Generation of root zone soil moisture from the integration of an all-weather satellite surface soil moisture estimates and an analytical model: A preliminary result in China
In addition to surface soil moisture (SSM) data, root zone soil moisture (RZSM) is particularly significant for irrigation decision-making and agricultural drought warnings since water uptake generally occurs through the root systems of plants. In this study, a daily/0.05° RZSM dataset covering the major land areas of China was generated ...
Image processing for continuous river turbidity monitoring – full scale tests and potential applications
The development of continuous river turbidity monitoring systems is essential, since it is a critical water quality metric linked to the presence of organic and inorganic suspended matter. Current monitoring practices are mainly limited by low spatial and temporal resolution, and costs. This results in the huge challenge to provide ...
Testing trends in gridded rainfall datasets at relevant hydrological scales: A comparative study with regional ground observations in Southern Italy
In this study, we compared the spatiotemporal evolution of rainfall trends in E-OBS and ERA5 to those detected using historical rainfall series recorded by ground-based networks in Southern Italy. In particular, the study is applied to the Campania, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria and Sicily regions (84,000 km2 in total) on seasonal and ...
The space-time representation of extraordinary rainfall events
Extraordinary events are rarely observable in a single rainfall gauge, and this make extremely challenging the correct prediction of their arrivals. However, it may be possible to develop a more robust approach by employing a space-time modelling scheme that is able to capture the spatial dynamics of such phenomena. Therefore, ...
How Can Seasonality Influence the Performance of Recent Microwave Satellite Soil Moisture Products?
In addition to technical issues related to the instruments used, differences between soil moisture (SM) measured using ground-based methods and microwave remote sensing (RS) can be related to the main features of the study areas, which are intricately connected to hydraulic–hydrological conditions and soil properties. When long-term analysis is performed, ...
A Runoff-On-Grid Approach to Embed Hydrological Processes in Shallow Water Models
Catchment-scale hydrological models encountered dichotomies with the numerical hydrodynamic models when describing surface routing process. We propose a new modeling framework, the so-called “Runoff-On-Grid” approach, for embedding distributed process-based hydrological modeling into shallow water models, as an alternative to the traditional Fully Hydrodynamic Approach (also known as Rain-On-Grid). Antecedent Soil ...
HESS Opinions: Towards a common vision for the future of hydrological observatories
Abstract. The Unsolved Problems in Hydrology (UPH) initiative has emphasized the need to establish networks of multi-decadal hydrological observatories to tackle catchment-scale challenges on a global scale. The already existing monitoring infrastructures have provided an enormous amount of hydrometeorological data, which has helped gain detailed insights into the causality of ...
Exploring the use of random forest classifier with Sentinel-2 imagery in flooded area mapping
Floods are the most frequent type of natural disasters occurring worldwide. In 2021 alone, in fact, the majority of the recorded catastrophic events were floods, which also dominated in terms of the highest number of disaster-related fatalities according to the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED, Delforge ...