Christian Massari PhD

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Researcher

Via della Madonna Alta, 126
Perugia I-06128

Email: christian.massari@irpi.cnr.it

Office Phone: +39 0755014-417 Mob. +39 3291808832

Research interests

GOOGLE-SCHOLAR – SCOPUS – RESEARCH GATE – LINKEDIN – PUBLONS

Biography

Christian Massari was born in Cascia (Perugia), Italy, in 1981. He received the M.S. degree in environmental engineering and the Ph.D. degree in hydraulic engineering, both with excellence, from the University of Perugia (Perugia), Italy, in 2008 and 2012, respectively.

In support of his Ph.D. he received fellowships to carry out research at The Department of Hydrology and Water Resources of the University of Arizona, Tucson (United States), where he has worked in the field of hydraulic groundwater and Hydraulic Tomographic techniques in the research group of Professor Jim Yeh..

From November 2011 to February 2013 Christian Massari has been research fellow at the “Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Ambientale” of the University of Perugia – Italy, where he has worked in the development of data fusion techniques for the diagnosis of pressurized pipe systems in the research group of Professor Bruno Brunone.

From March 2013 to December 2016 he carried out research activities as a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Institute of Geo-Hydrological Protection (IRPI) of the National Research Council (CNR) of Perugia (Italy).

In January 2017 Christian Massari has obtained the research permanent position at the Research Institute of Geo-Hydrological Protection (IRPI) of the National Research Council (CNR) of Perugia (Italy).

He has been author and co-author of 36 (+4 submitted) journal referred papers (352 citations, H-index=11 with SCOPUS; 489 citations, H-index=13 with SCHOLAR – May 2017) and 21 papers in peer-reviewed conference proceedings/book chapters and national journals. He has held +20 presentations at conference and workshops (2 as invited speaker) and serves as frequent reviewer for several international journals (see PUBLONS for details).

He actively participated to several research project in the frame of Italian and European programs (LIFE+, HORIZON2020), and funded by Space Agencies (ESA, EUMETSAT), in collaboration with Italian and international institutions. He is currently involved in the validation activities for the project “Satellite Application Facility on Support to Operational Hydrology and Water Management (H-SAF)” by EUMETSAT and the GPM (Global Precipitation Measurement) mission by NASA. He participated at the activities carried in the Early Adopter of the SMAP (Soil Moisture Active and Passive) mission program and in the project “Climate Change Initiative – Soil Moisture” by ESA. He is currently involved in “SMOS+rainfall” and projects by ESA and in projects for the operational use of satellite soil moisture data for flood and landslide mitigation funded by the Italian National Department of Civil Protection (DPC) and the Umbria Region Civil Protection Centre (CFD).

He is a Member of the Italian Hydrological Society, the Italian Group of Hydraulics (GII), and the European Geophysical Union (EGU).

Awards and Recognitions

  • 2016: “Best poster award IDRA” (co-auhtor) for ” Potenziale dei dati satellitari per la previsione delle piene nel fiume Benue in Nigeria” by A. Tarpanelli, G. Amarnath, L. Brocca, C. Massari, S. Barbetta, and T. Moramarco.
  • 2012: “Early Careers Water Loss Symposium” at Water Loss 2012, Ferrara May 23/25 2012 for the paper: “Hydraulic characterization of leaks in pressurised pipes” (co-authors: M. Ferrante, B. Brunone, S. Meniconi).

Invited Presentations

  1. Assimilation of H-SAF soil moisture products for hydrological modelling in Mediterranean catchments. “H-SAF and HEPEX workshops on coupled hydrology”, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), 3-7 November 2014, Reading (UK)
  2. Assimilation of Soil Moisture products into hydrological models, “First H–SAF Assimilation Workshop”Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute (SHMÚ), May 2014, Bratislava (Slovakia).

