Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Augusto Getirana

(Senior Research Scientist)

Augusto Getirana's Contact Card & Information.
Email: augusto.getirana@nasa.gov
Org Code: 617
Address:
NASA/GSFC
Mail Code 617
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer: Science Application International Corp.

Missions & Projects

Brief Bio


Dr. Getirana is a Research Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in the Hydrological Sciences Laboratory. Dr. Getirana’s research involves the development, improvement and application of state-of-the-art computational models and integration of remote sensing data towards a better understanding of the spatiotemporal water availability and forecast, including extreme hydrological events, such as droughts and floods, and anthropogenic impacts on the water cycle and compound flooding. He is the lead developer of the Hydrological Modeling and Analysis Platform (HyMAP) global scale river routing scheme and leads surface hydrology developments in the NASA Land Information System (LIS). Dr. Getirana has more than 90 peer-reviewed publications on the fields of hydrometeorology, geophysics, numerical modeling and remote sensing, including two Nature commentaries on climate and human-driven water issues in Brazil and Bangladesh. He is a Principal Investigator for NASA's SWOT Science Team and leads the NASA-Rio de Janeiro Partnership. He also serves as associate editor to AGU's Earth's Future and as reviewer to numerous top scientific journals. Projects he has been involved in focus on better representing global scale hydrological processes in computational models, the development of land data assimilation systems, sub-seasonal to seasonal hydrological forecasts and capacity building. In 2021, he was awarded the NASA's Agency Honor Award and NASA's Robert H. Goddard Honor Award, both for scientific achievements. Dr. Getirana obtained his Ph.D. degree in Hydrology form the Université de Toulouse III (2009) and Civil Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2009). His B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees are in Civil Engineering, both from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2003 and 2005, respectively.

Current Projects


NASA Land Information System Framework

Hydrology / Water Cycle

https://lis.gsfc.nasa.gov/


HydroGlobe

Hydrology / Water Cycle


SWOT contribution to the understanding of global terrestrial water storage and fluxes through a multi-satellite data assimilation framework

Hydrology / Water Cycle


NASA-Rio de Janeiro Partnership for disaster modeling, crisis response and city management

Hydrology / Water Cycle

https://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/applied-sciences/making-space-for-earth/nasa-rio-de-janeiro-partnership


NASA LIS hydrologic forecasts for hydropower optimization in the Upper Colorado Basin

Hydrology / Water Cycle

https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/


Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Forecast of Hydro-Ecological Extremes in the Amazon Basin

Hydrology / Water Cycle

https://www.servirglobal.net/Regions/Amazonia


North American Land Data Assimilation System version 3 (NLDAS-3)

Hydrology / Water Cycle

https://ldas.gsfc.nasa.gov/nldas

Education


Ph.D., Earth Sciences, 2009, Université Toulouse III, France

Ph.D., Civil Engineering, 2009,  Civil Engineering Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

M.A., Civil Engineering , 2005, Civil Engineering Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 B.Tech., Civil Engineering, 2003, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Professional Societies


American Geophysical Union

2007 - Present

Professional Service


• Associate Editor at Earth's Future (AGU)

• Associate Editor at Frontiers in Water

• Editorial Board Member at Remote Sensing (MDPI)

Journal reviewer for:

Advances in Space Research • Brazilian Journal of Water Resources (RBRH) • Frontiers in Environmental Science • Geophysical Research Letters • Hydrological Processes • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine • ISPRS Journal of Photogrametry and Remote Sensing • Journal of Climate • Journal of Geophysical Research • Journal of Hydrology • Journal of Hydrometeorology • Nature Communications • Remote Sensing of Environment • Theoretical and Applied Climatology • Water Resources Management • Water Resources Research.

