GEOframe Winter School 2025 – Registration link

Dear All,

this is to remind that the seventh edition of the Winter School on GEOframe-NewAge will take place at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical engineering of the University of Trento on December 02-04, 2024 and January 07-10, 2025.

The school aims to help you in understanding the basic principles of physical hydrology and modeling each component of the hydrological cycle (i.e. rainfall, snow, evapotranspiration, runoff, root-zone water content and groundwater flow). 

The school is open to PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, young scientists, and local authorities professionals willing to understand hydrological processes and learning the modeling procedures based on the use of the GEOframe tools. We will explore different the modelling solutions available in the GEOframe system to quantify catchment water budget.

!!!! You can register your attendance at this link !!!!

You can find any information about the school at this link

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) and the Adige river basin, with high temporal and spatial resolution. For the latter two applications, distributable modeling solutions are available, calibrated and validated against measured data (e.g. runoff). GEOframe is open source and built with open-source tools.

The GEOframe crew

 

Quick GEOframe Collection of Articles and Links

If you are here, probably it's because someone has given you this link, or maybe you're looking for more information about the GEOframe system. If you don't know what we're talking about: GEOframe is a framework for hydrological modeling. You can find more information in the post GEOframe Essentials. This GEOframe blog, along with the one by Prof. Riccardo Rigon, AboutHydrology, is the main reference for the user community, where you can find all the necessary information. A good starting point is the article GEOframe information for beginners. The core of the framework, i.e., the code for the various models (or modules such as radiation, evapotranspiration, kriging, etc.), is available on the GEOframe GitHub page with a GPL license. These modules are run within an OMS console. To be used, they need to be defined together with their inputs and outputs and connected to other modules using scripts saved in files with the ".sim" extension, commonly referred to as sim files, usually saved in the "simulation" folder of the project. In addition, the GEOframe system includes several Jupyter notebooks useful for the creation of sim files, for the preparation of inputs (e.g., creating time series for rainfall and temperature), and for the visualization of outputs. In projects, these notebooks are typically found in the "Jupyter" folder.

A template for a GEOframe project is available on Open Science Framework (OSF) by searching, for example, for the latest Winter School—specifically the year 2024 edition, where the presentations are also available. The notebooks for preparing kriging, radiation, and evapotranspiration can be found in this Jupyter folder, and those for the hydrological model in this folder. Other models are explained during the Summer School. You can check out the materials from the GEOframe Summer School at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India (July 2024), available here or here. Some examples of model usage can be found in the following recent presentations and papers (in chronological order, from most recent):

• The implementation of the GEOframe system in the Po river district – analysis of water availability and scarcity
• AIAM Conference 2024: GEOframe's Contribution to Agricultural Water Planning and Management
• GEOframe contributions at Giornate dell'Idrologia 2024 - Udine
• Formetta, G. and Morlot, M.: Compound heatwave and drought hazard quantification in a large anthropized alpine basin., EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-15136
• Morlot, M., Kay, A. L., and Formetta, G.: Climate change impact on the hydrological processes over an alpine basin: the Adige River, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-11834
• Morlot, Martin, Riccardo Rigon, and Giuseppe Formetta. 2023. “Hydrological Digital Twin Model of a Large Anthropized Italian Alpine Catchment: The Adige River Basin.” Journal of Hydrology, December, 130587
• Azimi, Shima, et al. “On Understanding Mountainous Carbonate Basins of the Mediterranean Using Parsimonious Modeling Solutions.”
• Bouabdelli, S., et al.: Influence of evapotranspiration formulation on long-term trends (1980-2022) of the Adige river basin hydrological water budget., EGU General Assembly 2023

You can get further help via the mailing lists, either the user list (https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/geoframe-schools) or the developer list (https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/geoframe-components-developers), depending on your needs.