RESEARCH TOPICS
- Improvements in process physics and measurements
- Development of real time rainfall estimation and forecasting by
integrating remote sensing and mesoscale atmospheric models
- Integrated real time rainfall and flow prediction with distributed
approaches
- Uncertainty and variability in prediction at various scales and
conditions
- Estimation of hydrological fluxes and states from on-site and remote
sensors using: a) statistical approaches and b) process model approaches
- Uniform evaluation techniques for consistent assessment of flood
losses, disaster relief and mitigation
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2. SCALES AND VARIABILITY
- Storm and geomorphologic scales interactions for the production of
extreme floods
- Scales of forcing and feedback between precipitation and soil
moisture
- Scales of predictability of extreme rainfall and floods
- Physical causes of rainfall and flow space and time variability
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3. SYSTEMATISATION AND INTERACTION OF STRUCTURAL AND NON STRUCTURAL
MEASURES
- Regional studies of impacts on socio economic and environmental
systems of technology for managing floods
- Hydraulic and hydrologic interactions and impact of structural and
non structural methods.Hydraulic design of the floodplain in a global
perspective
- Distributed small scale control measures
- Interaction of river and geomorphological dynamics with engineering
works
- Cumulative impacts of major floods on ecosystems
- Regional studies of impacts on social systems of managing technology
for floods control
- Flood management integration with other hazards, environmental
management and management for sustainable development
- Feasibility effectiveness of replacing engineered systems with
natural systems
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5. CONSTRAINTS INFLUENCE IN FLOOD PROTECTION
AND VULNERABILITY
- Hillslope processes ( karst, arid and deserted catchments)
- Identification of channel and river network constraints from
geomorphological and anthropogenic points of view. Channel capacity
identification.
- Interactions with urban drainage systems
- Constraints related to land subsidence and sea level transients
(coastal tides and surges)
- Inverse problem in flood hydrology
- Implications of constraints to decision making
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7. EDUCATION, COMMUNICATION AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER
- Adoption, maintenance, constraints and incentives for local warning
systems
- Enhanced public education and outreach by scientists and
engineers
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8. INSTITUTIONAL AND ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE
- Integrate flood mitigation into river basin management
- Improved procedures for information transfer between scientist and
decision makers
- Develop institutional response for transboundary water systems
- Government actions and their influence on floodplain occupancy;
impact of insurance and relief.
- International or interregional rivers: determination of the role of
the various governmental levels in floodplain management
- Enhancement of stakeholder solidarity within a river basin
- Post-audits of existing and planned non-structural measures
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9. CHARACTERISATION OF OCCURRENCE OF EXTREME FLOODS
- Estimation of occurrence probability using historical and paleo
data
- Effects of climate trends and variability
- Effects of land changes and variability
- Estimation in ungauged catchments
- Interaction of river regimes and extreme flood magnitude
- ENSO influences
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These pages are made by:
Giorgio Boni - Istituto di Idraulica
Università di Genova
e-mail: idromet@idra.unige.it