian Ferrarin, Georg Umgiesser, Philippe Drobinski, and María Carmen Llasat.

Lionello has published multiple papers in notable journals. Recent contributions cover various aspects of climate and environmental science:

  • Extreme floods of Venice: characteristics, dynamics, past and future evolution (2021), Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • Sea-level rise in Venice: historic and future trends (review article) (2021), Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • Local and large-scale controls of the exceptional Venice floods of November 2019 (2021), Progress In Oceanography
  • Future projections of Mediterranean cyclone characteristics using the Med-CORDEX ensemble of coupled regional climate system models (2021), Climate Dynamics
  • Global warming is shifting the relationships between fire weather and realized fire-induced CO2 emissions in Europe (2022), Scientific Reports

Lionello frequently publishes in Natural hazards and earth system sciences, Scientific Reports, International Journal of Climatology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Regional Environmental Change.

Best Publications

  • Climate change projections for the Mediterranean region

    Filippo Giorgi;Piero Lionello

  • Climate change and interconnected risks to sustainable development in the Mediterranean

    Wolfgang Cramer;Joël Guiot;Marianela Fader;Joaquim Garrabou;Joaquim Garrabou

  • IMILAST: A Community Effort to Intercompare Extratropical Cyclone Detection and Tracking Algorithms

    Urs Neu;Mirseid G. Akperov;Nina Bellenbaum;Rasmu S. Benestad

  • The relation between climate change in the Mediterranean region and global warming

    Piero Lionello;Piero Lionello;Luca Scarascia

  • The Mediterranean climate: An overview of the main characteristics and issues

    P Lionello;Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli;Roberta Boscolo;Pinhas Alpert

  • Objective Climatology of Cyclones in the Mediterranean Region

    Isabel F. Trigo;Trevor D. Davies;Grant R. Bigg

  • IMILAST – a community effort to intercompare extratropical cyclone detection and tracking algorithms: assessing method-related uncertainties

    Urs Neu;Mirseid G. Akperov;Nina Bellenbaum;Rasmus Benestad

  • Med-CORDEX initiative for Mediterranean climate studies

    Paolo M. Ruti;Samuel Somot;F. Giorgi;Clotilde Dubois

  • Chapter 4 Changes in the oceanography of the Mediterranean Sea and their link to climate variability

    Michael N. Tsimplis;Michael N. Tsimplis;Vassilis Zervakis;Vassilis Zervakis;Simon A. Josey;Simon A. Josey;Elissaveta L. Peneva;Elissaveta L. Peneva

  • HYMEX , a 10-year Multidisciplinary Program on the mediterranean water cycle.

    P. Drobinski;Véronique Ducrocq;P. Alpert;E. Anagnostou

  • Climate change and Mediterranean agriculture: Impacts on winter wheat and tomato crop evapotranspiration, irrigation requirements and yield

    Sameh Saadi;Mladen Todorovic;Lazar Tanasijevic;Luis S. Pereira

  • Impacts of climate change on olive crop evapotranspiration and irrigation requirements in the Mediterranean region

    Lazar Tanasijevic;Mladen Todorovic;Luis S. Pereira;Claudia Pizzigalli

  • Mediterranean climate variability over the last centuries: a review

    Jürg Luterbacher;Elena Xoplaki;Carlo Casty;Heinz Wanner

  • Assimilation of altimeter data in a global third-generation wave model

    P. Lionello;H. Günther;P. A. E. M. Janssen

  • Cyclones in the Mediterranean Region: Climatology and Effects on the Environment

    P. Lionello;J. Bhend;A. Buzzi;P. M. Della-Marta

  • Global warming and mass mortalities of benthic invertebrates in the Mediterranean Sea.

    Irene Rivetti;Simonetta Fraschetti;Piero Lionello;Enrico Zambianchi

  • Climate of the Mediterranean: Synoptic Patterns, Temperature, Precipitation, Winds, and Their Extremes

    Uwe Ulbrich;Piero Lionello;Danijel Belušić;Jucundus Jacobeit

  • Mediterranean wave climate variability and its links with NAO and Indian Monsoon

    P. Lionello;A. Sanna

  • The climate of the Mediterranean region: research progress and climate change impacts

    Piero Lionello;Fatima Abrantes;Miroslav Gacic;Serge Planton

  • Cyclones in the Mediterranean region: the present and the doubled CO2 climate scenarios

    P. Lionello;F. Dalan;E. Elvini

  • Objective climatology of cyclones in the Mediterranean region: a consensus view among methods with different system identification and tracking criteria

    Piero Lionello;Isabel F. Trigo;Victoria Gil;Margarida L. R. Liberato

Frequent Co-Authors

Uwe Ulbrich
Uwe Ulbrich Freie Universität Berlin
Luigi Cavaleri
Luigi Cavaleri National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Elena Xoplaki
Elena Xoplaki University of Giessen
Isabel F. Trigo
Isabel F. Trigo Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Joaquim G. Pinto
Joaquim G. Pinto Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Ricardo M. Trigo
Ricardo M. Trigo University of Lisbon
Jürg Luterbacher
Jürg Luterbacher University of Giessen
Ricardo García-Herrera
Ricardo García-Herrera Complutense University of Madrid
Andrea Toreti
Andrea Toreti University of Giessen
Gregor C. Leckebusch
Gregor C. Leckebusch University of Birmingham

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