Per la serie di seminari Environmental Meteorology and Climate Physics Seminar, l’Università di Trento ha organizzato con la Dott.ssa Olivia Ferguglia il seminario dal titolo: “How is climate change amplified and stratified with elevation in mountain regions?”
Il seminario si terrà il prossimo giovedì 5 marzo 2026 alle ore 14:30 nella lecture Room 1P – DICAM – University of Trento, Via Mesiano 77, Trento e sarà erogato anche online: https://unitn.zoom.us/j/84031853563 (Meeting ID: 840 3185 3563, Passcode: 660333).
Vi lasciamo qui in basso un abstract:
Mountains are widely recognised as highly sensitive to climate change and are often described as sentinels of rapid environmental transformation. High-altitude regions show amplified signals compared to lowlands and the global mean, with temperature, precipitation, and other key climate variables frequently exhibiting elevation-dependent trends and marked vertical stratification. This evidence has led to the concept of Elevation-Dependent Climate Change (EDCC), which expands the earlier framework of Elevation-Dependent Warming (EDW). Increasing attention has been devoted to elevation-dependent changes in precipitation and its extremes. Signals have been identified using reanalyses, in-situ observations, and Global Climate Models (GCMs), across different mountain regions, often with zonal and seasonal patterns that vary depending on the region. Particularly, it has been reported an intensification in extreme precipitation that increases with elevation, especially in future projections. However, methodologies used to assess EDCC lack a unified framework, and the physical mechanisms driving these responses are still not fully understood. Climate models offer several advantages to investigate such processes, providing coherent spatial and temporal information across variables within the same experiment. Despite improvements in CMIP6 models compared to CMIP5, substantial inter-model spread persists, representing both an uncertainty and an opportunity to better constrain the mechanisms underlying different EDCC patterns.
