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Prof. Giovanna Grossi
DICATAM (Department of Civil, Environmental, Architectural Engineering and Mathematics), University of Brescia

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Published: 04 March 2021
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Flood risk management is one of priorities set by the European Union to protect population and assets. In a very recent report of the European Environment Agency dealing with urban adaptation to climate change (EEA, 2020), extreme weather events (heatwaves, heavy precipitation, flooding and droughts) are expected to cause the most pronounced impacts in European cities, besides vector‑borne diseases. Italian regions are taclking flood risk management also by setting regulations on the runoff production in urban areas.

According to a recent regulation approved by Regione Lombardia municipalities are requested to prepare the Hydraulic Risk Management Plan, including measures to ensure compliance with the principle of the ‘hydraulic’ and ‘hydrological’ invariance for the urban area, in which runoff volumes generated by an intense meteoric event must remain unchanged or at least must be limited. The idea arises from the need to manage the rainwater drainage in urban contexts, where the existing sewerage system has been designed based on an inadequate return time period.

The planning activity requires a modelling framework accounting for both the open channel network (mainly addressing irrigation demand) and the sewer pipe network. While separate hydraulic models might help the management provided by separate authorities, an integrated model is ensuring a complete representation of the system hydrodynamics. This type of model is characterized by a much more complex structure which requires greater data accuracy for the construction and calibration of the model in order to obtain realistic results.

Some critical issues are being presented for Brescia, a town located in Northern Italy, at the foothills of the Alps.  Potential flood risk is linked to the dense historical irrigation and drainage channels network that cross the urban area from north to south and the old city centre. Critical areas are those hosting the post-war urban development where the waterways have been uncovered and covered in a chaotic and uncontrolled way, in some cases even under houses and other buildings.

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Giovanna Grossi; Francesca Berteni; Arianna Dada; Paolo Leoni. Combining open channel and sewer system network modelling to develop the Hydraulic Risk Management Plan for Brescia (Northern Italy). 2021, 1 .

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Giovanna Grossi, Francesca Berteni, Arianna Dada, Paolo Leoni. Combining open channel and sewer system network modelling to develop the Hydraulic Risk Management Plan for Brescia (Northern Italy). . 2021; ():1.

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Giovanna Grossi; Francesca Berteni; Arianna Dada; Paolo Leoni. 2021. "Combining open channel and sewer system network modelling to develop the Hydraulic Risk Management Plan for Brescia (Northern Italy)." , no. : 1.

Original article
Published: 24 January 2021 in Acta Geochimica
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To quantify water erosion rates and annual soil loss in mountainous areas, two different empirical models were used to estimate the effects of soil erosion in a small mountain basin, the Guerna Creek watershed, located in the Central Southern Alps (Northern Italy). These two models, Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) and Erosion Potential Model (EPM), were implemented in a Geographical Information System, accounting for the geographical, geomorphological, and weather-climate parameters, which are fundamental to evaluating the intensity and variability of the erosive processes. Soil characterization was supported by laboratory analysis. The results (computed soil loss of 87 t/ha/year and 11.1 m3/ha/year, using RUSLE equation and EPM method, respectively, and sediment yield of 7.5 m3/ha/year using EPM method) were compared to other studies reported in the literature for different case studies with similar topographic and climatic features, as well as to those provided by the European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC). In both cases, the agreement was satisfactory, showing consistency of the adopted procedures to the parametrization of the physical processes.

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Francesca Berteni; Stefano Barontini; Giovanna Grossi. Evaluating soil erosion by water in a small alpine catchment in Northern Italy: comparison of empirical models. Acta Geochimica 2021, 1 -18.

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Francesca Berteni, Stefano Barontini, Giovanna Grossi. Evaluating soil erosion by water in a small alpine catchment in Northern Italy: comparison of empirical models. Acta Geochimica. 2021; ():1-18.

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Francesca Berteni; Stefano Barontini; Giovanna Grossi. 2021. "Evaluating soil erosion by water in a small alpine catchment in Northern Italy: comparison of empirical models." Acta Geochimica , no. : 1-18.

