Rossella Ferretti

About

Full Professor, University of L'Aquila (Italy), Department of Physics and Chemistry. Member of the committee for a competition for a position of Full Professor at the University of Piemonte Orientale. Member of the committee for a competition for a position of RTDa at University of Naples, Parthenope and University of Milan. Re-elected Chairman of the Laurea Magistrale in Atmospheric Science and Technology at the University of L’Aquila and at the University of Rome (http://www.lmast.it).
She is an expert in Mesoscale modelling; she has a long record of investigation on the role of physical processes in severe weather events and orographic precipitation, and data assimilation of conventional and non-conventional data (satellite data, InSar and radar data). She was invited several times at NCAR to work on orographic precipitation in complex orography. She developed a deep knowledge of the Mesoscale Modelling MM5 and of the new generation Weather Research & Forecasting model (WRF) from NCAR. A few years ago, she worked with the HARMONIE-AROME model both using DMI and ECMWF super-computer. She developed the operational regional ensemble forecast at CETEMPS (http://magritte.aquila.infn.it/meteo/wrf9km_gefs/). During the sabbatico at UNIVPM, in cooperation with OCEAN-LAB of UNIVPM, she developed an operational system for a fully coupled atmosphere-ocean system (http://oceanlab.univpm.it).

Employment

• University of L'Aquila Full Professor

Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology Ph.D
  1983 - 1986

Projects & Funding

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Publications (53)

• A high‐resolution climatological study of explosive cyclones in the Mediterranean region: Frequency, intensity and synoptic drivers
  Cosimo Enrico Carniel, Antonio Ricchi, Rossella Ferretti +8 more
  Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 2024 DOI: 10.1002/qj.4889
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• Numerical Simulation of a Giant-Hail-Bearing Mediterranean Supercell in the Adriatic Sea
  Atmosphere 2022 DOI: 10.3390/atmos13081219
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• Dynamical Downscaling in Seasonal Climate Forecasts: Comparison between RegCM- and WRF-Based Approaches
  Atmosphere 2021 DOI: 10.3390/atmos12060757
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• On the Use of Original and Bias-Corrected Climate Simulations in Regional-Scale Hydrological Scenarios in the Mediterranean Basin
  Atmosphere 2019 DOI: 10.3390/atmos10120799
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• InSAR Water Vapor Data Assimilation into Mesoscale Model MM5: Technique and Pilot Study
  IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 2015 DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2357685
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• The role of the Italian scientific community in the first HyMeX SOP: An outstanding multidisciplinary experience
  Meteorologische Zeitschrift 2015 DOI: 10.1127/metz/2015/0624
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• HyMeX-SOP1: The field campaign dedicated to heavy precipitation and flash flooding in the northwestern mediterranean
  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2014 DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00244.1
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• Impact of radar data assimilation for the simulation of a heavy rainfall case in central Italy using WRF-3DVAR
  Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 2014 DOI: 10.5194/amt-7-2919-2014
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• Investigating hector convective development and microphysical structure using high-resolution model simulations, ground-based radar data, and TRMM satellite data
  Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 2014 DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-0107.1
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• Overview of the first HyMeX Special Observation Period over Italy: Observations and model results
  Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 2014 DOI: 10.5194/hess-18-1953-2014
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• The role of urban boundary layer investigated with high-resolution models and ground-based observations in Rome area: A step towards understanding parameterization potentialities
  Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 2014 DOI: 10.5194/amt-7-315-2014
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• On the accuracy of integrated water vapor observations and the potential for mitigating electromagnetic path delay error in InSAR
  Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 2012 DOI: 10.5194/amt-5-1015-2012
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• Impact of ASAR soil moisture data on the MM5 precipitation forecast for the Tanaro flood event of April 2009
  Natural Hazards and Earth System Science 2011 DOI: 10.5194/nhess-11-3135-2011
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• Numerical weather prediction models and SAR interferometry: Synergic use for meteorological and INSAR applications
  Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 2011 DOI: 10.1117/12.898756
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• Synergic use of EO, NWP and ground based data for the characterisation of water vapour field
  Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EUCAP 2011 2011
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• Synergic use of EO, NWP and ground based measurements for the mitigation of vapour artefacts in SAR interferometry
  International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2011 DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6049765
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• Mitigation of atmospheric Water-Vapour effects on spaceborne interferometric SAR imaging through the MM5 Numerical model
  Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium 2010
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• Water vapour distribution at urban scale using high-resolution numerical weather model and spaceborne SAR interferometric data
  Natural Hazards and Earth System Science 2010
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• A comparison of mixed-layer evolution as inferred from lidar, balloon observations and MM5 simulations in Milan (Italy)
  Proceedings, 33rd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, ISRSE 2009 2009
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• A study of the triggering mechanisms for deep convection in the Tropics using a Mesoscale Model: Hector events during SCOUT-O3 and TWP-ICE campaigns. (3.10)
  Atmospheric Research 2009 DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2008.11.004
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