Publications and Resources

Sharing Knowledge, Enhancing Communication

Ordered by year (most recent first). Under-review and preprint items are indicated.

  • UNDER REVIEW Maury N., Pantillon F., Brumer, S. E., Pianezze J., Colin A., Husson R., Mouche A. Complementarity between Large-Eddy Simulation and Synthetic-Aperture Radar observations to characterise surface wind in an extratropical cyclone. 2026. Submitted to Weather and Climate Dynamics (hal-05666778)
  • UNDER REVIEW Kushabaha, A., Scardino, G., Miglietta, M. M., Bonaldo, D., Monforte, P., Mastronuzzi, G., González-Alemán, J. J., Scicchitano, G. Modelling the Coastal Impact of Mediterranean Hurricanes in a Climate Change Context. Coastal Engineering.
  • UNDER REVIEW Nigro, D., Giovannini, L., Bordoni, S., Dafis, S., Miglietta, M. M. The peculiarities of Ianos among Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.
  • 2026 Avenas, A., Miglietta, M. M., Mouche, A., Dafis, S., Colin, A., Husson, R., et al. Medicane characteristics from high-resolution satellite radar observations. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, e70102. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.70102
  • 2026 Silva, L., Davolio, S. Assimilation of satellite-derived rainfall estimates to improve numerical simulations of medicanes. Bull. of Atmos. Sci. & Technol. 7, 2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42865-025-00119-9
  • 2026 3. Brumer S.E., Pantillon F., Pianezze J., Le Péru-Morvan Y., Ragu-Fonta M., Grand L, Ricchi A, Barboni A, Bouin M.-N. On the tropical nature of an intense Mediterranean cyclone in the ocean-atmosphere system. 2026. Accepted in Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres. ⟨hal-05444958⟩
  • PREPRINT 2026 D'Armiento, D., Sebastianelli, S., D'Adderio, L. P., Sanò, P., Casella, D., Panegrossi, G. Detection and Tracking of Medicanes Through DeMeTrA Self-Supervised Vision Transformer. Preprints 2026, 2026051494. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202605.1494.v1
  • 2025 Miglietta, M. M., González-Alemán, J. J., Panegrossi, G., Gaertner, M. A., Pantillon, F., Pasquero, C., Schultz, D. M., D'Adderio, L. P., Dafis, S., Husson, R., Ricchi, A., Carrió, D. S., Davolio, S., Fita, L., Picornell, M. A., Pytharoulis, I., Raveh-Rubin, S., Scoccimarro, E., Bernini, L., Cavicchia, L., Conte, D., Ferretti, R., Flocas, H., Gutiérrez-Fernández, J., Hatzaki, M., Homar Santaner, V., Jansà, A., Patlakas, P., Flaounas, E. Defining Medicanes: Bridging the Knowledge Gap Between Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones in the Mediterranean. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 106, E1955–E1971. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0289.1
  • 2025 Khodayar, S., Kushta, J., Catto, J. L., Dafis, S., Davolio, S., Ferrarin, C., et al. Mediterranean cyclones in a changing climate: A review on their socio-economic impacts. Reviews of Geophysics, 63, e2024RG000853. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024RG000853
  • 2025 Flaounas, E., Dafis, S., Davolio, S., Faranda, D., Ferrarin, C., Hartmuth, K., Hochman, A., Koutroulis, A., Khodayar, S., Miglietta, M. M., Pantillon, F., Patlakas, P., Sprenger, M., and Thurnherr, I. Dynamics, predictability, impacts, and climate change considerations of the catastrophic Mediterranean Storm Daniel (2023). Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 1515–1538. https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-1515-2025
  • 2025 Emanuel, K., Alberti, T., Bourdin, S., Camargo, S. J., Faranda, D., Flaounas, E., Gonzalez-Aleman, J. J., Lee, C.-Y., Miglietta, M. M., Pasquero, C., Portal, A., Ramsay, H., Reale, M., and Romero, R. CYCLOPs: a Unified Framework for Surface Flux-Driven Cyclones Outside the Tropics. Weather Clim. Dynam., 6, 901–926. https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-901-2025
  • 2025 Velden, C., Knaff, J., Herndon, D., Mouche, A., Hawkins, J., Panegrossi, G., Stoffelen, A., Courtney, J., Tsukada, T., and Fontan, A.-C. Recent innovations in satellite-based applications and their impacts on tropical cyclone analyses and forecasts. J. Eur. Met. Soc., Vol. 2, 100011. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jemets.2025.100011
  • 2025 Sebastianelli, S., D'Adderio, L. P., Sanò, P., Casella, D., Panegrossi, G. Near-surface wind field characterization of Medicanes using satellite observations. Atmos. Res. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2025.108734
  • 2025 Di Francesca, V., D'Adderio, L. P., Sanò, P., Rysman, J.-F., Casella, D., and Panegrossi, G. Passive microwave-based diagnostics of Medicanes over the period 2000–2021. Atmospheric Research, 316, 107922. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2025.107922
  • 2025 Colin, A., & Husson, R. Rainfall Regression from C-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar Using Multitask Generative Adversarial Networks. Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems. https://doi.org/10.1175/AIES-D-24-0007.1
  • 2025 Scardino, G., Kushabaha, A., Miglietta, M. M., Bonaldo, D., Scicchitano, G. When Storms Stir the Mediterranean Depths: Chlorophyll-a Response to Mediterranean Hurricanes. Ocean Sci., 21, 2849–2872. https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-2849-2025
  • 2025 Panegrossi, G., Flaounas, E., Wernli, H. Predicting and monitoring explosive storms in a densely populated climate-change hotspot. New Tech for NatCat — AXA Research Fund. Available here
  • 2024 Avolio, E., Fanelli, C., Pisano, A., & Miglietta, M. M. Unveiling the relationship between Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones and rising Sea Surface Temperature. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL109921. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109921

