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Guidelines for the Mapping of the Triggering of Landslides and Debris Flow
My studies on shallow landslides were not purely theoretical but directed to make safer the mountain environment in which I live. Therefore, since the beginning of my activities there was an effort to...
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Rivers in transitions
An editorial of Nature Geoscience to read."Rivers affect landscape structure and function to a much greater extent than might be expected from the fraction of the Earth's surface they cover. Rivers...
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Water Scarcity
Water scarcity is a reality for large populations in the World, and several projects started to understand it and to provide solutions.Also regions where water is usually abundant suffer the threats of...
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An introduction to Forecast, Errors, Uncertainty in Models, and Forecast...
Following the link below, you can find the presentation I gave at the Pensa Trasversale initiative. I talked about modelling and its uncertainty, and I had, obviously, in mind my experience as a...
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uDig-JGrasstools Resources (in Italian)
Per usare uDig, la prima cosa è ovviamente installarlo seguendo le istruzioni. Fatto questo, il secondo passo è quello di istallare ed usare lo Spatial Toolbox.Quindi non resta che usarlo!Riepilogo qui...
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European waters - assessment of status and pressures
This report's results present good and robust European overviews of the data reported by the first RBMPs, and of the ecological status and pressures affecting Europe's waters. Europe's waters are...
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Repertorio Nazionale dei dati
Prendo pari pari da JGrassTechTips una iniziativa che mi sembra utile promuovere.Anche AboutHydrology inserisce oggi nella sua homepage il link del Repertorio Nazionale dei Dati Territoriali (RNDT)....
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A simple and trivial consideration about rainfall return period in relation...
Statistics at station, i.e. evaluated at ground measurements stations do not reflect the statistics of the areal event. This is obvious. However, even today, I read a report where the guys:estimated...
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Solar Radiation Physics and Geometry for hydrologists
I started to realize that a hydrologist has to learn about radiation, since the first moment I put my sight a little beyond rainfall-runoff moedelling, at least fifteen years ago. This was in building...
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From Yesterday Just Open Data from the Italian Administrations ?
Yesterday Mr. Monti government Agenda Digitale decree-Law was transformed in state law. Hopefully this would make open all the environmental data produced by public administrations.Let's see, and...
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Direct Solar Radiation Models by Formetta et al. 2012-2013
This paper presents two new modelling components based on the Object Modelling System v3 for the calculation of the shortwave incident radiation on complex topography settings, and the implementation...
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The Boussinesq equation paper
Finally, after a long story (see the submission post) the paper on Boussinesq equation integration was accepted by Water Resources Research. In the revision phase it was asked to add further...
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A Java Library (of books) for beginners, and a little path to self...
It is quite a few years that I insist for students moving to program in Java. Java is not anymore Java 1, it has evolved towards a mature language and now it is at its version 7. Times ago I talked...
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Open Java resources for Hydrologists
Next question about Java, after having introduced it, and talked about options for doing numerics, is to see if there are effective resources on which hydrologists can build something useful,...
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Alpine Convention
Tha Alpine Convention is an international treaty between the Alpine countries (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Slovenia and Switzerland) as well as the EU, aimed at promoting...
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PostgreSQL your data
Science is matter of hypothesis and data. Hypotheses becomes formal models and then you have to acquire data to prove (a big word indeed) them at the feeble light of statistics. At the beginning you...
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Object Modelling System Resources
As the readers know from previous posts we (I and my collaborators and students) use OMS3 (and we will use even more in the future embedding in it all of our modelling efforts) in collaboration with...
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No code No paper
This is entirely from: Simply Statistics » R, and I completely agree with it. It applies the very same way to hydrological literature."I think it has been beat to death that the incentives in academia...
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The law of small numbers
I did know the law of large numbers (and its violations) but I never reflected about the law of small numbers.You can learn about following this link. It is mostly about Poisson distribution which is,...
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Paraglacial geomorphology
We often talk about landscape evolution (and I have a little history on the subject). However, we usually forget that from 65Ky and 12Ky of years ago a lot of our Earth was covered by a glaciation. The...
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