Math3ma
Since quite a while, I read, enjoyed and indexed in AboutHydrology the Math3ma ("Mathema") blog by Tai-Danae Bradley. I enjoyed for the choice of the topics that I found stimulating and connected to...
View ArticleThe daemons of water times
This that you find on Authorea is an elaboration of what I used with my students to teach them what residence times and travel times are in catchment hydrology. Probably I can expand it to be more...
View ArticleThree papers that affected my recent research
Stimulated by the quarantine and by chain letters regarding books or movies, by my FB friends, I tried to think to a similar chain for papers inviting research friends to expose five paper among those...
View ArticleThe GEOframe Community Publication Policy v. 1.0
After GEOframe is becoming widely used we believe it is time to set some fair rules for participation to GEOframe related publications, Since the components are usually released under GPL3 license, it...
View ArticleSnowSunMed Project
The overall objective of SNOWSUNMED is to enhance parsimonious water use and balance water allocation in mountain catchments of the Mediterranean area by demonstrating the integrated potential of...
View ArticleEarthArXiv
Finally it arrives a sound system for uploading Earth Sciences Preprints. It is EarthArXiv ! I arrived a little late on it. Already many colleagues (and many of the smart ones) already uploaded many...
View ArticleSMASH
Hydrologis, is the mini-company formed by Andrea Antonello and Silvia Franceschi. Notwithstanding they are just two they accomplished really a lot in their career in the world of Open and Free GIS,...
View ArticleEquivalences and differences among various Hydrological Dynamical Systems
In this paper we want to show that once the topology of a Hydrological Dynamical System is determined, the structure of the equations of the Water Budget Dynamical System is determined but with it also...
View ArticleThe Zero Notebook for GEOframe components
There is the necessity to properly document the code we developed. The state-of-art is that many Jupyter Notebooks were written to document may of the actions requested for running them. These...
View ArticleConcentration time, if existent, is a statistical concept
Among the various times we use in describing the catchment, concentration time is one of them. It is referred, in the old textbooks, as the largest travel time of water parcels (i.e. statistically...
View ArticleA practitioners’ view on the application of water and flood directives in Italy
This is the preprint of a chapter of the book: P. Turrini, A. Massarutto, M. Pertile and A. de Carli (eds.), Water Law, Policy and Economics in Italy: Between National Autonomy and EU Law Constraints,...
View ArticleOn Doing Large-Scale Hydrology with Lions: Realising the Value of Perceptual...
This is a review of the paper by Wagener, Thorsten, Tom Gleeson, Gemma Coxon, Andreas Hartmann, Nicholas Howden, Francesca Pianosi, Shams Rahman, Rafael Rosolem, Lina Stein, and Ross Woods. 2020. “On...
View ArticlePh.D. Scholarship @ Unitrento: Assessment of social and economic impacts...
Death tolls and economic losses from natural hazards continue to rise in many parts of the world. Only in 2018 they caused almost 12000 deaths across the world and over 130 US billion dollars of...
View ArticlePh.D. position available for working on the Enhancing GEOframe to deal with...
The candidate will be asked to extend the GEOframe system with tools to understand the anthropogenic impacts on the hydrological cycle on Adige and Tevere basins via the integration of hydrological...
View ArticleTom Gleeson shared list of teaching links for hydrology
I quote from his (his site) tweet: "Do you need online resources for emergency remote teaching of hydrology and water sustainability courses ? You can use and share these online curated resources...
View ArticleSpatial lite 5 is out
Directly from the Spatialite site (Wikipedia):SpatiaLite is an open source library intended to extend the SQLite core to support fully fledged Spatial SQL capabilities.SQLite is intrinsically simple...
View ArticleiEMSs 2020 In Brussels but mostly on-line
iEMSs stands for international Modelling and Software Society. Every two years, on the even years, the Society has its own conference which was held, so far, once in Europe and once in North America....
View ArticleDevOps - Or about streamlining what is needed to do modelling carpentry
This morning I learnt a new word: DevOps, which seems to be the contraction of software Development and IT Operations. I.ve got it from the presentation my former student Daniele Dalla Torre gave at...
View ArticleOn doing good presentations and slides
Are there any rule for doing good slides in hydrology ? There are plenty of resources to learn how to do nice slides for a presentation, and the material I present is just a summary of ideas I copied...
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