Dr Crosato was employed by UNESCO-IHE in November 2006 after having worked for almost 20 years as a consultant hydraulic engineer, specialised in morphological changes of rivers and estuaries, mainly in Deltares. Dr Crosato holds also the position of research associate at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). Her current research deals with the development of bars in river channels and river planimetric changes, as well as floating debris in river channels, for which she carries out laboratory experiments and develops process-based mathematical models. Other current research topics deal with the interaction between vegetation, river planimetry, river morphology and floodplain sedimentation. These studies are mainly based on mathematical and numerical modelling validated on field data. In the late 1980’s Dr Crosato developed the mathematical and numerical model MIANDRAS, which marked a relevant step forward in the modelling of river planimetric changes. The model is currently used at several research institutes and universities and in the framework of the EU-funded project, IRWM-NET IMPACT, dealing with river habitats. Dr Crosato is the responsible and major lecturer for the courses “River Morphodynamics” and “River Training and Rehabilitation” and contributes to other courses, also at TU Delft.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS
Crosato A & Samir Saleh M, 2011. Numerical study on the effects of floodplain vegetation on river planform style. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 36, 711-720.
Crosato A, Mosselman E, Desta FB, Uijttewaal WSJ, 2011. Experimental and numerical evidence for intrinsic nonmigrating bars in alluvial channels. Water Res. Research, 47, W03511.
Montes Arboleda A., Crosato A & Middelkoop H, 2010. Reconstructing the early 19th century Waal River by means of a 2D physics-based numerical model. Journal of Hydrol. Processes, 24(16), 1-15.
Villada Arroyave JA & Crosato A 2010. Effects of river floodplain lowering and vegetation cover. Water Management, 163(9), 457-467.
Crosato A, 2009. Variations of local and reach-averaged migration rates of meandering rivers. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 34, 2078-2086.
Crosato A & Mosselman E, 2009. Simple physics-based predictor for the number of river bars and the transition between meandering and braiding. Water Res. Research, 45, W03424.
Crosato A, 2007a. Effects of smoothing and regridding in numerical meander migration models. Water Res. Research, 43(1), W01401.
Toffolon M & Crosato A, 2007. Developing macroscale indicators for estuarine morphology: the case of the Scheldt Estuary. Journal of Coastal Research, 23(1), 195-212.
MIANDRAS Simulation Irwell River (UK)
CV Crosato A 2011.pdf (PDF/132.50 kB)