Staff details

Luca BROCCA

Research personnel
Director of Research
Phone: +39 075 5014418
Fax: +39 075 5014420
E-mail: luca.brocca (at) irpi.cnr.it
Address: Via della Madonna Alta, 126 06128, Perugia
Section: Perugia

Workgroups: hydrology

Publications
Activities
Curriculum vitae
Bibliometrics

Publications (chronologically)

Under Review

Brocca, L., Gaona, J., Bavera, D., Fioravanti, G., Puca, S., Ciabatta, L., Filippucci, P., Mosaffa, H., Esposito, G., Roberto, N., Dari, J., Vreugdenhil, M., Wagner, W. (...). Exploring the actual spatial resolution of 1 km satellite soil moisture products. submitted to Journal of Hydrology, preprint at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4737858.
Ait Naceur, K., El Khalki , E.M., Hadri, A., Jaffar, O., Brocca, L., Saidi, M., Tramblay, Y., Chehbouni, A. (...). Comparison of Calibration Strategies for Daily Streamflow Simulations in Semi-Arid Basins. submitted to Hydrological Sciences Journal.
Dari, J., Filippucci, P., Brocca, L. (...). The development of an operational system for estimating irrigation water use reveals socio-political dynamics in Ukraine. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, preprint, doi:10.5194/egusphere-2023-2479. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2479
Dari, J., Quintana-Seguí, P., Barella-Ortiz, A., Rahmati, M., Saltalippi, C., Flammini, A., Brocca, L. (...). Better understanding of the impact of irrigation on the Mediterranean hydrological cycle through explicit satellite-derived irrigation estimates. submitted to Water Resources Research.
Fan, D., Zhao, T., Jiang, X., García-García, A., ..., Brocca, L., ..., Peng, J. (...). A Sentinel-1 SAR-based global 1 km resolution soil moisture data product: algorithm and preliminary assessment. submitted to Remote Sensing of Environment.
He, K., Zhao, W., Brocca, L., Quintana-Seguí, P., Chen, X. (...) SMPD-MERG: a hybrid downscaling model for high-resolution daily precipitation estimation via merging high-resolution soil moisture and multi-source precipitation data. submitted to Journal of Hydrology.
Kossieris, P., Tsoukalas, I., Brocca, L., Mosaffa, H., Makropoulos, C., Anghelea, A. (...) Merging multiple precipitation products via machine learning: revisiting conceptual and technical aspects. submitted to Journal of Hydrology.
Milazzo, F., Brocca, L., Vanwalleghem, T., Peñuela Fernandez, A. (...). NDVI prediction of Mediterranean permanent grassland using soil moisture products. submitted to Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, doi:10.36227/techrxiv.23551794.v1. https://doi.org/10.36227/techrxiv.23551794.v1
Montzka, C., Brocca, L., Chen, H., Das, N.N., Dasgupta, A., Rahmati, M., Jagdhuber, T. (...). Artificial Intelligence in Soil Moisture Remote Sensing. submitted to Remote Sensing of Environment.
Rahmati, M., Amelung, W., Brogi, C., Dari, J., ..., Brocca, L., ..., Vereecken, H. (...). Soil Moisture Memory: State-of-the-art and the way forward. submitted to Reviews of Geophysics.
Ruti, P., Shenolikar, J., Lee, D., ..., Brocca, L., ..., Bojkov, B. (...). Seamless Observation of the Earth System: The state of Earth Observing today and updates from recent EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite conferences. submitted to Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
Zhang, L., Xie, Y., Zhu, X., Ma, Q., Brocca, L. (...). CIrrMap250: Annual maps of China’s irrigated cropland from 2000 to 2020 developed through multisource data integration. Earth System Science Data Discussion, preprint, doi:10.5194/essd-2024-2. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-2

Peer-Reviewed Journal Papers

2024

Brocca, L., Barbetta, S., Camici, S., Ciabatta, L., Dari, J., Filippuci, P., (27 authors), ..., Fernandez, D. (2024). A Digital Twin of the terrestrial water cycle: a glimpse into the future through high-resolution Earth observations. Frontiers in Science, 1:1190191, doi:10.3389/fsci.2023.1190191. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsci.2023.1190191
Busschaert, L., Mechtold, M., Modanesi, S., Massari, C., Brocca, L., De Lannoy, G.J.M. (2024) Irrigation quantification through backscatter data assimilation with a buddy check approach. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth System, in press, preprint, doi:10.22541/essoar.167590826.62059121/v1. https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.167590826.62059121/v1
Dari, J., Morbidelli, R., Quintana-Seguí, P., Brocca, L. (2024). The Temporal-Stability-based Irrigation MAPping (TSIMAP) method: a virtuous trade-off between accuracy, flexibility, and facility for end-users. Water, 16(5), 644, doi:10.3390/w16050644. https://doi.org/10.3390/w16050644
Kragh, S.J., Dari, J., Modanesi, S., Massari, C., Brocca, L., Fensholt, R., Stisen, S., Koch, J. (2024). An inter-comparison of approaches and frameworks to quantify irrigation from satellite data. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 28(3), 441-457, doi:10.5194/hess-28-441-2024 https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-441-2024.
Zappa, L., Dari, J., Modanesi, S., Quast, R., Brocca, L., ..., Dorigo, W. (2024). Benefits and pitfalls of irrigation estimates derived from satellite soil moisture. Agricultural Water Management, 295, 108773, doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2024.108773 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2024.108773.

2023

Brocca, L., Zhao, W., Lu, H. (2023). High-resolution observations from space to address new applications in hydrology. The Innovation, 4(3), 100437, doi:10.1016/j.xinn.2023.100437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2023.100437.
Bordoni, M., Vivaldi, V., Ciabatta, L., Brocca, L., Meisina, C. (2023). Temporal prediction of shallow landslides exploiting soil saturation degree derived by ERA5-Land products. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 82, 308, doi:10.1007/s10064-023-03304-2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10064-023-03304-2.
Dari, J., Brocca, L., Modanesi, S., Massari, C., Tarpanelli, A., Barbetta, S., Quast, R., Vreugdenhil, M., Freeman, V., Barella-Ortiz, A., Quintana-Seguí, P., Bretreger, D., Volden, E. (2023). Regional data sets of high-resolution (1 and 6 km) irrigation estimates from space. Earth System Science Data, 15(4), 1555-1575, doi:10.5194/essd-15-1555-2023. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-1555-2023
Feng, H., Dong, J., Zhou, J., Brocca, L., He, H. (2023). Transpiration – soil evaporation partitioning determines inter-model differences in soil moisture and evapotranspiration coupling. Remote Sensing of Environment, 298, 113841, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2023.113841. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113841
Gao, X., Wan, H., Zeng, Y., Hu, W., Brocca, L., Yang, M., Wu, P., Zhao, X. (2023). Disentangling the impact of event- and annual-scale precipitation extremes on critical-zone hydrology in semiarid loess vegetated by apple trees. Water Resources Research, 59(3), e2022WR033042, doi:10.1029/2022WR033042. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR033042
He, K., Zhao, W., Brocca, L., Quintana-Seguí, P. (2023). SMPD: A soil moisture-based precipitation downscaling method for high-resolution daily satellite precipitation estimation. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 27, 169–190, doi:10.5194/hess-27-169-2023. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-169-2023
Massari, C., Pellet, V., Tramblay, Y., Crow, W., Gruendemannd, G.J., Hascoetf, T., Penna, D., Modanesi, S., Brocca, L., Camici, S., Marra, F. (2023). On the relation between antecedent basin conditions and runoff coefficient for European floods. Journal of Hydrology, 625(B), 130012, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130012
McDermid, S., Nocco, M., Lawston-Parker, P., ..., Brocca, L., ..., 40 authors (2023). Irrigation in the Earth system. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 4, 435–453, doi:10.1038/s43017-023-00438-5. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-023-00438-5
Mosaffa, H., Filippucci, P., Massari, C., Ciabatta, L., Brocca, L. (2023). SM2RAIN-Climate, a monthly global long-term rainfall dataset for climatological studies. Scientific Data, 10, 749, doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02654-6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02654-6
Qiu, J., Zhao, W., Brocca, L., Tarolli, P. (2023). Storm Daniel revealed the fragility of the Mediterranean region. The Innovation Geoscience, 1(3), 100036, doi:10.59717/j.xinn-geo.2023.100036. https://doi.org/10.59717/j.xinn-geo.2023.100036
Sun, J., Wang, W., Wang, X., Brocca, L. (2023). Improving the STARFM fusion method for downscaling the SSEBOP evapotranspiration product from 1 km to 30 m in an arid area in China. Remote Sensing, 15(22), 5411, doi:10.3390/rs15225411. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15225411
Tramblay, Y., El Khalki Mahdi, Ciabatta, L., Camici, S., Hanich, L., El Mehdi Saidi, M., Ezzahouani, A., Benaabidate, L., Mahé, G., Brocca, L. (2023). River runoff estimation with satellite rainfall in Morocco. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 68(3), 474-487, doi:10.1080/02626667.2023.2171295. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2023.2171295
Tarpanelli, A., Bonaccorsi, B., Sinagra, M., Domeneghetti, A., Brocca, L., Barbetta, S. (2023). Flooding in the Digital Twin Earth: the case study of the Enza river levee breach in December 2017. Water, 15(9), 1644, doi:10.3390/w15091644. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15091644

2022

Alfieri, L., Avanzi, F., Delogu, F., Gabellani, S., Bruno, G., Campo, L., Libertino, A., Massari, C., Tarpanelli, A., Rains, D., Miralles, D.G., Quast, R., Vreugdenhil, M., Wu, H., Brocca, L. (2022). High resolution satellite products improve hydrological modeling in northern Italy. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26, 3921–3939, doi:10.5194/hess-26-3921-2022. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-3921-2022
Camici, S., Giuliani, G., Brocca, L., Massari, C., Tarpanelli, A., Farahani, H.H., Sneeuw, N., Restano, M., Benveniste, J. (2022). Synergy between satellite observations of soil moisture and water storage anomalies for global runoff estimation. Geoscientific Model Development, 15, 6935–6956, doi:10.5194/gmd-15-6935-2022. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-6935-2022
Dari, J., Brocca, L., Quintana-Seguí, P., Casadei, S., Escorihuela, M.J., Stefan, V., Morbidelli, R. (2022). Double-scale analysis on the detectability of irrigation signals from remote sensing soil moisture over an area with complex topography in central Italy. Advances in Water Resources, 161, 104130, doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2022.104130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2022.104130
Dari, J., Quintana-Seguí, P., Morbidelli, R., Saltalippi, C., Flammini, A., Giugliarelli, E., Escorihuela, M.J., Stefan, V., Brocca, L. (2022). Irrigation estimates from space: implementation of different approaches to model the evapotranspiration contribution within a soil-moisture-based inversion algorithm. Agricultural Water Management, 265, 107537, doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2022.107537. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2022.107537
De Lannoy, G.J.M., Bechtold, M., Albergel, C., Brocca, L., 21 authors, ..., Steele-Dunne, D.(2022). Perspective on Satellite-Based Land Data Assimilation to Estimate Water Cycle Components in an Era of Advanced Data Availability and Model Sophistication. Frontiers in Water, 4, 981745, doi:10.3389/frwa.2022.981745. https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2022.981745
Eini, M.R., Rahmati, A., Salmani, H., Brocca, L., Piniewski, M (2022). Detecting characteristics of extreme precipitation events using regional and satellite-based precipitation gridded datasets over a region in Central Europe. Science of the Total Environment, 852, 158497, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158497. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158497
Elwan, E., Le page, M., Jarlan, L., Baghdadi, N., Brocca, L., Modanesi, S., Dari, J., Quintana Segui, P., Zribi, M. (2022). Irrigation mapping on two contrasted climatic contexts using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data. Water, 14(5), 804, doi:10.3390/w14050804. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14050804
Filippucci, P., Brocca, L., Quast, R., Ciabatta, L., Saltalippi, C., Wagner, W., Tarpanelli, A. (2022). High resolution (1 km) satellite rainfall estimation from SM2RAIN applied to Sentinel-1: Po River Basin as case study. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26, 2481-1497, doi:10.5194/hess-26-2481-2022. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-2481-2022
Filippucci, P., Brocca, L., Bonafoni, S., Saltalippi, C., Wagner, W., Tarpanelli, A. (2022). Sentinel-2 high-resolution data for river discharge monitoring. Remote Sensing of Environment, 281, 113255, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2022.113255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113255
Koohi, S., Azizian, A., Brocca, L. (2022). Calibration of a distributed hydrological model (VIC-3L) based on global water resources reanalysis datasets. Water Resources Management, 36, 1287–1306, doi:10.1007/s11269-022-03081-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-022-03081-9
Mascitelli, A. Petracca, M., Puca, S., Realini, E., Gatti, A., Biondi, R., Anesiadou, A., Brocca, L., Vulpiani, G., Torcasio, R.C., Federico, S., Oriente, A., Dietrich, S. (2022). Multi-sensors data analysis of intense weather events: the July 2021 Como Lake case study. Remote Sensing, 14(23), 3916, doi:10.3390/w14233916. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14233916
Modanesi, M., Massari, M., Bechtold, M., Lievens, H., Tarpanelli, A., Brocca, L., Zappa, L., De Lannoy, G.J.M. (2022). Challenges and benefits of quantifying irrigation through the assimilation of Sentinel-1 backscatter observations into Noah-MP. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26(18), 4685-4706, doi:10.5194/hess-26-4685-2022. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-4685-2022
Ramos Filho, G.M., Coelho, V.H.R., da Silva Freitas, E., Xuan, Y., Brocca, L., das Neves Almeida, C. (2022). Regional-scale evaluation of 14 satellite-based precipitation products in characterising extreme events and delineating rainfall thresholds for flood hazards. Atmospheric Research, 276, 106259, doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2022.106259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2022.106259
Saeedi, M. Kim, H., Nabaei, S., Brocca, L., Lakshmi, V., Mosaffa, H. (2022). A comprehensive assessment of SM2RAIN-NWF using ASCAT and a combination of ASCAT and SMAP soil moisture products for rainfall estimation. Science of the Total Environment, 838(3), 156416, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156416
Saeedi, M., Sharafati, A., Brocca, L., Tavakol, A. (2022). Estimating rainfall depth from satellite-based soil moisture data: A new algorithm by integrating SM2RAIN and the analytical net water flux models. Journal of Hydrology, 610, 127868, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127868. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127868
Zappa, L., Schlaffer, S., Brocca, L., Vreugdenhil, M., Nendel, C., Dorigo, W. (2022). How accurately can we retrieve irrigation timing and water amounts from (satellite) soil moisture? International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 113, 102979, doi:10.1016/j.jag.2022.102979. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2022.102979

