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On the performance of satellite precipitation products in riverine flood modeling: A review by Maggioni, Viviana, Massari, Christian

“…•The performance of SPP-forced hydrological models depend on several factors.•Bias correction methods of different complexity may reduce streamflow…”
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Exploiting Satellite-Based Surface Soil Moisture for Flood Forecasting in the Mediterranean Area: State Update Versus Rainfall Correction by Massari, Christian, Camici, Stefania, Ciabatta, Luca, Brocca, Luca

“…Many satellite soil moisture products are today globally available in near real-time. These observations are of paramount importance for enhancing the…”
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Soil Moisture for Hydrological Applications: Open  Questions and New Opportunities by Luca Brocca, Luca Ciabatta, Christian Massari, Stefania Camici, Angelica Tarpanelli

“…Soil moisture is widely recognized as a key parameter in the mass and energy balance between the land surface and the atmosphere and, hence, the potential…”
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Assessment of GPM and SM2RAIN-ASCAT rainfall products over complex terrain in southern Italy by Chiaravalloti, Francesco, Brocca, Luca, Procopio, Antonio, Massari, Christian, Gabriele, Salvatore

“…The assessment of precipitation over land is extremely important for a number of scientific purposes related to the mitigation of natural hazards, climate…”
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Data Assimilation of Satellite Soil Moisture into Rainfall-Runoff Modelling: A Complex Recipe? by Massari, Christian, Brocca, Luca, Tarpanelli, Angelica, Moramarco, Tommaso

“…Data assimilation (DA) of satellite soil moisture (SM) observations represents a great opportunity for improving the ability of rainfall-runoff models in…”
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Classification of flood-generating processes in Africa by Tramblay, Yves, Villarini, Gabriele, Saidi, Mohamed Elmehdi, Massari, Christian, Stein, Lina

“…River flooding has large societal and economic impacts across Africa. Despite the importance of this topic, little is known about the main flood generating…”
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Remote Sensing for Water Resources and Environmental Management by Dube, Timothy, Shekede, Munyaradzi D., Massari, Christian

“…In line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, the main goal of the Special Issue on “Remote sensing for water resources and…”
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A Review of Irrigation Information Retrievals from Space and Their Utility for Users by Massari, Christian, Modanesi, Sara, Dari, Jacopo, Gruber, Alexander, De Lannoy, Gabrielle J. M., Girotto, Manuela, Quintana-Seguí, Pere, Le Page, Michel, Jarlan, Lionel, Zribi, Mehrez, Ouaadi, Nadia, Vreugdenhil, Mariëtte, Zappa, Luca, Dorigo, Wouter, Wagner, Wolfgang, Brombacher, Joost, Pelgrum, Henk, Jaquot, Pauline, Freeman, Vahid, Volden, Espen, Fernandez Prieto, Diego, Tarpanelli, Angelica, Barbetta, Silvia, Brocca, Luca

“…Irrigation represents one of the most impactful human interventions in the terrestrial water cycle. Knowing the distribution and extent of irrigated areas as…”
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Soil Moisture from Fusion of Scatterometer and SAR: Closing the Scale Gap with Temporal Filtering by Bauer-Marschallinger, Bernhard, Paulik, Christoph, Hochstöger, Simon, Mistelbauer, Thomas, Modanesi, Sara, Ciabatta, Luca, Massari, Christian, Brocca, Luca, Wagner, Wolfgang

“…Soil moisture is a key environmental variable, important to e.g., farmers, meteorologists, and disaster management units. We fuse surface soil moisture (SSM)…”
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SM2RAIN-Climate, a monthly global long-term rainfall dataset for climatological studies by Mosaffa, Hamidreza, Filippucci, Paolo, Massari, Christian, Ciabatta, Luca, Brocca, Luca

“…A reliable and accurate long-term rainfall dataset is an indispensable resource for climatological studies and crucial for application in water resource…”
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Benefits and pitfalls of irrigation timing and water amounts derived from satellite soil moisture by Zappa, Luca, Dari, Jacopo, Modanesi, Sara, Quast, Raphael, Brocca, Luca, De Lannoy, Gabrielle, Massari, Christian, Quintana-Seguí, Pere, Barella-Ortiz, Anais, Dorigo, Wouter

“…Despite the key role of irrigation in the Earth system, we lack fundamental information regarding the distribution of irrigated fields, irrigation timing and…”
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Comparing Satellite Soil Moisture Products Using In Situ Observations over an Instrumented Experimental Basin in Romania by Ortenzi, Sofia, Cencetti, Corrado, Mincu, Florentina-Iuliana, Neculau, Gianina, Chendeş, Viorel, Ciabatta, Luca, Massari, Christian, Di Matteo, Lucio

