The activities of the Hydrology and Water Resources Management (WRM) Area are centered on the development and application of numerical models and other computational tools for the analysis of environmental data and for the simulation of the dynamics of hydrological and meteorological state variables. These tools help us to improve our understanding of fundamental hydrometeorological phenomena and to better manage our precious water resources.
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AGIP-Subsidenza (ENI-AGIP) Coupling effects between gas/water dynamics and porous matrix stresses for surface subsidence phenomena
ESO (European Southern Observatory) Feasibility study of a meteorological prediction model for the ESO observatories in Chile
INT-Siccità (EU INTERREG IIC) Development and validation of a prototype monthly water balance bulletin for hydrologic drought analysis
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Atmosphere – land surface – subsurface interactions: |
MURST-CIPE hydro Modeling for water resources management at regional and basin scales
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AVI-Sea (EU AVICENNE) Water resource management tools for problems of seawater intrusion in coastal aquifers
Falde-Costiere (RAS L.R. 19/96) Soil and aquifer degradation from seawater intrusion in the coastal areas of Tunisia, Morocco, and Sardinia
INTAS (EU Conc. Action) Mass exchange processes in multiple porosity media for saline water and brine transport in aquifers
MURST-CIPE gw Modeling of density-dependent phenomena for problems of groundwater contamination
MURST via PST Advanced technologies for water resources management: Environmental modeling software
RaCoS (EU INCO) Radionuclide contamination of soils and groundwater at the Lake Karachai (Russia) and Chernobyl (Ukraine) sites
SWIMED (EU INCO) Sustainable Water Management in Mediteranean Coastal Aquifers: Recharge Assessment and Modelling Issues
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Optimizing the use of models and observation (eg remote sensing) data: |
ASI-Cassini (ASI) Measurement of meteo-climatic variables at modeling grid scale via the Cassini radar
ASI-SAR (ASI) SAR image analysis and hydrologic modeling for soil moisture estimation
DAUFIN (EU FP5) Data assimilation for improved river basin water resources management
Envisat (ESA) Large scale soil moisture mapping from medium resolution ASAR imagery
HYREC (EU FP4) Spatial and temporal soil moisture mapping from ERS-1 SAR data and macroscale hydrologic modeling
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Combining models and IT tools to support water policy: |
MULINO (EU FP5) Decision support system for sustainable use of catchment water resources
SAGA (EU Concerted Action) Integration between agricultural and water management policies for aquifer use in southern Europe
Marino Marrocu (Area leader)