2021

Almagro, A., Tarso, P., Brocca, L. (2021). Assessment of near real-time satellite rainfall products on estimating river discharge and hydrologic signatures in Brazilian catchments. Journal of Hydrology, 603, 126897, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126897. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126897
Bordoni, M., Vivaldi, V., Lucchelli, L., Ciabatta, L., Brocca, L., Galve, J.P., Meisina, C. (2021). Development of a data-driven model for spatial and temporal shallow landslides probability of occurrence at catchment scale. Landslides, 18, 1209–1229, doi:10.1007/s10346-020-01592-3. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-020-01592-3
Brunetti, M.T., Melillo, M., Gariano, S.L., Ciabatta, L., Brocca, L., Amarnath, G., Peruccacci, S. (2021). Satellite rainfall products outperform ground observations for landslide forecasting in India. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25, 3267–3279, doi:10.5194/hess-25-3267-2021. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-3267-2021
Dari, J., Quintana-Seguí, P., Escorihuela, M.J., Stefan, V., Brocca, L., Morbidelli, R. (2021). Detecting and mapping irrigated areas in a Mediterranean environment by using remote sensing soil moisture and a land surface model. Journal of Hydrology, 56, 126129, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126129
De Santis, D., Massari, C., Crow, W.T., Camici, S., Modanesi, S., Brocca, L., Biondi, D. (2021). Assimilation of Satellite Soil Moisture Products for River Flow Prediction: An Extensive Experiment over 700 Catchments throughout Europe. Water Resources Research, 57(6), e2021WR029643, doi:10.1029/2021WR029643. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR029643
Dorigo, W., Dietrich, S., Aires, F., Brocca, L., Carter, S., ...32 authors ..., Aich, V. (2021). Closing the water cycle from observations across scales: Where do we stand? Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(10), E1897–E1935, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0316.1. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0316.1
Dorigo, W., Himmelbauer, I., Aberer, D., Schremmer, L., Petrakovic, I., Zappa, L., Preimesberger, W., Xaver, A., ..., Brocca, L., ...68 authors ..., Sabia, R. (2021). The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25, 5749–5804, doi:10.5194/hess-25-5749-2021. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-5749-2021
Eini, M.R., Olyaei, M.A., Kamya, T., Teymoori, J., Brocca, L., Piniewski, M.(2021). Evaluating SM2RAIN-ASCAT, PERSIANN-CCS, and CMORPH satellite precipitation products over Iran. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 38, 100942, doi:10.1016/j.ejrh.2021.100942 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2021.100942
Filippucci, P., Brocca, L., Massari, C., Saltalippi, C., Wagner, W., Tarpanelli, A. (2021). Toward a self-calibrated and independent SM2RAIN rainfall product. Journal of Hydrology, 603(A), 126837, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126837 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126837
International Altimetry Team, ..., Brocca, L., et al. (2021). Altimetry for the future: Building on 25 years of progress. Advances in Space Research, 68(2), 319-363, doi:10.1016/j.asr.2021.01.022 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2021.01.022
Koohi, S., Azizian, A., Brocca, L. (2021). Spatiotemporal drought monitoring using bottom-up precipitation dataset (SM2RAIN-ASCAT) over different regions of Iran. Science of the Total Environment, 779, 146535, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146535
Kumar, A., Ramsankaran, R.A.A.J., Brocca, L., Munoz-Arriola, F. (2021). A simple machine learning approach to model real-time streamflow using satellite inputs: Demonstration in a data scarce catchment. Journal of Hydrology, 595, 126046, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126046. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126046
Massari, C., Modanesi, S., Dari, J., Gruber, A., De Lannoy, G.J.M., Girotto, M., Quintana-Seguí, P., Le Page, M., Jarlan, L., Zribi, M., Ouaadi, N., Vreugdenhil, M., Zappa, L., Dorigo, W., Wagner, W., Brombacher, J., Pelgrum, H., Jaquot, P., Freeman, V., Volden, E., Fernandez Prieto, D., Tarpanelli, A., Barbetta, S., Brocca, L. (2021). A review of irrigation information retrievals from space and their utility for users. Remote Sensing, 13(20), 4112, doi:10.3390/rs13204112. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13204112
Masseroni, D., Camici, S., Cislaghi, A., Vacchiano, G., Massari, C., Brocca, L. (2021). The 63-year changes in annual streamflow volumes across Europe with a focus on the Mediterranean basin. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25, 5589–5601, doi:10.5194/hess-25-5589-2021. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-5589-2021
Mimeau, L., Tramblay, Y., Brocca, L., Massari, C., Camici, S., Finaud-Guyot, P. (2021). Modeling the response of soil moisture to climate variability in the Mediterranean region. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25, 653-669, doi:10.5194/hess-25-653-2021. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-653-2021
Peng, J., Albergel, C., Balenzano, A., Brocca, L., Cartus, O., Cosh, M., ..., Loew, A. (2021). A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications - confronting product characteristics with user requirements. Remote Sensing of Environment, 252, 112162, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2020.112162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112162
Sajadi, P., Sang, Y.-S., Gholamnia, M., Bonafoni, S., Brocca, L., Singh, A. (2021). Performance evaluation of long NDVI timeseries from AVHRR, MODIS and Landsat sensors over landslide-prone locations in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Remote Sensing, 13(16), 3172, doi:10.3390/rs13163172. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13163172
Taghizadeh, E., Ahmadi-Givi, F., Brocca, L., Sharifi, E. (2021). Evaluation of Satellite/Reanalysis Precipitation Products over Iran. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 42(9), 3474-3497, doi:10.1080/01431161.2021.1875508. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2021.1875508
Tarpanelli, A., Camici, S., Nielsen, K., Brocca, L., Moramarco, T., Benveniste, J. (2021). Potentials and limitations of Sentinel-3 for river discharge assessment. Advances in Space Research, 68(2), 593-606, doi:10.1016/j.asr.2019.08.005 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2019.08.005
Tramblay, Y, Rutkowska, A., Sauquet, E., Sefton, C., Laaha, G., Osuch, M., ..., Brocca, L., Camici, S., ..., Datry, T. (2021). Trends in flow intermittence for European Rivers. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 66(1), 37-49, doi:10.1080/02626667.2020.1849708 https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2020.1849708
Volpe, E., Ciabatta, L., Salciarini, D., Camici, S., Cattoni, E., Brocca, L. (2021). The impact of Probability Density Functions assessment on model performance for slope stability analysis. Geosciences, 11(8), 322, doi:10.3390/geosciences11080322 https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11080322

2020

Brocca, L., Massari, C., Pellarin, T., Filippucci, P., Ciabatta, L., Camici, S., Kerr, Y.H., Fernández-Prieto, D. (2020). River flow prediction in data scarce regions: soil moisture integrated satellite rainfall products outperform rain gauge observations in West Africa. Scientific Reports, 10, 12517, doi:10.1038/s41598-020-69343-x. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69343-x Press: CNR, CNR-IRPI
Azizian, A., Brocca, L. (2020). Determining the best remote sensing based DEM for flood inundation mapping in data sparse regions. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 41(5), 1884-1906, doi:10.1080/01431161.2019.1677968. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2019.1677968
Beccari, G., Prodi, A., Senatore, M.T., Balmas, V., Tini, F., Onofri, A., Pedini, L., Sulyok, M., Brocca, L., Covarelli, L. (2020). Cultivation area affects the presence of fungal communities and of secondary metabolites in Italian durum wheat grains. Toxins, 12(2), 97, doi:10.3390/toxins12020097. https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins12020097
Camici, S, Massari, C., Ciabatta, L., Marchesini, I., Brocca, L. (2020). Which rainfall metric is more informative about the flood simulation performance? A comprehensive assessment on 1318 basins over Europe. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 24, 4869–4885, doi:10.5194/hess-24-4869-2020. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-4869-2020
Cislaghi, A., Masseroni, D., Massari, C., Camici, S., Brocca, L. (2020). Combining rainfall-runoff model and regionalization approach for flood and water resource assessment in the western Po-Valley (Italy). Hydrological Science Journal, 65(3), 348-370, doi:10.1080/02626667.2019.1690656. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2019.1690656
Dari, J., Brocca, L., Quintana-Seguí, P., Escorihuela, M.J., Stefan, V., Morbidelli, R. (2020). Exploiting high-resolution remote sensing soil moisture to estimate irrigation water amounts over a Mediterranean region. Remote Sensing, 12(16), 2593, doi:10.3390/rs12162593. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12162593
El Khalki Mahdi, Tramblay, Y., Massari, C., Brocca, L., Simonneaux, V., Gascoin, S., Saidi Mohamed El Mehdi (2020). Challenges in flood modelling over data scarce regions: how to exploit globally available soil moisture products to estimate antecedent soil wetness conditions in Morocco. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 20, 2591–2607, doi:10.5194/nhess-20-2591-2020. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-2591-2020
Filippucci, P., Tarpanelli, A., Massari, C., Serafini, A., Strati, V., Alberi, M., Raptis, K.G.C., Mantovani, F., Brocca, L. (2020). Soil moisture as a potential variable for tracking and quantifying irrigation: a case study with proximal gamma-ray spectroscopy data. Advances in Water Resources, 136, 103502, doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2019.103502. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2019.103502
Franz, T., Wahbi, A., Zhang, J., Vreugdenhil, M., Heng, L., Dercon, G., Strauss, P., Brocca, L., Wagner, W. (2020). Practical Data Products From Cosmic-Ray Neutron Sensing for Hydrological Applications. Frontiers in Water, 2:9, doi:10.3389/frwa.2020.00009. https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2020.00009
Gruber, A., De Lannoy, G., Albergel, C., Al-Yaari, A., Brocca, L., Calvet, J.-C., Colliander, A., Cosh, M., Crow, W., Dorigo, W., Draper, C., Hirschi, M., Kerr, Y., Konings, A., Lahoz, W., McColl, K., Montzka, C., Munoz-Sabater, J., Peng, J., Reichle, R., Richaume, P., Rudiger, C., Scanlon, T., van der Schalie, R., Wagner, W. (2020). Validation practices for satellite soil moisture products: What are (the) errors?. Remote Sensing of Environment, 244, 111806, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2020.111806. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.111806
Massari, C., Brocca, L., Pellarin, T., Abramowitz, G., Filippucci, P., Ciabatta, L., Maggioni, V., Kerr, Y., Fernández-Prieto, D. (2020). A daily/25km short-latency rainfall product for data scarce regions based on the integration of the GPM IMERG Early Run with multiple satellite soil moisture products. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 24, 2687–2710, doi:10.5194/hess-24-2687-2020. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-2687-2020
Modanesi, S., Massari, C., Camici, S., Brocca, L., Amarnath, G. (2020). Do satellite surface soil moisture observations better retain information about crop-yield variability in drought conditions? Water Resources Research, 56(2), e2019WR025855, doi:10.1029/2019WR025855 https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025855
Morbidelli, R., Garcia Marin, A.P., ..., Brocca, L., ..., 67 authors (2020). History of the rainfall data time resolution in different geographical areas of the World. Journal of Hydrology, 590, 125258, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125258
Pellarin, T., Román-Cascón, C., Baron, C., Bindlish, R., Brocca, L., Camberlin, P., Fernandez-Prieto, D., Kerr, Y.H., Massari, C., Panthou, G., Philippon, N., Quantin, G. (2020). The Precipitation Inferred from Soil Moisture (PrISM) near real-time rainfall product: evaluation and comparison. Remote Sensing, 12(3), 481, doi:10.3390/rs12030481. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12030481
Shayeghi, A., Azizian, A., Brocca, L. (2020). Reliability of reanalysis and remotely sensed precipitation products for hydrological simulation over the Sefidrood River Basin, Iran. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 65(2), 296-310, doi:10.1080/02626667.2019.1691217. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2019.1691217
Song, S., Brocca, L., Wang, W., Cui, W. (2020). Testing the potential of soil moisture observations to estimate rainfall in a soil tank experiment. Journal of Hydrology, 581, 124368, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.124368 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.124368
Tarpanelli, A., Iodice, F., Brocca, L., Restano, M., Benveniste, J. (2020). River flow monitoring by Sentinel-3 OLCI and MODIS: comparison and combination. Remote Sensing, 12(23), 3867, doi:10.3390/rs12233867 https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12233867

2019

Brocca, L., Filippucci, P., Hahn, S., Ciabatta, L., Massari, C., Camici, S., Schüller, L., Bojkov, B., Wagner, W. (2019). SM2RAIN-ASCAT (2007-2018): global daily satellite rainfall from ASCAT soil moisture. Earth System Science Data, 11, 1583–1601, doi:10.5194/essd-11-1583-2019. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1583-2019 Press: BLOG Natural Hazards, ISMC.
Bauer-Marschallinger, B., Naeimi, F., Cao, S., Paulik, C., Schaufler, S., Stachl, T., Modanesi, S., Ciabatta, L., Massari, C., Brocca, L., Wagner, W. (2019). Towards global soil moisture monitoring with Sentinel-1: harnessing assets and overcoming obstacles. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 57(1), 520-539, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2018.2858004. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2018.2858004
Belabid, N., Xhao, F., Brocca, L., Huang, Y., Tan, Y. (2019). Near real-time flood forecasting based on satellite precipitation products. Remote Sensing, 11(3), 252, doi:10.3390/rs11030252. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11030252
Bloschl, G., Bierkens, M.F.P., Chambel, C., Cudenned, C., ..., Brocca, L., ..., 205 authors (2019). Twenty-three Unsolved Problems in Hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 64(10), 1141-1158, doi:10.1080/02626667.2019.1620507. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2019.1620507
Dari, J., Morbidelli, R., Saltalippi, C., Massari, C., Brocca, L. (2019). Spatial-temporal variability of soil moisture: a strategy to optimize monitoring at the catchment scale. Journal of Hydrology, 570, 436-444, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.01.014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.01.014
Fereidoon, M., Koch, M., Brocca, L. (2019). Predicting rainfall and runoff through satellite soil moisture data and SWAT modelling for a poorly gauged basin in Iran. Water, 11(3), 594, doi:10.3390/w11030594 https://doi.org/10.3390/w11030594
Forootan, E., Khaki, M., Schumacher, M., Wulfmeyer, V., Mehrnegar, N., van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Brocca, L., Farzaneh, S., Akinluyi, F., Ramillien, G., Shum, C.K., Awange, J., Mostafaie, A. (2019). Understanding the global hydrological droughts of 2003-2016 and their relationships with teleconnections. Science of the Total Environment, 650, 2587-2604, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.09.231 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.09.231
Gao, X., Zhao, X., Brocca, L., Pan, D., Wu, P. (2019). Testing of observation operators designed to estimate profile soil moisture from surface measurements. Hydrological Processes, 33(4), 575-584, doi:10.1002/hyp.13344 https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13344
Jalilvand, E., Tajrishy, M., Hashemi, S.A.G., Brocca, L. (2019). Quantification of irrigation water using remote sensing of soil moisture in a semi-arid region. Remote Sensing of Environment, 231, 111226, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2019.111226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111226
Kumar, A., Ramsankaran, R.A.A.J., Brocca, L., Munoz-Arriola, F. (2019). Machine learning approach for improving near-real-time satellite-based rainfall estimates by integrating soil moisture. Remote Sensing, 11(19), 2221, doi:10.3390/rs11192221. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11192221
Massari, C., Maggioni, V., Barbetta, S., Brocca, L., Ciabatta, L., Camici, S., Moramarco, T., Coccia, G., Todini, E. (2019). Complementing near-real time satellite rainfall products with satellite soil moisture-derived rainfall through a Bayesian inversion approach. Journal of Hydrology, 573, 341-351, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.03.038. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.03.038
Pellet, V., Aires, F., Munier, S., Jordà, G., Fernández-Prieto, D., Dorigo, W., Brocca, L. (2019). Integrating multiple satellite observations into a coherent dataset to monitor the full water cycle - Application to the Mediterranean region. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 23, 465-491, doi:10.5194/hess-23-465-2019. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-465-2019
Salciarini, D., Brocca, L., Camici, S., Ciabatta, L., Volpe, E., Tamagnini, C. (2019). Physically-based approach for rainfall-induced landslide projections in a changing climate. Proceedings of ICE - Geotechnical Engineering, 172(6), 481-495, doi:10.1680/jgeen.18.00216. https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeen.18.00216
Tarpanelli, A., Santi, E., Tourian, M., Filippucci, P., Amarnath, G., Brocca, L. (2019). Daily river discharge estimates by merging satellite optical sensors and radar altimetry through artificial neural network. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 57(1), 329-341, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2018.2854625. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2018.2854625
Zaussinger, F., Dorigo, W., Gruber, A., Tarpanelli, A., Filippucci, P., Brocca, L. (2019). Estimating irrigation water use over the contiguous United States by combining satellite and reanalysis soil moisture data. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 23, 897-923, doi:10.5194/hess-23-897-2019. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-897-2019

