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Overview

Simone Fatichi is affiliated with the National University of Singapore and conducts research predominantly in the field of Environmental Science.

Their work covers a range of subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Major research topics addressed by Simone Fatichi include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Climate Variability and Models, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Urban Green Space and Health, and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

They have contributed to several publications with notable papers such as:

  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO 2, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Evapotranspiration on a greening Earth, 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • 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
  • Soil structure is an important omission in Earth System Models, 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Simone Fatichi include:

  • Gabriele Manoli
  • Paolo Burlando
  • Naika Meili
  • Athanasios Paschalis
  • Nadav Peleg

Their work has appeared repeatedly in certain publication venues, such as:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Change Biology
  • Urban Climate
  • Environmental Research Letters

Best Publications

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

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

  • An overview of current applications, challenges, and future trends in distributed process-based models in hydrology

    Simone Fatichi;Enrique R. Vivoni;Fred L. Ogden;Valeriy Y. Ivanov

  • Moving beyond photosynthesis: from carbon source to sink-driven vegetation modeling.

    Simone Fatichi;Sebastian Leuzinger;Christian Körner

  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2

    Anthony P. Walker;Martin G. De Kauwe;Ana Bastos;Soumaya Belmecheri

  • A meta-analysis of 1,119 manipulative experiments on terrestrial carbon-cycling responses to global change

    Jian Song;Jian Song;Shiqiang Wan;Shiqiang Wan;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Alan K. Knapp

  • Evapotranspiration on a greening Earth

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  • Simulation of future climate scenarios with a weather generator

    Simone Fatichi;Simone Fatichi;Valeriy Y. Ivanov;Enrica Caporali

  • Modelling carbon sources and sinks in terrestrial vegetation

    Simone Fatichi;Christoforos Pappas;Jakob Zscheischler;Sebastian Leuzinger

  • 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

  • Modeling plant–water interactions: an ecohydrological overview from the cell to the global scale

    Simone Fatichi;Christoforos Pappas;Christoforos Pappas;Valeriy Y. Ivanov

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

    Theodoros Mastrotheodoros;Christoforos Pappas;Peter Molnar;Paolo Burlando

  • Soil structure is an important omission in Earth System Models

    Simone Fatichi;Dani Or;Robert Walko;Harry Vereecken

  • 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

  • A mechanistic ecohydrological model to investigate complex interactions in cold and warm water-controlled environments: 1. Theoretical framework and plot-scale analysis

    S. Fatichi;S. Fatichi;S. Fatichi;V. Y. Ivanov;E. Caporali

  • Hysteresis of soil moisture spatial heterogeneity and the "homogenizing" effect of vegetation

    Valeriy Y. Ivanov;Simone Fatichi;Simone Fatichi;G. Darrel Jenerette;Javier F. Espeleta

  • 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

  • A mechanistic ecohydrological model to investigate complex interactions in cold and warm water‐controlled environments: 2. Spatiotemporal analyses

    S. Fatichi;S. Fatichi;S. Fatichi;V. Y. Ivanov;E. Caporali

  • Partitioning direct and indirect effects reveals the response of water-limited ecosystems to elevated CO2

    Simone Fatichi;Sebastian Leuzinger;Athanasios Paschalis;Athanasios Paschalis;J Adam Langley

  • 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

Paolo Burlando
Paolo Burlando ETH Zurich
Peter Molnar
Peter Molnar University of Colorado Boulder
Valeriy Y. Ivanov
Valeriy Y. Ivanov University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Dani Or
Dani Or University of Nevada Reno
Sebastian Leuzinger
Sebastian Leuzinger Auckland University of Technology
Jakob Zscheischler
Jakob Zscheischler Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Gabriel G. Katul
Gabriel G. Katul Duke University
Gil Bohrer
Gil Bohrer The Ohio State University
Elie Bou-Zeid
Elie Bou-Zeid Princeton University
Trevor F. Keenan
Trevor F. Keenan Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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