Publications and Resources

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MEDICANES Publications

  • Nigro D., Giovannini L., Bordoni S., Dafis S., Miglietta M. M., The peculiarities of Ianos among Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones, QJRMS, under review
  • Scardino G., A. Kushabaha, M. M. Miglietta, D. Bonaldo, G. Scicchitano, When Storms Stir the Mediterranean Depths: Chlorophyll-a Response to Mediterranean Hurricanes, Ocean Science, under review
  • Sebastianelli Stefano, Leo Pio D’Adderio; Paolo Sanò; Daniele Casella; Giulia Panegrossi, Near-surface wind field characterization of Medicanes using satellite observations, Atmos. Res., under review
  • Kushabaha A., G. Scardino, M.M. Miglietta, D. Bonaldo, P. Monforte, G. Mastronuzzi, J.J. González-Alemán, G. Scicchitano, Modelling the Coastal Impact of Mediterranean Hurricanes in a Climate Change Context, Ocean Science, under review.
  • Avenas A., Miglietta M.M., Mouche A., Dafis S., Colind A., Husson R., Flaounas, E. (2025) Medicane dynamical characteristics in high-resolution satellite observations, QJRMS, under review.
  • 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., 2025: 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
  • 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., 2025: 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
  • Velden, C., J. Knaff, D. Herndon, A. Mouche, J. Hawkins, G. Panegrossi, A. Stoffelen, J. Courtney, T. Tsukada, and A.-C. Fontan, 2025: Recent innovations in satellite-based applications and their impacts on tropical cyclone analyses and forecasts. J. Eur. Met. Soc., Vol. 2, 100011, ISSN 2950-6301 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jemets.2025.100011.
  • di Francesca, V. et al. (2025). Passive microwave-based diagnostics of medicanes over the period 2000–2021. Atmospheric Research, 316, 107922. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2025.107922
  • Colin, A., and Husson, R. (2025). Rainfall Regression from C-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar Using Multitask Generative Adversarial Networks. https://doi.org/10.1175/AIES-D-24-0007.1
  • Avolio, E., Fanelli, C., Pisano, A., and Miglietta, M. M. (2024). Unveiling the relationship between Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones and rising Sea Surface Temperature. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL109921. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109921

    • Preperint

  • 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 (2024), EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-2809.

    • Resources

    Here you will find conferences presentation and communication material.

  • Assessing the socio-economic impacts of medicanes using machine learning and news-based information
    FutureMed 2025, Chania, 29 September- 3 October 2025

  • Mediceanes: Earth Obervations 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
    1ongresso 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 (Rome), 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
    Liege Colloquium on Ocean Extremes, 27-31 May 2024, Liege

  • 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