Study of the Intense Meteorological Event Occurred in September 2022 over the Marche Region with WRF Model: Impact of Lightning Data Assimilation on Rainfall …

RC Torcasio, M Papa, F Del Frate, S Dietrich, FE Toffah… - Atmosphere, 2023 - mdpi.com
A destructive V-shaped thunderstorm occurred over the Marche Region, in Central Italy, on
15 September 2022. Twelve people died during the event, and damage to properties was …

WRF simulations for a heavy rainfall event in southern Italy: Verification and sensitivity tests

E Avolio, S Federico - Atmospheric Research, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper we study the sensitivity of the quantitative precipitation forecast (QPF) to
different physical parameterization schemes and configuration settings of WRF (Weather …

Variability modes of precipitation along a Central Mediterranean area and their relations with ENSO, NAO, and other climatic patterns

A Kalimeris, E Ranieri, D Founda, C Norrant - Atmospheric Research, 2017 - Elsevier
This study analyses a century-long set of precipitation time series in the Central
Mediterranean (encompassing the Greek Ionian and the Italian Puglia regions) and …

STORAGE (STOchastic RAinfall GEnerator): A user-friendly software for generating long and high-resolution rainfall time series

DL De Luca, A Petroselli - Hydrology, 2021 - mdpi.com
The MS Excel file with VBA (Visual Basic for Application) macros named STORAGE
(STOchastic RAinfall GEnerator) is introduced herein. STORAGE is a temporal stochastic …

[HTML][HTML] Climatology and ranking of hazardous precipitation events in the western Mediterranean area

D Insua-Costa, M Lemus-Cánovas… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - Elsevier
The western Mediterranean region often suffers from the devastating effects of flooding,
caused by enormous rain accumulations that sometimes resemble the values produced by …

Heavy precipitation systems in Calabria Region (Southern Italy): High-resolution observed rainfall and large-scale atmospheric pattern analysis

A Greco, DL De Luca, E Avolio - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
An in-depth analysis of historical heavy rainfall fields clearly constitutes an important aspect
in many related topics: as examples, mesoscale models for early warning systems and the …

Stationary and non-stationary frameworks for extreme rainfall time series in southern Italy

DL De Luca, L Galasso - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
This study tests stationary and non-stationary approaches for modelling data series of hydro-
meteorological variables. Specifically, the authors considered annual maximum rainfall …

Mechanisms for convection development in a long-lasting heavy precipitation event over southeastern Italy

D Mastrangelo, K Horvath, A Riccio, MM Miglietta - Atmospheric research, 2011 - Elsevier
Observational data and outputs from the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model
are used to investigate a heavy precipitation event that occurred on 12 and 13 November …

A meteo-hydrological modelling system for the reconstruction of river runoff: the case of the Ofanto river catchment

G Verri, N Pinardi, D Gochis, J Tribbia… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2017 - nhess.copernicus.org
A meteo-hydrological modelling system has been designed for the reconstruction of long
time series of rainfall and river runoff events. The modelling chain consists of the mesoscale …

Impact of radar reflectivity and lightning data assimilation on the rainfall forecast and predictability of a summer convective thunderstorm in Southern Italy

S Federico, RC Torcasio, S Puca, G Vulpiani… - Atmosphere, 2021 - mdpi.com
Heavy and localized summer events are very hard to predict and, at the same time,
potentially dangerous for people and properties. This paper focuses on an event occurred …