Dear GEOFrame Winter School 2025 attendees,
below you can find the link to the material to download for the third day of the school.
Radiation:
Dear GEOFrame Winter School 2025 attendees,
below you can find the link to the material to download for the second day of the school.
Geomorphological analysis of a river basin:
Dear GEOFrame Winter School 2025 attendees,
below you can find the link to the material to download for the first day of the school.
Hydrological digital twins
Software installations:
Can we better (more accurately) estimate subdaily extreme rainfall in ungauged locations?
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
In recent years, the frequency of extreme events like floods and droughts, which can cause severe environmental, social, and economic damage, has increased due to climate change and environmental alterations. In response to these challenges, the Po River Basin District Authority (AdBPo) initiated the implementation of the GEOframe modelling system across the entire district in 2021, in collaboration with the GCU-M (Gruppo di Coordinamento Unificato-Magre). The goal was to enhance the existing numerical models for water resource management, providing more accurate quantification and forecasting of spatial and temporal water availability across the Po River Basin, thereby improving overall planning and decision-making processes.
The GEOframe Winter School 2025 (GWS2025) will be will be held in Trento University (Department of civil, environmental and mechanical engineering) on
Participants of the school with GEOframe crew.
Dear GEOFrame users,
please help us (GEOFrame developers) to gain your feedback on
The most crucial guideline in the GEOframe framework is the implementation of open-source models.
Research must be open. Each member's knowledge must be shared.
To this end, Concetta D'Amato conducted a concise introduction on Java modeling and the use of GitHub to update the GEOframe GitHub page.
At this link, you can find the videos recorded of the lessons in which she answered to this questions:
Eclipse - JAVA
1. How to structure the code?
2. How to make an abstract class and what is it?
3. Is there a naming convention in the project (in addition to the classical Java naming convention)?
4. How to create a test class from the main java class?
5. How to export the project for use in OMS?
6. How to connect the components in Java and OMS?
7. How to use already available tools like readers/writers, solvers, etc.?
8. How to define the things inside the Gradle build file necessary for managing the project dependencies?
Git-Hub
9. How do I configure a GitHub repository in the 'geoframecomponents' group? (e.g. .gitignore, license…)?
10. How to create a fork from original codes available in GitHub?
11. How to update GitHub after changes in the local code?
We are pleased to announce the first summer school on GEOframe Modelling system in India, which will be held on site at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India, from July 25 to 31, 2024.
Deadline for Registration: July 10, 2024
Click here for Registration
The primary objective of this school is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the principles of physical hydrology and to model various components of the hydrological cycle, including rainfall, snow, evapotranspiration, runoff, root-zone water content, and groundwater flow using the GEOframe tools.
The summer School is open to working professionals from local authorities (interested PhD students and Postdocs can also apply) who are interested in gaining insights into hydrological processes and learning modelling procedures using the GEOframe tools. During the program, we will explore different modelling solutions available in the GEOframe system to accurately quantify catchment water budgets.
For more information about the school, check out the attached brochure by clicking on the logo above.
Team from the University of Trento and IIT Bombay
Recently, I participated in the National Congress of Agrometeorology in L'Aquila, held from June 5 to 7, 2024. The congress is an annual event organized by the Agrometeorology Italian Society - AIAM. This event brought together Italian experts and enthusiasts from various fields of agrometeorology to highlight the latest research and experiences in the field.
The title of the event was "Innovative Approaches to Support Agricultural Production in an Evolving Climate Context," and my contribution was a presentation in the session "Innovative Methods for Estimating Water Requirements and Irrigation Management." My presentation, titled "Quantifying Water Availability in Agricultural Areas Using GEOframe: The Case of the Noce River Basin," focused on how GEOframe can be applied to basins with agricultural districts (Val di Non - Trentino, Italy) to extract useful information for water management during drought periods.
In the presentation, I highlighted the role of snow water equivalent in recent droughts that affected the region, emphasizing its importance for planning water availability in the summer. I also discussed the complexity of the spatiotemporal variation of root zone water content.
The GEOframe crew participated with two oral and one poster contributions at the Giornate dell'Idrologia 2024, held in Udine from 24-26 June 2024.
It was a good time for Italian researchers to share the latest advances in hydrology, reaching out to all possible facets, from extreme events to irrigation and water management under climatic emergencies, highlighting the hydrological community's response.
Concetta D'Amato presented "Addressing water stress on grass evapotranspiration rate: the "Shelter" experiment" Concetta D'Amato, Paolo Benettin, Andrea Rinaldo and Riccardo Rigon.
You can download the slides of Concetta's presentation here.
Gaia Roati presented "The implementation of the GEOframe system in the Po River District – analysis of water availability and scarcity in the Piemonte region" Gaia Roati, Giuseppe Formetta, John Mohd Wani, Silvano Pecora, Marco Brian, Paolo Leoni, Francesco Tornatore, Daniele Andreis, Matteo dall’Amico, Stefano Tasin, Riccardo Rigon
You can download the slides of Gaia's presentation here.
Geomorphology and hydrometers of the Po River basin
Giuseppe Formetta presented a poster by Riccardo Busti in collaboration with the University of Calabria, with the title "Exploring hydrological dynamics in layered pyroclastic soils by combining laboratory and field experiments with a physically-based numerical model" Riccardo Busti, Giuseppe Formetta and Giovanna Capparelli.
Dear User or dear Explorer,
Here we aim to summarize some of the material related to GEOframe-NewAGE. The main source is certainly the GEOframe blog:
However, for a logical introduction, it may be useful to start here:
The most recent material on GEOframe-NewAGE is from the latest school, accessible from this point:
Another useful resource is provided through hydrological modeling tutorials:
GEOframe's infrastructure is based on the Object Modelling System v3:
Various papers and applications related to GEOframe have been written and developed; you can find them here:
For any further assistance, the GEOframe crew can be reached at geoframe-schools@googlegroups.com.
Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Next Winter School on GEOframe-NewAGE will be in January 2025 from 7 to11 in Trento University. Next Summer School (on Land-Atmosphere interactions will be June 2-6 2025.
Today topic is Evaporation and Transpiration