“…This study assessed the performance of different remotely sensed soil moisture products with in situ observations; six profile probes for the water content…”
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The Precipitation Inferred from Soil Moisture (PrISM) Near Real-Time Rainfall Product: Evaluation and Comparison by Pellarin, Thierry, Román-Cascón, Carlos, Baron, Christian, Bindlish, Rajat, Brocca, Luca, Camberlin, Pierre, Fernández-Prieto, Diego, Kerr, Yann H., Massari, Christian, Panthou, Geremy, Perrimond, Benoit, Philippon, Nathalie, Quantin, Guillaume

“…Near real-time precipitation is essential to many applications. In Africa, the lack of dense rain-gauge networks and ground weather radars makes the use of…”
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Contributions of Irrigation Modeling, Soil Moisture and Snow Data Assimilation to High‐Resolution Water Budget Estimates Over the Po Basin: Progress Towards Digital Replicas by De Lannoy, Gabriëlle J. M., Bechtold, Michel, Busschaert, Louise, Heyvaert, Zdenko, Modanesi, Sara, Dunmire, Devon, Lievens, Hans, Getirana, Augusto, Massari, Christian

“…High‐resolution water budget estimates benefit from modeling of human water management and satellite data assimilation (DA) in river basins with a large human…”
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Winter snow deficit was a harbinger of summer 2022 socio-hydrologic drought in the Po Basin, Italy by Avanzi, Francesco, Munerol, Francesca, Milelli, Massimo, Gabellani, Simone, Massari, Christian, Girotto, Manuela, Cremonese, Edoardo, Galvagno, Marta, Bruno, Giulia, Morra di Cella, Umberto, Rossi, Lauro, Altamura, Marco, Ferraris, Luca

“…Snow in mountainous regions is a key water resource from local to continental scales. However, the link between increasingly frequent snow droughts and…”
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Rainfall estimation from in situ soil moisture observations at several sites in Europe: an evaluation of the SM2RAIN algorithm by Brocca, Luca, Massari, Christian, Ciabatta, Luca, Moramarco, Tommaso, Penna, Daniele, Zuecco, Giulia, Pianezzola, Luisa, Borga, Marco, Matgen, Patrick, Martínez-Fernández, José

“…Rain gauges, weather radars, satellite sensors and modelled data from weather centres are used operationally for estimating the spatial-temporal variability of…”
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A Self-Contained and Automated Method for Flood Hazard Maps Prediction in Urban Areas by Marco Sinagra, Carmelo Nasello, Tullio Tucciarelli, Silvia Barbetta, Christian Massari, Tommaso Moramarco

“…Water depths and velocities predicted inside urban areas during severe storms are traditionally the final result of a chain of hydrologic and hydraulic models…”
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Perspective on Satellite-Based Land Data Assimilation to Estimate Water Cycle Components in an Era of Advanced Data Availability and Model Sophistication by Lannoy, Gabriëlle J. M. De, Bechtold, Michel, Albergel, Clément, Brocca, Luca, Calvet, Jean-Christophe, Carrassi, Alberto, Crow, Wade T., Rosnay, Patricia de, Durand, Michael, Forman, Barton, Geppert, Gernot, Girotto, Manuela, Franssen, Harrie-Jan Hendricks, Jonas, Tobias, Kumar, Sujay, Lievens, Hans, Lu, Yang, Massari, Christian, Pauwels, Valentijn R. N., Reichle, Rolf H., Steele-Dunne, Susan

“…The beginning of the 21st century is marked by a rapid growth of land surface satellite data and model sophistication. This offers new opportunities to…”
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Spatial-temporal variability of soil moisture: Addressing the monitoring at the catchment scale by Dari, Jacopo, Morbidelli, Renato, Saltalippi, Carla, Massari, Christian, Brocca, Luca

“…•Soil moisture is characterized by high spatial and temporal variability.•A sampling scheme to optimize its monitoring over large areas is investigated.•During…”
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Satellite-based soil moisture enhances the reliability of agro-hydrological modeling in large transboundary river basins by Eini, Mohammad Reza, Massari, Christian, Piniewski, Mikołaj

“…Satellite-based observations of soil moisture, leaf area index, precipitation, and evapotranspiration facilitate agro-hydrological modeling thanks to the…”
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