Publications

Under review

  1. Chiaravalloti, F., Brocca, L., Procopio, A., Massari, C., Gabriele, S. (…). Assessment of GPM and SM2RAIN-ASCAT rainfall products over complex terrain in southern Italy. submitted to Atmospheric Research.
  2. Román-Cascón, C., Pellarin, T., Gibon, F., Brocca, L., Cosme, E., Crow, W., Fernández, D., Kerr, Y., Massari, C. (…). Correcting satellite-based precipitation products through SMOS soil moisture data assimilation in two land-surface models of different complexity: API and SURFEX. submitted to Remote Sensing of Environment.
  3. Massari C., Crow W., and Brocca L., An assessment of the accuracy of global rainfall estimates without ground-based observations (…). Submitted to Hydrology and Heart System Science
  4. Loizu, J., Massari, C., Álvarez-Mozos, J., Tarpanelli, A., Brocca, L., Casalí, J. (…). On the assimilation set-up of ASCAT soil moisture data for improving streamflow catchment simulation. submitted to Advances in Water Resources.
  5. Tarpanelli, A., Massari, C., Ciabatta, L., Filippucci, P., Amarnath, G., Brocca, L. (…). Exploiting a constellation of satellite soil moisture sensors for accurate rainfall estimation. submitted to Advances in Water Resources.

REVIEWED JOURNAL PAPERS

2017

  1. Massari, C., Su, C.-H., Brocca, L., Sang, Y.F., Ciabatta, L., Ryu, D., Wagner, W. (…). Global evaluation of near real time de-noising of soil moisture retrievals using three different techniques. Remote Sensing of Environment. (in press)
  1. Brocca, L., Crow, W.T., Ciabatta, L., Massari, C., de Rosnay, P., Enenkel, M., Hahn, S., Amarnath, , 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, in press, doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2017.2651140. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2017.2651140
  2. 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, doi:10.3390/w9020140. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w9020140
  3. Ciabatta, L., Marra, A.C., Panegrossi, G., Casella, D., Sanò, P., Dietrich, S., Massari, C., Brocca, L. (2017). Daily precipitation estimation through different microwave sensors: verification study over Italy. Journal of Hydrology, 545, 436-450, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.12.057. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.12.057
  4. Masseroni, D., Cislaghi, A., Camici, S., Massari, C., Brocca, L. (2017). A reliable rainfall-runoff model for flood forecasting: review and application to a semiurbanized watershed at high flood risk in Italy. Hydrology Research, in press, doi:10.2166/nh.2016.037. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/nh.2016.037

2016

  1. Brocca, L., Pellarin, T., Crow, W.T., Ciabatta, L., Massari, C., Ryu, D., Su, C.-H., Rudiger, C., Kerr, Y. (2016). Rainfall estimation by inverting SMOS soil moisture estimates: a comparison of different methods over Australia. Journal of Geophysical Research, 121(20), 12062-12079, doi:10.1002/2016JD025382. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016JD025382
  2. Brocca, L., Massari, C., Ciabatta, L., Wagner, W., Stoffelen, A. (2016). Remote sensing of terrestrial rainfall from Ku-band scatterometers. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 9(1), 533-539, doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2508065. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2508065
  3. Ciabatta, L., Brocca, L., Massari, C., Moramarco, T., Gabellani, S., Puca, S., Wagner, W. (2016). Rainfall-runoff modelling by using SM2RAIN-derived and state-of-the-art satellite rainfall products over Italy. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 48, 163-173, doi:10.1016/j.jag.2015.10.004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2015.10.004
  4. Masseroni, D., Cislaghi, A., Camici, S., Massari, C.,Brocca, L. (2016). A reliable rainfall-runoff model for flood forecasting: review and application to a semiurbanized watershed at high flood risk in Italy. Hydrology Research, in press, doi:10.2166/nh.2016.037. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/nh.2016.037

2015

  1. Brocca, L., Massari, C., Ciabatta, L., Moramarco, T., Penna, D., Zuecco, G., Pianezzola, L., Borga, M., Matgen, P., Martínez-Fernández, J. (2015). Rainfall estimation from in situ soil moisture observations at several sites in Europe: an evaluation of SM2RAIN algorithm. Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics, 63(3), 201-209, doi:10.1515/johh-2015-0016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/johh-2015-0016
  2. Ciabatta, L., Brocca, L., Massari, C., Moramarco, T., Puca, S., Rinollo, A., Gabellani, S., Wagner, W. (2015). Integration of satellite soil moisture and rainfall observations over the Italian territory. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 16(3), 1341-1355, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-14-0108.1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-14-0108.1
  3. Massari, C., Brocca, L., Ciabatta, L., Moramarco, T., Gabellani, S., Albergel, C., de Rosnay, P., Puca, S., Wagner, W. (2015). The use of H-SAF soil moisture products for operational hydrology: flood modelling over Italy. Hydrology, 2(1), 2-22, doi:10.3390/hydrology2010002. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/hydrology2010002
  4. 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, doi:10.3390/rs70911403. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs70911403
  5. Massari, C., Yeh, T. C. J., Ferrante, M., Brunone, B., and Meniconi, S. (2015). A stochastic approach for extended partial blockage detection in viscoelastic pipelines: numerical and laboratory experiments. Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology – AQUA, 64 (5), pp. 583-595, doi: 10.2166/aqua.2015.034

