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Snow (Neve)
As I did for the other "theoretical" part of my classes, I split here the old slides, in Italian indeed, in parts. Questo per un più semplice accoppiamento delle slides con l'audio delle...
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Printers 3D, Arduino and hydro-meteorological stations
One of the innovative works I had the occasion to see at the 2014 AGU Fall Meeting was the use of two emerging technologies to build low cost hydro-meterological stations. The poster was presented by...
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Thermodynamics
It is strange that I did not dedicate any post to thermodynamics, since it was one of the topics I dedicated more time in the last years. My approach to thermodynamics was through freezing soil (e.g....
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Four academic brothers (of mine)
I have many academic brother since Andrea Rinaldo is very prolific in generating first class researchers. I have even more I consider the inheritance of Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, my postdoc advisor at...
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Long wave radiation
I have already dedicated some posts and a paper to radiation. Radiation is deemed necessary to drive evapotranspiration and snow models. However, our previous efforts were dedicated mainly to shortwave...
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Residence time approaches to the hydrological budgets
The natural evolution of geomorphic unit hydrograph approach to the hydrologic response is the analysis of residence time of water for any of the processes in the hydrological budget. Indeed, there...
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Cartoon guide to statistics
Since I am supporting the idea that Hydrologists should know very well statistics, it is with pleasure that I discovered in Rbloggers these two cartoon guides to statistics.The first is the Cartoon...
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The History of Noise
Discovered in the page of Angelo Vulpiani, a preminent Italian physicist, I believe this paper on noise by L. Cohen is a amusing paper that can redirect to more technical readings.Noise, Brownian...
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Quickness and exactitude
I put here an internal review of one of our manuscript, because, I hope, it can be useful in general. The topic is evaluating the rainfall runoff of a small catchment (but I hoped it was en estimation...
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Patterns for the application of modern informatics to the integration of...
Today Francesco Serafin graduated finishing his master in civil and environmental engineering. In brief, the scope of his thesis was to implement a series of classes, eventually ported to OMS, to...
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Uncertainty and Information Theory
We all are persuaded that uncertainty is a big topic, in life but also, in hydrology. So important that many hydrologists dedicate their life to its estimation, in connection to hydrological processes....
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What is life ? (by Erwin Schroedinger) and Hydrology
The excuse for this blog post was the reading of an old (1944) little book entitled “What is life ?” by Erwin Schroedinger. It presents the point of view of a physicist on life, before the discover of...
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Rills in Utah
Going from Zion National Park to Grand Arches National Park, I had the occasion to see several astonishing geological landscapes. Particularly exciting to me were the rillings that I could observe...
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Data cleaning is part of any science process
I take it verbatim this post from the R blog Revolution."A New York Times article yesterday discovers the 80-20 rule: that 80% of a typical data science project is sourcing cleaning and preparing the...
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Compiling meteoIO Examples with Eclipse (under Mac OS 10.4.9)
This is an ongoing task in the direction to compile GEOtop 2.0 under Eclipse and subsequently to embed part of it in OMS v3. Since to work with GEOtop 2.0 one needs to be aware of what meteoIO does, I...
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A little bridge between JGrasstools and R
I receive from Emanuele Cordano, and I publish, knowing that is of interest to many:"Dear all, some months ago I developed a R package on github which allows to execute some classes of jgrasstools from...
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Which Hydrological model is better ?
The talk below (you can click also on the image) is about the GEOtop and JGrass-NewAge models, their physical bases, their informatics based on older (the first) and new (the latter) programming...
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Compiling GEOtop with Eclipse (on Mac)
[The three operations below are in common with the compilation of GEOtop by using a makefile, and they are better described here in a previous post]1- Follow the instructions to install meteoIO....
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New Course on statistics and data inference on Coursera
Verbatim from DataCamp Blog:" Yesterday (Monday 1st of September), a new session of Data Analysis and Statistical Inference, taught by Doctor Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel from Duke university, has started on...
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Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate, and Water...
With the limits that these large scale project have, which is neglecting most of the micro-phenomena, as small landslides, that causes huge economical losses, and several life losses, this is, however,...
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