Angelica Tarpanelli, PhD

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Researcher

Via della Madonna Alta,126
Perugia , Italy – 06128
Email: a.tarpanelli@irpi.cnr.it

Office Phone: +39 0755014-426

Research interest

The research activities mainly regard:

river discharge estimation from multiple satellite sensors data;
hydraulic risk assessment through in situ and remote sensing data;
exploring the potential of soil moisture for the quantification of the irrigation;
watershed hydrology with a focus on hydrological and hydraulic processes for coping with flooding risks;
design flood estimation for water management and flood hazard assessment;
analysis of climate change effects on flood frequency;
stochastic generation of spatially distributed rainfall.

GOOGLE SCHOLAR ID – SCOPUS ID – RESEARCH GATE

Biography

Angelica Tarpanelli was born in Assisi, Italy, in 1981. She received her M.S. degree in Civil Engineering with excellence from the University of Perugia in Italy in April 2006. In September 2006 she received a Scholarship and successively a Research Fellowship to carry out research at the Research Institute of Geo-Hydrological Protection (IRPI) of the National Research Council (CNR) in Perugia under the project titled “Hydrological Monitoring of Extreme Events”. Since September 2012 she has been a Researcher at CNR-IRPI. In January 2014 she received her PhD in Hydraulic Engineering at University of Perugia. The title of her thesis is “Remote Sensing for Hydraulic Applications in Small-Medium Basins”.

Awards and Recognitions

2021: “ESA–EGU Earth Observation Excellence Award” given by European Space Agency and European Geosciences Union recognising the IRPI-Hydrology Group for an outstanding contribution to the innovative use of Earth Observation in Hydrology.
2018: “Winner of the Copernicus Masters competition: BayWa Smart Farming Challenge” given by Copernicus Masters
2017: “Florisa Melone Award” (Co-I) of the project “Monitoring extreme events (floods & drought) through discharge time series obtained from satellite altimetry”, by Camici Stefania, given by Italian Hydrology Society (IHS).
2016: “Best poster award IDRA” for “Potenziale dei dati satellitari per la previsione delle piene nel Fiume Benue in Nigeria “, by Tarpanelli A., Amarnath G., Brocca L., Massari C., Barbetta S. and Moramarco T. in the macro-theme “Monitoring, open-date and free software”.
2014: “EGU Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award” for “River discharge estimation by using remote sensing data in absence of bathymetry: the Po River case study” by Tarpanelli, A., Barbetta, S., Brocca, L., Lacava, T., Faruolo, M., Moramarco, T., award given by European Geophysical Union (EGU)
2014: “RICERCATAMENTE“ award for the best Italian young scientist in the Earth Science and Environmental Technologies research area. The award is given by the National Research Council and the Accademia dei Lincei.

Projects

Angelica Tarpanelli actively participated (as responsible and coordinator) to several research projects in the frame of Italian and European programs and funded by International space agencies, in collaboration with Italian and International institutions.

International projects

EO4FLOOD. European Space Agency (ESA), October 2024 – October 2026 (Principal Investigator)
St3TART-Follow On. European Space Agency (ESA), May 2024 – April 2028 (Co-Investigator)
UAWOS. European Commission (HORIZON programme), February 2023 – January 2027 (Co-Investigator)
CCI-Discharge. European Space Agency (ESA), January 2023 – July 2024 (Co-Investigator)
DEMETRAS. European Space Agency (ESA), December 2023 – December 2024 (Principal Investigator)
4DMED-Hydrology. European Space Agency (ESA), November 2021 – November 2023 (Co-Investigator)
STREAMRIDE. European Space Agency (ESA), February 2021 – January 2022 (WP Leader)
St3TART. European Space Agency (ESA), July 2021 – July 2023 (Co-Investigator)
Cryo-TEMPO. European Space Agency (ESA), October 2020 – December 2025 (Co-Investigator)
HYDROCOASTAL. European Space Agency (ESA), February 2020 – March 2023 (Co-Investigator)
FDR4ALT. European Space Agency (ESA), September 2019 – June 2021 (Co-Investigator)
IRRIGATION+. European Space Agency (ESA), March 2020 – March 2022 (WP Leader)
DTE HYDROLOGY. European Space Agency (ESA), September 2020 – September 2021 (WP Leader)
RIDESAT European Space Agency (ESA), November 2018 – April 2020 (Principal Investigator)
IWMI Project . International Water Management Institute, IWMI, April 2015 – July 2015 (Principal Investigator)
WACMOS IRRIGATION. European Space Agency (ESA), January 2017 -December 2017 (WP Leader)
COMMONS. European Space Agency (ESA), October 2014 – October 2016 (WP Leader)
FLOODMED. European Commission, March 2006 – April 2008 (Participation)

