Claudia Di Napoli

Email:
c.dinapoli@reading.ac.uk
Phone:
0044 118 378 7067
Job title:
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Responsibilities:

Research in heatwave and pollution-related health hazards

Climatology, forecast and impact of extreme events
Development of early warning systems for weather hazards

Environmental Science Research Division

Key Facts:

Claudia Di Napoli graduated from University of Padua (Italy) in 2007 with a BSc in Astronomy and 2010 with a MSc (cum laude) in the same subject, with specialisation in planetary physics. In 2010 Claudia moved to Cardiff University (UK) where she was awarded with a President's Research scholarship, and received her Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics in 2014.

From 2014 to 2016 Claudia worked at Meteotrentino, Italian Civil Protection as research meteorologist for the European LIFE+-funded CLEAN-ROADS project. She investigated how weather NWP models and measured road/weather parameters can be used in road weather models (e.g. the Model of the Environment and Temperature of Roads, METRo) to predict road ice formation. Claudia's results contributed towards the implementation of a novel maintenance decision support system that is now currently used to optimise salt gritting operations, i.e. to reduce oversalting and related environmental damage to the surrounding environment while guaranteeing driving safety.

From 2017 Claudia has joined the University of Reading as postdoctoral research associate to further develop her expertise in forecasting and early warning systems for natural hazards. As member of HORIZON2020 ANYWHERE project (EnhANcing emergencY management and response to extreme WeatHER and climate Events), Claudia's current research is focused on implementing and testing a health hazard early warning system using numerical weather forecasts of extreme temperatures and pollution levels at the European scale.

Environmental Science Research Division

Publications

Di Napoli, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-4901-3641 , Romanello, M. , Minor, K. ORCID: 0000-0001-5150-0775 , Chambers, J. ORCID: 0000-0002-2332-8143 , Dasgupta, S. ORCID: 0000-0003-4080-8066 , Escobar, L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5735-2750 , Hang, Y. ORCID: 0000-0002-3240-2149 , Hänninen, R. ORCID: 0000-0001-8931-1726 , Liu, Y. ORCID: 0000-0001-5477-2186 , Lotto Batista, M. ORCID: 0000-0002-9437-5270 , Lowe, R. ORCID: 0000-0003-3939-7343 , Murray, K. ORCID: 0000-0002-8382-0674 , Owfi, F. ORCID: 0000-0003-0852-4856 , Rabbaniha, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-8369-9854 , Shi, L. ORCID: 0000-0001-8165-4644 , Sofiev, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-9542-5746 , Tabatabaei, M. ORCID: 0000-0001-8067-1944 , Robinson, E. ORCID: 0000-0002-4950-0183 (2023) The role of global reanalyses in climate services for health: insights from the Lancet Countdown. Meteorological Applications , 30 (2). ISSN: 1469-8080 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/met.2122
Brimicombe, C. , Lo, C. , Pappenberger, F. , Di Napoli, C. , Maciel, P. , Quintino, T. , Cornforth, R. , Cloke, H. ORCID: 0000-0002-1472-868X (2023) Wet Bulb Globe Temperature: indicating extreme heat risk on a global grid. GeoHealth , 7 (2). ISSN: 2471-1403 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022GH000701
Magnusson, L. , Prudhomme, C. , Di Giuseppe, F. , Di Napoli, C. , Pappenberger, F. (2023) Operational multiscale predictions of hazardous events. In: Astitha, M. and Nikolopoulos, E. , (eds.) Extreme Weather Forecasting: State of the Science, Uncertainty and Impacts. Elsevier pp. 87-129. ISBN: 9780128201244 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820124-4.00008-6
Di Napoli, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-4901-3641 , Allen, T. ORCID: 0000-0003-4339-0267 , Méndez‐Lázaro, P. ORCID: 0000-0002-3059-3295 , Pappenberger, F. ORCID: 0000-0003-1766-2898 (2023) Heat stress in the Caribbean: climatology, drivers, and trends of human biometeorology indices. International Journal of Climatology , 43 (1). pp. 405-425. ISSN: 1097-0088 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.7774

