Francesco Isotta

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 928 citations indexed

About

Francesco Isotta is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesco Isotta has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 928 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Atmospheric Science, 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 1 paper in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Francesco Isotta's work include Climate variability and models (14 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (9 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (7 papers). Francesco Isotta is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (14 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (9 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (7 papers). Francesco Isotta collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Norway. Francesco Isotta's co-authors include Christoph Frei, Cristian Lussana, Raphaëla Vogel, C. Cacciamani, Melita Perčec Tadić, Valentina Pavan, B. Rudolf, Gabriele Antolini, G. Vertacnik and Viktor Weilguni and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, International Journal of Climatology and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Francesco Isotta

16 papers receiving 908 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The climate of daily precipitation in the Alps: development and analysis of a high‐resolution grid dataset from pan‐Alpine rain‐gauge data
    2013 380 citations Francesco Isotta, Christoph Frei et al. International Journal of Climatology profile →

Peers

Francesco Isotta
Tamara Shulgina United States
Chad W. Thackeray United States
Xingying Huang United States
Jianwei Xu China
Sophie Fukutome Switzerland
Shankar Sharma China
Claudia Simolo Italy
S. Rajagopal United States
Nitesh Khadka China
Jesse Norris United States
Tamara Shulgina United States
Francesco Isotta
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Countries citing papers authored by Francesco Isotta

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Fields of papers citing papers by Francesco Isotta

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francesco Isotta

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Francesco Isotta. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Francesco Isotta based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Francesco Isotta. Francesco Isotta is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Scherrer, Simon C., Francesco Isotta, & Sven Kotlarski. (2025). Elevation-dependent warming in Switzerland: Observed signals and dataset limitations. 4. 100026–100026.
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Isotta, Francesco, Barbara Chimani, Johann Hiebl, & Christoph Frei. (2024). Long‐Term Alpine Precipitation Reconstruction (LAPrec): A Gridded Monthly Data Set Dating Back to 1871. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(2). 5 indexed citations
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Isotta, Francesco, Mónika Lakatos, Cristian Lussana, et al.. (2021). Evaluation of daily precipitation analyses in E‐OBS (v19.0e) and ERA5 by comparison to regional high‐resolution datasets in European regions. International Journal of Climatology. 42(2). 727–747. 116 indexed citations
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Stucki, Peter, et al.. (2020). Simulations of the 2005, 1910, and 1876 Vb cyclones over the Alps – sensitivity to model physics and cyclonic moisture flux. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 20(1). 35–57. 3 indexed citations
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Pfister, Lucas, et al.. (2020). Statistical reconstruction of daily precipitation and temperature fields in Switzerland back to 1864. Climate of the past. 16(2). 663–678. 22 indexed citations
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Brugnara, Yuri, Lucas Pfister, Leonie Villiger, et al.. (2020). Early instrumental meteorological observations in Switzerland: 1708–1873. Earth system science data. 12(2). 1179–1190. 24 indexed citations
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Pfister, Lucas, Yuri Brugnara, Leonie Villiger, et al.. (2019). Swiss Early Instrumental Meteorological Measurements. 3 indexed citations
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Pfister, Lucas, Yuri Brugnara, Leonie Villiger, et al.. (2019). Early instrumental meteorological measurements in Switzerland. Climate of the past. 15(4). 1345–1361. 27 indexed citations
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Frei, Christoph & Francesco Isotta. (2019). Ensemble Spatial Precipitation Analysis From Rain Gauge Data: Methodology and Application in the European Alps. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 124(11). 5757–5778. 44 indexed citations
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Isotta, Francesco, Michael Begert, & Christoph Frei. (2019). Long‐Term Consistent Monthly Temperature and Precipitation Grid Data Sets for Switzerland Over the Past 150 Years. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 124(7). 3783–3799. 30 indexed citations
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Kaiser-Weiss, Andrea K., Michael Borsche, Frank Kaspar, et al.. (2019). Added value of regional reanalyses for climatological applications. Environmental Research Communications. 1(7). 71004–71004. 51 indexed citations
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Kotlarski, Sven, Péter Szabó, Sixto Herrera, et al.. (2017). Observational uncertainty and regional climate model evaluation: A pan‐European perspective. International Journal of Climatology. 39(9). 3730–3749. 110 indexed citations
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Isotta, Francesco, Raphaëla Vogel, & Christoph Frei. (2015). Evaluation of European regional reanalyses and downscalings for precipitation in the Alpine region. Meteorologische Zeitschrift. 24(1). 15–37. 73 indexed citations
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Nam, Christine, Johannes Quaas, Roel Neggers, Colombe Siegenthaler‐Le Drian, & Francesco Isotta. (2014). Evaluation of boundary layer cloud parameterizations in the ECHAM5 general circulation model using CALIPSO and CloudSat satellite data. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 6(2). 300–314. 16 indexed citations
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Isotta, Francesco, Christoph Frei, Viktor Weilguni, et al.. (2013). The climate of daily precipitation in the Alps: development and analysis of a high‐resolution grid dataset from pan‐Alpine rain‐gauge data. International Journal of Climatology. 34(5). 1657–1675. 380 indexed citations breakdown →
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Isotta, Francesco, Peter Spichtinger, Ulrike Lohmann, & Knut von Salzen. (2011). Improvement and Implementation of a Parameterization for Shallow Cumulus in the Global Climate Model ECHAM5-HAM. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 68(3). 515–532. 6 indexed citations
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Isotta, Francesco, Olivia Martius, Michael Sprenger, & Cornelia Schwierz. (2008). Long‐term trends of synoptic‐scale breaking Rossby waves in the Northern Hemisphere between 1958 and 2001. International Journal of Climatology. 28(12). 1551–1562. 18 indexed citations

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