Journal article
Published: 15 December 2020 in Hydrological Sciences Journal
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The main objective of this study is to detect scientific activities in the field of “water resources management” that include citizen science methods, using a bibliometric approach. The analysis aims at supporting the start of a new science shop based at the University of Brescia, Italy, in the framework of the European SciShops project. As the backdrop for science shops and community-based participatory research initiatives, citizen science is the focus of an increasing number of local, national and international activities, many of which are reported in the scientific literature available in the Web of Science. The results show that studies and publications on this topic, with a participatory perspective, are increasing. Australia, The Netherlands and Spain have a higher production than expected. The scarcity of Italian studies, especially on sustainable urban drainage, shows a promising field of work for future activities of the new science shop at Brescia.

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Daniela De Filippo; Elías Sanz Casado; Francesca Berteni; Francesca Barisani; Nuria Bautista Puig; Giovanna Grossi. Assessing citizen science methods in IWRM for a new science shop: a bibliometric approach. Hydrological Sciences Journal 2020, 66, 179 -192.

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Daniela De Filippo, Elías Sanz Casado, Francesca Berteni, Francesca Barisani, Nuria Bautista Puig, Giovanna Grossi. Assessing citizen science methods in IWRM for a new science shop: a bibliometric approach. Hydrological Sciences Journal. 2020; 66 (2):179-192.

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Daniela De Filippo; Elías Sanz Casado; Francesca Berteni; Francesca Barisani; Nuria Bautista Puig; Giovanna Grossi. 2020. "Assessing citizen science methods in IWRM for a new science shop: a bibliometric approach." Hydrological Sciences Journal 66, no. 2: 179-192.

Journal article
Published: 27 September 2020 in Geosciences
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Water erosion and evaluation of the average annual soil loss considering the potential effects of climate change are the focus of this study, based on the application of two empirical models, the RUSLE (Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation) and the EPM (Erosion Potential Method), to an Italian case study. A small mountain basin, the Guerna creek watershed, is located in the Central Southern Alps (Lombardy, Southern Alps, Bergamo), and it has been affected in the past by flooding and erosion events, which stressed the hydraulic weaknesses of the study area. Three different future climate scenarios were built for the middle of this century (from 2041 to 2060) on the basis of CORDEX data and Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) set by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) future scenarios: RCP 2.6, RCP 4.5, and RCP 8.5. As concerns climate, precipitation and air temperature are the variables used in the empirical models. On the other hand, potential effects on land use were also considered. Computed soil loss of 87 t/ha/year and 29.3 t/ha/year was achieved using the RUSLE equation and EPM method respectively, without considering the potential effects of climate change. The results achieved showed that climate change impacts on water erosion may not be negligible even by the middle of the current century (the annual average soil loss could change by 6–10% on a basin scale), and a major role is being played by seasonality in rainfall peak intensity.

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Francesca Berteni; Giovanna Grossi. Water Soil Erosion Evaluation in a Small Alpine Catchment Located in Northern Italy: Potential Effects of Climate Change. Geosciences 2020, 10, 386 .

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Francesca Berteni, Giovanna Grossi. Water Soil Erosion Evaluation in a Small Alpine Catchment Located in Northern Italy: Potential Effects of Climate Change. Geosciences. 2020; 10 (10):386.

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Francesca Berteni; Giovanna Grossi. 2020. "Water Soil Erosion Evaluation in a Small Alpine Catchment Located in Northern Italy: Potential Effects of Climate Change." Geosciences 10, no. 10: 386.

Journal article
Published: 03 September 2020 in Sustainability
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At the outlet of the Vermicelli catchment—a peri-urban area located in the campus of University of Calabria (Cosenza, Southern Italy)—a sedimentation tank is located, aiming at collecting the basin surface runoff and improve its quality. First, experimental results of the treatment effects are here presented and analyzed. In addition, a monitoring campaign was conducted in order to characterize the particles transported by surface runoff and to determine the treatment efficiency of the tank. The analysis showed the presence of a pollutant load in the surface runoff of the Vermicelli basin and provided information on its particle-size distribution (PSD). Results were considered in terms of the treatment efficiency of the sedimentation tank, showing a good overall removal efficiency value, together with a high variability of the removal sedimentation efficiency. This variability is mainly due to the different grain size of the suspended solids and the characteristics of the rainfall event.