Krüger, E. ORCID: 0000-0003-2895-5530 , dos Santos Gomes, A. , Lucio, P. , Gobo, J. , Nedel, A. , Gonçalves, F. , Piacenti-Silva, M. , Di Napoli, C. , Lam, C. (2022) Summary of the first Brazilian Symposium on Human Biometeorology. International Journal of Biometeorology ISSN: 0020-7128 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-022-02401-3
Romanello, M. , Di Napoli, C. , Drummond, P. , Green, C. , Kennard, H. , Lampard, P. , Scamman, D. , Arnell, N. , Ayeb-Karlsson, S. , Ford, L. , Belesova, K. , Bowen, K. , Cai, W. , Callaghan, M. , Campbell-Lendrum, D. , Chambers, J. , van Daalen, K. , Dalin, C. , Dasandi, N. , Dasgupta, S. , Davies, M. , Dominguez-Salas, P. , Dubrow, R. , Ebi, K. , Eckelman, M. , Ekins, P. , Escobar, L. , Georgeson, L. , Graham, H. , Gunther, S. , Hamilton, I. , Hang, Y. , Hänninen, R. , Hartinger, S. , He, K. , Hess, J. , Hsu, S. , Jankin, S. , Jamart, L. , Jay, O. , Kelman, I. , Kiesewetter, G. , Kinney, P. , Kjellstrom, T. , Kniveton, D. , Lee, J. , Lemke, B. , Liu, Y. , Liu, Z. , Lott, M. , Batista, M. , Lowe, R. , MacGuire, F. , Sewe, M. , Martinez-Urtaza, J. , Maslin, M. , McAllister, L. , McGushin, A. , McMichael, C. , Mi, Z. , Milner, J. , Minor, K. , Minx, J. , Mohajeri, N. , Moradi-Lakeh, M. , Morrissey, K. , Munzert, S. , Murray, K. , Neville, T. , Nilsson, M. , Obradovich, N. , O'Hare, M. , Oreszczyn, T. , Otto, M. , Owfi, F. , Pearman, O. , Rabbaniha, M. , Robinson, E. , Rocklöv, J. , Salas, R. , Semenza, J. , Sherman, J. , Shi, L. , Shumake-Guillemot, J. , Silbert, G. , Sofiev, M. , Springmann, M. , Stowell, J. , Tabatabaei, M. , Taylor, J. , Triñanes, J. , Wagner, F. , Wilkinson, P. , Winning, M. , Yglesias-González, M. , Zhang, S. , Gong, P. , Montgomery, H. , Costello, A. (2022) The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels. The Lancet , 400 (10363). pp. 1619-1654. ISSN: 1406736 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01540-9
Krüger, E. ORCID: 0000-0003-2895-5530 and Di Napoli, C. ORCID: 0000-0002-4901-3641 (2022) Feasibility of climate reanalysis data as a proxy for onsite weather measurements in outdoor thermal comfort surveys. Theoretical and Applied Climatology , 149 pp. 1645-1658. ISSN: 1434-4483 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00704-022-04129-x
Emerton, R. , Brimicombe, C. , Magnusson, L. , Roberts, C. , Di Napoli, C. , Cloke, H. ORCID: 0000-0002-1472-868X , Pappenberger, F. (2022) Predicting the unprecedented: forecasting the June 2021 Pacific Northwest heatwave. Weather , 77 (8). pp. 272-279. ISSN: 0043-1656 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wea.4257
Urban, A. , Fonseca-Rodríguez, O. , Di Napoli, C. , Plavcová, E. (2022) Temporal changes of heat-attributable mortality in Prague, Czech Republic, over 1982–2019. Urban Climate , 44 ISSN: 2212-0955 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2022.101197
Brimicombe, C. , Quintino, T. , Smart, S. , Di Napoli, C. , Hogan, R. , Cloke, H. , Pappenberger, F. (2022) Calculating the cosine of the solar zenith angle for thermal comfort indices. European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (895). | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.21957/o7pcu1x2b
Di Napoli, C. , McGushin, A. , Romanello, M. , Ayeb-Karlsson, S. , Cai, W. , Chambers, J. , Dasgupta, S. , Escobar, L. , Kelman, I. , Kjellstrom, T. , Kniveton, D. , Liu, Y. , Liu, Z. , Lowe, R. , Martinez-Urtaza, J. , McMichael, C. , Moradi-Lakeh, M. , Murray, K. , Rabbaniha, M. , Semenza, J. , Shi, L. , Tabatabaei, M. , Trinanes, J. , Vu, B. , Brimicombe, C. , Robinson, E. (2022) Tracking the impacts of climate change on human health via indicators: lessons from the Lancet Countdown. BMC Public Health , 22 (1). pp 663. ISSN: 1471-2458 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13055-6
Mitchell, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-0117-3486 , Stone, E. ORCID: 0000-0002-8633-8074 , Andrews, O. ORCID: 0000-0002-1921-475X , Bamber, J. ORCID: 0000-0002-2280-2819 , Bingham, R. ORCID: 0000-0003-0609-5672 , Browse, J. ORCID: 0000-0002-3466-066X , Henry, M. ORCID: 0000-0002-7352-2112 , MacLeod, D. ORCID: 0000-0001-5504-6450 , Morten, J. ORCID: 0000-0002-5783-9777 , Sauter, C. ORCID: 0000-0001-7038-5442 , Smith, C. ORCID: 0000-0003-0599-4633 , Thomas, J. ORCID: 0000-0002-2115-7723 , Thomson, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-4775-3259 , Wilson, J. ORCID: 0000-0001-7509-4791 , Fung, F. , Hall, R. , Holley, P. , Mitchell, D. , Seviour, W. , Stone, E. , Thomas, J. , Holley, P. , Kuwertz, E. , Brown, K. , Tanner, A. , Thurlby, N. , Thomas, J. , Bamber, J. , Grinsted, A. , Buzzard, S. , Ng, K. , Nias, I. , Weeks, J. , MacLeod, D. , Sheen, K. , Baidu, M. , Baker, J. , Fulton, J. , Le Guennec, V. , Harbord, S. , Harris, B. , Li, X. , Lo, B. , Lord, N. , Masukwedza, I. , Walker, E. , Watson, P. , Andrews, O. , Wilson, J. , Adloff, M. , Baker, C. , Blackledge, B. , DeAth, R. , Goldsworth, F. , Katavouta, A. , Kennedy‐Asser, A. , Liu, Q. , de Mel Virissimo, F. , Sieradzan, K. , Vosper, E. , Ying, R. , Bingham, R. , Chaudhri, A. , Evans, D. , Hughes, C. , Mecking, J. , Rosser, J. , Turner, C. , Turner, K. , Vishwakarma, B. , Worthington, E. , Screen, J. , Tomson, S. , Bilge, T. , Clement, L. , Hudson, P. , Keel, T. , Mackie, A. , Manning, C. , O'Reilly, C. , Henry, M. , Adhikari, M. , Ball, E. , Lo, E. , Roesch, C. , Browse, J. , Avrutin, S. , Booth, A. , Walsh, A. , Collins, M. , Sauter, C. , Amos, M. , Chen, Y. , Gouldsbrough, L. , Heinrich, V. , Kelly, S. , Hawkes, L. , Morten, J. , Thurston, W. , Buchanan, P. , Glissenaar, I. , Williams, D. , Williams, N. , Williams, S. , Vogt‐Vincent, N. , Zaforemska, A. , Smith, C. , Brimicombe, C. , Burton, L. , Cole, S. , Gohar, L. , Hemani, G. , Lamboll, R. , Di Napoli, C. , Simpson, C. , Taylor, M. , Tunnicliffe, R. (2022) The Bristol CMIP6 data hackathon. Weather , 77 (6). pp. 218-221. ISSN: 0043-1656 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wea.4161
Brimicombe, C. , Di Napoli, C. , Quintino, T. , Pappenberger, F. , Cornforth, R. , Cloke, H. (2022) Thermofeel: a python thermal comfort indices library. SoftwareX , 18 ISSN: 2352-7110 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2022.101005

