Ph.D. position available for working on the Enhancing GEOframe to deal with anthropogenic influences on the hydrologic cycle of Tevere and Adige River

The candidate will be asked to extend the GEOframe system with tools to understand the anthropogenic impacts on the hydrological cycle on Adige and Tevere basins via the integration of hydrological modelling and satellite/ground based observations. They will start from an already existing solid base (operational at the ARPAB and implemented in various catchment around the world) and tries to answer the following research questions: how much human activities is impacting mountainous region and which will be the main challenges in the future ? How water resources should be allocated to respond to the future needs ? How to best manage water resources among the competing interests ?The Ph.D. candidate will take care of the implementation of a suite of modelling solutions for the Adige and the Tevere river basin with specific focus on some subcatchments.

In general the research activities will aim to fuse information from any available source and especially remote sensing of snow, soil moisture, surface temperature, vegetation with model components of new type developed inside the GEOframe platform The project is part of a wide spectrum of collaborative research activities between UniTrento, IRPI-PG and EURAC.
The candidate will take care of implementing, besides the code, the appropriate procedures for continuous integration of the evolving source code, and s/he will be also asked to maintain a regular rate of commits to the common open platform. Despite these conditions, and being free and open source, the code will be intellectual property by the coder. This will be guaranteed also by the components-based infrastructure offered by OMS3, which allows to better define the contributions of anyone.
The implementation part will be followed, accompanied by testing activities, either for mathematical consistency, than for physical consistency with experiments and field measurements.

The Ph.D. student is intended to produce, besides working and tested codes, also at least three papers in major journals (VQR Class A), of which, at least one as first Author. Duration of the doctoral studies could be three or four years.

Further information of the policies of the Trento research group can be found:

• To my students
• Working with us
• The scaring version of “working with us"
• About doing a Ph.D.
• Why Open Source ?
• Going beyond the present state of Art Of Hydrological Modeling (since 2011 but still valid)
• Authorship
• Software guidelines

Supervisor of the Ph.D. will be Riccardo Rigon, Christian Massari and Silvia Barbetta. Same information can be found at the AboutHydrology blog.

Information for application can be found at the AES doctoral studies page. Please pay attention to the deadline for applications.

Adige's Research and publications

This post is to contain research work and studies about river Adige as soon as they come to my attention. Please help me in finding them.

Papers

• Chiogna, G., Santoni, E., Camin, F., Tonon, A., Majone, B., Trenti, A., & Bellin, A. (2014). Stable isotope characterization of the Vermigliana catchment. Journal of Hydrology, 509(C), 1–11. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.11.052
• Chiogna, G., Majone, B., Paoli, K. C., Diamantini, E., Stella, E., Mallucci, S., et al. (2015). A review of hydrological and chemical stressors in the Adige catchment and its ecological status. Science of the Total Environment, 1–15. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.06.149
• Laiti, L., Giovannini, L., Zardi, D., Belluardo, G., & Moser, D. (2018a). Estimating Hourly Beam and Diffuse Solar Radiation in an Alpine Valley: A Critical Assessment of Decomposition Models. Atmosphere, 9(4), 117–20. http://doi.org/10.3390/atmos9040117 
• Laiti, L., Mallucci, S., Piccolroaz, S., Bellin, A., Zardi, D., Fiori, A., et al. (2018b). Testing the Hydrological Coherence of High-Resolution Gridded Precipitation and Temperature Data Sets. Water Resources Research, 1–30. http://doi.org/10.1002/2017WR021633
• Ranzi, R, Werth, K, Gentilini, S, Mangiapane, S, The Adige River map in 1:20,736 scale of Leopoldo de Claricini-Dornpacher (1847),  
• 12th Conference of ICA-International Cartographic Association Commission on Cartographic Heritage into the Digital “Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage”
• At: Venice, 2017
• Tuo, Y., Marcolini, G., Disse, M., & Chiogna, G. (2018a). A multi-objective approach to improve SWAT model calibration in alpine catchments. Journal of Hydrology, 559, 347–360. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.02.055
• Tuo, Y., Marcolini, G., Disse, M., & Chiogna, G. (2018b). Calibration of snow parameters in SWAT: comparison of three approaches in the Upper Adige River basin (Italy). Hydrological Sciences Journal, 00(00), 1–22. http://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2018.1439172

