A research coordinated by ISAC-CNR has analyzed the strong tornado that hit Taranto in November 2012. Simulations with a high-resolution weather model suggest that the violence of this destructive vortex depends decisively on sea surface temperature.
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ISAC researchers are measuring the aerosol component in the upper layer of the Asian Monsoon with an instrumented M55 airplane and soundings from several stations in Nepal, Bangladesh and India.
Today two flights over Po Valley and Rome, measuring black carbon and atmospheric pollution
On Monday, July 3, an international campaign has been launched under the European project ACTRIS-2, which until July 28 will provide ongoing information on an important component of air pollution: Black Carbon (BC). BC is considered to be a dangerous pollutant and climate forcer compound, in fact it is harmful to health and is associated with an increase in premature deaths in cities and also has a heating power that may be regionally similar to that of carbon dioxide.
A fire at a waste depot broke out on 5 May 2017 in Pomezia, 50 km south of Rome in Italy, burning for two days.
The recent alert given from Canada on the effects of traffic-related air pollution on dementia (The Lancet, 4-1-2017) well matches the rationale of the CARE experiment (Carbonaceous Aerosol in Rome and Environs) starting in Rome on February 2017, led by ISAC-CNR.
An ice block, one of the largest on record, with a size near that of the Italian region Liguria, is ready to detach from the Antarctic Penninsula. The fracture rapidly grew last December and now only an ice strip, 20 km long, keeps attached this giant: a block of some 5,000 square km
Levizzani, Sabbioni, Buzzi: three ISAC-CNR researchers will contribute to the commemoration of the meteo-hydrological event of November 4th, 1966
