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BAHC activity - related projects
 Focal Point: A. Alpi
Deputy Focal Point: R. Valentini

PRISMA 1
River runoff -Po, Adige and Piave

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GCTE activity - related projects
 Focal Point: F. Miglietta
Deputy Focal Point: E. Brugnoli

 

Click here for a summary of GCTE Italian Activities (in italian)
by GCTE Italian Focal Point F. Miglietta

 

BERI
To study the effects of climatic change on nordic ecosystems, kept in modified atmosphere close to that which will probably be present during next century.

Participant: F. Miglietta , IATA-CNR, Florence, Italy

http://www.joensuu.fi/mekri/beri/INDEX.HTM

 

EUROFLUX
To give an extimation of CO2 exchanges between atmosphere and forests in Europe, and a quantification of CO2 sinks of forest ecosystem. Mass and Energy exchange measurements.

Coordinator: R. Valentini , Univ della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

http://www.unitus.it/eflux/euro.html

 

EUROFACE
A New scaleable FACE design for experiments with elevated CO2

Coordinator: F. Miglietta IATA-CNR, Florence, Italy

http://www.iata.fi.cnr.it/geniata.html

http://www.iata.fi.cnr.it/megarich/kyoto/GCTE.htm

 

MEDEFLU
Measuring mass and energy exchanges in Mediterranean vegetation. Originating from EUROFLUX, calculates the CO2 balance for Mediterranean countries (from Portugal to Greece), aiming to study how antrophic perturbations affect natural ecosystems. Started in 1997, 1998-2001

Coordinator: F. Miglietta IATA-CNR, Florence, Italy

 

EURASIA-NET
European-Asian Network. In order to coordinate the international efforts following Kyoto agreements, the project coordinates the researches started in Europe by EUROFLUX and MEDEFLU, with similar acticities sponsored by the german and netherland government (CARBONET, Siberia, and IMGRASS, China).

Coordinators: R. Valentini and F. Miglietta
Univ. Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

 

BEMA
Extimation of the natural vegetation influence to the CO2 budget (green house).

Coordinator: P. Ciccioli, IIA-CNR, Roma

 

MAPLE
Microevolutionary Adaption of Plant to elevated CO2. To determine wheter an increase in the CO2 concentration can be the origin of morphological or genetic adaption in the vegetation.

Coordinator: A. Raschi, Ist. Agrometeorologia, CNR, Florence

http://www.iata.fi.cnr.it/geniata.html

 

POPFACE
Effects of the CO2 increase versus great sinks (forest and poplar plantation, relevant atmospheric CO2 sink). Started 1997, 1998-2001

Coordinator: G. Scarascia, Univ. della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

 

CHIP
Climate Change and Potato crops in Europe. Scenarios of climate changes and their effects on the potatoes growing in France.

Participant: M. Bindi, CeSIA, Florence
Univ. Giessen, Germany

 

MEGARICH

Participant: A. Raschi, CeSIA, Florence

http://www.iata.fi.cnr.it/megarich/kyoto/GCTE.htm

 

RESMEDES
Remote Sensig of Mediterranean Desertification Environmental Stability
EC Environment Climate. To develope tecnologies for monitoring surface area in the Mediterranean regions

Coordinator: F. Maselli, Ist. Agrometeorologia, CNR, Florence

 

CLIVARA
To simulate the climatic evolution for periods of centuries , using numerical models to study the coupled system. Climate Change and Agriculture in Europe. Follows the previous Project CLAIRE. Environmental Impact assessment on european agricultural systems

Participant: M. Bindi, CeSIA, Florence

http://www.ecu.ox.ac.uk/Annrep96/climate.htm

 

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IGAC activity - related projects
 Focal Point: M. Colacino
Deputy Focal Point: G.P. Gobbi

MOANA
Measure and modelling of the ozone in the stratosphere and polar zone , in order to study the realtion between aerosols and the ozone layer depletion

Coordinator: L. Stefanutti IROE-CNR, Florence, Italy

 

