DOCS – Scientific Publications

Article in Journal

Atencia, A., Zawadzki, I., & Berenguer, M. (2017). Scale characterization and correction of diurnal cycle errors in MAPLE. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 56(9), 2561-2575. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-16-0344.1 (Full article)

Berghuijs, W.R., Allen, S.T., Harrigan, S., & Kirchner, J.W. (2019). Growing spatial scales of synchronous river flooding in Europe. Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081883

Corral, C., Berenguer, M., Torres, D.S., Poletti. L., Silvestro, F., & Rebora, N. (2019). Comparison of two early warning systems for regional flash flood hazard forecasting. Journal of Hydrology. Vol. 572, 603-619. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.03.026

Di Giuseppe, F., Rémy, S., Pappenberger, F., & Wetterhall, F. (2017). Improving Forecasts of Biomass Burning Emissions with the Fire Weather Index. Journal Of Applied Meteorology And Climatology, 56(10), 2789-2799. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jamc-d-16-0405.1

Di Giuseppe, F., Rémy, S., Pappenberger, F., & Wetterhall, F. (2018). Using the Fire Weather Index (FWI) to improve the estimation of fire emissions from fire radiative power (FRP) observations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 18, 5359-5370. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-5359-2018

Di Napoli, C., Pappenberger, F., & Cloke, H.L. (2018). Assessing heat-related health risk in Europe via the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI). International Journal of Biometeorology. 62 (7), 1155–1165. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-018-1518-2

Duo, E., Trembanis, A.C., Dohner, S., Grottoli, E., & Ciavola P. (2018). Local-scale post-event assessments with GPS and UAV-based quick-response surveys: a pilot case from the Emilia–Romagna (Italy) coast. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 18, 2969-2989. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-2969-2018

Falconi, M.T., von Lerber, A., Ori, D., Silvio Marzano, F., & Moisseev, D. (2018). Snowfall retrieval at X, Ka and W bands: consistency of backscattering and microphysical properties using BAECC ground-based measurements. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 11, 3059-3079. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-3059-2018

Fehlmann, M., Gascón, E., Rohrer, M., Schwarb, M., Stoffel, M. (2018). Estimating the snowfall limit in alpine and pre-alpine valleys: A local evaluation of operational approaches. Atmospheric Research. Vol. 204, 136-148. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2018.01.016

Fehlmann, M., Gascón, E., Rohrer, M., Schwarb, M., & Stoffel, M. Improving medium-range forecasts of rain-on-snow events in pre-alpine áreas. Water Resources Research.

Fernández-Montblanc, T., Vousdoukas, M.I., Ciavola, P., Voukouvalas, E., Mentaschi, L., Breyiannis, G., Feyen, L., & Salamon, P. (2019). Towards robust pan-European storm surge forecasting. Ocean Modelling. Vol 133., 129-144. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2018.12.001

Gascón, E., Hewson, T., & Haiden, T. (2018). Improving Predictions of Precipitation Type at the Surface: Description and Verification of Two New Products from the ECMWF Ensemble. Weather And Forecasting, 33(1), 89-108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/waf-d-17-0114.1

Habibi, B., Meddi, M., Torfs, P J.J.F., Remaoun, M., & Van Lanen, H A.J. (2018). Characterisation and prediction of meteorological drought using stochastic models in the semi-arid Chéliff–Zahrez basin (Algeria). Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, vol.16, 15-31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2018.02.005

Kreibich, H., Blauhut, V., Aerts, J C.J.H., Bouwer, L.M, Van Lanen, H.A.J, Mejia, A., Mens, M., & Van Loon, A.F. (2019). How to improve attribution of changes in drought and flood impacts. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 64 (1), 1-18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2018.1558367

Lavers, D. A., Zsoter, E., Richardson, D. S., & Pappenberger, F. (2017). An Assessment of the ECMWF Extreme Forecast Index for Water Vapor Transport during Boreal Winter. Weather and Forecasting, 32(4), 1667-1674. https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-17-0073.1

Leinonen, J., Lebsock, M.D., Tanelli, S., O. Sy,O., Dolan, B, Chase, R.J., Finlon, J.A., von Lerber, A., & Moisseev, D. (2018). Retrieval of snowflake microphysical properties from multifrequency radar observations. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 11, 5471-5488, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5471-2018

Lengfeld, K., Berenguer, M., & Torres, D. S. (2018). Intercomparison of attenuation correction algorithms for single-polarized X-band radars. Atmospheric Research, 201, 116-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2017.10.020 (Full Article)

Li, H., Moisseev, D., & von Lerber, A. (2018). How Does Riming Affect Dual-Polarization Radar Observations and Snowflake Shape?. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123(13). https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JD028186

Ninfo, A., Ciavola, P., & Billi, P., (2018). The Po Delta is restarting progradation: geomorphological evolution based on a 47-years Earth Observation dataset. Scientific Reports 8, Article number: 345. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21928-3

Park, S., Berenguer, M., & Sempere-Torres, D (2018). Long-term analysis of gauge-adjusted radar rainfall accumulations at European scale. Journal of Hydrology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.03.093.