National projects

Redazione di mappe delle aree allagabili dei corsi d’acqua del reticolo secondario del Fiume Tevere (Rio Grande e Fosso Leonessa) e studio evento di piena 11-14 Novembre 2012 (Paglia-Chiani e Nestore), Umbria Region, December 2012- October 2013 (Coordinator and Responsibility)
Affidamento incarico per la redazione dello studio per la definizione delle aree inondabili del bacino del T. Genna nelle aree ricomprese tra Pian di Massiano e Ponte della Pietra, Comune Perugia, January 2014 – April 2014 (Coordinator and Responsibility)
Studio di fattibilità per la messa in sicurezza idraulica dell’area urbana di Pistrino mediante misure di intervento strutturali, Regione Umbria, February 2015 – February 2016 (Participation)
Aree allagabili del Fiume Tevere in prossimità dell’abitato della Frazione di Pian di San Martino nel Comune di Todi, Provincia Perugia, May 2014 – December 2014 (Participation)
Redazione di mappe delle aree allagabili dei corsi d’acqua del reticolo secondario del Fiume Tevere (Rio Grande e Fosso Leonessa) e studio evento di piena 11-14 Novembre 2012 (Paglia-Chiani e Nestore), Comunità Europea POR-FESR, December 2012 – November 2013 (Participation)
Affidamento del servizio inerente l’implementazione operativa dell’elaborazione di scenari dinamici di rischio alluvionale e diffusione risultati su tecnologie web-Gis, anche in ambito recepimento Direttiva alluvioni 2007, Comunità Europea POR-FESR, December 2011 – November 2013 (Participation)
Studio idrologico del bacino del Fiume Paglia e aggiornamento delle fasce di pericolosità idraulica del tratto terminale del corso principale, Consorzio per la bonifica della Val di Chiana Romana e Val di Paglia, March 2010 – March 2011 (Participation)
Perimetrazione delle aree inondate, Comunità Europea POR-FESR, June 2009 – June 2011 (Participation)
SECLI Rischio Siccità e Cambiamento Climatico, Comunità Europea POR-FESR, June 2009 – June 2011 (Participation)
Scenari dinamici di rischio alluvionale, Comunità Europea POR-FESR, June 2009 – June 2011 (Participation)
Sicurezza idrologica delle dighe, Sovrano Militare Ordine di Malta, November 2008 – October 2009 (Participation)
Supporto tecnico scientifico per attività connessa al rischio idraulico nel territorio della Regione Umbria ai fini anche della redazione di cartografia delle aree inondate dall’evento alluvionale del novembre-dicembre 2005, Autorità di bacino del Tevere, January 2007 – November 2008 (Participation)
Elaborazione e modellazione dati idrometeorologici per la previsione e il preannuncio del rischio idraulico con ripristino delle teleferiche, Regione Umbria, June 2006 – April 2012 (Participation)
Redazione delle mappe di allagabilità per i tratti fluviali del reticolo secondario del Fiume Tevere,Regione Umbria, 2003-2009 (Participation)

Academic and lecturing

Lecturer for ESA Advances Land Training Course 2017 Godollo (HU) and 2018, Leicester (UK) on River discharge ad lake volume variation using radar altimetry and imaging sensors.
She has directed 4 M.Sc. theses (national and international), she was tutor of 2 PhD students and she is currently co-tutor of 2 PhD students. She is a tutor of two fellowships at IRPI-CNR.

