Crocus and Snowpack in a nutshell
There is not an enormous choice of process based models that treat snow Among them, two that are a reference for us are Snowpack and Crocus. Here it is their essential references.SNOWPACKBartelt, P.,...
View ArticleHPC school for PhD students at Department of Civil, Environmental and...
Among the initiative organized by our doctoral school there is this introduction to computing that can be od interest for beginners (with a little attitude).Here below, please find the Software...
View ArticleParallel Computing in GEOframe
Inside our University we have a group that works on parallel computing. My colleagues work in various directions, using standard technologies as OpenMP or MPI. I confess I am very ignorant on the...
View ArticleLife After Ph.D. (especially for Italians but of general interest)
This is part of the Ph.D. days of Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering of University of Trento. October 29, 30, 31 were used to check the advancement of our almost one hundred...
View ArticleUpdated material on Horton Machine
The Horton Machine is our set of tools for terrain analysis actually maintained by Hydrologis. They since 2000 and something took care of keeping my tools alive on various platforms: GRASS, JGrass,...
View ArticleMaterial for the Winter School on the GEOframe System - Installations
The Winter School on the GEOframe system is approaching. In this webpost you will find all the preparatory material of the school indexed.InstallationsYou are not assumed to know Python or Java to...
View ArticleMaterial for the GEOframe Winter School - Getting Started with OMS and...
Day first of the Winter School on GEOframe was conceived to give people the taste of what OMS is and how to use it with Python lab. For the Installations, please refer to the Installation page. Under...
View ArticleMaterial for the GEOframe Winter School - Catchments and Hydrologic Response...
The second day of the Winter School on GEOframe is dedicated to the watershed delineation and hillslope extraction. First the relevant concepts are given. Then GEOframe (Horton Machine) tools are used...
View ArticleMaterial for the GEOframe Winter School - Kriging interpolation
Third and fourth days of the Winter School on the GEOframe system about GEOframe are dedicated to interpolation by using Kriging and the use of Particle Swarm Calibrator.The Kriging's...
View ArticleMaterial for the GEOframe Winter School - Radiation budget
After having spent time on preparatory topics, but before facing the hydrological processes, we need to cope with solar radiation. The topic was already treated in other posts. However not often in...
View ArticleMaterial for the GEOframe Winter School - Rainfall-Runoff
Here we are introducing some modules for rainfall runoff modelling present in GEOframe. Some of them where actually refined for the Civil Protection of the Basilicata Region.ScheduleDeconstructing the...
View ArticleRepresentation of Hydrological Dynamical Systems Using the extended Petri Nets
Finally we came out with the submission of the paper on Petri Nets. This was the topic of various posts collected under the name of reservoirology. You can see the submitted paper by clicking on...
View ArticlePictures from the Winter School on GEOframe
A class always busy until late. But this did not prevent some social life!
View ArticleMaterial for the post Winter-School-on-GEOframe
Dear All students of the Winter School on GEOframe. Was a pleasure to have you in Trento and a pleasure to see you work so hard for two weeks. On the organizer side, I have to thank my Ph.D. students...
View ArticleMaterial for the GEOframe Winter School - Opinions on (hydrological) modelling
At the end day of the school there is the place for some opinions o modelling. These were expressed many other times in different posts but collected here in three different parts.Simplifying (and...
View ArticleAgain on Modelling. On modelling and data.
I was invited to talk to Ph.D students at the 2019 Warredoc School on data rich Hydrology. This follows other more or less opinionated talks I give at the GEOframe Winter School, and complete them. In...
View ArticleOn dimensional analysis (from Terry Tao's blog)
Terence Tao is a Fields' medalist. "Timothy Gowers remarked on Tao's accomplishments:[12]Tao's mathematical knowledge has an extraordinary combination of breadth and depth: he can write confidently and...
View ArticleMy Hydrology Class 2019
This is a placeholder right now. Class will start on February 27.Here we will collect the new material. This is obviously derived from the other years:20182017Before 2017
View ArticleMy Hydraulic Construction Class 2019
The new class is obviously based on the one of previous classes:20182017BeforeThere are some changes however, partially due to the different calendar. The course is essentially divided in three...
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