Riccardo Rigon

8.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
97 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Riccardo Rigon is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Riccardo Rigon has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Water Science and Technology, 35 papers in Atmospheric Science and 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Riccardo Rigon's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (46 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (21 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (17 papers). Riccardo Rigon is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (46 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (21 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (17 papers). Riccardo Rigon collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and United Kingdom. Riccardo Rigon's co-authors include Andrea Rinaldo, I. Rodriguez‐Iturbe, Alessandro Marani, Andrea Rinaldo, Giacomo Bertoldi, Ede Ijjász‐Vásquez, Rafael L. Bras, Amos Maritan, Thomas M. Over and Giuseppe Formetta and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Riccardo Rigon

96 papers receiving 5.1k citations

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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.

An overview of current applications, challenges, and future trends in distributed process-based models in hydrology

2016 456 citations Simone Fatichi, Riccardo Rigon et al. Journal of Hydrology profile →

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Guangqian Wang China

Victor Jetten Netherlands

S.M. de Jong Netherlands

Garry Willgoose Australia

M. L. Kavvas United States

Fred L. Ogden United States

Enrique R. Vivoni United States

M. G. Anderson United Kingdom

Barry Croke Australia

David G. Tarboton United States

Guangqian Wang China

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887 ×0.7

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Riccardo Rigon

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Massari, Christian, et al.. (2025). A new tool for correcting the spatial and temporal pattern of global precipitation products across mountainous terrain: precipitation and hydrological analysis. Journal of Hydrology. 660. 133530–133530. 1 indexed citations

Rigon, Riccardo, et al.. (2025). Elementary Mathematics Helps to Shed Light on the Transpiration Budget Under Water Stress. Ecohydrology. 18(2). 1 indexed citations

Dall’Amico, M., et al.. (2025). 30-years (1991-2021) Snow Water Equivalent Dataset in the Po River District, Italy. Scientific Data. 12(1). 374–374.

Girotto, Manuela, Giuseppe Formetta, Gabriëlle De Lannoy, et al.. (2023). Identifying snowfall elevation patterns by assimilating satellite-based snow depth retrievals. The Science of The Total Environment. 906. 167312–167312. 11 indexed citations

Rigon, Riccardo, et al.. (2023). Hydrological digital twin model of a large anthropized italian alpine catchment: The Adige river basin. Journal of Hydrology. 629. 130587–130587. 11 indexed citations

Rigon, Riccardo, et al.. (2021). Implementing the Water, HEat and Transport model in GEOframe WHETGEO-1D v.1.0: algorithms, informatics, design patterns, open science features, and 1D deployment. Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento). 3 indexed citations

Mastrotheodoros, Theodoros, Christoforos Pappas, Péter Molnár, et al.. (2020). More green and less blue water in the Alps during warmer summers. Nature Climate Change. 10(2). 155–161. 184 indexed citations

Bancheri, Marialaura, Riccardo Rigon, & Salvatore Manfreda. (2019). The GEOframe-NewAge Modelling System Applied in a Data Scarce Environment. Water. 12(1). 86–86. 10 indexed citations

Bancheri, Marialaura, et al.. (2018). The design, deployment, and testing of kriging models in GEOframe with SIK-0.9.8. Geoscientific model development. 11(6). 2189–2207. 13 indexed citations

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Abera, Wuletawu, Giuseppe Formetta, Luca Brocca, & Riccardo Rigon. (2017). Modeling the water budget of the Upper Blue Nile basin using the JGrass-NewAge model system and satellite data. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 21(6). 3145–3165. 59 indexed citations

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Bancheri, Marialaura, et al.. (2017). On complex networks representation and computation of hydrological quantities. ScholarsArchive (Brigham Young University). 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Gruber, Stephan, et al.. (2017). New insights in permafrost modelling. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 4870. 1 indexed citations

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Bancheri, Marialaura, et al.. (2017). JGrass-NewAge hydrological system: an open-source platform for the replicability of science.. EGUGA. 17109. 2 indexed citations

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Abera, Wuletawu, Giuseppe Formetta, Luca Brocca, & Riccardo Rigon. (2016). Water budget modelling of the Upper Blue Nile basin using the JGrass-NewAge model system and satellite data. 4 indexed citations

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Formetta, Giuseppe, Stephanie K. Kampf, O. David, & Riccardo Rigon. (2014). Snow water equivalent modeling components in NewAge-JGrass. Geoscientific model development. 7(3). 725–736. 27 indexed citations

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Seppi, Roberto, et al.. (2012). Inventory, distribution and topographic features of rock glaciers in the southern region of the Eastern Italian Alps (Trentino).. Research Padua Archive (University of Padua). 185–197. 32 indexed citations

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Viganò, Alfio, Simone Tumiati, Sandro Recchia, et al.. (2011). Carbonate pseudotachylytes: evidence for seismic faulting along carbonate faults. Terra Nova. 23(3). 187–194. 10 indexed citations

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Formetta, Giuseppe, et al.. (2011). The JGrass-NewAge system for forecasting and managing the hydrological budgets at the basin scale: models of flow generation and propagation/routing. Geoscientific model development. 4(4). 943–955. 39 indexed citations

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Dall’Amico, M., S. Endrizzi, Stephan Gruber, & Riccardo Rigon. (2009). Energy conservative algorithm for phase change in freezing unsaturated soils using the hydrological model GEOtop. EGUGA. 7455. 1 indexed citations

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Rodriguez‐Iturbe, I., Andrea Rinaldo, Riccardo Rigon, et al.. (1992). Fractal structures as least energy patterns: The case of river networks. Geophysical Research Letters. 19(9). 889–892. 117 indexed citations

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