Research

My presentation at the workshop "Management of environmental processes" titled "Floods and climate change" (in Italian) is available at the link below.

The workshop took place in Naples on February 25th, 2020. The Italian title of the workshop was: "La gestione dei fenomeni naturali: visioni complementari per il territorio. Il contributo della Geologia Applicata e dell’Idraulica" while the Italian title of my presentation was: "Alluvioni: tutta colpa dei cambiamenti climatici?".

Two companion scientific papers focusing on uncertainty assessment for hydrological models have been just published in Advances in Water Resources:

My presentation titled "Flood risk in historical cities (in Italian)" at the conference "Beni culturali ed ambientali a rischio" - Ravenna, November 20, 2019 - is available for download at the link below.

Thank you for your interest.
Alberto

The scientific paper: Probabilistic Hydrological Post-Processing at Scale: Why and How to Apply Machine-Learning Quantile Regression Algorithms, published on Water, is available open access at the link below.

The study focuses on the use of machine-learning quantile regression algorithms for probabilistic hydrological post-processing in order to derive uncertainty of hydrological simulations.

My presentazion at the workshop "La scienza per la protezione civile" - Bologna 16 ottobre 2019 (in Italian) - is available for download at the link below.

The title is: floods and climate change:certainties (few), uncertainties (many) and adaptation.

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Ciao,
Alberto

My presentation at the Short Mediterranean Ph.D School on Impacts of Climate Change and Sustainable Engineering Responses (Naples, October 7-11, 2019) is available at the link below.

The title is "Climate change and floods".

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Best,
Alberto

The scientific paper "Global-scale human pressure evolution imprints on sustainability of river systems" has been just published by Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.

It is an open access paper proposing an innovative methodology for large scale assessment of human impact on water resources.

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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 on trends of floods frequency in Europe.

Data from numerous measurement stations all across Europe have been evaluated. The data shows that magnitude of flood events is changing with different patterns in different regions.

My presentation at the 27th IUGG General Assembly titled "The Unsolved Rebus of Natural Variability" is available for download at the link below.

Thank you for your interest.

All the best, ciao.
Alberto

My presentation at the IUGG 100th anniversary, titled "Water and Life" is available for download at the link below. The ceremony took place in Paris and was honored by the attendance of Prince Albert of Monaco, who was conferred the IUGG Honorary Membership.

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Ciao,
Alberto

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).

Thank you for your interest.
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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Ciao,
Alberto

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.

Thank you for your interest!

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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Best,
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.
Thank you for your interest.
Ciao,
Alberto