https://www.possantti.net/tags/hydrology/Recent content in Hydrology on Iporã Brito PossanttiHugo -- gohugo.ioen-gbMon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.possantti.net/blog/some-water-is-coming-down/Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.possantti.net/blog/some-water-is-coming-down/<h2 id="cinematic-reality">Cinematic reality</h2> <blockquote> <p>I think some water&rsquo;s coming down, eh</p> </blockquote> <p>That is what I wrote on 29 April 2024, a year ago, in a WhatsApp group of professors and students from the Institute of Hydraulic Research (IPH). The group had been created in September 2023, in the context of the heavy floods that inundated cities in the Taquari River Valley.</p> <p>This group became active again in November 2023, when other rains caused new floods, this time hitting Porto Alegre and the metropolitan region. On that occasion, I helped create material for the press, which was released to illustrate what <em>would happen</em> if a flood like the one in 1941 <em>were to occur</em> again, without the dyke protection system. It was featured in G1 and Correio do Povo.</p>https://www.possantti.net/blog/the-magic-of-water/Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.possantti.net/blog/the-magic-of-water/<h2 id="the-wizard">The Wizard</h2> <p>Studying Hydrology (and hydrological models) during my PhD had a much greater impact on my firmest perceptions of reality than I ever imagined.</p> <p>The main culprit for this wasn&rsquo;t my colleagues or local professors at the IPH, but the articles and books of a certain British hydrologist, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Beven">Keith Beven</a>. This fellow, besides looking like a wizard of the Merlin or Gandalf variety, manages to make Hydrology a far more interesting (and mysterious) science than I had ever even considered.</p>