Monday, December 5, 2022

GEOframe Winter School 2023 - Day 2

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The Videos of the second day of Winter School (Slides will be uploaded tomorrow)

  • Steps for obtaining a digital twin of hydrology (Video)
  • How to fit science in DARTHs (Video)
  • Enabling technologies in DARTHs (Video)
  • Remarks on Open Science (Video)
  • A very brief introduction on OMS3 (Video)
  • The OMS3 working environment (Video)
  • The structure of a .sim file (Video)
  • Running a simple example on the OMS3 Console  (Video IVideo II)

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1 year post-doc position for working on the Digital Twin of Po River at the GEOframe group - deadline January 31st

 One year position (hopefully extensible to two or three years)  for working on the Po Project is open at the University of Trento, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering. Information about the project can be found at:




We search  for a skilled candidate able to boost the work on the project and eventually start  new researchers among the various challenging research lines which were better defined in the so called DARTH4MED project:


PI of the Project are Riccardo Rigon (riccardo.rigon@unitn.it) and Giuseppe Formetta (giuseppe.formetta@unitn.it). Please do not hesitate to ask for information and clarifications and note that we encourage to apply also to students who do not have yet discussed their Ph.D. Thesis.

The call details are at:


The net salary is around 1700 Euro/Months. Other submitted projects, including the already mentioned DARTH4MED are synergic to the this project and they could provide further financial support for the next years. An ideal reference for the framework used in the project is the paper on Digital eARth Twins of Hydrology (DARTHs) recently published on HESS



riccardo rigon

Sunday, December 4, 2022

GEOframe Winter School 2023 - Day 1 - 05/12/2022

School Announcement and general program

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The material of the School (slides and softwares) is available to download at the following link. The slides are available here and video lectures are available here.

Claudia Losi (2020) Poli Arctici Constitutio

Monday, September 26, 2022

GEOframe Winter School 2023 - Save the dates: December 05-07, 2022; January 09-13, 2023

The GEOframe Winter School 2023 (GWS2023) will be will be held in Trento University (Department of civil, environmental and mechanical engineering) on

December 05-07, 2022; January 09-13, 2023

This is the preliminary program:

  • December 05-07, 2022: Software Installation – Online, via zoom (or in-site if desired).
  • January 09-13, 2023: Geomorphological analysis of the basin, kriging-based spatialisation of meteorological variables, energy balance and evapotranspiration estimate, snow modeling, river runoff simulation, models calibration and verification – Onsite

Output of the school 

The objective of the school is to enable the participant to set up and run the GEOframe system on their area of interest, with the spatially variable quantification of each component of the water balance (rainfall, snow, evapotranspiration, runoff, root-zone water content and groundwater levels)

Generalities

GEOframe is a system for doing hydrology by computer. By saying that it is a system, we emphasise that it is not a model but an infrastructure that contain many differentiated modelling solutions (some tens of that), which are built upon models’ components. Each modeling solution represent the optimal model’s combination to quantify the single component of the hydrological cycle in any study area (i.e. spatially varying rainfall, snow, evapotranspiration, runoff, root-zone water content and groundwater levels) at any time resolution (i.e. from sub-hourly to yearly).

GEOframe leverage on the Object Modelling system-framework (v3) that allows to connect modelling components to solve a specific hydrological issue together and having many alternative for its mathematical/numerical description. This infrastructure allows adapting the tools to the problems and not viceversa. 

GEOframe has been applied to hydrological simulations from the point scale to large catchments as the Blue Nile, and among those is being deployed to the Po river basin (the largest in Italy), with great detail. GEOframe is open source and built with open-source tools.

Contents of the school

GEOframe contains tens of components that cover rainfall-runoff, evaporation, transpiration, infiltration, terrain analysis tools, interpolation models, calibrations tools. 





The Winter school is about using some of these tools to perform the hydrological budget of catchments. The core rainfall-runoff model are dynamical systems (systems of ordinary differential equations) and the school mainly treats their theory and their use in a contemporary way as summarised in these 7 steps.
Besides the lectures and the hands-on sessions, the Summer School is the occasion for discussion and experience exchange among senior scholars and young researchers.

