Per il ciclo “Environmental Meteorology Seminar”, nella giornata di lunedì 9 giugno, alle ore 17:30, presso la Lecture Room 1P (Floor 1) del DICAM dell’Università di Trento, si terrà il seminario dal titolo “How has the Italian climate changed over the last two centuries?”, a cura della dott.ssa Veronica Manara dell’Università di Milano.
Sarà possibile seguire il seminario online attraverso il seguente link:
https://unitn.zoom.us/j/82688854266,
Meeting ID: 826 8885 4266, Passcode: 940169
Abstract
In the last decades, the scientific community has become aware of the
fact that the real climate signal in the original series of
meteorological data is generally hidden behind non-climatic noise caused
by several factors. Therefore time series of meteorological data cannot
be used for climate research without facing this issue. Moreover, as the
records are rather sparse and a significant fraction of them has wide
gaps, the missing data should be filled and the series should be gridded
in order to balance the areas with a high number of series with areas
with a low number of series. Finally, they could be averaged in order to
obtain series that are representative of a wide area. The methodologies
used to set up quality-checked and homogenised datasets over Italy for
some variables like solar radiation, visibility, cloudiness,
precipitation and temperature will be presented and discussed together
with the observed trends and the underlying causes. Moreover, the
results of some ongoing citizen science projects (e.g. Cli-DaRe, Re-Data
and Dieci e Lode), set up to digitise data available today only in paper
format will be presented.
Bio
Veronica Manara is a researcher in the Department of Environmental
Science and Policy at the University of Milan. She obtained a degree in
Physics and a PhD in Environmental Science from the same institution.
Her research focuses primarily on climate reconstruction and on
understanding the reasons behind the observed changes during the last
two centuries in Italy, over the Greater Alpine Region and over the
Mediterranean region using observational data but also reanalysis and
satellite data. Initially, she focused her analysis on variables such as
solar radiation, visibility, and cloudiness, and then also on variables
such as precipitation, temperature and snow cover. In recent years, she
has started working on numerous citizen science projects to digitise
data that is currently only available in paper format.