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Overview

Christian Massari is affiliated with the National Research Council (CNR) in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with notable contributions to several subfields including atmospheric science, environmental engineering, global and planetary change, water science and technology, and oceanography.

The scientific topics covered in their work include hydrology and watershed management studies, soil moisture and remote sensing, precipitation measurement and analysis, geophysics and gravity measurements, meteorological phenomena and simulations, flood risk assessment and management, and hydrology and sediment transport processes.

Massari has published extensively in various venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Remote Sensing

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Christian Massari are:

  • "Irrigation in the Earth system," 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "A Review of Irrigation Information Retrievals from Space and Their Utility for Users," 2021, Remote Sensing
  • "River flow prediction in data scarce regions: soil moisture integrated satellite rainfall products outperform rain gauge observations in West Africa," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "A daily 25 km short-latency rainfall product for data-scarce regions based on the integration of the Global Precipitation Measurement mission rainfall and multiple-satellite soil moisture products," 2020, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • "High-resolution satellite products improve hydrological modeling in northern Italy," 2022, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Collaborations form an important part of their research. Frequent co-authors include Luca Brocca, Stefania Camici, Sara Modanesi, Paolo Filippucci, and Luca Ciabatta. The collaboration network highlights interdisciplinary work often centered on hydrology, remote sensing, and data integration.

Best Publications

  • Toward Global Soil Moisture Monitoring With Sentinel-1: Harnessing Assets and Overcoming Obstacles

    Bernhard Bauer-Marschallinger;Vahid Freeman;Senmao Cao;Christoph Paulik

  • Soil as a natural rain gauge: Estimating global rainfall from satellite soil moisture data

    Luca Brocca;Luca Ciabatta;Christian Massari;Tommaso Moramarco

  • Soil Moisture for Hydrological Applications: Open Questions and New Opportunities

    Luca Brocca;Luca Ciabatta;Christian Massari;Stefania Camici

  • Irrigation in the Earth system

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  • Altimetry for the future: building on 25 years of progress

    Saleh Abdalla;Abdolnabi Abdeh Kolahchi;Michaël Ablain;Susheel Adusumilli

  • On the performance of satellite precipitation products in riverine flood modeling: a review.

    Viviana Maggioni;Christian Massari

  • SM2RAIN–ASCAT (2007–2018): global daily satellite rainfall data from ASCAT soil moisture observations

    Luca Brocca;Paolo Filippucci;Sebastian Hahn;Luca Ciabatta

  • A Review of Irrigation Information Retrievals from Space and Their Utility for Users

    Christian Massari;Sara Modanesi;Jacopo Dari;Alexander Gruber

  • A Review of the Applications of ASCAT Soil Moisture Products

    Luca Brocca;Wade T. Crow;Luca Ciabatta;Christian Massari

  • Potential of soil moisture observations in flood modelling : estimating initial conditions and correcting rainfall

    Christian Massari;Luca Brocca;Tommaso Moramarco;Yves Tramblay

  • An assessment of the performance of global rainfall estimates without ground-based observations

    Christian Massari;Wade Crow;Luca Brocca

  • SM2RAIN-CCI: a new global long-term rainfall data set derived from ESA CCI soil moisture

    Luca Ciabatta;Luca Ciabatta;Christian Massari;Luca Brocca;Alexander Gruber;Alexander Gruber

  • Exploiting Satellite-Based Surface Soil Moisture for Flood Forecasting in the Mediterranean Area: State Update Versus Rainfall Correction

    Christian Massari;Stefania Camici;Luca Ciabatta;Luca Brocca

  • Soil Moisture from Fusion of Scatterometer and SAR: Closing the Scale Gap with Temporal Filtering

    Bernhard Bauer-Marschallinger;Christoph Paulik;Simon Hochstöger;Thomas Mistelbauer

  • Data Assimilation of Satellite Soil Moisture into Rainfall-Runoff Modelling: A Complex Recipe?

    Christian Massari;Luca Brocca;Angelica Tarpanelli;Tommaso Moramarco

  • Small Amplitude Sharp Pressure Waves to Diagnose Pipe Systems

    Silvia Meniconi;Bruno Brunone;Marco Ferrante;Christian Massari

  • Rainfall estimation from in situ soil moisture observations at several sites in Europe: an evaluation of the SM2RAIN algorithm

    Luca Brocca;Christian Massari;Luca Ciabatta;Tommaso Moramarco

  • Using globally available soil moisture indicators for flood modelling in Mediterranean catchments

    C. Massari;L. Brocca;S. Barbetta;C. Papathanasiou

  • How reliable are satellite precipitation estimates for driving hydrological models: A verification study over the Mediterranean area

    S. Camici;L. Ciabatta;C. Massari;L. Brocca

  • River flow prediction in data scarce regions: soil moisture integrated satellite rainfall products outperform rain gauge observations in West Africa

    Luca Brocca;Christian Massari;Thierry Pellarin;Paolo Filippucci

  • Experimental Evidence of Hysteresis in the Head-Discharge Relationship for a Leak in a Polyethylene Pipe

    Marco Ferrante;Christian Massari;Bruno Brunone;Silvia Meniconi

Frequent Co-Authors

Luca Brocca
Luca Brocca National Research Council (CNR)
Bruno Brunone
Bruno Brunone University of Perugia
Angelica Tarpanelli
Angelica Tarpanelli National Research Council (CNR)
Tommaso Moramarco
Tommaso Moramarco National Research Council (CNR)
Yann Kerr
Yann Kerr Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Wade T. Crow
Wade T. Crow Agricultural Research Service
Renato Morbidelli
Renato Morbidelli University of Perugia
Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh
Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh University of Arizona
Jérôme Benveniste
Jérôme Benveniste University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès

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