Scientist
Forecast, Evaluation, Thematic Applications
Summary:
Claudia Di Napoli is a scientist in the Forecast Department of the European Centre For Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. She is responsible for the development of an early warning prototype that provides real-time forecasts of climate-driven human health indicators (e.g., heat and cold stress metrics) on a sub-seasonal to seasonal time range and at several spatial scales, from local to national and continental.
Professional interests:
- Weather- and climate-induced health hazards
- Climatology, forecast and impact of extreme events
- Early warning systems and disaster risk reduction
Career background:
Professional experience
- From 2023 - Scientist, ECMWF
- 2020–2023 - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Reading
- 2019–2020 - Scientist, ECMWF
- 2017–2018 - Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Reading
- 2014–2016 - Research Meteorologist, Provincia Autonoma di Trento
External recognitions
- 2021 – Geoscience Data Journal Editors’ Award, Royal Meteorological Society
- 2020 – Award for best scientific paper, S.W. Tromp Foundation for Biometeorological Research
- 2018 – Travel award to young scientists (TFTAYS), S.W. Tromp Foundation for Biometeorological Research
- 2016 – Institute of Physics Environmental Physics essay competition winner
- 2025
- Claudia Di Napoli, Fredrik Wetterhall (January 2025) Better weather forecasts = better human health? Yes, with TRIGGER(s). DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-1297
- 2024
- Claudia Di Napoli (February 2024) Building an Operational Decision Support System for Multiple Weather‐Induced Health Hazards, Responding to Extreme Weather Events. DOI: 10.1002/9781119741374.ch4
- Eduardo Krüger, João Paulo Assis Gobo, Graziela Tosini Tejas, Reginaldo Martins da Silva de Souza, João Batista Ferreira Neto, Gabriel Pereira, David Mendes, Claudia Di Napoli (January 2024) The impact of urbanization on heat stress in Brazil: A multi-city study, Urban Climate. DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2024.101827
- Dann Mitchell, Y T Eunice Lo, Emily Ball, Joanne L Godwin, Oliver Andrews, Rosa Barciela, Lea Berrang Ford, Claudia Di Napoli, Kristie L Ebi, Neven S Fučkar, Antonio Gasparrini, Brian Golding, Celia L Gregson, Gareth J Griffith, Sara Khalid, Caitlin Robinson, Daniela N Schmidt, Charles H Simpson, Robert Stephen John Sparks, Josephine G Walker (September 2024) Expert judgement reveals current and emerging UK climate-mortality burden, The Lancet Planetary Health. DOI: 10.1016/s2542-5196(24)00175-x
- Sagar Parajuli, Trent Biggs, Fernando De Sales, Miguel Zavala, Cenlin He, Charles Jones, Callum Thompson, Nicolas Lopez Galvez, Haley Ciborowski, Tiago Quintino, Claudia Di Napoli, Aliasghar Montazar, Tayebeh Hosseini Yazdi, Monica Soucier (December 2024) Impact of irrigation on farmworker’s heat stress in California differs by season and during the day and night, Communications Earth & Environment. DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01959-7
- 2023
- Claudia Di Napoli, Theodore Allen, Pablo A. Méndez‐Lázaro, Florian Pappenberger (January 2023) Heat stress in the Caribbean: Climatology, drivers, and trends of human biometeorology indices, International Journal of Climatology. DOI: 10.1002/joc.7774
- Chloe Brimicombe, Chun Hay Brian Lo, Florian Pappenberger, Claudia Di Napoli, Pedro Maciel, Tiago Quintino, Rosalind Cornforth, Hannah L. Cloke (February 2023) Wet Bulb Globe Temperature: Indicating Extreme Heat Risk on a Global Grid, GeoHealth. DOI: 10.1029/2022GH000701
- Claudia Di Napoli, Marina Romanello, Kelton Minor, Jonathan Chambers, Shouro Dasgupta, Luis E. Escobar, Yun Hang, Risto Hänninen, Yang Liu, Martin Lotto Batista, Rachel Lowe, Kris A. Murray, Fereidoon Owfi, Mahnaz Rabbaniha, Liuhua Shi, Mikhail Sofiev, Meisam Tabatabaei, Elizabeth J. Z. Robinson (March 2023) The role of global reanalyses in climate services for health: Insights from the Lancet Countdown, Meteorological Applications. DOI: 10.1002/met.2122