Romanello, M. , McGushin, A. , Di Napoli, C. , Drummond, P. , Hughes, N. , Jamart, L. , Kennard, H. , Lampard, P. , Solano Rodriguez, B. , Arnell, N. , Ayeb-Karlsson, S. , Belesova, K. , Cai, W. , Campbell-Lendrum, D. , Capstick, S. , Chambers, J. , Chu, L. , Ciampi, L. ORCID: 0000-0003-1240-7695 , Dalin, C. , Dasandi, N. , Dasgupta, S. , Davies, M. , Dominguez-Salas, P. , Dubrow, R. , Ebi, K. , Eckelman, M. , Ekins, P. , Escobar, L. , Georgeson, L. , Grace, D. , Graham, H. , Gunther, S. , Hartinger, S. , He, K. , Heaviside, C. , Hess, J. , Hsu, S. , Jankin, S. , Jimenez, M. , Kelman, I. , Kiesewetter, G. , Kinney, P. , Kjellstrom, T. , Kniveton, D. , Lee, J. , Lemke, B. , Liu, Y. , Liu, Z. , Lott, M. , Lowe, R. , Martinez-Urtaza, J. , Maslin, M. , McAllister, L. , McMichael, C. , Mi, Z. , Milner, J. , Minor, K. , Mohajeri, N. , Moradi-Lakeh, M. , Morrissey, K. , Munzert, S. , Murray, K. , Neville, T. , Nilsson, M. , Obradovich, N. , Sewe, M. , Oreszczyn, T. , Otto, M. , Owfi, F. , Pearman, O. , Pencheon, D. , Rabbaniha, M. , Robinson, E. , RocklÃ¶v, J. , Salas, R. , Semenza, J. , Sherman, J. , Shi, L. , Springmann, M. , Tabatabaei, M. , Taylor, J. , Trinanes, J. , Shumake-Guillemot, J. , Vu, B. , Wagner, F. , Wilkinson, P. , Winning, M. , Yglesias, M. , Zhang, S. , Gong, P. , Montgomery, H. , Costello, A. , Hamilton, I. (2021) The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future. The Lancet , 398 (10311). pp. 1619-1662. ISSN: 0140-6736 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01787-6
Brimicombe, C. , Di Napoli, C. , Cloke, H. , Wanzala, M. (2021) Reviewing the summer of extreme weather in 2021. CarbonBrief
Brimicombe, C. , Di Napoli, C. , Cornforth, R. , Pappenberger, F. , Petty, C. , Cloke, H. (2021) Borderless heat hazards with bordered impacts. Earth's Future , 9 (9). ISSN: 2328-4277 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002064
Bröde, P. , Di Napoli, C. , Rosa, L. , da Cunha, E. , Krüger, E. (2021) Sensitivity of UTCI thermal comfort prediction to personal and situational factors—residual analysis of pedestrian survey data. In: Krüger, E. , (eds.) Applications of the Universal Thermal Climate Index UTCI in Biometeorology. Biometeorology Springer (4). , Cham. pp. 67-80. ISBN: 9783030767150 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76716-7_4
Di Napoli, C. , Messeri, A. , Novák, J. , Wieczorek, J. , Morabito, M. , Silva, P. , Crisci, A. , Pappenberger, F. (2021) The Universal Thermal Climate Index as an operational forecasting tool of human biometeorological conditions in Europe. In: Krüger, E. , (eds.) Applications of the Universal Thermal Climate Index UTCI in Biometeorology. Biometeorology , 4. Springer International Publishing , Cham. pp. 193-208. ISBN: 9783030767150 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76716-7_10
Urban, A. , Di Napoli, C. , Cloke, H. ORCID: 0000-0002-1472-868X , Kyselý, J. , Pappenberger, F. , Sera, F. , Schneider, R. , Vicedo-Cabrera, A. , Acquaotta, F. , Ragettli, M. , Íñiguez, C. , Tobias, A. , Indermitte, E. , Orru, H. , Jaakkola, J. , Ryti, N. , Pascal, M. , Huber, V. , Schneider, A. , de Donato, F. , Michelozzi, P. , Gasparrini, A. (2021) Evaluation of the ERA5 reanalysis-based Universal Thermal Climate Index on mortality data in Europe. Environmental Research , 198 ISSN: 0013-9351 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.111227
Watts, N. , Amann, M. , Arnell, N. , Ayeb-Karlsson, S. , Beagley, J. , Belesova, K. , Boykoff, M. , Byass, P. , Cai, W. , Campbell-Lendrum, D. , Capstick, S. , Chambers, J. , Coleman, S. , Dalin, C. , Daly, M. , Dasandi, N. , Dasgupta, S. , Davies, M. , Di Napoli, C. , Dominguez-Salas, P. , Drummond, P. , Dubrow, R. , Ebi, K. , Eckelman, M. , Ekins, P. , Escobar, L. , Georgeson, L. , Golder, S. , Grace, D. , Graham, H. , Haggar, P. , Hamilton, I. , Hartinger, S. , Hess, J. , Hsu, S. , Hughes, N. , Jankin Mikhaylov, S. , Jimenez, M. , Kelman, I. , Kennard, H. , Kiesewetter, G. , Kinney, P. , Kjellstrom, T. , Kniveton, D. , Lampard, P. , Lemke, B. , Liu, Y. , Liu, Z. , Lott, M. , Lowe, R. , Martinez-Urtaza, J. , Maslin, M. , McAllister, L. , McGushin, A. , McMichael, C. , Milner, J. , Moradi-Lakeh, M. , Morrissey, K. , Munzert, S. , Murray, K. , Neville, T. , Nilsson, M. , Sewe, M. , Oreszczyn, T. , Otto, M. , Owfi, F. , Pearman, O. , Pencheon, D. , Quinn, R. , Rabbaniha, M. , Robinson, E. ORCID: 0000-0002-4950-0183 , Rocklöv, J. , Romanello, M. , Semenza, J. , Sherman, J. , Shi, L. , Springmann, M. , Tabatabaei, M. , Taylor, J. , Triñanes, J. , Shumake-Guillemot, J. , Vu, B. , Wilkinson, P. , Winning, M. , Gong, P. , Montgomery, H. , Costello, A. (2021) The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises. Lancet , 397 (10269). pp. 129-170. ISSN: 0140-6736 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32290-X
Brimicombe, C. , Porter, J. , Di Napoli, C. , Pappenberger, F. , Cornforth, R. , Petty, C. , Cloke, H. (2021) Heatwaves: an invisible risk in UK policy and research. Environmental Science & Policy , 116 pp. 1-7. ISSN: 1462-9011 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.10.021
Di Napoli, C. , Barnard, C. , Prudhomme, C. , Cloke, H. , Pappenberger, F. (2021) ERA5-HEAT: a global gridded historical dataset of human thermal comfort indices from climate reanalysis. Geoscience Data Journal , 8 (1). pp. 2-10. ISSN: 2049-6060 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.102

