Search Results - "Di Baldassarre, G."

Socio-hydrology: conceptualising human-flood interactions by Di Baldassarre, G, Viglione, A, Carr, G, Kuil, L, Salinas, J. L, Blöschl, G

“…Over history, humankind has tended to settle near streams because of the role of rivers as transportation corridors and the fertility of riparian areas…”
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Uncertainty in river discharge observations: a quantitative analysis by Di Baldassarre, G., Montanari, A.

“…This study proposes a framework for analysing and quantifying the uncertainty of river flow data. Such uncertainty is often considered to be negligible with…”
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GFPLAIN250m, a global high-resolution dataset of Earth’s floodplains by Nardi, F., Annis, A., Di Baldassarre, G., Vivoni, E. R., Grimaldi, S.

“…Identifying floodplain boundaries is of paramount importance for earth, environmental and socioeconomic studies addressing riverine risk and resource…”
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Towards understanding the dynamic behaviour of floodplains as human-water systems by Di Baldassarre, G, Kooy, M, Kemerink, J. S, Brandimarte, L

“…This paper offers a conceptual approach to explore the complex dynamics of floodplains as fully coupled human-water systems. A number of hydrologists have…”
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Exploring the role of risk perception in influencing flood losses over time by Ridolfi, E., Albrecht, F., Di Baldassarre, G.

“…What implications do societies' risk perceptions have for flood losses? This study uses a stylized, socio-hydrological model to simulate the mutual feedbacks…”
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Assessing the impact of different sources of topographic data on 1-D hydraulic modelling of floods by Md Ali, A, Solomatine, D. P, Di Baldassarre, G

“…Topographic data, such as digital elevation models (DEMs), are essential input in flood inundation modelling. DEMs can be derived from several sources either…”
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“Panta Rhei—Everything Flows”: Change in hydrology and society—The IAHS Scientific Decade 2013–2022 by Montanari, A, Young, G, Savenije, H.H.G, Hughes, D, Wagener, T, Ren, L.L, Koutsoyiannis, D, Cudennec, C, Toth, E, Grimaldi, S, Blöschl, G, Sivapalan, M, Beven, K, Gupta, H, Hipsey, M, Schaefli, B, Arheimer, B, Boegh, E, Schymanski, S.J, Di Baldassarre, G, Yu, B, Hubert, P, Huang, Y, Schumann, A, Post, D.A, Srinivasan, V, Harman, C, Thompson, S, Rogger, M, Viglione, A, McMillan, H, Characklis, G, Pang, Z, Belyaev, V

“…The new Scientific Decade 2013–2022 of IAHS, entitled “Panta Rhei—Everything Flows”, is dedicated to research activities on change in hydrology and society…”
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An intercomparison of remote sensing river discharge estimation algorithms from measurements of river height, width, and slope by Durand, M., Gleason, C. J., Garambois, P. A., Bjerklie, D., Smith, L. C., Roux, H., Rodriguez, E., Bates, P. D., Pavelsky, T. M., Monnier, J., Chen, X., Di Baldassarre, G., Fiset, J.‐M., Flipo, N., Frasson, R. P. d. M., Fulton, J., Goutal, N., Hossain, F., Humphries, E., Minear, J. T., Mukolwe, M. M., Neal, J. C., Ricci, S., Sanders, B. F., Schumann, G., Schubert, J. E., Vilmin, L.

“…The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission planned for launch in 2020 will map river elevations and inundated area globally for rivers…”
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The failed-levee effect: Do societies learn from flood disasters? by Collenteur, R. A., de Moel, H., Jongman, B., Di Baldassarre, G.

“…Human societies have learnt to cope with flood risks in several ways, the most prominent ways being engineering solutions and adaptive measures. However, from…”
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Exploring changes in hydrogeological risk awareness and preparedness over time: a case study in northeastern Italy by Mondino, E., Scolobig, A., Borga, M., Albrecht, F., Mård, J., Weyrich, P., Di Baldassarre, G.

“…Hydrogeological hazards are increasingly causing damage worldwide due to climatic and socio-economic changes. Building resilient communities is crucial to…”
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The role of risk perception in making flood risk management more effective by Buchecker, M, Salvini, G, Di Baldassarre, G, Semenzin, E, Maidl, E, Marcomini, A

“…Over the last few decades, Europe has suffered from a number of severe flood events and, as a result, there has been a growing interest in probing alternative…”
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Multiple hazards and risk perceptions over time: the availability heuristic in Italy and Sweden under COVID-19 by Di Baldassarre, Giuliano, Mondino, Elena, Rusca, Maria, Del Giudice, Emanuele, Mård, Johanna, Ridolfi, Elena, Scolobig, Anna, Raffetti, Elena

“…The severe impact of global crises, such as COVID-19 and climate change, is plausibly reshaping the way in which people perceive risks. In this paper, we…”
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The Utility of Spaceborne Radar to Render Flood Inundation Maps Based on Multialgorithm Ensembles by Schumann, G., Di Baldassarre, G., Bates, P.D.

“…On December 12, 2006, both the European Remote Sensing Satellite 2 and Environmental Satellite recorded a high-magnitude flood event on the River Dee in Wales…”
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Advancing catchment hydrology to deal with predictions under change by Ehret, U, Gupta, H. V, Sivapalan, M, Weijs, S. V, Schymanski, S. J, Blöschl, G, Gelfan, A. N, Harman, C, Kleidon, A, Bogaard, T. A, Wang, D, Wagener, T, Scherer, U, Zehe, E, Bierkens, M. F. P, Di Baldassarre, G, Parajka, J, van Beek, L. P. H, van Griensven, A, Westhoff, M. C, Winsemius, H. C

“…Throughout its historical development, hydrology as an earth science, but especially as a problem-centred engineering discipline has largely relied (quite…”
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Drought and Human Mobility in Africa by Ceola, S., Mård, J., Di Baldassarre, G.

“…Human mobility from droughts is multifaceted and depends on environmental, political, social, demographic and economic factors. Although droughts cannot be…”
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Comparing the performance of a 2-D finite element and a 2-D finite volume model of floodplain inundation using airborne SAR imagery by Horritt, M.S, Di Baldassarre, G, Bates, P.D, Brath, A

“…The performances of a finite volume model (SFV) and finite element model (TELEMAC-2D) in reproducing inundation on a 16 km reach of the river Severn, United…”
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Near real-time flood wave approximation on large rivers from space: Application to the River Po, Italy by Schumann, G., Di Baldassarre, G., Alsdorf, D., Bates, P. D.

“…This paper investigates the potential of low‐cost spaceborne data to approximate longitudinal surface profiles during flood events on large rivers. In February…”
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Detailed data is welcome, but with a pinch of salt: Accuracy, precision, and uncertainty in flood inundation modeling by Dottori, F., Di Baldassarre, G., Todini, E.

“…New survey techniques provide a large amount of high‐resolution data, which can be extremely precious for flood inundation modeling. Such data availability…”
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Relationships between statistics of rainfall extremes and mean annual precipitation: an application for design-storm estimation in northern central Italy by Di Baldassarre, G, Castellarin, A, Brath, A

“…Several hydrological analyses need to be founded on a reliable estimate of the design storm, which is the expected rainfall depth corresponding to a given…”
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Probabilistic Flood Maps to support decision‐making: Mapping the Value of Information by Alfonso, L., Mukolwe, M. M., Di Baldassarre, G.

“…Floods are one of the most frequent and disruptive natural hazards that affect man. Annually, significant flood damage is documented worldwide. Flood mapping…”
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