- Marina Romanello, Claudia di Napoli, Carole Green, Harry Kennard, Pete Lampard, Daniel Scamman, Maria Walawender, Zakari Ali, Nadia Ameli, Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson, Paul J Beggs, Kristine Belesova, Lea Berrang Ford, Kathryn Bowen, Wenjia Cai, Max Callaghan, Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Jonathan Chambers, Troy J Cross, Kim R van Daalen, Carole Dalin, Niheer Dasandi, Shouro Dasgupta, Michael Davies, Paula Dominguez-Salas, Robert Dubrow, Kristie L Ebi, Matthew Eckelman, Paul Ekins, Chris Freyberg, Olga Gasparyan, Georgiana Gordon-Strachan, Hilary Graham, Samuel H Gunther, Ian Hamilton, Yun Hang, Risto Hänninen, Stella Hartinger, Kehan He, Julian Heidecke, Jeremy J Hess, Shih-Che Hsu, Louis Jamart, Slava Jankin, Ollie Jay, Ilan Kelman, Gregor Kiesewetter, Patrick Kinney, Dominic Kniveton, Rostislav Kouznetsov, Francesca Larosa (November 2023) The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms, The Lancet. DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(23)01859-7
- Eduardo Krüger, Ana Carla dos Santos Gomes, Paulo Sérgio Lucio, João Paulo Assis Gobo, Anderson Spohr Nedel, Fabio Luiz Teixeira Gonçalves, Marina Piacenti-Silva, Claudia Di Napoli, Cho Kwong Charlie Lam (February 2023) Insights from the first Brazilian Symposium on Human Biometeorology, Revista Brasileira de Ciências Ambientais. DOI: 10.5327/Z2176-94781643
- Linus Magnusson, C. Prudhomme, F. Di Giuseppe, C. Di Napoli, F. Pappenberger (February 2023) Operational multiscale predictions of hazardous events, Extreme Weather Forecasting. DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-820124-4.00008-6
- 2022
- Ales Urban, Osvaldo Fonseca-Rodríguez, Claudia Di Napoli, Eva Plavcová (March 2022) Temporal changes of heat-attributable mortality in Prague, Czech Republic, over 1982–2019. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-2983
- (July 2022) Temporal changes of heat-attributable mortality in Prague, Czech Republic, over 1982–2019, Urban Climate. DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2022.101197
- Chloe Brimicombe, Claudia Di Napoli, Tiago Quintino, Florian Pappenberger, Rosalind Cornforth, Hannah L. Cloke (June 2022) Thermofeel: A python thermal comfort indices library, SoftwareX, pp. 101005. DOI: 10.1016/j.softx.2022.101005
- Chloe Brimicombe, Tiago Quintino, Claudia Di Napoli, Florian Pappenberger, Rosalind Cornforth, Hannah Cloke (March 2022) thermofeel: developing an open research software project for heat stress and thermal comfort. . DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-4042
- (January 2022) Heat Health Hazard Forecasting, 102nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting.
- Claudia Di Napoli, Alice McGushin, Marina Romanello, Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson, Wenjia Cai, Jonathan Chambers, Shouro Dasgupta, Luis E. Escobar, Ilan Kelman, Tord Kjellstrom, Dominic Kniveton, Yang Liu, Zhao Liu, Rachel Lowe, Jaime Martinez-Urtaza, Celia McMichael, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Kris A. Murray, Mahnaz Rabbaniha, Jan C. Semenza, Liuhua Shi, Meisam Tabatabaei, Joaquin A. Trinanes, Bryan N. Vu, Chloe Brimicombe, Elizabeth J. Robinson (April 2022) Tracking the impacts of climate change on human health via indicators: lessons from the Lancet Countdown, BMC Public Health. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-13055-6
- R. Emerton, C. Brimicombe, L. Magnusson, C. Roberts, C. Di Napoli, H. L. Cloke, F. Pappenberger (August 2022) Predicting the unprecedented: forecasting the June 2021 Pacific Northwest heatwave, Weather. DOI: 10.1002/wea.4257
- Eduardo L. Krüger, Claudia Di Napoli (August 2022) Feasibility of climate reanalysis data as a proxy for onsite weather measurements in outdoor thermal comfort surveys, Theoretical and Applied Climatology. DOI: 10.1007/s00704-022-04129-x
- Claudia Di Napoli, Marina Romanello, Claudia Di Napoli, Paul Drummond, Carole Green, Harry Kennard, Pete Lampard, Daniel Scamman, Nigel Arnell, Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson, Lea Berrang Ford, Kristine Belesova, Kathryn Bowen, Wenjia Cai, Max Callaghan, Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Jonathan Chambers, Kim R van Daalen, Carole Dalin, Niheer Dasandi, Shouro Dasgupta, Michael Davies, Paula Dominguez-Salas, Robert Dubrow, Kristie L Ebi, Matthew Eckelman, Paul Ekins, Luis E Escobar, Lucien Georgeson, Hilary Graham, Samuel H Gunther, Ian Hamilton, Yun Hang, Risto Hänninen, Stella Hartinger, Kehan He, Jeremy J Hess, Shih-Che Hsu, Slava Jankin, Louis Jamart, Ollie Jay, Ilan Kelman, Gregor Kiesewetter, Patrick Kinney, Tord Kjellstrom, Dominic Kniveton, Jason K W Lee, Bruno Lemke, Yang Liu, Zhao Liu, Melissa Lott, Martin Lotto Batista (October 2022) The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels, The Lancet. DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(22)01540-9
