Stefano Serafin

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Stefano Serafin is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefano Serafin has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Atmospheric Science, 24 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 7 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Stefano Serafin's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (29 papers), Climate variability and models (13 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (12 papers). Stefano Serafin is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (29 papers), Climate variability and models (13 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (12 papers). Stefano Serafin collaborates with scholars based in Austria, United States and Italy. Stefano Serafin's co-authors include Dino Zardi, Vanda Grubı̆sı́c, Daniel J. Kirshbaum, Norbert Kalthoff, Bianca Adler, Christian Barthlott, Elisa Palazzi, Petra Seibert, Sven Kotlarski and Mathias Vuille and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Earth and Planetary Science Letters and Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Stefano Serafin

35 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Climate Changes and Their Elevational Patterns in the Mountains of the World

2022 337 citations N. C. Pepin, Enrico Arnone et al. Reviews of Geophysics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stefano Serafin Austria	18	913	782	312	68	65	37	1.2k
Jean Dessens France	27	1.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.4×	227 0.7×	53 0.8×	46 0.7×	46	1.5k
Jean‐Martial Cohard France	19	633 0.7×	804 1.0×	230 0.7×	166 2.4×	59 0.9×	42	1.0k
David A. R. Kristovich United States	29	1.6k 1.8×	1.5k 1.9×	233 0.7×	198 2.9×	62 1.0×	55	2.0k
Craig B. Clements United States	26	933 1.0×	1.4k 1.8×	369 1.2×	30 0.4×	121 1.9×	63	1.7k
Jinwon Kim United States	24	1.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.5×	300 1.0×	138 2.0×	139 2.1×	50	1.6k
Justin R. Minder United States	24	1.4k 1.5×	1.1k 1.4×	171 0.5×	243 3.6×	77 1.2×	42	1.6k
Reinhold Steinacker Austria	19	1.4k 1.6×	1.2k 1.5×	380 1.2×	132 1.9×	44 0.7×	50	1.7k
Celeste Saulo Argentina	21	1.8k 1.9×	1.9k 2.4×	211 0.7×	235 3.5×	213 3.3×	38	2.4k
Alexander Olchev Russia	15	368 0.4×	464 0.6×	103 0.3×	60 0.9×	226 3.5×	80	798
Michael L. Kaplan United States	22	1.5k 1.6×	1.3k 1.7×	192 0.6×	150 2.2×	37 0.6×	102	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Stefano Serafin

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefano Serafin

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Kramer, Richard S., et al.. (2025). Identifying large vulnerable water reservoirs using passive seismic monitoring. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 653. 119223–119223. 3 indexed citations

Weißmann, Martin, et al.. (2024). The fractions skill score for ensemble forecast verification. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 150(764). 4457–4477. 4 indexed citations

Serafin, Stefano, et al.. (2023). Boundary‐layer plumes over mountainous terrain in idealized large‐eddy simulations. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 149(757). 3183–3197. 3 indexed citations

Serafin, Stefano, et al.. (2023). Adverse impact of terrain steepness on thermally driven initiation of orographic convection. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 4(3). 725–745. 11 indexed citations

Serafin, Stefano, et al.. (2022). Numerically consistent budgets of potential temperature, momentum, and moisture in Cartesian coordinates: application to the WRF model. Geoscientific model development. 15(2). 669–681. 6 indexed citations

Pepin, N. C., Enrico Arnone, Andreas Gobiet, et al.. (2022). Climate Changes and Their Elevational Patterns in the Mountains of the World. Reviews of Geophysics. 60(1). 337 indexed citations breakdown →

Rotach, Mathias W., Stefano Serafin, Helen C. Ward, et al.. (2022). A Collaborative Effort to Better Understand, Measure, and Model Atmospheric Exchange Processes over Mountains. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 103(5). E1282–E1295. 18 indexed citations

Serafin, Stefano, et al.. (2022). Probability forecasts of ice accretion on wind turbines derived from multiphysics and neighbourhood ensembles. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 148(746). 2446–2467.

Serafin, Stefano, et al.. (2021). Numerically consistent budgets of energy, momentum and mass in Cartesian coordinates: Application to the WRF model. 1 indexed citations

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Serafin, Stefano, Bianca Adler, Joan Cuxart, et al.. (2018). Exchange Processes in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Over Mountainous Terrain. Atmosphere. 9(3). 102–102. 167 indexed citations

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Serafin, Stefano, et al.. (2018). Ensemble reduction using cluster analysis. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 145(719). 659–674. 4 indexed citations

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Giovannini, Lorenzo, Lavinia Laiti, Stefano Serafin, & Dino Zardi. (2017). The thermally driven diurnal wind system of the Adige Valley in the Italian Alps. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 143(707). 2389–2402. 55 indexed citations

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Serafin, Stefano, et al.. (2016). Atmospheric Rotors and Severe Turbulence in a Long Deep Valley. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 73(4). 1481–1506. 32 indexed citations

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Serafin, Stefano, et al.. (2015). Turbulence in breaking mountain waves and atmospheric rotors estimated from airborne in situ and Doppler radar measurements. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 141(693). 3207–3225. 50 indexed citations

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French, Jeffrey R., et al.. (2015). Wave-Induced Boundary Layer Separation in the Lee of the Medicine Bow Mountains. Part I: Observations*. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 72(12). 4845–4863. 19 indexed citations

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Serafin, Stefano, Stephan F. J. De Wekker, & Jason C. Knievel. (2015). A Mesoscale Model-Based Climatography of Nocturnal Boundary-Layer Characteristics over the Complex Terrain of North-Western Utah. Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 159(3). 495–519. 7 indexed citations

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Serafin, Stefano & Dino Zardi. (2010). Daytime Heat Transfer Processes Related to Slope Flows and Turbulent Convection in an Idealized Mountain Valley. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 67(11). 3739–3756. 62 indexed citations

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Serafin, Stefano & Dino Zardi. (2009). Structure of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer in the Vicinity of a Developing Upslope Flow System: A Numerical Model Study. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 67(4). 1171–1185. 49 indexed citations

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Serafin, Stefano. (2006). Boundary Layer Processes and Thermally Driven Flows over Complex Terrain. Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento). 1 indexed citations

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Serafin, Stefano, et al.. (2005). APPLICATION OF CLUSTER ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES TO THE VERIFICATION OF QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECASTS. Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento). 40(40). 395–398.

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