Manifestazioni in ambito meteorologico
L’Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) ed il Monitoring Earth’s Evolution and Tectonics hanno annunciato l’apertura per le iscrizioni alla nona Traning School CVC: Convective and Volcanic Clouds.
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Per la serie di seminari in meteorologia ambientale dell’Università di Trento, venerdì 15 dicembre alle ore 11:30, Daniel Cziczo, direttore del Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences della Purdue University terrà un seminario dal titolo: New insights on upper tropospheric and stratospheric aerosols from single particle measurements. Il seminario si terrà in presenza nell’aula 1P (primo piano) al DICAM – Università di Trento, in via Masiano 77, e sarà possibile seguirlo in streaming su Zoom al seguente link: https://unitn.zoom.us/j/85650715877(Meeting ID: 856 5071 5877, Passcode: 985207) Si riporta l’abstract del seminario e la biografia del prof. Cziczo. Abstract The composition of particles found in the upper tropospheric / lower stratospheric (UTLS) has now been studied in situ and in real time for a quarter century. First deployed in 1998, the Particle Analysis by Laser Mass Spectrometry (PALMS) instrument showed the complex internal and external mixing state of aerosols in this region of the atmosphere. Developed in 2020, the updated PALMS-Next Generation (-NG) instrument was deployed in 2021 and 2022 on the NASA ER-2 aircraft for the Dynamics and Chemistry of the Summer Stratosphere (DCOTSS) study. DCOTSS specifically targeted summer convection and stratospheric overshooting over continental North America while also allowing a general survey of this region of the atmosphere. The expanded capabilities of PALMS-NG allowed us to better understand the sources and mixing state of UTLS particles with an emphasis on the understudied regions impacted by deep convection. Among our findings are the transport of particles across the tropopause and their interaction with material already in the lower stratosphere. Bio Daniel Cziczo is professor and head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University. He is a leading expert on the relationship between different types of atmospheric particles and the clouds they form –and the subsequent impact on climate. He has received numerous awards, and was named a 2023 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) International Excellence Fellow. His research utilizes laboratory and field studies to determine how atmospheric particles interact with water vapor droplets and ice crystals which are important players in the Earth’s climate system. His extensive field work includes working with NASA’s Dynamic and Chemistry of the Summer Stratosphere (DCOTSS), and atmospheric research with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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Per la serie di seminari in meteorologia ambientale dell’Università di Trento, Giovedì 30 novembre alle ore 14:30, i dott. Karl Lapo e Lena Pfister, assegnisti di ricerca presso il Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences (ACINN) dell’Università di Innsbruck, terranno il seminario dal titolo: Distributed Temperature Sensing of the Boundary Layer: How to go beyond pretty pictures and case studies. Il seminario si terrà in presenza presso la lecture room 1P (first floor) – DICAM – dell’Università di Trento, in via Masiano 77 ed in streaming su Zoom al seguente link: https://unitn.zoom.us/j/86099549931 (Meeting ID: 860 9954 9931, Passcode: 660876). Si riporta l’abstract del seminario e la biografia dei dott. Lapo e Pfister. Abstract We go over the history of Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) in the boundary layer, specifically looking at the connection between experimental design and hypothesis testing. A general problem for boundary layer studies becomes apparent: we lack conceptual and mathematical frameworks for the analysis of complex geospatial data. The lack of framework is a general limitation in applied mathematics: our tools are suited for analysis in time or in space, but not both simultaneously. In other words we lack the tools for robust spatiotemporal analysis. We show how to break through this analytical logjam through hypothesis driven machine learning techniques. Using this we reveal fundamental features of the boundary layer which largely evaded prior detection. The dominant shape of the stable boundary layer is sublayered, with profound impacts on similarity theory. Additionally, we developed a breakthrough in applied mathematics, building a method specifically tailored to the types of data commonly found in boundary layer studies. We briefly highlight this method with the first ever analysis of non-monochromatic gravity waves. We connect the resolved features from this applied mathematics method to the concept of a field experiment’s resolvable scales. In doing so we highlight how the combination of both novel observations and methods is necessary to close the observational gaps of the boundary layer. BioKarl Eric Lapo is a Senior Postdoc at the University of Innsbruck, Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences since 2022 on ESPRIT grant. He got a PhD in atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington in 2017. He developed cutting-edge analytic techniques for complex geospatial data is an expert in Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS). He also developed the DTS distributed wind direction method, characterized for the first time thermal submeso fronts, and characterized the missing scales of boundary layer observations, e.g. for gravity waves and morning transitions. PhD investigated surface-atmosphere energy exchange in regions of complex terrain using underutilized observations. Lena Pfister is a PostDoc in the Atmospheric Dynamics Group, Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, University of Innsbruck since 2021. She works on near-surface boundary layer, MOST, managing the measurement network i-Box, and was Co-manager of the TEAMx-PC22 (TEAMx pre-campaign in 2022). She got a PhD in Micrometeorology with a thesis on “Improving our understanding of the atmospheric weak wind boundary layer using spatially explicit observations near the ground surface” at the University of Bayreuth, Germany
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Per la serie dei seminari di meteorologia ambientale dell’Università di Trento, Giovedì 23 novembre alle ore 14:30 il dott. Claudio Mazzoleni, docente di Atmospheric Sciences Program della Michigan Technological University terrà il seminario dal titolo: Light Absorbing Aerosols: Properties, Measurements, and Effects on Climate.