Participants' background

Admissions are reserved to up to 30, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, young scientists willing to understand hydrological processes and learning the modeling procedures based on the use of the GEOframe tools. Specifically, will study and model infiltration, energy budget, vegetation transpiration, water budget with process-based models
All students are asked to upload a CV and a motivation letter when applying.

Workload and credits

The Winter School, which is to be held in English, consists of 8 hours/day of activities for 8 days. 

The first three days, December 05-07 2022, will be dedicated to the installation of the GEOframe-OMS system tools. Lectures will be brief, dedicated to informatics and the exploiting of the concepts of modeling by components, digital twin Earth. Most of the time will be used for supporting participants’ installations.

The other five days (January 09-13 2023) will cover:
  • Catchment and Hydrologic Response Unit delineation
  • Meteorological variables interpolation with Kriging techniques
  • Short and longwave radiation estimate and simplified evapotranspiration methods
  • Rainfall-Runoff modelling (as explained in these 7 steps) and calibration
Location and timing

University of Trento Polo Mesiano, H1 Room and Online. 
The three days on informatics and installations (December 05-07 2022) will be also online. 
The other days (January 09-13 2023) will be onsite. The time schedule will be 9-13 and 14-18 CET each of the days. Lectures and workout will be recorded and immediately post on the VIMEO Channel of the School. Therefore, they could be followed off line. Special agreement will be arranged for supporting abroad students with fuse issues. 

Participation costs

Subscription to the class is necessary for anyone who want to attend the course. For Researcher, PhD students, and scientists who want the certificate of attendance, the Course costs 180 Euros. The certificate is issued after the presentation of a small project of simulations for which appropriate tutoring will be given during and after the School.

Please visit and register at the official registration form of the school.

The cost of the school is free for Students of the Hydrological Modelling Classes at the University of Trento; for Ph.D. students of the University of Trento DICAM and C3A programs; for the participants of the PRIN Waterstem project; for the participant of the project “Studio delle caratteristiche idrologiche del Distretto del fiume Po mediante l’applicazione della modellistica GEOframe”; for all who wants to participate without having a certificate of GEOframe proficiency. 

Scientific Committee 

Prof. Giuseppe Formetta, Ph.D; Ph.D., Eng. Marialaura Bancheri; Ph.D., Eng. Niccolo' Tubini; Prof. Riccardo Rigon, Ph.D.

Organising Committee

Prof. Giuseppe Formetta, Ph.D; Eng. Concetta D’Amato, Eng. Shima Azimi, Ms. Sc. Martin Morlot, Ing. Daniele Andreis, Ing. Gaia Roati, Ing. Riccardo Busti (the fantastic group of our Ph.D. students), Prof. Riccardo Rigon, Ph.D.

Organising Institutions

  • Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento
  • Center Agriculture Food Environment, University of Trento
  • Institute for Agricultural and Forest Systems in the Mediterranean, National Research Council, Ercolano NA, Italy
Contacts

For further information write to: abouthydrology@google.com, giuseppe.formetta@unitn.it or to the Secretary of the Class dott. Lorena Galante, lorena.galante@unitn.it

Other information

The GSS2023 talks and labs will be recorded and made publicly available during the School for self-training through the GEOframe blog. Information about past Schools can be found here.



Tuesday, June 21, 2022

GSS2022 - June 17 - GEOSPACE 1D and Solute Transport

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This day of the GEOframe Summer School is dedicated to the soil transport in GEOSPACE solving the Advection-Dispersion Equation using the approach presented in Casulli and Zanolli, 2005. 

You can find the GEOframe projects and material at this OSF page.


Fine Art Photo by Luca Chistè, www.lucachiste.it 


Advection Dispersion Equation - Solute Transport 

Casulli, Vincenzo, and Paola Zanolli. 2005. “High Resolution Methods for Multidimensional Advection–diffusion Problems in Free-Surface Hydrodynamics.” Ocean Modelling 10 (1): 137–51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2004.06.007.

