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Intercomparison of Earth Observation products for hyper-resolution hydrological modelling over Europe Open

Almudena García‐García, Federico Di Paolo, Milan Fischer, Matěj Orság, Luca Brocca , et al. · 2025

Quantifying the Added Value of Earth Observation at the Kilometre Scale with a Multi-Model Hydrologic and Land Surface Ensemble Open

Ehsan Modiri, Oldřich Rakovec, Pallav Kumar Shrestha, Almudena García‐García, Leandro Avila , et al. · 2025

30-years (1991-2021) Snow Water Equivalent Dataset in the Po River District, Italy Open

M. Dall’Amico, Stefano Tasin, Federico Di Paolo, Marco Brian, Paolo Leoni , et al. · 2025

This paper presents a long-term snow water equivalent dataset in the Po River District, Italy, spanning from 1991 to 2021 at daily time step and 500 m spatial resolution partially covering the mountain ranges of Alps and Apennines. The dat…

A Round Robin Exercise for an intercomparison of Snow Cover Area maps retrieved from Earth Observation Open

Federico Di Paolo, M. Dall’Amico, Pietro Stradiotti, Luis Samaniego · 2024

In Europe, the majority of the precipitation during winter falls as snow over 1.000 m altitude, and remains stored in the snowpack until the melting season, when it returns in the hydrological cycle and is partly used for irrigation and po…

A monitoring-forecasting tool for advancing surface water quality management in lakes, reservoirs and major rivers  Open

Riddick Kakati, M. Dall’Amico, Marco Toffolon, Federico Di Paolo, Stefano Tasin , et al. · 2024

In water resources management, predictive services are essential to support sustainable planning and operations over a range of time scales, from the short term (days) to the medium term (seasons) to the long term (years to decades). Curre…

Towards a Digital Twin for the Alps to simulate water-related processes and geohazards for climate change adaptation strategies. Open

Jean‐Philippe Malet, Maxime Lamare, Lucía Guardamino, Jonas Viehweger, Stefania Camici , et al. · 2024

The Alps are the most densely populated mountain range in Europe and water resources play a central role in the socio-economic developments of the area (agriculture, tourism, hydropower production...). Furthermore, the Alps are particularl…

Pitfalls in gpr data interpretation: false reflectors detected in lunar radar cross sections by Chang'e-3 Open

Chunlai Li, S. Xing, Sebastian Emanuel Lauro, Yan Su, Shun Dai , et al. · 2022

Chang'e-3(CE-3) has been the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976. The spacecraft arrived at Mare Imbrium on December 14, 2013 and the same day, Yutu lunar rover separated from lander to start …

DISC-Modelling and Simulation chain of Hypervelocity Impacts Open

Alice Maria Piccirillo, Vincenzo Della Corte, A. Rotundi, Laura Inno, A. Longobardo , et al. · 2021

Introduction:The COMET INTERCEPTOR mission will perform an encounter with a Dynamically New Comet (DNC) and with its three spacecraft (S/C A, S/C B1 and S/C B2) will study different aspects of the comet (tail, nucleus, and atmosphere) with…

Small-scale lava tube detection on the Moon using Ground Penetrating Radar Open

Federico Di Paolo, Elisabetta Mattei, Barbara Cosciotti, Sebastian Emanuel Lauro, Elena Pettinelli · 2021

Introduction: The exploration of the Moon has nowadays gathered a new interest for many scientific purposes [1]. In particular, the detection of lava tubes reveals important for the identification of favorable environments for human activi…

Analysis of magnetotelluric data from Las Cañadas caldera (Tenerife, Spain) Open

David Martínez van Dorth, Federico Di Paolo, Katarzyna Ślęzak, Iván Cabrera‐Pérez, Perla Piña-Varas , et al. · 2021

<p>Tenerife is the second-largest island in the Canarian archipelago with an area of 2034 km<sup>2</sup>. It consists of three ancient volcanic massifs (Anaga, Adeje and Teno) located at the edges of the island connected …

La Palma island (Spain) geothermal system revealed by 3D magnetotelluric data inversion Open

Federico Di Paolo, Juanjo Ledo, Katarzyna Ślęzak, David Martínez van Dorth, Iván Cabrera‐Pérez , et al. · 2020

