Collaborazione nell'attivazione di uno spazio didattico immersivo e interattivo per l’implementazione di attività formative ed educative finalizzate al trasferimento tecnologico di nozioni scientifiche relative all’impatto della civiltà dell’uomo sull’ambiente. In questo ambito saranno messe a disposizioni informazioni e dati riguardanti le attività di ricerca svolte dal CNR all'Osservatorio climatico "O.Vittori" di Monte Cimone. L'obiettivo è di fornire ai futuri visitatori del Centro un empowerment individuale rispetto alla consapevolezza su tematiche ambientali consistente nella acquisizione di informazioni sugli effetti delle emissioni prodotte dall’attuale sistema delle civiltà umane in termini di ripercussioni sull’ambiente, sugli ecosistemi e sui cambiamenti climatici. Intento specifico di tale empowerment è quello di favorire la maturazione di una consapevolezza profonda delle dinamiche che le persone, collaborando, possono porre in essere in termini di definizione ed applicazione delle policy di mitigazione dei trend di radicale trasformazione degli ecosistemi in corso, al di là del pur rilevante contributo individuale che ciascuno, nel suo piccolo, può innescare. Tale principio etico della condivisione consentirà di lavorare con l’obiettivo di attivare dinamiche di Citizen Science, coniugando l’uso delle tecnologie con la consapevolizzazione di scelte future volte a valorizzare le ricadute delle pratiche delle azioni correttive collettive da intraprendere.

Destination Earth Climate Adaptation Twin is one of Digital Twin by European Commission funded via ECMWF and has successfully reached the end of the first phase, ending in April 2024. The same consortium is asked to take part to an amendement of the same contract, aiming at providing km-scale global climate simulation at an pre-operation to operational level. This will be done using the two Lumi and MN5 EUROHPC and will be based on three different Global climate models, which will be run into a complex workflow taking care of tools for real time model evaluation and monitoring, uncertaintiy quantification and a series of downstream impact models. The entire set of data will be available in streaming mode to the climate community and will represent a novel and innovative way to approach the climate adapation problems.

The interactions of a turbulent wind with a water surface represents a very fundamental problem for many atmospheric processes.
The momentum and heat exchanges across the interface with oceans abruptly affects the atmosphere and the understanding of the driving mechanisms would certainly improve weather predictions capabilities. However, after decades of research efforts, the wind-wave problem is still recognized as extremely elusive. The reason is the multiscale and multiphysical nature of the phenomena involved. Indeed, the scales of the turbulent wind are significantly affected by the smaller scales of the water waves which in turn are influenced by the structure of the turbulent wind itself thus forming a complex multiscale coupling phenomenon. Furthermore,
processes of different nature are involved (e.g chemistry, biology, radiation etc) thus further increasing the complexity of the multiscale wind-wave interactions due to multiphysics. The SEAPLANE project aims to address these issues by using innovative statistical tools and advanced modeling approaches.

Hydrological extremes are strongly impacted by climate change and represent one of the most relevant and hard-to-predict hazards over the Italian territory. The evaluation of the effectiveness of adaptation actions for water-related hazards requires actionable information about climate change and future hazards. Current methodologies based on multi-model downscaled climate projections are challenged by high uncertainty and large model bias. To deal with such uncertainty, event-based storylines have been proposed as a complementary approach that is much more tailored around stakeholders' needs. The storylines describe plausible unfolding of extreme events, based on realistic simulations and an end-to-end description linking physical drivers to regional impacts. In this direction, recently developed weather and climate predictions provide unprecedented high-resolution large-ensemble numerical simulations to develop large catalogues of extreme events that can complement the short observational series and support storylines via the identification of unseen weather extremes.

How does climate change impact extreme events and which is the future change of their dynamics? In other words: How will the ongoing and future changing climate control the evolution and intensification of severe storms? These are among the most frequent and significant questions for the scientific community, stakeholders and decision-making structures. The project tackles these open issues by investigating hailstorms in the Mediterranean region, which is one of the most hail-exposed areas of the Earth, through the
synergistic application of satellite observations, meteorological reanalysis and climatic modelling. Focussing on determining the atmospheric variables most relevant for the formation and intensification of hail-bearing storms, we will delineate specific metrics describing the hail formation potentially applicable at operational level. The proposal stems from the 22-yearlong database of hail episodes described by Laviola et al. (2022), whereby events associated with large and extreme hail (above 2 and 10 cm in diameter, respectively) were preliminarily identified and shown to be on a 30% increase trend.