Master Thesis

• Francesca Bergamin (Zolezzi, G and Bertoldi, W., Supervisors), Studio dell'evoluzione morfologica del fiume Adige nell'ultimo secolo: analisi di sezioni storiche e di modello interpretativo, DICAM, Trento, AA 2016-2017
• Stefano Tasin (Rigon R., Bancheri, M.), Modellazione di portate idriche nei bacini alpini con JGrass-NewAGE, Anno Accademico, 2015-2016 
• Tuo, Y, Application of the Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) in alpine catchments: pitfalls and solutions, TUM, 29/03/2018

Ph.D. Thesis

• Mallucci, S. (Bellin, A. and Majone, B, supervisors), Hydro-climatic shifts in the Alpine region under a changing climate: trends, drivers detection and scale issues, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2018
• Stella, E. (Bellina, A, supervisor), Analysis of the impact of hydrological alterations and multiple stress factors on the ecological status of Alpine freshwater ecosystems, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2018

Books

• Werth, K, Ranzi, R., Il fiume Adige da Merano a Borghetto nella carta di Leopoldo De Claricini (1847). Die Etsch von Meran bis Borghetto auf der Leopold von Claricini Karte (1847). Con 14 cartine fiume Adige, ISBN: 88-99910-05-7 - EAN: 9788899910051, 2017

Adige River Research in GLOBAQUA and CLIMAWARE projects

This contains the presentation for the Diffuse seminar held November the 4th in 20 italian cities. This is to do memory of the events of November 1966, fixty years ago, when many Italian cities were flooded.  The presentation is not actually about flooding but the general management of water in medium and large (well someone could consider it small, but it is the second largest in Italy, and its complexity is quite overwhelming) catchments, like River Adige, which is the basin where I live (actually my house is in a prone to flooding area so, all my interest is that it will not happen anymore).

Possibly I will upload also an English version of it for the interested reader. Click on the figure above to see the presentation.

The Adige database or the database NewAGE

This is to introduce the Adige database that collects as many possible data about the Adige river.  It is the result  of many years of work (involving Alberto Bellin (GS, RG), myself (GS, RG), Bruno Majone (GS), Francesca Villa, Hydrologis and many others), across various projects the latter of which are the CLIMAWARE project and GLOBAQUA ones . It contains geometries (it is a spatial database), time series, intakes and outakes data. It is a gold mine for whom wants to dig into it.

The presentation is due to Stefano Tasin, one of my master students, and it is in Italian.  However the slides could be understandable also by those who have a knowledge of SQL or want to get it, after some little effort. Clicking on the figure above you access his presentation pdf. Tables in the database are documented here. 

The database is in sqlite and spatialite, expandable and, I hope to find someone who can legally maintain it and offer it as open data.  The whole DB is contained in a ~1.5 GB file called NewAgeDB.sqlite.

Age-ranked storage equations for river Adige

This below is the presentation that Maria Laura Bancheri is giving today at the AGU fall meeting. It summarises our recent work on travel time distributions theory (no contributions so far -well look at here -, but we tried to clarify concepts and mathematics) and its ongoing application to River Adige.

All this knowledge is going to flow into the great family of JGrass-NewAGE components and being used to assess age of water and tracer movements. 

Keep looking for upgrades.

The model of River Adige - Step 0

This is a mostly theoretical and illustrative of some aspects of the structure of the new model of the River Adige I am building with collaborators for  CLIMAWARE and GLOBAQUA projects and for myself. In the to-do-list there is a complete treatment of fluxes according to travel times theories.

Looking at the slides, it can be seen that I recycled some material in previous posts, and, obviously there are great connections with the post related to JGrass-NewAGE, and those on the physico-statistical modelling of the hydrological cycle. The presentation was made at the 2015 Padua Conference on coupled hydrological modelling, about which I will refer in another post.