Publications

Brasil, J., Gomes Jr., M. N., Johnson, D. W., Papagiannakis, A. T., Mendiondo, E. M., and Giacomoni, M. H. (2026). A digital twin framework for real-time probabilistic forecasting of permeable pavement performance. Journal of Hydrology, 136380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2026.136380

Gomes Jr., M. N., Elsherif, S. M., Benites, I. M., Taha, A. F., and Giacomoni, M. H. (2026). Modeling and Design Optimization of Looped Water Distribution Networks using MS Excel: Developing the Open-Source X-WHAT Model. Water Resources Management, 40, 514. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-026-04817-7

Gomes Jr., M. N., and Castro, M. A. R. A. (2026). A Continental-scale XGBoost Framework for Multi-Hazard Susceptibility and Socioeconomic Exposure in South America. Sustainable Cities and Society, 107858. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2026.107858

Sánchez, M. H., Gomes Jr., M. N., Castillo, L. M. R., Castro, M. A. R. A., and Mendiondo, E. M. (2026). Assessment of urban vulnerability to floods under current and future demographic and climate scenarios. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 106337. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106337

Richmond Navarro, F. A., Gomes Júnior, M. N., de Souza, V. C. B., and Mendiondo, E. M. (2026). Risk management framework for urban catchments under non-stationary analysis: Mitigation and adaptation scenarios in a Brazilian case study. Urban Water Journal, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/1573062X.2026.2682572

Gomes Jr., M. N., Bauser, H. H., and Troch, P. A. (2026). Identifying the State Dependence of Effective Material Properties in a Simplified Hydrologic Hillslope Model. Water Resources Research, 62(6), e2025WR041468. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025WR041468

Brasil, J. T., Papagiannakis, A. T., Johnson, D. W., Gomes Jr., M. N., and Giacomoni, M. H. (2026). Field Scale Test Bed for Assessment of the Surface Runoff and Water Quality Performance of Permeable Pavements. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 31(4), 04026014. https://doi.org/10.1061/JHYEFF.HEENG-6602

Gomes Jr., M. N. (2026). LID-Design Atlas: Mapping Hydrologic Performance and Cost Trade-Offs in Infiltration-Based LID Design. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 31(5), 04026043. https://doi.org/10.1061/JHYEFF.HEENG-6901

Brandao, A. R., Castro, M. A., Sanchez, M. H., Gomes Jr, M. N., Uchoa, J. G. S., Vaz, I. C., Ghisi, E., Anache, J. A., Wendland, E. C., Oliveira, P. T., and Mendiondo, E. M. (2026). Flood Event Escalation and Urban Drainage Design Implications Under Nonstationary Rainfall in Sao Paulo State, Brazil. Water, 18(5), 561. https://doi.org/10.3390/w18050561

Castro, M., Gomes Jr., M. N., and Montenegro, S. (2026). Assessing the Socioeconomic Benefits of the Agreste Water Supply System in Pernambuco, Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Water Resources, 31, e04. https://doi.org/10.1590/2318-0331.312620250154

Gomes Jr., M. N. (2026). Accounting for spatial runoff variability in LID design for urban catchments: model and software development. Brazilian Journal of Water Resources, 31, e10. https://doi.org/10.1590/2318-0331.312620250060

Sousa, M. R., Gomes Jr., M. N., and Mendiondo, E. M. (2026). Hydrological-Hydrodynamic Modeling of Climate-Induced Urban Flooding of Design Storms Using HydroPol2D: A Case Study in Sao Carlos, Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Water Resources, 31, e02. https://doi.org/10.1590/2318-0331.312620250090

Gomes Jr., M. N., Castro, M. A., Castillo, L. M., Sanchez, M. H., Giacomoni, M. H., de Paiva, R. C., and Bates, P. D. (2025). Spatio-temporal performance of 2D local inertial hydrodynamic models for urban drainage and dam-break applications. Journal of Hydrology, 134661. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.134661

Vasconcelos, J. G., Gomes Jr., M. N., Oliveira, P. T. S., Yang, D., and Fang, X. (2025). Reformulating the Rational Method Considering Dissimilar Land Use Types. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 151(4), 04025017. https://doi.org/10.1061/JIDEDH.IRENG-10431

Rapalo, L. M. C., Gomes Jr., M. N., and Mendiondo, E. M. (2025). Multiple Degrees of Human Instability Due to Urban Overland Flow Within the 21st Century: An Urban Watershed Case Study in Brazil. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 105931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105931

Gomes Jr., M. N., Brasil, A., Johnson, D. W., Papagiannakis, A. T., and Giacomoni, M. H. (2025). A Coupled Darcy-Richards Framework for Hydrological Modeling of Permeable Pavements, Green Roofs, and Bioretention Systems. Environmental Modelling & Software, 106766. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106766

Gomes, M. N., Jalihal, V., Castro, M., and Mendiondo, E. M. (2025). Exploring the impact of rainfall temporal distribution and critical durations on flood hazard modeling. Natural Hazards, 121(9), 10989-11012. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-025-07186-3

Gomes Jr., M. N., do Lago, C. A., and Mendiondo, E. M. (2025). A Simple Method for Designing Infiltration Low Impact Development Techniques Considering Effects of Urbanization and Climate Change. Brazilian Journal of Water Resources, 30, e41. https://doi.org/10.1590/2318-0331.302520240106

Gomes Jr., M. N., Taha, A. F., Castillo Rapalo, L. M., Mendiondo, E. M., and Giacomoni, M. H. (2024). Real-time regulation of detention ponds via feedback control: Balancing flood mitigation and water quality. Journal of Hydrology, 643, 131866. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131866

