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.

Survey for gaining users and attendees feedback on GEOFrame - Schools

 Dear GEOFrame users, 

please help us (GEOFrame developers) to gain your feedback on 

• GEOFrame schools 
• GEOFrame framework usage: difficulties you encountered, suggestions for improving the single parts of the code
• Potential area you would like to be developed and how 

To this LINK you can find the anonymous survey, which would take less than 5 minutes of your time and will be very helpful for the GEOFrame schools and framework future development.

Pills of Java Modeling on Eclipse and Git Hub basic example

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?

GEOframe summer school at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India [July 25 to 31, 2024]

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

AIAM Conference 2024: GEOframe's Contribution to Agricultural Water Planning and Managemen

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.

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Here you can find the conference proceedings with the extended abstracts and the presentation.

GEOframe contributions at Giornate dell'Idrologia 2024 - Udine

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. 

Picture of EPFL lysimeters used in the "Shelter" experiment

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.

eomorphology and the

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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. 

GEOframe information for beginners

 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:

• The GEOframe blog (oops, you are already here) https://geoframe.blogspot.com/

However, for a logical introduction, it may be useful to start here:

• GEOframe Essentials 

The most recent material on GEOframe-NewAGE is from the latest school, accessible from this point:

• The 2024 GEOframe Winter School

By following the links for each day, you can download the slides and watch the lesson videos. 

• and previous Schools and material

Another useful resource is provided through hydrological modeling tutorials:

• Hydrological Modelling 2023

GEOframe's infrastructure is based on the Object Modelling System v3:

• OMS3 essentials

Various papers and applications related to GEOframe have been written and developed; you can find them here:

• GEOframe blogs posts in AboutHydrology

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.