Schools

CNR-ISAC, in collaboration with the University of Naples “Parthenope”, is pleased to announce the organization of the International School on Satellite Meteorology (ISSM).

The ISSM 2024 will take place on 2 - 6 September 2024 in the wonderful location of Villa Doria d’Angri in Napoli (Italy), a prestigious site of the University of Naples “Parthenope”.

The school will be focused on Satellite Meteorology as the study of the atmospheric, land, and oceanic systems using remotely sensed data from different sensors onboard meteorological satellites. The basic principles of satellite remote sensing of weather features connected to microphysics of clouds and precipitation will be treated, as well as the fundamentals of retrieval methods, satellite imagery interpretation and products for science and operational meteorology. A special focus will be swept to the sensor technology and satellite development, launch, and in-orbit management.

The ISSM will provide frontal lectures and practical hands-on sessions for a wide audience composed by operational meteorologists, MSc. graduates and PhD students, early career researchers, young Electronics, Aerospace and Astronautical Engineers.

Registration deadline: 30 June 2024

Contacts and more information:
https://issm2024.isac.cnr.it/
issm2024 [at] isac.cnr.it

The 9th training school on Convective and Volcanic Clouds (CVC) detecting, monitoring and modelling will take place in Nicolosi, Sicily (Italy) 5-13 October 2024.

The training school is supported and organized by researchers of the CIMA Foundation, INGV, and CNR. 

Attending the school you will get an overview of the state of the art techniques and methods for detecting and monitoring the volcanic and convective clouds, you will know the different instruments and platforms allowing us to get the best performance in detecting such kind of clouds, you will be projected to the future learning about new missions planned for solving the main issues on these fields, you will be involved in real applications as early warning systems and modelling, you will directly analyze the data.

The school topics will range from satellite instruments such as IR sensors or GNSS to aircraft measurements like lidar and radar, from the study of ash and SO2 clouds to tropical cyclones, Mediterranean hurricanes, land and maritime convection.

The purpose of the School is to train students with outstanding research interest in the techniques allowing to detect, monitor, and model convective and volcanic clouds, to gain knowledge of the instruments and satellite missions (present and future) and to be able to support such kind of studies. The double aim is to create a school managed by young scientists already well established and recognized in their respective fields for young scientists willing to reinforce or develop their knowledge on atmospheric extreme events detection and monitoring for supporting policy makers, early warning systems and aviation safety.

The CVC school 2024 will take place in Nicolosi (Italy) on the slopes of Etna volcano. During the CVC 2024 all the topics will be deepened, and the participants will get an added value from:

- a field measurement campaign they will be part of;

- an excursion to the Etna craters;

- laboratories using professional software applied to real data;

- presenting their research to the other participants and to the lecturers.

All the info 

http://www.cvctrainingschool.org/school/

Registration

https://forms.gle/WFPJppxfsRctgCZw6 

Applications

The School is open to everybody with priority for graduate students, PhD students and early career researchers. More info available at the website http://www.cvctrainingschool.org/  

Registration deadline: 30 May 2024

The UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe is looking for students from the fourth and fifth year of high school and the first and second year of a university Bachelor’s degree (Geoscience, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Arts, Architecture, Urban Planning, etc.) interested in participating in the GEO4CIVHIC Summer School 2023, which is going to be held on 28/09/2023 at Palazzo Zorzi, premises of the UNESCO Regional Bureau, in Venice.

The 15 selected students will have the opportunity to participate in the event in person, where they will learn about the activities of the European Project GEO4CIVHIC and have the chance to meet and work with some experts in the field of geothermal shallow energy applied to civil and historical buildings. 

• Event https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/geo4civhic-summer-school-heating-and-cooling-our-buildings-green-energy?hub=66976
• Concept note https://articles.unesco.org/sites/default/files/medias/fichiers/2023/08/GEO4CIVHIC%20summer%20school%20Concept%20Note%20final.pdf
• Agenda https://articles.unesco.org/sites/default/files/medias/fichiers/2023/09/GEO4CIVHIC%20Summer%20school%20Provisional%20agenda%20final.pdf

 UNESCO WEBSITE

We are honored to announce the

IX International Summer School: : The challenge of precipitation prediction.

The International Summer School will be held in Castro Marina (LE) from 3 to 7 July 2023.

The Summer School is organized by the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the CNR and  by the Polytechnic University of Marche

The registration is now open at https://ss2023.le.isac.cnr.it/, until 15 May 2023.

On May 9-11th 2023 the European WRF-Chem User Workshop will take place in Lecce, Italy. The workshop will last 2 or 3 days, depending on the number of abstracts received. The objective of the workshop is to encourage interactions and discussions between users of the regional chemistry-transport model WRF-Chem

The WRF-Chem Workshop is intended to discuss regional air quality applications of the WRF-Chem model, and some more over-all topics. Other purposes of the workshop are to provide understanding and helping on the WRF-Chem atmospheric transport model, with a focus on the practical implementation for beginners, and to reinforce network between worldwide users.

Each participant will present its work during the workshop, also posters are welcome, since there will be poster sessions during the workshop.

