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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:
School Announcement and general program
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.
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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:
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.
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
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.
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.
You can find all the material at this OSF page.
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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.
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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:
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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
Previous material of the GSS2022 (Installations) - Next day material - Index
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June 13- 14
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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Radiation energy budget in GEOframe
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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.
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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.
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.
Bottazzi, Transpiration Theory and the Prospero component of GEOframe, M, Ph.D. Thesis
Casulli, Vincenzo, and Zanolli, P. 2010. “A Nested Newton-Type Algorithm for Finite Colume Methods Solving Richards’ Equation in Mixed Form.” SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing 32 (4): 2225–73.
Tubini, N., Theoretical and Numerical Tools for Studying the Critical Zone from Plots to Catchments, Ph.D. Thesis
Tubini, Niccolò, and Riccardo Rigon. 2021. “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.
This day of the GWS2022 is dedicated to:
