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To inquiring students
Since a few years, I am receiving emails from students inquiring for the possibility of doing Ph.D studies with me. The letter is usually of this type :"Dear Dr. Riccardo Rigon,Hope my email finds you...
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On a flooding vignette that is often posted on the web
This picture whose I do not know the authorship is going around the web to support the idea (Which I also support) that streams should be left as unconstrained as possible to avoid flooding. But is...
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How to read and decently plot a DEM with Python
I worked for long time to build GISes (e.g. JGrass, uUdig and so on), an adventure that was supported and eventually taken in charge by Hydrologis. After accepting the reality the QGIS won the battle,...
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Green Water and Blue Water, the Alps and the Climate Change
Thanks mostly to the work of Theodoros Mastrotheodoros and Simone Fatichi (GS), we submitted a paper to Nature Climate Change that was entitled "More green and less blue water in the Alps during warmer...
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What do I have to do with polyacrylate ?
It happens that a researcher deviates a little from his mainstream research. This is one of the cases. Dott. Pier Giuseppe Marcon came to us suggesting that polyacrylate could have peculiar...
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Using GEOframe-NewAGE for operational modelling
Finally we did it ! Thanks to ARPA Basilicata and the work of my co-authors, Marialaura Bancheri (GS) and Salvatore Manfreda (GS) this long term objective of mine had a first realisation. We think...
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The estimation of the discharge through the IUH explained
Time to time I go back to the estimation of the discharge through the Instantaneous Unit Hydrograph theory (IUH). It is interesting that this almost 90 year old concept is still alive and, being...
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Some thinking about hydrological models selection
During the Winter School on the GEOframe system I made i little talk about model selection. The (slightly reordered) slides are here.The video of my presentation will be available soon. Check the...
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Video Lectures on Hydrology
I am collecting here my video lectures on Hydrology (in my broken English). These are mostly part of the two GEOframe Winter School held in 2019 and 2020 and from a Summer School on Landslides made a...
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Material of the Winter School 2020 on GEOframe
All the material of the GEOframe Winter School 2020 (GSW2020) is now ready on the GEOframe blog. Yo can have the software, the instructions for installation, a glimpse of theory of the hydrological...
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4 Researchers Who Want to Develop Hydrological Models Without Reinventing the...
Maybe you can save efforts and you do not need to reinvent the wheel. Therefore I wrote about our project that lasts since almost fifteen years. We use an open infrastructure, the Object Modelling...
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Is the scientific paper outdated ?
There is a provoking paper by Ryan Abernathey (GS) that appear on The Chronicle of Higher Education which is entitled: The Scientific paper is outdated. The Author explains why, in his opinion.I read...
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About papers Authorship
Because when many often collaborate to a part of a research, it is worthwhile to try to establish some good rules for authorships. A standard text is the one provided by The International Committee of...
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Entrance Of The Rivers
Beloved of the rivers, besetBy azure water and transparent drops, Like a tree of veins your spectre Of dark goddess biting apples: And then awakening naked To be tattoed by the rivers, And in the wet...
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About Hydrological Models
Starting from some philosophy I try to give an idea of what a scientific model is, on the example and limitations of the Galileian approach. I claim that hydrology is mostly a science where you have to...
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Hydrological Modelling 2020 Lab
Welcome to the Hydrological modelling lab class. The theoretical/conceptual lectures are here.Software Installations (Zoom2020)Where are my data (Zoom2020)A little of GID (Zoom2020)
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Hydrology 2020 lab
This is the material of the Laboratory Class of the Hydrology Class 2020. You can find the class material here. 1: Programs InstallationInstallations (Zoom2020). For installations you can also see this...
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Plants structure and Transpiration
This is a placeholder for incoming materialReferencesAlkama, R., Cescatti, A., 2016. Biophysical climate impacts of recent changes in global forest cover. Science 351: 600–604.Anfodillo T, Petit G,...
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