2014

  1. Brocca, L., Ciabatta, L., Massari, C., Moramarco, T., Hahn, S., Hasenauer, S., Kidd, R., Dorigo, W., Wagner, W., Levizzani, V. (2014). Soil as a natural rain gauge: estimating global rainfall from satellite soil moisture data. Journal of Geophysical Research, 119(9), 5128-5141, doi:10.1002/2014JD021489. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2014JD021489
    Nature Research Highlights: Detecting rainfall from the bottom up. Nature, 509, 262–263, doi:10.1038/509262e. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v509/n7500/full/509262e.html
    Press: Corriere.it, Repubblica.it, ilsussidiario.net, CNR
  2. Massari, C., Brocca, L., Barbetta, S., Papathanasiou, C., Mimikou, M., Moramarco, T. (2014). Using globally available soil moisture indicators for flood modelling in Mediterranean catchments. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 18, 839-853, doi:10.5194/hess-18-839-2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-839-2014
  3. Massari, C., Brocca, L., Moramarco, T., Tramblay, Y., Didon Lescot, J.-F. (2014). Potential of soil moisture observations in flood modelling: estimating initial conditions and correcting rainfall. Advances in Water Resources, 74, 44-53, doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2014.08.004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2014.08.004.
  4. Ferrante, M., Brunone, B., Meniconi, S., Karney, B. W., Massari, C. (2014). Leak size, detectability and test conditions in pressurized pipe systems. Water Resources Management, 28(13), 4583-4598. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11269-014-0752-6
  5. Meniconi, S., Brunone, B., Ferrante, M., and Massari, C. (2014). Energy dissipation and pressure decay during transients in viscoelastic pipes with an in-line valve. Journal of Fluids and Structures, 45, 235-249. doi: 10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2013.12.013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2013.12.013
  6. Massari, C., Yeh, T. C., Ferrante, M., Brunone, B., & Meniconi, S. (2014). A stochastic tool for determining the presence of partial blockages in viscoelastic pipelines: first experimental results. Procedia Engineering, 70, 1112-1120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2014.02.123
  7. Ferrante, M., Brunone, B., Meniconi, S., Capponi, C., & Massari, C. (2014). The leak law: From local to global scale. Procedia Engineering, 70, 651-659. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2014.02.071

2013

  1. Brunone, B., Ferrante, M., Meniconi, S., Massari, C. (2013). Effectiveness assessment of pipe systems by means of transient test-based techniques. Procedia Environmental Sciences, 19, 814-822. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proenv.2013.06.090
  2. Massari, C., Yeh, T. C. J., Brunone, B., Ferrante, M., Meniconi, S. (2013). Diagnosis of pipe systems by means of a stochastic successive linear estimator. Water resources management, 27(13), 4637-4654. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11269-013-0433-x
  3. Massari, C., Yeh, T. C. J., Ferrante, M., Brunone, B., Meniconi, S. (2013). Diagnosis of pipe systems by the SLE: first results. Water Science & Technology: Water Supply, 13(4), 958-965. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/ws.2013.051
  4. Meniconi, S., Brunone, B., Ferrante, M., Massari, C. (2013). Numerical and experimental investigation of leaks in viscoelastic pressurized pipe flow. Drinking Water Engineering and Science, 6(1), 11-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/dwes-6-11-2013
  5. Massari, C., Yeh, T. C. J., Ferrante, M., Brunone, B., Meniconi, S. (2013). Detection and sizing of extended partial blockages in pipelines by means of a stochastic successive linear estimator. Journal of Hydroinformatics. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2013.172
  6. Ferrante, M., Massari, C., Brunone, B., Meniconi, S. (2013). Leak behaviour in pressurized PVC pipes. Water Science & Technology: Water Supply, 13(4), 987-992, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00221686.2012.696558
  7. Ferrante, M., Massari, C., Todini, E., Brunone, B., Meniconi, S. (2012). Experimental investigation of leak hydraulics. Journal of Hydroinformatics 15(3) 666-675. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2012.034
  8. Meniconi, S., Brunone, B., Ferrante, M., Massari, C. (2013). Numerical and experimental investigation of leaks in viscoelastic pressurized pipe flow. Drinking Water Engineering and Science, 6(1), 11-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/dwes-6-11-2013

