Giuseppe Formetta

Giuseppe Formetta is an experienced researcher in multi-hazard risk assessment, hydrological modeling, and data analysis. He joined the University of Trento in 2019, after being employed as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Colorado School of Mines (CO, USA) and as Associate Researcher at the Center for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH, NERC-UK). His research interests mainly cover three topics. The first is large-scale hydrological model development, flood forecasting, and assessing spatio-temporal changes of flood and drought hazards, both in historical and in future weather conditions. The second topic is devoted to multi-hazard risk assessment at the global and local scale (i.e. floods, droughts, heat and coldwaves, and windstorms), connecting hazards to social and economic impacts and assessing the multi-hazard vulnerabilities. The last topic is on the investigation of landslide risk, accounting for the influence of the bedrock structure variability on the hillslope hydrology and stability.

Articles

1.    Visser-Quinn, A., Beevers, L., Collet, L., Formetta, G., Smith, K., Wanders, N.,& Ku-mar, R. (2019). Spatio-temporal analysis of compound hydro-hazard extremes across the UK. Advances in Water Resources, 130, 77-90.
2.    Formetta, G., & Feyen, L. (2019). Empirical evidence of declining global vulnerability to climate-related hazards. Global Environmental Change, 57, 101920.
3.    Formetta, G., Over, T., & Stewart, E. (2021). Assessment of peak flow scaling and its effect on flood quantile estimation in the United Kingdom. Water Resources Research, 57(4), e2020WR028076.
4.    Formetta, G., Marra, F., Dallan, E., Zaramella, M., & Borga, M. (2021). Differential orographic impact on sub-hourly, hourly, and daily extreme precipitation. Advances in Water Resources, 104085.
5.    Formetta G, Tootle G, Bertoldi G. Streamflow Reconstructions Using Tree-Ring Based Paleo Proxies for the Upper Adige River Basin (Italy). Hydrology. 2022; 9(1):8. https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology9010008
6.    Rigon, R., Formetta, G., Bancheri, M., Tubini, N., D'Amato, C., David, O., and Massari, C.: HESS Opinions: Participatory Digital Earth Twin Hydrology systems (DARTHs) for everyone: a blueprint for hydrologists, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2021-644, in review, 2022