Gabriele Villarini

Datos Biográficos

ID6819974
NOMBREGabriele Villarini
NOMBRESGabriele
APELLIDOVillarini
FIRMAVILLARINI G
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Iowa
ORCID0000-0001-9566-2370
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS10
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR10
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2013
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Tropical Cyclones and Associated Impacts

    Gabriel A Vecchi, Enrico Scoccimarro et al.BOOKTropical Cyclones and Associated…2025

  • Precipitation extremes projected to increase and to occur in different times of the year

    Open AccessDario Treppiedi, Gabriele Villarini et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    There is high confidence that precipitation extremes are projected to become more frequent and severe and, to a lesser extent, that their seasonality may change. However, these precipitation characteristics are dealt with separately, without examining whether magnitude and seasonality are jointly projected to change. Here we assess how the seasonality and magnitude of precipitation extremes are jointly projected to change for different climate sc…

  • Characterizing the 2019 Midwest Flood

    Lily L Kraft, Gabriele Villarini et al.ARTICLEWeather, Climate, and Society2023

    During the spring of 2019, severe flooding across the U.S. Midwest caused widespread damage to communities in the Missouri and Mississippi River basins. While it is known that flood magnitude and economic damage are often related, little work exists to examine these factors simultaneously. In this study, we analyze both the hydrologic and socioeconomic characteristics of the 2019 Midwest flood to gain a comprehensive understanding of impacts to i…

  • Attribution of the impacts of the 2008 flooding in Cedar Rapids (Iowa) to anthropogenic forcing

    Open AccessGabriele Villarini, Wei Zhang et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    The City of Cedar Rapids was significantly affected by the June 2008 flood. However, little is known about the role anthropogenic warming during this event, not only in terms of hydrologic response but also of impacts. Here we use a continuous distributed hydrologic model forced with precipitation with and without external forcing and show that the impacts of this flood were likely magnified because of increased anthropogenic warming; compared to…

  • Observed changes in flood hazard in Africa

    Open AccessYves Tramblay, Gabriele Villarini et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Floods represent a major natural hazard in Africa, causing over 27 000 fatalities during the period 1950–2019. Despite its relevance, little is known about changes in flood hazard across this continent due to the lack of long-term high-quality streamflow records. Here we use a newly assembled discharge dataset of African rivers, and provide a long-term comprehensive view of flood hazard across this continent. We show that the annual maximum peak …

  • Urbanization exacerbated the rainfall and flooding caused by hurricane Harvey in Houston

    Open AccessWei Zhang, Gabriele Villarini et al.ARTICLENature2018

  • Effects of Rainfall on Vehicle Crashes in Six U.S. States

    Alan W Black, Gabriele Villarini et al.ARTICLEWeather, Climate, and Society2017

    Rainfall is one of many types of weather hazard that can lead to motor vehicle crashes. To better understand the link between rainfall and crash rates, daily gridded precipitation data and automobile crash data are gathered for six U.S. states (Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Ohio) for the period 1996–2010. A matched pair analysis is used to pair rainfall days with dry days to determine the relative risk of crash, injury, and fa…

  • Future changes in atmospheric rivers and their implications for winter flooding in Britain

    Open AccessDavid A Lavers, Richard P Allan et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2013

    Within the warm conveyor belt of extra-tropical cyclones, atmospheric rivers (ARs) are the key synoptic features which deliver the majority of poleward water vapour transport, and are associated with episodes of heavy and prolonged rainfall. ARs are responsible for many of the largest winter floods in the mid-latitudes resulting in major socioeconomic losses; for example, the loss from United Kingdom (UK) flooding in summer/winter 2012 is estimat…

  • Flooding associated with predecessor rain events over the Midwest United States

    Open AccessScott Thomas Rowe, Gabriele VillariniARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2013

    This paper examines the severity and extent of flooding caused by six predecessor rain events (PREs) over the Midwest United States. PREs are areas of heavy rainfall that occur about 1000 km ahead of landfalling tropical cyclones. While recent studies have mostly focused on the synoptic conditions associated with PREs, little is known about the hydrologic impacts of these events. Here, we use discharge data collected by the US Geological Survey t…

  • Determining tropical cyclone inland flooding loss on a large scale through a new flood peak ratio-based methodology

    Open AccessJeffrey Czajkowski, Gabriele Villarini et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2013

    In recent years, the United States has been severely affected by numerous tropical cyclones (TCs) which have caused massive damages. While media attention mainly focuses on coastal losses from storm surge, these TCs have inflicted significant devastation inland as well. Yet, little is known about the relationship between TC-related inland flooding and economic losses. Here we introduce a novel methodology that first successfully characterizes the…