The study of geothermal systems is nowadays a topic of great importance because of the huge amount of energy that could be converted in electricity for human consumption from such sources. Among the various geophysical methods employed to …

Radar sounding of Ganymede: Attenuation and volume scattering losses estimation Open

Federico Di Paolo, Sebastian Emanuel Lauro, Barbara Cosciotti, Elisabetta Mattei, Elena Pettinelli · 2020

Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) is expected to sound the crust of the Jovian moon Ganymede down to a depth of 9 km. The presence of dust in the ice and a fragmented crust could give rise to both attenuation and volume scatteri…

Radar evidence of subglacial liquid water on Mars Open

R. Orosei, Sebastian Emanuel Lauro, Elena Pettinelli, A. Cicchetti, A. Coradini , et al. · 2020

The presence of liquid water at the base of the Martian polar caps has long been suspected but not observed. We surveyed the Planum Australe region using the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding, a low-frequency radar…

The blackout of September 2019 on the island of Tenerife: an opportunity to estimate the level of contamination of electromagnetic noise using the magnetotelluric method Open

David Martínez van Dorth, Luca D’Auria, Juanjo Ledo Fernández, Perla Piña-Varas, Federico Di Paolo , et al. · 2020

<p>The magnetotelluric method (MT) is a geophysical technique that provides high resolution information of the electrical resistivity of the subsurface geological structures by measuring the natural variations of the electromagnetic …

Survivability of Anhydrobiotic Cyanobacteria in Salty Ice: Implications for the Habitability of Icy Worlds Open

Barbara Cosciotti, A. Balbi, Alessandra Ceccarelli, Claudia Fagliarone, Elisabetta Mattei , et al. · 2019

Two anhydrobiotic strains of the cyanobacterium Chroococcidiopsis, namely CCMEE 029 and CCMEE 171, isolated from the Negev Desert in Israel and from the Dry Valleys in Antarctica, were exposed to salty-ice simulations. The aim of the exper…

Liquid Water Detection under the South Polar Layered Deposits of Mars—A Probabilistic Inversion Approach Open

Sebastian Emanuel Lauro, Francesco Soldovieri, R. Orosei, A. Cicchetti, M. Cartacci , et al. · 2019

Liquid water was present on the surface of Mars in the distant past; part of that water is now in the ground in the form of permafrost and heat from the molten interior of the planet could cause it to melt at depth. MARSIS (Mars Advanced R…

Radar evidence of subglacial liquid water on Mars Open

R. Orosei, Sebastian Emanuel Lauro, Elena Pettinelli, A. Cicchetti, M. Coradini , et al. · 2018

Liquid water under Mars' southern ice cap Mars is known to host large quantities of water in solid or gaseous form, and surface rocks show clear evidence that there was liquid water on the planet in the distant past. Whether any liquid wat…

Pitfalls in GPR Data Interpretation: False Reflectors Detected in Lunar Radar Cross Sections by Chang’e-3 Open

Chunlai Li, S. Xing, Sebastian Emanuel Lauro, Yan Su, Shun Dai , et al. · 2017

Chang'e-3 (CE-3) has been the first spacecraft to soft land on the moon since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976. The spacecraft arrived at Mare Imbrium on December 14, 2013, and the same day, Yutu lunar rover separated from lander to star…

Uncertainty budget in snow thickness and snow water equivalent estimation using GPR and TDR techniques Open

Federico Di Paolo, Barbara Cosciotti, Sebastian Emanuel Lauro, Elisabetta Mattei, Mattia Callegari , et al. · 2016

Snow water equivalent is a fundamental parameter for hydrological and climate change studies but its measurement is usually time consuming and destructive. Electromagnetic methods could be a valid alternative to conventional techniques, be…

Dielectric properties of Jovian satellite ice analogs for subsurface radar exploration: A review Open

Elena Pettinelli, Barbara Cosciotti, Federico Di Paolo, Sebastian Emanuel Lauro, Elisabetta Mattei , et al. · 2015

The first European mission dedicated to the exploration of Jupiter and its icy moons (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer—JUICE) will be launched in 2022 and will reach its final destination in 2030. The main goals of this mission are to understand…

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