University of Udine (UNIUD)
Polytechnic Department of Engineering and Architecture (DPIA)
The RU at UNIUD will provide expertise in the field of rainfall-induced landslide modeling for understanding hydrological and geomorphological processes evolution at the basin scale. Such an approach is especially appropriate to assess the impacts of extreme rainfall events and climate changes on catchment natural hazards. The team counts on the strong and long collaboration with the RU at UNIPA and on international collaborations in the field of physically-based modeling.
University of Padova (UNIPD)
Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (ICEA) - Department of Geosciences
The RU at UNIPD contributes expertise in the field of rainfall modeling, extreme value theory, analysis and downscaling of satellite rainfall estimates. In recent years, the team at UNIPD have developed the novel MEVD approach to extreme value modeling, which is key in using all the relatively short rainfall records from satellite observations to infer extreme rainfall quantiles. The research group at UNIPD has also developed the methods that will be used for downscaling rainfall in space and time to enable comparisons of downscaled satellite estimates with point-scale rain-gauge observations and the quantification of estimation uncertainty.
National Research Council (CNR)
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
The RU at CNR will provide well-known expertise in remote sensing of precipitation and in the statistical analysis of remotely-sensed rainfall. In particular, the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC) has more than 20-year experience in climate sciences and is recognized internationally through its international collaborations, in Europe and elsewhere.
University of Palermo (UNIPA)
Engineering Department
The RU at UNIPA has multi-year experience in rainfall monitoring at different space-time scales and in extreme rainfall analysis, also using satellite-based remote sensing. In the last decade an important research focus of the UNIPA RU has been the detection of potential signals of climate changes in rainfall regimes at different scales. Additionally, over the past several years, UNIPA has deployed, over the dense urban area of Palermo (about 250 square km area), a complex rainfall monitoring system composed of two X-band weather radars, a network of tipping-bucket rain gauges (10 gauges), an optical disdrometer, a weight rain gauge, and a complete weather station.