International activities

She is part of the “Discharge algorithm working group” for the SWOT mission.
She is a Member of Cryosat Scientific Expert for inland water applications.
She is Member of the Italian Hydrological Society, the Italian Group of Hydraulics (GII), the European Geophysical Union (EGU) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Editorial board, referring, convener activities and conference organization

Angelica Tarpanelli is editor of Remote Sensing (MDPI) for Section “Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology”.
She is editor of Scientific Reports (Springer Nature).
She is review editor for Frontiers in Earth Science for Sections “Hydrosphere”, “Water and Hydrocomplexity”, “Environmental Informatics and Remote Sensing” and for Frontiers in Remote Sensing for Section “Microwave Remote Sensing”.
She is guest editor of the Special Issue on Frontiers in Earth Science: Progress in River Discharge Estimation from Satellite Measurements and Modelling.
She was guest editor of the Special Issue on Remote Sensing (MDPI): Remote Sensing of Flow Velocity, Channel Bathymetry and River Discharge.
She was guest editor of the Special Issue on Remote Sensing (MDPI): Remote Sensing for Flood Mapping and Monitoring of Flood Dynamics.
She was guest editor of the Special Issue on Remote Sensing (MDPI): Floods and Landslide Prediction
2024: Convener and Chairperson at the 30 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry Symposium, Montpellier, France, session 6 “Inland Water”
2023: Convener at the European Geociences Union, Vienna, Austria, session HS6.3 “Remote Sensing for Flood Dynamics Monitoring and Flood Mapping”.
2023: Chairperson at the European Geociences Union, Vienna, Austria, session HS6.4 “Water Level, Storage and Discharge from Remote Sensing and Assimilation in Hydrodynamic Models”.
2022: Convener at the ESA Living Planet Symposium 2022, Bonn, Germany, session A7.01 “Inland Water Storage and Runoff: Modeling, In situ Data and Remote Sensing”.
2022: Convener at the European Geociences Union, Vienna, Austria, session HS6.2 “Remote Sensing for Flood Dynamics Monitoring and Flood Mapping”.
2021: Convener at the European Geociences Union, Vienna, Austria, session HS6.2/NH6.7 “Remote Sensing for Flood Dynamics Monitoring and Flood Mapping”.
2021: Convener at the European Geociences Union, Vienna, Austria, session HS6.5/NH6.10 “Remote sensing for flood dynamics monitoring and flood mapping” and session HS6.8 “Water level, storage and discharge from remote sensing and assimilation in hydrodynamic models”.
2020: Member of the Scientific Committee at The Earth Observation for Water Cycle Science 2020, 16-18 November 2020, Versailles, France.
2020: Convener at the European Geociences Union, Vienna, Austria, session HS6.6/NH6.11 “Remote Sensing for Flood Dynamics Monitoring and Flood Mapping” and session HS6.7 “Water Level, Storage and Discharge from Remote Sensing and Assimilation in Hydrodynamic Models”.
2019: Convener at the European Geociences Union, Vienna, Austria, session HS6.3/NH6.19 “Remote Sensing for Flood Dynamics Monitoring, Water Level, Storage and Discharge”.
2019: Member of the Scientific Committee and Convener at the 25 Year of progress in Radar Altimetry Symposium, Ponta Delgada Azores Archipelago, Portugal.
2018: Convener at the European Geociences Union, Vienna, Austria, session “HS6.3 “Water Level, Storage, Floods and Discharge from Remote Sensing and Assimilation in Hydrodynamic Models”.
2017: Convener and chair at the American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, USA.
2015: Organizing and Scientific Committee at the Giornate dell’Idrologia, Perugia, Italy.
2015: Scientific Committee and Convener at the Third Space for Hydrology Workshop “Surface water storage and runoff: modelling, in situ data and remote sensing”, ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy.
2014: Convener at the IAEG XII, Turin, Italy.
2013: Organizing Committee at the Florisa Melone Memorial Conference, Assisi, Italy.
She serves as a referee for leading hydrologic and hydraulic journals with 90+ reviewed papers.