Rapalo, L. M. C., Gomes Jr., M. N., and Mendiondo, E. M. (2024). Developing an open-source flood forecasting system adapted to data-scarce regions: A digital twin coupled with hydrologic-hydrodynamic simulations. Journal of Hydrology, 131929. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131929

Gomes Jr., M. N., Castro, M. A. R. A., Silva, P. G. C., Giacomoni, M. H., and Mendiondo, E. M. (2024). Increasing flood awareness through dam-break serious games. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 108, 104543. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104543

do Lago, C. A. F., Brasil, J. A. T., Gomes, M. N., Mendiondo, E. M., and Giacomoni, M. H. (2024). Improving pluvial flood mapping resolution of large coarse models with deep learning. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 69(5), 607-621. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2024.2329268

Gomes Jr., M. N., do Lago, C. A. F., Rapalo, L. M. C., Oliveira, P. T. S., Giacomoni, M. H., and Mendiondo, E. M. (2023). HydroPol2D - Distributed Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Model: Challenges and Opportunities in Poorly-Gauged Catchments. Journal of Hydrology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129982

Gomes Jr., M. N., Rapalo, L. M. C., Oliveira, P. T. S., Giacomoni, M. H., do Lago, C. A. F., and Mendiondo, E. M. (2023). Modeling unsteady and steady 1-D hydrodynamics under different hydraulic conceptualizations: Model/software development and case studies. Environmental Modelling & Software. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2023.105733

Gomes Jr., M. N., Giacomoni, M. H., de Macedo, M. B., do Lago, C. A. F., Brasil, J. A. T., Pereira de Oliveira, T. R., and Mendiondo, E. M. (2023). A modeling framework for bioretention analysis: Assessing the hydrologic performance under system uncertainty. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1061/JHYEFF.HEENG-5705

Ballarin, A. S., Uchoa, J. G. S. M., dos Santos, M. S., Almagro, A., Miranda, I. P., da Silva, P. G. C., Gomes Jr., M. N., Wendland, E., and Oliveira, P. T. S. (2023). Brazilian water security threatened by climate change and human behavior. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR034914

do Lago, C. A., Giacomoni, M. H., Bentivoglio, R., Taormina, R., Gomes Junior, M. N., and Mendiondo, E. M. (2023). Generalizing rapid flood predictions to unseen urban catchments with conditional generative adversarial networks. Journal of Hydrology, 618, 129276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129276

Gomes Jr., M. N., Giacomoni, M. H., Taha, A. F., and Mendiondo, E. M. (2022). Flood risk mitigation and valve control in stormwater systems: State-space modeling, control algorithms, and case studies. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 148(12), 04022067. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001588

Jochelavicius, V., Mendiondo, E. M., Gomes Jr., M. N., and de Macedo, M. B. (2022). Construction of Intensity-Duration-Frequency curves with future climate change scenarios for the city of Sao Carlos - SP aiming at the design of compensatory techniques. Revista DAE, 147, 19-32. https://doi.org/10.36659/dae.2022.065 (In Portuguese).

Batalini de Macedo, M., Gomes Junior, M. N., Jochelavicius, V., de Oliveira, T. R. P., and Mendiondo, E. M. (2022). Modular design of bioretention systems for sustainable stormwater management under drivers of urbanization and climate change. Sustainability, 14(11), 6799. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14116799

Brasil, J. A. T., de Macedo, M. B., de Oliveira, T. R. P., Ghiglieno, F. G., de Souza, V. C. B., Marinho e Silva, G., Gomes Junior, M. N., de Souza, F. A. A., and Mendiondo, E. M. (2022). Can we scale digital twins of nature-based solutions for stormwater and transboundary water security projects? Journal of Hydroinformatics. https://doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2022.142

de Oliveira, T. R. P., de Macedo, M. B., Oliveira, T. H., do Lago, C. A. F., Gomes Jr., M. N., Brasil, J. A. T., and Mendiondo, E. M. (2021). Different configurations of a bioretention system focused on stormwater harvesting in Brazil. Journal of Environmental Engineering, 147(12), 04021058. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0001938

Batalini de Macedo, M., Gomes Junior, M. N., Pereira de Oliveira, T. R., Giacomoni, M. H., Imani, M., Zhang, K., Ambrogi Ferreira do Lago, C., and Mendiondo, E. M. (2022). Low impact development practices in the context of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: A new concept, lessons learned and challenges. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 52(14), 2538-2581. https://doi.org/10.1080/10643389.2021.1886889

Brasil, J., Macedo, M., Lago, C., Oliveira, T., Junior, M., Oliveira, T., and Mendiondo, E. (2021). Nature-based solutions and real-time control: Challenges and opportunities. Water, 13(5), 651. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13050651

Gomes Jr., M. N., Alves, P. H. B., Mendiondo, E. M., and Reis, L. F. R. (2020). Statistical, visual and non-parametric analyses for the optimization of IDF curve fitting and construction of hydraulic works design abacuses: case study in Sao Carlos - SP. Revista DAE. https://doi.org/10.36659/dae.2021.013 (In Portuguese).

McClymont, K., Cunha, D. G. F., Maidment, C., Ashagre, B., Vasconcelos, A. F., de Macedo, M. B., Dos Santos, M. F. N., Gomes Junior, M. N. G., Mendiondo, E. M., Barbassa, A. P., et al. (2020). Towards urban resilience through sustainable drainage systems: A multi-objective optimisation problem. Journal of Environmental Management, 275, 111173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111173