CETEMPS Center of excellence - Hydrological Modeling Intestazione CETEMPS

Work Package 2 - Hydrological Modeling

Group Leader

Marco Verdecchia

Staff Members

Barbara Tomassetti Valentina Colaiuda Annalina Lombardi


Tel . (+39)-0862-433046 Fax. (+39)-0862-433033



Most relevant papers related to Cetemps WP2 activities and
CHyM (Cetemps HYdrological Model)

  1. Tomassetti B., F. Giorgi, M. Verdecchia and G. Visconti, Regional model simulation of the hydrometeorological effects of the Fucino Lake on the surrounding region, Annales Geophysicae, 21, pp. 2219-2232, 2003.
  2. Grimes D. I. F., E. Coppola, M. Verdecchia, and G. Visconti, A Neural Network Approach to Real-Time Rainfall Estimation for Africa Using Satellite Data, J. Hydrometeor, 4, pp. 1119-1133, 2003.
  3. Tomassetti B., E. Coppola, M. Verdecchia, and G. Visconti, Coupling a distributed grid based hydrological model and MM5 meteorological model for flooding alert mapping, Adv. Geosci., 2, pp. 59-63, 2005.
  4. Marzano F. S., D. Cimini, E. Coppola, M. Verdecchia, V. Levizzani, F. Tapiador, and J. F. Turk Satellite radiometric remote sensing of rainfall fields: multi-sensor retrieval techniques at geostationary scale, Adv. Geosci., 2, pp. 267-272, 2005.
  5. Coppola E., B. Tomassetti, M. Verdecchia, F.S. Marzano and G. Visconti, Small-catchment flood forecasting and drainage network extraction using computational intelligence, Neural Networks, 2006.
  6. Bianco L., B. Tomassetti, E. Coppola, A. Fracassi, M. Verdecchia, and G. Visconti, Thermally driven circulation in a region of complex topography: comparison of wind-profiling radar measurements and MM5 numerical predictions, Ann. Geophys., 24, pp. 1537-1549, 2006.
  7. Coppola E., D. I. F. Grimes, M. Verdecchia and G. Visconti, Validation of Improved TAMANN Neural Network for Operational Satellite-Derived Rainfall Estimation in Africa, J. of Appl. Met., 45 (11), pp. 1557-1572, 2006.
  8. Rivolta G., F. S. Marzano, E. Coppola and M. Verdecchia, Artificial neural-network technique for precipitation nowcasting from satellite imagery, Adv. Geosci., 7, pp. 97-103, 2006.
  9. Coppola E., B. Tomassetti, L. Mariotti, M. Verdecchia and G. Visconti, Cellular automata algorithms for drainage network extraction and rainfall data assimilation, Hydrol. Sci. J., 52(3), pp. 579-592, 2007.
  10. Angelosante Bruno A., L. Pace, B. Tomassetti, E. Coppola, M. Verdecchia, G. Pacioni and G. Visconti, Estimation of fungal spore concentrations associated to meteorological variables, Aerobiologia, 23(3), pp. 221-228, 2007.
  11. Marzano F. S., G. Rivolta, E. Coppola, B. Tomassetti and M. Verdecchia, Rainfall Nowcasting From Multisatellite Passive-Sensor Images Using a Recurrent Neural Network, Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 45(11), pp. 3800--3812,2007.
  12. Tomassetti B., F. S. Marzano, M. Montopoli and M. Verdecchia, Rainfall Radar Nowcasting using a Neural-Network Cascade Approach, Proc. ERAD08, Helsinki, 2008.
  13. Verdecchia M., E. Coppola, C. Faccani, R. Ferretti, A. Memmo, M. Montopoli, G. Rivolta, T. Paolucci, E. Picciotti, A. Santacasa, B. Tomassetti, G. Visconti and F. S. Marzano, Flood forecast in complex orography coupling distributed hydrometeorological models and in-situ and remote sensing data, Meteorol. Atmos. Phys., 101, pp. 267-285, 2008.
  14. Sorooshian, S., Hsu, K.L., Coppola, E., Tomassetti, B., Verdecchia, M., Visconti, G. (Eds.), Hydrological Modelling and the Water Cycle Coupling ther Atmospheric and Hydrological Models Series: Water Science and Technology Library , Vol. 63. ISBN: 978-3-540-77842-4.
  15. Tomassetti B., A. Angelosante Bruno, L. Pace, M. Verdecchia and G. Visconti Prediction of Alternaria and Pleospora concentrations from the meteorological forecast and artificial neural network in L'Aquila, Abruzzo (Central Italy) , Aerobiologia, 25(3), pp. 127-136, 2009.
  16. Tomassetti B., M. Verdecchia and F. Giorgi, NN5: A neural network based approach for the downscaling of precipitation fields - Model description and preliminary results, Journal of Hydrology, 367, pp. 14-26, 2009.
  17. Barbara Tomassetti, Annalina Lombardi, Enzo Cerasani, Antonio Di Sabatino, Loretta Pace, Dina Ammazzalorso and Marco Verdecchia, Mapping of Alternaria and Pleospora concentrations in Central Italy using meteorological forecast and Neural Network estimator , Aerobiologia, DOI 10.1007/s10453-012-9262-2, 2012.
  18. Erika Coppola, Marco Verdecchia, Filippo Giorgi, Valentina Colaiuda, Barbara Tomassetti, Annalina Lombardi, Changing hydrological conditions in the Po basin under global warming, Sci Total Environ (2014).

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