A few topics for a Master thesis in Hydrology

After the series about Meledrio I thought that each one of the post actually identifies at least one Thesis topic:

• The influence of slopes and terrain characteristics on the hydrologic response
• The role of geologic and or vegetational information (and the methods to disclose it)
• The filtering of time series data
• The implementation and study  of a reference model to which compare the others
• The role of sediment in flood formation

Actually, each one of them could be material for more than one Thesis, depending the direction we want to take. All the Theses topics assume that JGrass-NewAGE is the tool used for investigations.

Actually there are some spinoff of those topics:

• Using machine learning to set part of model inputs and/or 
• Doing hydrological modeling with machine learning
• Preprocessing and treating (via Python or Java) satellite data as input of JGrass-NewAGE (a systematisation of some work made by Wuletawu Abera on Posina cacthment and/or Blue Nile)
• Implementation of the new version of JGrass-NewAGE on val di Sole
• Using satellite data, besides geometric features, to extract river networks
• Snow models intercomparison (GEOtop and those in JGrass-NewAGE, with reference to work done by Stefano Tasin and Gabriele Massera) 

Other to other Hydrological topics:

• Mars (also here) and planetary Hydrology (with GEOtop or some of its evolutions which account for different temperature ranges and other fluid fluxes)
• Copying with Evapotranspiration and irrigation at various scales
• Copying the carbon cycle to the hydrological cycle (either in GEOtop or in JGrass-NewAGE)

Other possible topics regarding water management:

• Hypothesis on the management of reservoir for optimal water management in river Adige.
• Managing Urban Waters Complexity

Other possible topics regards, on a more theoretical (mathematical-physical) side:

•  Exploiting the travel time analysis of reservoir-based travel time theories
•  (Information) Entropy fluxes in the water cycle
•  Sensitivity Analysis of model parameters (through analytical-numerical techniques)

On the side of informatics:

• Optimal subdivision of grids in parts for parallel computing of environmental flows
• Exploiting the Basic Model Interface and data abstraction for models' components connection
• Making easier to manage the fully distributed-graph-based version of Jgrass-NewAGE (I/O data treatment and their visualisation)
• Porting the Orlandini-Moretti methods of terrain analysis to OMS - Horton Machine)

For who wants to work with us on the Master thesis, the rules to follow are those for Ph.D. students, even if to a minor extent. See here:

• To my students
• Dear incoming students who want to work with me 
• Working with us
• Essential for hydrologists
• The Tale of Open Source Codes
• Theory and practice of reproducible research
• The four hours rule