Lorenzo Mentaschi

10.8k total citations · 11 hit papers
82 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Lorenzo Mentaschi is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Lorenzo Mentaschi has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Atmospheric Science, 39 papers in Oceanography and 37 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Lorenzo Mentaschi's work include Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (36 papers), Coastal and Marine Dynamics (30 papers) and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (27 papers). Lorenzo Mentaschi is often cited by papers focused on Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (36 papers), Coastal and Marine Dynamics (30 papers) and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (27 papers). Lorenzo Mentaschi collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Greece and Netherlands. Lorenzo Mentaschi's co-authors include Luc Feyen, Michalis Vousdoukas, Evangelos Voukouvalas, Giovanni Besio, Andrea Mazzino, Klaus Wyser, Gustavo Naumann, Martin Verlaan, Federico Cassola and Roshanka Ranasinghe and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Lorenzo Mentaschi

79 papers receiving 6.4k 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. Global Changes in Drought Conditions Under Different Levels of Warming
    2018 542 citations Gustavo Naumann, Lorenzo Alfieri et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →
  2. Sandy coastlines under threat of erosion
    2020 525 citations Michalis Vousdoukas, Lorenzo Mentaschi et al. profile →
  3. Global probabilistic projections of extreme sea levels show intensification of coastal flood hazard
    2018 495 citations Michalis Vousdoukas, Lorenzo Mentaschi et al. Nature Communications profile →
  4. Global long-term observations of coastal erosion and accretion
    2018 489 citations Lorenzo Mentaschi, Michalis Vousdoukas et al. Scientific Reports profile →
  5. Higher probability of compound flooding from precipitation and storm surge in Europe under anthropogenic climate change
    2019 332 citations Emanuele Bevacqua, Douglas Maraun et al. Science Advances profile →
  6. Extreme heat waves under 1.5 °C and 2 °C global warming
    2018 310 citations Lorenzo Mentaschi, Klaus Wyser et al. profile →
  7. Urban heat island mitigation by green infrastructure in European Functional Urban Areas
    2021 303 citations Lorenzo Mentaschi et al. profile →
  8. Increased economic drought impacts in Europe with anthropogenic warming
    2021 267 citations Gustavo Naumann, Carmelo Cammalleri et al. profile →
  9. Extreme sea levels on the rise along Europe's coasts
    2017 264 citations Michalis Vousdoukas, Lorenzo Mentaschi et al. profile →
  10. Extreme sea levels at different global warming levels
    2021 192 citations Michalis Vousdoukas, Lorenzo Mentaschi et al. profile →
  11. African heritage sites threatened as sea-level rise accelerates
    2022 87 citations Michalis Vousdoukas, Luc Feyen 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
Lorenzo Mentaschi Italy 34 2.9k 2.6k 2.3k 1.6k 1.1k 82 6.5k
Albert J. Kettner United States 41 3.2k 1.1× 2.9k 1.1× 3.1k 1.3× 965 0.6× 4.2k 3.8× 109 9.3k
João Miguel Días Portugal 37 1.3k 0.4× 900 0.3× 1.3k 0.5× 2.3k 1.4× 1.6k 1.5× 219 4.6k
Gerardo M. E. Perillo Argentina 31 1.4k 0.5× 649 0.2× 1.4k 0.6× 1.2k 0.7× 2.3k 2.0× 202 4.8k
Kathleen L. McInnes Australia 35 2.3k 0.8× 2.3k 0.9× 924 0.4× 1.4k 0.9× 531 0.5× 89 4.1k
Michael Tsimplis United Kingdom 42 2.4k 0.8× 1.7k 0.7× 889 0.4× 3.2k 2.0× 473 0.4× 113 5.2k
Bin Zhao China 40 2.7k 0.9× 849 0.3× 540 0.2× 533 0.3× 3.4k 3.1× 143 5.9k
Jean‐François Pekel Italy 17 3.7k 1.3× 1.1k 0.4× 578 0.3× 498 0.3× 2.2k 2.0× 36 5.8k
Patrick L. Barnard United States 41 1.4k 0.5× 3.6k 1.4× 3.7k 1.6× 1.3k 0.8× 2.1k 1.9× 154 6.5k
Scott C. Hagen United States 36 1.3k 0.4× 2.1k 0.8× 1.8k 0.8× 921 0.6× 1.5k 1.4× 123 3.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lorenzo Mentaschi

