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We need water
This time just a photo by the master Sebastiao Salgado. A photo that says more than thousand words.
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Ezio Todini 70th Symposium: my talk
Please you will find below the picture (click on it!) the presentation I will give the 6th of June in Bologna to mark the 70th birthday of Prof. Ezio Todini. I will say things that I already said in...
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Two possible Ph.D. position available
Dear reader,in the new call of our doctoral school in Trento I proposed two topics which could be of interest for some of your friends, students or people you know. Here they are:Distributed Modelling...
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A new mailing list for hydrological announcements
Dear All,I opened a google group, a mailing list to communicate among hydrologists. This will act the very same way the Gilbert Club list does for geomorphologists in being used to send announces about...
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2012 Water Resources Research Editors Award
Directly from the main page of Water Resources Research:"With the approval of the AGU Hydrology Section Executive Committee, WRR has instituted an Editors’ Choice Award to be given to (about) the top...
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Hillslope hydrology from the point of view of Richards equation
This is the lecture I gave at the second Summer school on Water Resources that I co-organised. The lecture was recorded in video and should be made available soon, together with the other lectures.The...
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Java for Hydrologists 101
There are a few postings on Java in this blog. Since I want to teach it to my students, I am quietly starting to populate this page with presentations which, eventually, will constitute the core of an...
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Rainfall statistics for the Netherlands
One of my most successful postings is the one of R resources for hydrologists. Sometimes contributions arrive from non -hydrologist. This is the case that of two posts from Wiekvoet whose authors...
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GB ET Potential Dataset for United Kingdom
In this post I am presenting another R exercise. Not that I believe very much on the physical content of the what Scottischsnow does here. (Actually this bold way of treating data and empirical...
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Essential for Hydrologists
Some anonymous asked what is for me the "Essential for a hydrologist". Actually I tried to delineate this all along the blog. However, here below I will try a decalogue (with eleven statements...
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(Almost) a perfect Answer
I read this in a LinkedIn discussion, and I found it the perfect complement of my previous post "Essential for Hydrologists" Question:Hello,I have a question specified in the following and hope some of...
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Richards 1D integration
As shown in detail at the July summer school about landslides, one of the first approximations to the full Richards equation is the 1-D Richards equation (please take care of the fact that vertical is...
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A proposal of an R package for investigating some simple soil properties
In analysing the soil hydrological properties the first step is certainly to be able to draw the Soil Water Retention Curves (SWRC), at least according to the two major parameterisations: the van...
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A school to learn how to model with the Object Modelling System version 3
It will be held in Trento (Italy) between the 14 and 18 (both included) of october 2013.The school is the first of a cycle of high educational courses focusing on the hydrologic and environmental...
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The publication of geoscientific model developments v1.0
Geoscientific Model Development (a.k.a. GMD) has become for many, including us, a Journal of reference. Its open access policy with the fact that it covers a gap in scientific literature, has made of...
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Opening activities at AboutHydrology GitHub and BitBucket repositories
As a consequence to try to erudite my students on Java, I am also opening a GitHub account at:https://github.com/abouthydrologyand a team BitBucket one at:https://bitbucket.org/geoframeThere is only...
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The JGrass-NewAGE informatics
As I tried to convey in previous posts, since more than five years, I am working to the idea to built a hydrological model by components. Well, this should have been the first paper in row, but as...
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One of two topics about Evapotranspiration (and the Penman Monteith equation)
Evapotranspiration (e.g. Brutsaert, Evaporation into the atmosphere,1980, or my lectures - in Italian - in English) is the phenomenon that describes collectively evaporation from water surfaces, and...
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Two of two topics about Evapotranspiration (and about the entropic origin of...
Did you care about the mass conservation, as expressed by the continuity equation ?Evapotranspiration can be seen as a mass budget. Therefore, from this point of view, the above equation must hold....
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Earth System Modelling Framework and Related Resources
Well, we pushed on OMS and Java. However, for FORTRANists (or FORTRANers ?) a very interesting and modern resources is the Earth Science Modelling Framework or (ESMF in short). This was due to a large...
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