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WATER-MIX
This is a project we presented for the National Projects (PRIN 2015). The project is very good. Participants outstanding. Competition very high. I do not understand because our government does not...
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A Ph.D position at University of Bozen on: Short and medium term hydrological...
The candidate is assumed to produce forecasting and scenarios, with the modelling system JGrass-NewAGE for supporting the organisation and analyses of economical (and other) issues concerning the...
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gvSIG Festival
gvSIG is the platform where are migrating my contributions to GIS, thanks to Hydrologis. It is my intention, obviously, to embrace it from version 2.3, hoping that this will be the home sweet home I...
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Java, Python, C/C++ or FORTRAN in scientific programming ?
I found this simple post by Michael Scharf on Quora that discusses part of the question. It is easy to read, clear, and probably true. So I publish it verbatim (with some comment of mine, especially...
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Is possible to get the runoff for European Countries ?
This is a conversation between two groups of the CLIMAWARE project of some general interest. Further information about global or continental scale hydrology can be found in some previous posts.Dear...
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Celerity versus velocity and the travel time problem
A little of introductionVelocity of a fluid is the variation of its particles' position with time. Celerity is the speed at which a signal (a wave) is transmitted trough a medium. Velocity of particles...
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Do people know what us scientists do ? In trying to make the people aware of our project, we produced (Nadja Grasselli director, together with Daria Akimenko) this trailer about our project CLIMAWARE....
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JGrass-NewAGE at IEMSs in Toulouse 2016
JGrass-NewAGE is growing and the readers of this blog know it. We are presenting the state-of-art-of the infrastructure in Tolouse IEMSs biennial meeting, and the presentation that will be given by...
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The first taste of Ne3 (netree) (at IEMSs in Toulouse)
We had this presentation, this morning at IEMSs, about some of the many lines of work where Francesco Serafin (his blog here) is developing his Ph.D research. The origin of the work is that modelling...
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OMS Summer School 2016 - What we actually did
This is what we actually did at the Summer School on OMS3. Here you will find slides and material (actually, it is already presented in the Colorado State University site), but I will document here a...
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Is Navier-Stokes equation enough ?
This is just a stub at the moment, to be better developed in future. The question is to generalize the Navier-Stokes (NS) equation in presence of gradient of temperature and the triggering of...
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Sparse thoughts (on the foundations of a Thermodynamics of Hydrological Systems)
Assume you have a control section in which you include a natural landscape. Fluxes of energy and mass across the boundary of the control volume are more or less understood. What is not understood is...
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Reservoirology
The current idea in many modern modelling systems (at catchment scale) is that the hydrology of control volumes can be reduced to a set of interconnected reservoirs (Fenicia et al., 2008; Tague et al.,...
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Estimating the water budget components and their variability in a Pre-Alpine...
This paper shows the estimation of whole water budget in a 100 hundred square kilometers catchment of the Prealps, the Posina catchment. The challenge here is to close the water budget with a...
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Who is a good programmer ?
I took it verbatim from Cristopher Burke.Programmer: anyone who can write working programs to solve problems, given a sufficiently detailed problem statement. I have no use for programmers. Good...
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Difference between a blog post and a scientific paper
I get it from my student Aaron Iemma. I think it summarises many things, and it is worth reading it.Actually when I read it for the first time, I was not paying attention to the title of the diagram...
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On " How to make our models more physically-based"
These reflections came after having read the discussion paper of the same title by Savenije and Hrachowitz (S&H) on HESSD, and I offer them to your own thinking (their paper was very successful in...
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Urban Hydrology and Models
Urban hydrology does not clearly indicate which the topic is. Has it to do with the rainfall that falls with different schedule on cities than elsewhere or viceversa ? Has it to do with different...
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Italian Hydrology 2016
I am summarising here what I saw that rised my interest in the Italian biennial meeting of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Hydraulic constructions. Obviously I followed just the hydrology section and missed...
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