- Eduardo Krüger, Ana Carla dos Santos Gomes, Paulo Sérgio Lucio, João Paulo Assis Gobo, Anderson Spohr Nedel, Fabio Luiz Teixeira Gonçalves, Marina Piacenti-Silva, Claudia Di Napoli, Cho Kwong Charlie Lam (November 2022) Summary of the first Brazilian Symposium on Human Biometeorology, International Journal of Biometeorology. DOI: 10.1007/s00484-022-02401-3
- Chloe Brimicombe, Tiago Quintino, Simon Smart, Claudia Di Napoli, Robin Hogan, Hannah L. Cloke [ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1472-868X], Florian Pappenberger (April 2022) Calculating the Cosine of the Solar Zenith Angle for Thermal Comfort Indices, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 895. DOI: 10.21957/o7pcu1x2b
- (February 2022) The Bristol CMIP6 Data Hackathon, Weather. DOI: 10.1002/wea.4161
- 2021
- (September 2021) Reviewing the summer of extreme weather in 2021, CarbonBrief.
- (February 2021) The Universal Thermal Climate Index as an Operational Forecasting Tool of Human Biometeorological Conditions in Europe, Applications of the Universal Thermal Climate Index UTCI in Biometeorology. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-76716-7_10
- Chloe Brimicombe, Claudia Di Napoli, Rosalind Cornforth, Florian Pappenberger, Celia Petty, Hannah L. Cloke (September 2021) Characteristics of Heatwaves in Africa: Morocco 2000 and South Africa 2015/16. DOI: 10.5194/nhess-2021-242
- (February 2021) Heatwaves: An invisible risk in UK policy and research, Environmental Science & Policy. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.10.021
- (February 2021) Sensitivity of UTCI Thermal Comfort Prediction to Personal and Situational Factors—Residual Analysis of Pedestrian Survey Data, Applications of the Universal Thermal Climate Index UTCI in Biometeorology. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-76716-7_4
- (June 2021) Changes in heat-attributable deaths in Prague, Czech Republic, over 1982-2019, EMS Annual Meeting 2021. DOI: 10.5194/ems2021-359
- (March 2021) Borderless Heat Stress, EGU General Assembly 2021. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-46
- (September 2021) Borderless Heat stress, EMS Annual Meeting 2021.
- (February 2021) The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future, The Lancet. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01787-6
- Chloe Brimicombe, Claudia Di Napoli, Rosalind Cornforth, Florian Pappenberger, Celia Petty, Hannah L. Cloke (September 2021) Borderless Heat Hazards With Bordered Impacts, Earth's Future. DOI: 10.1029/2021EF002064
- Claudia Di Napoli, Christopher Barnard, Christel Prudhomme, Hannah L. Cloke, Florian Pappenberger (June 2021) ERA5‐HEAT: A global gridded historical dataset of human thermal comfort indices from climate reanalysis, Geoscience Data Journal. DOI: 10.1002/gdj3.102
- Aleš Urban, Claudia Di Napoli, Hannah L. Cloke, Jan Kyselý, Florian Pappenberger, Francesco Sera, Rochelle Schneider, Ana M. Vicedo-Cabrera, Fiorella Acquaotta, Martina S. Ragettli, Carmen Íñiguez, Aurelio Tobias, Ene Indermitte, Hans Orru, Jouni J.K. Jaakkola, Niilo R.I. Ryti, Mathilde Pascal, Veronika Huber, Alexandra Schneider, Francesca de’ Donato, Paola Michelozzi, Antonio Gasparrini (July 2021) Evaluation of the ERA5 reanalysis-based Universal Thermal Climate Index on mortality data in Europe, Environmental Research, pp. 111227. DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111227
- 2020
- (December 2020) The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises, The Lancet. DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(20)32290-x
- Claudia Di Napoli, Robin J. Hogan, Florian Pappenberger (July 2020) Mean radiant temperature from global-scale numerical weather prediction models, International Journal of Biometeorology n. 7, pp. 1233-1245. DOI: 10.1007/s00484-020-01900-5
- (November 2020) A Public Health and Climate Change “Countdown” for Reading.
