Operativity and maintenance of the BAQUNIN super site for satellite calibration and validatipn activities

The project’s goal is to develop and demonstrate novel modular, compact, high performances and Plug&Play thermal energy storage
(TES) solutions for heating, cooling and hot tap water production. The new concept of TES proposed in the project will provide
electricity load shifting with meaningful peak shaving of the thermal and electric load demands. Furthermore, the exploitation of
renewable sources will be a key point of the new TES device considering at the same time the cost-effective results in terms of energy,
costs and sustainability of the system.
The project will provide a TES system able to store energy for heating and cooling in building applications for a period of at least four
weeks. The novel TES system will be based on a closed-loop TCM reactor insulated by PCM and equipped with an ice storage, again
integrated with PCM, for high cooling energy demand. The thermodynamic cycle has been designed to benefit from a further PCM
thermal buffer tank, breaking through the closed-loop concept by compensating the energy for humidification with its latent heat.
An advanced heat pump will be finally dedicated to the power conversion during the thermal charging process of reactor and PCMs
storages, increasing the overall performance.
A dedicated control system will be developed to operate the TES according to the energy production and the end-users’
requirements, adapting to the conditions of use according to the type of air conditioning system and the particular demand for
domestic hot water.
The TES solution will be adaptable to all the different possible European scenarios, in terms of energy policy and end-users’
requirements. It will be designed to be used both as integrated into the building heating system and in the smart electricity grid, or in
buildings not connected to district heating and cooling network.
Different characteristics of the system will be taken into account, ranging from storage efficiency and durability to cost reduction and
LCA and LLCA.

The National Collaboration Programme proposes a dedicated scheme to support the Member States  in achieving maximum benefit from CAMS products and services in the implementation of their  mandate. The overall objective of the project is to stimulate the uptake and adaptation of CAMS global  and European-scale products for feeding official national environmental information systems and  services. In particular SNPA, CNR, ENEA and a few Regional Agencies for Environmetal Protection will be envolved in the evaluation and adaptation of CAMS products  and their connection to the corresponding products over Italian territory.

This activity aims overall at enhancing an existing ground-based Far IR instrument [RD-1] and demonstrating its capabilities focussing on the FORUM mission concept also in relation to estimates of the uncertainty of related products. The work is divided into two (2) technical phases (Instrument Readiness and FIRMOS-B Campaign)

Valutazione delle molestie olfattive in aree della Regione Abruzzo, anche al fine di ottimizzare i risultati attesi e l'utilizzo delle risorse economiche e strumentali disponibili.                                                                                                                                   Il progetto consiste nello sviluppo di un'attività di ricerca sperimentale comprendente lo studio e la messa a punto di simulazioni modellistiche atte ad identificare le potenziali aree sorgenti di eventi odorigeni. Ciò permetterà di sviluppare attività di ricerca scientifica con finalità operative applicando il sistema NOSE – Network for Odour Sensititvity. Esso riguarderà lo studio e l'analisi dell'impatto odorigeno nelle aree della Regione Abruzzo di Teramo e l'Aquila, con applicazione successiva da parte di ARTA Abruzzo, con il supporto del CNR-ISAC, alle aree di Pescara, Chieti e Vasto-San Salvo.

Retrieval of Night-time aerosol and trace gases from PREDE POMs radiometer

The disappearance of sea ice in the Barents Sea, and the changing sea ice conditions in the Fram Strait impact heat exchanges between the
sea surface and the atmosphere. These in turn could affect mercury deposition rates and the ozone atmospheric lifetime through changes in
the amount of bromine radicals released from the first sea ice surface. This project aims to shed light on these phenomena by combining
data, atmospheric and climate modelling and field and instrumental data.

OptimESM will develop a novel generation of Earth system models (ESMs), combining high-resolution with an unprecedented representation of key physical and biogeochemical processes. These models will be used to deliver cutting-edge and policy-relevant knowledge around the consequences of reaching or exceeding different levels of global warming, including the risk of rapid change in key Earth system phenomena and the regional impacts arising both from the level of global warming and the occurrence of abrupt changes.
OptimESM will realise these goals by bringing together four ESM groups with Integrated Assessment Modelling teams, as well as experts in model evaluation, Earth system processes, machine learning, climate impacts and science communication. OptimESM will further develop new policy-relevant emission and land use scenarios, including ones that realise the Paris Agreement, and others that temporarily or permanently overshoot the Paris Agreement targets.

Using these scenarios, OptimESM will deliver long-term projections that will increase our understanding of the risk for triggering potential tipping points in phenomena such as, ice sheets, sea ice, ocean circulation, marine ecosystems, permafrost, and terrestrial ecosystems. OptimESM will further our understanding of the processes controlling such tipping points, attribute the risk of exceeding various tipping points to the level of global warming, and develop a range of techniques to forewarn the occurrence of tipping points in the real world. Artificial Intelligence (AI-) methods for statistical downscaling will be developed and applied to improve our understanding of the effect of long-term global change and tipping points on regional climate, particularly extreme events. New knowledge and data from OptimESM will be actively communicated to other disciplines, such as the impacts and policy research communities, as well as the general public. This knowledge will provide a solid foundation for actionable science-based policies.

The project aims to study, through a multisensor sea-glider mission supported by modeled and remotely-sensed data, the impact of frontal dynamics on the Phytoplankton production and distribution as inferred from fluorometric measurements during a DCM stage. Deep Chlorophyll maximum is also a good situation to estimate the role of the Mesoscale and submesoscale features on Carbon export. This is the main aim of the present project.
The specific objectives are the following:
1) Observe the dynamics of the front in terms of: horizontal and vertical velocities; instabilities; mixing and enhanced dynamical stratification
2) Study the impact of such frontal dynamics on production in a DCM condition as in Olita et al 2017.
3) We will try to estimate POC and carbon export from DCM to deeper layers (>200 m) promoted by vertical submesoscale and mesoscale dynamics.