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

GSS2022 - June 16 - GEOSPACE 1D and Heat transport in GEOframe



This day of the GEOframe Summer School is dedicated to presenting the GEOSPACE model, the Soil Plant Atmosphere Continuum Estimator model of GEOframe, both the theory and the practical session. It is also dedicated to the derivation of Advection-Dispersion/Diffusion equation and its application to the heat transport in soils. 

You can find all the material at this OSF page

GEOSPACE 1D

Photo courtesy of Luca Chistè (http://http://www.lucachiste.it/)

Heat transport in soils


References:

Dall'Amico, M., Endrizzi, S., Gruber, S., & Rigon, R. J. T. C. (2011). A robust and energy-conserving model of freezing variably-saturated soil. The Cryosphere5(2), 469-484.

Tubini, N., Gruber, S., & Rigon, R. (2021). A method for solving heat transfer with phase change in ice or soil that allows for large time steps while guaranteeing energy conservation. The Cryosphere15(6), 2541-2568.

Tubini, N. and Rigon, R., Implementing the Water, HEat and Transport model in GEOframe WHETGEO-1D v.1.0: algorithms, informatics, design patterns, open science features, and 1D deployment, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2021-163


Tuesday, June 14, 2022

GSS2022 - June 15: WHETGEO 2D and Evapotranspiration Theory

WHETGEO 2D

  • Presenting the .sim file to run the bidimensional solver for Richards-Richardson equation (Vimeo2022)
  • Discussing a bit on the unstructured grid implementation (Vimeo2022).

Courtesy of Luca Chisté (http://www.lucachiste.it/)

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION

A consistent part of root zone and surface water evaporates and returns to the atmosphere to eventually form clouds and precipitation again. The process follows quite complicate routes and is different when happening from liquid surfaces, soil or vegetation (and BTW animals).  In this group of lectures we try to figure out the physical mechanisms that act in the process and give some hint on methods to estimate evaporation and transpiration with physically based models. 


EVAPOTRANSPIRATION WITHIN GEOFRAME (GEOET)

You can find the folder project of GEOET model at this OSF page. Download the .zip file OMS_Project_GEOET_GSS22 before starting.
  • Potential ET estimated with the Priestley-Taylor formula (Vimeo2022)
  • The potential Evapotranspiration estimated with the Penman-Monteith-FAO formula (Vimeo2022)
  • The Stress Factor Estimation (Vimeo2022)
  • Actual Evapotranspiration with Priestley-Taylor and Penman-Monteith-FAO (Vimeo2022)
  • Estimating the Evaporation from Soil and Transpiration with Prospero (Vimeo2022)

    GSS2022 - 13 and 14 June WHETGEO-1D Richardson Richards equation

     

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    This day of the GEOframe Summer School is dedicated to the Richardson-Richards equation, both the theory and the practical session with WHETGEO-1D.

    You can find the material of day one and two at these OSF pages.  Download the .zip files before starting which sill serve day 1 and day 2 of the School. 

    They contain the slides:


    Fine Art Photo by Luca Chistè, www.lucachiste.it


    In the same pages you can find the examples run at the School and explained in the videos. Practical sessions with WHETGEO-1D  complete the first day of the GSS2022. 


    References  

    Tubini, N. and Rigon, R., Implementing the Water, HEat and Transport model in GEOframe WHETGEO-1D v.1.0: algorithms, informatics, design patterns, open science features, and 1D deployment, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2021-163

     

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    Tuesday, May 31, 2022

    GSS2022 - Schedule for 13 - 17 June

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    Fine Art Photo by Luca Chistè, www.lucachiste.it

    June 13- 14

    These daysis mostly dedicated to fill theory of the processes investigated by this School on GEOframe, meaning infiltration in soil, the basics of Richards/Richardson equation to which follow some exercises. The afternoon will be used to discuss issues related to the application of different boundary conditions, different parameterizations of the soil water retention curves.

    June 15:

    This day is dedicated to the bi-dimensional case of the Richardson-Richards equation,to present the evapotranspiration theory and the modelling of evapotranspiration in GEOframe.

    June 16:

    This day will be dedicated to present GEOSPACE-1D and the theory of heat and solute transport.

