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Georg Umgiesser is affiliated with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant concentration in Environmental Science. Within these fields, their work delves deeply into subfields such as Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology.

The main topics covered in Umgiesser's research include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Marine and coastal ecosystems, and Climate variability and models.

Recent publications highlight their contributions to understanding coastal flooding, climate change impacts, and marine environmental dynamics. Notable papers include:

  • "Sea-level rise in Venice: historic and future trends (review article)" (2021) published in Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • "Extreme floods of Venice: characteristics, dynamics, past and future evolution (review article)" (2021) published in Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • "Local and large-scale controls of the exceptional Venice floods of November 2019" (2021) published in Progress In Oceanography
  • "The 2019 Flooding of Venice and Its Implications for Future Predictions" (2020) published in Oceanography
  • "Saltwater Intrusion in a Mediterranean Delta Under a Changing Climate" (2021) published in Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

The research outputs have appeared frequently in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Natural hazards and earth system sciences, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, The Science of The Total Environment, and Frontiers in Marine Science.

Georg Umgiesser works often in collaboration with several co-authors, including Christian Ferrarin, Marco Bajo, Debora Bellafiore, Jovita Mėžinė, and Rasa Idzelytė, reflecting a network of cooperation in related scientific inquiries. Their collaborations have contributed to a body of work with a focus on oceanographic phenomena and environmental modeling.

Best Publications

  • A finite element model for the Venice Lagoon. Development, set up, calibration and validation

    Georg Umgiesser;Donata Melaku Canu;Andrea Cucco;Cosimo Solidoro

  • Modeling the Venice Lagoon residence time

    Andrea Cucco;Georg Umgiesser

  • The stability of tidal flats in Venice Lagoon—the results of in-situ measurements using two benthic, annular flumes

    C.L. Amos;A. Bergamasco;G. Umgiesser;S. Cappucci

  • Comparative hydrodynamics of 10 Mediterranean lagoons by means of numerical modeling

    Georg Umgiesser;Christian Ferrarin;Andrea Cucco;Francesca De Pascalis

  • On the development and verification of a 2-D coupled wave-current model on unstructured meshes

    Aron Roland;Andrea Cucco;Christian Ferrarin;Tai-Wen Hsu

  • Changing extreme sea levels along European coasts

    Ralf Weisse;Debora Bellafiore;Melisa Menéndez;Fernando Méndez

  • Sediment Transport Mechanisms in a Lagoon with High River Discharge and Sediment Loading

    Jovita Mėžinė;Christian Ferrarin;Diana Vaičiūtė;Rasa Idzelytė

  • Hydrodynamic modeling of a coastal lagoon: The Cabras lagoon in Sardinia, Italy

    Christian Ferrarin;Georg Umgiesser

  • Eulerian and lagrangian transport time scales of a tidal active coastal basin

    Andrea Cucco;Georg Umgiesser;Cristian Ferrarin;Angelo Perilli

  • The October 29, 2018 storm in Northern Italy - An exceptional event and its modeling

    L. Cavaleri;M. Bajo;F. Barbariol;M. Bastianini

  • Sea-level rise in Venice: historic and future trends (review article)

    Davide Zanchettin;Sara Bruni;Fabio Raicich;Piero Lionello

  • Tide-surge-wave modelling and forecasting in the Mediterranean Sea with focus on the Italian coast

    Christian Ferrarin;Aron Roland;Marco Bajo;Georg Umgiesser

  • Storm surge forecast through a combination of dynamic and neural network models

    Marco Bajo;Georg Umgiesser

  • A partition of the Venice Lagoon based on physical properties and analysis of general circulation

    C. Solidoro;D. Melaku Canu;A. Cucco;G. Umgiesser

  • Sedtrans05: An improved sediment-transport model for continental shelves and coastal waters with a new algorithm for cohesive sediments

    Urs Neumeier;Christian Ferrarin;Carl L. Amos;Georg Umgiesser

  • Extreme floods of Venice: characteristics, dynamics, past and future evolution (review article)

    Piero Lionello;David Barriopedro;Christian Ferrarin;Robert J. Nicholls

  • Climate change response of the Mar Menor coastal lagoon (Spain) using a hydrodynamic finite element model

    Francesca De Pascalis;Angel Pérez-Ruzafa;Javier Gilabert;Concepción Marcos

  • Investigation of saline water intrusions into the Curonian Lagoon (Lithuania) and two-layer flow in the Klaipėda Strait using finite element hydrodynamic model

    Petras Zemlys;Christian Ferrarin;Georg Umgiesser;Saulius Gulbinskas

  • Hydraulic zonation of the lagoons of Marano and Grado, Italy. A modelling approach

    Christian Ferrarin;Georg Umgiesser;Marco Bajo;Debora Bellafiore

  • Local and large-scale controls of the exceptional Venice floods of November 2019

    Christian Ferrarin;Marco Bajo;Alvise Benetazzo;Luigi Cavaleri

  • Links between hydrology and sedimentology in the Lagoon of Venice, Italy.

    Emanuela Molinaroli;Stefano Guerzoni;Alessandro Sarretta;Andrea Cucco

  • Challenges for Sustained Observing and Forecasting Systems in the Mediterranean Sea

    Joaquín Tintoré;Nadia Pinardi;Enrique Álvarez-Fanjul;Eva Aguiar

  • Changes in Venice Lagoon dynamics due to construction of mobile barriers

    Michol Ghezzo;Stefano Guerzoni;Andrea Cucco;Georg Umgiesser

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Ferrarin
Christian Ferrarin National Research Council (CNR)
Carl L. Amos
Carl L. Amos University of Southampton
Piero Lionello
Piero Lionello University of Salento
Robert J. Nicholls
Robert J. Nicholls University of East Anglia
Cosimo Solidoro
Cosimo Solidoro National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics
Mirko Orlić
Mirko Orlić University of Zagreb
Concepción Marcos
Concepción Marcos University of Murcia
Jacopo Chiggiato
Jacopo Chiggiato National Research Council (CNR)
Sandro Carniel
Sandro Carniel National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Angel Pérez-Ruzafa
Angel Pérez-Ruzafa University of Murcia

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