Water Cycle

  • Analysis and assessment of changes in the water cycle (large scale circulation and moisture transport, precipitation regimes, snow cover, glaciers, availability of water resources) in a warming climate.
  • Understanding and modelling processes and climate responses of the different components of the Earth system involved in the water cycle at global and regional scales.
  • Assessing mechanisms for climate tipping points and their impacts.
  • Development and integration of observational technologies and methodologies and modeling systems for the monito

Climate Modelling

Contributing to a better understanding of the basic processes determining climate variability and change, through the production of climate change scenarios at global and regional scales, the development of climate downscaling techniques and of specific products for Climate Services, the determination of the impacts of climate change and associated risks, with special emphasis on the Italian territory and on hot-spot regions.

Meteorological Modelling

This research activity aims at developing and implementing numerical tools apt to simulate and predict, with a high degree of accuracy, the physical and dynamical processes responsible for the atmospheric variability from the planetary to the turbulent scale, as well as for applications in the field of meteorology, atmospheric composition and dispersion.

Observations

Earth Observation (EO) technology is used to contribute to a better physical understanding of the interactions and feedbacks between atmospheric processes both in the upper and lower part of the troposphere and at the air/soil interface. The EO activity is carried out within four main directions:

Aspettando ...la Notte dei Ricercatori a Monte Cimone

Locandina

SENTIERO DELL'ATMOSFERA
Escursione a Monte Cimone e Visita ai laboratori dell’Osservatorio Climatico ”O.Vittori” del CNR-ISAC
28 AGOSTO 2019 - Partenza con guida ore 9:30 da Piancavallaro 1878 m. (MO)
In occasione dell’ultimo mercoledì dell’attività didattico - ambientale del Sentiero dell'Atmosfera, il popolo della Notte Europea dei Ricercatori  (Progetto H2020 SOCIETY) si trasferirà in montagna. 

In the last 40 years in Italy the air is less polluted.

The University of Milan and the National Research Council have analyzed for the first time the horizontal visibility of the atmosphere, discovering that, in the most polluted areas of the country, the frequency of days with visibility above 10 or 20 km is more than doubled in the last 40 years, thanks to the regulations implemented to reduce pollution. The publication is available on “Atmospheric Environment” (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.116861).

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