Annalisa Molini

  1. Education:

    2002 PhD in Civil/Environmental Engineering, University of Genoa - University of Basilicata, Genoa, Italy.

    1998 MA in Marine Environmental Sciences (Magna Cum Laudæ distinction), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.

  2. Work Experience:

    2007-2011 Research Assistant, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.

    2006-2007 Research Fellow, University of Genova, Department of Construction, Environmental and Territorial Engineering (DICAT), Genoa, Italy.

    2007 Data Manager, World Meteorological Organization, Observing and Information Systems Department, Geneva, Switzerland - Vigna di Valle, Italy.

    2006-2007 Environmental Projects and Grant Consultant, Municipality of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.

    2001-2005 Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Genova, Department of Environmental Engineering (DIAM), Genoa, Italy.


  3. Recent Accomplishments at Duke University:

    Molini, A., G. G. Katul, and A. Porporato, 2010, Causality across rainfall time scales revealed by continuous wavelet transforms, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D14123.

    Molini, A., G. G. Katul, and A. Porporato, 2010, Scale-wise evolution of rainfall probability density functions fingerprints the rainfall generation mechanism, Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L07403.

    Molini, A.K., G.G. Katul, and A. Porporato, 2011, Maximum discharge from snowmelt in a changing climate, Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L05402.

    Molini, A.K., P. Talkner, G.G. Katul, and A. Porporato, 2011, First passage time statistics of Brownian motion with purely time dependent drift and diffusion, Physica-A , 390, 1841-1852.

    Ramirez-Cobo, P., K.S. Lee, A. Molini, A. Porporato, G.G. Katul, and B. Vidakovic, 2011, A wavelet-based spectral method for extracting self-similarity measures in time-varying two-dimensional rainfall maps, Journal of Statistical Time Series Analysis , 32, SI 351-36.

  4. Other Publications on Refereed Journals:

    Molini, P. La Barbera, Lanza, L. G., (2006) Correlation Patterns and information flows in rainfall field, Journal of Hydrology, 322, pp. 89–104.

    Molini, A, L.G. Lanza and P. La Barbera, (2005) Improving the accuracy of tipping-bucket rain records using disaggregation techniques, J. of Atmos. Res., 77, 203-217.

    Molini, P. La Barbera, Lanza, L. G., (2004) The impact of TBRs measurement errors on design rainfall for urban-scale applications, Hydrological Processes, 19, pp. 1073-1088.

    Molini, A., La Barbera, P., Lanza, L. G., (2002) On the properties of stochastic intermittency in rainfall processes, Water Science and Technology, 45(2), pp. 35-40.

    Molini, A., La Barbera, P., Lanza, L. G., Stagi, L., (2001) Rainfall intermittency and the sampling error of tipping-bucket rain gauges, Phys. Chem. Earth (C), Vol. 26, No. 10-12, pp. 737-742. 

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