Poletti, M.L., Silvestro, F., Davolio, S., Pignone, F., & Rebora, N. (2019). Using nowcasting technique and data assimilation in a meteorological model to improve very short range hydrological forecasts. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions. 102, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2019-75

Pulvirenti, L., Squicciarino, G., Cenci, L., Boni, G., Pierdicca, N., Chini, M., Versace, C., & Campanella, P. (2018). A surface soil moisture mapping service at national (Italian) scale based on Sentinel-1 data. Environmental Modelling & Software, Vol 102, 13-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.12.022

Sanuy, M., Duo, E., Jäger, W.S., Ciavola, P., & Jiménez, J.A. (2018). Linking source with consequences of coastal storm impacts for climate change and risk reduction scenarios for Mediterranean sandy beaches. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 18, 1825-1847. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-1825-2018

Schauwecker, S., Gascón, E., Park, S., Villanueva, V.R., Schwarb, M., Sempere- Torres, D., Stoffel, M., Vitolo, C., & Rohrer, M. (2019). Anticipating cascading effects of extreme precipitation with pathway schemes - Three case studies from Europe. Environment International, Vol. 127, 291-304. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2019.02.072

Terti, G., Ruin, I., Kalas, M., Láng, I., Cangròs i Alonso, A., Sabbatini, T., Lorini, V. (2019) ANYCaRE: a role-playing game to investigate crisis decision-making and communication challenges in weather-related hazards. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 19, 507-533. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-507-2019

Van Loon, A.F., Rangecroft, S., Coxon, G., Breña, J.A., Van Ogtrop, F., & Van Lanen. H.A.J. (2019). Using paired catchments to quantify the human influence on hydrological droughts. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 23, 1725-1739. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-1725-2019

van Oel, P.R, Martins, E S.P.R, Costa, A.C., Wanders, N., & van Lanen, H.A.J. (2018). Diagnosing drought using the downstreamness concept: the effect of reservoir networks on drought evolution. Hydrological Sciences Journal 63 (7), 979-990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2018.1470632

Vitolo, C., Di Giuseppe, F., & D’Andrea, M. (2018). Caliver: An R package for CALIbration and VERification of forest fire gridded model outputs. PLOS ONE, 13(1): e0189419, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189419
Wanders, N., Van Loon, A. F., and Van Lanen, H. A. J.: Frequently used drought indices reflect different drought conditions on global scale, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2017-512, in review, 2017.

Vitolo, C., Di Napoli, C., Di Giuseppe, F., Cloke, H.L., & Pappenberger, F. (2019). Mapping combined wildfire and heat stress hazards to improve evidence-based decision making. Environment International, Vol. 127, 21-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2019.03.008

Public Conference proceedings / Workshop

Berenguer, M., & Sempere-Torres, D. (2017). An approach to radar-raingauge blending including the time dimension. In Conference on Radar Meteorology (p. 1). Retrieved from https://ams.confex.com/ams/38RADAR/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/321185

Ciavola, P; Fernández-Montblanc, T., & Duo, E. (2018). Numerical model testing of green DRR solutions by dune reconstruction at a rapidly eroding coast in the Adriatic Sea. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 20, EGU2018-10699, 2018. (Abstract)

Cranston, M., Martin, G., Smith, P. (2019). Developing a pan-European approach to community-based flood alerting and forecasting. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 21, EGU2019-17703-1. (Abstract)

Di Giuseppe, F. & Vitolo, C. (2018). ECMWF Perspective on the Big Data Challenge for Fire Forecasting. AGU Fall Meeting. (Abstract)

Di Napoli, C., Pappenberger, F., & Cloke H. (2018). Towards a pan-European forecasting system for heatwave-related health hazards. EMS Annual Meeting Abstracts, Vol. 15, EMS2018-66-1. (Abstract)

Diaz,V., Corzo Perez, G.A., Van Lanen, H.A.J, & Solomatine, D. (2018). Intelligent Drought Tracking for its Use in Machine Learning: Implementation and First Results. EPiC Series in Engineering volume 3. (Paper)

Fehlmann, M., Gascón, E., Rohrer, M., Schwarb, M., & Stoffel, M. Estimating the snowfall limit in alpine and pre-alpine valleys. Swiss Meteorological Society Annual Meeting.

