Giuseppe Mascaro
Assistant Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A Fulton Schools of Engineering
Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation
Arizona State University
PO Box 875402
Tempe, AZ 85287-5402
Titles
- Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
- Assistant Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A Fulton Schools of Engineering
- Affiliated Faculty, Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation
Biography
Giuseppe Mascaro earned a Master of Science in Civil Engineering in 2001 and a Ph.D. in Hydrology in 2008 from the University of Cagliari, Italy. After a Post-Doctoral experience at New Mexico Tech, he was a research scientist and a lecturer at the University of Cagliari. From November 2012 to August 2016, he was a research engineer and a lecturer at ASU, working for the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. He is currently an assistant professor at the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at ASU.
Dr. Mascaro’s interests include stochastic hydrology, statistical downscaling, watershed modeling, impact of climate change on water resources, remote sensing applied to hydrology and water resources, water systems, and hydroinformatics.
Education
- PhD, Hydrology, University of Cagliari, 2008
- MS (Laurea), Civil Engineering, University of Cagiiari, 2001
Expertise
Journal Articles
2023
Whitney, K. M., E. R. Vivoni, T. Bohn, G. Mascaro, Z. Wang, M. Xiao, M. Mahmoud, C. Cullom and D. D. White. 2023. Spatial attribution of declining Colorado River streamflow under future warming. Journal of Hydrology 617:129125. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129125. (link )
2021
Sordo-Ward, A., I. Gabriel-Martin, P. Bianucci, G. Mascaro, E. R. Vivoni and L. Garrote. 2021. Stochastic hybrid event based and continuous approach to derive flood frequency curve. Water 13(14):1931. DOI: 10.3390/w13141931. (link )
2020
Opejin, A. K., R. M. Aggarwal, D. D. White, J. L. Jones, R. Maciejewski, G. Mascaro and H. Sarjoughian. 2020. A bibliometric analysis of food-energy-water nexus literature. Sustainability 12(3):Art. 1112. DOI: 10.3390/su12031112.
2019
Bohn, T. J., K. Whitney, G. Mascaro and E. R. Vivoni. 2019. A deterministic approach for approximating the diurnal cycle of precipitation for use in large-scale hydrological modeling. Journal of Hydrometeorology 20(2):297-317. DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-18-0203.1. (link )
Bohn, T., K. M. Whitney, G. Mascaro and E. R. Vivoni. 2019. A deterministic approach for approximating the diurnal cycle of precipitation for use in large-scale hydrological modeling. Journal of Hydrometeorology 20(2):297–317. DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-18-0203.1. (link )
Ko, A., G. Mascaro and E. R. Vivoni. 2019. Strategies to improve and evaluate physics-based hyerresolution hydrologic simulations at regional basin scales. Water Resources Research 55(2):1129-1152. DOI: 10.1029/2018WR023521. (link )
Mascaro, G., A. Ko and E. R. Vivoni. 2019. Closing the loop of satellite soil moisture estimation via scale invariance of hydrologic simulations. Scientific Reports 9:Art. 16123. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-52650-3. (link )
Mounir, A., G. Mascaro and D. D. White. 2019. A metropolitan scale analysis of the impacts of future electricity mix alternatives on the water-energy nexus. Applied Energy 256:1-16. DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.113870.