Presentations

“Constellation of small altimetric satellites: a game changer in inland hydrology?”, Panel discussion, 24 April 2023
“Estimating River Discharge From Satellite Sensors Data”, LOGYTalks, 25 January 2022 (click to download the presentation)
“Multi Mission Satellite Observation for River Discharge Estimation”, Webinar, IMTA, 18 June 2020.
“River discharge”, Interview, 25YPRA, Azores, 27 September 2018.
“On the use of radar altimetry and its integration with other satellite sensors for river discharge estimation and forecasting”, OSTST, La Rochelle, France, 1 November 2016 (Keynote speaker). The Earth Observer. March – April 2017. Volume 29, Issue 2
“Discharge forecasting using MODIS and radar altimetry: potential application for transboundary flood risk management in Niger-Benue river basin“, EGU 2016, Vienna, Austria, 22 April 2016.
“Saral/Altika for inland water: current and potential applications“, EGU 2015, Vienna, Austria, 17 April 2015 (solicited).
“Integration of MODIS and Radar Altimetry data for river discharge estimation from space“, IAEG XII congress, Torino, Italy, 18 September 2014.
“Comparison of different sensors for river discharge estimation from space“, EGU 2013, Vienna Austria, 12 April 2013.
“Improving hydraulic modelling using remote sensing-derived flood extent data“, EGU 2011, Vienna Austria, 6 April 2011.
“River discharge estimation through MODIS data“, SPIE Remote Sensing 2011, Prague, Czech Republic, 19 September 2011.
“Un metodo semplice per la generazione di serie sintentiche di pioggia con correlazione spaziale e temporale“, IDRA XXXII, Palermo, Italy, 15 September 2010.

Publications

REVIEWED JOURNAL PAPERS

2024

Brocca, L., Barbetta, S., Camici, S., Ciabatta, L., Dari, J., Filippuci, P., … Tarpanelli A.,… (2024). A Digital Twin of the terrestrial water cycle: a glimpse into the future through high-resolution Earth observations. Frontiers in Science, 1:1190191. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsci.2023.1190191
Forlingeri, F., Biondi, F., Fiscante, N., Tarpanelli A., Addabbo, P., Clemente, C., Giunta, G., Orlando, D. (2024) Enhancements of River Water Level Monitoring Method Using COSMO-SkyMed SAR Images, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 17, 12466-12476. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3421998
Huang, C., Li, Y., Tarpanelli A., Wang, N.L., Chen Y. (2024) Observing river discharge from space: Challenges and opportunities, The Innovation Geoscience, 2(2):100076. https://doi.org/10.59717/j.xinn-geo.2024.100076
Sahoo D.P., Tiwari M. K., Tarpanelli A., Singh K. A. (2024) Multi-mission virtual monitoring station for streamflow monitoring and hydrodynamic model calibration, Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 36, 101330. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2024.101330

2023

Azimi S., Massari C., Formetta G., Barbetta S., Tazioli A., Fronzi D., Modanesi S., Tarpanelli A., Rigon R.(2023) On understanding mountainous carbonate basins of the Mediterranean using parsimonious modeling solutions, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 27, 4485–4503. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-4485-2023
Da Silva E., Woolliams E.R., Picot, N. Poisson J.-C., …, Tarpanelli A., Camici S., et al. (2023) Towards Operational Fiducial Reference Measurement (FRM) Data for the Calibration and Validation of the Sentinel-3 Surface Topography Mission over Inland Waters, Sea Ice, and Land Ice. Remote Sens., 15, 4826. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15194826
Dari J., Brocca L., Modanesi S., Massari C., Tarpanelli A., Barbetta S., Quast R., Vreugdenhil M., Freeman V., Barella-Ortiz A., Quintana-Seguì P., Bretreger D., Volden E. (2023) Regional data sets of high-resolution (1 and 6 km) irrigation estimates from space, Earth System Science Data, 15, 1555-1575, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-1555-2023
Durand M., Gleason C.J., Pavelsky T.M., Frasson R.P.M., Turmon M., David C.H., Altenau E.H., Tebaldi N., Larnier K., Monnier J., Malaterre P.O., Oubanas H., Allen G.H., Bates P.D., Bjerklie D., Coss S., Dudley R., Fenoglio L., Garambois P.A., Lin P., Margulis S.A., Matte P., Minear J.T., Muhebwa A., Pan M., Peters D., Riggs R., Tarpanelli A., Schulze K., Tourian M.J., WangJ. (2023) A framework for estimating global river discharge from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite mission, Water Resource Research, 59, e2021WR031614, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR031614 .
Tarpanelli A., Bonaccorsi B., Sinagra M., Domeneghetti A., Brocca L., Barbetta S. (2023) Flooding in the Digital Twin Earth: the case study of the Enza river levee breach in December 2017, Water, 15 (9), 1644. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15091644
Tarpanelli A., Paris A., Sichangi W., O’Loughlin F., Papa F. (2023) Water Resources in Africa: the Role of Earth Observation Data and Hydrodynamic Modelling to Derive River Discharge, Surveys in Geophysics, 44, 97–122. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-022-09744-x