Awards


2024 NASA's Hydrosphere, Biosphere, and Geophysics (HBG) Annual Award for Team Scientific Achievement

2023 NASA's HBG Annual Award for Scientific Achievement

2022 NASA's HBG Annual Award for Team Scientific Achievement

2021 NASA's Agency Honor Award - Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal

2021 NASA's Robert H. Goddard Honor Award for Scientific Achievement

2017 NASA's HBG Annual Award for Scientific Achievement

2015 NASA's Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Annual Award for Scientific/Technical support

2013 Honor for outstanding accomplishments during Ph.D. COPPE/UFRJ

2009 Brazil's CAPES Award for best Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D thesis

2009 Brazil's CAPES Award for best Engineering and Earth Sciences Ph.D thesis

Grants


SWOT contribution to the understanding of global terrestrial water storage and fluxes through a multi-satellite data assimilation framework

SWOT Science Team - NASA (NNH23ZDA001N-SWOTST) - Awarded: 2024-06-11


Dates:  - 


A multivariate data assimilation framework accounting for surface water dynamics

Terrestrial Hydrology Program - NASA (NNH17ZDA001N-THP) - Awarded: 2018-03-16


Dates:  - 



 A West Africa LDAS for Forecasting Extreme Hydrological Events (WALFEHE) 

SERVIR - NASA (NNH15ZDA001N-SERVIR) - Awarded: 2016-04-13


Dates:  - 


Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Forecast of Hydro-Ecological Extremes in the Amazon Basin

SERVIR - NASA (NNH21ZDA001N-SERVIR) - Awarded: 2023-02-01


Dates:  - 


NASA LIS Hydrologic Forecasts for Hydropower Optimization in the Upper Colorado Basin

Applied Sciences Program - Water Resources - NASA (NNH21ZDA001N-WATER) - Awarded: 2022-09-22


Dates:  - 

Other Professional Information


H-Index: 38 (Google Scholar), Peer-Reviewed Publications: 98

Publications


Refereed

2024. "The SWOT mission will reshape our understanding of the global terrestrial water cycle." Nature Water [10.1038/s44221-024-00352-0] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Continental freshwater discharge influences sea surface salinity variability near world’s megadeltas." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 (49): [10.1073/pnas.2412551121] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Sentinel‐1 Snow Depth Assimilation to Improve River Discharge Estimates in the Western European Alps." Water Resources Research 60 (11): [10.1029/2023wr035019] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Nonstationarity in the global terrestrial water cycle and its interlinkages in the Anthropocene." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 (45): [10.1073/pnas.2403707121] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Detection and socio-economic attribution of groundwater depletion in India." Hydrogeology Journal [10.1007/s10040-024-02842-7] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Contributions of Irrigation Modeling, Soil Moisture and Snow Data Assimilation to High‐Resolution Water Budget Estimates Over the Po Basin: Progress Towards Digital Replicas." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 16 (10): [10.1029/2024ms004433] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Development of a multidecadal land reanalysis over High Mountain Asia." Scientific Data 11 (1): 827 [10.1038/s41597-024-03643-z] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Influence of SMAP soil moisture retrieval assimilation on runoff estimation across South Asia." Journal of Hydrology 639 131550 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131550] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Improved soil moisture estimation and detection of irrigation signal by incorporating SMAP soil moisture into the Indian LAND Data Assimilation System (ILDAS)." Journal of Hydrology 638 131581 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131581] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Irrigation-driven groundwater depletion in the Ganges-Brahmaputra basin decreases the streamflow in the Bay of Bengal." Communications Earth & Environment 5 (1): 169 [10.1038/s43247-024-01348-0] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Characterizing the 2019-2021 drought in La Plata River Basin with GLDAS and SMAP." Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 52 101679 [10.1016/j.ejrh.2024.101679] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Effects of changes in use and soil cover on real evapotranspiration from the creation of a remote sensing product in the Xingu basin." Revista Brasileira de Ciências Ambientais 59 [10.5327/z2176-94781658] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Droughts impede water balance recovery from fires in the Western United States." Nature Ecology & Evolution [10.1038/s41559-023-02266-8] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Towards an Indian Land Data Assimilation System (ILDAS): A coupled hydrologic-hydraulic system for water balance assessments." Journal of Hydrology 629 130604 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130604] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Assimilation of Sentinel-1 backscatter into a land surface model with river routing and its impact on streamflow simulations in two Belgian catchments." Journal of Hydrometeorology 24 (12): 2389–2408 [10.1175/jhm-d-22-0198.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "An urban drainage scheme for large-scale flood models." Journal of Hydrology 130410 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130410] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Large‐scale groundwater monitoring in Brazil assisted with satellite‐based artificial intelligence techniques." Water Resources Research 59 (9): [10.1029/2022wr033588] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Global assessment of drought characteristics in the Anthropocene." Resources, Environment and Sustainability 12 100105 [10.1016/j.resenv.2022.100105] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Assessing the Performance of the South American Land Data Assimilation System Version 2 (SALDAS-2) Energy Balance across Diverse Biomes." Atmosphere 14 (6): 959 [10.3390/atmos14060959] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "A framework for estimating global river discharge from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite mission." Water Resources Research [10.1029/2021wr031614] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Effects of Amazonian flying rivers on frog biodiversity and populations in the Atlantic Rainforest." Conservation Biology 37 (3): e14033 [10.1111/cobi.14033] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Interconnected hydrologic extreme drivers and impacts depicted by remote sensing data assimilation." Scientific Reports 13 (1): 3411 [10.1038/s41598-023-30484-4] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Climate and human impacts on hydrological processes and flood risk in southern Louisiana." Water Resources Research [10.1029/2022wr033238] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "NASA’s NMME-based S2S Hydrologic Forecast System for Food Insecurity Early Warning in Southern Africa." Journal of Hydrology 617 (B): 129005 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.129005] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Channel water storage anomaly: A new remotely sensed quantity for global river analysis." Geophysical Research Letters 50 (1): e2022GL100185 [10.1029/2022gl100185] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Avert Bangladesh’s looming water crisis through open science and better data." Nature 610 (7933): 626-629 [10.1038/d41586-022-03373-5] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Flash Drought Onset and Development Mechanisms Captured with Soil Moisture and Vegetation Data Assimilation." Water Resources Research 58 (12): e2022WR032894 [10.1029/2022wr032894] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Demonstrating a New Flood Observing Strategy on the NOS Testbed." IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium [10.1109/igarss46834.2022.9883411] [Proceedings]