Robinson, E. ORCID: 0000-0002-4950-0183 , Baldock, J. , Piears, D. , Di Napoli, C. , Dasgupta, S. (2020) A public health and climate change “Countdown” for Reading. Ethical Reading
Shumake-Guillemot, J. , Amir, S. , Anwar, N. , Arrighi, J. , Böse-O’Reilly, S. , Brearley, M. , Cross, J. , Daanen, H. , de’Donato, F. , Eggen, B. , Flouris, A. , Gerrett, N. , Hagens, W. , Herrmann, A. , Huynen, M. , Jones, H. , Keith, L. , Khandekar, A. , Lee, J. , Lowe, R. , Matthies-Wiesler, F. , Morelle, M. , Morris, N. , Di Napoli, C. , Nastiti, A. , Norton, I. , Nybo, L. , Oppermann, E. , Singh, R. , Quirós-Alcalá, L. , Roeling, A. , Rule, A. , Sanchez Martinez, G. , van Loenhout, J. , Van den Hazel, P. , Vanderplanken, K. , Zaitchik, B. (2020) Protecting health from hot weather during the COVID-19 pandemic. Global Heat Health Information Network
Di Napoli, C. , Hogan, R. , Pappenberger, F. (2020) Mean radiant temperature from global-scale numerical weather prediction models. International Journal of Biometeorology , 64 (7). pp. 1233-1245. ISSN: 1432-1254 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-020-01900-5
Sutanto, S. , Vitolo, C. , Di Napoli, C. , D'Andrea, M. , Van Lanen, H. (2020) Heatwaves, droughts, and fires: exploring compound and cascading dry hazards at the pan-European scale. Environment International , 134 ISSN: 0160-4120 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2019.105276

