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WATZON seminar series - I
The Project WATZON has almost finished the first year of work. It was a troubled year, since the COVID-19 pandemic and we could not meet and do the field work required. However, we learn to use...
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Do you know what I was, how I lived? You knowwhat despair is; thenwinter should have meaning for you.I did not expect to survive,earth suppressing me. I didn't expectto waken again, to feelin damp...
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Introducing the Extended Petri Net using an example
This is, in my intention, gentle introduction to the Extended Petri Net on which we wrote a paper recently. That is the definitive reference on the topic. However, a presentation can smooth out some...
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How snowy are the Alps ?
A recent preprint was submitted to The Cryosphere were a large group of colleagues scientists analyzed the snow precipitation in more than 2000 gauges all over the Alps. This research is not only...
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Save the date ! The GEOframe Winter School 2021 (GWS2021)
The third edition of the Winter School on GEOframe (GWS2021) will be held between January 7 and 16, 2021 in Trento, Italy. The course is devoted to Ph.D. Students, Post-docs, Young researchers (and...
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It's time to revise the GIUH
GIUH has been a valuable approximate tool for getting the hydrologic response. A review can be found in: Rigon, Riccardo, Marialaura Bancheri, Giuseppe Formetta, and Alban de Lavenne. 2016. “The...
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Freezing soil requires new algorithms
Assuming you have got the physics right and you wrote the right equations, which is not given for granted when you deal with freezing soils, you have to solve the equations. This paper, deals with this...
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On putting plants in hydrological models in practice
The work of Concetta D’Amato Ph.D. started with joining together a reasonable evapotranspiration model with a solid infiltration model building a virtual lysimeter.The basic is to have the two models...
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Use Git and Github
When working to a software you should try its design at best, then write your code with or without an IDE and finally check and test your code. Let’s for the moment skip the check and test question...
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What is meant by programming a system product
Here I just reproduce the very first pages of The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering. Addison-Wesley which clarify the main concepts I experimented in my programming models."The...
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The State-of-Art and the perspectives for next GEOframe research
These are the contents of an e-mail I sent to a friend and colleague to push forward our collaboration. Despite it has been written to a specific person, I think some of the topics can be on general...
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Travel times and Residence Times explained
Long time ago it was believed that Residence times and travel times were the same concept. This is not true. Long time ago it was also assumed that they could be chosen as time invariant. Recent...
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Proietti lesson to hydrologists
Below is an excerpt from the memories of Gigi Proietti (the book is from 2013) brought to my attention by the colleague Giovanni Pascuzzi. "When I began to take my first steps on stage, I did nothing...
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Earth Observation For Water Cycle Science 2020
I receive from Luca Brocca and I think the topic is interesting and the project mentioned worth to be followed. Dear colleagueswe have organised a discussion session at ESA conference EO FOR WATER...
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Life Expectation & Response Times explained
This is the continuation of the presentations that try to explain what residence time, travel time and response time are. The first presentation, on travel and residence times can be found here.This...
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Evaporation from a capillary tube coupled with the dynamics of flow
This is the result of some quick research of mine, initially stimulated by the model of evaporation from soil by Lehman and Or. I did not read them and I am annotating them here in order not get them...
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The Italian Hydrology Days - 1 - Le Scienze Idrologiche e la strategie per la...
The Italian hydrology days of the Italian Hydrological Society are held online this year, and their outcomes are now online. Luca Brocca and Cristina Rulli here on YouTubeGiuseppe Formetta and...
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The Italian Hydrology Days 2 - Una società più resiliente ai fenomeni naturali
Here you find the video of the whole day. L'intervento di Paolo BottiL'intervento di Maurizio GiugniL'intervento di Barbara La storiaL'intervento di Paolo GuzzettiThe discussion
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A note on Wilting Point (and water stress in vegetation models)
The paper by Veihmeyer and Hendrickson seems definitive in its affirmation about both the field capacity and the wilting point. That they exist and depends upon the soil characteristics. Because I...
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Why Excel is Evil is not a campaign against a commercial product. Instead, it is an analysis of the requirement for having a solid scientific product. Thanks to Colin Caprani for this valuable...
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