2018

Brocca, L., Tarpanelli, A., Filippucci, P., Dorigo, W., Zaussinger, F., Gruber, A., Fernández-Prieto, D. (2018). How much water is used for irrigation? A new approach exploiting coarse resolution satellite soil moisture products. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 73C, 752-766, doi:10.1016/j.jag.2018.08.023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2018.08.023. Press: ESA, CNR, SCIENCE TRENDS, Economia Cristiana
Bauer-Marschallinger, B., Paulik, C., Hochstöger, S., Mistelbauer, T., Modanesi, S., Ciabatta, L., Massari, C., Brocca, L., Wagner, W. (2018). Soil moisture from fusion of scatterometer and SAR: closing the scale gap with temporal filtering. Remote Sensing, 10(7), 1030, doi:10.3390/rs10071030. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10071030
Brunetti, M.T., Melillo, M., Peruccacci, S., Ciabatta, L., Brocca, L. (2018). How far are we from the use of satellite data in landslide forecasting? Remote Sensing of Environment, 210, 65-75, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2018.03.016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.03.016
Camici, S., Ciabatta, L., Massari, C., Brocca, L. (2018). How reliable are satellite precipitation estimates for driving hydrological models: a verification study over the Mediterranean area. Journal of Hydrology, 563, 950-961, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.06.067. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.06.067
Chiaravalloti, F., Brocca, L., Procopio, A., Massari, C., Gabriele, S. (2018). Assessment of GPM and SM2RAIN-ASCAT rainfall products over complex terrain in southern Italy. Atmospheric Research, 206, 64-74, doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2018.02.019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2018.02.019
Ciabatta, L., Massari, C., Brocca, L., Gruber, A., Reimer, C., Hahn, S., Paulik, C., Dorigo, W., Kidd, R., Wagner, W. (2018). SM2RAIN-CCI: a new global long-term rainfall data set derived from ESA CCI soil moisture. Earth System Science Data, 10, 267-280, doi:10.5194/essd-10-267-2018. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-267-2018. Press: Rivista GEOMEDIA
Hdeib, R., Moussa, R., Colin, F., Brocca, L., Abdallah, C. (2018). Constraining coupled hydrological-hydraulic flood model by past storm events and post-event measurements in data-sparse regions. Journal of Hydrology, 565, 160-176, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.08.008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.08.008
Jalilvand, E., Tajrishy, M., Brocca, L., Massari, C., Hashemi, S.A.G., Ciabatta, L. (2018). Estimating the drainage rate from surface soil moisture drydowns: application of DfD model to in situ soil moisture data. Journal of Hydrology, 565, 489-501, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.08.035. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.08.035
Loizu, J., Massari, C., Álvarez-Mozos, J., Tarpanelli, A., Brocca, L., Casalí, J. (2018). On the assimilation set-up of ASCAT soil moisture data for improving streamflow catchment simulation. Advances in Water Resources, 111, 86-104, doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.10.034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.10.034
Massari, C., Camici, S., Ciabatta, L., Brocca, L. (2018). Exploiting satellite-based surface soil moisture for flood forecasting in the Mediterranean area: state update versus rainfall correction. Remote Sensing, 10(2), 292, doi: 10.3390/rs10020292. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10020292
Nasta, P., Penna, D., Brocca, L., Zuecco, G., Romano, N. (2018). Downscaling near-surface soil moisture from field to plot scale: A comparative analysis under different environmental conditions. Journal of Hydrology, 557, 97-108, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.12.017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.12.017
Saitta, A., Anslan, S., Bahram, M., Brocca, L., Tedersoo, L. (2018). Tree species identity and diversity drive fungal richness and community composition along an elevational gradient in a Mediterranean ecosystem. Mycorrhiza, 28(1), 39-47, doi: 10.1007/s00572-017-0806-8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00572-017-0806-8
Santi, E., Paloscia, S., Pettinato, S., Brocca, L., Ciabatta, L., Entekhabi, D. (2018). On the synergy of SMAP, AMSR2 and SENTINEL-1 for retrieving soil moisture. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 65, 114-123, doi:10.1016/j.jag.2017.10.010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2017.10.010
Santi, E., Paloscia, S., Pettinato, S., Brocca, L., Ciabatta, L., Entekhabi, D. (2018). Integration of microwave data from SMAP and AMSR2 for soil moisture monitoring in Italy. Remote Sensing of Environment, 212, 21-30, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2018.04.039. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.04.039
Tauro, F., Selker, J., van de Giesen, N., ..., Brocca, L., ..., Grimaldi, S. (2018). Measurements and Observations in the XXI century (MOXXI): innovation and multidisciplinarity to sense the hydrological cycle. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 63(2), 169-196, doi:10.1080/02626667.2017.1420191. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2017.1420191
Thaler, S., Brocca, L., Ciabatta, L., Eitzinger, J., Hahn, S., Wagner, W. (2018). Effects of different spatial precipitation input data on crop model outputs under a Central European climate. Atmosphere, 9(8), 290, doi:10.3390/atmos9080290. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos9080290

2017

Brocca, L., Crow, W.T., Ciabatta, L., Massari, C., de Rosnay, P., Enenkel, M., Hahn, S., Amarnath, G., Camici, S., Tarpanelli, A., Wagner, W. (2017). A review of the applications of ASCAT soil moisture products. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 10(5), 2285-2306, doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2017.2651140. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2017.2651140
Brocca, L., Ciabatta, L., Massari, C., Camici, S., Tarpanelli, A. (2017). Soil moisture for hydrological applications: open questions and new opportunities. Water, 9(2), 140, doi:10.3390/w9020140. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w9020140
Abera, W., Formetta, G., Brocca, L., Rigon, R. (2017). Modeling the water budget of the Upper Blue Nile basin using the JGrass-NewAge model system and satellite data. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 21, 3145-3165, doi:10.5194/hess-21-3145-2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-3145-2017
Barbetta, S., Coccia, G., Moramarco, T., Brocca, L., Todini, E. (2017). The multi temporal/multi-model approach to predictive uncertainty assessment in real-time flood forecasting. Journal of Hydrology, 551, 555-576, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.06.030. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.06.030
Beck, H.E., Vergopolan, N., Pan, M., Levizzani, V., van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Weedon, G., Brocca, L., Pappenberger, F., Huffman, G.J., Wood, E.F. (2017). Global-scale evaluation of 22 precipitation datasets using gauge observations and hydrological modeling. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 21, 6201-6217, doi:10.5194/hess-21-6201-2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-6201-2017
Biondi, D., Brocca, L., Castellarin, A. (2017). Editorial: River basin hydrology and natural hazards: monitoring, prediction and prevention. Hydrology Research, 48(3), 613-615, doi:10.2166/nh.2017.000. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/nh.2017.000
Calamita, G., Perrone, A., Brocca, L., Straface, S. (2017). Soil electrical resistivity for spatial sampling design, prediction and uncertainty modelling of soil moisture. Vadose Zone Journal, 16(10), doi:10.2136/vzj2017.01.0022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2136/vzj2017.01.0022
Camici, S., Brocca, L., Moramarco, T. (2017). Accuracy versus variability of climate projections for flood assessment in central Italy. Climatic Change, 141(2), 273-286, doi:10.1007/s10584-016-1876-x. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-016-1876-x
Ciabatta, L., Marra, A.C., Panegrossi, G., Casella, D., Sanò, P., Dietrich, S., Massari, C., Brocca, L. (2017). Daily precipitation estimation through different microwave sensors: verification study over Italy. Journal of Hydrology, 545, 436-450, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.12.057. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.12.057
Dorigo, W.,Wagner, W., Albergel, C., Albrecht, F., Balsamo, G., Brocca, L., Chung, D., Ertl, M., Forkel, M., Gruber, A., Haas, D., Hamer, P. Hirschi, M., Ikonen, J., de Jeu, R., Kidd, R., Lahoz, W., Liu, Y.Y., Miralles, D., Mistelbauer, T., Nicolai-Shaw, N., Parinussa, R., Pratola, C., Reimer, C., van der Schalie, R., Seneviratne, S.I., Smolander, T., Lecomte, P. (2017). ESA CCI soil moisture for improved earth system understanding: state-of-the art and future directions. Remote Sensing of Environment, 203, 185-215, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2017.07.001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.07.001 Press: ESA, ADNKRONOS, CNR
Loew, A., Bell, W., Brocca, L., Bulgin, C., Burdanowitz, J., Calbet, X., Donner, R., Ghent, D., Gruber, A., Kaminski, T., Kinzel, J., Klepp, C., Lambert, J.C., Schaepman-Strub, G., Schröder, M., Verhoelst, T. (2017). Validation practices for satellite based earth observation data across communities. Review of Geophysics., 55(3), 779-817, doi: 10.1002/2017RG000562. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2017RG000562 Press: AGU EOS
Massari, C., Crow, W., Brocca, L. (2017). An assessment of the accuracy of global rainfall estimates without ground-based observations. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 21, 4347-4361, doi:10.5194/hess-21-4347-2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-4347-2017
Massari, C., Su, C.-H., Brocca, L., Sang, Y.F., Ciabatta, L., Ryu, D., Wagner, W. (2017). Near real time de-noising of satellite-based soil moisture retrievals: An intercomparison among three different techniques. Remote Sensing of Environment, 198, 17-29, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2017.05.037. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.05.037
Masseroni, D., Cislaghi, A., Camici, S., Massari, C., Brocca, L. (2017). A reliable rainfall-runoff model for flood forecasting: review and application to a semiurbanized watershed at high flood risk in Italy. Hydrology Research, 48(3), 726-740, doi:10.2166/nh.2016.037. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/nh.2016.037
Martinez, G., Brocca, L., Gerke, H.H., Pachepsky, Y.A. (2017). Soil variability and biogeochemical fluxes: towards a better understanding of soil processes at the land surface. Vadose Zone Journal, 16(10), 4 pp, doi:10.2136/vzj2017.07.0145. http://dx.doi.org/10.2136/vzj2017.07.0145
Román-Cascón, C., Pellarin, T., Gibon, F., Brocca, L., Cosme, E., Crow, W., Fernández, D., Kerr, Y., Massari, C. (2017). Correcting satellite-based precipitation products through SMOS soil moisture data assimilation in two land-surface models of different complexity: API and SURFEX. Remote Sensing of Environment, 200, 295-310, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2017.08.022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.08.022
Tarpanelli, A., Amarnath, G., Brocca, L., Massari, C., Moramarco, T. (2017). Discharge estimation and forecasting by MODIS and altimetry data in Niger-Benue River. Remote Sensing of Environment, 195, 96-106, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2017.04.015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.04.015
Tarpanelli, A., Massari, C., Ciabatta, L., Filippucci, P., Amarnath, G., Brocca, L. (2017). Exploiting a constellation of satellite soil moisture sensors for accurate rainfall estimation. Advances in Water Resources, 108, 249-255, doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.08.010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.08.010. Press: SCIENCE TRENDS

2016

Brocca, L., Pellarin, T., Crow, W.T., Ciabatta, L., Massari, C., Ryu, D., Su, C.-H., Rudiger, C., Kerr, Y. (2016). Rainfall estimation by inverting SMOS soil moisture estimates: a comparison of different methods over Australia. Journal of Geophysical Research, 121(20), 12062-12079, doi:10.1002/2016JD025382. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016JD025382
Brocca, L., Massari, C., Ciabatta, L., Wagner, W., Stoffelen, A. (2016). Remote sensing of terrestrial rainfall from Ku-band scatterometers. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 9(1), 533-539, doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2508065. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2508065
Abera, W., Brocca, L., Rigon, R. (2016). Comparative evaluation of different satellite rainfall estimation products and bias correction in the Upper Blue Nile (UBN) basin. Atmospheric Research, 178-179, 471-483, doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2016.04.017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2016.04.017
Ciabatta, L., Brocca, L., Massari, C., Moramarco, T., Gabellani, S., Puca, S., Wagner, W. (2016). Rainfall-runoff modelling by using SM2RAIN-derived and state-of-the-art satellite rainfall products over Italy. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 48, 163-173, doi:10.1016/j.jag.2015.10.004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2015.10.004
Ciabatta, L., Camici, S., Brocca, L., Ponziani, F., Stelluti, M., Berni, N., Moramarco, T. (2016). Assessing the impact of climate-change scenarios on landslide occurrence in Umbria region, Italy. Journal of Hydrology, 541, 285-295, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.02.007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.02.007
Espejo-Pérez, A.J., Brocca, L., Moramarco, T., Giráldez, J.V., Triantafilis, J., Vanderlinden, K. (2016). Analysis of soil moisture dynamics beneath olive trees. Hydrological Processes, 30(23), 4339-4352, doi:10.1002/hyp.10907. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.10907
Gao, X., Zhao, X., Wu, P., Brocca, L., Zhang, B. (2016). Effects of large gullies on catchment-scale soil moisture spatial behaviors: a case study on the Loess Plateau of China. Geoderma, 261, 1-10, doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2015.07.001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2015.07.001
Gumuzzio, Á., Brocca, L., Sanchez, N., González-Zamora, Á., Martínez-Fernández, J. (2016). Comparison of SMOS, modelled and in situ long-term soil moisture series in the NW of Spain. Hydrological Science Journal, 61(14), 2610-2625, doi:10.1080/02626667.2016.1151981. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2016.1151981
Koster, R.D., Brocca, L., Crow, W.T., Burgin, M.S., De Lannoy, G.J.M. (2016). Precipitation Estimation Using L-Band and C-Band Soil Moisture Retrievals. Water Resources Research, 52(9), 7213-7225, doi:10.1002/2016WR019024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016WR019024
Morbidelli, R., Corradini, C., Saltalippi, C., Flammini, A., Brocca, L., Govindaraju, R.S. (2016). An investigation of the effects of spatial heterogeneity of initial soil moisture content on surface runoff simulation at a small watershed scale. Journal of Hydrology, 539, 589-598, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.05.067. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.05.067
Rahmani, A., Golian, S., Brocca, L. (2016). Multiyear monitoring of soil moisture over Iran through satellite and reanalysis soil moisture products. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 48, 85-95, doi:10.1016/j.jag.2015.06.009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2015.06.009
Santi, E., Paloscia, S., Pettinato, S., Brocca, L., Ciabatta, L. (2016). Robust assessment of an operational algorithm for the retrieval of soil moisture from AMSR-E data in central Italy. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 9(6), 2478-2492, doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2575361. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2575361
Tourian, M.J., Tarpanelli, A., Elmi, E., Qin, T., Brocca, L., Moramarco, T., Sneeuw, N. (2016). Spatio-temporal densification of altimetric water level time series over Po river (Italy) obtained by multi-mission satellite altimetry. Water Resources Research, 52(2), 1140-1159, doi:10.1002/2015WR017654. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015WR017654

2015

Brocca, L., Massari, C., Ciabatta, L., Moramarco, T., Penna, D., Zuecco, G., Pianezzola, L., Borga, M., Matgen, P., Martínez-Fernández, J. (2015). Rainfall estimation from in situ soil moisture observations at several sites in Europe: an evaluation of SM2RAIN algorithm. Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics, 63(3), 201-209, doi:10.1515/johh-2015-0016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/johh-2015-0016
Calamita, G., Perrone, A., Brocca, L., Onorati, B., Manfreda, S. (2015). Field test of a multi-frequency electromagnetic induction sensor for soil moisture monitoring in southern Italy test sites. Journal of Hydrology, 529(1), 316-329, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.07.023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.07.023
Ciabatta, L., Brocca, L., Massari, C., Moramarco, T., Puca, S., Rinollo, A., Gabellani, S., Wagner, W. (2015). Integration of satellite soil moisture and rainfall observations over the Italian territory. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 16(3), 1341-1355, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-14-0108.1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-14-0108.1
Dorigo, W.A., Gruber, A., De Jeu, R.A.M., Wagner, W., Stacke, T., Loew, A., Albergel, C., Brocca, L., Chung, D., Parinussa, R.M., Kidd, R. (2015). Evaluation of the ESA CCI soil moisture product using ground-based observations. Remote Sensing of Environment, 162, 380-395, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2014.07.023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2014.07.023
Franz, T.E., Wang, T., Avery, W., Finkenbiner, C., Brocca, L. (2015). Combined analysis of soil moisture measurements from roving and fixed cosmic-ray neutron probes for multi-scale real-time monitoring. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(9), 3389-3396, doi:10.1002/2015GL063963. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015GL063963
Gao, X., Zhao, X., Si, B.C., Brocca, L., Hu, W., Wu, P. (2015). Catchment-scale variability of absolute versus temporal anomaly soil moisture: time-invariant part not always plays the leading role. Journal of Hydrology, 529(3), 1669-1678, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.08.020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.08.020
Maccioni, P., Kossida, M., Brocca, L., Moramarco, T. (2015). Assessment of the drought hazard in the Tiber River Basin in Central Italy and a comparison of new and commonly used meteorological indicators. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 20(8), 05014029, doi:10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0001094. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0001094
Massari, C., Brocca, L., Ciabatta, L., Moramarco, T., Gabellani, S., Albergel, C., de Rosnay, P., Puca, S., Wagner, W. (2015). The use of H-SAF soil moisture products for operational hydrology: flood modelling over Italy. Hydrology, 2(1), 2-22, doi:10.3390/hydrology2010002. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/hydrology2010002
Massari, C., Brocca, L., Tarpanelli, A., Moramarco, T. (2015). Data assimilation of satellite soil moisture into rainfall-runoff modelling: a complex recipe? Remote Sensing, 7(9), 11403-11433, doi:10.3390/rs70911403. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs70911403
Tarpanelli, A., Brocca, L., Barbetta, M., Faruolo, M., Lacava, T., Moramarco, T. (2015). Coupling MODIS and radar altimetry data for discharge estimation in poorly gauged river basin. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 8(1), 141-148, doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2320582. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2320582
Tayfur, G., Brocca, L. (2015). Fuzzy logic for rainfall-runoff modelling considering soil moisture. Water Resources Management, 29(10), 3519-3533, doi:10.1007/s11269-015-1012-0. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11269-015-1012-0
Todisco, F., Brocca, L., Termite, L., Wagner, W. (2015). Use of satellite and modelled soil moisture data for predicting event soil loss at plot scale. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 19, 3845-3856, doi:10.5194/hess-19-3845-2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-3845-2015

