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.

 


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