Extreme Hydroclimatic Events and Multivariate Hazards in a Changing Environment. A Remote Sensing Approach

Table of Contents

Part I: Water cycle variables for monitoring hydroclimatic hazards: state-of-the-art and future directions 1. Precipitation 2. Terrestrial Water Storage 3. Soil Moisture 4. Water Surface Elevation 5. Evaporation 6. Vegetation

Part II: Remote sensing and modeling techniques for monitoring and predicting hydroclimatic hazards: Perspectives and Applications 7. Studying extreme precipitation events in mountainous regions with satellite-based precipitation products 8. Spatiotemporal patterns of precipitation concentration, aggressiveness, and seasonality in Bangladesh 9. Characterizing meteorological droughts in data scarce regions using remotely sensed precipitation 10. Recent advances in remote sensing of precipitation and soil moisture for riverine flood prediction 11. Using altimetry and optical sensors for monitoring and forecasting river discharge 12. Inundation mapping using remote sensing techniques 13. Storm Surge and Sea Level Rise: Threat to the Coastal Areas of Bangladesh 14. Hazard assessment and forecasting of landslides and debris flows: A case study in Northern Italy 15. Remote sensing-based techniques for avalanche risk assessment and forecasting

Authors

Viviana Maggioni Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering, George Mason University, USA. Dr Maggioni, is Assistant Professor of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering at George Mason University. At George Mason University she leads an active and interdisciplinary team of graduate and undergraduate students, investigating a wide variety of topics including monitoring and modeling storm water quantity and quality at the Mason main campus with state-of-the-art sensor networks, as well as combining water resources engineering with hydrometeorology and remote sensing using satellite data to evaluate conditions in regions, where direct observation is impossible, but the environmental consequences can be devastating. Christian Massari Research Institute for Geo-hydrological Protection (IRPI), National Research Council (CNR), Italy. Christian Massari, PhD, is permanent researcher at the Research Institute for the Geo-Hydrological Protection (IRPI) of the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy. Thanks to a graduate research fellowship, he spent a year in the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ in 2011. After returning to Italy, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the hydrology and remote sensing group at IRPI, where he is a permanent researcher since January 2017. His research interests include data fusion and data assimilation of hydrological variables (e.g., soil moisture and rainfall), hydro-validation of satellite soil moisture and rainfall observations, filtering of satellite soil moisture, flooding risk analysis, and flood frequency assessment.