2014

Brocca, L., Ciabatta, L., Massari, C., Moramarco, T., Hahn, S., Hasenauer, S., Kidd, R., Dorigo, W., Wagner, W., Levizzani, V. (2014). Soil as a natural rain gauge: estimating global rainfall from satellite soil moisture data. Journal of Geophysical Research, 119(9), 5128-5141, doi:10.1002/2014JD021489. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2014JD021489 Nature Research Highlights: Detecting rainfall from the bottom up. Nature, 509, 262–263, doi:10.1038/509262e. http://doi.org/10.1038/509262e Press: Corriere.it, Repubblica.it, ilsussidiario.net, CNR
Brocca, L., Camici, S., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Martinez-Fernandez, J., Didon-Lescot, J.-F., Morbidelli, R. (2014). Improving the representation of soil moisture by using a semi-analytical infiltration model. Hydrological Processes, 28(4), 2103-2115, doi:10.1002/hyp.9766. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.9766
Brocca, L., Zucco, G., Mittelbach, H., Moramarco, T., Seneviratne, S.I. (2014). Absolute versus temporal anomaly and percent of saturation soil moisture spatial variability for six networks worldwide. Water Resources Research, 50(7), 5560-5576, doi:10.1002/2014WR015684. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2014WR015684
Barbetta, S., Moramarco, T., Brocca, L., Franchini, M., Melone, F. (2014). Confidence interval of real-time forecast stages provided by the STAFOM-RCM model: the case study of the Tiber River (Italy). Hydrological Processes, 28(3), 729-743, doi:10.1002/hyp.9613. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.9613
Camici, S., Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2014). Impact of climate change on flood frequency using different climate models and downscaling approaches. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 19(8), 04014002, doi:10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000959. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000959
Capecchi, V., Brocca, L. (2014). A simple assimilation method to ingest satellite soil moisture into a limited-area NWP model. Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 23(2), 105-121, doi:10.1127/0941-2948/2014/0585. http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/0941-2948/2014/0585
Diodato, N., Brocca, L., Bellocchi, G., Fiorillo, F., Guadagno, F.M. (2014). Complexity-reduction modelling for assessing the macroscale patterns of historical soil moisture in the Euro-Mediterranean region. Hydrological Processes, 28(11), 3752-3760. doi:10.1002/hyp.9925. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.9925
Domeneghetti, A., Tarpanelli, A., Brocca, L., Barbetta, S., Moramarco, T., Castellarin, A., Brath, A. (2014). The use of remote sensing-derived water surface data for hydraulic model calibration. Remote Sensing of Environment, 149, 130-141, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2014.04.007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2014.04.007
Manfreda, S., Brocca, L., Moramarco, T., Melone, F., Sheffield, J. (2014). A physically based approach for the estimation of root-zone soil moisture from surface measurements. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 18, 1199-1212, doi:10.5194/hess-18-1199-2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-1199-2014
Massari, C., Brocca, L., Barbetta, S., Papathanasiou, C., Mimikou, M., Moramarco, T. (2014). Using globally available soil moisture indicators for flood modelling in Mediterranean catchments. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 18, 839-853, doi:10.5194/hess-18-839-2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-839-2014
Massari, C., Brocca, L., Moramarco, T., Tramblay, Y., Didon Lescot, J.-F. (2014). Potential of soil moisture observations in flood modelling: estimating initial conditions and correcting rainfall. Advances in Water Resources, 74, 44-53, doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2014.08.004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2014.08.004
Tayfur, G., Zucco, G., Brocca, L., Moramarco, T. (2014). Coupling soil moisture and precipitation observations for predicting hourly runoff at small catchment scale. Journal of Hydrology, 510, 363-371, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.12.045. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.12.045
Wagner, W., Brocca, L., Naeimi, V., Reichle, R., Draper, C., de Jeu, R., Ryu, D., Su, C.-H., Western, A., Calvet, J.-C., Kerr, Y., Leroux, D., Drusch, M., Jackson, T., Hahn, S., Dorigo, W., Paulik, C. (2014). Clarifications on the "Comparison between SMOS, VUA, ASCAT, and ECMWF soil moisture products over four watersheds in U.S." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 52(3), 1901-1906, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2013.2282172. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2013.2282172
Zucco, G., Brocca, L., Moramarco, T., Morbidelli, R. (2014). Influence of land use on soil moisture spatial-temporal variability and monitoring. Journal of Hydrology, 516, 193-199, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.01.043. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.01.043

2013

Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Wagner, W. (2013). A new method for rainfall estimation through soil moisture observations. Geophysical Research Letters, 40(5), 853-858, doi:10.1002/grl.50173. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/grl.50173
Brocca, L., Zucco, G., Moramarco, T., Morbidelli, R. (2013). Developing and testing a long-term soil moisture dataset at the catchment scale. Journal of Hydrology, 490, 144-151, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.03.029. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.03.029
Brocca, L., Liersch, S., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Volk, M. (2013). Application of a model-based rainfall-runoff database as efficient tool for flood risk management. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 17, 3159-3169, doi:10.5194/hess-17-3159-2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-17-3159-2013
Brocca, L., Tarpanelli, A., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Caudaro, M., Ratto, S., Ferraris, S., Berni, N., Ponziani, F., Wagner, W., Melzer, T. (2013). Soil moisture estimation in alpine catchments through modelling and satellite observations. Vadose Zone Journal, 12(3), 10 pp, doi:10.2136/vzj2012.0102. http://dx.doi.org/10.2136/vzj2012.0102
Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Penna, D., Borga, M., Matgen, P., Gumuzzio, A., Martinez-Fernández, J., Wagner, W. (2013). Detecting threshold hydrological response through satellite soil moisture data. Die Bodenkultur, 64(3-4), 7-12. http://www.boku.ac.at/diebodenkultur/volltexte/sondernummern/band-64/heft-3-4/brocca.pdf
Albergel, C., Dorigo, W., Balsamo, G., Muñoz-Sabater, J., de Rosnay, P., Isaksen, L., Brocca, L., de Jeu, R., Wagner, W. (2013). Monitoring multi-decadal satellite earth observation of soil moisture products through land surface reanalyses. Remote Sensing of Environment, 138, 77-89, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2013.07.009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2013.07.009
Penna, D., Brocca, L., Borga, M., Dalla Fontana, G. (2013). Soil moisture temporal stability at different depths on two alpine hillslopes during wet and dry periods. Journal of Hydrology, 477, 55-71, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.10.052. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.10.052
Tarpanelli, A., Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2013). Hydraulic modelling calibration in small rivers by using coarse resolution synthetic aperture radar imagery. Hydrological Processes, 27(9), 1321-1330, doi:10.1002/hyp.9550. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.9550
Tarpanelli, A., Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Lacava, T., Faruolo, M., Pergola, N., Tramutoli, V. (2013). Toward the estimation of river discharge variations using MODIS data in ungauged basins. Remote Sensing of Environment, 136, 47-55, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2013.04.010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2013.04.010
Tarpanelli, A., Barbetta, S., Brocca, L., Moramarco, T. (2013). River discharge estimation by using altimetry data and simplified flood routing modelling. Remote Sensing, 5(9), 4145-4162, doi:10.3390/rs5094145. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs5094145
Wagner, W., Hahn, S., Kidd, R., Melzer, T., Bartalis, Z., Hasenauer, S., Figa, J., de Rosnay, P., Jann, A., Schneider, S., Komma, J., Kubu, G., Brugger, K., Aubrecht, C., Zuger, J., Gangkofner, U., Kienberger, S., Brocca, L., Wang, Y., Bloeschl, G., Eitzinger, J., Steinnocher, K., Zeil, P., Rubel, F. (2013). The ASCAT Soil Moisture Product: A Review of its Specifications, Validation Results, and Emerging Applications. Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 22(1), 5-33, doi:10.1127/0941-2948/2013/0399. http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/0941-2948/2013/0399

2012

Brocca, L., Ponziani, F., Moramarco, T., Melone, F., Berni, N., Wagner, W. (2012). Improving landslide forecasting using ASCAT-derived soil moisture data: A case study of the Torgiovannetto landslide in central Italy. Remote Sensing, 4(5), 1232-1244, doi:10.3390/rs4051232. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs4051232
Brocca, L., Tullo, T., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Morbidelli, R. (2012). Catchment scale soil moisture spatial-temporal variability. Journal of Hydrology, 422-423, 63-75, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.12.039. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.12.039
Brocca, L., Moramarco, T., Melone, F., Wagner, W., Hasenauer, S., Hahn, S. (2012). Assimilation of surface and root-zone ASCAT soil moisture products into rainfall-runoff modelling. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 50(7), 2542-2555, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2011.2177468. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2011.2177468
Calamita, G., Brocca, L., Perrone, A., Piscitelli, S., Lapenna, V., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2012). Electrical resistivity and TDR methods for soil moisture estimation in Central Italy test-sites. Journal of Hydrology, 454-455, 101-112, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.06.001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.06.001
Lacava, T., Matgen, P., Brocca, L., Bittelli, M., Moramarco, T. (2012). A first assessment of the SMOS soil moisture product with in-situ and modelled data in Italy and Luxembourg. IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 50(5), 1612-1622, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2012.2186819. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2012.2186819
Lacava, T., Brocca, L., Coviello, I., Faruolo, M., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Pergola, N., Tramutoli, V. (2012). Soil moisture variability estimation through AMSU radiometer. European Journal of Remote Sensing, 45, 89-97, doi:10.5721/EuJRS20124509. http://dx.doi.org/10.5721/EuJRS20124509
Matgen, P., Heitz, S., Hasenauer, S., Hissler, C., Brocca, L., Hoffmann, L., Wagner, W., Savenije, H.H.G. (2012). On the potential of METOP ASCAT-derived soil wetness indices as a new aperture for hydrological monitoring and prediction: a field evaluation over Luxembourg. Hydrological Processes, 26, 2346–2359, doi:10.1002/hyp.8316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.8316
Morbidelli, R., Corradini, C., Saltalippi, C., Brocca, L. (2012). Initial soil water content as input to field-scale infiltration and surface runoff models. Water Resources Management, 26(7), 1793-1807, doi: 10.1007/s11269-012-9986-3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11269-012-9986-3
Ponziani, F., Pandolfo, C., Stelluti, M., Berni, N., Brocca, L., Moramarco, T. (2012). Assessment of rainfall thresholds and soil moisture modeling for operational hydrogeological risk prevention in the Umbria region (central Italy). Landslides, 9(2), 229-237, doi:10.1007/s10346-011-0287-3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10346-011-0287-3
Tarpanelli, A., Franchini, M., Camici, S., Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2012). A simple approach for stochastic generation of spatial rainfall patterns. Journal of Hydrology, 472-473, 63-76, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.09.010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.09.010
Tramblay, Y., Bouaicha, R., Brocca, L., Dorigo, W., Bouvier, C., Camici, S., Servat, E. (2012). Estimation of antecedent wetness conditions for flood modelling in Northern Morocco. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 16, 4375-4386, doi:10.5194/hess-16-4375-2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-16-4375-2012

2011

Brocca, L., Hasenauer, S., Lacava, T., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Wagner, W., Dorigo, W., Matgen, P., Martínez-Fernández, J., Llorens, P., Latron, J., Martin, C., Bittelli, M. (2011). Soil moisture estimation through ASCAT and AMSR-E sensors: an intercomparison and validation study across Europe. Remote Sensing of Environment, 115, 3390-3408, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2011.08.003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2011.08.003
Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2011). Distributed rainfall-runoff modelling for flood frequency estimation and flood forecasting. Hydrological Processes, 25 (18), 2801-2813, doi:10.1002/hyp.8042. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.8042
Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Penna, D., Borga, M., Matgen, P., Heitz, S. (2011). Investigation of the hydrologic response of three experimental basins across Europe. Die Bodenkultur, 62(1-4), 31-37. http://www.boku.ac.at/diebodenkultur/volltexte/band-62/heft-1-4/brocca.pdf
Barbetta, S., Moramarco, T., Franchini, M., Melone, F., Brocca, L., Singh, V.P. (2011). Case Study: Improving real-time stage forecasting Muskingum model by incorporating the Rating Curve Model. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 16 (6), 540-557 doi:10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000345. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.000034
Camici, S., Tarpanelli, A., Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2011). “Design soil moisture” estimation by comparing continuous and storm-based rainfall-runoff modelling. Water Resources Research, 47, W05527, doi:10.1029/2010WR009298. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010WR009298

2010

Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Wagner, W., Naeimi, V., Bartalis, Z., Hasenauer, S. (2010). Improving runoff prediction through the assimilation of the ASCAT soil moisture product. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 14, 1881-1893, doi:10.5194/hess-14-1881-2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-14-1881-2010
Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Wagner, W., Hasenauer, S. (2010). ASCAT Soil Wetness Index validation through in-situ and modeled soil moisture data in central Italy. Remote Sensing of Environment, 114 (11), 2745-2755, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2010.06.009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2010.06.009
Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Morbidelli, R. (2010). Spatial-temporal variability of soil moisture and its estimation across scales. Water Resources Research, 46, W02516, doi:10.1029/2009WR008016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009WR008016
Brocca, L., Barbetta, S., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2010). A continuous rainfall-runoff model derived from investigations on a small experimental basin. IAHS Publ. 336, 179-185, ISBN: 978-1-907161-08-7, 316. http://iahs.info/redbooks/a336/abs_336_0179.pdf
Lacava, T., Brocca, L., Calice, G., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Pergola, N., Tramutoli V. (2010). Soil moisture variations monitoring by AMSU-based soil wetness indices: a long-term inter-comparison with ground measurements. Remote Sensing of Environment, 114 (10), 2317-2325, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2010.05.008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2010.05.008

2009

Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Morbidelli, R. (2009). Antecedent wetness conditions based on ERS scatterometer data. Journal of Hydrology, 364 (1-2), 73-87, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.10.007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.10.007
Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Morbidelli, R. (2009). Soil moisture temporal stability over experimental areas of central Italy. Geoderma, 148 (3-4), 364-374, doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2008.11.004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2008.11.004
Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Singh, V.P. (2009). Assimilation of observed soil moisture data in storm rainfall-runoff modelling. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 14 (2), 153-165, doi:10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2009)14:2(153). http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2009)14:2(153)

2008

Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2008). On the estimation of antecedent wetness conditions in rainfall-runoff modelling. Hydrological Processes, 22 (5), 629-642, doi:10.1002/hyp.6629. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.6629

2007

Brocca, L., Morbidelli, R., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2007). Soil moisture spatial variability in experimental areas of central Italy. Journal of Hydrology, 333 (2-4), 356-373, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.09.004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.09.004
Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2007). Storm runoff estimation based on the soil conservation service – curve number method with soil moisture data assimilation. In: L. Pfister, L. Hoffmann (Eds), Uncertainties in the ‘monitoring-conceptualisation-modelling’ sequence of catchment research, IHP-VI, Technical Documents in Hydrology, UNESCO, Paris, 81, 141-148, Working Series SC-2007/WS/54. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001562/156273E.pdf

2005

Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2005). Empirical and conceptual approaches for soil moisture estimation in view of event-based rainfall-runoff modeling. In: F. Maraga, M. Arattano (Eds), Progress in Surface and Subsurface Water Studies at the plot and Small Basin Scale, IHP-VI, Technical Documents in Hydrology, UNESCO, Paris, 77, 1-8, Working Series SC-2005/WS/56. http://147.213.145.2/svh/erb-proceedings/142088e_Torino.pdf
Brocca, L., Galli, M., Stelluti, M. (2005). Preliminary analysis of distributed in situ soil moisture measurements. Advances in Geosciences, 2, 81-86, doi:10.5194/adgeo-2-81-2005. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.5194/adgeo-2-81-2005

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers and Book Chapters

2023

Vergni, L., Dari, J., Todisco, F., Vizzari, M., Saltalippi, C., Venturi, S., Casadei, S., Brocca, L. (2023). Quantifying Irrigation Volumes Using Sentinel-1 Soil Moisture Data in Central Italy. In: Ferro, V., Giordano, G., Orlando, S., Vallone, M., Cascone, G., Porto, S.M.C. (eds) AIIA 2022: Biosystems Engineering Towards the Green Deal. AIIA 2022. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 337. Springer, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-30329-6_23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30329-6_23

