Alberto Montanari

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My live interview (in Italian) at the TRC TV on megaflood predictability

On November 27 I have been live interviewed by the TV channel TRC. The discussion focused on predictability of megafloods, after the publication of the Nature Geoscience paper "Megafloods in Europe can be anticipated from observations in hydrologically similar catchments", authored by Miriam Bertola with a large pool of co-authors.

The interview can be watched here. The video has been kindly provided by TRC Bologna.

Thank you for your interest.
Ciao,
Alberto

Floods: Ten concepts to get better protected

Floods often call people and disaster management by surprise. A list of recent floods shows that inundations are the reason of increasing concern. The list of floods in Italy (in Italian) indicates that 50 victims were reported from 2021 to 2022. An example of a flood that took people by surprise is the event that occurred in Germany during the summer 2021.

Degree and Ph.D. opportunities at Unibo

The Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Material Engineering at the University of Bologna, where I teach and work as a researcher, offers several opportunities to foreign students. I believe studying in Bologna and Ravenna (where the University of Bologna has a campus and where I am teaching) is a great experience for a foreign student.

Degree programmes

If you are interested in degree programs (bachelor and master) offered by my Department, please refer to the following link:

My presentation at the International Conference Themes 2023 titled "Long term cycles in hydroclimatic processes: the unresolved enigma of climatic variability"

My presentation "Long term cycles in hydroclimatic processes: the unresolved enigma of climatic variability" at the International Conference Themes 2023 (Venice, November 15, 2023) is available for download at the link below.

Thank you for your interest.

Ciao,
Alberto

Megafloods in Europe can be anticipated. Paper in Nature Geoscience

The article "Megafloods in Europe can be anticipated from observations in hydrologically similar catchments", authored by Miriam Bertola with a large pool of co-authors, has been published on Nature Geosciences.

Public share full-text access to a view-only version of the paper can be accessed here.

Teaching

Research

Presentation at the 2016 EGU Meeting: Is climate change modifying precipitation extremes?

Please find at the link below the presentation at the 2016 Meeting of the European Geosciences Union titled "Is climate change modifying precipitation extremes?", prepared by Simon Papalexiou and presented by myself, can be downloaded at the link below. Thank you for your interest.
Alberto

Presentation at the 2016 EGU Meeting: Nightlights along the Eastern Alpine river network in Austria and Italy as a proxy of human presence

Please find at the link below the presentation at the 2016 Meeting of the European Geosciences Union titled "Nightlights along the Eastern Alpine river network in Austria and Italy as a proxy of human presence", prepared by Serena Ceola and presented by myself, can be downloaded at the link below. Thank you for your interest.
Alberto

Presentation at the 2015 AGU Fall Meeting: Is the likelihood of getting a flood increased by higher than usual flows in the previous months?

My presentation at the 2015 AGU Fall Meeting titled "Is the likelihood of getting a flood increased by higher than usual flows in the previous months?" can be downloaded at the link below. Thank you for your interest.
Alberto

The River Memory Experiment

The River Memory experiment is a new form of cooperative research, according to the philosophy and scope of the Switch-On FP7 Research Project, funded by the European Commission. The aim of the experiment is to promote cooperation among researchers to analyse the dynamics of river flows across a range of catchment scales.

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Presentation at the 2015 AGU Fall Meeting: Human-impacted waters: temporal evolution of human proximity to rivers from global high-resolution nighttime lights

My presentation at the 2015 AGU Fall Meeting titled "Human-impacted waters: temporal evolution of human proximity to rivers from global high-resolution nighttime lights" can be downloaded at the link below.
Thank you for your interest.

Alberto

Presentation at the 2015 Gordon Research Conference: New Data for Deciphering the Human Pressure on River Ecosystems. A Step Forward to Assess Global Water Emergency

My presentation at the 2015 Gordon Research Conference titled "New Data for Deciphering the Human Pressure on River Ecosystems. A Step Forward to Assess Global Water Emergency" is available for download at the link below.
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Alberto Montanari
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My presentation at the 2015 IUGG General Assembly titled: Global change and global water emergency A new vision for new solutions

My presentation at the 2015 IUGG General Assembly titled "Global change and global water emergency: A new vision for new solutions " is available for download at the link below.

Thank you for your interest.
Alberto Montanari

Presentation at the 2015 EGU General Assembly: Climate is changing, everything is flowing, stationarity is immortal

At the link below my presentation at the 2015 General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union titled "Climate is changing, everything is flowing, stationarity is immortal" can be downloaded.

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Alberto Montanari

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