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Salvatore Falco; Giuseppe Brunetti; Giovanna Grossi; Mario Maiolo; Michele Turco; Patrizia Piro. Solids Removal Efficiency of a Sedimentation Tank in a Peri-Urban Catchment. Sustainability 2020, 12, 7196 .

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Salvatore Falco, Giuseppe Brunetti, Giovanna Grossi, Mario Maiolo, Michele Turco, Patrizia Piro. Solids Removal Efficiency of a Sedimentation Tank in a Peri-Urban Catchment. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (17):7196.

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Salvatore Falco; Giuseppe Brunetti; Giovanna Grossi; Mario Maiolo; Michele Turco; Patrizia Piro. 2020. "Solids Removal Efficiency of a Sedimentation Tank in a Peri-Urban Catchment." Sustainability 12, no. 17: 7196.

Conference paper
Published: 05 September 2018 in E3S Web of Conferences
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Channel morphological change is often evaluated by employing sediment transport models since field data during high magnitude low frequency events is rarely available. However, sediment transport rate estimates are heuristic at best to within 1 - 3 orders of magnitude. Mimico Creek is an urban gravel-bed channel in Southern Ontario, Canada that has undergone intensive event-based sediment transport sampling and inter-event bed material particle tracking over a three-year period. A HEC-RAS model was developed of the study reach and calibrated to a series of discharge events where in-situ bedload sampling occurred. Both step-wise discharge and unsteady flow simulations were evaluated to compare sediment transport rates for a range of transport models which included the Meyer-Peter Müller and the Wilcock-Crowe. Calibration curves were developed to estimate sediment discharge in Mimico Creek. The results of the calibrated model were used to calculate the mean travel distance of bed material using the expression for the volumetric rate of bed material transport. Results from the modelling exercise found mean travel distances were similar and in some cases larger than those observed from field measurements, considering both mobile and immobile particles.

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Francesca Berteni; Benjamin Douglas Plumb; William Kenneth Annable; Giovanna Grossi. Using high-resolution bedload transport tracer measurements to investigate the characteristics of bedload transport over a large urban flood event. E3S Web of Conferences 2018, 40, 04011 .

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Francesca Berteni, Benjamin Douglas Plumb, William Kenneth Annable, Giovanna Grossi. Using high-resolution bedload transport tracer measurements to investigate the characteristics of bedload transport over a large urban flood event. E3S Web of Conferences. 2018; 40 ():04011.

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Francesca Berteni; Benjamin Douglas Plumb; William Kenneth Annable; Giovanna Grossi. 2018. "Using high-resolution bedload transport tracer measurements to investigate the characteristics of bedload transport over a large urban flood event." E3S Web of Conferences 40, no. : 04011.

Conference paper
Published: 01 September 2018 in Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions
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Permeable Pavement (PP) represents a good solution to solve stormwater management problems both in quantitative and qualitative way. In this way, the potential removal efficiency of a permeable pavement in treating metals was assessed by performing a monitoring campaign at a lab-scale system constructed for the purpose. Based on literature experiences, different relatively high-level concentrations of Copper and Zinc were applied during 8 different synthetic rainfall events. Results shown that the removal rates of Cu and Zn of the lab-scale pavements range from 85% to 92% and from 65% to 82%, respectively. Results also shown that the Cu removal rates of the lab-scale pavement are higher than Zn removal rate.

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Michele Turco; Giuseppe Brunetti; Michele Porti; Giovanna Grossi; Mario Maiolo; Patrizia Piro. Metals Potential Removal Efficiency of Permeable Pavement. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions 2018, 163 -168.

