Hydrology and water resources management

PhD program in Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Curriculum in Fluid Dynamics and Environmental Engineering
Theme: Hydrology and water resources management

The topics covered are:

  • Understanding, monitoring and forecasting of hydrological extremes (floods and droughts; extent, frequency and intensity, uncertainty estimation and data assimilation)
  • Urban hydrology (drainage sustainable restoration of natural processes, surface run-off)
  • Management of water resources
  • Hydraulic engineering and systems
  • Effects of variability and climate change
  • Water and ecosystems (soil-plant-atmosphere interaction, eco-hydrology, water and food)

The researchers involved in this theme are: Ilaria Gnecco, Luca Lanza, Anna Palla, Giorgio Roth

Relevant publications

  • Pollock, M.D., O'Donnell, G., Quinn, P., Dutton, M., Black, A., Wilkinson, M.E., Colli, M., Stagnaro, M., Lanza, L.G., Lewis, E., Kilsby, C.G., O'Connell, P.E. Quantifying and Mitigating Wind-Induced Undercatch in Rainfall. Water Resources Research. Volume 54, Issue 6, Pages 3863-3875, 2018.
  • Gnecco, I., Palla, A. and La Barbera P. A dimensionless approach for the runoff peak assessment: Effects of the rainfall event structure. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22, 943-956. 2018.
  • Colli, M., Pollock, M,. Stagnaro, M., Lanza, L.G., Dutton, M. and O'Connell, E. A Computational Fluid-Dynamics Assessment of the Improved Performance of Aerodynamic Rain Gauges. Water Resources ResearchVolume 54, Issue 2, February 2018, Pages 779-796. 2018.
  • Gnecco, G., Morisi, R., Roth, G., Sanguineti, M., Taramasso, A.C. Supervised and semi-supervised classifiers for the detection of flood-prone areas Soft Computing. 21(13), pp. 3673-3685. 2017.
  • Palla A., Gnecco I e La Barbera P. The impact of domestic rainwater harvesting systems in storm water runoff mitigation at the urban block scale. Journal of Environmental Management, 191, 297-305. 2017.
  • Telfah, D.B., Halasheh, M., Ribbe, L., Roth, G. Performance assessment of commercial principles in water services provision. WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment. Volume 220, Pages 25-36. 2017.
  • Colli, M., Lanza, L.G., Rasmussen, R., Thériault, J.M. The collection efficiency of shielded and unshielded precipitation gauges. Part I: CFD airflow modeling. Journal of Hydrometeorology.Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 231-243, 2016.
  • Palla, A., Gnecco, I. Hydrologic modeling of Low Impact Development systems at the urban catchment scale. Journal of Hydrology, 528, 361-368. 2015.
Ultimo aggiornamento 31 Maggio 2019