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Full Professor at Universita' di Milano

Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra "Ardito Desio"

silvio.davolio@unimi.it

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ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8704-1814
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PRIN2022-ARMEX
Exploring Atmospheric Rivers in the Mediterranean and their connection with EXtreme hydrometeorological events over Italy: observation, modelling and impacts
ESA - MEDICANES
Earth observations as a cornerstone to the understanding and prediction of tropical-like cyclone risk in the Mediterranean

Recent publications:

Khodayar, S., Kushta, J., Catto, J. L., Dafis, S., Davolio, S., Ferrarin, C., Flaounas, E., Groenemeijer, P., Hatzaki, M., Hochman, A., Kotroni, V., Landa, J., Lang-Ritter, I., Lazoglou, G., Liberato, M. L. R., Miglietta, M. M., Papagiannaki, K., Patlakas, P., Stojanov, R., Zittis G., 2025:
Mediterranean cyclones in a changing climate: A review on their socio-economic impacts.
Reviews of Geophysics, 63, e2024RG000853
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Degiacomi T., A. Zonato , S. Davolio , M. M. Miglietta, L. Giovannini, 2025:
Deep banded orographic convection over an idealized mountain range: influence of upstream atmospheric conditions
J. Atmos. Sci., 82,1033-1055.
Xu, C., Zhong, P., Davolio, S., Drofa, O., Gambini, E., Ravazzani, G., Ceppi, A., 2025:
Testing machine learning algorithms as post-processing tools for hydro-meteorological modelling over a small river basin
Environmental Modelling & Software, 193, 106592
Zanchi, M., Zapperi, S., Bocchi, S., Drofa, O., Davolio, S., La Porta, C. A. M., 2025:
Improving localized weather predictions for precision agriculture: A Time-Series Mixer approach for hazardous event detection.
Environmental Modelling & Software, 191, 106509
Dallan E., T. Perez-Ciria, L. Giovannini, S. Davolio, D. Zardi, M. Borga, 2025:
Rainfall elasticity functions explain divergent runoff sensitivity to rainfall errors in hydrological models.
J. Hydrology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.132746
Carniel C. E., A. Ricchi, R. Ferretti, G. Curci, M. M. Miglietta, M. Reale, P. Serafini, E. D. Wellmeyer, S. Davolio, D. Zardi, L. Kantha, 2024:
A high-resolution climatological study of Explosive Cyclones in the Mediterranean region: frequency, intensity and synoptic drivers
Quart. Jou. Roy. Meteorolog. Soc.,150(765), 5561-5582. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4889
Sanchez, C., Gray, S., Volonte', A., Pantillon, F., Berthou, S., and Davolio, S., 2024:
The impact of preceding convection on the development of Medicane Ianos and the sensitivity to sea surface temperature.
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1429 - 1455, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1429-2024.
Pantillon, F., Davolio, S., Avolio, E., Calvo-Sancho, C., Carrio, D. S., Dafis, S., Gentile, E. S., Gonzalez-Aleman, J. J., Gray, S., Miglietta, M. M., Patlakas, P., Pytharoulis, I., Ricard, D., Ricchi, A., Sanchez, C., and Flaounas, E. , 2024:
The crucial representation of deep convection for the cyclogenesis of Medicane Ianos
Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 1187-1205, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1187-2024.
De Martin F., S. Davolio, M. M. Miglietta, V. Levizzani, 2024:
A conceptual model for the development of tornadoes in the complex orography of the Po Valley
Monthly Weather Review, 152 (6), 1357-1377
Sacchetti D., F. Cassola, M. Corazza, L. Pedemonte, M. Tizzi, O. Drofa, S. Davolio, 2024:
The ARPAL atmospheric operational modeling chain and its applications: description and validation
Bull. of Atmos. Sci. & Technol, 5, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42865-024-00064-z.
Davolio S., M. Vercellino, M. M. Miglietta, L. Drago Pitura, S. Laviola, V. Levizzani, 2023:
The influence of an atmospheric river on a heavy precipitation event over the western Alps.
Weather and Climate Extremes, 39, 100542, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2022.100542.
A. Ceppi, N. A. Chaves Gonzales, S. Davolio, G. Ravazzani, 2023:
Can meteorological model forecasts initialize hydrological simulations rather than observed data in ungauged basins?
Meteorol. Appl, 30(6), e2165. https://doi.org/10.1002/met.2165.
Invited talk at Accademia dei Lincei - XXII Giornata mondiale dell'Acqua - 22 March 2023