2012

  1. Massari, C., Ferrante, M., Brunone, B., Meniconi, S. (2012). Is the leak head–discharge relationship in polyethylene pipes a bijective function?. Journal of Hydraulic Research, 50(4), 409-417. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00221686.2012.696558
  2. Meniconi, S., Brunone, B., Ferrante, M., Massari, C. (2012). Transient hydrodynamics of in-line valves in viscoelastic pressurized pipes: long-period analysis. Experiments in fluids, 53(1), 265-275. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00348-012-1287-3
  3. Ferrante, M., Todini, E., Massari, C., Brunone, B., Meniconi, S. (2012). Equivalent hydraulic resistance to simulate pipes subject to diffuse outflows. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 14(1), 65-74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2011.043

2011

  1. Meniconi, S., Brunone, B., Ferrante, M., Massari, C. (2011). Transient tests for locating and sizing illegal branches in pipe systems. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 13(3), 334-345. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2011.012
  2. Meniconi, S., Brunone, B., Ferrante, M., Massari, C. (2011). Small amplitude sharp pressure waves to diagnose pipe systems. Water resources management, 25(1), 79-96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11269-010-9688-7
  3. Ferrante, M., Massari, C., Brunone, B., & Meniconi, S. (2011). Experimental evidence of hysteresis in the head-discharge relationship for a leak in a polyethylene pipe. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 137 (7), pp. 775-780. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0000360
  4. Meniconi, S., Brunone, B., Ferrante, M., Massari, C. (2011). Potential of transient tests to diagnose real supply pipe systems: What can be done with a single extemporary test. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 137(2), 238-241. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000098

REVIEWED CONFERENCE PAPERS, NATIONAL JOURNALS and BOOK CHAPTERS

2016

  1. Ciabatta, L., Massari, C., Brocca, L., Reimer, C., Hann, S., Paulik, C., Dorigo, W., Wagner, W. (2016) Using Python® language for the validation of the CCI soil moisture products via SM2RAIN. PeerJ Preprints, 4:e2131v2, https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2131v2
  2. Santi, E., Paloscia, S., Pettinato, S., Brocca, L., Ciabatta, L., Massari, C. (2016). Soil moisture and rainfall retrieval from AMSR2 data in Italy. Proceedings 2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). Beijing, China, 10-15 July 2016.
  3. Tarpanelli, A., Giriraj, A., Brocca, L., Massari, C., Barbetta, S., Moramarco, T. (2016). Potenziale dei dati satellitari per la previsione delle piene nel fiume Benue in Nigeria. Atti del XXV Convegno di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche, 14-16 September 2016, Bologna, Italy.
  4. Todisco, F., Vergni, L., Mannocchi, F., Termite, L., Bagarello, V., Ferro, V., Pampalone, V., Brocca, L., Massari, C. (2016). Uso di dati satellitari e modellati di contenuto d’acqua e deflusso superficiale per stimare la perdita di suolo pacellare a scala di evento. Quaderni di Idronomia Montana, in stampa.

2012

  1. Meniconi, S., Brunone, B., Ferrante, M., Panduri S. and Massari C. (2012). Effetto delle condizioni iniziali sulle oscillazioni di pressione in una condotta di mandata, L’Acqua, 4, 303-314,
  2. Meniconi, S., Brunone, B., Ferrante, M. and Massari, C. (2012). Sul ruolo del regime delle pressioni iniziali per l’individuazione di una perdita con prove di moto vario, L’Acqua. 4, 315-320.
  3. Massari, C., Yeh, T. J., Ferrante, M., Brunone, B. and Meniconi, S. (2012). Detection of partial blockages by means of a stochastic successive linear estimator, International Conference on Hydroinformatics, July 14-18 2012, Hamburg, Germany.

