IT Closing Meeting of the project Dieci e Lode Climatic Data of the Former Italian Colonies and Their Digitization Save the Date Thursday 10 Aprile 2025 at the Santorio room, CREA – Centro di ricerca Alimenti e nutrizione (Via Ardeatina 546, Rome) Our Sponsors Thursday 10 Aprile 2025, the Closing meeting of the Project “DIECI E LODE – Dati climaticI delle Ex Colonie Italiane E LOro DigitalizzazionE” will be held in Rome at the Santorio room, CREA – Centro di ricerca Alimenti e nutrizione (Via Ardeatina 546). The meeting is co-organzed by AISAM and CREA. Speakers will include researchers, university professors and international experts. The project, which started a few months ago, takes advantage of the collaboration of Italian research bodies such as CREA, Università di Trento, Politecnico di Milano, Università degli Studi di Milano, CNR-ISAC of Bologna and CNR-IBE of Rome. The activities were started thanks to initial funding from the Ministry of Culture. The project in brief Italy had a very important role in the birth and development of modern meteorology and, thanks to this peculiar role, it has many ancient and fundamental meteorological data. The recovery of this enormous observational heritage has been underway for some time and, in recent decades, a significant part of this data has been digitized. Despite the many activities undertaken, many documents still need to be recovered and digitized to prevent their deterioration over time. Among these documents are records pertaining to the regions of central and northern Africa that were formerly Italian colonies. Objectives The objective of this project is therefore the recovery of meteorological observations relating to the former Italian colonies (in particular Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia, Libya) and all the other territories that were under Italian control and which still hold invaluable data. Therefore, the impressive digitization efforts that AISAM intends to undertake allows not only to preserve an invaluable heritage, but also able the consultation, the exploration and study a significant amount of historical information from territories that are still under-monitored by networks. In particular, the data measured by Italy in its former colonies can provide a contribution of considerable interest to international climatological research. Furthermore, the same data are of great importance for the meteorological offices that monitor these territories today, as it allows they allows current meteorological observations to be placed into a broader context, fundamental for the study of climate change. For a more complete description of the Project and its objectives, please refer to the dedicated page: https://aisam.eu/progetti/10-e-lode-en/ PROGRAM Chairman: Maurizio Maugeri (Università degli Studi di Milano) 09:30 Registration 10:00 Institutional greetings Sergio Pisani (President of AISAM) Emanuele Marconi (CREA – Food and Nutrition Research Center) Giuseppe Corti (CREA – Agriculture and Environment Research Center) Renata Pelosini (Agenzia ItaliaMeteo) Luca Baione (Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force) – Permanent Representative with World Meteorological Organization) 10:30 Catherine Ross (Met Office UK) The UK Met Office National Meteorological Archive collections, data rescue priorities and activities, use in climate monitoring, and next steps 11:00 Alessandro Ceppi (Politecnico di Milano), Alessia Tadiello (AISAM), Fabio Leali (AISAM) The Dieci e Lode Project: final results 11:20 Luigi Iafrate (CREA) The Meteorological Service of Italian Colonial Africa through CREA’s historical climate data 11:35 Pierfrancesco Coppola (Aeronautica Militare) Meteorological Data Rescue (M-DaRe): Program Description 11:50 Ali Salem Eddenjal (Director, Climate Directorate, Libyan National Meteorological Center) Climate Change in Libya: What Do the Climatic Data Say? 12:05 Marlies van der Schee (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute – KNMI) Data rescue activities to increase observational data availability for climate analysis under the framework of The Copernicus Programme 12:20 Ed Hawkins (University of Reading) The value of data rescue for learning about changes to extreme weather events 12:35 Rob Allan (Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth) The International Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) Initiative: Overview and Mediterranean Focus 12:50 Adem Esmail Blal (Eurac Research) Nature-based solutions for water security in Asmara, Eritrea: The role of hydroclimatic data for assessing water scarcity risk 12:55 The floor goes to the Sponsors Valerio Di Stefano (Juris Silva Observatory) Luca Parola (CAE) Lino Ciceri (Lombard&Marozzini) Luca Berichillo (Ecosearch) 13:15 Conclusions 13:30 Light lunch 14:30 Visit to the CREA historical archives and museum Download the program in PDF format