White, D. D., K. Lawless, E. R. Vivoni, G. Mascaro, R. Pahle, I. Kumar, P. Coli, R. M. Castillo, F. Moreda and M. Asfora. 2019. Co‐producing interdisciplinary knowledge and action for sustainable water governance: Lessons from the development of a water resources decision support system in Pernambuco, Brazil. Global Challenges 3(4):1800012. DOI: 10.1002/gch2.201800012. (link )
2018
Bohn, T., E. R. Vivoni, G. Mascaro and D. D. White. 2018. Land and water use changes in the US-Mexico border region, 1992-2011. Environmental Research Letters 13(11):114005. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aae53e. (link )
Bohn, T., E. R. Vivoni, G. Mascaro and D. D. White. 2018. Land and water use changes in the US–Mexico border region, 1992–2011. Environmental Research Letters 13(11):114005. (link )
Gautam, J. and G. Mascaro. 2018. Evaluation of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 historical simulations in the Colorado River basin. International Journal of Climatology 38(10):3861-3877. DOI: 10.1002/joc.5540. (link )
Mascaro, G. 2018. On the distributions of annual and seasonal daily rainfall extremes in central Arizona and their spatial variability. Journal of Hydrology 559(Apri):266-281. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.02.011. (link )
Mascaro, G., F. Viola and R. Deidda. 2018. Evaluation of precipitation from EURO-CORDEX regional climate simulations in a small-scale Mediterranean site. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 123(3):1604-1625. DOI: 10.1002/2017JD027463. (link )
Perra, E., M. Piras, R. Deidda, C. Paniconi, G. Mascaro, E. R. Vivoni, P. Cau, P. A. Marras, R. Ludwig and S. Meyer. 2018. Multimodel assessment of climate change-induced hydrologic impacts for a Mediterranean catchment. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 22(7):4125-4143. DOI: 10.5194/hess-22-4125-2018. (link )
2017
Cázares-Rodriguez, J., E. R. Vivoni and G. Mascaro. 2017. Comparison of two watershed models for addressing stakeholder flood mitigation strategies: Case study of Hurricane Alex in Monterrey, México. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 22(9):05017018 1-16. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0001560. (link )
Kim, Y., D. Eisenberg, E. Bondank, M. V. Chester, G. Mascaro and S. Underwood. 2017. Fail-safe and safe-to-fail adaptation: Decision-making for urban flooding under climate change. Climatic Change 145(3-4):397-412. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-017-2090-1. (link )
Mascaro, G. 2017. Multiscale spatial and temporal statistical properties of rainfall in central Arizona. Journal of Hydrometeorology 18(1):227-245. DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-16-0167.1. (link )
White, D. D., J. L. Jones, R. Maciejewski, R. M. Aggarwal and G. Mascaro. 2017. Stakeholder analysis for the food-energy-water nexus in Phoenix, Arizona: Implications for nexus governance. Sustainability 9(12):Art. 2204. DOI: 10.3390/su9122204. (link )
Xiang, T., E. R. Vivoni, D. J. Gochis and G. Mascaro. 2017. On the diurnal cycle of surface energy fluxes in the North American monsoon region using the WRF-Hydro modeling system. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 122(17):9024-9049. DOI: 10.1002/2017JD026472. (link )
2016
Fatichi, S., E. R. Vivoni, F. L. Ogden, V. Y. Ivanov, B. Mirus, D. Gochis, C. W. Downer, M. Camporese, J. H. Davison, B. Ebel, N. Jones, J. Kim, G. Mascaro, R. Niswonger, P. Restrepo, R. Rigon, C. Shen, M. Sulis and D. Tarboton. 2016. An overview of current applications, challenges, and future trends in distributed process-based models in hydrology. Journal of Hydrology 537(Jun):45-80. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.03.026. (link )
Ko, A., G. Mascaro and E. R. Vivoni. 2016. Irrigation impacts on scaling properties of soil moisture and the calibration of a multifractal downscaling model. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 54(6):3128-3142. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2511628. (link )
Mascaro, G. and E. R. Vivoni. 2016. On the observed hysteresis in field-scale soil moisture variability and its physical controls. Environmental Research Letters 11(8):084008. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/8/084008. (link )
Mendez-Barroso, L. A., E. R. Vivoni and G. Mascaro. 2016. Impact of spatially-variable soil thickness and texture on simulated hydrologic conditions in a semiarid watershed in northwest Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas 33(3):365-377. (link )
Piras, M., G. Mascaro, R. Deidda and E. R. Vivoni. 2016. Impacts of climate change on precipitation and discharge extremes through the use of statistical downscaling approaches in a Mediterranean basin. Science of The Total Environment 543(Part B):952-964. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.06.088. (link )
Schreiner-McGraw, A. P., E. R. Vivoni, G. Mascaro and T. E. Franz. 2016. Closing the water balance with cosmic-ray soil moisture measurements and assessing their relation to evapotranspiration in two semiarid watersheds. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 20(1):329-345. DOI: 10.5194/hess-20-329-2016. (link )
2015
Hawkins, G. A., E. R. Vivoni, A. Robles-Morua, G. Mascaro, E. Rivera and F. Dominguez. 2015. A climate change projection for summer hydrologic conditions in a semiarid watershed of central Arizona. Journal of Arid Environments 118:9-20. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2015.02.022. (link )
Mascaro, G., E. R. Vivoni and L. A. Mendez-Barroso. 2015. Hyperresolution hydrologic modeling in a regional watershed and its interpretation using empirical orthogonal functions. Advances in Water Resources 83(Sep):190-206. DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2015.05.023. (link )
Mascaro, G., D. D. White, P. K. Westerhoff and N. T. Bliss. 2015. Performance of the CORDEX-Africa regional climate simulations in representing the hydrological cycle of the Niger River basin. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 120(24):12,425-12.444. DOI: 10.1002/2015JD023905. (link )
2014
Mascaro, G., E. R. Vivoni, D. J. Gochis, C. J. Watts and J. C. Rodriguez. 2014. Temporal downscaling and statistical analysis of rainfall across a topographic transect in northwest Mexico. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 53(`4):910-927. DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0330.1. (link )
Mendez-Barroso, L. A., E. R. Vivoni, A. Robles-Morua, G. Mascaro, E. A. Yepez, J. C. Rodriguez, C. J. Watts, J. Garatuza-Payan and J. A. Siz-Hernandez. 2014. A modeling approach reveals differences in evapotranspirationand its partitioning in two semiarid ecosystems in northwest Mexico. Water Resources Research 50:3229-3252. DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014838. (link )
Piras, M., G. Mascaro, R. Deidda and E. R. Vivoni. 2014. Quantification of hydrologic impacts of climate change in a Mediterranean basin in Sardinia, Italy, through high-resolution simulations. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 18:5201-5217. DOI: 10.5194/hess-18-5201-2014. (link )
White, D. D., T. J. Bohn, E. R. Vivoni and G. Mascaro. 2014. Effects of Land Use on the Predictability of Land-Atmosphere Fluxes and Moisture Transport in the North American Monsoon Region. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 1:3258.