Fernández-Montblanc, T., Ciavola, P. and Vousdoukas, M.(2017) Developing a storm surge early warning system at pan-european scale. Risks and hazards in natural and urban environments under multiple stress factors, including climate change, Riederalp (Switzerland) Abstract

Fernández-Montblanc, T., Ciavola, P., & Vousdoukas, M. I. (2018). A Pan-European storm surge forecasting system. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 20, EGU2018-18737, 2018. (Abstract)

Galateia Terti, I. Ruin,M. Kalas, V. Lorini, T. Sabbatini, & A. C. i Alonso. (2018). Investigating Crisis Decision-Making and Communication in Weather-Related Risks: A Role-Playing Game for Forecasters, Emergency Managers, and the General Public. Proceedings of the American Meteorologic al Society 98th annual meeting. https://ams.confex.com/ams/98Annual/webprogram/Paper325024.html

Galateia Terti, I. Ruin, M. Kalas, V. Lorini, T. Sabbatini, & A. C. i Alonso. (2017). From Forecasters to the General Public: A Communication Tool to Understand Decision-making Challenges in Weather-related Early Warning Systems. Abstract NH43B-03 presented at 2017 Fall Meeting, AGU.

Gascon, E., Hewson, T., & Haiden, T. (2018). Two new ECMWF products for precipitation type. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 20, EGU2018-15255. (Abstract)

Gascon, E., & Hewson, T. (2018). How can we improve freezing rain forecasts using ECMWF ensemble system?. EMS Annual Meeting 2018, Vol. 15, EMS2018-164, 2018. (Abstract)

Heuvelink, D., Brauer, C.C., Berenguer, M., Sempere-Torres, D., & Uijlenhoet, R. (2018). The hydrological application of radar rainfall nowcasting in the Netherlands. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 20, , EGU2018-18156. (Abstract)

Heuvelink, D., Brauer, C.C., Berenguer, M., Sempere-Torres, D. & Uijlenhoet. (2018).Hydrological application of radar rainfall nowcasting in The Netherlands. European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology – Ede-Wageningen, The Netherlands. (Abstract)

Heuvelink, D., Brauer, C.C., Berenguer, M., Sempere-Torres, D. and Uijlenhoet, R. (2018) Hydrological application of radar rainfall nowcasting in The Netherlands. ERAD 2018, 4.22. (Abstract)

Hurlimann Ziegler, M., Berenguer Ferrer, M., Palau, R. M., & Sempere Torres, D. (2017). Sistema de alerta para procesos torrenciales a escala regional combinando mapas de susceptibilidad y datos del radar meteorológico. In IX Simposio Nacional sobre Taludes y Laderas Inestables (pp. 456-467). International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE). Abstract | Poster

Jonson Sutanto, S., & Van Lanen, H. (2017, April). Exploration of drivers of the severe 1976, 1983, and 2003 droughts in Europe: an analysis with a climate model and an observation data set. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (Vol. 19, p. 7592). Abstract | Poster

Palau, R.M., Berenguer, M., Hürlimann, M. & Sempere-Torres, D. (2018). A prototype regional early warning system for shallow landslides and debris flows. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 20, EGU2018-1081. (Abstract)

Park, S., Berenguer, M., & Sempere-Torres, D. (2017). Use of OPERA data for real-time pan-European flash-flood hazard assessment and nowcasting. In Conference on Radar Meteorology (p. 1). Retrieved from https://ams.confex.com/ams/38RADAR/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/321114 (Abstract & Recording)

Park, S., Berenguer, M., & Sempere-Torres, D. (2018). Long-term analysis of gauge-adjusted pan-European radar rainfall accumulation. ERAD 2018, 3.5, (Abstract)

Park, S., Berenguer, M. & Sempere-Torres, D. (2018). A real-time adjustment of radar rainfall at European scale for flash flood hazard assessment. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 20, EGU2018-15633. (Abstract)

Pillosu, F.M., Hewson, T. & Vitolo, C. (2018). A new post-processing system (“ecPoint”) for conditional verification and improved probabilistic forecasts of point values. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 20, EGU2018-14060. (Abstract)

