The Hydrology 2026 Lab

 The lab component makes up nearly half of the course, following the motto:

"Learning by doing."

Throughout the lab, you will conduct at least three key numerical experiments:

• Time Series Analysis – Exploring various data elaborations with various Jupyter Notebooks and a little of Python
• Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) Curves – Estimating rainfall intensity over different time scales with various Jupyter Notebooks and a little of Python, as well 
• Infiltration Experiments – Investigating soil absorption dynamics using the WHETGEO system
• Evaporation & Transpiration Experiments – Understanding water loss processes in different conditions using the GEOSPACE ssytem

Resources

🔹[Vimeo Showcase – General Lab Videos]

🔹[OSF Repository – Lab Materials]

🔹[Theory and Concepts here]

📌 Detailed videos and materials for each experiment are listed below.

📅 26 February 2026 – Installation and Introduction to working with Jupyter and Notebooks

• A little introduction to Jupyter Notebook by Concetta D'Amato (YouTube2020, Data). 
• A little of introduction
• Elementary operations 
• Vimeo2025
• Vimeo2024 part1
• Vimeo2024 part2

📅 6 March 2026 Reading a file

• Reading a CSV file with PANDAS (Vimeo2026)
• Pluviometria Paperopoli
• Vimeo2025 part1
• Vimeo2025 part 2
• Notebook
• Vimeo2024,  Vimeo2023, Vimeo2022, Vimeo2021, YouTubeLive 2019, YouTubeVideo2020

📅 9 March 2026 How to read and plot data

• Reading an Excel File 
• The Class Notebook II
• Vimeo2026
• (Vimeo2025,Vimeo2024, Vimeo 2023)
• Data 
• Notebook
• Reading a timeseries of daily rainfall organized in a Table whose rows contains the days and columns different years 
• Data (Daily Precipitation od San Martino di Castrozza from 1921 to 1990)
• Notebooks:
• Reading the Data and creating a PANDAS time series 
• The Class Notebook I
• The Class Notebook II
• The Class Notebook III
• Vimeo2025,Vimeo 2024 part I , Vimeo 2024 part II
• (Vimeo 2023 Part I, Vimeo2023 Part II)
• (Vimeo2022 PartI, Vimeo2022 Part II)
• Same thing as above (Vimeo2022)
• Chat GPT use suggestions (Vimeo2024)
• Other ChatGPT suggestions (Vimeo2024)
• Grouping the data by year (Vimeo 2022)
• A better plot of the time series 
• Monthly mean precipitation (Vimeo2022)
• Counting the events and producing their empirical statistics (Vimeo2025)
• (Vimeo2022)

📅 12 March 2026 -  San Martino Reprise

• Same data as above but with some modified notebooks
• Vimeo2025
• Notebooks:
• San Martino Rainfall
• First elaboration
• Yearly statistics
• A better plot
• Monthly rainfall averages

Interpolating the Gumbel distribution to annual precipitation maxima

• with using the mean and the variance (Notebook, Vimeo2026, Vimeo2025, Vimeo2024, Vimeo2023)
• with the maximum likelihood (Notebook, Vimeo2026, Vimeo2025 I, Vimeo2025 II, Vimeo2024, Vimeo2023)
• with the minimum square methods (Notebook, Vimeo2026, Vimeo2025 ,Vimeo2024, Vimeo2023)
• Il test di Pearson (Notebook, Vimeo2026, Vimeo2025, Vimeo2024, Vimeo 2023)
• Finally interpolating the curves (Notebook, Vimeo2025, Vimeo2024, Vimeo2023)

Where to find the data

• Finding the data for the Time Series Analysis (Vimeo2025)

Musical Coda