2022

Alfieri L., Avanzi F., Delogu F., Gabellani S., Bruno G., Campo L., Libertino A., Massari C.,Tarpanelli A., Rains D., Miralles D.G., Quast R., Vreugdenhi M., Wu H., Brocca L. (2022) High-resolution satellite products improve hydrological modeling in northern Italy, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26(14), 3921-3939, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-3921-2022
Camici S., Giuliani G., Brocca L., Massari C., Tarpanelli A., Farahani H.H, Sneeuw N., Restano M., Benveniste J. (2022) Synergy between satellite observations of soil moisture and water storage anomalies for global runoff estimation. Geoscientific model development, 15(18), 6935-6956, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-6935-2022.
Filippucci P., Brocca L., Bonafoni S., Saltalippi C., Wagner W., Tarpanelli A. (2022) Sentinel-2 high-resolution data for river discharge monitoring. Remote Sensing of Environment., 281, 113255, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113255.
Filippucci P., Brocca L., Quast R., Ciabatta L., Saltalippi C., Wagner W., Tarpanelli A. (2022) High resolution (1 km) satellite rainfall estimation from SM2RAIN applied to Sentinel-1: Po River Basin as case study. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26(9), 2481-2497, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-2481-2022
Modanesi S., Massari C., Bechtold M., Lievens H., Tarpanelli A., Brocca L., Zappa L., De Lannoy G.J.M. (2022) Challenges and benefits of quantifying irrigation through the assimilation of Sentinel-1 backscatter observations into Noah-MP. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26(18), 4685–4706, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-4685-2022
Nielsen K., Zakharova E., Tarpanelli A., Andersen O.B., Benveniste J. (2022) River levels from multi mission altimetry, a statistical approach. Remote Sensing of Environment, 270, 112876.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112876
Schumann G., Giustarini L., Tarpanelli A., Jarihani B., Martinis S. (2022) Flood Modeling and Prediction using Earth Observation Data, Surveys in Geophysics, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-022-09751-y
Tarpanelli A., Mondini A.C., Camici S. (2022) Effectiveness of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 for Flood Detection Assessment in Europe, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences,22(8), 2473-2489, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-2473-2022.

2021

Abdalla S., Abdeh Kolahchi A., Adusumilli S., Aich Bhowmick S., Alou-Font E., Amarouche L., … Tarpanelli A., … (2021) Altimetry for the future: Building on 25 years of progress, Advances in Space Research, 68(2), 319-363. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2021.01.022
Belloni R., Camici S., Tarpanelli A. (2021) Towards the continuous monitoring of the extreme events through satellite radar altimetry observations. Journal of Hydrology, 603, Part A, 126870. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126870
Domeneghetti A., Molari G., Tourian M.J., Tarpanelli A., Behnia S., Moramarco T., Sneeuw N., Brath A. (2021) Testing the use of single- and multi-mission satellite altimetry for the calibration of hydraulic models. Advances in Water Resources, 151, 103887. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2021.103887
Filippucci P., Brocca L., Massari C., Saltalippi C., Wagner W., Tarpanelli A. (2021) Toward a self-calibrated and independent SM2RAIN rainfall product. Journal of Hydrology, 603, Part A, 126837. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126837
Massari C., Modanesi S., Dari J., Gruber A., De Lannoy G.J.M., Girotto M., Quintana-Seguí P., Le Page M., Jarlan L., Zribi M., Ouaadi N., Vreugdenhil M., Zappa L., Dorigo W., Wagner W., Brombacher J., Pelgrum H., Jaquot P., Freeman V., Volden E., Fernandez Prieto D., Tarpanelli A., Barbetta S., Brocca L. (2021) A review of irrigation information retrievals from space and their utility for users. Remote Sensing, 3(20), 4112. https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/20/4112
Modanesi S., Massari C., Gruber A., Lievens H., Tarpanelli A., Morbidelli R., De Lannoy G.J.M. (2021) Optimizing a backscatter forward operator using Sentinel-1 data over irrigated land. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 6283-6307, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-6283-2021
Tarpanelli A., Domeneghetti A. (2021) Flow duration curves from surface reflectance in the Near Infrared band. Applied Sciences, 11(8), 3458. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11083458
Tarpanelli A., Camici S., Nielsen K., Brocca L., Moramarco T., Benveniste J. (2021) Potentials and limitations of Sentinel-3 for river discharge assessment. Advaces in Space Research, 68(2), 593-606. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2019.08.005