Pottebaum, J., Scholle, P., & Gräßler, I. (2017). Vorgehens-und Datenmodell zur strategischen Planung innovativer Dienstleistungen im Katastrophenschutz. INFORMATIK 2017.https://dl.gi.de/bitstream/handle/20.500.12116/3897/B16-5.pdf

Ritter, J., Berenguer, M., Corral, C., Park, S. & Sempere-Torres, D. (2018). Near-real time high-resolution Flash Flood Impact Forecasting. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 20, EGU2018-1090. (Abstract)

Samuel J. Sutanto & Henny A. J. van Lanen. (2018). Skill of hydrological drought forecasts beyond 2 months. Geophysical Research Abstracts. Vol. 20, EGU2018-13627, 2018EGU General Assembly 2018. (Abstract)

Sempere-Torres, D., Berenguer, M., & Park, S. (2016, February). From Rainfall Nowcasting to Flash Flood Early Warning Systems: recent and ongoing advancements in Europe. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. (Abstract)

Sempere-Torres, D., Corral, C., Berenguer, M., Poletti, M.L., Silvestro, F., & Rebora, N. (2018) Flash flood early warnings based on radar: comparison of the ERICHA flash flood indicator with a continuous distributed hydrological model in the flash flood cases of autumn 2014 in Liguria (Italy). ERAD 2018, 4.7. (Abstract)

Sempere-Torres, D., Corral, C., Berenguer, M., Poletti, M.L., Silvestro, F., & Rebora, N. (2018). The ANYWHERE operational flash flood early warning system based on meteorological radars and flood risk maps. Comparison with a continuous distributed hydrological model in the flash flood cases of autumn 2014 in Liguria (Italy). Plinius Conference Abstracts, Vol. 16, 61. (Abstract)

Van Lanen, H. A.J. (2018) (Hydrological) drought: an overview of past, ongoing and upcoming international research. Geophysical Research Abstracts. Vol. 20, EGU2018-9858, (Abstract)

Vitolo, C., Di Giuseppe, F., Smith, P., & D'Andrea, M. (2017, April). A robust scientific workflow for assessing fire danger levels using open-source software. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (Vol. 19, p. 13154). http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/EGU2017-13154.pdf (Poster)

Vitolo, C. &Di Giuseppe, F. (2018). Forecasting wildfire danger using ECMWF GEFF datasets and the caliver R package. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 20, EGU2018-3159. (Abstract)

Chapter in a Book

Alfieri, L., Berenguer, M., Knechtl, V., Liechti, K., Sempere-Torres, D., & Zappa, M. (2016). Flash flood forecasting based on rainfall thresholds. Handbook of Hydrometeorological Ensemble Forecasting, 1-38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40457-3 (Full Text)

Thesis / Dissertation

Láng, I. (2017). Myrskyjen luokittelua ja vaikutuksia sähköverkkoihin Suomessa. (Doctoral dissertation, University of Helsinki). https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/211402

von Lerber, A. (2018). Challenges in measuring winter precipitation: Advances in combining microwave remote sensing and surface observations (Doctoral dissertation, Finnish Meteorological Institute).https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/231104

Wang, Mats Ekre. (2018). “We have to trust it, or else we can just throw it away”: The use of decision support systems during extreme weather events. Master’s thesis. https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/63423

Other

Bergman, T. (2017, December 14). H2020-ANYWHERE. In EUMe Train. Webex

Claudia Vitolo, Mirko D'Andrea, & Francesca Di Giuseppe. (2017, March 10). ecmwf/caliver: caliver 0.1 (Version 0.1). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.376613

Palau, R.M., Berenguer, M., Hürlimann, M. and Sempere-Torres, D. (2018). A prototype regional early warning system for shallow landslides and debris flows. Geophysical Research Abstracts. Vol. 20, EGU2018-1081. https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/EGU2018-1081.pdf

Park, S., Berenguer, M. & Sempere-Torres, D. (2018) A real-time adjustment of radar rainfall at European scale for flash flood hazard assessment. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 20, EGU2018-15633. https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/EGU2018-15633-1.pdf

Pillosu, F.M., Hewson, T. and Vitolo, C. (2018). A new post-processing system (“ecPoint”) for conditional verification and improved probabilistic forecasts of point values. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 20, EGU2018-14060. https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/EGU2018-14060.pdf

Ritter, J., Berenguer, M., Corral, C., Park, S. and Sempere-Torres, D. (2018). Near-real time high-resolution Flash Flood Impact Forecasting. Geophysical Research Abstracts. Vol. 20, EGU2018-1090. https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/EGU2018-1090.pdf

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