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GEOtop 2.0 at AGU 2013 - II - The Cryosphere
In this marathon I am doing at this Fall AGU Meeting, I am also giving a second talk about GEOtop 2.0. But this time I talk about the simulations of the snow modelling and the soil freezing.The...
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The Abouthydrology mailing list (at googlegroups)
Welcome to the About Hydrology mailing list. This will act the very same way the Gilbert Club list does for geomorphologists in being used to send announces about events, Ph.D. and post-doc positions,...
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USGS r-packages for hydrology
As I learn AGU Fall meeting, USGS is committed to develop various R Packages to help analysis of hydrological data.These packages include:GLRItclusgs-r.github.com: Splash page for USGS-R...
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Snowflakes (is Christmas time after all, and I live in a boreal place)
Christmas time remembered me to give a look to snow crystal formation literature and models. To my surprise, a definitive (thermodynamic) theory of their formation does not exist. This is what can be...
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Turbulence
Want to start with turbulence ? Start first with fluid dynamics:George Batchelor [Old, but classics]An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics ( I have the feeling to be able to do better in some parts - but...
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Why to write and publish scientific papers in hydrology
Luca Brocca (also here) brought to my attention a series of slides from Demetris Koutsoyiannis (see also here) about the challenges faced in publishing a paper. I dedicated one of my first, and others...
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Learn Statistics and Probability !
In one of my previous posts, I talked about the necessity to use (and therefore learn) statistics. As said bin "What is Statistics?", anyone working with data is using statistics. This simplify a lot...
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Luca's references on soil moisture spatial variability and remote sensing
In trying to extract the publishable results from Ageel Bushara Ph.D. thesis, a good work indeed, but weakened by my ignorance in remote sensing, I started a conversation with Luca Brocca, one of the...
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A geographic information model for hydrology - from the Global Runoff Data...
I take directly from an informative of Center"The Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC) of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) would like to inform you about the publication of GRDC-Report 43r1:...
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Notes from a panel on reviewing
I take from one of the blog I follow Living on an Ivory basement, a post on reviewing papers:My notes for a panel presentation on reviewing papers and grants. Talking on reviewing is always an excuse...
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River Networks as Ecological Corridors for Species Populations and Water...
This was the talk given by Andrea Rinaldo for the opening day of the 2013-2014 Doctoral Academic year of our doctoral School. Andrea is possibly the most influential Italian hydrologist ever (if we do...
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The Virtual Luna Project
Luna Leopold wrote some of the papers that delighted my early research years (together with those by Ronald Shreve, Ignacio-Rodriguez-Iturbe and V.K. Gupta/Ed Waymire). "On February 23, 2006, Luna...
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Evolution and selection of river networks: Statics, dynamics, and complexity
This is a review paper published on PNAS, that I co-authored. Actually a review with some new results that were the outcome of my recent efforts with Java. OCN stands for Optimal Channel Networks, a...
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Preferential Flow in Hillslope
This last month was partially spent in reviewing Grigoris Anagnostopoulos Ph.D. thesis about subsurface hillslope modelling and landsliding. Among the topics he faced, one of particular interest is the...
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Again on statistics - P - Values
A Nature paper brings back arguments on what p-values are, and how they should be consider. It also talks about the different positions of Fisher, Neyman and Pearson, on the topic [please notice that...
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JGrass-NewAGE codes
Jgrass-NewAGE is going out from its infantry, and this is signed by its appearance in Github, where the code in development is going to be uploaded. The definitive repository for the code is the...
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Evaporation From Soils
Recently I went back to be interested in evapotranspiration, and I was captured by a thread of publication by Dani Or (GS) and Peter Lehmann and coworkers on the subject. Fortunately, Dany also gave...
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Eco-hydrology of semi-arid environments: Confronting Mathematical models with...
In a chain search, regarding the previous post, I also find the videos of the above conference, held last may in Israel. For who is interested in ecohydrology, is the occasion to listen to some of the...
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Alberto Montanari's view on Hydrology and Hydraulic Constructions
Alberto Montanari (GS) is a distinguished Italian colleague, and the editor in chief of Water Resources Research, one of my favorite hydrological journals. He is also very active in the IAHS especially...
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The final report of the Framework for Interoperable Freshwater Models is out
The aim of the project was to investigate software frameworks for building an interoperable freshwater models in New Zealand, based on existing models. After considering various alternatives, the...
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