Such works, hopefully published soon in 2026, are fostered by the Gov4Water project (lnkd.in/eueGmF5F), in which Umbria region is one of the focus areas.

More details soon!

Within the region, it is located the 4th Italian Lake by extension, the Trasimeno Lake. It suffers from strong seasonal fluctuations and an overall progressive reduction of its level. We asked ourselves how the lake could evolve by the end of the century under CMIP6 climate #projections (↘️ right).

💧📊 #Freshwater availability is the litmus test of #global #warming. Umbria region (called the "Green Heart" of Italy) is a hotspot for the reduction in freshwater availability due to #climate #change (↙️ left) detectable in the Mediterranean area.

We carried out a comprehensive comparison between long-term, #satellite-based #irrigation #water use datasets (released under the @esa.int CCI-AWU project, lnkd.in/dUinZN6H) and estimates from #global #hydrological #models.
🌍 Areas: CONUS, India, Ebro (Spain) and Murray-Darling (Australia) basins

📣 New preprint out:
𝗦𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘂𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗱𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿? 🛰️🖥️

Check it here:
lnkd.in/dWT-FwkE

🎯 The objective? To showcase and quantify the persuasive power of awareness-raising actions on household #water consumption.
The paper has just been accepted, more details soon

This time we wrote a paper different from the usual ones, describing an experiment designed by Renato Morbidelli and targeting a sample from the population of our university - Università degli Studi di Perugia.
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𝗧𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀-𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻? 🚰♻️

This work wants to bridge the gap from monitoring #irrigation dynamics for understanding the human impacts on the water cycle to support agricultural #water management strategies. Usual scales of interest for water allocation managers and a very fine sampling (10 m) are considered.

🆕 paper alert:
𝗜𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝘆𝗽𝗲𝗿-𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲
𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗲-𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 🛰️📊

The #openacces paper is available at:

lnkd.in/dB27hhKq

𝟭 𝗸𝗺 𝗜𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗨𝘀𝗲 (𝗜𝗪𝗨) over the Foggia provence, southern Italy 🇮🇹, 2018-2024. 💧🛰️
Just a foretaste of what we'll get from the @esa.int Irrigation-EU project:
▫️1 km IWU from Sentinel-1 #soilmoisture
▫️spatial coverage: whole Europe
▫️temporal coverage: 2016-today
Stay tuned for updates!

The scientific paper is available at: lnkd.in/dmQpfrUu

High-resolution satellite soil moisture offers the possibility of estimating groundwater recharge 🛰️💧🔋
Web story on our recently developed approach for estimating #groundwater #recharge by means of #satellite #soilmoisture published on the Global Water Forum page: l1nq.com/Z3ZIq

Unfortunately, this year I won't be attending #EGU25, but if you are there I encourage you go listening the talk by Francesco Leopardi on the amazing job he's doing in his PhD, focused on globale-scale #runoff estimates through #satellite data. 🏞️🛰️🌍

📅 Friday, 2 May, 15:20-15:30 CEST, 🟥 Room C

Its exciting aim is to develop a high-resolution (1 km) satellite-based IWU data set at the European scale. To do this, the SM-based inversion approach (lnkd.in/dBmzbcr8) will be implemented operationally to estimate IWU with a short latency.
Stay tuned for updates!

More research on #irrigation #water use (IWU) estimates from #space is coming! 🛰️💧
Today we kicked-off the 𝗜𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝗘𝗨 project, funded by @esa.int.
Slide credit: @hydrologynext.bsky.social

𝗛𝗬𝗣𝗘𝗥-𝗣: 𝗛𝗬𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲-𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
The new 1km, daily, European-scale, 2007-2022, satellite+reanalysis precipitation products freely available on Zenodo:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
doi.org/10.5281/zeno... (satellite only)

Paper preprint coming soon

Are extreme rainfall events intensifying in Italy? 🌧
In doi.org/10.1016/j.ej... we show that:
- short-duration ordinary extremes increase all over Italy;
- longer duration ordinary extremes exhibit negative trends in some areas;
- the most intense extremes vary more than the ordinary ones.

The activity is an output of the Tethys Plus project, supported by the E.U.- PR FESR Regione Lazio. Stay tuned for more information!

Performances in reconstructing irrigation dynamics have been assessed at different scales of interest for #water allocation managers, i.e., from the consortium level to the farm and single field ones.

We applied the SM-based inversion approach (lnkd.in/d9jUtghB) for #irrigation #quantification and the TSIMAP method ( lnkd.in/dhbuabGB) for irrigation #mapping at the unprecedent sampling of 10 m.

🆕 preprint dealing with the question:
𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗯𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀? 🛰️💧🌽

dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Grazie Giulio!

Thanks for sharing!!

The proposed framework merges benefits of analytical and water-balance-based approaches. More interesting, soil hydraulic parameters are calibrated using #rainfall as a target observation, more readily available than groundwater-related information.

𝗔 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗶𝗹 𝗺𝗼𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 🛰️💧🔋

📄 Enjoy the reading: lnkd.in/dmQpfrUu