A5082732764- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Climate variability and models
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Energy Load and Power Forecasting
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Landslides and related hazards
- Advanced Computational Techniques and Applications
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Hydrological Forecasting Using AI
- Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Remote Sensing and Land Use
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Environmental Monitoring and Data Management
- Business Process Modeling and Analysis
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Dam Engineering and Safety
- Water resources management and optimization
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
Polytechnic University of Turin
2020-2024
The new scientific decade (2023-2032) of the International Association Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) aims at searching for sustainable solutions to undesired water conditions - may it be too little, much or polluted. Many current issues originate from global change, while problems must embrace local understanding and context. will explore crises by actionable knowledge within three themes: interactions, innovative cross-cutting methods. We capitalise on previous IAHS Scientific Decades...
Many studies have shown a growing trend in terms of frequency and severity extreme events. As never before, having tools capable to monitor the amount rain that reaches Earth’s surface has become key point for identification areas potentially affected by floods. In order guarantee an almost global spatial coverage, NASA Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) IMERG products proved be most appropriate source information precipitation retrievement satellite. This study is aimed at defining...
Abstract. The dependence of rainfall on elevation has frequently been documented in the scientific literature and may be relevant Italy, due to high degree geographical morphological heterogeneity country. However, a detailed analysis spatial variability short-duration annual maximum depths their connection landforms does not exist. Using new, comprehensive position-corrected extreme dataset (I2-RED, Improved Italian-Rainfall Extreme Dataset), we present systematic study relationship between...
Flood risk management institutions and practitioners need accurate easy-to-use approaches that incorporate the changing climate conditions into flood predictions in ungauged basins. The present work aims at developing an operative procedure to include expected variation precipitation extremes frequency analysis. We relate Frequency Curves Intensity-Duration-Frequency curves through quantile-quantile relationships. Assuming percentage variations of quantiles are linked by relationship, we...
Italy, like many other Mediterranean countries, is increasingly facing meteo-hydrological hazards, with extreme weather events becoming more frequent and intense. These changing conditions pose serious risks to dam safety call for a reassessment of spillway design floods adapt evolving hydrological scenarios.Historical flood data may no longer reflect the full range potential events, highlighting urgent need updated accurate information. In response this challenge, Italian Large Dams...
Understanding trends in rainfall extremes is essential for managing hydrological risks and designing climate-resilient infrastructure. Among the European countries, Italy presents a complex case study such analyses due to its diverse topography, ranging from sea-level plains alpine peaks, fragmented datasets.This investigates short-duration (1 24 hours) across using annual maximum depths measured by rain gauges, coming Improved Italian - Rainfall Extreme Dataset (I2-RED), collection of more...
As part of the SIREN project (Saving Italian hydRological mEasuremeNts), a citizen science initiative hosted on Zooniverse platform (https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/siren-project/siren-project), thousands volunteers are contributing to digitization hydrological yearbooks produced in past by National Hydrological and Mareographic Service. These represent an invaluable repository data but remain difficult access due their paper-based format. Moreover, quality these old books is...
ABSTRACT This opinion paper reflects on the current challenges facing urban drainage systems (UDS) research, along with solutions for fostering sustainable development. Over course of a year-long project involving 92 participants aged 24–38, including PhD candidates, post-doctoral researchers, and early-career academics, we identified critical opportunities development UDS. Our exploration highlights four key challenges: limited public visibility leading to resource constraints, insufficient...
Abstract. In Italy, a complete and updated database including the most relevant structural information regarding reservoirs characteristics of their upstream watersheds is currently missing. This paper tackles this gap by presenting first comprehensive dataset 528 large dams in Italy. Alongside details dams, such as coordinates, reservoir surface area volume, also encompasses range geomorphological, climatological, extreme rainfall, land cover soil-related attributes catchments. The data...
Abstract. The majority of rainfall measurements in the world is at daily scale, i.e. related to a specific calendar day and measured over fixed 24 h. On these data, annual maximum depths (F-maxima) series are easily obtained. other hand, h (S-maxima), which refer period starting any instant, more useful indicators. S-maxima values cannot be less than F-maxima, generally higher. ratio between extremes, called Hershfield factor (H), has been studied move from F-maxima S-maxima, allowing take...
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The collection and management of hydrological data in Italy has been dealt with at national level, initially, by the National Hydrological Service (SIMN), regional level last 40 years. This change determined problems availability complete homogeneous for whole country. As 2020, an updated quality-controlled dataset historical annual maxima rainfall is still lacking. Italian Rainfall Extreme Dataset (I-RED) recently created to allow studies be performed a level. In this paper, methodological...
Abstract. Here we present FOCA (Italian FlOod and Catchment Atlas), the first systematic collection of data on Italian river catchments for which historical discharge time series are available. Hydrometric information, including annual maximum peak average daily discharge, is complemented by several geomorphological, climatological, extreme rainfall, land-cover soil-related catchment attributes. All hydrological information derives from most recently released datasets rainfall measurements....
Abstract Agencies in charge of flood management use disaster reports (DRs) as the preferred source information on past flooding events. A systematic survey DRs prepared by Italian agencies suggests that could be widely enhanced view targeting more effective communication to citizens, reinforcing pillar civil protection planning and management, improving resilience population extreme Without loss rigor details required for all usual technical uses DRs, we suggest recompiling them form...
In this work, we investigate the spatial and temporal trend of short-duration (1 to 24 h) annual maximum rainfall depths, derived from Improved Italian—Rainfall Extreme Dataset (I2-RED). The investigation is conducted using time series at least 30 years data both national regional level record-breaking analysis, Mann-Kendall test, Regional Kendall test Sen's slope estimator. results confirm that extremes different durations are not increasing uniformly over Italy separate tendencies emerge...
Flood events represent some of the most catastrophic natural disasters, especially in localities where appropriate measurement instruments and early warning systems are not available. Remotely sensed data can often help to obtain near real-time rainfall information with a global spatial coverage without limitations that characterize other instruments. In order achieve this goal, freely accessible Extreme Rainfall Detection System (ERDS—erds.ithacaweb.org) was developed implemented by ITHACA...
Convection-permitting climate models have the potential to capture crucial processes in system, presenting an opportunity significantly enhance projections by providing more accurate representations of precipitation extremes. In this work, we conduct evaluation accuracy sub-daily extremes obtained from VHR-PRO_IT (Very High-Resolution PROjections for Italy, Raffa et al., 2023) over Italian peninsula,. is generated through dynamic downscaling Italy 8km-CM projection at approximately 2.2 km...
Abstract. In Italy, a complete and updated database including the most relevant structural information regarding reservoirs characteristics of their upstream watersheds is currently missing. This paper tackles this gap by presenting first comprehensive dataset 528 Large Dams in Italy. Alongside details dams, such as coordinates, reservoir surface area volume, also encompasses range geomorphological, climatological, extreme rainfall, land cover soil-related attributes catchments. The data...
Historical hydrological observations are often stored in printed documents and volumes of archives worldwide. This makes them practically inaccessible unusable for modern studies as well puts at risk permanent loss due to the deterioration their medium. In addition intrinsic value rescuing past observations, having access historical data is essential understanding better complexity changes cycle its extremes. Several rescue initiatives exist, but efforts highly fragmented space time. Current...