Paolo Burlando
Professor
Dept. of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Paolo Burlando is working as a Professor of “Hydrology and Water Resources Management”, ETH Zurich from 1997.He was the Professor in charge, “Basin and river training”, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (1994-1996). Paolo Burlando did Ph.D. at Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Research Interest
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.
Publications
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Burlando P, Rosso R, Cadavid L, Salas JD (1993) Forecasting of short-term rainfall using ARMA models. J. Hydrol. 144: 193-211.
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Burlando P, Rosso R (1992) Extreme storm rainfall and climatic change. Atmospheric Res. 27 : 169-189.
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Burlando P (1989) Rainfall simulation and prediction by means of stochastic models (in italian). Ph.D. thesis, Institute of Hydraulics, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy.
