GEOtop Manuals

  • GEOtop 0.875 Manual: the official manual for the 0.875 version: Bertoldi G., Tamanini D., Zanotti F. and Rigon R., GEOTOP: a hydrological balance model: technical description and programs guide, version 0.875, Technical Report DICA-04-001, University of Trento, Italy, April 2005.

  • GEOtop 0.75 Manual: the manual for the old 0.75 version: Bertoldi G. and Rigon R., GEOTOP: a hydrological balance model: technical description and programs guide, version 0.75, Technical Report DICA-04-001, University of Trento, Italy, April 2004.

  • Horton Manual: the manual containing theorical information about all the hydrological and geomorphological routines.

GEOtop Tutorials

Peer Reviewed GEOtop Publications

  • 1 Structure and application of the extension of the GEOtop model to study landslides and debris flows: Simoni, S., Zanotti, F., Bertoldi, G., Rigon, R., 2006: Modelling the probability of occurrence of shallow landslides and channelized debris flows using GEOtop-SF, Hydrological Processes,. doi: 10.1002/hyp.6886, 2007.

  • 2: Description and application of the GEOtop model v. 0.875. Rigon R., G. Bertoldi and T. M. Over, GEOtop: A Distributed Hydrological Model with Coupled Water and Energy Budgets., Journal of Hydrometeorology, Vol. 7, No. 3, pages 371-388, 2006.

  • 3 Application and sensitivity study of the GEOtop model v. 0.875.G. Bertoldi, R. Rigon and T. M. Over, Impact of Watershed Geomorphic Characteristics on the Energy and Water Budgets, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Vol. 7, No. 3, pages 389-403, 2006.

  • 4 Description and application of the snow module of the GEOtop model v. 0.875. Zanotti F., S. Endrizzi, G. Bertoldi and R. Rigon, The GEOTOP snow module, Hydrol. Proc., 18, 3667-3679 (2004), DOI 10.1002/hyp.5794

Ph.D Thesis

  • 1 Development and application of the GEOtop model v. 0.75 and 0.875: Bertoldi G., The water and energy balance at basin scale: a distributed modeling approach, University of Trento, Monograph of the School of Doctoral Studies in Environmental Engineering, 202 pp., ISBN 88-8443-069-0, 2004.

  • [2] The the Richard's equation numerical scheme of GEOtop v. 0.9375: E.Cordano, Subsurface water flow in a catchment: theoretical tools. PhD thesis, Universita, degli Studi di Genova, 2006.

  • 3 Development and application of the snow module of the GEOtop model v. 0.935.: S. Endrizzi. Snow cover modelling at a local and distributed scale over complex terrain. Ph.D Dissertation in Environmental Engineering, University of Trento, Italy, 2007.

  • [4] Development and application of the extension of the GEOtop model to study landslides and debris flows: S. Simoni. A Comprehensive Approach to Landslide Triggering. Ph.D Dissertation in Environmental Engineering, University of Trento, Italy, 2007.
  • [5] Automatic parameter estimation of GEOtop model v. 0.75 and 0.875.: R. Entezarolmahdi. SParameter Estimation for Hydrologic Models. Ph.D Dissertation in Environmental Engineering, University of Trento, Italy, 2007.

Other GEOtop Publications

  • [1] Endrizzi, S., Bertoldi, G., Neteler M. and Rigon R., Snow cover patterns and evolution at basin scale: GEOtop model simulations and remote sensing observations, Proceedings of the 63rd Eastern Snow Conference, 195-209, Newark, Delaware USA, 2006.
  • [2] Entezarolmahdi R. Rigon R , and Bertoldi G., Assessment of Parameter Uncertainty for a Physically-based Hydrologic Model, using Automatic Optimization Approach, Atti del convegno "idra2006 : XXX Convegno di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche", Roma, 10-15 Settembre, 2006.

  • 3 Simoni S., Zanotti F., Rigon R., Squarzoni C., Approccio probabilistico alla determinazione dell'innesco di frane superficiali con in modello accoppiato idro-geotecnico: GEOTOP-SF, Atti del convegno "idra2006 : XXX Convegno di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche", Roma, 10-15 Settembre, 2006.

  • [4] Bertoldi G., Dietrich W.E., Miller N. L., Rigon R.. Bedrock and soil contribution to the formation of sub-surface runoff by saturation in headwater catchments: observations and simulation using a distributed hydrological model, Atti del XXIX Convegno di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche, Trento, Settembre 2004.

  • 5 Zanotti, F., Endrizzi S., Rigon R. Il modulo di accumulo e scioglimento della neve in Geotop. Atti del XXIX Convegno di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche, Trento, Settembre 2004.

  • 6 Tiso, C., Bertoldi G. and R. Rigon. Il modello Geotop-SF per la determinazione dell'innesco di fenomeni di franamento e di colata. Atti del Convegno Iterpraevent 2004, Riva del Garda, 24-28 Maggio 2004.

  • [7] Bertoldi G., Rigon R. and Over T.M., Un'indagine sugli effetti della topografia sul ciclo idrologico con il modello GEOTOP, Atti del XXVIII Convegno di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche, Potenza, Italy, 2002.
  • [8] Rigon R., Bertoldi G and Over T.M., GEOTOP: un modello del ciclo idrologico, Atti del XXVIII Convegno di Idraulica e Costruzioni Idrauliche, Potenza, Italy, 2002.

  • 9 R. Rigon, A. Antonello, S. Franceschi, D. Giacomelli, E. Cordano, S. Endrizzi, S. Simoni, M., DallAmico, C. Tiso, F. Zanotti, GEOFRAME: a system for doing hydrology by computer, from the http://www.cuahsi.org/biennial2008/archive.html

Miscellaneous presentations

  • GEOframe Cafe': meeting with informal presentations of topics inherent in distributed hydrologic modelling and/or the GEOtop (GEOframe!!) project