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Meledrio, or a simple reflection on hydrological modelling - Part V
Another question related to discharges is, obviously their measure. Is discharge measure correct ? Is the stage-discharge relation reliable ? Why do not give intervals of confidence for the measures ?...
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A few topics for a Master thesis in Hydrology
After the series about Meledrio I thought that each one of the post actually identifies at least one Thesis topic:The influence of slopes and terrain characteristics on the hydrologic responseThe role...
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An ML based meta modelling infrastructure for environmental meodels
This is the presentation Francesco gave for his admission to the third year of Ph.D. studies. He summarizes his work done so far and foresees his work during the next year.Francesco's work is a...
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TranspirAction
This post contains the presentation given by Michele Bottazzi. His presentation look forward to dig into the forecasting of transpiration from plants (and evaporation from soils) through concentrated...
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Using Colorblind friendly Plots
Brought to my attention by Michele Bottazzi. I rarely think to this. Instead it is important. Please refers to this Brian Connelly post:Click on the figure to be redirected.
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On some Hydrological Extremes
This is the talk given at MUSE for the Life FRANCA Project. Life FRANCA has the objective to communicate with people about hydrological hazards and risk. In particular the Audience in this case was...
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Simple models for hydrological hazard mapping
This contains the second talk I gave to high-school teacher at MUSE for the Life Project FRANCA. My intention was to show (under a lot of simplification assumptions) how hydrological models work, and...
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Return period
Some people, I realised, ha e problem with the concept of return period. This is the definition in wikipedia (accessed October 25th, 2017):A return period, also known as a recurrence interval...
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Open Science Framework - OSF
And recently I discovered OSF, the Open Science Framework. My students told me that there exists many of them, of this type of on-line tools that make leverage of the cloud to store and helps groups to...
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Meledrio, or a simple reflection on Hydrological modelling - Part VI - A...
The normal calibration strategy is to split the data we want to reproduce into two setz:one for the calibration phaseone for the "validation" phaseLet's assume that we have an automatic calibrator. It...
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About Benettin et al. 2017, equation (1)
Gianluca (Botter) in his review of Marialalaura (Bancheri) Ph.D. Thesis brought to my attention the paper Benettin et al. 2017. A great paper indeed, where a couple of ideas are clearly explained:SAS...
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Open Science
Nothing really original in this post. I just recollect what already said in the FosterOpenScience web pages. Their definition is:"Open Science represents a new approach to the scientific process based...
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Monday's discussion on evapotranspiration - Part I
Last Monday at lunch, I and my students discussed about evapotranspiration. I already talk about it in various comment here. However, the starting point was the impression, coming from one of my...
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Journal Papers using GEOtop
This is the growing list of papers built upon GEOtop in its various versions.[22] Mauder, M., Genzel, S., Fu, J., Kiese, R., Soltani, M., Steinbrecher, R., Kunstmann, H. (2017). Evaluation of energy...
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Krigings paper
Finally we submitted the Kriging paper. Interpolation of hydrological quantities is a necessity in hydrological modeling. Since the beginning of last century, various techniques were implemented to...
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Monday's discussion on evapotranspiration - Part II - The soil-plants fluxes
The first post treated transpiration from the point of view of the atmosphere control volume. There is a “below” though. Below is composed by leaves, trunks/stems, roots. Roots, in turn, are being...
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The Ph.D. Thesis of Marialaura Bancheri is already available in a previous post. On december 14, she finally defended it. This is the video of her performance. Her topics are: research reproducibility,...
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On Complex Network Representation and Computation of Hydrological Quantities
Francesco Serafin participated for us to the AGU fall meeting presenting part of his work. They gave him a poster, actually the poster whose image is below. It is about the representation of...
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Copulas
So finally, I was obliged to try to understand what Copulas are. Put it simply. They are functions that connect marginal distributions to their multivariate distribution. Sklar (1959) theorem shows...
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Estimating water budgets with JGrass-NewAGE
We already talked about water budgets, and the papers of ours that deals with it (see below). Because in this Fall AGU meeting there was a dedicated session, we presented an abstract: Recently we...
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