Conference: The Mediterranean System. A Hotspot for climate change and adaptation.
"To what extent the knowledge of meteorological high-impact phenomena can support the interpretation of climate change effects in the Mediterranean?"
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Ferrarin C., F, Pantillon, S. Davolio, M. Bajo, M. M. Miglietta, E. Avolio, D. S. Carrio, I. Pytharoulis, C. Sanchez, P. Patlakas, J. J. Gonzalez-Aleman, E. Flaounas, 2023:
Assessing the coastal hazard of medicane Ianos through ensemble modelling.
Nat. Haz. Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 2273-2287.
Ferrarin C., Orlic M., Bajo M., Davolio S., Umgiesser G., Lionello P., 2023:
The contribution of a mesoscale cyclone and associated meteotsunami to the exceptional flood in Venice on 12 November 2019
Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., 149, 2929-2942. doi: 10.1002/qj.4539
Miglietta M. M., F. Buscemi, S. Dafis, A. Papa, A. Tiesi, D. Conte, S. Davolio, E. Flaounas, V. Levizzani, R. Rotunno, 2023:
A high-impact meso-beta vortex in the Adriatic Sea.
Q. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., 149(751), 637-656, https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4432
Sioni F., S. Davolio, F. Grazzini, L. Giovannini, 2023:
Revisiting the atmospheric dynamics of the two century floods over north-eastern Italy.
Atmospheric Research, 286, 106662, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2023.106662
Hatzaki M., E. Flaounas, S. Davolio, F. Pantillon, P. Patlakas, S. Raveh-Rubin, A. Hochman, J. Kushta, S. Khodayar, S. Dafis, and M. L. R. Liberato, 2023:
MedCyclones: Working together towards understanding Mediterranean cyclones.
Bull. Am. Meteor. Soc., published online ahead of print 2023.
Giorgi F., E. Coppola, G. Giuliani, J. M. Ciarlo, E. Pichelli, R. Nogherotto, F. Raffaele, P. Malguzzi, S. Davolio, P. Stocchi, O. Drofa, 2023:
The fifth generation regional climate modeling system, RegCM5. Part I: Description and illustrative examples at parameterized convection and convection-permitting resolutions.
J. Geophys. Res. Atmospheres, 128, e2022JD038199.
Flaounas E., S. Davolio, S. Raveh-Rubin, F. Pantillon, M. M. Miglietta, M. A. Gaertner, M. Hatzaki, V. Homar, S. Khodayar, G. Korres, V. Kotroni, J. Kushta, M. Reale, D. Ricard, 2022:
Mediterranean cyclones: Current knowledge and open questions on dynamics, prediction, climatology and impacts.
Weather and Climate Dynamics, 3, 173-208, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-3-173-2022
Miglietta M. M., and Davolio S., 2022:
Dynamical forcings in heavy precipitation events over Italy: lessons from the HyMeX SOP1 campaign
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. , 26, 627-646.
Khodayar, S., Davolio, S., Di Girolamo, P., Lebeaupin Brossier, C., Flaounas, E., Fourrie, N., Lee, K.-O., Ricard, D., Vie, B., Bouttier, F., Caldas-Alvarez, A., and Ducrocq, V., 2021:
Overview towards improved understanding of the mechanisms leading to heavy precipitation in the western Mediterranean: lessons learned from HyMeX,
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 17051-17078, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-17051-2021.
Ferrarin C., Bajo M., Benetazzo A., Cavaleri L., Chiggiato J., Davison S., Davolio S., Lionello P., Orlic M., Umgiesser G., 2021:
Local and large-scale controls of the exceptional Venice floods of November 2019
Progress in Oceanography, 197, 102628.
Giovannini L., Davolio S., Zaramella M., Zardi D., Borga M., 2021:
Multi-model convection-resolving simulations of the October 2018 Vaia storm over northeastern Italy
Atmos. Research, 253, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2021.105455
Buzzi A., Davolio S., M. Fantini, 2020:
Cyclogenesis in the lee of the Alps: a review of theories.
Bull. of Atmos. Sci. & Technol., https://doi.org/10.1007/s42865-020-00021-6
Davolio S., S. Della Fera, S. Laviola, M. M. Miglietta and V. Levizzani, 2020:
Heavy precipitation over Italy from the Mediterranean storm "Vaia" in October 2018: Assessing the role of an atmospheric river
Mon. Wea. Rev., 148, 3571-3588.
Davolio S., P. Malguzzi, O. Drofa, D. Mastrangelo and A. Buzzi, 2020:
The Piedmont flood of November 1994: a test-bed of forecasting capabilities of the CNR-ISAC meteorological model suite.
Bull. of Atmos. Sci. & Technol., https://doi.org/10.1007/s42865-020-00015-4



 
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