Francesco Marra

Research Activity

Recent publications (last three years):

2024

Saharan rainfall climatology and its relationship with surface cyclones (2024)
Weather and Climate Extremes
doi:10.1016/j.wace.2023.100638

Open gridded climate datasets can help investigating the relation between meteorological anomalies and geomorphic hazards in mountainous areas (2024)
Global and Planetary Change
doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104328
 

2023

A method to derive satellite-based extreme precipitation return levels in poorly gauged areas (2023)
Journal of Hydrology
doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130295 

Prediction of extraordinarily high floods emerging from heterogeneous flow generation processes (2023)
Geophysical Research Letters
doi:10.1029/2023GL105429 

The impact of extreme rainstorms on escarpment morphology in arid areas: insights from the central Negev Desert (2023)
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
doi:10.1029/2023JF007093

On the relation between antecedent basin conditions and runoff coefficient for European floods (2023)
Journal of Hydrology
doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130012

Relation Between Storm Characteristics and Extreme Precipitation Statistics Over CONUS (2023)
Advances in Water Resources
doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2023.104497

Assessing the controlling factors on watershed soil erosion during intense rainstorm events using radar rainfall and process-based modeling (2023)
Catena

doi:10.1016/j.catena.2023.107282

The source of extreme precipitation predictability; the case of the ‘Wet’ Red Sea Trough (2023)
Weather and Climate Extremes
doi:10.1016/j.wace.2023.100564

Deciphering seasonal effects of triggering and preparatory precipitation for improved shallow landslide prediction using generalized additive mixed models (2023)
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
doi:10.5194/nhess-23-1483-2023

Brief communication: the potential use of low-cost acoustic sensors to detect rainfall for short-term urban flood warnings (2023)
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
doi:10.5194/nhess-23-1233-2023

How well does a convection-permitting regional climate model represent the reverse orographic effect of extreme precipitation? (2023)
Hydrology and Earth Sysem Sciences
doi:10.5194/hess-27-1133-2023

Antecedent rainfall as a critical factor for the triggering of debris flows in arid regions (2023)
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
doi:10.5194/nhess-23-1079-2023

Toward an improved estimation of flood frequency statistics from simulated flows (2023)
Journal of Flood Risk Management
doi:10.1111/jfr3.12891

Non-asymptotic Weibull tails explain the statistics of extreme daily precipitation (2023)
Advances in Water Resources
doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2023.104388

2022

Changes in extreme daily precipitation over Africa: insights from a non-asymptotic statistical approach (2022)
Journal of Hydrology X
doi:10.1016/j.hydroa.2022.100130 

Climatic and altitudinal controls on rainfall extremes and their temporal changes in data-sparse tropical regions (2022)
Journal of Hydrology
doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.128090

ESD Reviews: Extreme Weather and Societal Impacts in the Eastern Mediterranean (2022)
Earth System Dynamics
doi:
10.5194/esd-2021-55

Coastal and orographic effects on extreme precipitation revealed by weather radar observations (2022)
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
doi:10.5194/hess-26-1439-2022

Enhanced summer convection explains observed trends in extreme subdaily precipitation in the Eastern Italian Alps (2022)
Geophysical Research Letters
doi:10.1029/2021GL096727

Today's 100-year droughts in Australia may become the norm by the end of the century (2022)
Environmental Research Letters
doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac58ac

Storm characteristics dictate sediment dynamics and geomorphic changes in mountain channels: a case study in the Italian Alps (2022)
Geomorphology
doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108173

Scale-dependence of observational and modelling uncertainties in forensic flash flood analysis (2022)
Journal of Hydrology
doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127502

Reduced rainfall in future heavy precipitation events related to contracted rain area despite increased rain rate (2022)
Earth’s Future
doi:10.1029/2021EF002397

Differential orographic impact on sub-hourly, hourly, and daily extreme precipitation (2022)
Advances in Water Resources
doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2021.104085