Dr. Fabio Castelli

Born in Rome, Italy, on february 15, 1961.

June 92 to present

Researcher and Assistant Professor of Hydrology and Hydraulic Constructions.

Institute of Hydraulics, University of Perugia, Italy.

1987, University of Firenze, Italy.

Laurea Degree in Civil Engineering, specialization in Hydraulics, cum laude

1992, Consortium among the Universities of Firenze, Genova, Padova and Trento, Italy.

Doctoral Degree in Hydrodynamics.

Research Topics

Fluid-dynamical modeling of atmospheric fronts and frontal precipitation. Orographic influence on frontal precipitation. Physically-based stochastic models of rainfall.

Stochastic modeling of infiltration into heterogeneous soils. Spatial variability and scaling properties of soil moisture. Two-way land-atmosphere interaction and soil moisture feedback on precipitation. Distributed hydrologic modeling for real-time flood forecasting. Management of multi-sensor hydro-meteorologic data networks.

Selected Recent Publications

· F. Castelli, R. L. Bras and K. A. Emanuel, 1993. An Analytical Approach to the Nonlinear Dynamics of Moist Frontogenesis. J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 1504-1518.

· F. Castelli, 1994. Spatial scales of frontal precipitation. In Advances in Distributed Hydrology, R. Rosso, A. Peano, I. Becchi and G. A. Bemporad Eds., Water Resouces Publications, pp. 87-114.

· F. Castelli and C. Corradini, 1994. A semigeostrophic model for the diagnosis of frontal precipitation over complex orography. Proc. of the Int. Conf. on: Atmospheric Physics and Dynamics in the analysis and Prognosis of Precipitation Fields, Rome, 15-18 November 1994, pp. 270-274.

· Becchi, I., E. Caporali, L. Castellani, E. Palmisano and F. Castelli, 1995. Hydrological control of flooding: Tuscany October 1992. Surv. Geoph., 16, 227-252.

· F. Castelli and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, 1995. Soil Moisture-Atmosphere Interaction in a Moist Semigeostrophic Model of Baroclinic Instability. J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 2152-2159.

· F. Castelli, 1995. A Simplified Stochastic Model for Infiltration into a Heterogeneous Soil forced by Random Precipitation. Adv. Water Res.. In press.