Dr. Pierluigi Claps

Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Dr. Pierluigi Claps

Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Piedmont, Italy

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35Years (1992-Present)

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28 August 2019 in Nature

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Changing climate both increases and decreases European river floods

Juraj Parajka

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Nenad Živković

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11 August 2017 in Science

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Changing climate shifts timing of European floods

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Flooding along the river: Will a warming climate affect river floods? The prevailing sentiment is yes, but a consistent signal in flood magnitudes has not been found. Blöschl et al. analyzed the timing of river floods in Europe over the past 50 years and found clear patterns of changes in flood timing that can be ascribed to climate effects (see the Perspective by Slater and Wilby). These variations include earlier spring snowmelt floods in northeastern Europe, later winter floods around the North Sea and parts of the Mediterranean coast owing to delayed winter storms, and earlier winter floods in western Europe caused by earlier soil moisture maxima. Science , this issue p. 588 see also p. 552

2 July 2019 in Hydrological Sciences Journal

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Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective

Günter Blöschl

Marc F.P. Bierkens

Antonio Chambel

Christophe Cudennec

Georgia Destouni

Yongqiang Zhang

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This paper is the outcome of a community initiative to identify major unsolved scientific problems in hydrology motivated by a need for stronger harmonisation of research efforts. The procedure involved a public consultation through on-line media, followed by two workshops through which a large number of potential science questions were collated, prioritised, and synthesised. In spite of the diversity of the participants (230 scientists in total), the process revealed much about community priorities and the state of our science: a preference for continuity in research questions rather than radical departures or redirections from past and current work. Questions remain focussed on process-based understanding of hydrological variability and causality at all space and time scales. Increased attention to environmental change drives a new emphasis on understanding how change propagates across interfaces within the hydrological system and across disciplinary boundaries. In particular, the expansion of the human footprint raises a new set of questions related to human interactions with nature and water cycle feedbacks in the context of complex water management problems. We hope that this reflection and synthesis of the 23 unsolved problems in hydrology will help guide research efforts for some years to come.

30 July 2014 in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

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Understanding flood regime changes in Europe: a state-of-the-art assessment

R. Brázdil

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There is growing concern that flooding is becoming more frequent and severe in Europe. A better understanding of flood regime changes and their drivers is therefore needed. The paper reviews the current knowledge on flood regime changes in European rivers that has traditionally been obtained through two alternative research approaches. The first approach is the data-based detection of changes in observed flood events. Current methods are reviewed together with their challenges and opportunities. For example, observation biases, the merging of different data sources and accounting for nonlinear drivers and responses. The second approach consists of modelled scenarios of future floods. Challenges and opportunities associated with flood change scenarios are discussed such as fully accounting for uncertainties in the modelling cascade and feedbacks. To make progress in flood change research, we suggest that a synthesis of these two approaches is needed. This can be achieved by focusing on long duration records and flood-rich and flood-poor periods rather than on short duration flood trends only, by formally attributing causes of observed flood changes, by validating scenarios against observed flood regime dynamics, and by developing low-dimensional models of flood changes and feedbacks. The paper finishes with a call for a joint European flood change research network.

1 November 2010 in Journal of Hydrology

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Seasonal characteristics of flood regimes across the Alpine–Carpathian range

Juraj Parajka

S. Kohnová

G. Bálint

M. Barbuc

Marco Borga

Günter Blöschl

The aim of this paper is to analyse the differences in the long-term regimes of extreme precipitation and floods across the Alpine–Carpathian range using seasonality indices and atmospheric circulation patterns to understand the main flood-producing processes. This is supported by cluster analyses to identify areas of similar flood processes, both in terms of precipitation forcing and catchment processes. The results allow to isolate regions of similar flood generation processes including southerly versus westerly circulation patterns, effects of soil moisture seasonality due to evaporation and effects of soil moisture seasonality due to snow melt. In many regions of the Alpine–Carpathian range, there is a distinct shift in flood generating processes with flood magnitude as evidenced by a shift from summer to autumn floods. It is argued that the synoptic approach proposed here is valuable in both flood analysis and flood estimation.

20 March 2007 in Water Resources Research

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A comparison of homogeneity tests for regional frequency analysis

A. Viglione

F. Laio

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About Me

Prof.Dr. Pierluigi Claps has been a full professor of water engineering at the Polytechnic University of Turin since 2000. He earned an M.Sc. degree in civil engineering, with honors, in 1986 and a Ph.D. in hydrology from the University of Naples in 1990. He is the author and co-author of more than 100 papers, mainly related to statistics and watershed hydrology topics, published in referenced journals and in proceedings of national and international conferences. From 1990 to 2005, he was involved in the activities of the CNR-GNDCI (Italian Group for Prevention of Hydro-Geologic Disasters), working on topics related to flood risk estimation at a regional scale. Within GNDCI, in 2001, he was in charge of the research unit 1.54 at the Polytechnic University of Turin and in 1999, he became a member of the scientific committee, providing support to the coordination of Line #1 research. His research interests include regional statistical analysis of extreme rainfalls and floods; assessment of extreme thunderstorm hazard over large areas; radar and remote sensing applications for the assessment of the spatial distribution of extreme rainfall; parsimonious statistical methods for the representation of hydrological processes; climate change effects assessment in mountain regions; the effect of climatic factors on the mechanisms of flood formation; methods for water resources assessment at the regional scale; and regional analysis of flow duration curves.

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