Christian Massari

7.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
130 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Christian Massari is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Massari has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Environmental Engineering, 70 papers in Atmospheric Science and 51 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Christian Massari's work include Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (69 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (59 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (51 papers). Christian Massari is often cited by papers focused on Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (69 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (59 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (51 papers). Christian Massari collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Austria. Christian Massari's co-authors include Luca Brocca, Luca Ciabatta, Stefania Camici, Marco Ferrante, Silvia Meniconi, Bruno Brunone, Wolfgang Wagner, Tommaso Moramarco, Angelica Tarpanelli and Viviana Maggioni and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Christian Massari

124 papers receiving 4.5k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Toward Global Soil Moisture Monitoring With Sentinel-1: Harnessing Assets and Overcoming Obstacles

2018 303 citations Sara Modanesi, Christian Massari et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christian Massari Italy	39	2.6k	2.3k	1.6k	1.6k	998	130	4.6k
Ziwei Xu China	22	931 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	817 0.5×	1.9k 1.2×	240 0.2×	61	2.9k
Morteza Sadeghi United States	27	794 0.3×	1.6k 0.7×	267 0.2×	438 0.3×	790 0.8×	87	2.7k
Peter Troch Belgium	47	1.5k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	1.0k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	1.6k 1.6×	312	6.3k
Christoph Rüdiger Australia	32	2.6k 1.0×	3.2k 1.4×	503 0.3×	871 0.6×	618 0.6×	116	4.1k
Jinyang Du China	28	2.3k 0.9×	1.9k 0.8×	405 0.3×	1.5k 1.0×	238 0.2×	111	3.8k
Carsten Montzka Germany	36	1.7k 0.7×	3.1k 1.3×	856 0.5×	973 0.6×	1.3k 1.3×	117	4.4k
Susan Steele‐Dunne Netherlands	28	1.2k 0.5×	1.5k 0.6×	720 0.5×	1.4k 0.9×	427 0.4×	84	3.4k
Xiaofan Yang China	27	579 0.2×	657 0.3×	547 0.3×	776 0.5×	192 0.2×	128	2.3k
Heping Liu United States	32	1.5k 0.6×	904 0.4×	405 0.3×	2.5k 1.6×	190 0.2×	157	3.7k
F. Melone Italy	31	2.2k 0.9×	3.2k 1.4×	2.1k 1.3×	1.3k 0.9×	1.5k 1.5×	81	4.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Donnini, Marco, Christian Massari, David Cappelletti, et al.. (2025). Hydrology and atmospheric CO2 consumption by chemical weathering in a Mediterranean watershed. CATENA. 252. 108868–108868.

Bechtold, Michel, et al.. (2024). Irrigation Quantification Through Backscatter Data Assimilation With a Buddy Check Approach. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16(3). 2 indexed citations

Dari, Jacopo, Sara Modanesi, Christian Massari, et al.. (2024). An inter-comparison of approaches and frameworks to quantify irrigation from satellite data. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 28(3). 441–457. 9 indexed citations

Boithias, Laurie, Vianney Sivelle, Ryan T. Bailey, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of precipitation products for small karst catchment hydrological modeling in data-scarce mountainous regions. Journal of Hydrology. 645. 132131–132131. 2 indexed citations

Massari, Christian, et al.. (2024). Reconstruction of the dynamics of sap-flow timeseries of a beech forest using a machine learning approach. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 362. 110379–110379. 1 indexed citations

Camici, Stefania, Luca Brocca, Christian Massari, et al.. (2022). Synergy between satellite observations of soil moisture and water storage anomalies for runoff estimation. Geoscientific model development. 15(18). 6935–6956. 2 indexed citations

Modanesi, Sara, Christian Massari, Michel Bechtold, et al.. (2022). Challenges and benefits of quantifying irrigation through the assimilation of Sentinel-1 backscatter observations into Noah-MP. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 26(18). 4685–4706. 20 indexed citations

Rigon, Riccardo, et al.. (2022). HESS Opinions: Participatory Digital eARth Twin Hydrology systems (DARTHs) for everyone – a blueprint for hydrologists. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 26(18). 4773–4800. 13 indexed citations

Biondi, Daniela, Wade T. Crow, Stefania Camici, et al.. (2021). Assimilation of Satellite Soil Moisture Products for River Flow Prediction: An Extensive Experiment in Over 700 Catchments Throughout Europe. Water Resources Research. 57(6). 30 indexed citations

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Masseroni, Daniele, Stefania Camici, Alessio Cislaghi, et al.. (2021). The 63-year changes in annual streamflow volumes across Europe with a focus on the Mediterranean basin. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(10). 5589–5601. 34 indexed citations

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Camici, Stefania, Christian Massari, Luca Ciabatta, Ivan Marchesini, & Luca Brocca. (2020). Which rainfall score is more informative about the performance in river discharge simulation? A comprehensive assessment on 1318 basins over Europe. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 24(10). 4869–4885. 44 indexed citations

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Massari, Christian, Luca Brocca, Thierry Pellarin, et al.. (2020). A daily 25 km short-latency rainfall product for data-scarce regions based on the integration of the Global Precipitation Measurement mission rainfall and multiple-satellite soil moisture products. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 24(5). 2687–2710. 55 indexed citations

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Masseroni, Daniele, Stefania Camici, Alessio Cislaghi, et al.. (2020). 65-year changes of annual streamflow volumes across Europe with a focus on the Mediterranean basin. 8 indexed citations

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Modanesi, Sara, Christian Massari, Stefania Camici, Luca Brocca, & Giriraj Amarnath. (2020). Do Satellite Surface Soil Moisture Observations Better Retain Information About Crop‐Yield Variability in Drought Conditions?. Water Resources Research. 56(2). 23 indexed citations

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Brocca, Luca, Stefania Camici, Christian Massari, et al.. (2020). Satellite soil moisture improves rainfall just where needed. 1 indexed citations

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Massari, Christian, Luca Brocca, Thierry Pellarin, et al.. (2019). A daily/25 km short-latency rainfall product for data scarce regions based on the integration of the GPM IMERG Early Run with multiple satellite soil moisture products. 5 indexed citations

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Jalilvand, Ehsan, et al.. (2018). Estimating the drainage rate from surface soil moisture drydowns: Application of DfD model to in situ soil moisture data. Journal of Hydrology. 565. 489–501. 13 indexed citations

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Maggioni, Viviana, Christian Massari, Luca Brocca, & Luca Ciabatta. (2017). Merging bottom-up and top-down precipitation products using a stochastic error model. EGUGA. 12383. 1 indexed citations

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Massari, Christian, Luca Brocca, Thierry Pellarin, et al.. (2016). Rainfall estimation over-land using SMOS soil moisture observations: SM2RAIN, LMAA and SMART algorithms. EGUGA. 2 indexed citations

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Massari, Christian, Luca Brocca, Luca Ciabatta, et al.. (2015). The Use of H-SAF Soil Moisture Products for Operational Hydrology: Flood Modelling over Italy. Hydrology. 2(1). 2–22. 30 indexed citations

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