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Naziano Filizola is affiliated with the Federal University of Amazonas in Brazil. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Ecology, Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their work addresses multiple topics within these fields, highlighting areas such as Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Soil erosion and sediment transport, Fish biology, ecology, and behavior, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Geological formations and processes, and Mosquito-borne diseases and control.

Naziano Filizola has contributed to multiple publications, with recent papers including:

  • Prediction of river discharges at confluences based on Entropy theory and surface-velocity measurements, 2022, Journal of Hydrology
  • Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Suspended Sediments in the Negro River, Amazon Basin, from In Situ and Sentinel-2 Remote Sensing Data, 2021, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
  • Rainfall control on Amazon sediment flux: synthesis from 20 years of monitoring, 2020, Environmental Research Communications
  • Evolution of the riverine nutrient export to the Tropical Atlantic over the last 15 years: is there a link with Sargassum proliferation?, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • Analysis of Suspended Sediment in the Anavilhanas Archipelago, Rio Negro, Amazon Basin, 2020, Water

Frequent publication venues for Filizola include the Journal of South American Earth Sciences, Water, Hydrological Sciences Journal, Journal of Hydrology, and Environmental Research Letters.

Collaborations have been a significant part of their career. Frequent co-authors comprise Rogério Ribeiro Marinho, Jean-Michel Martínez, Fernanda Rodrigues Fonseca, Demétrius David da Silva, and Keila Aniceto.

Best Publications

  • Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin

    Edgardo Manuel Latrubesse;Eugenio Y. Arima;Thomas Dunne;Edward Park

  • Onset and End of the Rainy Season in the Brazilian Amazon Basin

    Jose A. Marengo;Brant Liebmann;Vernon E. Kousky;Naziano P. Filizola

  • Contrasting regional discharge evolutions in the Amazon basin (1974–2004)

    Jhan Carlo Espinoza Villar;Jean Loup Guyot;Josyane Ronchail;Gérard Cochonneau

  • Increase in suspended sediment discharge of the Amazon River assessed by monitoring network and satellite data

    Jean-Michel Martinez;Jean-Loup Guyot;N. Filizola;Francis Sondag

  • OZCAR: The French Network of Critical Zone Observatories

    J. Gaillardet;I. Braud;F. Hankard;S. Anquetin

  • Rating curves and estimation of average water depth at the upper Negro River based on satellite altimeter data and modeled discharges

    Juan Gabriel Leon;Stéphane Calmant;F. Seyler;Marie-Paule Bonnet

  • Suspended sediment yields in the Amazon basin: an assessment using the Brazilian national data set

    Naziano Filizola;Jean Loup Guyot

  • Temporal dynamics of water and sediment exchanges between the Curuaí floodplain and the Amazon River, Brazil

    Laurence Maurice Bourgoin;Marie-Paule Bonnet;Jean-Michel Martinez;Pascal Kosuth

  • Sediment production and delivery in the Amazon River basin quantified by in situ–produced cosmogenic nuclides and recent river loads

    H. Wittmann;F. von Blanckenburg;Laurence Maurice;Laurence Maurice;Jean-Loup Guyot

  • Time scale and conditions of weathering under tropical climate: Study of the Amazon basin with U-series

    A. Dosseto;B. Bourdon;J. Gaillardet;C.J. Allègre

  • The use of doppler technology for suspended sediment discharge determination in the River Amazon

    Naziano Filizola;Jean Loup Guyot

  • Discharge simulation in the sub-basins of the Amazon using ORCHIDEE forced by new datasets

    Matthieu Guimberteau;Guillaume Drapeau;Josyane Ronchail;Benjamin Sultan

  • Seasonal and provenance controls on Nd–Sr isotopic compositions of Amazon rivers suspended sediments and implications for Nd and Sr fluxes exported to the Atlantic Ocean

    Jérôme Viers;Martin Roddaz;Naziano Filizola;Jean-Loup Guyot

  • Mixing processes in the Amazon River at the confluences of the Negro and Solimões Rivers, Encontro das Águas, Manaus, Brazil

    Alain Laraque;Jean Loup Guyot;Naziano Filizola

  • Sea‐tide effects on flows in the lower reaches of the Amazon River

    Pascal Kosuth;Jacques Callède;Alain Laraque;Naziano Filizola

  • Fluxo de sedimentos em suspensão nos rios da Amazônia

    Naziano Filizola;Jean Loup Guyot

  • Amazon River dissolved load: temporal dynamics and annual budget from the Andes to the ocean

    Jean-Sébastien Moquet;Jean-Loup Guyot;Alain Crave;Jérôme Viers

  • A field study of the confluence between Negro and Solimões Rivers. Part 1: Hydrodynamics and sediment transport

    Carlo Gualtieri;Naziano Filizola;Marco de Oliveira;Andrè Martinelli Santos

  • Dissolved solids and suspended sediment yields in the Rio Madeira basin, from the Bolivian Andes to the Amazon

    Jean Loup Guyot;Naziano Filizola;Jorge Quintanilla;Jose Cortez

  • Carbon and metal concentrations, size distributions and fluxes in major rivers of the Amazon basin

    Marc F. Benedetti;Stephane Mounier;Naziano Filizola;Jean Benaim

  • A reassessment of the suspended sediment load in the Madeira River basin from the Andes of Peru and Bolivia to the Amazon River in Brazil, based on 10 years of data from the HYBAM monitoring programme

    Philippe Vauchel;William Santini;Jean Loup Guyot;Jean Sébastien Moquet

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Loup Guyot
Jean-Loup Guyot Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Jean-Michel Martinez
Jean-Michel Martinez Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Jhan Carlo Espinoza
Jhan Carlo Espinoza Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Josyane Ronchail
Josyane Ronchail Sorbonne University
Julien Bouchez
Julien Bouchez Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Marie-Paule Bonnet
Marie-Paule Bonnet Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Jérôme Gaillardet
Jérôme Gaillardet Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Hella Wittmann
Hella Wittmann Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Stéphane Calmant
Stéphane Calmant Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Marc F. Benedetti
Marc F. Benedetti Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

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