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About me

Guido Nigrelli was born in Torino, Italy, in 1961. He is a Naturalist (M.S. degree in Natural Science). Since 1984 he works at the National Research Council (CNR): from 1984 to 2000 he has worked at the Institute for Agricultural Mechanization (CNR-IMA) and from 2001 to nowadays he works at the Research Institute for Geo-hydrological Protection (CNR-IRPI).

The main research interest of Guido Nigrelli lies in:

  • Climate science and rainfall events studies
  • Geo-hazard and land planning
  • Design and development of web-based, open-source relational database
  • Soil science and pedology


International publications (since 2009 only)


Year Title

Link
2012 Dbclim: A web-based, open-source relational database for rainfall event studies

2012 Reconstruction and analysis of two long-term precipitation time series: Alpe Devero and Domodossola (Italian Western Alps)

2012 Dynamic taxonomies applied to a web-based relational database for geo-hydrological risk mitigation

2010 Floods in alpine river basins (Italy): an interdisciplinary study combining historical information and hydroclimatic data

2009 The May 2008 extreme rain event in the Germanasca Valley (Italian Western Alps): processes and effects observed along the hydrographic network and valley slopes

2009 A GIS tool for historical instability processes data entry: An approach to hazard management in two Italian Alpine river basins

2009 Application of a model to the evaluation of flood damage


Works in monographs

Year Title

Link
2012 A model for simulating event scenarios and estimating expected economic losses for residential buildings: preliminary results

2010 Rainfall thresholds for possible occurrence of shallow landslides and debris flows in Italy

2007 Caratterizzazione meteo-climatica degli eventi pluviometrici in ambiente alpino: metodologia e primi risultati

1998 Influence of establishment and utilisation technique of hillside pastures on soil physical characteristics


Activity of reviewer on international papers journals

Year Type of paper, journal

Link
2011 Research paper, Journal of Hydrology

2010 Research paper, Journal of Hydrology


Recent national publications

Year Title

Link
2011 Eventi pluviometrici recenti nel bacino del fiume Toce

2010 Vulnerabilità manifestata dagli argini maestri del Fiume Po negli ultimi due secoli

2010 Mobilità planimetrica di un alveo fluviale e condizionamento imposto dall’uomo. Il caso del Fiume Tanaro in territorio alessandrino

2005 Bacino idrografico del Torrente Orco: analisi integrata evento-fenomeno-danno

2005 Analisi e proprietà degli eventi pluviometrici in Valle Orco (Piemonte)

2005 Analysis and characteristics of pluviometric events in the Germanasca Valley (Italian Western Alps)

2004 Studio delle condizioni pluviometriche del Bacino idrografico del Torrente Germanasca



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