2013
Mascaro, G., R. Deidda and M. Hellies. 2013. On the nature of rainfall intermittency as revealed by different metrics and sampling approaches. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 17:355-369. DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-355-2013. (link )
Mascaro, G., G. Mascaro, M. Piras, M. Piras, R. Deidda, R. Deidda, E. R. Vivoni and E. R. Vivoni. 2013. Distributed hydrologic modeling of a sparsely monitored basin in Sardinia, Italy, through hydrometeorological downscaling. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 17:4143-4158. DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-4143-2013. (link )
2012
Biondi, D., G. Freni, V. Iacobellis, G. Mascaro and A. Montanari. 2012. Validation of hydrological models: Conceptual basis, methodological approaches and a proposal for a code of practice. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C 42-44:70-76. DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2011.07.037. (link )
Mascaro, G. and E. R. Vivoni. 2012. Comparison of statistical and multifractal properties of soil moisture and brightness temperature from ESTAR and PSR during SGP99. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 9(3):373-377. DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2169770. (link )
Mascaro, G. and E. R. Vivoni. 2012. Utility of coarse and downscaled soil moisture products at L-band for hydrologic modeling at the catchment scale. Geophysical Research Letters 39(10):L10403. DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051809. (link )
2011
Mascaro, G., E. R. Vivoni and R. Deidda. 2011. Soil moisture downscaling across climate regions and its emergent properties. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 116(D22):D22114. DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016231. (link )
Vivoni, E. R., G. Mascaro, S. Mniszewski, P. Fasel, E. P. Springer, V. Y. Ivanov and R. L. Bras. 2011. Real-world hydrologic assessment of a fully-distributed hydrological model in a parallel computing environment. Journal of Hydrology 409(1-2):483-496. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.08.053. (link )
2010
Mascaro, G. and E. R. Vivoni. 2010. Statistical and scaling properties of remotely-sensed soil moisture in two contrasting domains in the North American monsoon region. Journal of Arid Environments 74(5):572-578. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2009.09.023. (link )
Mascaro, G., E. R. Vivoni and R. Deidda. 2010. Downscaling soil moisture in the southern Great Plains through a calibrated multifractal model for land surface modeling applications. Water Resources Research 46(8):WO8546. DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008855. (link )
Mascaro, G., E. R. Vivoni and R. Deidda. 2010. Implications of ensemble quantitative precipitation forecast errors on distributed streamflow forecasting. Jounral of Hydrometeorology 11(1):69-96. DOI: 10.1175/2009JHM1143.1. (link )
Mascaro, G., E. R. Vivoni and R. Deidda. 2010. Physical controls on the scale-dependence of ensemble streamflow forecast dispersion. Natural Hazards and Earth Systems Sciences 10:1605-1615. DOI: 10.5194/nhess-10-1605-2010. (link )
2008
Mascaro, G., R. Deidda and E. R. Vivoni. 2008. A new verification method to ensure consistent ensemble forecasts through calibrated precipitation downscaling models. Monthly Weather Review 136(9):3374–3391. DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2339.1. (link )
Vivoni, E. R., H. A. Moreno, G. Mascaro, J. C. Rodriguez, C. J. Watts, J. Garatuza-Payan and R. L. Scott. 2008. Observed relation between evapotranspiration and soil moisture in the North American monsoon region. Geophysical Research Letters 35(22):L22403. DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036001. (link )
2007
Deidda, R., G. Mascaro, E. Piga and G. Querzoli. 2007. An automatic system for rainfall signal recognition from tipping bucket gage strip charts. Journal of Hydrology 333(2-4):400-412. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.09.011. (link )
Posters
2020
Sampson, D. A., G. Mascaro, R. Maciejewski, R. M. Aggarwal, D. D. White, C. Duan, X. Guan, A. Mounir, A. K. Opejin, J. L. Jones, M. Roy Choudhury and Y. Ma. 2020. A coupled food-energy-water model for the Phoenix AMA. Poster presented at the Twenty-second Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, January 17, 2020, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )
2018
Kim, Y., D. A. Eisenberg, E. Bondank, M. V. Chester, G. Mascaro and B. S. Underwood. 2018. Fail safe and safe-to-fail adaptation: Decision-making for urban flooding under climate change. Poster presented at the 20th Annual CAP LTER All Scienitists Meeting and Poster Symposium, January 5, 2018, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )
Opejin, A., R. Aggarwal, D. D. White, J. L. Jones, R. Maciejewski, G. Mascaro and H. Sarjoughian. 2018. Tracing the trajectory of food-energy-water nexus lieratures: A bibliometric analysis. Poster presented at the AG Annual Meeting, December 2018, Washington, DC.
