Prof. Dr. Paolo Burlando

Prof. Dr. Paolo Burlando
Full Professor at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
- Work phone +41 44 633 38 12
- phone +41 44 633 38 13 Secretariat(Sec.)
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Personal research interests
He actively carries out research as individual and research group leader in the fields of water resources planning and management, rainfall field analysis (mathematical models of precipitation, scaling properties of rainfall fields) hydrologic extreme forecasting and prediction (real-time prediction of temporal rainfall, flood forecasting and real-time rainfall prediction, design criteria of hydrological forecasting systems, extreme value analysis in the frequency domain), global change and water resources (downscaling of climate scenarios from Global Circulation Models, analysis of long-term hydrological time-series, impact of global change on the hydrological cycle and on water resources systems, impact of global change on urban drainage systems design), water resources in mountainous regions, hydrology and ecology interactions in mountain floodplains.
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