Tinted detail of a photo: Fast-flowing white water rushing over mossy boulders in a rocky stream through a tall green conifer forest.
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Hydrological Sciences

Riccardo Rigon

Riccardo Rigon is Professor of Hydrology at the University of Trento and Director of its Center Agriculture Food Environment. Trained as a physicist, he contributed to the theory of optimal channel networks and then built the open-source GEOtop and GEOframe modelling systems. His current work concerns digital twins of river basins, travel-time theory and the statistical physics of soil water. He publishes the blog abouthydrology.blogspot.com · geoframe.blogspot.com · github.com/geoframecomponents

Which rain and temperature should drive your model? A guide to select daily forcing datasets , with application to northern Italy

October 29, 2026
Which rain and temperature should drive your model? A guide to select daily forcing datasets , with application to northern Italy

If you want to run a hydrological model  anywhere, the first question is which meteorological forcing to use. For the Po basin, or anywhere in northern Italy,  there are today at least a dozen gridded products, regional and European, built from different meteorological networks, with different methods and for different purposes. I reviewed them from …[Read More]