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Michele Turco, Giuseppe Brunetti, Michele Porti, Giovanna Grossi, Mario Maiolo, Patrizia Piro. Metals Potential Removal Efficiency of Permeable Pavement. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions. 2018; ():163-168.

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Michele Turco; Giuseppe Brunetti; Michele Porti; Giovanna Grossi; Mario Maiolo; Patrizia Piro. 2018. "Metals Potential Removal Efficiency of Permeable Pavement." Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions , no. : 163-168.

Conference paper
Published: 01 September 2018 in Advances of Footprint Family for Sustainable Energy and Industrial Systems
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Urban flooding is recently affecting several towns in the Italian Mediterranean region. The study focuses on the interconnection between the sewer network of the town (Rossano Scalo) and the main water course (the Citrea Creek) flowing through it. An integrated approach considering both town planning and hydraulic aspects lead the search for potential flood risk mitigation solutions. Through the use of GIS and field surveys a highly urbanized sub-basin was selected and analysed. The hydrologic- hydraulic system was simulated through SWMM software, paying attention to interactions between the minor and the major system. Critical nodes (urban flooding points) were finally considered for planning potential mitigation solutions.

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Patrizia Piro; Mario Maiolo; Vito Cataldo Talarico; Salvatore Falco; Gennaro Nigro; Michèle Pezzagno; Filippo Carlo Pavesi; Francesca Berteni; Giovanna Grossi. Flood Risk Mitigation in a Mediterranean Urban Area: The Case Study of Rossano Scalo (CS – Calabria, Italy). Advances of Footprint Family for Sustainable Energy and Industrial Systems 2018, 339 -343.

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Patrizia Piro, Mario Maiolo, Vito Cataldo Talarico, Salvatore Falco, Gennaro Nigro, Michèle Pezzagno, Filippo Carlo Pavesi, Francesca Berteni, Giovanna Grossi. Flood Risk Mitigation in a Mediterranean Urban Area: The Case Study of Rossano Scalo (CS – Calabria, Italy). Advances of Footprint Family for Sustainable Energy and Industrial Systems. 2018; ():339-343.

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Patrizia Piro; Mario Maiolo; Vito Cataldo Talarico; Salvatore Falco; Gennaro Nigro; Michèle Pezzagno; Filippo Carlo Pavesi; Francesca Berteni; Giovanna Grossi. 2018. "Flood Risk Mitigation in a Mediterranean Urban Area: The Case Study of Rossano Scalo (CS – Calabria, Italy)." Advances of Footprint Family for Sustainable Energy and Industrial Systems , no. : 339-343.

Journal article
Published: 23 March 2018 in Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology
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A. M. Tang; P. N. Hughes; T. A. Dijkstra; A. Askarinejad; M. Brenčič; Y. J. Cui; J. J. Diez; T. Firgi; B. Gajewska; F. Gentile; G. Grossi; C. Jommi; F. Kehagia; Eugeniusz Koda; H. W. Ter Maat; S. Lenart; S. Lourenco; M. Oliveira; Piotr Osinski; S. M. Springman; R. Stirling; D. G. Toll; V. Van Beek. Atmosphere–vegetation–soil interactions in a climate change context; impact of changing conditions on engineered transport infrastructure slopes in Europe. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology 2018, 51, 156 -168.

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A. M. Tang, P. N. Hughes, T. A. Dijkstra, A. Askarinejad, M. Brenčič, Y. J. Cui, J. J. Diez, T. Firgi, B. Gajewska, F. Gentile, G. Grossi, C. Jommi, F. Kehagia, Eugeniusz Koda, H. W. Ter Maat, S. Lenart, S. Lourenco, M. Oliveira, Piotr Osinski, S. M. Springman, R. Stirling, D. G. Toll, V. Van Beek. Atmosphere–vegetation–soil interactions in a climate change context; impact of changing conditions on engineered transport infrastructure slopes in Europe. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology. 2018; 51 (2):156-168.

