Publications by Andrea Rinaldo

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The spatiotemporal evolution of human mobility and the related fluctuations of population density are known to be key drivers of the dynamics of infectious disease outbreaks. These factors are particularly relevant in the case of mass gatherings, which may ...

The relationship between the total water volume entering a lagoon during a characteristic tidal cycle (i.e., the prism) and the size of its inlet is well established empirically since the classic work of O'Brien and Jarrett widely cited in the geomorphic a ...

We use high-resolution tracer data from an experimental site to test theoretical approaches that integrate catchment-scale flow and transport processes in a unified framework centered on selective age sampling by streamflow and evapotranspiration fluxes. T ...

This study compares three imputation methods applied to the field observations of hydraulic head in subsurface hydrology. Hydrogeological studies that analyze the timeseries of groundwater elevations often face issues with missing data that may mislead bot ...

We propose a mathematical framework for the general definition and computation of travel time distributions defined by the closure of a catchment control volume, where the input flux is an arbitrary rainfall pattern and the output fluxes are green and blue ...

The fate of ongoing infectious disease outbreaks is predicted through reproduction numbers, defining the long-term establishment of the infection, and epidemicity indices, tackling the reactivity of the infectious pool to new contagions. Prognostic metrics ...

Global food security increasingly relies on the trade of food commodities. Freshwater resources are essential to agricultural production and are thus embodied in the trade of food commodities, referred to as "virtual water trade." Agricultural production p ...

The escalating food demand by a growing and increasingly affluent global population is placing unprecedented pressure on the limited land and water resources of the planet, underpinning concerns over global food security and its sensitivity to shocks arisi ...

Here we present a theoretical interpretation of high-frequency, high-quality tracer time series from the Hafren catchment at Plynlimon in mid-Wales. We make use of the formulation of transport by travel time distributions to model chloride transport origin ...

Although a differential sensitivity of cholera dynamics to climate variability has been reported in the spatially heterogeneous megacity of Dhaka, Bangladesh, the specific patterns of spread of the resulting risk within the city remain unclear. We build on ...

We propose a comparative study of three different methods aimed at optimizing existing groundwater monitoring networks. Monitoring piezometric heads in subsurface porous formations is crucial at regional scales to properly characterize the relevant subsurf ...

While campaigns of vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 are underway across the world, communities face the challenge of a fair and effective distribution of a limited supply of doses. Current vaccine allocation strategies are based on criteria such as age or ri ...

We analyze the class of networks characterized by modular structure where a sequence of l Erdos-Renyi random networks of size N >> 1 with random average degrees is joined by links whose structure must remain immaterial. We find that traceroutes spanning th ...

Solar radiation is a dominant driver of snowmelt dynamics and streamflow generation in alpine catchments. A better understanding of how solar radiation patterns affect the hydrologic response is needed to assess when calibrated temperature-index models are ...

We discuss a recent theoretical approach combining catchment-scale flow and transport processes into a unified framework. The approach is designed to characterize the hydrochemistry of hydrologic systems and to meet the challenges posed by empirical eviden ...

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Mobile phone data highlights the role of mass gatherings in the spreading of cholera outbreaks

On the O'Brien-Jarrett-Marchi law

Using SAS functions and high-resolution isotope data to unravel travel time distributions in headwater catchments

Comparison of Three Imputation Methods for Groundwater Level Timeseries

Transport in the hydrologic response: Travel time distributions, soil moisture dynamics, and the old water paradox

River networks as ecological corridors for species, populations and pathogens of water-borne disease

Epidemicity of cholera spread and the fate of infection control measures

Temporal dynamics of blue and green virtual water trade networks

Probabilistic dynamics of soil nitrate: the coupling of eco-hydrological and bio-geochemical processes

Resilience and reactivity of global food security

Modeling chloride transport using travel time distributions at Plynlimon, Wales

Climate-driven endemic cholera is modulated by human mobility in a megacity

Data-driven statistical optimization of a groundwater monitoring network

Optimal control of the spatial allocation of COVID-19 vaccines: Italy as a case study

Spanning traceroutes over modular networks and general scaling degree distributions

Epidemicity thresholds for water-borne and water-related diseases

Preface to Ecohydrology of Inland and Coastal Waters in Honour of Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe

Scale-dependent effects of solar radiation patterns on the snow-dominated hydrologic response

Storage selection functions: A coherent framework for quantifying how catchments store and release water and solutes

A transmission model of the 2010 cholera epidemic in haiti