2026 Renato Morbidelli: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	35	7537	6977	266	257	107	5305

Overview

Renato Morbidelli is affiliated with the University of Perugia in Italy. Their research focuses on environmental science, with a significant number of publications in the subfields of global and planetary change, environmental engineering, water science and technology, atmospheric science, and civil and structural engineering.

Their work covers main topics including hydrology and watershed management studies, soil moisture and remote sensing, soil and unsaturated flow, hydrology and drought analysis, precipitation measurement and analysis, flood risk assessment and management, and plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

Renato Morbidelli has contributed multiple scholarly articles published in recognized scientific venues. The frequent publication venues include:

Journal of Hydrology
Water
Hydrology and earth system sciences
Advances in Water Resources
Water Resources Research

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Morbidelli are:

"The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade," 2021, Hydrology and earth system sciences
"Machine Learning to Estimate Surface Soil Moisture from Remote Sensing Data," 2020, Water
"Exploiting High-Resolution Remote Sensing Soil Moisture to Estimate Irrigation Water Amounts over a Mediterranean Region," 2020, Remote Sensing
"Monitoring Soil and Ambient Parameters in the IoT Precision Agriculture Scenario: An Original Modeling Approach Dedicated to Low-Cost Soil Water Content Sensors," 2021, Sensors
"Detecting and mapping irrigated areas in a Mediterranean environment by using remote sensing soil moisture and a land surface model," 2021, Journal of Hydrology

Renato Morbidelli has collaborated regularly with several researchers, including Alessia Flammini, Carla Saltalippi, Jacopo Dari, Corrado Corradini, and Luca Brocca.

Best Publications

Soil moisture spatial variability in experimental areas of central Italy

L. Brocca;Renato Morbidelli;F. Melone;T. Moramarco

538
Citations
Spatial-temporal variability of soil moisture and its estimation across scales

L. Brocca;F. Melone;T. Moramarco;R. Morbidelli

510
Citations
The International Soil Moisture Network: Serving Earth system science for over a decade

Wouter Dorigo;Irene Himmelbauer;Daniel Aberer;Lukas Schremmer

402
Citations
Soil moisture temporal stability over experimental areas in Central Italy

L. Brocca;F. Melone;T. Moramarco;R. Morbidelli

343
Citations
Catchment scale soil moisture spatial–temporal variability

L. Brocca;T. Tullo;F. Melone;T. Moramarco

318
Citations
Machine learning to estimate surface soil moisture from remote sensing data

Hamed Adab;Renato Morbidelli;Carla Saltalippi;Mahmoud Moradian

190
Citations
Influence of land use on soil moisture spatial-temporal variability and monitoring

G. Zucco;L. Brocca;T. Moramarco;R. Morbidelli

169
Citations
Role of slope on infiltration: A review

Renato Morbidelli;Carla Saltalippi;Alessia Flammini;Rao S. Govindaraju

159
Citations
Development and analysis of the Soil Water Infiltration Global database

Mehdi Rahmati;Mehdi Rahmati;Lutz Weihermüller;Jan Vanderborght;Yakov A. Pachepsky

156
Citations
Antecedent wetness conditions based on ERS scatterometer data.

L. Brocca;F. Melone;T. Moramarco;R. Morbidelli

147
Citations
On the interaction between infiltration and Hortonian runoff

Corrado Corradini;Renato Morbidelli;Florisa Melone

141
Citations
Monitoring Soil and Ambient Parameters in the IoT Precision Agriculture Scenario: An Original Modeling Approach Dedicated to Low-Cost Soil Water Content Sensors

Pisana Placidi;Renato Morbidelli;Diego Fortunati;Nicola Papini

121
Citations
Infiltration and deep flow over sloping surfaces: Comparison of numerical and experimental results

Emily T. Essig;Corrado Corradini;Renato Morbidelli;Rao S. Govindaraju

115
Citations
Detecting and mapping irrigated areas in a Mediterranean environment by using remote sensing soil moisture and a land surface model

Jacopo Dari;Jacopo Dari;Jacopo Dari;Pere Quintana-Seguí;María José Escorihuela;Vivien Stefan

113
Citations
Exploiting High-Resolution Remote Sensing Soil Moisture to Estimate Irrigation Water Amounts over a Mediterranean Region

Jacopo Dari;Luca Brocca;Pere Quintana-Seguí;María José Escorihuela

110
Citations
Infiltration on sloping surfaces: Laboratory experimental evidence and implications for infiltration modeling

Renato Morbidelli;Carla Saltalippi;Alessia Flammini;Marco Cifrodelli

100
Citations
Areal Infiltration Modeling over Soils with Spatially Correlated Hydraulic Conductivities

Rao S. Govindaraju;Rao S. Govindaraju;R. Morbidelli;R. Morbidelli;C. Corradini;C. Corradini

90
Citations
In situ measurements of soil saturated hydraulic conductivity: Assessment of reliability through rainfall–runoff experiments

Renato Morbidelli;Carla Saltalippi;Alessia Flammini;Marco Cifrodelli

88
Citations
Spatial-temporal variability of soil moisture: Addressing the monitoring at the catchment scale

Jacopo Dari;Renato Morbidelli;Carla Saltalippi;Christian Massari

79
Citations
Rainfall Infiltration Modeling: A Review

Renato Morbidelli;Corrado Corradini;Carla Saltalippi;Alessia Flammini

77
Citations
Role of run-on for describing field-scale infiltration and overland flow over spatially variable soils

N Nahar;R.S Govindaraju;C Corradini;R Morbidelli

76
Citations
A field‐scale infiltration model accounting for spatial heterogeneity of rainfall and soil saturated hydraulic conductivity

Renato Morbidelli;Corrado Corradini;Rao S. Govindaraju

76
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Rao S. Govindaraju Purdue University West Lafayette

Tommaso Moramarco National Research Council (CNR)

Luca Brocca National Research Council (CNR)

Christian Massari National Research Council (CNR)

Angelica Tarpanelli National Research Council (CNR)

Günter Blöschl TU Wien

Hayley J. Fowler Newcastle University

Gabrielle De Lannoy KU Leuven

Zhongbo Su University of Twente

Saskia Keesstra Wageningen University & Research

External Links

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