2011

  1. Meniconi, S., Brunone, B., Ferrante M., Neri R. and Massari C. (2011). Long period analysis of transient pressure signals for in-line valve checking in 11th International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry Urban Water Management: Challenges and Opportunities, 7 September 2011, Exeter, United Kingdom 787-792.
  2. Meniconi, S., Brunone, B., Ferrante, M., Berni, A. and Massari, C. (2011). Experimental evidence of backflow phenomenon in a pressurized pipe in 11th International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry Urban Water Management: Challenges and Opportunities, 7 September 2011, Exeter, United Kingdom 955-960.
  3. Ferrante, M., Todini, E., Massari, C., Brunone, B. and Meniconi, S. (2011). Experimental investigation of the leak hydraulics in 11th International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry Urban Water Management: Challenges and Opportunities, 7 September 2011, Exeter, United Kingdom 527-532

2010

  1. Meniconi, S., Brunone, B., Ferrante, M. and Massari, C. (2010). Verifica dei sistemi di condotte: alcuni spunti di riflessione in 31° Corso di Aggiornamento in Tecniche per la difesa dell’inquinamento, 16-19 June 2010, Cosenza, Italy, 497-511.
  2. Brunone B., Meniconi S., Ferrante M. and Massari C. (2010). Diagnosi dei sistemi di adduzione in pressione mediante transitori controllati in 31° Corso di Aggiornamento in Tecniche per la difesa dell’inquinamento, 16-19 June 2010, Cosenza, Italy, 513-528.
  3. Meniconi, S., Brunone, B., Ferrante, M. and Massari, C. (2010). Sulla caratterizzazione di ostruzioni in condotte in pressione mediante prove in moto vario: primi risultati, L’Acqua ,2, 167-170
  4. Ferrante, M., Massari, C., Cluni, F., Brunone, B. and Meniconi, S. (2010). Analisi sperimentale della legge di efflusso da una perdita in una condotta in polietilene, L’Acqua, 2, 131-133
  5. Giustolisi, O., Berardi, Laucelli, D., Todini, E., Ferrante, M., Massari, C., Brunone, B. and Meniconi S. (2010). Recenti sviluppi nella simulazione idraulica delle reti in pressione, L’Acqua, 2, 144-150.
  6. Ferrante, M., Massari, C., Brunone, B. and Meniconi, S. (2010). Leakage and pipe materials in 12th Annual Water Distribution Systems Analysis Conference (WDSA 2010), 12-15 September 2010, Tucson (AZ), United States, CD-ROM.
  7. Meniconi, S., Brunone, B., Ferrante, M. and Massari, C. (2010). Fast transients as a tool for partial blockage detection in pipes: first experimental results, in 12th Annual Water Distribution Systems Analysis Conference (WDSA 2010), 12-15 September 2010, Tucson (AZ), United States, CD-ROM.
  8. Meniconi, S., Brunone, B., Ferrante, M. and Massari, C. (2010). Diagnostica di ostruzioni in condotte in pressione mediante transitori, in Atti del XXXII Convegno nazionale di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche. 14 – 17 Settembre 2010, Palermo, Italy.

2009

  1. Ferrante, M., Massari, C., Cluni, F., Brunone, B. and Meniconi, S. (2009). Leak discharge and strains in a polyethylene pipe, in of the 10th Int. Conf. Computing and Control for the Water Industry, CCWI2009, 1-3 September 2009, Sheffield, UK, 521-525.
  2. Ferrante, M., Massari, C., Todini, E., Brunone, B. and Meniconi, S. (2009). Equivalence of pipes with distributed flow in pressurised pipe network, 2009. in of the 10th Int. Conf. Computing and Control for the Water Industry, CCWI2009, 1-3 September 2009, Sheffield, UK, 203-208.
  3. Meniconi, S., Brunone, B., Ferrante, M. and Massari, C.: Detection of illegal branches in pipe systems: A fast and reliable method, in of the 10th Int. Conf. Computing and Control for the Water Industry, CCWI2009, 1-3 September 2009, Sheffield, UK, 203- 208.

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