2022

Brogi, C., Vereecken, H., Bogena, H., Brocca, L. (2022). Soil processes in the hydrologic cycle. Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment, Second Edition. 5, 469-481, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-822974-3.00079-3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822974-3.00079-3
Pfeil, I., Vreugdenhil, M., Preimesberger, W., Brocca, L., Camici, S., Enenkel, M., Bavandi, A., Wagner, W. (2022). Tracking Rainfall Deficits Through the Water Cycle Using Earth Observation Datasets: A Case Study in Senegal. Proceedings 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 17-22 July 2022, doi:10.1109/IGARSS46834.2022.9884645. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS46834.2022.9884645

2021

Brunetti, M.T., Melillo, M., Gariano, S.L., Ciabatta, L., Brocca, L., Peruccacci, S. (2021). Regional Approaches in Forecasting Rainfall-Induced Landslides. In: N. Casagli et al. (eds.) Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk, ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction. vol 29. Springer Nature Switzerland, ISBN: 978-3-030-60310-6, doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-60311-3_29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60311-3_29
Modanesi, S., Dari, J., Massari, C., Tarpanelli, A., Barbetta, S., De Lannoy, G.J.M., Gruber, A., Lievens, H., Bechtold, M., Quast, R., Vreugdenhil, M., Zribi, M., Le Page, M., Brocca, L. (2021). A comparison between satellite- and model-based approaches developed in the ESA Irrigation+ project framework to estimate irrigation quantities. IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Agriculture and Forestry (MetroAgriFor), 268-272, doi:10.1109/MetroAgriFor52389.2021.9628453. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MetroAgriFor52389.2021.9628453.
Sharifi, E., Brocca, L. (2021). Monitoring precipitation from space: progress, challenges, and opportunities. In: Michaelides, S. (ed.), Precipitation Science, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Chapter 8, 239-255, ISBN: 978-0-12-822973-6, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-822973-6.00021-4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822973-6.00021-4

2020

Beck, H., Vergopolan, N., Pan, M., Levizzani, V., van Dijk, A.J.J.M., Weedon, G.P., Brocca, L., Pappenberger, F., Huffman, G.J., Wood, E.F. (2020). Global-Scale Evaluation of 22 Precipitation Datasets Using Gauge Observations and Hydrological Modeling. In: Levizzani V., Kidd C., Kirschbaum D., Kummerow C., Nakamura K., Turk F. (eds.) Satellite Precipitation Measurement. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 69. Springer, Cham, 625-653, ISBN: 978-3-030-35798-6 doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-35798-6_9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35798-6_9
Ciabatta, L., Camici, S., Massari, C., Filippucci, P., Hahn, S., Wagner, W., Brocca, L. (2020). Soil moisture and precipitation: the SM2RAIN algorithm for rainfall retrieval from satellite soil moisture. In: Levizzani V., Kidd C., Kirschbaum D., Kummerow C., Nakamura K., Turk F. (eds.) Satellite Precipitation Measurement. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 69. Springer, Cham, 1013-1027, ISBN: 978-3-030-35798-6 doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-35798-6_27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35798-6_27

2019

Camici, S., Crow, W., Brocca, L. (2019). Recent advances in remote sensing of precipitation and soil moisture for riverine flood prediction. In: V. Maggioni, C. Massari, (eds.), Extreme Hydroclimatic Events and Multivariate Hazards in a Changing Environment: A Remote Sensing Approach (1st Edition), Elsevier, Amsterdam, Chapter 10, 247-266, ISBN: 9780128149003, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-814899-0.00010-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-814899-0.00010-9
Nasta, P., Penna, D., Sica, B., Brocca, L., Zuecco, G., Borga, M., Romano, N. (2019). Stima dell'umidità del suolo: dalla scala di campo alla scala puntuale. Quaderni di Idronomia Montana, 36, 85-93, ISBN 978-88-97181-68-2.

2016

Brocca, L., Ciabatta, L., Moramarco, T., Ponziani, F., Berni, N., Wagner, W. (2016). Use of satellite soil moisture products for the operational mitigation of landslides risk in central Italy. In: G.P. Petropoulos, P. Srivastava, Y. Kerr (eds.), Satellite Soil Moisture Retrievals: Techniques & Applications. Elsevier, Amsterdam, Chapter 12, 231-247, ISBN: 978-0-12-803388-3, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-803388-3.00012-7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-803388-3.00012-7
Ciabatta, L., Massari, C., Brocca, L., Reimer, C., Hann, S., Paulik, C., Dorigo, W., Wagner, W. (2016) Using Python® language for the validation of the CCI soil moisture products via SM2RAIN. PeerJ Preprints, 4:e2131v2, doi:10.7287/peerj.preprints.2131v2. https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2131v2
Moramarco, T., Barbetta, S., Brocca, L., Tarpanelli, A. (2016). Which perspective from surface flow velocity measurement for the flood monitoring. Atti del XXV Convegno di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche, 14-16 September 2016, Bologna, Italy.
Muñoz-Sabater, J., Al Bitar, A., Brocca, L. (2016). Soil Moisture Retrievals Based on Active and Passive Microwave Data: State-of-the-Art and Operational Applications. In: G.P. Petropoulos, P. Srivastava, Y. Kerr (eds.), Satellite Soil Moisture Retrievals: Techniques & Applications. Elsevier, Amsterdam, Chapter 18, 351-378, ISBN: 978-0-12-803388-3, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-803388-3.00018-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-803388-3.00018-8
Paloscia, S., Santi, E., Pettinato, S., Brocca, L., Ciabatta, L. (2016). Soil moisture retrieval at regional scale from AMSR2 data (Conference Presentation). Proc. SPIE 10003, SAR Image Analysis, Modeling, and Techniques XVI, 100030G; doi:10.1117/12.2245321. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2245321
Salciarini, D., Volpe, E., Kelley, S.A., Brocca, L., Camici, S., Fanelli, G., Tamagnini, C. (2016). Modeling the effects induced by the expected climatic trends on landslide activity at large scale. Procedia Engineering, 158, 541–545, doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2016.08.486. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2016.08.486
Santi, E., Paloscia, S., Pettinato, S., Brocca, L., Ciabatta, L., Massari, C. (2016). Soil moisture and rainfall retrieval from AMSR2 data in Italy. Proceedings 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). Beijing, China, 10-15 July 2016, doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7729422. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7729422
Tarpanelli, A., Giriraj, A., Brocca, L., Massari, C., Barbetta, S., Moramarco, T. (2016). Potenziale dei dati satellitari per la previsione delle piene nel fiume Benue in Nigeria. Atti del XXV Convegno di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche, 14-16 September 2016, Bologna, Italy.
Todisco, F., Vergni, L., Mannocchi, F., Termite, L., Bagarello, V., Ferro, V., Pampalone, V., Brocca, L., Massari, C. (2016). Uso di dati satellitari e modellati di contenuto d'acqua e deflusso superficiale per stimare la perdita di suolo pacellare a scala di evento. Quaderni di Idronomia Montana, in stampa.

2015

Ciabatta, L., Brocca, L., Moramarco, T., Wagner, W. (2015). Comparison of different satellite rainfall products over the Italian territory. In: Engineering Geology for Society and Territory, 3, 623-626, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-09054-2_124. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09054-2_124
Domeneghetti, A., Tarpanelli, A., Tourian, M.J., Brocca, L., Moramarco, T., Castellarin,A., Sneeuw, N. (2015). Hydraulic model calibration by using satellite altimetry: comparison of different products. Proc. Int. Conf. Sentinel-3 for Science Workshop, Venice (Italy), 02-05 June 2015.
Espejo-Pérez, A.J., Giráldez, J.V., Vanderlinden, K., Brocca, L., Pedrera, A., Martínez, G. (2015). Assessing soil moisture dynamics to characterize hydrological patterns in an olive tree planted catchment. In: Advances in Watershed Hydrology. Ed. Moramarco, T., Barbetta, S., Brocca, L. Water Resources Publications, LLC, Chapter 8, 127-140, ISBN: 978-188720185-8.
Lacava, T., Brocca, L., Coviello, I., Faruolo, M., Pergola, N., Tramutoli, V. (2015). Integration of Optical and Passive Microwave Satellite Data for Flooded Area Detection and Monitoring. In: Engineering Geology for Society and Territory, 3, 631-635, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-09054-2_126. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09054-2_126
Loizu, J., Brocca, L., Álvarez-Mozos, J., Casalí, J., Chaor, Y. (2015). Catorce años de simulación en continuo de caudales horarios en las cuencas navarras de los ríos Cidacos y Arga. Estudio comparativo de dos modelos hidrológicos. Proceedings of Water Engineering Congress, Cordoba, Spain, 21-22 October 2015.
Rahmani, A., Golian, S., Brocca, L. (2015). Comparison of satellite-based soil moisture algorithms output in different regions of Iran. Proceedings of 10th International Congress on Civil Engineering, University of Tabriz, Iran, 5-7 May 2015.
Romano, E., Camici, S., Brocca, L., Moramarco, T., Pica, F., Preziosi, E. (2015). Assessment of the impact of climate change to alluvial aquifer: an uncertainty analysis. In: Advances in Watershed Hydrology. Ed. Moramarco, T., Barbetta, S., Brocca, L. Water Resources Publications, LLC, Chapter 19, 367-393, ISBN: 978-188720185-8.
Santi, E., Paloscia, S., Pettinato, S., Brocca, L., Ciabatta, L. (2015). Robust assessment of an operational algorithm for the retrieval of soil moisture from AMSR-E data in central Italy. Proceedings 2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 1288-1291, doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2015.7326010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2015.7326010
Tarpanelli, A., Brocca, L., Barbetta, S., Lacava, T., Faruolo, M., Moramarco, T. (2015). Integration of MODIS and Radar Altimetry Data for River Discharge Estimation from Space. In: Engineering Geology for Society and Territory, 3, 607-610, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-09054-2_121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09054-2_121
Tarpanelli, A., Brocca, L., Barbetta, S., Moramarco, T., Santos da Silva, J., Calmant, S. (2015). Radar altimetry for inland water: current and potential applications. Proc. Int. Conf. Sentinel-3 for Science Workshop, Venice (Italy), 02-05 June 2015.
Tarpanelli, A., Brocca, L., Barbetta, S., Moramarco, T. (2015). River discharge assessment at ungauged river sites by using water level time series derived by altimetry products: the case study of the Danube river. Proc. Int. Conf. Third Space for Hydrology Workshop "Surface Water Storage and Runoff: Modeling, In-Situ data and Remote Sensing", Frascati (Italy), 15-17 September 2015

2014

Albergel, C., Dorigo, W., Reichle, R., Balsamo, G., de Rosnay, P., Muñoz-Sabater, J., Isaksen, L., Brocca, L., de Jeu, R., Wagner, W. (2014). Monitoring multi-decadal satellite earth observation of soil moisture using era-land global land water resources dataset. Proceedings 2014 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). Québec City, 13-18 July 2014.
Lacava, T., Balint, G., Brocca, L., Coviello, I., Di Polito, C., Faruolo, M., Pergola, N., Tarpanelli, A., Tramutoli, V. (2014). Combining satellite data with in-situ measurements for assessing an experimental flood monitoring system. Proceeding of 2014 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference, Ginevra, 22-26 Septemeber 2014, 7pp.
Pierdicca, N., Pulvirenti, L., Brocca, L., Fascetti, F. (2014). Multitemporal Soil Moisture Retrieval from Three-Day Repeat ERS/SAR Data. Proceedings EUSAR 2014 International Conference, Berlin, 3-5 June 2014.
Pierleoni, E., Camici, S., Brocca, L., Moramarco, T., Casadei, S. (2014). Climate change and decision support systems for water resource management. Procedia Engineering, 70, 1324-1333, doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2014.02.146. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2014.02.146
Romano, E., Camici, S., Brocca, L., Moramarco, T., Pica, F., Preziosi, E. (2014). On the variables to be considered in assessing the impact of climate change to alluvial aquifers: a case study in central Italy. Procedia Engineering, 70, 1430-1440, doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2014.02.158. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2014.02.158

2013

Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Wagner, W., Albergel, C. (2013). Scaling and filtering approaches for the use of satellite soil moisture observations. In: George P. Petropoulos (ed.), Remote Sensing of Energy Fluxes and Soil Moisture Content, CRC Press 2013, Chapter 17, 411-426, ISBN: 978-1-4665-0578-0, doi:10.1201/b15610-21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b15610-21
Brocca, L., Moramarco, T., Dorigo, W., Wagner, W. (2013). Assimilation of satellite soil moisture data into rainfall-runoff modeling for several catchments worldwide. Proceedings 2013 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2281-2284, doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723273. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723273
Albergel, C., Brocca, L., Wagner, W., De Rosnay, P, Calvet, J.-C. (2013). Selection of performance metrics for global soil moisture products: The case for the ASCAT soil moisture product. In: George P. Petropoulos (ed.), Remote Sensing of Energy Fluxes and Soil Moisture Content, CRC Press 2013, Chapter 18, 427-444, ISBN: 978-1-4665-0578-0, doi:10.1201/b15610-22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b15610-22
Barbetta, S., Brocca, L., Tarpanelli, A., Melone, F., Singh, V.P., Moramarco, T. (2013). Discharge assessment in ungauged river sites by using satellite altimetry data: the case study of the Po river (Italy). Proc. Int. Conf. 6th International Perspective on Water Resources & the Environment (IPWE 2013), 7-9 January 2013, Izmir, Turkey.
Gumuzzio, A., Brocca, L., Martínez-Fernández, J., Moramarco, T., Sánchez, N. (2013). Simulación multiescala de la humedad del suelo mediante un modelo de balance de agua en la cuenca del Duero. Proc. Int. Conf. Zona No Saturada, vol. XI. http://www.zonanosaturada.com/zns13/publications_files/5.3.pdf
Gumuzzio, A., Brocca, L., Martinez-Fernandez, J., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2013). Large scala soil moisture modelling in Northwest of Spain. Proc. Int. Conf. 6th International Perspective on Water Resources & the Environment (IPWE 2013), 7-9 January 2013, Izmir, Turkey.
Dorigo, W., Albergel, C., Loew, A., Stacke, T., Gruber, A., Wagner, W., Parinussa, R., de Jeu, R., Brocca, L., Bauer-Marschallinger, B., Chung, D., Paulik, C. (2013). 34 years of remotely sensed soil moisture: what climate signals do we (not) see? Proceedings 2013 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 1809-1812, doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723151. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723151
Manfreda, S., Samela, C., Fiorentino, M., Brocca, L., Moramarco, T. (2013). A physically based approach for the estimation of root-zone soil moisture from surface measurements: application on the AMMA database. Proceedings 33rd Annual American Geophysical Union Hydrology Days, 25-27 March 2013, Fort Collins, CO, 10 pp.
Pampalone, V., Brocca, L., Bagarello, V., Ferro, V., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Zucco, G. (2013). Simulazione dei deflussi per il bacino sperimentale SPA1 di Sparacia. Quaderni di Idronomia Montana, 30, 363-372, ISBN:978-88-97181-19-4.
Ponziani F., Berni N., Stelluti M., Zauri R., Brocca L., Moramarco T., Salciarini D. and Tamagnini C. (2013) Landwarn: an operative early warning system for landslides forecasting based on rainfall thresholds and soil moisture. In: C. Margottini et al. (eds.), Landslide Science and Practice, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2, 627-634, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31445-2_82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31445-2_82
Tarpanelli, A., Barbetta, S., Brocca, L., Lacava, T., Faruolo, M., Balint, G., Di Baldassarre, G., Moramarco, T. (2013). River discharge estimation by using remote sensing data: the case study of the Danube river. Proceedings of HYDRO 2013 INTERNATIONAL, 4-6 Dec 2013, IIT Madras, INDIA.
Todisco, F., Brocca, L., Mannocchi, F., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2013). Utilizzo di modellistica idrologica in continuo accoppiata ad un modello USLE modificato per la previsione della perdita di suolo parcellare in Umbria. Quaderni di Idronomia Montana, 30, 353-362, ISBN:978-88-97181-19-4.
Wagner, W., Figa, J., Albergel, C., Brocca, L., Hahn, S., Hasenauer, S., Dorigo, W. (2013). Operations, challenges and prospects of satellite-based surface soil moisture monitoring services. In: George P. Petropoulos (ed.), Remote Sensing of Energy Fluxes and Soil Moisture Content, CRC Press 2013, Chapter 20, 463-488, ISBN: 978-1-4665-0578-0, doi:10.1201/b15610-25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b15610-25

2012

Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Penna, D., Borga, M., Matgen, P., Gumuzzio, A., Martinez-Fernández, J., Wagner, W. (2012). Soil moisture monitoring in small experimental basins through remote sensing observations. In: V. Vuglinsky, Z. Kopaliani, S. Zhuravin (Eds), Studies of Hydrological Processes in Research Basins: Current Challenges and Prospects, Roshydromet, St. Petersburg, 89-93.
Barbetta, S., Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2012). Real time flood forecasting by relating local stage and remote discharge. Proc Int. Conf. 5th International Perspective on Water Resources & the Environment (IPWE 2012), 5-7 January 2012, Marrakech, Morocco, 10 pp.
Camici, S., Tarpanelli, A., Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2012). Impact of climate change on discharge of catchments in central Italy under different climate scenarios. Proc Int. Conf. 5th International Perspective on Water Resources & the Environment (IPWE 2012), 5-7 January 2012, Marrakech, Morocco, 10 pp.
Lacava, T., Brocca, L., Faruolo, M., Matgen, P., Moramarco, T., Pergola, N., Tramutoli, V. (2012). A multi-sensor (SMOS, AMSR-E and ASCAT) satellite-based soil moisture products inter-comparison. Proceedings 2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 1135-1138, doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351348. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351348
Penna, D., van Meerveld, H.J., Brocca, L., Mantese, N., Borga, M., Dalla Fontana, G. (2012). Topographic controls on water table and soil moisture dynamics in a small alpine catchment. In: V. Vuglinsky, Z. Kopaliani, S. Zhuravin (Eds), Studies of Hydrological Processes in Research Basins: Current Challenges and Prospects, Roshydromet, St. Petersburg, 85-88.
Tarpanelli, A., Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Lacava, T., Wagner, W. (2012). Utilizzo di dati satellitari per applicazioni idrologiche nel bacino dell'Alto-Medio Tevere. Atti del XXIII Convegno di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche, 10-15 September 2012, Brescia, Italy, 10 pp.

