Papers

Stavros Stathopoulos · Alexandra Gemitzi · Konstantinos Kourtidis. Statistical Downscaling of Remote Sensing Precipitation Estimates Using MODIS Cloud Properties Data over Northeastern Greece. Remote Sensing in Earth Systems Sciences https://doi.org/10.1007/s41976-024-00107-1

Kyriakos Chaleplis, AveryWalters, Bin Fang, Venkataraman Lakshmi and Alexandra Gemitzi. A Soil Moisture and Vegetation-Based Susceptibility Mapping Approach to Wildfire Events in Greece. Remote Sens. 2024, 16, 1816. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16101816

Ronan Abhervé, Clément Roques, Jean-Raynald de Dreuzy, Thibault Datry, Philip Brunner, Laurent Longuevergne, Luc Aquilina2. Hydrological Processes - 2024 - Abhervé - Improving calibration of groundwater flow models using headwater streamflow.

Ghag, K., Ahrari, A., Panchanathan, A., Touhidul, M. S. M., Liedes, T., Klöve, B., & Haghighi, A. T. (2024). Effect of Long-Term Climate Signatures on regional and local Potato Yield in Finland. Smart Agricultural Technology, 100411.

Szostak, R., Zimnoch, M., Wachniew, P., & Jasek-Kamińska, A. (2023). Self-Calibration of UAV Thermal Imagery Using Gradient Descent Algorithm. Drones, 7(11), 683.

Alexandra Gemitzi, Nikos Koutsias, Venkataraman Lakshmi. A Spatial Downscaling Methodology for GRACE Total Water Storage Anomalies Using GPM IMERG Precipitation Estimates. Remote Sensing 2021, 13(24), 5149

Smart drainage management to limit summer drought damage in Nordic agriculture under the circular economy concept" in Hydrological Processes (2022) by Mustafa et al.,

Gemitzi A. and Kofidou M. A Google Earth Engine tool to assess water budget and its individual components. Global NEST Journal, Vol 24, No 2, pp 331-336

"A multi-criteria approach for improving streamflow prediction in a rapidly urbanizing data-scarce catchment" in the International Journal of River Basin Management (2023) by Panchanathan et al.

Cornette, N., Roques, C., Boisson, A., Courtois, Q., Marçais, J., Launay, J., Pajot, G., Habets, F., and de Dreuzy, J.-R. (2022). Hillslope-scale exploration of the relative contribution of base flow, seepage flow and overland flow to streamflow dynamics. Journal of Hydrology, Volume 610, July 2022, 127992

Roques, C., Rupp, D. E., de Dreuzy, J.-R., Longuevergne, L., Jachens, E. R., Grant, G., Aquilina, L., and Selker, J. S. (2022) Recession discharge from compartmentalized bedrock hillslopes, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 26, 4391–4405

Panchanathan et al., 2023, A multi-criteria approach for improving streamflow prediction in a rapidly urbanizing data scarce catchment, International Journal of River Basin Management, March 2023

Panchanathan et al., 2023, An overview of approaches for reducing uncertainties in hydrological forecasting: progress, and challenges, 13 April 2023 (Reviews under revision for Earth Science Reviews)

Panchanathan et al., 2023, On recognizing uncertainty in hydrological forecasting: mapping Pappenberger and Beven’s code of practice, principles, and the way forward. Authorea. August 11, 2023, Under review in Hydrological Processes

Maria Kofidou and Alexandra Gemitzi. Assimilating Soil Moisture Information to Improve the Performance of SWAT Hydrological Model. Hydrology 2023, 10, 176

Maria Kofidou, Stavros Stathopoulos & Alexandra Gemitzi. Review on spatial downscaling of satellite derived precipitation estimates. Environmental Earth Sciences (2023) 82:424

Abhervé, R., Roques, C., Gauvain, A., Longuevergne, L., Louaisil, S., Aquilina, L., & de Dreuzy, J.-R. (2023). Calibration of groundwater seepage against the spatial distribution of the stream network to assess catchment-scale hydraulic properties. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 27(17), 3221–3239

Assimilating Soil Moisture Information to Improve the Performance of SWAT Hydrological Model

Review on spatial downscaling of satellite derived precipitation estimates

A Spatial Downscaling Methodology for GRACE Total Water Storage Anomalies Using GPM IMERG Precipitation Estimates _ Enhanced Reader

