AdBPo GEOframe short course (18-02-2021): Modelling rainfall-runoff (and more)

 Now it is arrived the moment to talk about the traditional rainfall-runoff modelling. At first it looks like the usual soup. However the difference is the same that exists from a contemporary electric, auto-piloted car and the good-old Ford T. 

The pivot of all is, obviously, the informatics of OMS3 and of the today hardwares, that allow for multiple solutions and many degree of accuracy and investigation capabilities that were not allowed in the past. Nevertheless some new conceptual tools and theoretical contents emerged that also make the difference. 

Here the slides:

• Some possible GEOframe configurations. (Vimeo 2021 Italian)
• Additions and Variations (Vimeo 2021 Italian)
• Some simplified snow models (Vimeo 2021 Italian)
• Running the rainfall-runoff models in GEOframe
• Calibrating the rainfall-runoff models in GEOframe

More complete material (in English, can be found here and here)

The previous talk

The first talk

GWS2021 - Day 5 - Rainfall Runoff

Finally we go to the core of the School, the modelling of the Hydrological cycle. However treating the geomorphology and the inputs was hydrological modelling too. According to the rule garbage in - garbage out, whatever the core models are, their result cannot be any good if the inputs are wasted.

• What are models in Hydrology ? (Vimeo2021, YouTube2020)
• Hydrological Dynamical Systems (Vimeo 2021)
• The representation of Hydrological Dynamical System  (Vimeo 2021)
• Further readings: a blogpost from EGU

• A few reservoirs connected together (single catchment/node)
• Vimeo2021
• Quickly browsing the .sim file of these few reservoirs
• The Net3 Graph  
• Vimeo2021
• Another view of the Net3 graph (for sending in parallel various independent measurements (Vimeo2021)

• A little about models calibration
• Generalities 
• VIMEO 2021
• Illustrating the .sim file of a subset of the Embedded Reservoir models
• VIMEO 2021

General references to Rainfall-Runoff

Beven, K. (2012), Ranfall Runoff, the primer, Wiley-Blackwell

Rigon, R., Bancheri, M., Formetta, G., & de Lavenne, A. (2015). The geomorphological unit hydrograph from a historical-critical perspective. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, http://doi.org/10.1002/esp.3855

References besides the one already used

For seeing how to represent lumped hydrological models (you can give a look to this paper here)

• Abera, W.W. (2016), Modelling water budget at a basin scale using JGrass-NewAge system. PhD thesis, University of Trento
• Bancheri, Marialaura (2017) A flexible approach to the estimation of water budgets and its connection to the travel time theory. PhD thesis, University of Trento.
• Bancheri, M., Serafin, F., & Rigon, R. (2019). The Representation of Hydrological Dynamical Systems Using Extended Petri Nets (EPN). Water Resources Research, 8(01), 159–27. http://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025099
• Bancheri, M., Rigon, R., & Manfreda, S. (2020). The GEOframe-NewAge Modelling System Applied in a Data Scarce Environment. Water, 12(1), 86–24. http://doi.org/10.3390/w12010086
• Formetta, Giuseppe (2013) Hydrological modelling with components: the OMS3 NewAge-JGrass system. PhD thesis, University of Trento.
• Formetta, G., Antonello, A., Franceschi, S., David, O., & Rigon, R. (2014). Hydrological modelling with components: A GIS-based open source framework, 55(C), 190–200. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.01.019
• Patta, C, Costruzione di un modello idrologico di stima della disponibilità idrica in area pedemontana, Tesi di laurea (in Italian), Politecnico di Torino, 2018
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• For open questions about rainfall-runoff see also the Meledrio Posts.

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Material for the GEOframe Winter School - Rainfall-Runoff

Here we are introducing some modules for rainfall runoff modelling present in GEOframe. Some of them where actually refined for the Civil Protection of the Basilicata Region.

Schedule

• Deconstructing the catchment (YouTube video)
• The Embedded Reservoir Model (YouTube video). On this I was maybe not clearly enough. ERM in itself is not clear on the fact that ERM is not a model in the traditional sense. It is actually the composition of four components. For instance, the runoff one is a simple non linear reservoir. Working with sim files, we can rearrange them also in different ways and obtain different "modelling solutions"
• TheNet3 Infrastructure (YoutTube Video)
• LUCA (YouTube video)
• Examples of Application
• The Posina Catchment (Abera et al., 2017a)(YouTube video)
• The Blue Nile (Abera et al. 2017b) (YouTube video)
• The Basilicata Civil Protection (YouTube video)

Exercises

• The set of sim files and the Jupyter notebook are here
• The Python script by Christian Massari to create automatically the required subfolders. It is here.

General references to Rainfall-Runoff

Beven, K. (2012), Ranfall Runoff, the primer, Wiley-Blackwell

Rigon, R., Bancheri, M., Formetta, G., & de Lavenne, A. (2015). The geomorphological unit hydrograph from a historical-critical perspective. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, http://doi.org/10.1002/esp.3855

References besides the one already used

For seeing how to represent lumped hydrological models (you can give a look to this paper here)

Abera, W.W. (2016), Modelling water budget at a basin scale using JGrass-NewAge system. PhD thesis, University of Trento

Bancheri, Marialaura (2017) A flexible approach to the estimation of water budgets and its connection to the travel time theory. PhD thesis, University of Trento.

Formetta, Giuseppe (2013) Hydrological modelling with components: the OMS3 NewAge-JGrass system. PhD thesis, University of Trento.

Formetta, G., Antonello, A., Franceschi, S., David, O., & Rigon, R. (2014). Hydrological modelling with components: A GIS-based open source framework, 55(C), 190–200. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.01.019

Patta, C, Costruzione di un modello idrologico di stima della disponibilità idrica in area pedemontana, Tesi di laurea (in Italian), Politecnico di Torino, 2018

For open questions about rainfall-runoff see also the Meledrio Posts.

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