     

    June 17:

    This day will be dedicated to practice on Advection Dispersion Equation.

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    Wednesday, May 18, 2022

    GSS2022 - DAY 3 - Exercises with Radiation / Glimpses to Programming in GEOframe

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    Radiation energy budget in GEOframe

    Fine Art Photo by Luca Chisté, www.lucachiste.it


    This day was also an opportunity to introduce some glimpses of programming in Java to develop an OMS component using Eclipse and Gradle. Here you can find the videos 
    Thanks for joining these School days and see you in June! Please contact us without hesitation for any issue about the topics of the School. 

    P.S. - For who is interested in using Java, we set up a few lectures of introduction to Java that you can find indexed here.  Other material is discoverable in this OSF webpage.

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    Tuesday, May 17, 2022

    GSS2022 - Day 2 - Gridding and Radiation - May 17

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    •  Gmsh
      • ex00 is the very first tutorial on how to create a mesh for simple domain. The aim are to understand what are the geometrical entities, point, line, curve loop, and plane surface, required to define the computational domain (pdftutorial, Vimeo, Vimeo practice);
      • ex01 shows how to control the mesh refinement (pdftutorial, Vimeo, Vimeo practice);
      • ex02 deals with the creation of subdomains. Subdomains allows the user to assign different sets of parameters to mesh elements, and thinking about solving  the Richards' equation means to include a specific soil stratigraphy  (pdftutorial, Vimeo, Vimeo practice);
      • ex03 addresses the problem of specifying different boundary conditions (pdftutorial, Vimeo, Vimeo practice).
        Here you can find the examples as those presented in the .pdf. We thank Enrico Borinato for his help         in preparing the material for the Gmsh tutorials.

    Fine Art Photo by Luca Chisté (www.lucachiste.it)

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    Monday, May 16, 2022

    GSS2022 - Installations and some practice with OMS3 features - May 16 2022

    We are here indexing the operation and the material of the summer School on GEOframe 2022, dealing with Soil-Plant-Atmosphere interactions. The first day is dedicated to Installations. They are not that different from those of the Winter School 2022 and you can refer also to those as guide.

    Fine Art Photo by Luca Chistè, Caldonazzo Lake (www.lucachiste.it)

    The whole material can be found also here on OSF.  Please go in the Material Folder there and download all the files. 

    Some practice with OMS3 features
    Supplemental  material
    • Look this video if you want to know a little more about Digital Earth Twins and Hydrology
    Index

    Wednesday, January 19, 2022

    Learn to model Soil-Plant-Atmosphere interactions with GEOframe, Summer School 2022

     GEOframe Summer School 2022 

    On site and Online - June13 - June 17, 2022

    Online -  Installations May 16 - May 18, 2022

     

    Scientific Committee and Leading Institutions: Prof. Riccardo Rigon, Ph.D.;  Prof. Giuseppe Formetta, Ph.D; Ing. Niccolò Tubini Ph.D., Ing. Concetta D’Amato, Ing. Marialaura Bancheri, Ph.D.

     

    Partners:

    Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento

    Center Agriculture Food Environment, University of Trento

    Institute for Agricultural and Forest Systems in the Mediterranean, National Research Council, Ercolano NA, Italy

     

    CONTENTS

    The  Earth’s  Critical  Zone  (CZ)  is  defined  as  the  heterogeneous,  near  surface  environment  in  which  complex  interactions involving rock, soil, water, air, and living organisms regulate the natural habitat and determine the availability of life-sustaining resources (National Research Council, 2001). Clear interest in studying the CZ is spurred on by ever-increasing pressure due to the growth in human population and climatic changes.

     

    Main topics will embrace the water flow (and heat transport) in porous media, the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum, and inverse problems. The aim of the course is to enable participants to run their own simulations with the GEOframe tools prepared to simulate the critical zone. They are process-based (e.g. Fatichi et al, 2016) tools, whose ambition is to simulate the processes of infiltration, heat transport and evaporation and transpiration. The GSS2021 deals mainly with the 1D and 2D tools called WHETGEO (Water, Heat and Transport in GEOframe) 1D and 2D, GEO-ET (evaporation and transpiration in GEOframe) and GEOSPACE (Soil-Plants-Atmosphere Continuum Estimator in GEOframe). 

