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Some new Ph.D. positions
The new call for the 2019 doctoral position is out. I am interested in topic "D1/D2 - Agricultural, Environmental and hydro-meteorological sciences and engineering”. There are a few available doctoral...
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GEOframe Winter School 2020 - Save the date
The second edition on the Winter School on GEOframe will be held between January 8 and 17, 2020 in Trento, Italy. The course is devoted to Ph.D. Students, Post-docs, Young researchers interested in...
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Water budget, travel time and tracers concentration and the legacy of models’...
This work is under progress and the submitted paper will be available soon.
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Snow, Ice and Permafrost
On Friday 19, 2019, there will be an event the event "climb for climate". I will be representing the University of Trento and give a short divulgative talk. The result can be found here below.There I...
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JSWMM essentials
Interest around urban hydrology has been growing steadily during the last years, and recently had the opportunity to be published in large diffusion scientific journals as Nature. For years the...
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What to keep in mind for a Ph.D. interview
We finished yesterday our interviews for selecting the new cohort of PhD students. (In our system we have a call a year, where we select and enroll all the students). So, I am in the best condition to...
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Using colors in science and color blindness
Recently we send to reviewers a paper dealing with graphs. After the first revision we realised that we should have paid some attention to the colors we use, especially because they are meant to convey...
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FOSS4G Bucharest 2019
In FOSS4G FOSS stands for Free and Open Source Software 4G for Geospatial. It is a great association that since fifteen years promotes open source spatial tools. It is the arena were great tools like...
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Stomatal resistance and Transpiration
There are several factor influencing water vapor availability in the leaves’ viscous layer and we can start from the water availability in soil. To get into the root, water of some capillaries must be...
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Quantum Computing will change the hydrologists life ?
I struggle for most of my scientific life with computing issues. The main focus was to choose the right language: C over FORTRAN first, then C++ and Java, and finally Java plus Python recently, passing...
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Advances in Richards 2D presentation at the Italian Hydrological Society meeting
The work of Niccolò Tubini is going who already developed a very solid Richards1D (with ponding), code coupled with the energy budget is proceeding towards a 2D version on unstructured grids coupled,...
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A little, non conclusive, reflection on the non-linear evolution of hydrology...
It seems that some science (and our in particular, where isolating experiments is often impossible and we have to deal with complexity and just observations) proceeds upon tradition accepting it...
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Discharge predictions on the Netravati River Basins using GEOframe-NewAGE
Giuseppe Formetta (GS) started to collaborate with some Indian colleagues for predicting discharges of Netravati River Basins. He used a modelling solution out of those from GEOframe-NewAGE to get his...
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Thinking on Optimal Theories in Hydrology
In Nature we have to deal with forms that we somewhat recognize and distinguish from the rest (Thom, R., 1975). These forms (shapes), as we know since D'Arcy Thomson (1917, see also Ball, 2013), have...
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Comments on: Thinking on Optimal Theories in Hydrology
I think the comments made by Christian Massari on yesterday post require some deepening.He wrote:C - .. I have some comments from your text….C - I went trough it and I enjoyed a lot the reading. The...
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Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality in Hydrology and Earth...
I did some searches on the web to see if there are application of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) or mixed reality (MR) (see also here for a tech-magazine type of introduction) around that...
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Understanding and Modelling the Earth System with Machine Learning (USMILE) -...
The bad thing about ERC grants (and ERC Synergy grants) is that usually very low information is available about them. Which is quite contradictory, since being those (supposed to be) the best and...
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A little of summary of what we did in the LifeFRANCA project
This is the review of the CUDAM work done during the Life FRANCA project. The main material can be found at the OSF LifeFRANCA/CUDAM site.Please click on the figure above to access the presentation.
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Some about the legacy of model topology in estimating travel times
This talk is connected to the paper in preparation about the equivalence of hydrological dynamical systems (HDSys), and on the Extended Petri Nets. We discuss how to pass from the water budget to the...
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Future Hydrology and Leonardo da Vinci
I was asked to talk about Leonardo da Vinci (see here about his resumé) and project in the future its intuitions about doing science and hydrology. Not an easy task tough. Fortunately there were large...
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