- (December 2020) Heat Stress Across the African Continent, AGU Fall Meeting 2021.
- (March 2020) Droughts, heatwaves, and wildfires: exploring compound and cascading events of dry hazards at the pan-European scale, EGU General Assembly 2020. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-271
- (May 2020) Protecting health from hot weather during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- (January 2020) A heat health hazard index based on ECMWF data, ECMWF Newsletter, Number 162.
- 2019
- Claudia Di Napoli, Florian Pappenberger, Hannah L. Cloke (June 2019) Verification of Heat Stress Thresholds for a Health-Based Heat-Wave Definition, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-18-0246.1
- (October 2019) Evaluation of the ERA5-based UTCI on mortality data in Europe, Environmental Epidemiology. DOI: 10.1097/01.ee9.0000610504.15553.4a
- (December 2019) Heat-related health risk in Europe: a human-biometeorology assessment via the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI), AGU Fall Meeting 2019.
- (December 2019) Wildfire and heat stress risk: mapping as a tool to improve evidence-based decision making for concurrent hazards, AGU Fall Meeting 2019.
- (April 2019) Droughts, heatwaves, and wildfires: exploring compound and cascading events of dry hazards at the pan-European scale, EGU General Assembly 2019.
- (April 2019) A pan-European multi-hazard early warning system: ANYWHERE MH-EWS, EGU General Assembly 2019.
- Claudia Vitolo, Claudia Di Napoli, Francesca Di Giuseppe, Hannah L. Cloke, Florian Pappenberger (June 2019) Mapping combined wildfire and heat stress hazards to improve evidence-based decision making, Environment International, pp. 21-34. DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2019.03.008
- 2018
- Claudia Di Napoli, Florian Pappenberger, Hannah L. Cloke (July 2018) Assessing heat-related health risk in Europe via the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI), International Journal of Biometeorology n. 7, pp. 1155-1165. DOI: 10.1007/s00484-018-1518-2
- 2017
- (October 2017) The August 2017 heat wave in southern Europe, ECMWF Newsletter, Number 153.
- (April 2017) Forecasting extreme temperature health hazards in Europe, EGU General Assembly 2017.
- 2016
- Di Napoli C., Pope I., Masia F., Langbein W., Watson P., Borri P. (February 2016) Quantitative Spatiotemporal Chemical Profiling of Individual Lipid Droplets by Hyperspectral CARS Microscopy in Living Human Adipose-Derived Stem Cells, Analytical Chemistry. DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b04468
- Todeschini I., Di Napoli C., Pretto I., Merler G., Cavaliere R., Apolloni R., Antonacci G., Piazza A., Benedetti G. (February 2016) Thermal mapping as a valuable tool for road weather forecast and winter road maintenance: An example from the Italian Alps, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. DOI: 10.1117/12.2240484
- (April 2016) A combined road weather forecast system to prevent road ice formation in the Adige Valley (Italy), EGU General Assembly 2016.
- (April 2016) CLEAN-ROADS project: air quality considerations after the application of a novel MDSS on winter road maintenance activities, EGU General Assembly 2016.
- (April 2016) The CLEAN-ROADS project: a combined environmental-cost-user gain from the application of a MDSS to winter road maintenance operations, SIRWEC 2016.
- 2014
- Di Napoli C., Masia F., Pope I., Otto C., Langbein W., Borri P. (February 2014) Chemically-specific dual/differential CARS micro-spectroscopy of saturated and unsaturated lipid droplets, Journal of Biophotonics. DOI: 10.1002/jbio.201200197
- Di Napoli C., Pope I., Masia F., Watson P., Langbein W., Borri P. (February 2014) Hyperspectral and differential CARS microscopy for quantitative chemical imaging in human adipocytes, Biomedical Optics Express. DOI: 10.1364/BOE.5.001378
- (February 2014) Label-free multiphoton microscopy of intracellular lipids using Coherent anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS).
- 2011
- Langbein W., Rocha-Mendoza I., Masia F., Di Napoli C., Pope I., Watson P., Borri P. (February 2011) Differential-CARS microscopy with linearly-chirped femtosecond laser pulses, Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE. DOI: 10.1117/12.873872
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