Cloud Computing for Hydrologic Modelling and Applications – Background,Challenges, and Opportunities

A Google Earth Engine tool to assess water budget and its individual components

Recession discharge from compartmentalized bedrock hillslopes

Smart drainage management to limit summer drought damage in Nordic agriculture under the circular economy concept

Conference

"Towards a long-term (> 15 years) and medium resolution (0.05°) soil moisture dataset over Europe by merging ESA CCI SM and EUMETSAT products", presentation at the 7th SALGEE Workshop, Drought & Vegetation Monitoring: Energy-Water Cycle, EUMETSAT

"Integrated hydrological modelling for decision support to improve field and catchment scale water management in agriculture" at the EGU22-11823 session

"Integrated irrigation and drainage approach to overcome summer droughts in Nordic conditions" at EGU22-12413

Waterline project's deliverables presentation at European Geosciences Union, Vienna 23-27 May 2022

"Towards a long-term and medium resolution soil moisture dataset over Europe by downscaling the ESA CCI Soil Moisture", presentation at the ESA Living Planet Symposium 2022

"Application of multi-source data to reduce the uncertainties in hydrological modeling of a snow dominated catchment in Finland" at the CMWR conference in Gdansk, June 2022

Cloud Computing for Hydrologic Modelling and Applications – Background, Challenges, and Opportunities" at the CMWR conference in Gdansk, June 2022

Assessment of reservoir inflow prediction through constraining SWAT parameters to remotely sensed ET data in the data-scarce region of Chennai, India" at The International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2022, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Alexandra Gemitzi and Stavros Stathopoulos. Assimilating GRACE Total Water Storage Anomalies into hydrological forecasts in order to acquire information for groundwater level changes . Poster on site, EGU 2023 General Assembly 24-28 April 2023, Vienna

Stavros Stathopoulos and Alexandra Gemitzi. Spatial downscaling of IMERG precipitation estimates using statistical techniques. EGU 2023 General Assembly 24-28 April 2023, Vienna

Downscaling the ESA CCI Soil Moisture: a new European dataset at 1 km for the period 2008-2020", presentation at the EGU General Assembly

Media

Initial intro video

Komotini: Industrial weather station installed at the border point of Nymphaea

Interview at National Greek Radio-Television about gradual decline of water reserves in the Rhodopes.

OPEN DATA FROM THE NETWORK OF WEATHER STATIONS IN THE MOUNTAINOUS RHODOPES

20 WEATHER STATIONS FOR EARLY WARNING IN THE RHODOPES

Podcast about "The problem of drought and lack of water and extreme weather events

THE CONSERVATION OF RODOPI'S WATERS RESOURCES NEEDED EVERYONE'S SUBSCRIPTION

Dr. Alexandra Gemitzi, is interviewed about meteorological forecasts, on Climate change and its effects in Thrace on drought and the responsibilities of the state and the local regional authorities of the area

Newspaper article on the wildfire events and the extreme drought in Thrace

Interview on the local radio station Paratiritis on the wildfire events in Thrace and the Waterline monitoring documenting extreme drought conditions

Interview in the National Broadcast Channel in Greece on the recent fire events and their connection to the extended drought. Analysis of monitoring program from Waterline

Announcement on the extreme drought conditions and the necessity of water resources management


Project Meetings & Presentations

Waterline project meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece

Waterline project presenatation at American Geophysical Union – AGU Fall Meeting 2022

Waterline third annual meeting, Kracow


Seminars

Seminar for PhD students, during the 3rd Annual meeting of Waterline Project


Courses

Multi source data processing and assimilation in hydrological models and forecasting

Ph.D. course on Water Management in Agriculture and Forestry, with a focus on drainage systems (WAFD 2022)


Communication with stakeholders

Information event about WATERLINE project at the Prefecture of Rodopi

VR framework demonstration at the 5th primary school of Pefka, Thessaloniki

Presentation of IT Tools to farmers of Rhodopi area

Announcement to the local communities, in the frames of the Waterline project, on the extended drought period

Presentation on the Chistera 2023 Seminar on the challenges that women face while coordinating EU projects

VR framework demonstration at the Municipality of Drama

Visit and Meeting at Sievi, Finland Participants: Finnish drainage association, Helsinki SLU Uppsala, Sweden The County Administrative Board in Norrbotten County, Sweden