publications

Preprints

Werth, S., Shirzaei, M., Carlson, G., & Bürgmann, R. (2025). Connecting Deep Aquifer Recharge in California's Central Valley to Sierra Nevada Snowmelt via Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing Data, EGUsphere [preprint]. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-4023 

Publications 

Sherpa, S. F., & Werth, S. (2025). Investigating the Influence of Climate Seasonality on Glacier Mass Changes in High Mountain Asia via GRACE Observations. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol 18, pp. 20545-20562. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2025.3595165 

Shirzaei, M., Awasthi, S., Oyedele, E., Khorrami, M., Kamaraj, N., Werth, S., Matin, M., & Madani, K. (2025). Building Damage Assessment of the March 2025 Myanmar Earthquake. https://doi.org/10.53328/INR24MSIR002 

Ohenhen, L. O., Zhai, G., Lucy, J., Werth, S., Carlson, G., Khorrami, M., Onyike, F., Sadhasivam, N., Tiwari, A., Ghobadi-Far, K., Sherpa, S. F., Lee, J.-C., Zehsaz, S., & Shirzaei, M. (2025). Land subsidence risk to infrastructure in US metropolises. Nature Cities. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-025-00240-y 

Shirzaei, M., Vahedifard, F., Sadhasivam, N., Ohenhen, L., Dasho, O., Tiwari, A., Werth, S., Azhar, M., Zhao, Y., Nicholls, R. J., & AghaKouchak, A. (2025). Aging dams, political instability, poor human decisions and climate change: recipe for human disaster. Npj Natural Hazards, 2(1), 5. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44304-024-00056-1 

Shirzaei, M., Sadhasivam, N., Werth, S., Lucy, J., Etzler, W., Matin, M., Madani, K. (2024). Helene Disaster: The Threat of Poor Management and Climate Change to Human Lives and Assets, United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. https://doi.org/10.53328/INR24MSIR001 

Jaramillo, F., Aminjafari, S., Castellazzi, P., Fleischmann, A., Fluet-Chouinard, E., Hashemi, H., Hubinger, C., Martens, H. R., Papa, F., Schöne, T., Tarpanelli, A., Virkki, V., Wang-Erlandsson, L., Abarca Del Rio, R., Borsa, A., Destouni, G., di Baldassarre, G., Moore, M.-L., Andrés Posada-Marín, J., … Werth, S., ..., Salazar, J. F. (2024). The Potential of Hydrogeodesy to Address Water-Related and Sustainability Challenges. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR037020 

Carlson, G., Werth, S., & Shirzaei, M. (2024). A novel hybrid GNSS, GRACE, and InSAR joint inversion approach to constrain water loss during a record-setting drought in California. Remote Sensing of Environment, 311, 114303. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114303 

Ghobadi-Far, K., Werth, S., Shirzaei, M., & Bürgmann, R. (2023). Spatiotemporal groundwater storage dynamics and aquifer mechanical properties in the Santa Clara Valley inferred from InSAR deformation over 2017-2022. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(22), e2023GL105157. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105157.

Ghobadi-Far, K., Werth, S., & Shirzaei, M. (2023). A shrinkage-free approach for fusing GRACE-based total water storage changes with models using wavelet multiresolution analysis. Journal of Hydrology, 626, 130217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130217

Ghobadi-Far, K., Werth, S., Shirzaei, M., Loomis, B., Horwath, M., Willen, M. O., & Döhne, T. (2023). The impact of new accelerometer transplant data (ACH) on GRACE Follow-On along-orbit inter-satellite laser ranging observations and monthly time-variable gravity and mascon solutions, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, JGRB56330, accepted. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB026740

Khorrami, M.; Shirzaei, M.; Ghobadi‐Far, K.; Werth, S.; Carlson, G.; & Zhai, G. (2023). Groundwater Volume Loss in Mexico City Constrained by InSAR and GRACE Observations and Mechanical Models. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(5). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022gl101962

Carlson, G.; Werth, S. & Shirzaei, M. (2022). Joint Inversion of GNSS and GRACE for Terrestrial Water Storage Change in California. Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, 127(3), e2021JB023135, doi:10.1029/2021JB023135.

Huang, L.; Werth, S.; Stampoulis, D.; Low, G. & Sabo, J. (2021). Groundwater dynamics in the Indus revealed by integrated flow modeling and satellite data. Earth Sp. Sci. Open Arch., doi:10.1002/essoar.10508130.1.

Shirzaei, M., Khoshmanesh, M., Ojha, C., Werth, S., Kerner, H., Carlson, G., Sherpa, S. F., Zhai, G., & Lee, J. C. (2021). Persistent impact of spring floods on crop loss in U.S. Midwest. Weather and Climate Extremes, 34(January), 100392, doi: 10.1016/j.wace.2021.100392.