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Il prossimo Martedì 28 Novembre 2023, alle ore 14:00, il dott. Sante Laviola, dell’Istituto di Scienze dell’Atmosfera e del Clima del CNR, terrà un seminario dal titolo:
“Hail from space and…in time!”
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Il prossimo giovedì 9 novembre alle ore 14:30, all’interno della serie dei seminari di meteorologia ambientale dell’Università di Trento, la dott.ssa Lena Pfister dell’Università di Innsbruck terrà il seminario dal titolo: Resolvable scales of field campaigns and how distributed temperature sensing can close gaps. L’evento potrà essere seguito in presenza presso la Lecture Room 1P (1st floor) del DICAM dell’ Università di Trento, Via Mesiano, 77 (Trento) ed online attraverso il seguente link: https://unitn.zoom.us/j/81088701142 (Meeting ID: 810 8870 1142, Passcode: 032645). Abstract Field campaigns are the backbone of atmospheric research. In the planning phase many decisions have to be made concerning which atmospheric features to target and how. It is not uncommon to realize afterwards that the targeted features are not resolved completely due to missing observed scales. Some missing scales might be intentional (e.g. not having the needed instrument, location, …), but some might have been missed in the planning phase. In my talk I want to present a method which helps identify missing observed scales already in the planning phase. Further, I want to talk about the importance of distributed temperature sensing and what scales can be resolved with this technique. Therefore, I will show the resolved scales of the Shallow Cold Pool experiment (SCP), 2012, Colorado, USA which had a big network of observations including distributed temperature sensing. Only due to distributed temperature sensing we could identify a thermal submeso-scale motion and due to the network we could systematically analyze it. Bio 2010-2016: B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Geoecology (broad study of geology, hydrology, ecology, soil and atmospheric sciences, and their chemical aspects) at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. 2016-2020: PhD in Micrometeorology “Improving our understanding of the atmospheric weak wind boundary layer using spatially explicit observations near the ground surface” (included distributed temperature sensing) at the University of Bayreuth, Germany; included trips to the US to talk with distributed temperature sensing experts during PhD also working in the ERC DarkMix project further developing distributed temperature sensing 2021 – present: PostDoc in the Atmospheric Dynamics Group, Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, University of Innsbruck: Working on near-surface boundary layer, MOST, managing the measurement network i-Box, and was Co-manager of the TEAMx-PC22 (TEAMx pre-campaign in 2022) In my free time: Ultimate Frisbee player and trainer
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Il prossimo giovedì 26 ottobre alle ore 14:30, all’interno della serie dei seminari di meteorologia ambientale dell’Università di Trento, il dott. Gianpaolo Balsamo dell’European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) terrà il seminario dal titolo: Monitoring CO2 Anthropogenic Emissions with an Earth system approach. L’evento potrà essere seguito in presenza presso la Lecture Room 1P (1st floor) del DICAM dell’ Università di Trento, Via Mesiano, 77 (Trento) ed online attraverso il seguente link: https://unitn.zoom.us/j/88316089042 (Meeting ID: 883 1608 9042, Passcode: 445145). Vi lasciamo un abstract del seminario e la biografia del dott. Balsamo Abstract Under the guidance of the European Commission, and in particular its CO2 Task Force, developments of new Copernicus service elements capable of using Earth observations to monitor human-induced carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have reached a first prototype phase. The CO2 Human Emissions (CHE) project had successfully gathered efforts of 22 partners to develop the building blocks (mapping, modelling, data assimilation, uncertainty characterization) of a European CO2 monitoring and verification support (CO2MVS) capacity for global CO2 emissions related to human activities. A chain of modelling approaches produces global, regional and local CO2 simulations, with a focus on the representation of human-emission sources. The CHE project has moved closer towards a high-resolution CO2 global inversion capacity to connect atmospheric concentrations to surface emissions, and shown how satellites and ground- based Earth observations can be used to limit uncertainties and to prepare for an operational CO2 monitoring system. High-resolution global simulations (at 9 km) covering the whole of 2015 were used as input for regional and local simulations over Europe (at 5 km and 1 km resolution) and have been used to simulate satellite