Erika Coppola

Permanent Scientific Staff
Research Scientist
Erika Coppola
Earth System Physics
+39 040 2240 407
coppolae@ictp.it
+39 040 2240 407
coppolae@ictp.it
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Erika Coppola

Erika Coppola received the Laurea degree in Physics (1998) from the University of L’Aquila, and the PhD degree (2004) in Meteorology from the University of Reading, UK. From 2002 to 2006 she joined the CETEMPS centre of excellence of the University of L'Aquila as a post-doc. She is currently research scientist in ICTP, ESP section, which she joined in September 2006. Her PhD research involved passive remote sensing of the atmosphere from space-borne platforms, with a particular focus on precipitation.
She is working in regional climate modelling in particular she is leading the high resolution (convection permitting resolution) model development and coordinating the hydrological model research activity and development of CHyM hydrological model. In particular the coupling of the hydrological model with regional climate model (RegCM) for land-use impact studies and climate change impact on future water resources.
She contributed as a lead author to the IPCC AR6 WGI to coordinate the assessment of regional climate information across all continents and contribute to the development of an updated IPCC risk assessment framework. Her current research activity is focusing on the climate change impact on hazards at the regional scale by mean of regional climate models and hydroclimate models. She is interested in land-atmosphere interactions; monsoon climate; regional hydrological cycle; climate extremes; climate variability and change; flood risk estimation.

Publications

Journal article
2010
An assessment of temperature and precipitation change projections over Italy from recent global and regional climate model simulations
International Journal of Climatology (2010)
Coppola, E. | Giorgi, F.
Journal article
2010
Statistical bias correction for daily precipitation in regional climate models over Europe
Theoretical and Applied Climatology (2010)
Piani, C. | Haerter, J.O. | Coppola, E.
Journal article
2010
Does the model regional bias affect the projected regional climate change? An analysis of global model projections: A letter
Climatic Change (2010)
Giorgi, F. | Coppola, E.
Journal article
2010
Validation of a high-resolution regional climate model for the alpine region and effects of a subgrid-scale topography and land use representation
Journal of Climate (2010)
Im, E.-S. | Coppola, E. | Giorgi, F. | Bi, X.
Journal article
2010
Local effects of climate change over the Alpine region: A study with a high resolution regional climate model with a surrogate climate change scenario
Geophysical Research Letters (2010)
Im, E.-S. | Coppola, E. | Giorgi, F. | Bi, X.
Journal article
2010
Model weighting based on mesoscale structures in precipitation and temperature in an ensemble of regional climate models
Climate Research (2010)
Coppola, E. | Giorgi, F. | Rauscher, S.A. | Piani, C.
Journal article
2010
Multiyear simulation of the African climate using a regional climate model (RegCM3) with the high resolution ERA-interim reanalysis
Climate Dynamics (2010)
Sylla, M.B. | Coppola, E. | Mariotti, L. | Giorgi, F. | Ruti, P.M. | Dell'Aquila, A. | Bi, X.
Journal article
2008
Flood forecast in complex orography coupling distributed hydro-meteorological models and in-situ and remote sensing data
Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics (2008)
Verdecchia, M. | Coppola, E. | Faccani, C. | Ferretti, R. | Memmo, A. | Montopoli, M. | Rivolta, G. | Paolucci, T. | Picciotti, E. | Santacasa, A. | Tomassetti, B. | Visconti, G. | Marzano, F.S.
Journal article
2008
The regional climate change hyper-matrix framework
Eos (2008)
Giorgi, F. | Diffenbaugh, N.S. | Gao, X.J. | Coppola, E. | Dash, S.K. | Frumento, O. | Rauscher, S.A. | Remedio, A. | Sanda, I.S. | Steiner, A. | Sylla, B. | Zakey, A.S.
Journal article
2007
Estimation of fungal spore concentrations associated to meteorological variables
Aerobiologia (2007)
Angelosante Bruno, A. | Pace, L. | Tomassetti, B. | Coppola, E. | Verdecchia, M. | Pacioni, G. | Visconti, G.
Journal article
2007
European climate-change oscillation (ECO)
Geophysical Research Letters (2007)
Giorgi, F. | Coppola, E.
Journal article
2007
Rainfall nowcasting from multisatellite passive-sensor images using a recurrent neural network
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (2007)
Marzano, F.S. | Rivolta, G. | Coppola, E. | Tomassetti, B. | Verdecchia, M.
Journal article
2007
Cellular automata algorithms for drainage network extraction and rainfall data assimilation
Hydrological Sciences Journal (2007)
Coppola, E. | Tomassetti, B. | Mariotti, L. | Verdecchia, M. | Visconti, G.
Journal article
2006
Validation of improved TAMANN neural network for operational satellite-derived rainfall estimation in Africa
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology (2006)
Coppola, E. | Grimes, D.I.F. | Verdecchia, M. | Visconti, G.
Journal article
2006
Artificial neural-network technique for precipitation nowcasting from satellite imagery
Advances in Geosciences (2006)
Rivolta, G. | Marzano, F.S. | Coppola, E. | Verdecchia, M.
Journal article
2006
Thermally driven circulation in a region of complex topography: Comparison of wind-profiling radar measurements and MM5 numerical predictions
Annales Geophysicae (2006)
Bianco, L. | Tomassetti, B. | Coppola, E. | Fracassi, A. | Verdecchia, M. | Visconti, G.
Journal article
2005
Bimodality of the North Atlantic Oscillation in simulations with greenhouse gas forcing
Geophysical Research Letters (2005)
Coppola, E. | Kucharski, F. | Giorgi, F. | Molteni, F.
Journal article
2005
Climate change in tropical regions from high-resolution time-slice AGCM experiments
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (2005)
Coppola, E. | Giorgi, F.
Journal article
2005
Coupling a distributed grid based hydrological model and MM5 meteorological model for flooding alert mapping
Advances in Geosciences (2005)
Tomassetti, B. | Coppola, E. | Verdecchia, M. | Visconti, G.
Journal article
2005
Satellite radiometric remote sensing of rainfall fields: Multi-sensor retrieval techniques at geostationary scale
Advances in Geosciences (2005)
Marzano, F.S. | Cimini, D. | Coppola, E. | Verdecchia, M. | Levizzani, V. | Tapiador, F. | Turk, J.F.
Journal article
2003
A neural network approach to real-time rainfall estimation for Africa using satellite data
Journal of Hydrometeorology (2003)
Grimes, D.I.F. | Coppola, E. | Verdecchia, M. | Visconti, G.

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