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Vassiliki Kotroni publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Vassiliki Kotroni sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 227 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Vassiliki Kotroni D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Vassiliki Kotroni sits on this spectrum.

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Overview

Vassiliki Kotroni is affiliated with the National Observatory of Athens in Greece. Their research focuses extensively on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with particular specialization in areas such as global and planetary change, atmospheric science, environmental engineering, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and oceanography.

The main topics of Kotroni's work include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds

They have published research in several venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Atmosphere
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Climate
  • Remote Sensing
  • Preprints.org

Some recent papers by Kotroni include:

  • "Mediterranean cyclones: current knowledge and open questions on dynamics, prediction, climatology and impacts," 2022, Weather and Climate Dynamics
  • "Ianos-A Hurricane in the Mediterranean," 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Meteorological Analysis of the 2021 Extreme Wildfires in Greece: Lessons Learned and Implications for Early Warning of the Potential for Pyroconvection," 2022, Atmosphere
  • "Insights into the convective evolution of Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones," 2020, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • "Developing a large-scale dataset of flood fatalities for territories in the Euro-Mediterranean region, FFEM-DB," 2022, Scientific Data

Kotroni's frequent coauthors include Konstantinos Lagouvardos, Theodore M. Giannaros, Christos Giannaros, Katerina Papagiannaki, and Stavros Dafis. Collaboration with these researchers reflects engagement in interdisciplinary studies often related to atmospheric and environmental phenomena.

Best Publications

  • High-impact floods and flash floods in Mediterranean countries: the FLASH preliminary database

    M. C. Llasat;M. Llasat-Botija;M. A. Prat;F. Porcú

  • The automatic weather stations NOANN network of the National Observatory of Athens: operation and database

    K. Lagouvardos;V. Kotroni;A. Bezes;I. Koletsis

  • Predicting the potential for lightning activity in Mediterranean storms based on the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model dynamic and microphysical fields

    Yoav Yair;Barry Lynn;Colin Price;Vassiliki Kotroni

  • Modeling framework for estimating impacts of climate change on electricity demand at regional level: Case of Greece

    S. Mirasgedis;Y. Sarafidis;E. Georgopoulou;V. Kotroni

  • On the Long‐Range transport of air pollutants from Europe to Africa

    G. Kallos;V. Kotroni;K. Lagouvardos;A. Papadopoulos

  • Scaling precipitation extremes with temperature in the Mediterranean: past climate assessment and projection in anthropogenic scenarios

    Philippe Drobinski;Nicolas Da Silva;Gérémy Panthou;Sophie Bastin

  • Lightning occurrence in relation with elevation, terrain slope, and vegetation cover in the Mediterranean

    Vassiliki Kotroni;Kostas Lagouvardos

  • Reviews and perspectives of high impact atmospheric processes in the Mediterranean

    Silas Michaelides;Silas Michaelides;Theodore Karacostas;Jose Luis Sánchez;Adrianos Retalis

  • Analysis of climatological and air quality observations from Greater Athens Area

    P. Kassomenos;V. Kotroni;G. Kallos

  • Meteorological Analysis of the 2021 Extreme Wildfires in Greece: Lessons Learned and Implications for Early Warning of the Potential for Pyroconvection

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  • A database of high-impact weather events in Greece: a descriptive impact analysis for the period 2001-2011

    K. Papagiannaki;K. Lagouvardos;V. Kotroni

  • MEDEX: a general overview

    Agustí Jansà;Agustí Jansà;P. Alpert;P. Arbogast;A. Buzzi

  • Flood Fatalities in Europe, 1980–2018: Variability, Features, and Lessons to Learn

    Olga Petrucci;Luigi Aceto;Cinzia Bianchi;Victoria Bigot

  • The Atmospheric Momentum Budget over a Major Mountain Range: First Results of the PYREX Field Program

    Philippe Bougeault;A. Jansa;J.L. Attié;I. Beau

  • Climate change impact of wind energy availability in the Eastern Mediterranean using the regional climate model PRECIS

    A. Bloom;V. Kotroni;K. Lagouvardos

  • Flood Forecasts for Urban Basin with Integrated Hydro‐Meteorological Model

    Antonis D. Koussis;Konstantinos Lagouvardos;Katerina Mazi;Vassiliki Kotroni

  • Flash flood occurrence and relation to the rainfall hazard in a highly urbanized area

    K. Papagiannaki;K. Lagouvardos;V. Kotroni;A. Bezes

  • A comparison of lightning data provided by ZEUS and LINET networks over Western Europe

    K. Lagouvardos;V. Kotroni;H.-D. Betz;K. Schmidt

  • Ianos - A hurricane in the Mediterranean

    Lagouvardos K;A. Karagiannidis;S. Dafis;A. Kalimeris

  • Observations and model simulations of a winter sub-synoptic vortex over the central Mediterranean

    K Lagouvardos;V Kotroni;S Nickovic;D Jovic

  • A ten-year analysis of cloud-to-ground lightning activity over the Eastern Mediterranean region

    E. Galanaki;V. Kotroni;K. Lagouvardos;A. Argiriou

  • Evaluation of MM5 high-resolution real-time forecasts over the urban area of Athens, Greece

    V. Kotroni;K. Lagouvardos

  • MEFF: The database of MEditerranean Flood Fatalities (1980 to 2015)

    O. Petrucci;K. Papagiannaki;L. Aceto;L. Boissier

  • Mediterranean cyclones: Current knowledge and open questions on dynamics, prediction, climatology and impacts

    Emmanouil Flaounas;Silvio Davolio;Shira Raveh-Rubin;Florian Pantillon

Frequent Co-Authors

George Kallos
George Kallos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Maria Carmen Llasat
Maria Carmen Llasat University of Barcelona
Colin Price
Colin Price Tel Aviv University
Efrat Morin
Efrat Morin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Silas Michaelides
Silas Michaelides Cyprus University of Technology
Nektarios Chrysoulakis
Nektarios Chrysoulakis Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas
Stelios Kazadzis
Stelios Kazadzis Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos, World Radiation Center
Barry Lynn
Barry Lynn Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Rudolf Brázdil
Rudolf Brázdil Czech Academy of Sciences
Uri Dayan
Uri Dayan Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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