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A. M. Tang; P. N. Hughes; T. A. Dijkstra; A. Askarinejad; M. Brenčič; Y. J. Cui; J. J. Diez; T. Firgi; B. Gajewska; F. Gentile; G. Grossi; C. Jommi; F. Kehagia; Eugeniusz Koda; H. W. Ter Maat; S. Lenart; S. Lourenco; M. Oliveira; Piotr Osinski; S. M. Springman; R. Stirling; D. G. Toll; V. Van Beek. 2018. "Atmosphere–vegetation–soil interactions in a climate change context; impact of changing conditions on engineered transport infrastructure slopes in Europe." Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology 51, no. 2: 156-168.

Journal article
Published: 25 June 2017 in Water
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Precipitation measurements by rain gauges are usually affected by a systematic underestimation, which can be larger in case of snowfall. The wind, disturbing the trajectory of the falling water droplets or snowflakes above the rain gauge, is the major source of error, but when tipping-bucket recording gauges are used, the induced evaporation due to the heating device must also be taken into account. Manual measurements of fresh snow water equivalent (SWE) were taken in Alpine areas of Valtellina and Vallecamonica, in Northern Italy, and compared with daily precipitation and melted snow measured by manual precipitation gauges and by mechanical and electronic heated tipping-bucket recording gauges without any wind-shield: all of these gauges underestimated the SWE in a range between 15% and 66%. In some experimental monitoring sites, instead, electronic weighing storage gauges with Alter-type wind-shields are coupled with snow pillows data: daily SWE measurements from these instruments are in good agreement. In order to correct the historical data series of precipitation affected by systematic errors in snowfall measurements, a simple ‘at-site’ and instrument-dependent model was first developed that applies a correction factor as a function of daily air temperature, which is an index of the solid/liquid precipitation type. The threshold air temperatures were estimated through a statistical analysis of snow field observations. The correction model applied to daily observations led to 5–37% total annual precipitation increments, growing with altitude (1740 ÷ 2190 m above sea level, a.s.l.) and wind exposure. A second ‘climatological‘ correction model based on daily air temperature and wind speed was proposed, leading to errors only slightly higher than those obtained for the at-site corrections.

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Giovanna Grossi; Amerigo Lendvai; Giovanni Peretti; Roberto Ranzi. Snow Precipitation Measured by Gauges: Systematic Error Estimation and Data Series Correction in the Central Italian Alps. Water 2017, 9, 461 .

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Giovanna Grossi, Amerigo Lendvai, Giovanni Peretti, Roberto Ranzi. Snow Precipitation Measured by Gauges: Systematic Error Estimation and Data Series Correction in the Central Italian Alps. Water. 2017; 9 (7):461.

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Giovanna Grossi; Amerigo Lendvai; Giovanni Peretti; Roberto Ranzi. 2017. "Snow Precipitation Measured by Gauges: Systematic Error Estimation and Data Series Correction in the Central Italian Alps." Water 9, no. 7: 461.

Conference paper
Published: 12 September 2016 in E3S Web of Conferences
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Aiming at contributing with a hydrological perspective to the geotechnical investigation in mountain environments, particularly focusing on landslides triggered by perched water tables, we present some findings of a longlasting experimental and theoretical investigation of mountain—soils hydrology. After recalling a theoretical framework suitable to describe the hydrology of shallow, sloping and heterogeneous soils, we discuss some relevant difficulties concerning the measurement of the hydrological properties of heterogeneous and non mature soils, and we finally focus on the role played by the soil heterogeneity in the perched water tables onset.

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Stefano Barontini; Giovanna Grossi; Marco Peli; Roberto Ranzi; Baldassare Bacchi. On the hydrological properties of mountain soils, from measurement to the geotechnical implications. E3S Web of Conferences 2016, 9, 16002 .

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Stefano Barontini, Giovanna Grossi, Marco Peli, Roberto Ranzi, Baldassare Bacchi. On the hydrological properties of mountain soils, from measurement to the geotechnical implications. E3S Web of Conferences. 2016; 9 ():16002.

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Stefano Barontini; Giovanna Grossi; Marco Peli; Roberto Ranzi; Baldassare Bacchi. 2016. "On the hydrological properties of mountain soils, from measurement to the geotechnical implications." E3S Web of Conferences 9, no. : 16002.

