The Water Management in the Present Century
Water covers 2/3 of the earth surface, but it is mainly available as saline water (approximately 97%). The reaming amount is partially locked up in ice and glaciers, while the…
Modelling Vegetation Patterns in Semiarid Environments
The aim of this work is to deepen our understanding on the mutual relationship between climate, vegetation and soil water budget within an ecohydrological framework. To this end a coupled…
Closure to “ Detection of Flood-Prone Areas Using Digital Elevation Models ” by Salvatore Manfreda, Margherita Di Leo, and Aurelia Sole
The discussers address a number of interesting questions on the original paper. The writers strongly believe that this kind of discussion represents an extraordinary opportunity to exchange ideas and comments…
A physically based approach for the estimation of root-zone soil moisture from surface measurements
In the present work, we developed a new formulation for the estimation of the soil moisture in the root zone based on the measured value of soil moisture at the…
Influence of infiltration and soil storage capacity on the skewness of the annual maximum flood peaks in a theoretically derived distribution
Understanding the spatial variability of key parameters of flood probability distributions represents a strategy to provide insights on hydrologic similarity and building probabilistic models able to reduce the uncertainty in…
Effects of morphology on global solar radiation and potential evapotranspiration
In this work we present an application of two different models for the calculation of extraterrestrial solar radiation and main components of surface radiation balance under clear sky conditions. These…
On the use of AMSU-based products for the description of soil water content at basin scale
Characterizing the dynamics of soil moisture fields is a key issue in hydrology, offering a strategy to improve our understanding of complex climate-soil-vegetation interactions. Apart from in-situ measurements and hydrological…
Influence of soil parameters on the skewness coe ffi cient of the annual maximum flood peaks
Understanding the spatial variability of key parameters of flood probability distributions represents a strategy to provide insights on hydrologic similarity and building probabilistic models able to reduce the uncertainty in…
Flood quantiles estimation based on theoretically derived distributions: regional analysis in Southern Italy
A regional probabilistic model for the estimation of medium-high return period flood quantiles is presented. The model is based on the use of theoretically derived probability distributions of annual maximum…
Regional analysis of runoff thresholds behaviour in Southern Italy based on theoretically derived distributions
The analysis of runoff thresholds and, more in general, the identification of main mechanisms of runoff generation controlling the flood frequency distribution is investigated, by means of theoretically derived flood…
Detection of Flood-Prone Areas Using Digital Elevation Models
The availability of new technologies for the measurement of surface elevation has addressed the lack of high-resolution elevation data, which has led to an increase in the attraction of automated…
Confronto fra i tempi di ritorno di piogge e portate di rilevante entità
Nel presente lavoro, viene analizzato il comportamento dei bacini idrografici durante eventi di piena per approfondire le dinamiche afflussi/deflussi. Le analisi sono condotte mediante simulazione idrologica in continuo utilizzando il…
Best Fit and Selection of Theoretical Flood Frequency Distributions Based on Different Runoff Generation Mechanisms
Theoretically derived distributions allow the detection of dominant runoff generation mechanisms as key signatures of hydrologic similarity. We used two theoretically derived distributions of flood peak annual maxima: the first…
Risultati delle indagini sperimentali condotte sul bacino Fiumarella di Corleto
Nella presente memoria vengono riportati alcuni dei risultati ottenuti dall’analisi dei dati idrologici monitorati all’interno del bacino sperimentale della Fiumarella di Corleto. Tale bacino è dotato di una strumentazione di…
Preface Coupled ecological–hydrological processes
The papers in this issue represent a selection of the presentations made at the session entitled “Climate-soil and vegetation interactions in ecological–hydrological processes” of the European Geophysical Union General Assembly.…