The protection of Europe’s precious freshwater resources and the implementation of measures that promote their sustainable use are complex tasks that demand improvements in our scientific understanding of the fundamental hydrological processes that act at the catchments scale. At such large scales there is not yet a modelling approach that unifies, in a rigorous physically based sense, the stream channel, land surface, soil, and groundwater components of the hydrologic cycle. Developing, implementing, and testing such a unifying and integrative framework is the focus of the research being proposed. The framework builds upon previous Directives related to Community water policy, that require integrated management of surface water and groundwater in terms of quality and quantity through Management Plans covering the whole of a river basin. On the technological level, the DAUFIN project addresses two of the most important challenges in hydrology and water resources management, namely (i) how to use and incorporate various types of data, including in-site measurements and remote sensing, into models in order to improve our understanding of the hydrological cycle at various scales and to make water resources management more efficient; (ii) the need for a general purpose physically based modelling framework applicable to catchments across various scales and capable of treating in a unified way channel, surface, and subsurface (saturated and unsaturated zone) processes. The project represents a first large scale attempt on truly European river basins to integrate commonly available data sources, using predominantly existing data sets, within an rigorous systems approach for the study of hydrological processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"gruppo":[],"class_list":["post-19770","projects","type-projects","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"title":"Data assimilation within a unifying modeling framework for improved river basin water resources management","acronym":"DAUFIN","project_uuid":"c7e1e3ba-6418-11e4-917d-127e8ddc4b30","start_date":"01\/01\/1999","end_date":"01\/01\/2002","funder":"EU FP5","partners":"\n
| Nome<\/th>\n | Nazione<\/th>\n | Ruolo<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
|---|---|---|
| WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY<\/a><\/td>\n | The Netherlands<\/td>\n | Coordinator<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT<\/a><\/td>\n | The Netherlands<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| ENTE AUTONOMO DEL FLUMENDOSA<\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| REGIONAL WATER DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY IN WROCLAW<\/td>\n | Poland<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE<\/a><\/td>\n | Belgium<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM<\/a><\/td>\n | Belgium<\/td>\n | Partner<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n<\/table>","team_members":[],"proj_website":"","project_status":"Completed","project_coordinator":[{"ID":10281,"post_author":"4","post_date":"2025-06-30 17:24:12","post_date_gmt":"2025-06-30 15:24:12","post_content":"Senior researcher at CRS4, he is head of the Environmental Sciences branch of the Energy & Environment program. His research interests are related to meteorological mesoscale ensemble prediction, climatic modelling and environmental data analysis. Currently, between the others, he is involved in the EU-H2020 Netfficient project for the development of a energy production, from renewable sources, forecasting system. Recently involved in the EU-FP7 CLIMB project in which CRS4 evaluated and compared the skill of various regional climate models as boundary conditions for hydrological modelling scenario studies in the Mediterranean basin area. Within the projects GRIDA3 and CYBERSAR, funded by the Italian Research Ministry (MIUR), he was involved in setting up a multi-model multianalysis limited area ensemble to be run on a GRID infrastructure and\/or remote computing portals. He has been involved in many other European and Italian research programs: FP7, Interreg IIC, FP6, for European Southern Observatory, for the Italian Space Agency, MIUR, National Council of Research (CNR), Italian Electric Power Company (ENEL).","post_title":"Marino Marrocu","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"marino-marrocu","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-09 14:12:14","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-09 12:12:14","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/marino-marrocu\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},"yoast_head":"\n |