Gabriele Villarini

21.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
287 papers, 15.4k citations indexed

About

Gabriele Villarini is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gabriele Villarini has authored 287 papers receiving a total of 15.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 254 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 188 papers in Atmospheric Science and 78 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Gabriele Villarini's work include Climate variability and models (186 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (107 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (99 papers). Gabriele Villarini is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (186 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (107 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (99 papers). Gabriele Villarini collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and United Kingdom. Gabriele Villarini's co-authors include James A. Smith, Witold F. Krajewski, Gabriel A. Vecchi, David A. Lavers, Iman Mallakpour, Wei Zhang, Mary Lynn Baeck, Francesco Serinaldi, Louise Slater and Richard P. Allan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gabriele Villarini

273 papers receiving 15.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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. Anthropogenic intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes
    2021 540 citations Gabriele Villarini et al. profile →
  2. Urbanization exacerbated the rainfall and flooding caused by hurricane Harvey in Houston
    2018 494 citations Wei Zhang, Gabriele Villarini et al. profile →
  3. The changing nature of flooding across the central United States
    2015 446 citations Iman Mallakpour, Gabriele Villarini profile →
  4. Global Projections of Intense Tropical Cyclone Activity for the Late Twenty-First Century from Dynamical Downscaling of CMIP5/RCP4.5 Scenarios
    2015 382 citations Gabriel A. Vecchi, Gabriele Villarini et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  5. On the Seasonal Forecasting of Regional Tropical Cyclone Activity
    2014 332 citations Gabriel A. Vecchi, Gabriele Villarini et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  6. Responses and impacts of atmospheric rivers to climate change
    2020 267 citations Gabriele Villarini et al. profile →
  7. Hybrid forecasting: blending climate predictions with AI models
    2023 93 citations Louise Slater, Gabriele Villarini et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gabriele Villarini United States 67 12.9k 9.6k 4.2k 1.9k 1.8k 287 15.4k
Stefan Hagemann Germany 56 10.9k 0.8× 8.6k 0.9× 3.5k 0.8× 1.6k 0.8× 1.4k 0.8× 164 14.8k
Bart van den Hurk Netherlands 61 13.2k 1.0× 8.0k 0.8× 2.9k 0.7× 947 0.5× 2.5k 1.4× 227 16.4k
Robert F. Adler United States 65 16.2k 1.3× 17.1k 1.8× 3.0k 0.7× 2.6k 1.3× 2.8k 1.6× 175 21.4k
Yihui Ding China 53 12.7k 1.0× 11.9k 1.2× 1.7k 0.4× 2.7k 1.4× 1.2k 0.7× 266 16.7k
Seth Westra Australia 47 9.8k 0.8× 5.2k 0.5× 3.5k 0.8× 602 0.3× 1.1k 0.6× 128 11.9k
James A. Smith United States 69 10.5k 0.8× 8.2k 0.9× 4.5k 1.1× 641 0.3× 3.7k 2.1× 249 14.2k
Kun Yang China 79 12.4k 1.0× 13.8k 1.4× 4.4k 1.0× 1.4k 0.7× 4.7k 2.7× 494 21.7k
Zong‐Liang Yang United States 63 15.0k 1.2× 12.2k 1.3× 6.2k 1.5× 2.4k 1.2× 4.2k 2.4× 227 21.6k
Hayley J. Fowler United Kingdom 66 12.8k 1.0× 8.4k 0.9× 5.6k 1.3× 522 0.3× 1.7k 1.0× 222 16.4k
Walter W. Immerzeel Netherlands 65 6.1k 0.5× 11.5k 1.2× 5.3k 1.3× 581 0.3× 1.4k 0.8× 164 16.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gabriele Villarini

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Villarini, Gabriele, et al.. (2025). Impacts of urban dynamics and thermodynamics on convective rainfall across different urban forms. Urban Climate. 62. 102499–102499. 1 indexed citations
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Dieppois, Bastien, Ansoumana Bodian, Stefania Grimaldi, et al.. (2025). How could climate change affect the magnitude, duration and frequency of hydrological droughts and floods in West Africa during the 21st century? A storyline approach. Journal of Hydrology. 660. 133482–133482. 1 indexed citations
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Wahl, Thomas, et al.. (2024). A multivariate statistical framework for mixed storm types in compound flood analysis. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 24(11). 4091–4107. 4 indexed citations
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Wu, Xushu, et al.. (2024). Stronger exacerbation of extreme rainfall at the hourly than daily scale by urbanization in a warming climate. Journal of Hydrology. 633. 131025–131025. 7 indexed citations
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Quintero, Felipe, et al.. (2023). Projected changes in annual maximum discharge for Iowa communities. Journal of Hydrology. 625. 129957–129957. 3 indexed citations
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Villarini, Gabriele, et al.. (2023). Disentangling the Sources of Uncertainties in the Projection of Flood Risk Across the Central United States (Iowa). Geophysical Research Letters. 50(22). 3 indexed citations
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Villarini, Gabriele, et al.. (2023). Assessing the performance of parametric and non‐parametric tests for trend detection in partial duration time series. Journal of Flood Risk Management. 17(1). 6 indexed citations
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Slater, Louise, Gabriele Villarini, S. A. Archfield, et al.. (2021). Global Changes in 20‐Year, 50‐Year, and 100‐Year River Floods. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(6). 103 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wei, Gabriele Villarini, & Gabriel A. Vecchi. (2020). The East Asian Subtropical Jet Stream and Atlantic Tropical Cyclones. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(15). 8 indexed citations
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Brocca, Luca, Stefania Camici, Christian Massari, et al.. (2020). Satellite soil moisture improves rainfall just where needed. 1 indexed citations
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Slater, Louise & Gabriele Villarini. (2018). Enhancing the Predictability of Seasonal Streamflow With a Statistical‐Dynamical Approach. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(13). 6504–6513. 52 indexed citations
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Neri, Andrea, Gabriele Villarini, Kaustubh Salvi, Louise Slater, & Francesco Napolitano. (2018). On the decadal predictability of the frequency of flood events across the U.S. Midwest. International Journal of Climatology. 39(3). 1796–1804. 16 indexed citations
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Villarini, Gabriele, et al.. (2018). Changes in monthly baseflow across the U.S. Midwest. Hydrological Processes. 33(5). 748–758. 32 indexed citations
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Slater, Louise & Gabriele Villarini. (2017). Evaluating the Drivers of Seasonal Streamflow in the U.S. Midwest. Water. 9(9). 695–695. 58 indexed citations
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Slater, Louise & Gabriele Villarini. (2016). On the impact of gaps on trend detection in extreme streamflow time series. International Journal of Climatology. 37(10). 3976–3983. 25 indexed citations
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Chaney, Nathaniel W., Justin Sheffield, Gabriele Villarini, & Eric F. Wood. (2014). Development of a High-Resolution Gridded Daily Meteorological Dataset over Sub-Saharan Africa: Spatial Analysis of Trends in Climate Extremes. Journal of Climate. 27(15). 5815–5835. 74 indexed citations
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Mallakpour, Iman & Gabriele Villarini. (2014). The Tale of Flooding over the Central United States: Not Bigger but More Frequent. 2014 AGU Fall Meeting. 2014. 1 indexed citations
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Villarini, Gabriele. (2008). Empirically-based modeling of radar-rainfall uncertainties. PhDT. 2 indexed citations
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Krajewski, Witold F., Anton Kruger, M. L. Baeck, et al.. (2007). Hydro-NEXRAD: A Community Resource for Future Research on Improving Rainfall-Rainfall Estimation and Hydrologic Applications. AGUFM. 2007. 2 indexed citations

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