I had the great honor to be awarded the Dooge Medal by the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and UNESCO. The award ceremony took place in Montreal, during the 2019 IUGG General Assembly, on July 12, 2019.
The scientific paper "Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective" is available here.
The paper is open access and therefore it can be freely downloaded. It presents a community effort to identify research questions for the hydrological community. They have been identified with a community endeavor. Of course these questions are far from being exhaustive, but they provide a very good picture of current emerging issues.
My presentation at the workshop "Valutazione e Gestione del Rischio Alluvioni – Governance del territorio e contributo del mondo scientifico" (in Italian, Roma, Ministry of the Environment, June 27, 2019) titled "Integrating "nature based" solutions and structural interventions for adapting to climate change" (in Italian) is available for download at the link below.
See also my lecture to students on the same topic (in Italian).
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Ciao,
Alberto
My presentation titled "Changing climate in water science" delivered at the international meeting "Water Futures" (Padova, June 10-11, 2019) can be downloaded at the link below.
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Alberto
Irrinet/Irriframe, along with Acquacampus, is an interesting experience in Italy for optimising irrigation.
The scientific paper "Global and Regional Increase of Precipitation Extremes under Global Warming" has been just published on Water Resources Research. At the link below the accepted version can be downloaded.
It is an analysis daily rainfall data at global scale to assess changes in extreme rainfall regime. We found an increase of the frequency of extremes, while changes in in extreme rainfall intensity are less evident.
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The article "Evaluating the Effects of Urbanization Evolution on Air Temperature Trends Using Nightlight Satellite Data" has been just published on MDPI Atmosphere.
The article is open access and can be reached here.
I believe this paper is significant in that it explores the impact of the heat island effect on temperature measurements by using an innovative technique.
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Ciao,
Alberto
The article "A large sample analysis of European rivers on seasonal river flow correlation and its physical drivers" has been just published on Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.
The article is open access and can be reached here. I believe this paper is significant in that it explores the opportunity of statistically predicting high and low flows in rivers with weeks in advance, by exploiting the "river memory" properties.
At the link below, my invited presentation at the AGU2018 Fall Meeting entitled "Sustainable digitalization: a global challenge" can be downloaded.
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Alberto
My invited presentation "Effect of global-scale human pressure evolution on water resources sustainability", given at the symposium "Recent Advances in Water Resources Research and Modelling", held in Delft on September 28, 2018, can be downloaded at the link below.
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Ciao,
Alberto
The article A geostatistical data-assimilation technique for enhancing macro-scale rainfall–runoff simulations (open access) has been just published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS).
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The article Globally Universal Fractal Pattern of Human Settlements in River Networks (open access) has been just published on Earth's Future. The plain language summary reads as:
In July 2018 I presented a contribution titled "Diversity and equality @ EGU" at the EuroScience Open Forum, held in Toulouse. My presentation is available at the link below. Thanks for your interest.
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Alberto
The article Detection of trends in magnitude and frequency of flood peaks across Europe has been just published on the Hydrological Sciences Journal.
This study analyses the trends in magnitude and frequency of floods for the period 1965–2005 in several European sites. The paper has been selected as the featured article in Volume 63, Issue 4 of the journal.
During my Darcy Medal ceremony my citationist was Guenter Bloeschl. I am very grateful to Guenter for delivering a very flattering citation, which I am copying here below (with Guenter's permission). During my career I had the fortune to meet amazing colleagues, at the University of Bologna, in the Italian community of hydrologists and engineers, and the scientific associations I am member of. In particular, I shared many research collaboration with Guenter and Demetris Koutsoyiannis.
I had the great honor to be awarded the Darcy Medal of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). The award ceremony took place in Vienna, during the EGU General Assembly, on April 12, 2018. I delivered a medal lecture titled "Hydrology is important". It is a summary of my research experience and activity so far. It is also reporting some personal considerations and stories.
My invited presentation at Uppsala University (January 30, 2018) can be downloaded at the link below. Thank you for your interest.
Best,
Alberto
My presentation at the AGU Fall Meeting 2017 titled "Recent breakthroughs and themes in hydrology, from climate to the water-food-energy nexus" is available for download at the link below. It is essentially a synthesis of my editorial experience in Water Resources Research.
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Best,
Alberto
My presentation at the meeting of the Life-Iris project "Improve resilience of the industrial sector" (Bomporto, November 21, 2017) titled "Climate change: extreme rainfall, flood risk and adaptation strategies" (in Italian) can be downloaded at the link below.
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Alberto
I had the opportunity to participate, together with Attilio Castellarin and several other researchers, to a study conducted by a team at the Technical University of Wien, showing that the timing of the floods has shifted across much of Europe. The sheds light on the influence of climate change on flood risk in Europe. The study was led by Prof. Guenter Bloeschl, who already cooperated with us in the past. The results highlight that climate change has induced a shift in the timing of floods over the years.