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Renato Morbidelli

Renato Morbidelli

Renato Morbidelli publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Renato Morbidelli sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

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Renato Morbidelli D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Renato Morbidelli sits on this spectrum.

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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

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

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

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

    Wouter Dorigo;Irene Himmelbauer;Daniel Aberer;Lukas Schremmer

  • Soil moisture temporal stability over experimental areas in Central Italy

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

  • Catchment scale soil moisture spatial–temporal variability

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

  • Machine learning to estimate surface soil moisture from remote sensing data

    Hamed Adab;Renato Morbidelli;Carla Saltalippi;Mahmoud Moradian

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

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

  • Role of slope on infiltration: A review

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

  • Development and analysis of the Soil Water Infiltration Global database

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

  • Antecedent wetness conditions based on ERS scatterometer data.

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

  • On the interaction between infiltration and Hortonian runoff

    Corrado Corradini;Renato Morbidelli;Florisa Melone

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Renato Morbidelli;Carla Saltalippi;Alessia Flammini;Marco Cifrodelli

  • Areal Infiltration Modeling over Soils with Spatially Correlated Hydraulic Conductivities

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

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

    Renato Morbidelli;Carla Saltalippi;Alessia Flammini;Marco Cifrodelli

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

    Jacopo Dari;Renato Morbidelli;Carla Saltalippi;Christian Massari

  • Rainfall Infiltration Modeling: A Review

    Renato Morbidelli;Corrado Corradini;Carla Saltalippi;Alessia Flammini

  • 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

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

    Renato Morbidelli;Corrado Corradini;Rao S. Govindaraju

Frequent Co-Authors

Rao S. Govindaraju
Rao S. Govindaraju Purdue University West Lafayette
Tommaso Moramarco
Tommaso Moramarco National Research Council (CNR)
Luca Brocca
Luca Brocca National Research Council (CNR)
Christian Massari
Christian Massari National Research Council (CNR)
Angelica Tarpanelli
Angelica Tarpanelli National Research Council (CNR)
Hayley J. Fowler
Hayley J. Fowler Newcastle University
Zhongbo Su
Zhongbo Su University of Twente
Saskia Keesstra
Saskia Keesstra Wageningen University & Research

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