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 monitoring and simulation of clouds, precipitation, wind and radiation at regional and global scale for the study of phenomena and processes related to the hydrological cycle.

Research topics:

Clouds and Precipitation Physics

Climate change and the hydrological cycle

Nowcasting and short-range weather prediction

Data assimilation (conventional and non-conventional networks)

Precipitation estimation, trends, and regimes

Cloud and precipitation climatology at regional and global scale

Humidity transport by large-scale atmospheric circulations (Atmospheric rivers)

Water resources and their availability

 

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Medicane Numa: Surface rainfall rate from GPM Microwave Imager: development fase and mature phase

Progetti rilevanti: PRIMAVERA, CRESCENDO, ECOPOTENTIAL, NextDATA, Copernicus C3S_312b_Lo1, MIUR PRIN 2015, RainCast, EUMETSAT HSAF, European Skynet Radiometers Network, PNRA, Agreement with NASA, SVI.I.C.T.Precip., HiMetCom, HyMeX, Progetto Rischi Dipartimento