Climate shows a natural variability that influences the dynamics of river discharges. In particular, intense precipitations would cause floods, while prolonged dry periods are associated to droughts phenomena. In the Mediterranean area, climate change is expected to increase the frequency of...

Here the concept of return period is discussed in terms of the stationarity of the process. If the process is stationarity the concept of return period is well defined and ambiguities do not arise. If the process is non stationary, as it could be any climate driven phenomenon under climate...

This work presents the conditioned upscaling procedure applied in the Po-FEWS system by Hydrology area of ARPA SIMC Emilia Romagna to select the rainfall daily scenarios which better fit seasonal meteorological forecasts. Seasonal meteorological forecast provides qualitatively useful information...

The aim of this report within GEMINA project is to outline a procedure to detect inhomogeneity, shift, and trends in observed time series. The analysis of hydrological extremes will help to gain insight in the effects at regional/local scale of climate conditions. The same approach will be used...