2011

Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Wagner, W. (2011) What perspective in remote sensing of soil moisture for hydrological applications. In: C.M.U. Neale, A. Maltese, K. Richter (Eds), Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XIII, Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 8174, 81740A (12 pp), doi:10.1117/12.898034. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.898034
Brocca, L., Camici, S., Tarpanelli, A., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2011) Analysis of climate change effects on floods frequency through a continuous hydrological modelling. In: A. Baba et al. (eds.), "Climate Change and its Effects on Water Resources NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security", 3, 97-104, doi:10.1007/978-94-007-1143-3_11, ISBN: 978-94-007-1143-3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1143-3_11
Brocca, L., Camici, S., Tarpanelli, A., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2011). Analisi degli effetti dei cambiamenti climatici sulla frequenza delle piene mediante modellistica idrologica in continuo.In: M. Polemio (Ed), Atti delle Giornate di Studio "Impatto delle modificazioni climatiche su rischi e risorse naturali", CNR-IRPI, Bari, 97-101. http://orione.isti.cnr.it/dfdownloadnew.php?ident=/cnr.irpi.conv/2011-B2-007&langver=it&scelta=NewMetadata
Barbetta, S., Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Singh, V.P. (2011). Addressing the uncertainty assessment for real-time stage forecasting. In: R.E. Beighley II and M.W. Killgore (Eds), World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2011 - Bearing knowledge for sustainability, American Society of Civil Engineers, Palm Springs, California, 4791-4800, doi:10.1061/41173(414)497. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/41173(414)497
Camici, S., Tarpanelli, A., Brocca, L., Franchini, M.,Moramarco, T., Melone, F. (2011). Comparison between different approaches for stochastic generation of spatial-temporal rainfall patterns. In: R.E. Beighley II and M.W. Killgore (Eds), World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2011 - Bearing knowledge for sustainability, American Society of Civil Engineers, Palm Springs, California, 4769-4778, doi 10.1061/41173(414)495. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/41173(414)495
Camici, S., Romano, E., Preziosi, E., Tarpanelli, A., Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2011). Analisi di trend e ciclicità di serie storiche pluviometriche per la modellazione stocastica di scenari di precipitazione in condizioni di cambiamenti climatici. Atti delle In: M. Polemio (Ed), Atti delle Giornate di Studio "Impatto delle modificazioni climatiche su rischi e risorse naturali", CNR-IRPI, Bari, 205-209. http://orione.isti.cnr.it/dfdownloadnew.php?ident=/cnr.irpi.conv/2011-B2-012&langver=it&scelta=NewMetadata
Lacava T., Brocca L., Giustarini L., Matgen P., Moramarco T., Pergola N., Tramutoli V. (2011) Assessing multi-sensor (SMOS, AMSR-E and ASCAT) satellite-based soil moisture products with in-situ observations. Proc Int. Conf. SMOS Science Workshop, 27-29 September 2011, Arles, France, 29-32. http://www.congrex.nl/11C18/docs/11C18_SMOS/rs_smos_extended_abstracts_file_final_version.pdf
Tarpanelli, A., Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Lacava, T., Faruolo, M., Pergola, N., Tramutoli, V. (2011) River discharge estimation through MODIS data. In: C.M.U. Neale, A. Maltese, K. Richter (Eds), Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XIII, Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 8174, 817408 (8 pp), doi:10.1117/12.898201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.898201

2010

Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Penna, D., Borga, M., Matgen, P., Heitz, S. (2010). Rainfall-runoff modelling for three experimental basins across Europe. In: H. Holzmann, R. Godina, G. Muller (Eds) Hydrological Responses of Small Basins to a Changing Environment, Austrian Federal Ministry if Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Wien, Austria, 19-22, ISBN: 978-3-900962-90-6. http://erb2010.boku.ac.at/documents/book_of_abstract.pdf
Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Wagner, W., Naeimi, V., Bartalis, Z., Hasenauer, S. (2010). Potential of ASCAT soil moisture product to improve runoff prediction. In: H. Lacoste-Francis (Ed.) Proc. Int. Conf. Earth Observation and Water Cycle Science, ESA-ESRIN, Frascati (Italy), 18-20 November 2009, ESA Special Publication, SP-674, ESA Communication Production Office, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, ISBN: 978-92-9221-238-4.
Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2010). Modellistica afflussi-deflussi di tipo continuo per la previsione delle piene su bacini dell'alto medio Tevere. Atti del XXXII Convegno di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche - IDRA 2010, Palermo, 14-17 Settembre 2010, CD-ROM, pp. 10, ISBN: 978-88-903895-2-8.
Brocca, L., Corato, G, Corradini, C., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2010). Stima della velocità media in canali naturali attraverso il monitoraggio della velocità massima superficiale. Atti del XXXII Convegno di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche - IDRA 2010, Palermo, 14-17 Settembre 2010, CD-ROM, pp. 10, ISBN: 978-88-903895-2-8.
Brocca, L., Hasenauer, S., de Rosnay, P., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Matgen, P., Martínez-Fernández, J., Llorens, P., Latron, J., Martin, C. (2010). Consistent validation of H-SAF soil moisture satellite and model products against ground measurements for selected sites in Europe. Final report for the Associated Scientist Activity in the framework of the Satellite Application Facility on Support to Operational Hydrology and Water Management (H-SAF), 56 pp. http://hsaf.meteoam.it/documents/reference/HSAF_AS_09_03_final_report.pdf
Barbetta, S., Brocca, L.,Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Singh, V.P. (2010). Uncertainty assessment for real-time stage forecasting. In: R.N. Palmer (Ed), World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2010 - Challenges of Change, American Society of Civil Engineers, Providence, Rhode Island, 2313-2323, doi:10.1061/41114(371)239. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/41114(371)239
Barbetta, S., Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2010). On the accuracy of a simple method for relating local stage and remote discharge. The First European Congress of the IAHR, Edinburgh, May 4-6, 2010, 7 pp. http://www.sbe.hw.ac.uk/home/staffprofiles/bdgsa/IAHR_2010_European_Congress/Papers%20by%20session%20final/Applied%20Hydrology/AHd.pdf
Giustarini, L., Camici, S., Tarpanelli, A., Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2010). Dam spillways adequacy evaluation through bivariate flood frequency analysis and hydrological continuous simulation. In: R.N. Palmer (Ed), World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2010 - Challenges of Change, American Society of Civil Engineers, Providence, Rhode Island, 2328-2339, doi:10.1061/41114(371)241. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/41114(371)241
Tarpanelli, A., Camici, S., Brocca, L., Franchini, M., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2010). Un metodo semplice per la generazione di serie sintetiche di pioggia con correlazione spaziale e temporale. Atti del XXXII Convegno di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche - IDRA 2010, Palermo, 14-17 Settembre 2010, CD-ROM, pp. 10, ISBN: 978-88-903895-2-8.

2009
Brocca, L., Calice, G., Lacava, T., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Pergola, N., Tramutoli V. (2009). Soil moisture estimation through the AMSU-based soil wetness variation index (SWVI) for hydrological applications. Proceedings from the 33rd International Symposia on Remote Sensing of Environment, Sustaining the Millennium Development Goals, Volumes I & II. Madison WI (United States of America), Omni-Press, 981-984, ISBN 978-0-932913-13-5.
Brocca, L., Barbetta, S., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2009). Catchment runoff prediction based on outcomes from a small experimental basin. In: A. Herrmann, S. Schumann (Eds), International Workshop on Status and Perspectives of Hydrology in Small Basins, Papierflieger, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, 33-38, ISBN: 978-3-89720-996-1.
Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2009). Antecedent wetness conditions estimation through ERS scatterometer data. In: S.K. Jain, V.P. Singh, V. Kumar, R. Kumar, R.D. Singh, K.d. Sharma (Eds), Water, Environment, Energy and Society, Proc. of WEES-2009, Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi (India), 1998-2006, ISBN: 978-81-8424-402-1.
Barbetta, S., Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2009). Monitoring network optimization for flood forecasting and warning purposes. In: S.K. Jain, V.P. Singh, V. Kumar, R. Kumar, R.D. Singh, K.d. Sharma (Eds), Water, Environment, Energy and Society, Proc. of WEES-2009, Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi (India), 770-779, ISBN: 978-81-8424-400-7.

2008
Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Singh, V.P. (2008). A continuous rainfall-runoff model as tool for the critical hydrological scenario assessment in natural channels. In: M. Taniguchi, W.C. Burnett, Y. Fukushima, M. Haigh, Y. Umezawa (Eds), From headwater to the ocean. Hydrological changes and managements, Taylor & Francis Group, London, 175-179, ISBN: 978-0-415-47279-1.
Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2008). Soil moisture monitoring at different scales for rainfall-runoff modelling. In: M. Sànchez-Marrè, J. Béjar, J. Comas, A.E. Rizzoli, G. Guariso (Eds.), Proceedings of the iEMSs Fourth Biennial Meeting: International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs 2008), International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, Barcelona, Catalonia, 407-414, ISBN: 978-84-7653-074-0. http://www.iemss.org/iemss2008/uploads/Main/S05-01-Brocca_et_al-IEMSS2008.pdf
Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2008). Assimilazione di misure di contenuto d'acqua per la modellistica afflussi-deflussi a scala di evento. Atti del XXXI Convegno di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche - IDRA 2008, Perugia, 9-12 Settembre 2008, CD-ROM, pp. 12, ISBN: 978-88-6074-220-9.
Barbetta, S., Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2008). On the lateral inflow assessment within a real-time stage monitoring addressed to flood forecasting. In: M. Sànchez-Marrè, J. Béjar, J. Comas, A.E. Rizzoli, G. Guariso (Eds.), Proceedings of the iEMSs Fourth Biennial Meeting: International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs 2008), International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, Barcelona, Catalonia, 438-445, ISBN: 978-84-7653-074-0. http://www.iemss.org/iemss2008/uploads/Main/S05-05_Barbetta_et_al-IEMSS2008.pdf
Barbetta, S., Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2008). Sull’accuratezza di un modello di previsione dei livelli idrometrici in tempo reale. Atti del XXXI Convegno di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche - IDRA 2008, Perugia, 9-12 Settembre 2008, CD-ROM, pp. 11, ISBN: 978-88-6074-220-9.
Berni, N., Viterbo, A., Pandolfo, C., Stelluti, M., Barbetta, S., Brocca, L. (2008). Effects of rainfall and soil/land use spatial distribution on hydrological response at different scales. In: M. Sànchez-Marrè, J. Béjar, J. Comas, A.E. Rizzoli, G. Guariso (Eds.), Proceedings of the iEMSs Fourth Biennial Meeting: International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs 2008), International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, Barcelona, Catalonia, 470-477, ISBN: 978-84-7653-074-0. http://www.iemss.org/iemss2008/uploads/Main/S05-09-Berni_et_al-IEMSS2008.pdf
Berni N., Viterbo, A., Pandolfo, C., Stelluti, M., Barbetta, S., Brocca, L. (2008). Effetto della distribuzione spaziale della pioggia e del tipo e uso di suolo sulla risposta idrologica a scale differenti. Atti del XXXI Convegno di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche - IDRA 2008, Perugia, 9-12 Settembre 2008, CD-ROM, pp. 10, ISBN: 978-88-6074-220-9.

2006
Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2006). Antecedent moisture conditions in the SCS-CN method. In: L. Pfister, P. Matgen, R. Van den Bos, L. Hoffman (Eds), Uncertainties in the ‘monitoring-conceptualisation-modelling’ sequence of catchment research, CRP-Gabriel Lippman, Belvaux, 273-278, ISBN10: 2-919900-06-4; ISBN13: 978-2-91990-06-0.
Gabriele, S., Brocca, L., Chiaravallotti, F., Melone, F. (2006). Stima di precipitazioni convettive mediante dati satellitari: evento alluvionale del 15/11/2005 sul bacino del fiume Marta. Atti del XXX Convegno di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche - IDRA 2006, Roma, 10-15 Settembre 2006, CD-ROM, pp. 17, ISBN: 88-87242-81-X; ISBN: 978-88-87242-81-2.

2004

Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T., Stelluti, M. (2004). Soil water content monitoring in an experimental basin in Central Italy. In: D. Tropeano, M. Arattano, F. Maraga, C. Pellissero (Eds), Progress in Surface and Subsurface Water Studies at the plot and Small Basin Scale, IDEANET Press, Turin, 48-51, ISBN: 88-8080-053-1.
Brocca, L., Melone, F., Moramarco, T. (2004). Estimation of soil moisture temporal evolution. In: D. Tropeano, M. Arattano, F. Maraga, C. Pellissero (Eds), Progress in Surface and Subsurface Water Studies at the plot and Small Basin Scale, IDEANET Press, Turin, 18-21, ISBN: 88-8080-053-1.

Director of Research

Via della Madonna Alta, 126 Perugia , Italy - 06128 Email: luca.brocca@irpi.cnr.it Office Phone: +39 0755014418 Mobile Phone: +39 3938801630

Research interest

INNOVATIVE METHODS FOR EXPLOITING SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS IN HYDROLOGICAL APPLICATIONS (soil moisture, rainfall, river discharge --> flood, landslide, drought, water resources management, agriculture, ...)

SM2RAIN: rainfall estimation from soil moisture observations (FREELY AVAILABLE DATASETS, SOFTWARE, REFERENCE PAPER);
How much water is used for irrigation? A new satellite-based approach using satellite soil moisture observations (winning idea of 2018 BayWa challenge at Copernicus Master);
data assimilation of soil moisture observations into rainfall-runoff modelling;
use of satellite and in situ soil moisture observations for floods and landslide prediction, erosion assessment, drought monitoring, numerical weather prediction, and rainfall estimation;
characterization of soil moisture spatial-temporal variability for hydrological monitoring and modelling;
ground validation of remote sensing observations of soil moisture, rainfall and discharge;
development of hydrological and hydraulic modelling, with uncertainty;
flooding risk analysis and flood frequency assessment, under climate change.

To support the research, an experimental activity for the monitoring of hydro-meteorological quantities is carried out.

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Biography

Luca Brocca was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1978. He received the M.Sc. degree in Environmental Engineering and the Ph.D. degree (the Ph.D. thesis, in Italian, can be downloaded here) in Civil Engineering, both with excellence, from the University of Perugia, Italy, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. Since 2003 he received a Scholarship and, successively, a Research Fellowship to carry research at the National Research Council (CNR), Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection (IRPI) of Perugia (Italy). Since (2009) 2019 he is (Researcher) Director of Research at CNR-IRPI. Additional information can be found in the Curriculum Vitae (updated on June 2023).