2020

Filippucci P., Tarpanelli A., Massari C., Serafini A., Strati V., Alberi M., Raptis K.G.C., Mantovani F., Brocca L. (2020) Soil moisture as a potential variable for tracking and quantifying irrigation: a case study with proximal gamma-ray spectroscopy data. Advances in Water Resources, 136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2019.103502
Legleiter C., Pavelsky T., Durand M., Allen G., Tarpanelli A., Frasson R., Guneralp I., Woodget A.(2020) Editorial for the Special Issue “Remote Sensing of Flow Velocity, Channel Bathymetry, and River Discharge. Special Issue on Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing of Flow Velocity, Channel Bathymetry, and River Discharge, 12, 2304. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12142304
Tarpanelli A., Iodice F., Brocca L., Restano M., Benveniste J. (2020). River flow monitoring by Sentinel-3 OLCI and MODIS: comparison and combination. Remote Sensing, 12(23), 3867. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12233867

2019

Biondi F., Tarpanelli A., Addabbo Pia, Orlando D., Clemente C. (2019). Pixel Tracking to Estimate RiversWater Flow Elevation Using Cosmo-SkyMed SAR data. Remote Sensing, 11(21), 2574. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11212574
Domeneghetti A., Schumann G., Tarpanelli A. (2019). Preface: Remote Sensing for Flood Mapping and Monitoring of Flood Dynamics. Remote Sensing, 11(8), 943. https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/8/943
Moramarco T., Barbetta S., Bjerklie D., Fulton J., Tarpanelli A., (2019) River bathymetry estimate and discharge assessment from remote rensing. Water Resources Research, 55(8), 6692-6711. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR024220
Tarpanelli A., Santi E., Tourian M.J., Filippucci P., Amarnath G., Brocca L. (2019). Daily river discharge estimates by merging satellite optical sensors and radar altimetry through artificial neural network. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 57(1), 329-341. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2018.2854625
Zaussinger F., Dorigo W., Gruber A., Tarpanelli A., Filippucci P., Brocca L. (2019): Estimating irrigation water use over the contiguous United States by combining satellite and reanalysis soil moisture data, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 23, 897-923. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2018-388

2018

Brocca L., Tarpanelli A., Filippucci P., Dorigo W., Zaussinger F., Gruber A., Fernández-Prieto D. (2018). How much water is used for irrigation? A new approach exploiting coarse resolution satellite soil moisture products. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 73, 752-766. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2018.08.023
Domeneghetti A., Tarpanelli A., Grimaldi L., Brath A., Schumann G. (2018). Flow duration curve from satellite: potential of lifetime SWOT mission. Remote Sensing, 10, 1107. http://doi.org/10.3390/rs10071107
Loizu J., Massari C., Álvarez-Mozos J., Tarpanelli A., Brocca L., Casalí J. (2018). On the assimilation set-up of ASCAT soil moisture data for improving streamflow catchment simulation, Advances in Water Resources, 111, 86-104. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.10.034
Schneider R., Tarpanelli A., Nielsen C., Madsen H., Bauer-Gottwein P. (2018). Evaluation of multi-mode Cryosat-2 altimetry data over the Po River against in situ data and a hydrodynamic model, Advances in Water Resources, 112, 17-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.11.027
Tauro F., Selker J., van de Giesen N., …, Tarpanelli A., …, Grimaldi S. (2018). Measurements and Observations in the XXI century (MOXXI): innovation and multidisciplinarity to sense the hydrological cycle. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 63(2), 169-196. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2017.1420191