     

    Besides the lectures and the hands-on sessions, the Summer School is the occasion for discussion and experience exchange among senior scholars and young researchers.

     

    The School will be onsite and online on the Zoom platform.

    You can find here the materials of the previous GEOframe Summer School GSS2021. 


    To be enrolled to the School, please write to abouthydrology@gmail.com with subject: GSS2022 subscription. 

    PARTICIPANTS' BACKGROUND

    Admissions are reserved to up to 30, PhD students and postdoctoral students, young researchers willing to learn the use of the GEOframe tools envisioned for the study of infiltration, energy budget, vegetation transpiration, water budget with process-based models

    All students are asked to upload a CV and a motivation letter when applying.

    WORKLOAD AND CREDITS

    The Summer School which is to be held in English, consists of 6 hours/day of activities for 6 days. The first two days,16-18 of May, cover the installation of the GEOframe-OMS system tools and lectures about the design and general characteristics of the system and to ancillary tools use like Jupyter Notebook and GMSH, the tool used to create and edit unstructured grids eventually used in the course.  

    The other 5 days will cover simulation of infiltration with WHETGEO-1D and 2D, evporation and transpiration with the Prospero model, and with the GEOSPACE system. There will be lectures on the hydrological processes implemented and the illustration of use cases. 

    LOCATION

    Due to the Covid-19 emergency all the activities will be held both via Zoom and on-site at the University of Trento.

     




    PARTICIPATION COSTS

    The cost of this edition is free but subscription is necessary to receive the information to participate. For who need ECTS credits, the certificate is issued after the presentation of a small project of covering simulations for which appropriate tutoring will be given during and after the School. (Future Schools will cost 216 euros.)

    CONTACTS

    For further information write to: abouthydrology@gmail.com writing an email with subject: GSS2022.

     

    OTHER INFORMATION

     

    The GSS2022 talks and labs will be recorded and made publicly available during the School for self-training through the GEOframe blog (http://geoframe.blogspot.com). 

    Foreseen schedule

     

    May 16:  Mostly about Earth digital twins, OMS3, Installations

    These days are dedicated to those who never approached the GEOframe system and pursue the understanding of  how it works. Who already knows how GEOframe works or have already installed it for different purposes than those of this School, can skip them

    May 17 - Gridding with GMSH and something about Radiation

    These days are dedicated to present the radiation energy budget, to download remote sensing data and to learn how create a mesh with GMSH.

    May 18 - Radiation Exercise and implementing a simple OMS3 component

    The work on radiation was instantiated with some simulation with the tools existing in GEOframe. Eventually some work was done in implementing a simple "Hallo World" component by using the Eclipse IDE and Gradle.


    June 13 to 17 - WHETEGEO and GEOSPACE

    The week gives a complete overview of the WHETGEO/GEOSPACE System. Please find the complete schedule at the link.


    Acknowledgements

    This Summer School was partially supported by the WATZON and WATERSTEM PRIN PROJECT.

     

    Specific Documentation

    The specific documentation regards papers and thesis written on the GEOframe components used in this School. Other literature, of general interest,  is provided within the presentations given during the course. Practical documentation for any of the tasks is provided by means of Jupyter Notebooks, of which the general ones are reported below.

     


    Friday, January 14, 2022

    GWS2022 Day 5: Hydrometric signatures and satellite data

     

    Combinazioni, Tullio Pericoli, 2021

    This day of the GWS2022 is dedicated to: 


    GWS2022 Day 4: Modeling the Hydrological cycle with GEOframe-NewAge

    Tullio Pericoli, 2014

    This day of the GWS2022 is dedicated to: 

    • Representing Models with the Petri net (slide, video)

    • GEOframe NewAge (slide, video)
      • Commenting the sim file (video)
      • GEOframe NewAge Excercise I (video)
      • GEOframe NewAge Excercise II (video)


    • GEOframe NewAge Set-up (slide)