Awards and Recognitions

2021: "ESA–EGU Earth Observation Excellence Award" given by European Space Agency and European Geosciences Union recognising the IRPI-Hydrology Group for an outstanding contribution to the innovative use of Earth Observation in Hydrology.
2020: "Highly Cited Researchers 2020" given by Web of Science Group, recognising the world's most influential researchers of the past decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science. Of the world’s scientists and social scientists, Clarivate™ Highly Cited Researchers truly are one in 1,000.
2019: "Highly Cited Researchers 2019" given by Web of Science Group, recognising the world's most influential researchers of the past decade.
2019: "Publons Peer Review Awards 2019" given by Publons, as one of the top 1% of peer reviewers in Geosciences and Cross-Field
2019: "Winner (2nd place) of the competition for Director of Research at National Research Council of Italy", August 2019
2019: "Winner (1st place) of the competition for Senior Researcher at National Research Council of Italy", March 2019
2018: "Winner of the Copernicus Masters competition: BayWa Smart Farming Challenge" given by Copernicus Masters
2018: "Publons Peer Review Awards 2018" given by Publons, as one of the top 1% of peer reviewers in Geosciences
2017: "Publons Peer Review Awards 2017" given by Publons, as one of the top 1% of peer reviewers in Environmental Science
2017: “Florisa Melone Award” (Co-I) for the project “Monitoring extreme events (floods & droughts) through discharge time series obtained from satellite altimetry” by Camici Stefania, given by Italian Hydrology Society (IHS)
2017: "Best Case Study Award of the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering" for the paper "Assessment of the Drought Hazard in the Tiber River Basin in Central Italy and a Comparison of New and Commonly Used Meteorological Indicators" by Maccioni, P., Moramarco, T., Kossida, M., Brocca, L.
2016: "The Sentinel of Science Award 2016" given by Publons, 6th place among Earth and Planetary Science
2016: “Best poster award IDRA” for “Potenziale dei dati satellitari per la previsione delle piene nel Fiume Benue in Nigeria“, by Tarpanelli A., Amarnath G., Brocca L., Massari C., Barbetta S. and Moramarco T. in the macro-theme “Monitoring, open-date and free software”
2015: "Outstanding Reviewer for Advances in Water Resources and Remote Sensing of Environment" by ELSEVIER
2014: "EGU Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award" (co-author), for "River discharge estimation by using remote sensing data in absence of bathymetry: the Po River case study" by Tarpanelli, A., Barbetta, S., Brocca, L., Lacava, T., Faruolo, M., Moramarco, T., given by European Geophysical Union (EGU)
2012: "Torricelli Award", one of the 5 best Italian water young scientists, given by the Italian Group of Hydraulics (GII)
2012: "Early Career Research Excellence" award given by the international Environmental Modelling and Software society (iEMSs)
2011: "Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing" for Water Resources Research journal given by American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2010: "Best poster award IDRA" for "Stima della velocità media in canali naturali attraverso il monitoraggio della velocità massima superficiale" by Brocca, L., Corato, G, Corradini, C., Melone, F., Moramarco, T.

Projects

He actively participates, in collaboration with Italian and international institutions, as Principal Investigator (PI) and co-PI to research projects funded by Space Agencies (ESA, EUMETSAT, NASA), and in the frame of Italian and European programs (LIFE+, HORIZON2020). Current International Projects

"SEED-FD", Horizon Europe, 2024-2026 (co-PI).
CCI-AWU, ESA, 2023-2024 (PI).
4DHYDRO, ESA, 2023-2024 (co-PI).
Open-Earth-Monitor Cyberinfrastructure, Horizon Europe, 2022-2026 (co-PI).
"DEMETRAS", ESA, 2023-2024 (participant).
"STREAM-NEXT", ESA, 2023-2025 (participant).
Digital Twin of Alps, ESA, 2022-2024 (participant).
extrAIm, ESA, 2021-2024 (co-PI).
4D MED-Hydrology, ESA, 2021-2024 (participant).
H SAF (Satellite Application Facility on Support to Operational Hydrology and Water Management), EUMETSAT, 2023-2028 (co-PI).

Current National Projects

"NGGM/MAGIC, una svolta nella comprensione della dinamica della Terra", Italian Space Agency (ASI), 2023-2025 (participant).
"Thetys Plus", Regione Lazio, 2023-2024 (Co-PI).
"Flood pRediction In Small ungauged Basins of Italy through Enhanced runoff coefficient assEssment (FRISBEE)", PRIN: PROGETTI DI RICERCA DI RILEVANTE INTERESSE NAZIONALE – Bando 2022, 2023-2025 (participant).
"unveilINg pasT Events foR dROught risk mitiGATION (INTERROGATION)", PRIN: PROGETTI DI RICERCA DI RILEVANTE INTERESSE NAZIONALE – Bando 2022, 2023-2025 (participant).
"Soil moisture monitoring and modelling for geo-hydrological risk", Regione Sardegna, 2021-2024 (Co-PI soil moisture).
"Centre of Competence for the National Department of Civil Protection", 2023-2024 (Co-PI soil moisture).

Recent (selected) Projects

IRRIGATION+, ESA, 2020-2023 (PI).
Digital Twin Earth Hydrology Evolution, ESA, 2022-2023 (PI).
Roadmap for Anthropogenic Water Use CCI, ESA, 2022 (co-PI).
EODC, 2019-2022 (co-PI).
STREAMRIDE, ESA, 2020-2022 (participant).
DTE Hydrology, ESA, 2020-2021 (PI).
DWC-Radar, Austrian FFG, 2019-2021 (co-PI).
SMART-DRI, WORLDBANK, 2020 (co-PI).
HYDRO-CFD, Regione Umbria, 2020-2022 (participant).
OT4CLIMA, MUR, 2018-2022 (participant).
Consultancy for optimising the soil moisture network in Marche Region, Regione Marche, 2020-2022 (participant).
Visiting Scientist H SAF: "Flood Modelling in Africa through H SAF satellite rainfall products", 2020-2021 (participant).
ANDROMEDA, CARIPLO, 2018-2021 (co-PI).
GLOBAL-SM2RAIN, EUMETSAT, 2017-2020 (PI).
SMOS+rainfall 1&2, ESA, 2017-2020 (co-PI SMOS+rainfall 1, participant SMOS+Rainfall 2).
RIDESAT, ESA, 2019-2020 (participant).
STREAM, ESA, 2019-2020 (participant).
SPACE-IRR COPERNICUS ACCELERATOR, 2018-2019 (PI).
WACMOS-MED, ESA, 2017-2019 (co-PI).
WACMOS-Irrigation, ESA, 2017-2018 (PI).
Climate Change Initiative - Soil Moisture, ESA, 2014-2018 (co-PI).
Early Adopter of the SMAP, NASA, 2015-2020 (PI).
FLIRE, LIFE+, 2012-2015 (participant).

Key Publications

He has been author and co-author of 200 (+12 submitted) journal referred papers (18121 citations, H-index=68 with SCHOLAR, 13612 citations, H-index=64 with SCOPUS) and 86 papers in peer-reviewed conference proceedings/book chapters, 20+ regional and global datasets of soil moisture, irrigation and rainfall (e.g., SM2RAIN-ASCAT, GPM+SM2RAIN, SM2RAIN-CCI, SM2RAIN-Climate), and 10+ software for hydrological applications.

Brocca et al. (2024), FSCI, A Digital Twin of the terrestrial water cycle: a glimpse into the future ...
Brocca et al. (2023), XINN, High-resolution observations from space to address new applications in hydrology
McDermid et al. (2023), NREE, Irrigation in the Earth system
Dari et al. (2023), ESSD, Regional data sets of high-resolution ... irrigation ... from space...
Camici et al. (2022), GMD, Synergy between satellite observations of soil moisture and water storage ... global runoff ...
Alfieri et al. (2022), HESS, High resolution satellite products improve hydrological modeling in northern Italy ...
Brunetti et al. (2021), HESS, Satellite rainfall products outperform ground observations for landslide forecasting in India.
Dorigo et al. (2021), BAMS, Closing the water cycle from observations across scales: Where do we stand?
Peng et al. (2021), RSE, A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications...
Brocca et al. (2020), SREP, River flow prediction in data scarce regions: soil moisture integrated satellite rainfall ...
Camici et al. (2020), HESS, Which rainfall metric is more informative about the flood simulation performance? ...
Massari et al. (2020, HESS, A daily/25km short-latency rainfall product for data scarce regions ...
Brocca et al. (2019), ESSD, SM2RAIN-ASCAT (2007-2018): global daily satellite rainfall from ASCAT soil moisture
Tarpanelli et al. (2019), IEEE TGRS, Daily river discharge estimates by merging satellite optical sensors and ...
Brocca et al. (2018), JAG, How much water is used for irrigation? A new approach exploiting ...
Ciabatta et al. (2018), ESSD, SM2RAIN-CCI: a new global long-term rainfall data set derived from ESA CCI soil moisture.
Brocca et al. (2017), WATER, Soil moisture for hydrological applications: open questions and new opportunities
Brocca et al. (2014), JGR, Soil as a natural rain gauge: estimating global rainfall from satellite soil moisture data
Camici et al. (2014), JHE, Impact of climate change on flood frequency using different climate models ...
Brocca et al. (2011), RSE, Soil moisture estimation through ASCAT and AMSR-E sensors: an intercomparison and validation ...
Brocca et al. (2010), HESS, Improving runoff prediction through the assimilation of the ASCAT soil moisture product
Brocca et al. (2010), WRR, Spatial-temporal variability of soil moisture and its estimation across scales

International Activities

He has held 100+ presentations at conference and workshops (40+ as invited speaker), he served as chairman at EGU, ERB and PLINIUS conferences, and he participated to several seminars held by Italian and foreign professors. He serves as frequent reviewer for several (50+) international journals (see PUBLONS for details) and organisations (USDA, EUMETSAT, BELSPO, FWO, Swiss National Science Foundation, Czech Science Foundation, CRC). He is (has been) part of the Editorial Board for:

2020-ongoing "Geoscience Data Journal" - ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY
2020-ongoing "Frontiers in Remote Sensing" - FRONTIERS
2019-ongoing "Journal of Hydrology" - ELSEVIER
2019-ongoing "Scientific Reports" - NATURE
2019-ongoing "Frontiers in Water" - FRONTIERS
2018-ongoing "Remote Sensing" - MDPI
2018-ongoing "Sci" - MDPI
2013-2017 "Geoderma" - ELSEVIER
2013-ongoing "Hydrology" - MDPI

He has served as Guest Editor for special issues on "Hydrology and Earth System Sciences", "Hydrology Research", "Vadose Zone Journal", "Advances in Meteorology", "Hydrology", "Advances in Meteorology", "Frontiers in Water", and "Remote Sensing". He is editor of the books:

"Water Resources in the Mediterranean Region" published by ELSEVIER.
"Advances in Watershed Hydrology" published by Water Resources Publications, LLC.

In the period January-July 2010 he carried out an Associated Scientist activity at TU Wien and ECMWF under the H SAF project by EUMETSAT. He has been the Italian National Correspondent of the Euromediterranean network of Experimental and Representative Basins (ERB, 2008-2018). Currently he is a member of:

Joint Mass Change Mission Expert Group for Mass-change And Geosciences International Constellation (MAGIC) of ESA-NASA
“Satellite geodetic data assimilation for hydro-climate research” working group
MOXXI working group of International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)
“International Steering Committee of Hymex”
European Geophysical Union (EGU)
Italian Hydrological Society (IHS)
Italian Group of Hydraulics (GII)

Invited Presentations (2015-)

"Coping with flood through high resolution satellite products", ESA side event COP28, Webinar, 11 December 2023 (invited).
"Impatto del cambiamento climatico sugli eventi estremi: recenti evidenze nel bacino del Mediterraneo", Assicurazioni parametriche. Una soluzione per il cambiamento climatico e non solo, Webinar, 5 December 2023 (invited).
"Towards a Digital Twin for the Water and Energy Cycle over Land", HYDROSPACE 2023, Lisbon, Portugal, 27 November 2023 (keynote).
"Understanding and monitoring hydrometeorological extremes using Earth Observation", EC-ESA JOINT EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE INITIATIVE, Frascati, Italy, 22 November 2023 (invited speaker).
"Estimating irrigation water use from space: progress and challenges", Irrigation in the Earth System: Priorities for Data, Modeling, and Cross-disciplinary Research, 4-9 June 2023 (invited speaker).
"On the combined use of multiple satellite-derived variable for monitoring drought and water resources", EUMETRain Event Week on Heatwaves and Droughts, 29 May to 1 June 2023 (invited speaker).
"Remote sensing for hydrology: present and future steps", EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference 2022, Brussels, Belgium, 19-23 September 2022 (invited speaker for plenary talk).
"20 years of research in soil moisture", 6th Satellite Soil Moisture Workshop, Perugia, Italy, 7-9 June 2022 (keynote speaker).
"Potential of new gravimetry mission for hydrological applications", ESA 2022 Living Planet Symposium, Bonn, Germany, 23-27 May 2022 (invited).
"Water Science Cluster", ESA 2022 Living Planet Symposium, Bonn, Germany, 23-27 May 2022 (invited panelist).
"Digital Twin Earth Hydrology: final project results [min 51:41]", ESA Phi Week, Frascati, Italy, 13 October 2021 (keynote speaker).
"Observing soil moisture and irrigation from space", Workshop Nuclear Technologies for Agriculture 4.0 (online), 18 December 2020 (invited).
"Le sfide del monitoraggio idrologico e innovazione tecnologica", Webinar Giornate dell'Idrologia della Societa' Idrologica Italiana 2020 (online), 13 November 2020 (invited).
"The basics and benefits of writing a data paper", Webinar How and Why You Should Publish Your Geoscience Dataset (Royal Meteorological Society) (online), 17 November 2020 (invited).
"DTE Hydrology: a prototype of DTE with focus on water cycle, hydrological processes and their impacts", ESA Phi Week (online), 29 September 2020 (keynote speaker).
"Soil moisture, a key variable for hydrological prediction: floods, landslides, drought and SM2RAIN", Webinar IMTA (online), 15 June 2020 (invited).
"Umidità del suolo, una variabile chiave per le previsioni idrologiche: Piene, Pioggia, Frane e Siccità", Webinar CETEMPS (online), 28 May 2020 (invited).
"Operational services of satellite soil moisture products for flood, landslide, drought and precipitation", EMS Annual Meeting 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark, 9-13 Sep 2019 (invited).
"The missing information for hydrological modelling in agricultural areas: irrigation", EGU General Assembly 2019, Vienna, Austria, 12 Apr 2019 (solicited).
"Recent advances in using satellite soil moisture and precipitation for flood and landslide prediction in the Mediterranean basin", EGU General Assembly 2019, Vienna, Austria, 8 Apr 2019 (solicited).
"Role of Satellite Soil Moisture and Precipitation for Hydrometeorological Hazard Prediction in the Mediterranean Region", MED 2018 ESA Consultation Meeting for the Mediterranean, Frascati, Italy, 11 Dec 2018 (invited).
"Rainfall estimation from soil moisture observations, SM2RAIN: recent advances and future directions", EGU General Assembly 2018, Vienna, Austria, 11 Apr 2018 (solicited).
"How much water is used for irrigation? A new approach exploiting satellite soil moisture observations", EGU General Assembly 2018, Vienna, Austria, 10 Apr 2018 (solicited).
"Monitoring soil moisture for operational applications" and "Operational use of in situ and satellite soil moisture observations for improving hydrological applications", International Training Course on Climate Services for disaster prevention, Firenze, Italy, 27 Nov 2017 (invited).
"Global scale rainfall product from ASCAT soil moisture data (via SM2RAIN) and its applications in Hydrology (flood, landslides)", seminar at EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany, 29 May 2017 (invited).
"Use of SMAP for rainfall estimation and flood modeling: lesson learned and future directions", The 4th NASA SMAP Applications Workshop and Tutorial, Austin, Texas, 5 Apr 2016 (invited).
"Innovative methods for improving hydrological predictions", Hydrological and Erosion processes in Mediterranean Landscapes: Impacts of land management on connectivity, Palermo, Italy, 1 Mar 2016 (invited).
"Use of ESA CCI soil moisture product for hydrological applications", ISSI International Team Meeting" Adding value to soil moisture information for climate studies", Bern, Switzerland, 9-11 November 2015 (invited).
"Soil moisture: a key variable for linking small scale catchment hydrology to global scale applications", 50th anniversary symposium “State of the art measurements of catchment-scale hydrological processes”, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 10 September 2015 (invited).
"New information content from soil moisture data: rainfall estimation and flood modelling", The 2015 Workshop at MOISST: The Dawn of the Soil Moisture Information Age?, Stillwater, Oklahoma, 2 June 2015 (invited).

Director of Research

Via della Madonna Alta, 126 Perugia , Italy - 06128 Email: luca.brocca@irpi.cnr.it Office Phone: +39 0755014418 Mobile Phone: +39 3938801630

Research interest

INNOVATIVE METHODS FOR EXPLOITING SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS IN HYDROLOGICAL APPLICATIONS (soil moisture, rainfall, river discharge --> flood, landslide, drought, water resources management, agriculture, ...)

