GEOframe Monsoon School - July 25-31, 2024 IIT Bombay, Mumbai India

The main goal of this school at IIT Bombay, was to familiarize participants with various aspects of hydrological modelling, with a specific emphasis on practical training using GEOframe and hydrological modelling tools developed at IIT Bombay. The program also included a one-day session featuring guest lectures and discussions on the future and advancement in hydrological modelling. 

Hydrological modelling is crucial for managing water resources, predicting water flow, flood inundation, and assessing climate change impacts. Modern computers enable simulations across extensive spatial and temporal scales. Developed at the University of Trento, Italy, GEOframe is a state-of-the-art system for hydrological analysis and modelling. It offers a suite of specialized solutions, each tailored to quantify different components of the hydrological cycle—rainfall, snow, evapotranspiration, runoff, root-zone water content, and groundwater amount—across any study area and time resolution. GEOframe's versatility has been proven in diverse applications, from point-scale studies to large catchments like the Blue Nile. It is currently being deployed with great detail in the Po River basin, Italy's largest river system. GEOframe is open source and built with open-source tools. 

                                                       Participants of the school with GEOframe crew. 

Organising Committee/Tutors:

Prof. Ricardo Rigon, University of Trento
Prof. Basudev Biswal, IIT Bombay
Prof. Giuseppe Formetta, University of Trento
Dr. John Mohd Wani, University of Trento
Dr. Concetta D'Amato, University of Trento
Sameer B. Uttarwar, University of Trento
Dr. Prashant Istalkar, IIT Bombay
Akshay Kadu, IIT Bombay
Dnyanesh Borase, IT Bombay
Ekant Sarkar, IIT Bombay
Saba Shakeel Raina, IT Bombay

 

Partners:
Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento
Center Agriculture Food Environment, University of Trento

GISE Hub, Geospatial Information Science & Engineering, IIT Bombay

Course Programme:

July 25 - General Overview about Hydrology and Modelling

• An overview of catchment processes hydrology between physics and modelling (slides, video)
• Introduction to GEOframe system and installation instructions (material, video)

July 26 - Geomorphology and Basin Delineation

• OSF Introduction (part 1. part 2, part 3, video)
• Geomorphology and basin delineation using GEOframe Input Builder (slides, material, video)

July 27 - Energy Budget and Kriging

• Theory on Shortwave and longwave radiation estimates (slides 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
• Radiation estimation with GEOframe (material, video)
• Spatial interpolation of meteorological data (slides 1, 2, 3, video)
• Kriging estimate with GEOframe / Hands-on training (slides, material, video)
• Introduction to available gridded meteorological datasets (material, video)

July 28 - Steps in Hydrological Modelling & Evapotranspiration & GEOframe-NewAGE

• The seven steps on Hydrological modeling (slides 1, 2, 3, video)
• Evapotranspiration: From advanced theory to current simplifications (slides, video)
• ET estimation and sim file generation / Hands-on training (material 1, 2, video)
• The Embedded Reservoir Model (slides 1, 2, video)

July 29 - Rainfall-Runoff Modelling

• Challenges in calibration modelling (slides 1, 2, video)
• Introduction to creation of sim files for running rainfall runoff model in GEOframe (slides, material, video)

July 30 - Rainfall-Runoff Modelling with GEOframe

• The GEOframe story crew (slides, video)
• Visualizing subbasin network from topology files (material, video) 

July 31 - Workshop “Advances in hydrological modelling”

• Digital twin concept (slides, video)

During the school, the group of Prof. Basudev Biswal, IIT Bombay, India presented their rainfall-runoff model, i.e., the Dynamic Budyko model (material, video).

Additional material on the same topics can be found at the GEOframe School Index which contains links to the previous Schools and the Courses in Hydrological modelling. All the material is in English, obviously.