Veronica Manara

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 AbstractIn the last decades, the scientific community has become aware of thefact that the real climate signal in the original series ofmeteorological data is generally hidden behind non-climatic noise causedby several factors. Therefore time series of meteorological data cannotbe used for climate research without facing this issue. Moreover, as therecords are rather sparse and a significant fraction of them has widegaps, the missing data should be filled and the series should be griddedin order to balance the areas with a high number of series with areaswith a low number of series. Finally, they could be averaged in order toobtain series that are representative of a wide area. The methodologiesused to set up quality-checked and homogenised datasets over Italy forsome variables like solar radiation, visibility, cloudiness,precipitation and temperature will be presented and discussed togetherwith the observed trends and the underlying causes. Moreover, theresults of some ongoing citizen science projects (e.g. Cli-DaRe, Re-Dataand Dieci e Lode), set up to digitise data available today only in paperformat will be presented.BioVeronica Manara is a researcher in the Department of EnvironmentalScience and Policy at the University of Milan. She obtained a degree inPhysics and a PhD in Environmental Science from the same institution.Her research focuses primarily on climate reconstruction and onunderstanding the reasons behind the observed changes during the lasttwo centuries in Italy, over the Greater Alpine Region and over theMediterranean region using observational data but also reanalysis andsatellite data. Initially, she focused her analysis on variables such assolar radiation, visibility, and cloudiness, and then also on variablessuch as precipitation, temperature and snow cover. In recent years, shehas started working on numerous citizen science projects to digitisedata that is currently only available in paper format.