observations from a future dedicated CO2 Monitoring mission. The CHE Horizon 2020 project, which ran from October 2017 to December 2020, transferred all its findings to a new project, now dedicated to the prototype Copernicus CO2 Service, the CoCO2 project running from January 2021 to December 2023. This follow-on project is focused on supporting the 1st Global Stocktake in 2023 of the Paris Agreement in partnership with the European Commission, countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and international interested parties. The presentation will include some of the key achievements, list the challenges and perspectives in 2021. Bio Gianpaolo Balsamo is an ECMWF principal scientist and team leader for Earth system coupled processes. He is involved in the coordination and system integration for the CHE/CoCO2 projects. He has a PhD/Habilitation in Meteorology/Earth system science from the French University Paul Sabatier and an invited professorship for climate-change at Politecnico of Turin, department of environmental, land and infrastructure engineering. Homepage: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/who-we-are/staff-profiles/gianpaolo-balsamo
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Ciclo di seminari e Summer School – CNR-ISMAR
Si segnala un ciclo di 6 incontri presso il CNR-ISMAR dedicato alla formazione nell’ambito oceano e atmosfera dal titolo: Oceanography Unveiled: Venice Seminar Series and Summer School (2023-2024) “Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: fundamental theories of the ocean and its interactions with the atmosphere
La deadline per registrarsi é fissata al 20 Novembre 2023.
Un numero limitato di “travel grants” é disponibile per dottorandi o studenti di master.
AISAM é lieta di segnalare la Giornata sulla Transizione ecologica prevista per giovedì 23 novembre 2023 dalle 09:30alle 17:30 presso l’Aula Magna – via Festa del Perdono, 7 – Milano (MI). Maggiori dettagli di seguito.
Il prossimo Giovedì 19 ottobre 2023 alle ore 14:30, all’interno della serie dei seminari di meteorologia ambientale dell’Università di Trento la Dott.ssa Valentina Pavan dell’ Hydro-meteo-climatological Service, Environmental Agency of Emilia-Romagna Region (Arpae-Simc) terrà il seminario dal titolo: Sub-seasonal ensemble irrigation predictions in Emilia-Romagna. L’evento potrà essere seguito in presenza presso la Lecture Room 1P (1st floor) – DICAM dell’University di Trento in Via Mesiano, 77 (Trento), sia online accedendo al seguente link di Zoom: https://unitn.zoom.us/j/88489623830(Meeting ID: 884 8962 3830, Passcode: 111582) Vi lasciamo un abstract del seminario e la biografia della Dott.ssa V. Pavan. Abstract Within the project “Highlander”, Arpae Simc set up an operational climate service addressed to support irrigation water management in agriculture, by providing mid-term information between probabilistic seasonal forecasts and short-term view of deterministic +7-day forecasts. The product take as input the sub-seasonal (+4 weeks) forecasts operationally produced, interpolated over Emilia Romagna at 5 km resolution and calibrated using the EcPoint technique by ECMWF, together with information on agricultural land use from satellite data, soil map and observed weather data from Arpae Simc. All these data are taken as inputs of the agro-hydrological model CRITERIA-1D (https://github.com/ARPA-SIMC/CRITERIA1D), computing the crop development and crop water needs. The sub-seasonal irrigation forecasts are operationally produced since 2021 for three Land Reclamation and Irrigation Boards (Consorzi di Bonifica in Italian), which are the authorities in charge of water management for agriculture (water storage, transportation and distribution): the Burana, Renana and Romagna Irrigation Consortia. Operational output data are +4 weeks irrigation and precipitation forecasts expressed as a statistical distribution. The results obtained validating irrigation probabilistic forecasts for summer 2022 against observed water use in a group of farms are described and analysed. Bio Valentina Pavan has been working at Arpae-Simc as climatologist since 2001 and since 2021 contributes to the technical coordination of the Arpae Climate Observatory of Emilia-Romagna. Among her duties are the description of climate and climate variability, both at reagional and national level, the contribution to development of objective analyses of surface meteorological parameters both at regional and at super-regional level. She is also an expert of seasonal predictions and contributes to the Technical Working Group on monthly and seasonal predictions coordinated by the National CIvil Protection Department. She gained her laurea at the Physics department of Bologna University in 1988 and a PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Princeton University (USA) in 1993.
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