2022. "Smap Soil Moisture Assimilation to Enhance Streamflow Estimates Across South Asia." IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium [10.1109/igarss46834.2022.9884923] [Proceedings]

2022. "Influence of Vegetation on Simulation of the Water Balance and Hydrological Response to the El Niño Southern Oscillation in Western Tropical South America." Journal of Hydrometeorology [10.1175/jhm-d-21-0081.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Changes in land use enhance the sensitivity of tropical ecosystems to fire-climate extremes." Scientific Reports 12 (1): 964 [10.1038/s41598-022-05130-0] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Brazil is in water crisis — it needs a drought plan." Nature 600 (7888): 218-220 [10.1038/d41586-021-03625-w] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Contribution of Meteorological Downscaling to Skill and Precision of Seasonal Drought Forecasts." Journal of Hydrometeorology [10.1175/jhm-d-20-0259.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Impacts of fully coupling land surface and flood models on the simulation of large wetland’s water dynamics: the case of the Inner Niger Delta." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 13 (5): [10.1029/2021ms002463] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Altimetry for the future: Building on 25 years of progress." Advances in Space Research [10.1016/j.asr.2021.01.022] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Understanding the influence of climate variability on surface water hydrology in the Congo basin." Congo Basin Hydrology, Climate, and Biogeochemistry: A Foundation for the Future [10.1002/essoar.10505488.1] [Article in Book]

