Publications

Journal articles

• L. O. Ohenhen, M. Shirzaei, C. Ojha, S. F. Sherpa, R. J. Nicholls, “Disappearing Cities on U.S. Coasts,” Nature, 627, 108–115 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07038-3

• M. Ojha, S. Goswami, P.C. Sahu, C. Ojha, “Identifying susceptible groundwater contamination zones in western Odisha of India using hydro-geochemical and geostatistical approaches.” Journal of Contaminant Hydrology (Elsevier), January 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconhyd.2024.104302

• L.Ohenhen, M. Shirzaei, C. Ojha, M. L. Kirwan, “Hidden vulnerability of US Atlantic coast to sea-level rise due to vertical land motion”, Nature Communication, 14, 2038 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37853-7

• S. Sherpa, M. Shirzaei, C. Ojha, “Disruptive Role of Vertical Land Motion in Future Assessments of Climate Change-Driven Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Hazards in the Chesapeake Bay”, JGR-Solid Earth, April 2023, volume 128, Issue4, e2022JB025993. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB025993

• J.C. McCubbine, Z. Du, C. Ojha, M.C. Garthwaite, N.J. Brown, “InSAR processing over the Great Artesian Basin and analysis over the western Eromanga Basin and northern Surat Basin” Record 2022/029 Geoscience Australia, Canberra. http://dx.doi.org/10.11636/Record.2022.029 

• S. Tung, M. Shirzaei, C. Ojha, A. Pepe, Z. Liu, “Structural controls over the rupture and aftershocks of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake one sequence investigated by high-fidelity elastic models of velocity structures” JGR-Solid Earth, 2021, 126, Issue7, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB021124.

• M. Shirzaei, M. Khoshmanesh, C. Ojha, S. Werth, H. Kerner, G. Carlson, S. Futi Sherpa, G. Zhai, J.C. Lee, “Persistent impact of compound extremes on crop loss in U.S. Midwest,” Weather and Climate Extremes, 2021, 34, DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2021.100392

• C. Ojha, M. Shirzaei, S. Werth, “Recovery of aquifer-systems in Southwest US following 2012-2015 drought: evidence from InSAR, GRACE and groundwater level data”, Journal of Hydrology, 2020, Volume 587, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124943

• E. Blackwell, M. Shirzaei, C. Ojha, S. Werth, “Tracking California’s sinking coast from space: implications for relative sea-level rise SAR interferometry for measuring coastal subsidence,” Science-Advance, 31 Jul 2020, Vol. 6, no. 31, eaba4551, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba4551 

• G. Carlson, M. Shirzaei, S. Werth, C. Ojha, “Subsidence-Derived Volumetric Strain Models for Mapping Extensional Fissures and Constraining Rock Mechanical Properties in the San Joaquin Valley, California,” JGR-Solid Earth, Volume125, Issue9, August 2020, DOI: 10.1029/2020JB019980

• S. Sherpa, M. Shirzaei, and C. Ojha, S. Werth, R. Hostache, “Probabilistic Mapping of August 2018 Flood of Kerala, India, Using Space-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar”, IEEE JSTARS, Vol. 13, pp. 896-913, 2020, DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2020.2970337 

• G. Carlson, M. Shirzaei, G. Zhai, S. Werth, C. Ojha, “Seasonal and Long‐Term Groundwater Unloading in the Central Valley Modifies Crustal Stress,” JGR-Solid Earth, 125, 2020, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB018490

• C. Ojha, A. Fusco, M. Pinto, “Interferometric SAR Phase Denoising Using Proximity Based K-SVD Technique,” Sensors, 2019, 19, 2684. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/s19122684

• C. Ojha, S. Werth, M. Shirzaei, “Groundwater loss and aquifer-system compaction in San Joaquin Valley during 2012 - 2015 drought”, JGR-Solid Earth, 2019, 124(3), pp. 3127-3143. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016083.

• M. Shirzaei, C. Ojha, S. Werth, G. Carlson, E. Vivoni, “Comment on Short-lived pause in Central California subsidence after heavy winter precipitation of 2017 by K. D. Murray and R. B. Lohman”, Science Advance, 2019, Vol. 5, no. 6, eaav803. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav8038 

• C. Ojha, M. Shirzaei, S. Werth, D. Argus, T. Farr, “Sustained groundwater loss in California’s Central Valley exacerbated by intense drought periods,” Water Resources Research, 2018, 54 (7), pp. 4449-4460, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2017WR022250. 

• S. Scifoni, M. Bonano, M. Marsella, A. Sonnessa, V. Tagliafierro, M. Manunta, R. Lanari, C. Ojha, and M. Sciotti, “On the joint exploitation of long-term DInSAR time series and geological information for the investigation of ground settlements in the city of Roma (Italy),” Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 182, pp. 113-127, 2016, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2016.04.017 

• C. Ojha, M. Manunta, R. Lanari, and A. Pepe, “The Constrained-Network Propagation (C-NetP) Technique to Improve SBAS-DInSAR Deformation Time-Series Retrieval,” in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2015, DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2482358. 

• E. Sansosti, M. Manunta, F. Casu, M. Bonano, C. Ojha, M. Marsella, and R. Lanari, “Radar remote sensing from space for surface deformation analysis: present and future opportunities from the new SAR sensor generation,” Rend. Lincei, Springer, Vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 75–84, 2015, DOI: 10.1007/s12210-015-0440-3 

Book chapter

• M. Corsetti, M. Manunta, M. Marsella, S. Scifoni, A. Sonnessa, C. Ojha, “Satellite Techniques: new perspectives for the monitoring of dams,” in Engineering Geology for Society and Territory-Vol 5., Springer International Publishing, pp. 989-993, 2015, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09048-1_190