Journal article
Published: 01 February 2016 in Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
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A design storm definition procedure for the sizing of channels within mixed urban and lowland rice drainage systems is developed, with reference to the Northern Delta in Vietnam. By analyzing a 20-years-long time series of rainfall observations recorded at Hanoi monitoring station, typical storm events were identified and a set of suitable design storms was determined and recommended for the optimal design storm selection. A procedure to select an optimal design hyetograph is then defined, based on a combination of the design storm method and continuous simulation. A set of simulation experiments on a fictitious basin was finally carried out to support the choice of the storm temporal pattern providing the best performance in terms of reproduction of runoff peaks.

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Tuan Anh Nguyen; Giovanna Grossi; Roberto Ranzi. Design Storm for Mixed Urban and Agricultural Drainage Systems in the Northern Delta in Vietnam. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering 2016, 142, 04015051 .

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Tuan Anh Nguyen, Giovanna Grossi, Roberto Ranzi. Design Storm for Mixed Urban and Agricultural Drainage Systems in the Northern Delta in Vietnam. Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. 2016; 142 (2):04015051.

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Tuan Anh Nguyen; Giovanna Grossi; Roberto Ranzi. 2016. "Design Storm for Mixed Urban and Agricultural Drainage Systems in the Northern Delta in Vietnam." Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering 142, no. 2: 04015051.

Journal article
Published: 01 December 2013 in Advances in Water Resources
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Matteo Balistrocchi; Giovanna Grossi; Baldassare Bacchi. Deriving a practical analytical-probabilistic method to size flood routing reservoirs. Advances in Water Resources 2013, 62, 37 -46.

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Matteo Balistrocchi, Giovanna Grossi, Baldassare Bacchi. Deriving a practical analytical-probabilistic method to size flood routing reservoirs. Advances in Water Resources. 2013; 62 ():37-46.

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Matteo Balistrocchi; Giovanna Grossi; Baldassare Bacchi. 2013. "Deriving a practical analytical-probabilistic method to size flood routing reservoirs." Advances in Water Resources 62, no. : 37-46.

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Published: 01 May 2013 in Advances in Water Resources
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In order to assess the annual mass balance of the Mandrone glacier in the Central Alps an energy-balance model was applied, supported by snowpack, meteorological and glaciological observations, together with satellite measurements of snow covered areas and albedo. The Physically based Distributed Snow Land and Ice Model (PDSLIM), a distributed multi-layer model for temperate glaciers, which was previously tested on both basin and point scales, was applied. Verification was performed with a network of ablation stakes over two summer periods. Satellite images processed within the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) project were used to estimate the ice albedo and to verify the position of the simulated transient snowline on specific dates. The energy balance was estimated for the Mandrone and Presena glaciers in the Central Italian Alps. Their modeled balances (−1439 and −1503 mm w.e. year−1, respectively), estimated over a 15 year period, are in good agreement with those obtained with the glaciological method for the Caresèr glacier, a WGMS (World Glacier Monitoring Service) reference located in the nearby Ortles-Cevedale group. Projections according to the regional climate model COSMO-CLM (standing for COnsortium for Small-scale MOdeling model in CLimate Mode) indicate that the Mandrone glacier might not survive the current century and might be halved in size by 2050

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Giovanna Grossi; Paolo Caronna; Roberto Ranzi. Hydrologic vulnerability to climate change of the Mandrone glacier (Adamello-Presanella group, Italian Alps). Advances in Water Resources 2013, 55, 190 -203.

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Giovanna Grossi, Paolo Caronna, Roberto Ranzi. Hydrologic vulnerability to climate change of the Mandrone glacier (Adamello-Presanella group, Italian Alps). Advances in Water Resources. 2013; 55 ():190-203.

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Giovanna Grossi; Paolo Caronna; Roberto Ranzi. 2013. "Hydrologic vulnerability to climate change of the Mandrone glacier (Adamello-Presanella group, Italian Alps)." Advances in Water Resources 55, no. : 190-203.

