Peer Reviewed GEOtop Publications

  • Simulation of surface temperature with the GEOtop model v. 0.9375:

1 Bertoldi G., Notarnicola C., Leitinger G., Endrizzi S., Zebisch M., Della Chiesa S. and Tappeiner U., Topographical and ecohydrological controls on land surface temperature in an Alpine catchment, Ecohydrology, 3, 189 – 204, doi:10.1002/eco.129, 2010.

  • Structure and application of the extension of the GEOtop model to study landslides and debris flows:

2 Simoni, S., Zanotti, F., Bertoldi, G., Rigon, R.: Modelling the probability of occurrence of shallow landslides and channelized debris flows using GEOtop-SF, Hydrological Processes,. doi: 10.1002/hyp.6886, 2007.

  • Description and application of the GEOtop model v. 0.875:

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

  • Application of the GEOtop model v. 0.875 to complex topography and sensitivity study:

4 Bertoldi, G., Rigon, R. and Over, T. M.: Impact of Watershed Geomorphic Characteristics on the Energy and Water Budgets, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Vol. 7, No. 3, pages 389-403, 2006.

  • Description and application of the snow module of the GEOtop model v. 0.875:

5 Zanotti, F., Endrizzi, S., Bertoldi, G. and Rigon, R., The GEOTOP snow module, Hydrological Processes, 18, 3667-3679, DOI 10.1002/hyp.5794, 2004.

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.