Di Napoli, C. , Pappenberger, F. , Cloke, H. (2019) Verification of heat stress thresholds for a health-based heatwave definition. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology , 58 (6). pp. 1177-1194. ISSN: 1558-8432 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-18-0246.1
Vitolo, C. , Di Napoli, C. , Di Giuseppe, F. , Cloke, H. , Pappenberger, F. (2019) Mapping combined wildfire and heat stress hazards to improve evidence-based decision making. Environment International , 127 pp. 21-34. ISSN: 0160-4120 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2019.03.008

Di Napoli, C. , Pappenberger, F. , Cloke, H. (2018) Assessing heat-related health risk in Europe via the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI). International Journal of Biometeorology , 62 (7). pp. 1155-1165. ISSN: 1432-1254 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-018-1518-2

Di Giuseppe, F. , Ferranti, L. , Di Napoli, C. , eds. (2017) The August 2017 heat wave in southern Europe. In: Lentze, G. , (eds.) European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (153). , Shinfield Park, Reading, RG2 9AX, England.

Todeschini, I. , Di Napoli, C. , Pretto, I. , Merler, G. , Cavaliere, R. , Apolloni, R. , Antonacci, G. , Piazza, A. , Benedetti, G. (2016) Thermal mapping as a valuable tool for road weather forecast and winter road maintenance: an example from the Italian Alps. In: Themistocleous, K. , Hadjimitsis, D. , Michaelides, S. , Papadavid, G. , (eds.) Fourth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment. SPIE Proceedings , 9688. SPIE Press , United States. pp. 96880H. ISSN: 0277786X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2240484

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