2017
Kim, Y., D. A. Eisenberg, E. Bondank, M. V. Chester, G. Mascaro and B. S. Underwood. 2017. Safe-to-fail infrastructure adaptation strategies: Decision-making for urban flooding under climate change. Poster presented at the 2nd Annual UREx SRN All Hands Meeting, New York, NY.
2016
Fang, L., E. R. Vivoni and G. Mascaro. 2016. Regional assessment of observed rainfall-runoff relations in Maricopa County and its hydrologic modeling for selected areas. Poster presented at the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Eighteenth Annual All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, 15 January 2016, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )
2015
Song, J., Z. Wang, E. R. Vivoni, G. Mascaro and B. L. Ruddell. 2015. Investigating the impacts of urbanization on regional hydrometeorology by coupling an urban canopy model into a distributed hydrological model. Poster presented at the Seventeenth Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, 16 January 2015, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )
2014
Bohn, T. J., G. Mascaro, D. D. White and E. R. Vivoni. 2014. Effects of land use on the predictability of land-atmosphere fluxes and moisture transport in the North American Monsoon Region. Poster presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 15-19, 2014, San Francisco, CA.
Presentations
2020
Vivoni, E. R., M. Mahmoud, D. D. White, G. Mascaro, R. Quay, K. Whitney, T. Bohn, Z. Wang and C. Cullom. 2020. Long Range Scenario Modeling of the Colorado River Basin. Presentation at the California Water & Environmental Modeling Forum Annual Meeting, 2020, Folsom, CA.
2016
Bohn, T. J., E. R. Vivoni, G. Mascaro and D. D. White. 2016. Impacts of Land Cover and Land Use Change on the Hydrology of the US-Mexico Border Region, 1992-2011. Presentation at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 14, 2016, San Francisco, CA.
Maciejewski, R., G. Mascaro, D. D. White, B. L. Ruddell, R. M. Aggarwal and H. Sarjoughian. 2016. Visual analytics for the food-water-energy nexus in the Phoenix active management area. Presentation at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 14, 2016, San Francisco, CA.
2015
Bohn, T. J., G. Mascaro, D. D. White and E. R. Vivoni. 2015. Effects of land use on land-atmosphere fluxes and moisture transport in the North American Monsoon Region. Presentation at the 29th Conference on Hydrology, 95th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), January 4-8, 2015, Phoenix, AZ.
2014
Bohn, T. J., G. Mascaro, D. D. White and E. R. Vivoni. 2014. Does Mexican land use influence rainfall in the southwestern USA? Effects of land use on land-atmosphere fluxes and moisture transport in the North American Monsoon. Presentation at the US-Mexico Border Water, Engineering, and Sustainability Training (UMB-WEST), , July 21-August 8, 2014, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Presented July 29, 2014 at US-Mexico Border Water, Engineering, and Sustainability Training (UMB-WEST), July 21-August 8, 2014, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.
Conference Papers
2017
Kim, Y., D. Eisenberg, E. Bondank, M. V. Chester, G. Mascaro and S. Underwood. 2017. Safe-to-fail climate change adaptation strategies for Phoenix roadways under extreme precipitation. Pp. 348-363 Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure 2017 . International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure 2017: Policy Finance, and Education. New York, NY.