Mauro Morichetti e Umberto Rizza (ISAC Lecce)

website:  http://european-wrf-chem-workshop.le.isac.cnr.it/

We are honored to announce the 3rd International summer school: "SORBETTO: SOlar Radiation Based Established Techniques for aTmospheric Observations".

The school,held in Rome and Frascati from 6 to 10 February 2023, is open to researchers, young or not, PhD students and workers involved in this type of atmospheric observations.

It is organized by the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the CNR, by the University Sapienza, and it is funded by SERCO and ESA in the framework of the QA4EOand by the project EMPIR-MAPP .

The main topics will be:

-radiometry; -photometry; -spectrometry; -inter-comparison campaigns; -cal/val for satellite missions.

The school will include theoretic lessons and laboratory activities held by International teachers from leading Universities and Research Centers in Europe and Asia.

The registration is now open at http://sorbetto2.artov.isac.cnr.it/, until al 31 December 2022.

Preventive conservation of coastal archaeological sites and cultural landscapes in the Mediterranean Basin

The School will combine understanding of the impact of pollution and extreme events linked to climate change on coastal and underwater archaeological remains, monumental complexes and cultural landscapes, with main focus on measures of protection to natural and anthropogenic risks (floods, sea level rise, fires, volcanic activity and air pollution) and strategies of preparedness in response to emergency and recovery.

• 6th to 9th July 2022 
• No course fee
• In English language

The school will be designed to provide an informal and interactive environment between students and lecturers and will also include a boat trip to explore the terraced landscape of the Aeolian Islands. In addition, demonstrative activity in the field for the construction of dry stone wall has been planned.

The school is organized by CNR-ISAC, Università della Calabria and UWK, in collaboration with H2020 Projects SCORE, TECTONIC and STRENCH

ENVIMAT 2022 functions as Multiplier Event of the ERASMUS+  Project CHePiCC online “Cultural Heritage Protection in Climate Change online”.

Information: a.sardella [at] isac.cnr.it

20– 24 June 2022 Hotel Orsa Maggiore Castro Marina LE – Italy

LECTURERS

Vincenzo Levizzani, CNR - ISAC, Bologna, Italy.
Microphysics and structure of cold and mixed phase clouds

Andrea Mazzino, University of Genova , Genova, Italy.
Atmospheric thermodynamics, warm cloud formation and precipitation

Sasha Madronich, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Feedbacks and interactions between the stratosphere and the tropospheric composition

Mario Marcello Miglietta, CNR - ISAC, Padova, Italy.
Extra-tropical cyclones and Medicanes

Umberto Rizza, CNR - ISAC, Lecce, Italy. Transport of aerosols in the Mediterranean Basin: feedbacks with meteorology

Info: ss2022 [at] le.isac.cnr.it

web page: http://ss2022.le.isac.cnr.it 

The SORBETTO school: SOlar Radiation Based Established Techniques for aTmospheric Observations will be held online from 13 to 15 September 2021.

The school is open to researchers, PhD students and workers already involved in the field of atmospheric observations, or willing to get involved in a new field.

Outline

Atmospheric observations of gases and aerosol are of great interest for climatological, meteorological, and pollution studies. Several techniques, based on ground-based measurements of solar radiation, have been developed and established in the last century to estimate the atmospheric aerosol and trace gas amounts and properties. Automatic ground based instruments, often organized in Federated Networks, are able to perform high quality observations with a good time resolution, consolidated and traceable calibration procedures, and homogeneity in the retrievals.
These Networks are good candidates for the validation and calibration of satellite missions, already operative or to be launched.

Aims of the school:

- forming young scientists providing them an overview of the current status of solar radiation based techniques, a solid theoretical base, and hands-on experimental activities;
- building a bridge among International communities involved in atmospheric science for establishing and reinforcing future cooperation on the solar radiation based techniques for atmospheric observations and satellite validation.

Main topics:

- Ground-based instruments

  Solar radiation theory
  Photometry and networks
  Spectrometry and networks
  Metrology applied to solar radiometry

- Satellites
  Overview of satellite remote sensing
  ESA satellite missions overview
  Cal/Val activities

The school is free of charge and is organised by the CNR Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Sapienza University of Rome, ESA and funded by SERCO, within the QA4AO project and the EMPIR-MAPP project.

Registration is now open until 31 August 2021 through the "Registration" link on the school webpage:

http://sorbetto2.artov.isac.cnr.it/
 

Risk Management and Protection Strategies for Cultural Landscapes in Climate Change

The one-week program of this International Summer School focuses on climate change related challenges to landscapes and historic parks, vulnerability assessment and preventive conservation measures for natural and cultural heritage as well as risk management and protection strategies for cultural heritage.

• 7th to 11th June 2021 | Online, hosted via Zoom
• No course fee
• In English language
• 6 ECTS points may be granted for full participation in the program.

The school is organized by DUK and CNR-ISAC and is part of the EU Interreg Central Europe project STRENCH – Strengthening resilience of cultural heritage at risk in a changing environment through proactive transnational cooperation, which develops ready to use solutions for assessing climate change effects and protecting cultural heritage and cultural landscapes.

The 1st International Conference of the STRENCH project is an integral part of the summer school (10th June 2021).