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lorenzo Mentaschi. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lorenzo Mentaschi 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 Lorenzo Mentaschi. Lorenzo Mentaschi is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Monioudi, Isavela Ν., Michalis Vousdoukas, Alessio Giardino, et al.. (2025). Impacts of sea level rise and adaptation across Asia and the Pacific. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 35742–35742.
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Federico, Iván, et al.. (2025). Coupling ocean currents and waves for seamless cross-scale modeling during Medicane Ianos. Ocean science. 21(3). 1105–1123.
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Pinardi, Nadia, Antonio Navarra, Emanuela Clementi, et al.. (2025). The Eastern Mediterranean Sea mean sea level decadal slowdown: the effects of the water budget. Frontiers in Climate. 7. 1 indexed citations
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Aragão, Leonardo, Lorenzo Mentaschi, Nadia Pinardi, et al.. (2024). The freshwater discharge into the Adriatic Sea revisited. Frontiers in Climate. 6. 7 indexed citations
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Mentaschi, Lorenzo, et al.. (2024). Projections of the Adriatic wave conditions under climate changes. Frontiers in Climate. 6. 2 indexed citations
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Verri, Giorgia, Alfonso Senatore, Lorenzo Mentaschi, et al.. (2024). Climate projections of the Adriatic Sea: role of river release. Frontiers in Climate. 6. 20 indexed citations
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Steinhausen, Max, Kai Schröter, Stefan Lüdtke, et al.. (2021). Drivers of future flood risk change for residential buildings in Europe. 1 indexed citations
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Mentaschi, Lorenzo, Lorenzo Alfieri, Francesco Dottori, et al.. (2020). Independence of Future Changes of River Runoff in Europe from the Pathway to Global Warming. Climate. 8(2). 22–22. 15 indexed citations
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Cammalleri, Carmelo, Gustavo Naumann, Lorenzo Mentaschi, et al.. (2020). Diverging hydrological drought traits over Europe with global warming. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 24(12). 5919–5935. 34 indexed citations
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Vousdoukas, Michalis, Lorenzo Mentaschi, Jochen Hinkel, et al.. (2020). Economic motivation for raising coastal flood defenses in Europe. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2119–2119. 172 indexed citations
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Bevacqua, Emanuele, Douglas Maraun, Michalis Vousdoukas, et al.. (2019). Higher probability of compound flooding from precipitation and storm surge in Europe under anthropogenic climate change. Science Advances. 5(9). eaaw5531–eaaw5531. 332 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cammalleri, Carmelo, Gustavo Naumann, Lorenzo Mentaschi, et al.. (2019). Global warming and drought impacts in the EU. Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 36 indexed citations
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Vousdoukas, Michalis, et al.. (2018). Assessing compound flooding risk through dynamic simulations: application in Recife, Brazil. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 2589. 2 indexed citations
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Vousdoukas, Michalis, Dimitrios Bouziotas, Alessio Giardino, et al.. (2018). Understanding epistemic uncertainty in large-scale coastal flood risk assessment for present and future climates. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 18(8). 2127–2142. 66 indexed citations
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Naumann, Gustavo, Lorenzo Alfieri, Klaus Wyser, et al.. (2018). Global Changes in Drought Conditions Under Different Levels of Warming. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(7). 3285–3296. 542 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fernández-Montblanc, Tomás, Michalis Vousdoukas, Paolo Ciavola, et al.. (2018). Towards robust pan-European storm surge forecasting. Ocean Modelling. 133. 129–144. 42 indexed citations
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Besio, Giovanni, Riccardo Briganti, Alessandro Romano, Lorenzo Mentaschi, & Paolo De Girolamo. (2017). Time clustering of wave storms in the Mediterranean Sea. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 17(3). 505–514. 20 indexed citations
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Vousdoukas, Michalis, Evangelos Voukouvalas, Lorenzo Mentaschi, et al.. (2016). Developments in large-scale coastal flood hazard mapping. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 16(8). 1841–1853. 178 indexed citations
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Mentaschi, Lorenzo, Michalis Vousdoukas, Evangelos Voukouvalas, et al.. (2016). The transformed-stationary approach: a generic and simplified methodology for non-stationary extreme value analysis. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 20(9). 3527–3547. 68 indexed citations
20.
Mentaschi, Lorenzo, Giovanni Besio, Andrea Mazzino, & Federico Cassola. (2013). Why NRMSE is not completly reliable for forecast/hindcast model test performances. EGUGA. 1 indexed citations

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