SM2RAIN: rainfall estimation from soil moisture observations (FREELY AVAILABLE DATASETS, SOFTWARE, REFERENCE PAPER);
How much water is used for irrigation? A new satellite-based approach using satellite soil moisture observations (winning idea of 2018 BayWa challenge at Copernicus Master);
data assimilation of soil moisture observations into rainfall-runoff modelling;
use of satellite and in situ soil moisture observations for floods and landslide prediction, erosion assessment, drought monitoring, numerical weather prediction, and rainfall estimation;
characterization of soil moisture spatial-temporal variability for hydrological monitoring and modelling;
ground validation of remote sensing observations of soil moisture, rainfall and discharge;
development of hydrological and hydraulic modelling, with uncertainty;
flooding risk analysis and flood frequency assessment, under climate change.

To support the research, an experimental activity for the monitoring of hydro-meteorological quantities is carried out.

GOOGLE SCHOLAR - SCOPUS - ORCID - TWITTER - LINKEDIN - WEB OF SCIENCE - RESEARCH GATE

Biography

Awards and Recognitions

2021: "ESA–EGU Earth Observation Excellence Award" given by European Space Agency and European Geosciences Union recognising the IRPI-Hydrology Group for an outstanding contribution to the innovative use of Earth Observation in Hydrology.
2020: "Highly Cited Researchers 2020" given by Web of Science Group, recognising the world's most influential researchers of the past decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science. Of the world’s scientists and social scientists, Clarivate™ Highly Cited Researchers truly are one in 1,000.
2019: "Highly Cited Researchers 2019" given by Web of Science Group, recognising the world's most influential researchers of the past decade.
2019: "Publons Peer Review Awards 2019" given by Publons, as one of the top 1% of peer reviewers in Geosciences and Cross-Field
2019: "Winner (2nd place) of the competition for Director of Research at National Research Council of Italy", August 2019
2019: "Winner (1st place) of the competition for Senior Researcher at National Research Council of Italy", March 2019
2018: "Winner of the Copernicus Masters competition: BayWa Smart Farming Challenge" given by Copernicus Masters
2018: "Publons Peer Review Awards 2018" given by Publons, as one of the top 1% of peer reviewers in Geosciences
2017: "Publons Peer Review Awards 2017" given by Publons, as one of the top 1% of peer reviewers in Environmental Science
2017: “Florisa Melone Award” (Co-I) for the project “Monitoring extreme events (floods & droughts) through discharge time series obtained from satellite altimetry” by Camici Stefania, given by Italian Hydrology Society (IHS)
2017: "Best Case Study Award of the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering" for the paper "Assessment of the Drought Hazard in the Tiber River Basin in Central Italy and a Comparison of New and Commonly Used Meteorological Indicators" by Maccioni, P., Moramarco, T., Kossida, M., Brocca, L.
2016: "The Sentinel of Science Award 2016" given by Publons, 6th place among Earth and Planetary Science
2016: “Best poster award IDRA” for “Potenziale dei dati satellitari per la previsione delle piene nel Fiume Benue in Nigeria“, by Tarpanelli A., Amarnath G., Brocca L., Massari C., Barbetta S. and Moramarco T. in the macro-theme “Monitoring, open-date and free software”
2015: "Outstanding Reviewer for Advances in Water Resources and Remote Sensing of Environment" by ELSEVIER
2014: "EGU Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award" (co-author), for "River discharge estimation by using remote sensing data in absence of bathymetry: the Po River case study" by Tarpanelli, A., Barbetta, S., Brocca, L., Lacava, T., Faruolo, M., Moramarco, T., given by European Geophysical Union (EGU)
2012: "Torricelli Award", one of the 5 best Italian water young scientists, given by the Italian Group of Hydraulics (GII)
2012: "Early Career Research Excellence" award given by the international Environmental Modelling and Software society (iEMSs)
2011: "Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing" for Water Resources Research journal given by American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2010: "Best poster award IDRA" for "Stima della velocità media in canali naturali attraverso il monitoraggio della velocità massima superficiale" by Brocca, L., Corato, G, Corradini, C., Melone, F., Moramarco, T.

Projects

"SEED-FD", Horizon Europe, 2024-2026 (co-PI).
CCI-AWU, ESA, 2023-2024 (PI).
4DHYDRO, ESA, 2023-2024 (co-PI).
Open-Earth-Monitor Cyberinfrastructure, Horizon Europe, 2022-2026 (co-PI).
"DEMETRAS", ESA, 2023-2024 (participant).
"STREAM-NEXT", ESA, 2023-2025 (participant).
Digital Twin of Alps, ESA, 2022-2024 (participant).
extrAIm, ESA, 2021-2024 (co-PI).
4D MED-Hydrology, ESA, 2021-2024 (participant).
H SAF (Satellite Application Facility on Support to Operational Hydrology and Water Management), EUMETSAT, 2023-2028 (co-PI).

Current National Projects

"NGGM/MAGIC, una svolta nella comprensione della dinamica della Terra", Italian Space Agency (ASI), 2023-2025 (participant).
"Thetys Plus", Regione Lazio, 2023-2024 (Co-PI).
"Flood pRediction In Small ungauged Basins of Italy through Enhanced runoff coefficient assEssment (FRISBEE)", PRIN: PROGETTI DI RICERCA DI RILEVANTE INTERESSE NAZIONALE – Bando 2022, 2023-2025 (participant).
"unveilINg pasT Events foR dROught risk mitiGATION (INTERROGATION)", PRIN: PROGETTI DI RICERCA DI RILEVANTE INTERESSE NAZIONALE – Bando 2022, 2023-2025 (participant).
"Soil moisture monitoring and modelling for geo-hydrological risk", Regione Sardegna, 2021-2024 (Co-PI soil moisture).
"Centre of Competence for the National Department of Civil Protection", 2023-2024 (Co-PI soil moisture).

Recent (selected) Projects

IRRIGATION+, ESA, 2020-2023 (PI).
Digital Twin Earth Hydrology Evolution, ESA, 2022-2023 (PI).
Roadmap for Anthropogenic Water Use CCI, ESA, 2022 (co-PI).
EODC, 2019-2022 (co-PI).
STREAMRIDE, ESA, 2020-2022 (participant).
DTE Hydrology, ESA, 2020-2021 (PI).
DWC-Radar, Austrian FFG, 2019-2021 (co-PI).
SMART-DRI, WORLDBANK, 2020 (co-PI).
HYDRO-CFD, Regione Umbria, 2020-2022 (participant).
OT4CLIMA, MUR, 2018-2022 (participant).
Consultancy for optimising the soil moisture network in Marche Region, Regione Marche, 2020-2022 (participant).
Visiting Scientist H SAF: "Flood Modelling in Africa through H SAF satellite rainfall products", 2020-2021 (participant).
ANDROMEDA, CARIPLO, 2018-2021 (co-PI).
GLOBAL-SM2RAIN, EUMETSAT, 2017-2020 (PI).
SMOS+rainfall 1&2, ESA, 2017-2020 (co-PI SMOS+rainfall 1, participant SMOS+Rainfall 2).
RIDESAT, ESA, 2019-2020 (participant).
STREAM, ESA, 2019-2020 (participant).
SPACE-IRR COPERNICUS ACCELERATOR, 2018-2019 (PI).
WACMOS-MED, ESA, 2017-2019 (co-PI).
WACMOS-Irrigation, ESA, 2017-2018 (PI).
Climate Change Initiative - Soil Moisture, ESA, 2014-2018 (co-PI).
Early Adopter of the SMAP, NASA, 2015-2020 (PI).
FLIRE, LIFE+, 2012-2015 (participant).

Key Publications

Brocca et al. (2024), FSCI, A Digital Twin of the terrestrial water cycle: a glimpse into the future ...
Brocca et al. (2023), XINN, High-resolution observations from space to address new applications in hydrology
McDermid et al. (2023), NREE, Irrigation in the Earth system
Dari et al. (2023), ESSD, Regional data sets of high-resolution ... irrigation ... from space...
Camici et al. (2022), GMD, Synergy between satellite observations of soil moisture and water storage ... global runoff ...
Alfieri et al. (2022), HESS, High resolution satellite products improve hydrological modeling in northern Italy ...
Brunetti et al. (2021), HESS, Satellite rainfall products outperform ground observations for landslide forecasting in India.
Dorigo et al. (2021), BAMS, Closing the water cycle from observations across scales: Where do we stand?
Peng et al. (2021), RSE, A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications...
Brocca et al. (2020), SREP, River flow prediction in data scarce regions: soil moisture integrated satellite rainfall ...
Camici et al. (2020), HESS, Which rainfall metric is more informative about the flood simulation performance? ...
Massari et al. (2020, HESS, A daily/25km short-latency rainfall product for data scarce regions ...
Brocca et al. (2019), ESSD, SM2RAIN-ASCAT (2007-2018): global daily satellite rainfall from ASCAT soil moisture
Tarpanelli et al. (2019), IEEE TGRS, Daily river discharge estimates by merging satellite optical sensors and ...
Brocca et al. (2018), JAG, How much water is used for irrigation? A new approach exploiting ...
Ciabatta et al. (2018), ESSD, SM2RAIN-CCI: a new global long-term rainfall data set derived from ESA CCI soil moisture.
Brocca et al. (2017), WATER, Soil moisture for hydrological applications: open questions and new opportunities
Brocca et al. (2014), JGR, Soil as a natural rain gauge: estimating global rainfall from satellite soil moisture data
Camici et al. (2014), JHE, Impact of climate change on flood frequency using different climate models ...
Brocca et al. (2011), RSE, Soil moisture estimation through ASCAT and AMSR-E sensors: an intercomparison and validation ...
Brocca et al. (2010), HESS, Improving runoff prediction through the assimilation of the ASCAT soil moisture product
Brocca et al. (2010), WRR, Spatial-temporal variability of soil moisture and its estimation across scales

International Activities

2020-ongoing "Geoscience Data Journal" - ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY
2020-ongoing "Frontiers in Remote Sensing" - FRONTIERS
2019-ongoing "Journal of Hydrology" - ELSEVIER
2019-ongoing "Scientific Reports" - NATURE
2019-ongoing "Frontiers in Water" - FRONTIERS
2018-ongoing "Remote Sensing" - MDPI
2018-ongoing "Sci" - MDPI
2013-2017 "Geoderma" - ELSEVIER
2013-ongoing "Hydrology" - MDPI

"Water Resources in the Mediterranean Region" published by ELSEVIER.
"Advances in Watershed Hydrology" published by Water Resources Publications, LLC.

Joint Mass Change Mission Expert Group for Mass-change And Geosciences International Constellation (MAGIC) of ESA-NASA
“Satellite geodetic data assimilation for hydro-climate research” working group
MOXXI working group of International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)
“International Steering Committee of Hymex”
European Geophysical Union (EGU)
Italian Hydrological Society (IHS)
Italian Group of Hydraulics (GII)

Invited Presentations (2015-)

"Coping with flood through high resolution satellite products", ESA side event COP28, Webinar, 11 December 2023 (invited).
"Impatto del cambiamento climatico sugli eventi estremi: recenti evidenze nel bacino del Mediterraneo", Assicurazioni parametriche. Una soluzione per il cambiamento climatico e non solo, Webinar, 5 December 2023 (invited).
"Towards a Digital Twin for the Water and Energy Cycle over Land", HYDROSPACE 2023, Lisbon, Portugal, 27 November 2023 (keynote).
"Understanding and monitoring hydrometeorological extremes using Earth Observation", EC-ESA JOINT EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE INITIATIVE, Frascati, Italy, 22 November 2023 (invited speaker).
"Estimating irrigation water use from space: progress and challenges", Irrigation in the Earth System: Priorities for Data, Modeling, and Cross-disciplinary Research, 4-9 June 2023 (invited speaker).
"On the combined use of multiple satellite-derived variable for monitoring drought and water resources", EUMETRain Event Week on Heatwaves and Droughts, 29 May to 1 June 2023 (invited speaker).
"Remote sensing for hydrology: present and future steps", EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference 2022, Brussels, Belgium, 19-23 September 2022 (invited speaker for plenary talk).
"20 years of research in soil moisture", 6th Satellite Soil Moisture Workshop, Perugia, Italy, 7-9 June 2022 (keynote speaker).
"Potential of new gravimetry mission for hydrological applications", ESA 2022 Living Planet Symposium, Bonn, Germany, 23-27 May 2022 (invited).
"Water Science Cluster", ESA 2022 Living Planet Symposium, Bonn, Germany, 23-27 May 2022 (invited panelist).
"Digital Twin Earth Hydrology: final project results [min 51:41]", ESA Phi Week, Frascati, Italy, 13 October 2021 (keynote speaker).
"Observing soil moisture and irrigation from space", Workshop Nuclear Technologies for Agriculture 4.0 (online), 18 December 2020 (invited).
"Le sfide del monitoraggio idrologico e innovazione tecnologica", Webinar Giornate dell'Idrologia della Societa' Idrologica Italiana 2020 (online), 13 November 2020 (invited).
"The basics and benefits of writing a data paper", Webinar How and Why You Should Publish Your Geoscience Dataset (Royal Meteorological Society) (online), 17 November 2020 (invited).
"DTE Hydrology: a prototype of DTE with focus on water cycle, hydrological processes and their impacts", ESA Phi Week (online), 29 September 2020 (keynote speaker).
"Soil moisture, a key variable for hydrological prediction: floods, landslides, drought and SM2RAIN", Webinar IMTA (online), 15 June 2020 (invited).
"Umidità del suolo, una variabile chiave per le previsioni idrologiche: Piene, Pioggia, Frane e Siccità", Webinar CETEMPS (online), 28 May 2020 (invited).
"Operational services of satellite soil moisture products for flood, landslide, drought and precipitation", EMS Annual Meeting 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark, 9-13 Sep 2019 (invited).
"The missing information for hydrological modelling in agricultural areas: irrigation", EGU General Assembly 2019, Vienna, Austria, 12 Apr 2019 (solicited).
"Recent advances in using satellite soil moisture and precipitation for flood and landslide prediction in the Mediterranean basin", EGU General Assembly 2019, Vienna, Austria, 8 Apr 2019 (solicited).
"Role of Satellite Soil Moisture and Precipitation for Hydrometeorological Hazard Prediction in the Mediterranean Region", MED 2018 ESA Consultation Meeting for the Mediterranean, Frascati, Italy, 11 Dec 2018 (invited).
"Rainfall estimation from soil moisture observations, SM2RAIN: recent advances and future directions", EGU General Assembly 2018, Vienna, Austria, 11 Apr 2018 (solicited).
"How much water is used for irrigation? A new approach exploiting satellite soil moisture observations", EGU General Assembly 2018, Vienna, Austria, 10 Apr 2018 (solicited).
"Monitoring soil moisture for operational applications" and "Operational use of in situ and satellite soil moisture observations for improving hydrological applications", International Training Course on Climate Services for disaster prevention, Firenze, Italy, 27 Nov 2017 (invited).
"Global scale rainfall product from ASCAT soil moisture data (via SM2RAIN) and its applications in Hydrology (flood, landslides)", seminar at EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany, 29 May 2017 (invited).
"Use of SMAP for rainfall estimation and flood modeling: lesson learned and future directions", The 4th NASA SMAP Applications Workshop and Tutorial, Austin, Texas, 5 Apr 2016 (invited).
"Innovative methods for improving hydrological predictions", Hydrological and Erosion processes in Mediterranean Landscapes: Impacts of land management on connectivity, Palermo, Italy, 1 Mar 2016 (invited).
"Use of ESA CCI soil moisture product for hydrological applications", ISSI International Team Meeting" Adding value to soil moisture information for climate studies", Bern, Switzerland, 9-11 November 2015 (invited).
"Soil moisture: a key variable for linking small scale catchment hydrology to global scale applications", 50th anniversary symposium “State of the art measurements of catchment-scale hydrological processes”, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 10 September 2015 (invited).
"New information content from soil moisture data: rainfall estimation and flood modelling", The 2015 Workshop at MOISST: The Dawn of the Soil Moisture Information Age?, Stillwater, Oklahoma, 2 June 2015 (invited).

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INNOVATIVE METHODS FOR EXPLOITING SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS IN HYDROLOGICAL APPLICATIONS (soil moisture, rainfall, river discharge --> flood, landslide, drought, water resources management, agriculture, ...)

INNOVATIVE METHODS FOR EXPLOITING SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS IN HYDROLOGICAL APPLICATIONS (soil moisture, rainfall, river discharge --> flood, landslide, drought, water resources management, agriculture, ...)