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My presentation "Servizi climatici a supporto della gestione delle risorse idriche" (in Italian) at the meeting "Sicurezza delle Infrastrutture", Torino, 15-16 January 2026

My invited presentation "Servizi climatici a supporto della gestione delle risorse idriche: nuove soluzioni per complessità crescenti in un mondo che cambia" (in Italian) at the meeting "Sicurezza delle Infrastrutture", Torino, 15-16 January 2026 is available at the link below.

Thanks for your interest!
Ciao,
Alberto

Running your own climate model

The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model is basically a powerful computer program that simulates the atmosphere. Scientists and forecasters use it to study weather and climate—from everyday storms to long-term climate patterns. It’s very flexible: you can plug in different physics options, adjust the resolution, or zoom into a specific region to get more detail. 

My invited presentation at Tsinghua University titled "From hydrological complexity to hydrological predictions, through the exploration of uncertainty, randomness and stochastic theory"

My invited presentation at Tsinghua University (China) titled "From hydrological complexity to hydrological predictions, through the exploration of uncertainty, randomness and stochastic theory" is available at the link below.

The presentation was given on Oct 22, 2025. Thanks to professor Fuqiang Tian and esteemed Colleagues for inviting me. Thanks to Dr. Khosro Morovati and Dr. Yi Nan for the excellent support. It has been an exciting week!

Ciao,
Alberto

Lecture notes for "Climate change and global health" 2025 - University San Raffaele

"Climate change and global health" (CCGH) is a 12-hour module of the course on "Climate change and architecture for health" at the University San Raffaele in Milan. This page refers to the lectures delivered in the Fall semester of 2025.

The 12 hours of teaching will be delivered through in-presence frontal lectures. the study plan is as follows:

My interview at the TV show "Decoder" (Telereggio TV) on water resources management in Reggio Emilia (in Italian)

On October 3, 2025, I was interviewed at the TV show "Decoder" (Telereggio TV, chaired by Gabriele Franzini) on water resources management in Reggio Emilia. The interview is in Italian, for a duration of 30 minutes.

Thanks for your interest.
Best,
Alberto

Link to the video of the interview

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My presentation at the meeting "Towards an institutional agremeent for water: the perspectives of stakeholders" (in Italian).

My presentation at the meeting "Towards an institutional agreement for water: the perspectives of stakeholders" (in Italian), titled: "Three priorities for water governance" is available at the link below.
Thank you for your interest.
All the best,
Alberto

My presentation (with video) at the SAgE PGR Conference (Newcastle, July 7, 2021) titled: "Water Resources and Sustainability under Climate Change"

My invited presentation at the SAgE PGR Conference (Newcastle, July 7, 2021) titled: "Water Resources and Sustainability under Climate Change" is available for download at the link below. The video of my presentation is available here. Thank you for your interest. Best, Alberto

My presentation at the webinar "Climate change: hydrologic and hydraulic impacts" titled "Generation of tecnical scenarios of future climate for studying extreme events in the presence of climate change", June 17, 2021

My presentation at the webinar "Climate change: hydrologic and hydraulic impacts" organised by the Foir and the Italian Hydrotecnical Association and held on June 17, 2021 is available at the link below. The title is "Generation of tecnical scenarios of future climate for studying extreme events in the presence of climate change".
Thanks for your interest.
Best,
Alberto

My memory of Prof. Fabio Rossi presented to the "Memorial of Prof. Fabio Rossi" - February 22, 2021 (in Italian)

 have had the honor to present my memory of Prof. Fabio Rossi, who recently passed away, to his memorial organised by the "Gruppo Italiano di Idraulica". My presentation is available for download at the link below. Its title is: "Fabio Rossi: l'impersonificazione dell'idrologia quale scienza ingegneristica" (in Italian).
Thank you very much for the invitation and your interest.
Best,
Alberto

My talk at the inaugural day of the PhD programme on "Future Earth, climate change and societal challenges"

My presentation at the inaugural day of the PhD programme on "Future Earth, climate change and societal challenges" (University of Bologna) is available for download at the link below. The title of my talk is "Taking a wide perspective". It gives some advice to PhD students to plan their research activity.
Thank you for your interest.
All the best,
Alberto

My presentations at the JpGU-AGU joint meeting 2020

My presentations at the JpGU-AGU joint meeting titled:

can be downloaded by clicking on the above links. They discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the scientific community. Thank you for your interest.

Best,
Alberto

My talk at the Lancaster University: The new mission of geosciences in an age of pandemics and beyond - June 10th, 2020 (with video)

My invited presentation at the Lancaster Environmental Center Seminar Series - Lancaster University, titled "The new mission of geosciences in an age of pandemics and beyond", is available at the link below.

The talk was given remotely on June 10th, 2020. I would like to thank Lancaster University for inviting me. Lancaster University has made available the video of the talk on YouTube.

Thank you for your interest.
All the best,
Alberto

My presentation at the conference EGU2020 Online: Blue Cat, A brisk local uncertainty estimator for hydrologic simulations and predictions

My presentation at the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union titled: A brisk local uncertainty estimator for hydrologic simulations and predictions (Blue Cat) is available for download at the link below.

I would like to thank Demetris for conceiving an amazing idea. It is a simple and computationally efficient tool to estimate the probability distribution of hydrological predictions (and therefore assess their uncertainty) which works really well.