2020. "Potential of GPM IMERG Precipitation Estimates to Monitor Natural Disaster Triggers in Urban Areas: The Case of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil." Remote Sensing 12 (24): 4095 [10.3390/rs12244095] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "The 2019‐2020 Australian drought and bushfires altered the partitioning of hydrological fluxes." Geophysical Research Letters 48 (1): [10.1029/2020gl091411] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Hydrological hotspots of climatic influence in Brazil: A two-step regularization approach." Atmospheric Research 246 105116 [10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.105116] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Towards a Soil Moisture Drought Monitoring System for South Korea." Journal of Hydrology 125176 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125176] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Influence of global climate on freshwater changes in Africa's largest endorheic basin using multi-scaled indicators." Science of The Total Environment 737 1-19 [10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139643] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Improving early warning of drought-driven food insecurity in Southern Africa using operational hydrological monitoring and forecasting products." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences [10.5194/nhess-20-1187-2020] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Hydropower dam operation strongly controls Lake Victoria's freshwater storage variability." Science of The Total Environment [10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138343] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Evolutionary drought patterns over the Sahel and their teleconnections with low frequency climate oscillations." Atmospheric Research 104700 [10.1016/j.atmosres.2019.104700] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "The NASA hydrological forecast system for food and water security applications." Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 101 (7): E1007-E1025 [10.1175/bams-d-18-0264.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Spatiotemporal vegetation response to extreme droughts in eastern Brazil." Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 100294 [10.1016/j.rsase.2020.100294] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Satellite gravimetry improves seasonal streamflow forecast initialization in Africa." Water Resources Research 56 (2): e2019WR026259 [10.1029/2019wr026259] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "GRACE improves seasonal groundwater forecast initialization over the United States." Journal of Hydrometeorology 21 59-71 [10.1175/jhm-d-19-0096.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Monitoring River Basin Development and Variation in Water Resources in Transboundary Imjin River in North and South Korea Using Remote Sensing." Remote Sensing 12 (1): 195 [10.3390/rs12010195] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Assimilating GRACE Into a Land Surface Model in the Presence of an Irrigation‐Induced Groundwater Trend." Water Resources Research 2019WR025363 [10.1029/2019wr025363] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Flood Inundation Generation Mechanisms and Their Changes in 1953‐2004 in Global Major River Basins." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 2019JD031381 [10.1029/2019jd031381] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Radar Altimetry as a Proxy for Determining Terrestrial Water Storage Variability in Tropical Basins." Remote Sensing 11 (21): 2487 [10.3390/rs11212487] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Acute Water-Scarcity Monitoring for Africa." Water 11 (10): 1968 [10.3390/w11101968] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Global GRACE data assimilation for groundwater and drought monitoring: Advances and challenges." Water Resour. Res. 55 (9): 7564-7586 [10.1029/2018wr024618] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Improving Surface Soil Moisture Estimates in West Africa through GRACE Data Assimilation." Journal of Hydrology [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.05.042] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Uncertainties in Evapotranspiration Estimates over West Africa." Remote Sensing 11 (8): 892 [10.3390/rs11080892] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Monitoring Reservoir Drought Dynamics with Landsat and Radar/Lidar Altimetry Time Series in Persistently Cloudy Eastern Brazil." Remote Sensing 11 (7): 827 [10.3390/rs11070827] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "Evaluation of Simulated Snow and Snowmelt Timing in the Community Land Model Using Satellite‐Based Products and Streamflow Observations." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 10 (11): 2933-2951 [10.1029/2018ms001389] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "The Land surface Data Toolkit (LDT v7.2) – a data fusion environment for land data assimilation systems." Geosci. Model Dev. 11 (9): 3605-3621 [10.5194/gmd-11-3605-2018] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "Deriving three dimensional reservoir bathymetry from multi-satellite datasets." Remote Sensing of Environment 217 366-374 [10.1016/j.rse.2018.08.030] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "Assimilation of MODIS Snow Cover Fraction Observations into the NASA Catchment Land Surface Model." Remote Sensing 10 (2): 316 [10.3390/rs10020316] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Upper Blue Nile Basin Water Budget from a Multi-Model Perspective." Journal of Hydrology [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.10.040] [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. "Hydrological modeling of the Peruvian-Ecuadorian Amazon basin using GPM-IMERG satellite-based precipitation dataset." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 1-21 [10.5194/hess-2016-656] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Streamflows over a West African Basin from the ALMIP2 Model Ensemble." Journal of Hydrometeorology 18 1831-1845 [10.1175/JHM-D-16-0233.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Trade-off between cost and accuracy in large-scale surface water dynamic modeling." Water Resources Research 53 (6): 4942-4955 [10.1002/2017wr020519] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Fifteen Years (1993–2007) of Surface Freshwater Storage Variability in the Ganges-Brahmaputra River Basin Using Multi-Satellite Observations." Water 9 (4): 245 [10.3390/w9040245] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Automated Generation of Lakes and Reservoirs Water Elevation Changes From Satellite Radar Altimetry." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 1-17 [10.1109/jstars.2017.2684081] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Modeling surface water dynamics in the Amazon Basin using MOSART-Inundation v1.0: impacts of geomorphological parameters and river flow representation." Geoscientific Model Development 10 (3): 1233-1259 [10.5194/gmd-10-1233-2017] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Monitoring Drought in Brazil by Remote Sensing." Remote Sensing of Hydrological Extremes 197-218 [10.1007/978-3-319-43744-6_10] [Article in Book]

