Ph.D in Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - 01/2009-01/2014
Minors in Atmospheric Science and Geospatial Statistics, GPA: 3.9/4.0
Thesis: “A snow water equivalent reanalysis approach to explore spatial and temporal variability of the sierra nevada snowpack”
M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Università degli studi di Padova, Padova (Italy) - 09/2005-10/2008
Thesis: “Analysis of the historic data and estimation of the recharge of a groundwater basin in California.”, Final Mark: 110/110
B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Università degli studi di Padova, Padova (Italy). 09/2002-09/2005
Thesis: “Analysis of a contaminated groundwater basin in an Industrial Area in Villorba, Treviso”, Final Mark: 110/110 Cum Summa Laude
Manuela Girotto
(RESEARCH SCIENTIST)
| Email: | mgirotto@berkeley.edu |
| Phone: | 301.614.6545 |
| Org Code: | 610.1 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 610.1 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: | REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF CALIFORNIA |
Research Interests
Hydrologic Data Assimilation, snow hydrology modeling and remote sensing, Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE and GRACE-FO) missions, groundwater.
Earth Science: Hydrology / Water CycleEducation
Publications
Refereed
2021. "Global Soil Water Estimates as Landslide Predictor: The Effectiveness of SMOS, SMAP, and GRACE Observations, Land Surface Simulations, and Data Assimilation." Journal of Hydrometeorology 22 (5): 1065-1084 [10.1175/jhm-d-20-0228.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Data Assimilation of Terrestrial Water Storage Observations to Estimate Precipitation Fluxes: A Synthetic Experiment." Remote Sensing 13 (6): 1223 [10.3390/rs13061223] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Snow depth variability in the Northern Hemisphere mountains observed from space." Nature Communications 10 (1): 4629 [10.1038/s41467-019-12566-y] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Multi-sensor assimilation of SMOS brightness temperature and GRACE terrestrial water storage observations for soil moisture and shallow groundwater estimation." Remote Sensing of Environment 227 12-27 [10.1016/j.rse.2019.04.001] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Terrestrial water storage." Extreme Hydroclimatic Events and Multivariate Hazards in a Changing Environment 41-64 [10.1016/b978-0-12-814899-0.00002-x] [Article in Book]
2017. "Global Assessment of the SMAP Level-4 Surface and Root-Zone Soil Moisture Product Using Assimilation Diagnostics." Journal of Hydrometeorology 18 3217-3237 [10.1175/JHM-D-17-0130.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Rivers and floodplains as key components of global terrestrial water storage variability." Geophysical Research Letters 44 (20): 10,359-10,368 [10.1002/2017GL074684] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Rivers and floodplains as key components of global terrestrial water storage variability." Geophysical Research Letters 44 (20): 10359-10368 [10.1002/2017GL074684] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Benefits and Pitfalls of GRACE Data Assimilation: a Case Study of Terrestrial Water Storage Depletion in India." Geophysical Research Letters 44 4107-4115 [10.1002/2017gl072994] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Assessment of MERRA-2 Land Surface Hydrology Estimates." Journal of Climate 30 (8): 2937-2960 [10.1175/jcli-d-16-0720.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Characterizing the Extreme 2015 Snowpack Deficit in the Sierra Nevada (USA) Range and the Implications for Drought Recovery." Geophysical Research Letters 43 (12): 6341–6349 [10.1002/2016GL068520] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Assimilation of gridded terrestrial water storage observations from GRACE into a Land Surface Model." Water Resour. Res. 52 4164-4183 [10.1002/2015wr018417] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "A Landsat-era Sierra Nevada (USA) Snow Reanalysis (1985-2015)." Journal of Hydrometeorology (2016): [10.1175/JHM-D-15-0177.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Snow Process Estimation over the Extratropical Andes using a Data Assimilation Framework Integrating MERRA data and Landsat Imagery." Water Resources Research [10.1002/2015WR018376] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "A Particle Batch Smoother Approach to Snow Water Equivalent Estimation." Journal of Hydrometeorology 16 (4): 1752--1772 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-14-0177.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Probabilistic SWE reanalysis as a generalization of deterministic SWE reconstruction techniques." Hydrological Processes 28 (12): 3875--3895 [10.1002/hyp.9887] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Examining spatial and temporal variability in snow water equivalent using a 27 year reanalysis: Kern River watershed, Sierra Nevada." Water Resources Research 50 (8): 6713--6734 [10.1002/2014WR015346] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Analysis of sub-pixel snow and ice extent over the extratropical Andes using spectral unmixing of historical Landsat imagery." Remote Sensing of Environment 141 64--78 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2013.10.023] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Probabilistic SWE reanalysis as a generalization of deterministic SWE reconstruction techniques." Hydrological Processes 28 (12): 3875--3895 [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Climate signal propagation in southern California aquifers." Water Resources Research 46 (10): [10.1029/2009WR008376] [Journal Article/Letter]