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Sergio Rusi
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The phenomenon of seawater intrusion is becoming increasingly problematic, particularly in low-lying coastal regions and areas that rely heavily on aquifers for their freshwater supply. It is, therefore, vital to address the causes and consequences of this phenomenon in order to
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The Gran Sasso carbonate aquifer is the largest and most productive in the Apennines. Its hydrogeological structure has been studied since the middle of the last century for the springs’ characterization for drinking purposes and for a motorway tunnel. Meanwhile, its hydrodynamic
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Estimating a Reliable Water Budget at A Basin Scale
A Comparison between the Geostatistical and Traditional Methods (Foro River Basin, Central Italy)
Recently, new numerical methods have been applied to weather data for the estimation of water budget, especially when the lack of measured data is considerable. Geostatistics is one of the most powerful approaches when it comes to studying spatially relevant natural phenomena, as
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Indagare la fattibilità dell’utilizzo di misure di precipitazioni da RaDAR meteorologico per stimare la ricarica potenziale nelle falde acquifere regionali
Il caso studio del massiccio della Majella nel centro Italia
Rain gauge spatial sparsity and temporal discontinuity of data represent one of the major issues for reliable recharge estimations. In the past decades, the use of ground-based microwave weather RaDAR has dramatically improved quantitative rainfall estimation by providing spatial
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The concept of natural background level (NBL) aims at distinguishing the natural and anthropogenic contributions to concentrations of specific contaminants, as groundwater management and protection tools. This is usually defined as a unique value at a regional scale, even when th
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Accurate knowledge of the rain amount is a crucial driver in several hydrometeorological applications. This is especially true in complex orography territories, which are typically impervious, thus, leaving most mountain areas ungauged. Due to their spatial and temporal coverage,
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The hilly landscape of the Periadric area in Central Italy is characterized by mainly marly– clayey foredeep basin deposits (Plio–Pleistocene age). These lithotypes are generally considered aquicludes, if compared with the regional limestone aquifers of Apennines. However, a coar
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The Empirical Rainfall Thresholds (ERTs) for shallow landslide initiation are commonly devised worldwide mostly to be implemented within landslide early warning systems. Nonetheless, since the pioneering works on ERTs in the 1980s, only meteorological variables - that are cumulat
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Understanding the groundwater flow in carbonate aquifers represents a challenging aspect in hydrogeology, especially when they have been struck by strong seismic events. It has been proved that large earthquakes change springs hydrodynamic behaviour showing transitory or long-las
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The incorrect wastewater management and the land use distribution lead to severe environmental problems, creating heavy eutrophication condition in surface-water; when surface-water/groundwater relationships exist, the organic matter transferred to the aquifer oxidizes and trigge
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The snow and rainfall impact on the Verde spring behavior
A statistical approach on hydrodynamic and hydrochemical daily time-series
The wide regional aquifer system springs are one of the most important sources of freshwater, especially because of the ever-increasing global water demand. Thus, these springs must be protected and managed in a sustainable manner. To this purpose, a detailed knowledge about the
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The water–rock interaction is discussed in this study for some Central Apennine aquifers and their relative springs, where the geological and hydrogeological setting is potentially responsible for hydrocarbon contamination. The contamination is related to the presence of limeston
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Multi-scenario numerical modeling applied to groundwater contamination
The Popoli Gorges complex aquifer case study (Central Italy)
In this research, a multi-scenario numerical modeling was implemented to assess the effects of changes to abstraction patterns in the Sant'Angelo well-field (central Italy) and their implications on the aquifer hydrodynamic and the advective transport of contaminants. Once implem
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Statistical and fractal approaches on long time-series to surface-water/groundwater relationship assessment
A central Italy alluvial plain case study
In this research, univariate and bivariate statistical methods were applied to rainfall, river and piezometric level datasets belonging to 24-year time series (1986-2009). These methods, which often are used to understand the effects of precipitation on rivers and karstic springs
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Contribution of B and Sr Isotopes to assess boron contamination of groundwater
Case studies in Central Italy
The present work aims to assess the origin of the boron contamination of groundwater that affect some areas of central-Adriatic Italy, through the use of boron and strontium isotopic analysis. The research results indicate that boron contamination is mainly related with salinizat
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A multidisciplinary approach has been used, integrating statistical multivariate analysis and hydrogeochemical modeling, in order to evaluate processes that cause high concentration of iron and manganese in drinking water wells exploiting the San Pedro Sula porous aquifer. The an
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Iron and manganese are two of the most common contaminants that exceed the threshold imposed by international and national legislation. When these contamination occurs in groundwater, the use of the water resource is forbidden for any purposes. Several studies investigated these
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