Burlando, Paolo, Prof.

Personal research interests

Hydrological modelling, rainfall field analysis and modelling, flood analysis and estimation, flood forecasting, water related natural hazards, global change and its impact on hydrology and water resources, hydrologic and climatic non-stationarity, scaling in hydrological processes, hydrology of mountainous environments, ecohydrology, river and basin training, sustainable water resources management.

Short CV

Degrees
1984: Degree in Civil Engineering (Hydraulics), University of Genoa (Italy).
1989: Ph.D. in Hydraulic Engineering (Hydrology) from Politecnico di Milano (Italy).

Positions and teaching activity
1985: Fellowship, “International Advanced Course on Water Resources Management”, Italian University for Foreigners in Perugia.
1986-89: Ph.D. student at Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
1990-1996: Research Associate at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, tenured position after 1994.
1994-1996: Professor in charge, “Basin and river training”, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
1997- to date: Professor of “Hydrology and Water Resources Management”, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Scientific related activities
1996, Guest editor of J. Hydrology; 1994-to date, appointed reviewer for J. of Hydrology, Water Resources Research, J. Hydrological Sciences, Hydrological Processes, J. ASCE, J.of Hydrometeorology, Water Sci-ence and Technology; 1997-to date, appointed in panel of experts of National Research Council of Italy, Na-tional Envrionmental Council, UK, European Commission (DGXII), Swiss National Research Foundation, Austrian Science Fund (FWF); 1997-to date, Member of the Hydrology Committee, Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences; 1997-1999, Secretary of the Hydrology and Weather section of EGS (European Geophysi-cal Society); 1998-to to date, Member of the Rain Data Committee of the Swiss Water Pollution Control As-sociation; 1998-to date, Chief of the Regional Center for European Alps within the USGS program “GLIMS” (Global Land Ice Monitoring from Space); 1998-to date, Member of the Scientific Committee of the Hydro-logical Atlas of Switzerland; 2000-to date, Associated Editor of HESS; 1999-to date, co-director of the Post-graduate Education Program in “Hydrology and Hydrogeology” jointly organised by Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and Zurich (ETHZ), and by the University of Neuchâtel; 2001-2004, Member of the Swiss Federal Commission on Water Resources Management; Principal investigator and co-investigator of several national and international research projects.

Selected list of publications

• 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.
• Burlando, P. and R. Rosso, (1993) Stochastic Models of Temporal Rainfall: Reproducibility, Estimation and Prediction of Extreme Events, accepted for publication in: Salas, J.D., R. Harboe, e J. Marco-Segura (eds.), Stochastic Hydrology in its Use in Water Resources Systems Simulation and Optimization, Proc. of NATO-ASI Workshop, Peniscola, Spain, September 18-29, 1989, Kluwer, pp. 137-173.
• Burlando, P. and R. Rosso, (1991) Comment on "Parameter estimation and sensitivity analysis for the modified Bartlett-Lewis Rectangular Pulses Model of rainfall, by Islam et al., J. Geophys. Res., 95, D3, 1990, p.2093-2100, J. Geophys. Res., 96(D5), p. 9391-9395.
• Burlando, P. and R. Rosso, (1992) Extreme storm rainfall and climatic change, Atmospheric Res., 27 (1-3), 169-189.
• Burlando, P., R. Rosso, L. Cadavid, and J.D. Salas, (1993) Forecasting of short-term rainfall using ARMA models, J. Hydrol., 144, April, 193-211.
• Burlando, P., M. Mancini, and R. Rosso, (1993) FLORA: a distributed flood risk analyser, in Guariso G. and B. Page (eds.), Computer support for environmental impact assessment, IFIP Transactions, B-16, Elsevier (North Holland), pp. 91-102.
• Burlando, P., A. Montanari, e R. Ranzi, (1996) Forecasting of storm rainfall by combined use of radar, rain gages and linear models, Atm. Res., 42, 199-216.
• Burlando, P. e R. Rosso, (1996) Scaling and multiscaling Depth-Duration-Frequency curves of storm precipita-tion, J. Hydrol., vol. 187/1-2, pp. 45-64.
• Burlando, P., A. Montanari, e R. Rosso, (1996) Modelling hydrological data with and without long memory, Meccanica, 31, pp.87-101, Kluwer Ac. Publ., Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
• Burlando, P., M. Mancini, and R. Rosso, (1997) Impact of climate change on hydrological modeling and flood risk assessment, in: RIBAMOD - River basin modelling, management and flood mitigation concerted action, edited by R. Casale, K. Havnø and P. Samuels, Proc. of the 1st Expert Meeting, Copenaghen, October 10-11, 1996, pp. 7-25.
• Galimberti Aghion, C., and P. Burlando, (2000) Climatic forcing and flood frequency, in: Claps, P. and F. Sic-cardi (eds.), Mediterranean Storms, p. 311-339.
• Pfaundler, M., and P. Burlando, (2000) Identification of homogeneous regions for flood frequency regionalization with the region of influence approach in Switzerland; to what extent spatial proximity alone can be used as basis for the information transfer?, in Toensmann, F. and M. Koch (eds), River Flood Defence, Vol.1., Proc. of Int. Symposium on River Flood Defence, Kassel, Sept. 20-23, pp. D185-D194.
• Pfaundler, M., and P. Burlando, (2002) The region of influence approach, a dynamic method of regional flood frequency analysis in complex and highly variable environments – experiences from Switzerland, in: A. Snorasson et al. (eds.), The Extremes of the Extremes: Extraordinary Floods, IAHS Publ. no. 271, pp. 323–328.
• Olsson, J., and P. Burlando, (2002) Reproduction of temporal scaling by a rectangular pulses rainfall model, Hydrol. Process., 16, 611-630.
• Burlando, P. and R. Rosso, (2002) Effects of transient climate change on basin hydrology. 1. Precipitation scenarios for the Arno River, central Italy, Hydrol. Process., 16, 1151-1175.
• Burlando, P. and R. Rosso, (2002) Effects of transient climate change on basin hydrology. 2. Impacts on runoff variability of the Arno River, central Italy, Hydrol. Process., 16, 1177-1199.
• Burlando, P., U. Strasser and F. Pellicciotti, (2002) Modelling Mountainous Water Systems Between Learning And Speculating, Looking For Challenges, Nordic Hydrol., 33(1), 47-74.
• Molnar, P., P. Burlando and W. Ruf, (2002) Hydrological Extremes in Riverine Catchments, Aquat. Sci., 64, 129-140.
• Salas, J.D., J. Ramirez, P. Burlando and R.A. Pielke Sr., (2003) Stochastic simulation of precipitation and streamflow processes, Ch. 33 in Handbook of Weather, Climate and Water: Atmospheric Chemistry, Hydrology and Societal Impacts, ed. T.D. Potter and B.R. Colman, Wiley, New York, p. 607-640.
• Valdes, J., P. Burlando and J.D. Salas, (2003) Stochastic forecasting of precipitation and streamflow processes, Ch. 34 in Handbook of Weather, Climate and Water: Atmospheric Chemistry, Hydrology and Societal Impacts, ed. T.D. Potter and B.R. Colman, Wiley, New York, p. 641-665.
• Strasser, U., J. Corripio, F. Pellicciotti, P. Burlando, B. Brock, and M. Funk, (2004) Spatial and temporal variability of meteorological variables at Haut Glacier d’Arolla (Switzerland) during the ablation season 2001: Measurements and simulations, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D03103, doi:10.1029/2003JD003973.