CLIMAWARE from the point of view of local vulnerability to climate change
This is one of the seminars of the project CLIMAWARE. The topic in this case is the vulnerbability and the perceived vulnerability to climate change. This is functional to think, communicate and...
View ArticleRenjin
Renjin is a JVM-based interpreter for the R language. For Java developers of scientific application, I think it is a must (but still I need to test it). It can be used in various ways and offers...
View ArticleWater, Soil, Forests (The man who planted trees, III)
This is the presentation given for the annual day of forests. I am talking about the interaction of water (the hydrological cycle) with vegetation, soil and climate. As a modeller, I conclude about the...
View ArticleA little history of Soil Science
A little and interesting history of Soils can be found in one of the EGU blog which I follow.Here.
View ArticleProcess based simulation of the hydrological cycle
The one below is a concept paper (or a review, under certain aspects) of researchers that thought at a certain moment of their carrier that lumped models were not enough. Criticism was often raised on...
View ArticleUrban Streams: five CUAHSI cyberseminars
As many knows, I teach Hydraulic Constructions, which means, in my case aqueducts and sewage systems. Recently, I tried to renovate my view on the latter topic by looking at recent directions and works...
View ArticleA few R scripts useful for hydrologists
These are the script I use as templates for my short (very short) classes (Hydrology and Hydraulic Constructions/Urban Hydrology) when I introduce R. Reading a good R textbook or manual would be...
View ArticleThe Virtual Hydrologists Project
This is to bring to your attention to a very welcomed initiative of the American Geophysical Union. In thee words of Efi-Foufula Georgiou (GS):"We are happy to announce the launch of a new initiative...
View ArticleGEOframe has a logo and a lot of documentation
Geoframe, the set of modelling components that made JGrass-NewAGE has a brand-new logo by Marialaura Bancheri.Presenting it is also an excuse to announce that there are a lot of new components...
View ArticleEcosystem Services for watershed management and planning
Blal Adem Esmail Ph.D. defense on this topic represents, I hope the starting point of a more in deep relation between hydrological modelling and water management. His efforts were in defining an...
View ArticleSummer School on modelling catchment hydrology with OMS tools
This is to announce a Summer School open up to 25 participants, on modelling catchment hydrology (including recent travel time theories) with products created on the basis of the Object Modelling...
View ArticleWuletawu's Abera Ph.D. defense
This illustrate the long and detailed work of Wuletawu Abera during his Ph.D. His topic was modelling the whole hydrological cycle, meaning, all the components together with JGrass-NewAGE. In order to...
View ArticleIsotopes, Tracers and Hydrology
I asked to Daniele Penna (GS, RG), who I know to work on tracers, some bibliography. He answered to me throughly, and I share is notable contribution.He said:" - I cited recent or relatively recent...
View ArticleDear incoming students who want to work with me
In these days, there are many students that write to me and candidate themselves to a Ph.D. position. I thank these students for the attention they give to me. However, they should read what I write...
View ArticleAge-ranked hydrological budgets and a travel time description of catchment...
This new paper submitted to HESS and available in HESSD deals with the theory of travel times. It summarises some of our work of the last year, whose partial results I had the occasion to discuss in...
View ArticleAdige-CARITRO
Why putting on-line Project Proposals ? Well, I think this is, one step in "open sourceness" and in replicability of research. I usually put a lot of efforts in writing proposals, and most of the time...
View ArticlePRECISE: PRocess-based ECohydrology In grasSland Ecosystems
We presented Project PRECISE to the last EUREGIO call. We know that competition is high but the project objctive are really important: of practical and theoretical use. Besides, they are based on...
View ArticleThe JGrass-NewAGE system essentials: concepts, deployment, case studies and...
This is the talk I gave in Parma at ARPAE. In a mood for collaboration, I presented our modelling ssytem JGrass-NewAGE and out process-based model GEOtop 2.0. The presentation about GEOtop does not...
View ArticleTools and methods for operational hydrological forecasting
This is the talk I gave at the meeting entitled "Numeric simulations as a tool for prevention by hydro-geological hazards" in Grado. I covered many of the arguments I usually talk about: modelling,...
View ArticleGEOframe a system for doing hydrology by computer
This was the remodelling of a presentation I gave at the CUASHI biennial meeting in 2008. It is, more or less, the manifest that guided me, throughout the modelling I did in the subsequent years, and I...
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