Journal article
Published: 29 December 2009 in Water Resources Research
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The assessment of the efficiency of a storm water storage facility devoted to the sewer overflow control in urban areas strictly depends on the ability to model the main features of the rainfall-runoff routing process and the related wet weather pollution delivery. In this paper the possibility of applying the analytical probabilistic approach for developing a tank design method, whose potentials are similar to the continuous simulations, is proved. In the model derivation the quality issues of such devices were implemented. The formulation is based on a Weibull probabilistic model of the main characteristics of the rainfall process and on a power law describing the relationship between the dimensionless storm water cumulative runoff volume and the dimensionless cumulative pollutograph. Following this approach, efficiency indexes were established. The proposed model was verified by comparing its results to those obtained by continuous simulations; satisfactory agreement is shown for the proposed efficiency indexes

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Matteo Balistrocchi; Giovanna Grossi; Baldassare Bacchi. An analytical probabilistic model of the quality efficiency of a sewer tank. Water Resources Research 2009, 45, 1 .

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Matteo Balistrocchi, Giovanna Grossi, Baldassare Bacchi. An analytical probabilistic model of the quality efficiency of a sewer tank. Water Resources Research. 2009; 45 (12):1.

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Matteo Balistrocchi; Giovanna Grossi; Baldassare Bacchi. 2009. "An analytical probabilistic model of the quality efficiency of a sewer tank." Water Resources Research 45, no. 12: 1.

Journal article
Published: 16 December 2008 in Water Resources Research
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Alberto Montanari; Giovanna Grossi. Estimating the uncertainty of hydrological forecasts: A statistical approach. Water Resources Research 2008, 44, 1 .

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Alberto Montanari, Giovanna Grossi. Estimating the uncertainty of hydrological forecasts: A statistical approach. Water Resources Research. 2008; 44 (12):1.

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Alberto Montanari; Giovanna Grossi. 2008. "Estimating the uncertainty of hydrological forecasts: A statistical approach." Water Resources Research 44, no. 12: 1.

Research articles
Published: 11 September 2008 in Urban Water Journal
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Storage facilities are key devices in mitigating the urban drainage impact on receiving water bodies, but their design is still affected by high uncertainty. The analytical-probabilistic approach has recently raised interest, because the facility performances are directly related to probability. Starting from statistically independent storm events, distributions of the meteorological variables must be fitted. Rainfall series, recorded in three Italian raingauges, were examined for appraising two main concerns: the choice of proper probability distributions for rainfall volume and the sample sensitivity with respect to the analysis criterion. The analytical derivation of the model is then finally discussed.

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B. Bacchi; Matteo Balistrocchi; Giovanna Grossi. Proposal of a semi-probabilistic approach for storage facility design. Urban Water Journal 2008, 5, 195 -208.

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B. Bacchi, Matteo Balistrocchi, Giovanna Grossi. Proposal of a semi-probabilistic approach for storage facility design. Urban Water Journal. 2008; 5 (3):195-208.

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B. Bacchi; Matteo Balistrocchi; Giovanna Grossi. 2008. "Proposal of a semi-probabilistic approach for storage facility design." Urban Water Journal 5, no. 3: 195-208.

Journal article
Published: 01 April 2008 in Atmospheric Science Letters
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Mesoscale Alpine Programme Demonstration of Probabilistic Hydrological and Atmospheric Simulation of Flood Events (MAP D-PHASE) is a forecast demonstration project aiming at demonstrating recent improvements in the operational use of end-to-end forecasting system consisting of atmospheric models, hydrological prediction systems, nowcasting tools and warnings for end-users. Both deterministic and ensemble prediction systems (EPSs) have been implemented for the European Alps (atmospheric models) and a selection of mesoscale river basins (hydrological models) in Central Europe. A first insight into MAP D-PHASE with focus on operational ensemble hydrological simulations is presented here

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Massimiliano Zappa; Mathias W. Rotach; Marco Arpagaus; Manfred Dorninger; Christoph Hegg; Andrea Montani; Roberto Ranzi; Felix Ament; Urs Germann; Giovanna Grossi; Simon Jaun; Andrea Rossa; Stephan Vogt; André Walser; Johannes Wehrhan; Claudia Wunram. MAP D-PHASE: real-time demonstration of hydrological ensemble prediction systems. Atmospheric Science Letters 2008, 9, 80 -87.

