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Overview

Javier Tomasella is affiliated with the National Institute for Space Research in Brazil, focusing primarily on Environmental Science. Their research covers key subfields such as Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Soil Science, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Climate variability and models
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis

Javier Tomasella's recent publications demonstrate a focus on environmental hazards, water security, and land degradation. Notable papers include:

  • Assessment of trends, variability and impacts of droughts across Brazil over the period 1980-2019, 2022, Natural Hazards
  • Land degradation mapping in the MATOPIBA region (Brazil) using remote sensing data and decision-tree analysis, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Unveiling water security in Brazil: current challenges and future perspectives, 2021, Hydrological Sciences Journal
  • Desertification risk assessment in Northeast Brazil: Current trends and future scenarios, 2020, Land Degradation and Development
  • Urban expansion and its impact on water security: The case of the Paraíba do Sul River Basin, São Paulo, Brazil, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Hydrology, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, Ambiente e Agua - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Science, and Hydrological Sciences Journal.

Javier Tomasella collaborates regularly with co-authors including Minella Alves Martins, Lívia Alves Alvarenga, Pâmela Aparecida Melo, Alessandro Araújo, and Carlos Rogério de Mello.

Best Publications

  • The Drought of Amazonia in 2005

    José A. Marengo;Carlos A. Nobre;Javier Tomasella;Marcos D. Oyama

  • The drought of 2010 in the context of historical droughts in the Amazon region

    Jose A. Marengo;Javier Tomasella;Lincoln M. Alves;Wagner R. Soares

  • HAND, a new terrain descriptor using SRTM-DEM: Mapping terra-firme rainforest environments in Amazonia

    Camilo Daleles Rennó;Antonio Donato Nobre;Luz Adriana Cuartas;João Vianei Soares

  • Amazon drought and its implications for forest flammability and tree growth: a basin-wide analysis

    Daniel Nepstad;Paul Lefebvre;Urbano Lopes da Silva;Javier Tomasella

  • Marked differences between van Genuchten soil water-retention parameters for temperate and tropical soils: a new water-retention pedo-transfer functions developed for tropical soils

    M.G. Hodnett;J. Tomasella

  • Extreme Drought Events over Brazil from 2011 to 2019

    Ana Paula M. A. Cunha;Marcelo Zeri;Karinne Deusdará Leal;Lidiane Costa

  • Estimating soil water retention characteristics from limited data in Brazilian Amazonia

    Javier Tomasella;Martin G. Hodnett

  • Pedotransfer functions for the estimation of soil water retention in Brazilian soils.

    Javier Tomasella;Martin G. Hodnett;Luciana Rossato

  • Identifying areas susceptible to desertification in the Brazilian northeast

    R. M. S. P. Vieira;J. Tomasella;R. C. S. Alvalá;M. F. Sestini

  • Trends in streamflow and rainfall in tropical South America : Amazonia, eastern Brazil, and northwestern Peru

    José A. Marengo;Javier Tomasella;Cintia R. Uvo

  • Extreme climatic events in the Amazon basin Climatological and Hydrological context of recent floods

    Jose Antonio Marengo;Javier Tomasella;Wagner R. Soares;Lincoln M. Alves

  • Hydro-climatic and ecological behaviour of the drought of Amazonia in 2005

    J.A Marengo;C.A Nobre;J Tomasella;M.F Cardoso

  • Comparison of Two Techniques to Develop Pedotransfer Functions for Water Retention

    J. Tomasella;Y.-A. A. Pachepsky;S. Crestana;W. J. Rawls

  • Desertification trends in the Northeast of Brazil over the period 2000-2016

    Javier Tomasella;Rita M. Silva Pinto Vieira;Alexandre de A. Barbosa;Daniel A. Rodriguez

  • The water balance of an Amazonian micro‐catchment: the effect of interannual variability of rainfall on hydrological behaviour

    Javier Tomasella;Martin G. Hodnett;Luz Adriana Cuartas;Antonio D. Nobre

  • Interception water-partitioning dynamics for a pristine rainforest in Central Amazonia: Marked differences between normal and dry years

    Luz Adriana Cuartas;Javier Tomasella;Antonio Donato Nobre;Martin G. Hodnett

  • Export of organic carbon in run-off from an Amazonian rainforest blackwater catchment

    Maarten J. Waterloo;Sylvia M. Oliveira;Debora P. Drucker;Antonio D. Nobre

  • Changes in the spatial–temporal patterns of droughts in the Brazilian Northeast

    Ana Paula M. A. Cunha;Javier Tomasella;Germano G. Ribeiro-Neto;Matthew Brown

  • The droughts of 1996–1997 and 2004–2005 in Amazonia: hydrological response in the river main‐stem

    Javier Tomasella;Laura S. Borma;José A. Marengo;Daniel A. Rodriguez

  • Propagation of satellite precipitation uncertainties through a distributed hydrologic model: A case study in the Tocantins–Araguaia basin in Brazil

    Aline S. Falck;Viviana Maggioni;Javier Tomasella;Daniel A. Vila

Frequent Co-Authors

José A. Marengo
José A. Marengo Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais
Antonio D. Nobre
Antonio D. Nobre National Institute for Space Research
Carlos A. Nobre
Carlos A. Nobre Universidade de São Paulo
Fabrice Papa
Fabrice Papa Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales
Celso von Randow
Celso von Randow National Institute for Space Research
Bart Kruijt
Bart Kruijt Wageningen University & Research
Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto
Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto National Institute for Space Research
Lincoln M. Alves
Lincoln M. Alves National Institute for Space Research
Antonio O. Manzi
Antonio O. Manzi National Institute for Space Research
Lai-yung Ruby Leung
Lai-yung Ruby Leung Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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