2017

Brocca L., Crow W.T., Ciabatta L., Massari C., de Rosnay P., Enenkel M., Hahn S., Amarnath G., Camici S., Tarpanelli A., Wagner W. (2017). A review of the applications of ASCAT soil moisture products. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 10(5), 2285-2306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2017.2651140
Brocca L., Ciabatta L., Massari C., Camici S., Tarpanelli A. (2017). Soil moisture for hydrological applications: open questions and new opportunities, Water, 9(2), 140. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w9020140
Moramarco T., Barbetta S., Tarpanelli A., (2017). From surface flow velocity measurements to the discharge assessment by the entropy theory, Water, 9(2), 120. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w9020120
Tarpanelli A., Amarnath G., Brocca L., Massari C., Moramarco T. (2017). Discharge estimation and forecasting by MODIS and altimetry data in Niger-Benue River, Remote Sensing of Environment, 195, 96-106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.04.015
Tarpanelli A., Massari C., Ciabatta L., Filippucci P., Amarnath G., Brocca L. (2017). Exploiting a constellation of satellite soil moisture sensors for accurate rainfall estimation, Advances in Water Resources, 108, 249-255. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/nh.2016.037

2016

Tourian M.J., Tarpanelli A., Elmi O., Qin T., Brocca L., Moramarco T., Sneeuw N. (2016) Spatiotemporal densification of river water level time series by multimission satellite altimetry. Water Resources Research, 52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015WR017654

2015

Domeneghetti A., Castellarin A.,Tarpanelli A., Moramarco T. (2015) Investigating the uncertainty of satellite altimetry products for hydrodynamic modelling. Hydrological Processes, 29(23), 4908-4918. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.10507
Massari C., Tarpanelli A., Moramarco T. (2015) A fast simplified model for predicting river flood inundation probabilities conditioned on flood extent data. Hydrological processes,29(10), 2275-2289. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.10367
Massari C., Brocca L., Tarpanelli A., Moramarco T. (2015) Data assimilation of satellite soil moisture into rainfall-runoff modelling: a complex recipe? Remote Sensing, 7(9), 11403-11433. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs70911403
Tarpanelli A., Brocca L., Barbetta S., Faruolo M., Lacava T., Moramarco T. (2015) Coupling MODIS and radar altimetry data for discharge estimation in poorly gauged river basin. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 8(1), 141-148. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2320582.

2014

Domeneghetti A., Tarpanelli A., Brocca L., Barbetta S., Moramarco T., Castellarin A., Brath A. (2014) The use of remote sensing-derived water surface data for hydraulic model calibration. Remote Sensing of Environment, 149, 130-141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2014.04.007
Moramarco T., Barbetta S., Pandolfo C., Tarpanelli A., Berni N., Morbidelli R. (2014). The spillway collapse of the Montedoglio dam on the Tiber River (central Italy): data collection and event analysis. Journal of Hydrological Engineering, 19(6), 1264–1270. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000890
Yan K., Tarpanelli A., Balint G., Moramarco T., Di Baldassarre G. (2014) Exploring the potential of radar altimetry and SRTM Topography to Support Flood Propagation Modeling: the Danube Case Study. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 20(2). http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0001018

2013

Brocca L., Tarpanelli A., Melone F., Moramarco T., Caudaro M., Ratto S., Ferraris S., Berni N., Ponziani F., Wagner W., Melzer T. (2013) Soil moisture estimation in alpine catchments through modelling and satellite observations. Vadose Zone Journal 12(3). http://dx.doi.org/10.2136/vzj2012.0102.
Tarpanelli A., Barbetta S., Brocca L., Moramarco T. (2013) River discharge estimation by using altimetry data and simplified flood routing modeling. Remote Sensing, 5(9), 4145-4162. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs5094145
Tarpanelli A., Brocca L., Melone F., Moramarco T., Lacava T., Faruolo M., Pergola N., Tramutoli V. (2013) Toward the estimation of river discharge variations using MODIS data in ungauged basins. Remote Sensing of Environment, 136, 47–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2013.04.010
Tarpanelli A., Brocca L., Melone F., Moramarco T. (2013) Hydraulic modelling calibration in small basins by using coarse resolution synthetic aperture radar imagery. Hydrological Processes, 27(9), 1321-1330. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.9550

2012

Tarpanelli A., Franchini M., Camici S., Brocca L., Melone F., Moramarco T. (2012). A simple approach for stochastic generation of spatial rainfall patterns. Journal of Hydrology, 472, 63-76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.09.010

2011

Camici S., Tarpanelli A., Brocca L., Melone F., Moramarco T. (2011). “Design soil moisture” estimation by comparing continuous and storm-based rainfall-runoff modelling. Water Resources Research, 47(5), W05527. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010WR009298

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