2016. "Assimilation of gridded GRACE terrestrial water storage estimates in the North American Land Data Assimilation System." J. Hydrometeor. 17 (7): 1951-1972 [10.1175/jhm-d-15-0157.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Extreme Water Deficit in Brazil Detected from Space." Journal of Hydrometeorology 17 (2): 591-599 [10.1175/jhm-d-15-0096.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "Impacts of satellite-based precipitation datasets on rainfall–runoff modeling of the Western Amazon basin of Peru and Ecuador." Journal of Hydrology 528 599-612 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.06.064] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "Quantifying the added value of snow cover area observations in passive microwave snow depth data assimilation." J. Hydrometeor. 16 (4): 1736-1741 [10.1175/JHM-D-15-0021.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "Evaluating Global Streamflow Simulations by a Physically Based Routing Model Coupled with the Community Land Model." Journal of Hydrometeorology 16 (2): 948-971 [10.1175/jhm-d-14-0079.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2014. "Evaluating LSM-Based Water Budgets over a West African Basin Assisted with a River Routing Scheme." J. Hydrometeor. 15 (6): 2331-2346 [10.1175/JHM-D-14-0012.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2014. "Water Balance in the Amazon Basin from a Land Surface Model Ensemble." J. Hydrometeor 15 (6): 2586-2614 [10.1175/JHM-D-14-0068.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "Assimilating in situ and radar altimetry data into a large-scale hydrologic-hydrodynamic model for streamflow forecast in the Amazon." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 10 2879-2925 [10.5194/hess-17-2929-2013] [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "Estimating water discharge from large radar altimetry datasets." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 17 (3): 923-933 [10.5194/hess-17-923-2013] [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "Surface freshwater storage and variability in the Amazon basin from multi-satellite observations, 1993-2007." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 118 (21): 11,951-11,965 [10.1002/2013JD020500] [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "Mapping large-scale river flow hydraulics in the Amazon Basin." Water Resources Research 49 (5): 2437-2445 [10.1002/wrcr.20212] [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "Automatic parameterization of a flow routing scheme driven by radar altimetry data: Evaluation in the Amazon basin." Water Resour. Res. 49 (1): 614-629 [Full Text] [10.1002/wrcr.20077] [Journal Article/Letter]

2012. "The Hydrological Modeling and Analysis Platform (HyMAP): Evaluation in the Amazon Basin." Journal of Hydrometeorology 13 (6): 1641-1665 [10.1175/jhm-d-12-021.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2011. "Assessment of different precipitation datasets and their impacts on the water balance of the Negro River basin." Journal of Hydrology 404 (3-4): 304–322 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.04.037] [Journal Article/Letter]

2011. "Calibração e Validação de Modelo Hidrológico com Observações In Situ, Altimetria e Gravimetria Espaciais." Revista Brasileira de Recursos Hídricos 16 (1): 29-45 [10.21168/rbrh.v16n1.p29-45] [Journal Article/Letter]

2010. "Hydrological modelling and water balance of the Negro River basin: evaluation based on in situ and spatial altimetry data." Hydrol. Process. 24 (22): 3219-3236 [10.1002/hyp.7747] [Journal Article/Letter]

2010. "Producing time series of river water height by means of satellite radar altimetry—a comparative study." Hydrological Sciences Journal 55 (1): 104-120 [10.1080/02626660903529023] [Journal Article/Letter]

2010. "Calibration and validation of a hydrological model using in situ observations, ENVISAT altimetric and GRACE gravimetric data (in Portuguese)." Brazilian Journal of Water Resources (RBRH) 16 (1): 29-45 [Journal Article/Letter]

2010. "Integrating spatial altimetry data into the automatic calibration of hydrological models." Journal of Hydrology 387 (3-4): 244–255 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.04.013] [Journal Article/Letter]