Carlson, G.; Shirzaei, M.; Ojha, C. & Werth, S. (2020). Subsidence‐Derived Volumetric Strain Models for Mapping Extensional Fissures and Constraining Rock Mechanical Properties in the San Joaquin Valley, California. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(9), e2020JB019980, doi: 10.1029/2020JB019980.

Blackwell, E., Shirzaei, M., Ojha, C., & Werth, S. (2020). Tracking California’s sinking coast from space: Implications for relative sea-level rise. Science Advances, 6(31), eaba4551, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aba4551.

Ojha, C., Werth, S., & Shirzaei, M. (2020). Recovery of aquifer-systems in Southwest US following 2012 – 2015 drought : Evidence from InSAR, GRACE and groundwater level data. Journal of Hydrology, 587(March), 124943, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124943.

Sherpa, F., Shirzaei, M., Ojha, C., Werth, S., & Hostache, R. (2020). Probabilistic Mapping of August 2018 Flood of Kerala , India , Using Space-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, (August 2018), 1–10, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2020.2970337.

Carlson, G., Shirzaei, M., Werth, S., Zhai, G., & Ojha, C. (2020). Seasonal and Long‐Term Groundwater Unloading in the Central Valley Modifies Crustal Stress. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(1), 1–17, doi: 10.1029/2019JB018490.

Shirzaei, M., C. Ojha, S. Werth, G. Carlson, & E. R. Vivoni (2019), Comment on “Short-lived pause in Central California subsidence after heavy winter precipitation of 2017” by K. D. Murray and R. B. Lohman. Science Advances, 5, eaav8038, doi:10.1126/sciadv.aav8038.

Ojha, C., S. Werth, & M. Shirzaei (2019), Groundwater Loss and Aquifer System Compaction in San Joaquin Valley During 2012–2015 Drought. Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, 124, 3127–3143, doi:10.1029/2018JB016083.

Ojha, C., M. Shirzaei, S. Werth, D. F. Argus, & T. G. Farr (2018), Sustained Groundwater Loss in California’s Central Valley Exacerbated by Intense Drought Periods. Water Resources Research, 54(7), 4449-4460, doi:10.1029/2017WR022250. 

Werth, S., D. White and D. W. Bliss (2017), GRACE Detected Rise of Groundwater in the Sahelian Niger River Basin, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122(12), 10459-10477, doi:10.1002/2017JB014845.

Frappart, F., F. Papa, A. Güntner, S. Werth, J. Santos da Silva, J. Tomasella, F. Seyler, C. Pigent, W. B. Rossow, S. Calmant, S. and M.-P. Bonnet (2011), Satellite-based estimates of groundwater storage variations in large drainage basins with extensive floodplains. Remote Sensing of Environment, 115(6), 1588-1594, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2011.02.003.

Frappart, F., F. Papa, A. Güntner, S. Werth, G. Ramillien, C. Prigent, W. B. Rossow and M.-P. Bonnet (2010), Interannual variations of the terrestrial water storage in the Lower Ob’ Basin from a multisatellite approach. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 14(12), 2443–2453, doi:10.5194/hess-14-2443-2010.

Werth, S. and A. Güntner, (2010), Calibration analysis for water storage variability of the global hydrological model WGHM. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 14, 59–78, doi:10.5194/hess-14-59-2010.

Werth, S., A. Güntner (2010b), Calibration of a global hydrological model with GRACE data. In: System Earth via Gedetic-Geophysical Space Techniques, Advanced Technologies in Earth Sciences, Part 5, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010, 417-426, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-10228-8_36.

Werth, S., A. Güntner, R. Schmidt and J. Kusche (2009b), Evaluation of GRACE filter tools from a hydrological perspective. Geophysical Journal International, 179(3), 1499-1515, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04355.x.

Werth, S., A. Güntner, S. Petrovic and R. Schmidt (2009a), Integration of GRACE mass variations into a global hydrological model. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 277(1-2), 166-173, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.10.021.

Wziontek, H., H. Wilmes, P. Wolf, S. Werth and A. Guentner (2009), Time series of superconducting gravimeters and water storage variations from the global hydrology model WGHM, Journal of Geodynamics, 48, 166-171, doi:10.1016/j.jog.2009.09.036.

Werth, S., A. Güntner, B. Merz, R. Schmidt, and S. Petrovic (2007), Calibration techniques for a global hydrological model and their interface to GRACE data analysis. In: Observations of the System Earth from Space: status seminar, 22 - 23 November 2007, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich, Geotechnologien Science Report 11, ISSN: 1619-7399, 183-187.

Güntner, A., J. Stuck, S. Werth, P. Döll, K. Verzano and B. Merz (2007), A global analysis of temporal and spatial variations in continental water storage. Water Resources Research., 43, W05416, doi:10.1029/2006WR005247.