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Roger Moussa is affiliated with INRAE: Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement in France. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with extensive work in hydrology and watershed management.

The scientist's publications cover a range of topics related to hydrology and environmental processes. Key research areas include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Groundwater and Watershed Analysis
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Karst Systems and Hydrogeology
  • Transboundary Water Resource Management

Moussa's work spans several subfields within environmental science, notably:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Ecology
  • Earth-Surface Processes

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Moussa emphasize hydrological processes, karst systems, and flood dynamics. Notable publications include:

  • Interbasin groundwater flow: Characterization, role of karst areas, impact on annual water balance and flood processes (2020) - Journal of Hydrology
  • Impact of karst areas on runoff generation, lateral flow and interbasin groundwater flow at the storm-event timescale (2021) - Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • The Event-specific Geomorphological Instantaneous Unit Hydrograph (E-GIUH): The basin hydrological response characteristic of a flood event (2021) - Journal of Hydrology
  • Specific climate classification for Mediterranean hydrology and future evolution under Med-CORDEX regional climate model scenarios (2020) - Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Investigating flood processes in karst catchments by combining concentration-discharge relationship analysis and lateral flow simulation (2021) - Journal of Hydrology

Moussa frequently publishes in prominent journals including:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Digital Water
  • Hydrological Sciences Journal
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

Collaborations have been established with several recurring co-authors such as:

  • Samer Majdalani
  • Antoine Allam
  • Wajdi Najem
  • Claude Bocquillon
  • Olivier Delestre

Best Publications

  • Distributed Watershed Model Compatible with Remote Sensing and GIS Data. I: Description of Model

    Jean-Pierre Fortin;Jean-Pierre Fortin;Richard Turcotte;Richard Turcotte;Serge Massicotte;Serge Massicotte;Roger Moussa;Roger Moussa

  • Effects of the spatial organization of agricultural management on the hydrological behaviour of a farmed catchment during flood events

    Roger Moussa;Marc Voltz;Patrick Andrieux

  • Herbicide Transport to Surface Waters at Field and Watershed Scales in a Mediterranean Vineyard Area

    Xavier Louchart;Marc Voltz;Patrick Andrieux;Roger Moussa

  • Criteria for the choice of flood-routing methods in natural channels

    Roger Moussa;Claude Bocquillon

  • Comparison of infiltration models to simulate flood events at the field scale

    Nanée Chahinian;Roger Moussa;Patrick Andrieux;Marc Voltz

  • Distributed hydrological modelling of a Mediterranean mountainous catchment – Model construction and multi-site validation

    Roger Moussa;Nanée Chahinian;Claude Bocquillon

  • Spatio-temporal distribution of soil surface moisture in a heterogeneously farmed Mediterranean catchment

    O. Hébrard;M. Voltz;P. Andrieux;R. Moussa

  • ANALYTICAL HAYAMI SOLUTION FOR THE DIFFUSIVE WAVE FLOOD ROUTING PROBLEM WITH LATERAL INFLOW

    Roger Moussa

  • On morphometric properties of basins, scale effects and hydrological response

    Roger Moussa

  • Soil tillage and scale effects on erosion from fields to catchment in a Mediterranean vineyard area

    Damien Raclot;Yves Le Bissonnais;Xavier Louchart;Patrick Andrieux

  • On the use of the diffusive wave for modelling extreme flood events with overbank flow in the floodplain

    Roger Moussa;Claude Bocquillon

  • Hydrological response characteristics of Mediterranean catchments at different time scales: a meta-analysis.

    Mohammad Merheb;Roger Moussa;Chadi Abdallah;François Colin

  • Hydrotel, un modèle hydrologique distribué pouvant bénéficier des données fournies par la télédétection et les systèmes d'information géographique

    Jean-Pierre Fortin;Roger Moussa;Claude Bocquillon;Jean-Pierre Villeneuve

  • Comparison of different multi-objective calibration criteria using a conceptual rainfall-runoff model of flood events.

    R. Moussa;N. Chahinian

  • Modelling the hydrological behaviour of a coffee agroforestry basin in Costa Rica

    F. Gomez-Delgado;Olivier Roupsard;G. Le Maire;S. Taugourdeau

  • Distributed Watershed Model Compatible with Remote Sensing and GIS Data. II: Application to Chaudière Watershed

    Jean-Pierre Fortin;Jean-Pierre Fortin;Richard Turcotte;Richard Turcotte;Serge Massicotte;Serge Massicotte;Roger Moussa;Roger Moussa

  • Approximation zones of the Saint-Venant equations f flood routing with overbank flow

    Roger Moussa;Roger Moussa;C. Bocquillon

  • Self‐potential signals associated with variations of the hydraulic head during an infiltration experiment

    A. Revil;D. Hermitte;M. Voltz;R. Moussa

  • What controls the width function shape, and can it be used for channel network comparison and regionalization?

    Roger Moussa

  • Characterizing floods in the poorly gauged wetlands of the Tana River Delta, Kenya, using a water balance model and satellite data

    Crystèle Leauthaud;Gilbert Belaud;Stéphanie Duvail;Roger Moussa

  • GEOMORPHOLOGICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION CALCULATED FROM DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS FOR DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING

    Roger Moussa

  • Geo-MHYDAS: A landscape discretization tool for distributed hydrological modeling of cultivated areas

    P. Lagacherie;M. Rabotin;F. Colin;R. Moussa

  • Distributed hydrological modelling of a Mediterranean mountainous catchment - Model construction and multi-site validation [Erratum: 2007 Oct. 30, v. 345, issue 3-4, p. 254.]

    R. Moussa;N. Chahinian;C. Bocquillon

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Voltz
Marc Voltz University of Montpellier
Philippe Lagacherie
Philippe Lagacherie University of Montpellier
Y. Le Bissonnais
Y. Le Bissonnais Montpellier SupAgro
Olivier Roupsard
Olivier Roupsard Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Charles Perrin
Charles Perrin University of Paris-Saclay
Jérôme Latron
Jérôme Latron Spanish National Research Council
Erwin Dreyer
Erwin Dreyer INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Christophe Jourdan
Christophe Jourdan Montpellier SupAgro
Catherine Roumet
Catherine Roumet University of Montpellier
Iván Prieto
Iván Prieto University of Leon

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