Conferences presentations and communication material.

  • Automated spatio-temporal detection of medicane hazards and socio-economic impacts from news-based data using machine learning
    EGU 2026, Vienna, 3-8 May 2026
  • Sea surface temperature anomalies associated with Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones
    EGU 2026, Vienna, 3-8 May 2026
  • Assessing Power Network Resilience to Catastrophic Medicanes: The Case of Ianos (2020) in Present and Future Climate
    CLIMES 2026, Uppsala, 9-11 March 2026
  • Unveiling the Socio-Economic Footprint of Mediterranean Tropical-Like Cyclones through AI-Driven News Analysis
    CLIMES 2026, Uppsala, 9-11 March 2026
  • Assimilation of satellite-derived rainfall estimates to improve numerical simulations of medicanes
    AISAM 2026, Brescia, 10-12 February 2026
  • Detection and tracking of Medicanes through VideoMAE self-supervised vision transformer
    AlgoEarth 2025, Cologne, 7-10 October 2025
  • Enhancing Medicanes’ feature identification: A Satellite-based Deep-learning Automated Warm Core Detection System
    AlgoEarth 2025, Cologne, 7-10 October 2025
  • Assessing the socio-economic impacts of medicanes using machine learning and news-based information
    FutureMed 2025, Chania, 29 September–3 October 2025
  • Medicanes: Earth Observations as a cornerstone to the understanding and prediction of a tropical-like cyclone risk in the Mediterranean
    ESA Living Planet Symposium, Wien, 23–27 June 2025
  • New perspectives and advancements in satellite-based analyses and characterization of Medicanes
    MetMed 2025, Toulouse, 19–21 May 2025
  • On the use of wind field characteristics for the detection of the mature phase of medicanes
    MetMed 2025, Toulouse, 19–21 May 2025
  • The marine and coastal hazards of Mediterranean cyclones
    EGU General Assembly 2025, Wien, 27 April–2 May 2025
  • Coupled Ocean-Wave-Atmosphere Modeling of a Cold Wake Producing Mediterranean Cyclone
    AMS 2025, Crete, 25–29 January 2025
  • Satellite-based characterization of Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones (Medicanes)
    18th Plinius Conference on Mediterranean Risks, Crete, 30 September–3 October 2024
  • Two satellite-based methodologies for the automated detection of the center of rotation in Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones
    18th Plinius Conference on Mediterranean Risks, Crete, 30 September–3 October 2024
  • Attribution of the destructive Mediterranean derecho in 2022 to anthropogenic warming
    18th Plinius Conference on Mediterranean Risks, Crete, 30 September–3 October 2024
  • The Peculiarities of Ianos among Mediterranean Tropical-Like Cyclones
    18th Plinius Conference on Mediterranean Risks, Crete, 30 September–3 October 2024
  • Conceptual models for the development of tornadoes in Italy
    Congresso Nazionale SIF 2024, Bologna, 9–13 September 2024
  • Medicanes: On the automated detection of the rotational center for the characterization of Mediterranean cyclones
    2024 Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society, Barcelona, 2–6 September 2024
  • The crucial representation of deep convection for the cyclogenesis of medicane Ianos
    2024 Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society, Barcelona, 2–6 September 2024
  • The latest satellite-based advancements on the characterization of potential Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones
    2024 Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society, Barcelona, 2–6 September 2024
  • Satellite-based analysis and characterization of medicanes' surface wind field
    3rd MedCyclones Workshop, ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, 15–18 July 2024
  • Medicanes: Bridging the Gap Between Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones in the Mediterranean
    Tropicana programme, 3–28 June 2024, Paris Orsay
  • Modelling Mediterranean cyclones across scales
    Tropicana programme, 3–28 June 2024, Paris Orsay
  • The marine and coastal hazards of Mediterranean cyclones
    Liège Colloquium on Ocean Extremes, 27–31 May 2024, Liège
  • FutureMed: A transdisciplinary network to bridge climate science and impacts on society
    Mediterranean Green Week, 14–16 May 2024, Istanbul
  • For "derechos" to "medicanes": climate change and severe convective events in the Mediterranean
    Environment, Climate and Earth Sciences (ECES2024), 9–10 May 2024, Tirana