With the aim of developing a fully coupled atmosphere‐hydrology model system, the
Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model was enhanced by integrating a new set of …

Operational meteo-hydrological forecasting chains are affected by many sources of
uncertainty. In coastal areas characterized by complex topography, with several medium-to …

Reconstructing Flood Events in Mediterranean Coastal Areas Using Different Reanalyses and
High-Resolution Meteorological Models in: Journal of Hydrometeorology Volume 21 Issue 8 …

Lightning data assimilation (LDA) is a powerful tool to improve the weather forecast of
convective events and has been widely applied with this purpose in the past two decades …

The summer of 2017 in the Calabria Region (South Italy) was an exceptional wildfire season
with the largest area burned by wildfires in the last 11 years (2008–2019). The equivalent …

On 20 August 2018 a flash flood affected the Raganello Creek (southern Italy) causing 10
casualties. The rainfall event was so highly localized that the spatial coverage of rain …

This study investigates the impact of the spatio‐temporal accuracy of four different sea
surface temperature (SST) datasets on the accuracy of the Weather Research and …

Strong and persistent low-level winds blowing over the Adriatic basin are often associated
with intense precipitation events over Italy. Typically, in case of moist southeasterly wind …

The Mediterranean region is frequently affected by heavy precipitation episodes and
subsequent flash flooding. An exemplary case is the heavy precipitation episode that …

This study investigates the influence of sea surface temperature (SST) over the Sea of Japan
on a heavy precipitation event that occurred over the northern part (Northern Tohoku region) …