2009. "Evaluating parameter effects in a DEM ‘burning’ process based on land cover data." Hydrol. Process. 23 (16): 2316-2325 [10.1002/hyp.7303] [Journal Article/Letter]

2009. "Hydrological monitoring of poorly gauged basins based on rainfall–runoff modeling and spatial altimetry." Journal of Hydrology 379 (3-4): 205-219 [10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.09.049] [Journal Article/Letter]

2009. "Improving hydrological information acquisition from DEM processing in floodplains." Hydrological Processes 23 (3): 502-514 [10.1002/hyp.7167] [Journal Article/Letter]

2008. "Decision Process in a Water Use Conflict in Brazil." Water Resources Management 22 (1): 103-118 [10.1007/s11269-006-9146-8] [Journal Article/Letter]

2007. "Water use conflicts at Baixada Campista, in the Northern Rio de Janeiro (I): economical analysis of proposed solutions (in Portuguese)." Brazilian Journal of Water Resources (RBRH) 12 (2): 27-38. [Journal Article/Letter]

2007. "Water use conflicts at Baixada Campista, in the Northern Rio de Janeiro (II): decision process by applying the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution (in Portuguese)." Brazilian Journal of Water Resources (RBRH) 12 (2): 39-50. [Journal Article/Letter]

Non-Refereed

2022. "Eventos hidrológicos extremos e a urgência por políticas públicas." Folha de Sao Paulo A3 [Newspaper]

2015. "Forecasting Water Availability in Data Sparse and Heavily Managed Catchments in Africa and the Middle East." GEWEX News 27 (4): 8-11 [Newsletter]

2012. "Water discharge estimates from large radar altimetry datasets in the Amazon basin." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions 9 (6): 7591-7611 [10.5194/hessd-9-7591-2012] [Journal Article/Letter]

2011. "A new automatic calibration approach based on rating curves: first results with ENVISAT altimetric data." IAHS Publ 343 181-186 [Journal Article/Letter]

2009. "AMMA Land Surface Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2 (ALMIP-2)." WCRP GEWEX News 9 (4): 9-10 [Newsletter]

Talks, Presentations and Posters


Invited

Recent progress on flood modeling at NASA Goddard: From model development to capacity building

February 17, 2024

Invited talk at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies


Rio-FM: The Rio de Janeiro flood monitoring system

December 23, 2023

Invited talk at the III Siurb Seminar, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil



HyMAP-2 river routing scheme in the NASA Land Information System

September 2017

NASA Land Information System: Workshop for Egyptian Applications. Held by the National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS), Cairo, Egypt


Development of a South American Land Data Assimilation System

May 2017

Seminar at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


A West Africa LDAS for Forecasting Extreme Hydrological Events

May 2017

Seminar during the  Locust Monitoring Meeting - Stakeholder Mapping at AGRHYMET, Niamey, Niger.


Recent advances in large-scale flood modeling and its applications

2014

Seminar at the Institute Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL), Paris, France


Recent advances in large-scale flood modeling and its applications

December 2014

Seminar at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), College Park, MD


River routing schemes: from LSM (Land Surface Model) benchmarking to a better understanding of surface water dynamics

April 2014

Terrestrial Water Cycle Seminar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD


Conocimiento actual del modelado hidrologico en la cuenca Amazonica

November 2013

Seminar at the Peruvian Geophysical Institute (IGP), Lima, Peru


Integration of radar altimetry data in the hydrological modeling of large basins

December 2012

Seminar during the meeting "Understanding the global freshwater system by combining geodetic and remote sensing information with modeling" at Frankfurt University, Frankfurt, Germany


Modélisation hydrologique en Amazonie et en Afrique de l'Ouest: expériences sur le couplage des modèles de surface et de routage

December 2012

Seminar at HydroSciences - Universite de Montpellier, Montpellier, France


Hydrological processes over the Amazon basin and West Africa

August 2012

Seminar at ECMWF, Reading, UK

Other

Selected Public Outreach


NASA's GRACE Satellites Evaluate Drought in Southeast Brazil

November 2015 - November 2015

NASA Goddard's Youtube video on monitopring the Brazilian drought from space


Recent progress on flood modeling at NASA Goddard: From model development to capacity building

October 2022 - October 2022

NASA's ARSET training on flood monitoring and modeling