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Massimiliano Zappa, Mathias W. Rotach, Marco Arpagaus, Manfred Dorninger, Christoph Hegg, Andrea Montani, Roberto Ranzi, Felix Ament, Urs Germann, Giovanna Grossi, Simon Jaun, Andrea Rossa, Stephan Vogt, André Walser, Johannes Wehrhan, Claudia Wunram. MAP D-PHASE: real-time demonstration of hydrological ensemble prediction systems. Atmospheric Science Letters. 2008; 9 (2):80-87.

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Massimiliano Zappa; Mathias W. Rotach; Marco Arpagaus; Manfred Dorninger; Christoph Hegg; Andrea Montani; Roberto Ranzi; Felix Ament; Urs Germann; Giovanna Grossi; Simon Jaun; Andrea Rossa; Stephan Vogt; André Walser; Johannes Wehrhan; Claudia Wunram. 2008. "MAP D-PHASE: real-time demonstration of hydrological ensemble prediction systems." Atmospheric Science Letters 9, no. 2: 80-87.

Journal article
Published: 19 December 2006 in Journal of Geophysical Research
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The widespread flood event that affected northeastern and central Italy in November 1966, causing severe damages to vast populated areas including the historical towns of\ud Florence and Venice, is revisited with a modeling approach, made possible by the availability of the ECMWF global reanalysis (ERA-40). A simulated forecasting chain\ud consisting of the ECMWF global model, forcing a cascade of two mesoscale, limited area meteorological models apt to reach a convective resolving scale (about 2 km), is used to\ud predict quantitative precipitation. A hydrological model, nested in the finer-scale meteorological model, is used to reproduce forecasted flood hydrographs for different\ud river basins of the investigated areas. Predicted precipitation is in general very sensitive to initial conditions, especially when associated with convective activity, such as over central\ud Italy, in the Arno river basin. Orographically enhanced precipitation, e.g., the one predicted in the eastern Alps, is quite stable and in good agreement with observations.\ud Hydrological forecasts, made separately in different river basins, reflect the accuracy of the simulated precipitation

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P. Malguzzi; Giovanna Grossi; A. Buzzi; Roberto Ranzi; R. Buizza. The 1966 “century” flood in Italy: A meteorological and hydrological revisitation. Journal of Geophysical Research 2006, 111, 1 .

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P. Malguzzi, Giovanna Grossi, A. Buzzi, Roberto Ranzi, R. Buizza. The 1966 “century” flood in Italy: A meteorological and hydrological revisitation. Journal of Geophysical Research. 2006; 111 (D24):1.

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P. Malguzzi; Giovanna Grossi; A. Buzzi; Roberto Ranzi; R. Buizza. 2006. "The 1966 “century” flood in Italy: A meteorological and hydrological revisitation." Journal of Geophysical Research 111, no. D24: 1.

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Published: 23 December 2004 in IEEE International IEEE International IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004
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Roberto Ranzi; Giovanna Grossi; Laura Iacovelli; Stefan Taschner. Use of multispectral ASTER images for mapping debris-covered glaciers within the GLIMS project. IEEE International IEEE International IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 2004, 1 .

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Roberto Ranzi, Giovanna Grossi, Laura Iacovelli, Stefan Taschner. Use of multispectral ASTER images for mapping debris-covered glaciers within the GLIMS project. IEEE International IEEE International IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004. 2004; ():1.

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Roberto Ranzi; Giovanna Grossi; Laura Iacovelli; Stefan Taschner. 2004. "Use of multispectral ASTER images for mapping debris-covered glaciers within the GLIMS project." IEEE International IEEE International IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 , no. : 1.