FORMONA
To understand the mechanisms of formation of HONO in the atmosphere, particularly those which trigger its formation in the lower atmosphere. Formation and presence of HONO in the atmosphere

Coordinator: A. Febo ,IIA-CNR, Rome, Italy

http://aix.meng.auth.gr/lhtee/projects/formona.html

 

APE
Microphysical and chemical study of the stratospheric clouds in polar areas

Coordinator: L. Stefanutti IROE-CNR, Florence

 

SAFIRE-A
To develop an adequate spectroscopying strumentation in order to study the stratospheric ozone layer

Coordinator: B. Carli IROE-CNR, Florence

 

PCAM
To quantify the aerosols effects on the climate of the Mediterranean area and improve the monitoring tecniques
Ground and satellite observations

Coordinator: G.A. Dalu IFA, Roma

 

SOAP
To study the organic components of aerosol which are involved in cloud formation

Coordinator: S. Fuzzi CNR-FISBAT, Bologna

 

IGAC Italy Activities

CATOME
deposizione di benzene ed ossidazione in troposfera

Contact: gobbi@sunifa1.ifsi.rm.cnr.it, IFA-CNR, Roma

 

PAUR2
Photochemical Activity and Ultraviolet Radiation modulation factors. Study of the effects of saharian aerosols on the UV radiation at ground level

Participant: IFA, ENEA Casaccia, Univ. La Sapienza

 

AEROCHEM-2
Effects of airplane transport on atmospheric chemistry

Participant: Univ. of L'Aquila

Contact: visconti@aquila.infn.it,

 

TOPOZ
Stratospehere-troposphere exchanges

Participant: Univ. of L’Aquila

Contact: visconti@aquila.infn.it,

 

Project ACE-2 HILLCLOUD
Aerosols Characterization Experiment. Use of a hill cap cloud to study cloud aerosol interactions in ace-2

Contact: S. Fuzzi CNR-FISBAT, Bologna

 

VOTALP
Vertical ozone transports in the Alps

Contact: P. Bonasoni CNR-FISBAT, Bologna

 

PRISMA 1
atmospherical fall-outs

 

GOME
Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment

Participant: IMGA-CNR Bologna, data retrieval of aerosol and clouds profiles

Contact: R. Guzzi IMGA-CNR, Bologna

 

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JGOFS activity - related projects
 Focal Point: M. Ribera
Deputy Focal Point: M. Ravaioli

PRISMA 1
biogeochemical cycles (C, N, P and Si) in the water column

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LOICZ activity - related projects
 Focal Point: S. Guerzoni
Deputy Focal Point: A. Bergamasco

PRISMA 1
Evolution of the trophic aspects of coastal areas

PRISMA 2
monitoring models for the italian Regions

ELOISE
The ELOISE project is jointly implemented by the European Union's MAST (Marine Science and Technology) and Environment and Climate programmes.

The objectives of ELOISE are:
- To determine the role of coastal seas in land-ocean interactions (including shelf-deep sea interactions along the shelf break) in the perspective of global change;
- To determine the regional and global consequences of human impact through pollution, eutrophication and physical disturbance on land-ocean interactions in the coastal zone;
- To formulate a strategic approach to the management of sustainable coastal zone resource use and development, and to investigate information, policy and market failures that hamper sustainable coastal resources management;
- To promote the development of a European scientific infrastructure for coastal zone research and data management that can optimize both national and regional research and the benefits accruing from it.

Some info about ELOISE Workshop

 

NICE
(NItrogen Cycling in Estuaries)

Coordinator: T. Dalsgaard , National Environmental Research Institute, Silke borg (DK)

Participants:
University of Essex (UK), University of Parma, University of Ferrara (Italy), University of Gothenburg, Universidade de Lisboa (P), University of Aarhus (DK)

http://www.dmu.dk/LakeandEstuarineEcology/NICE

Extended Abstract of NICE

 

ROBUST
(ROle of BUffering capacities in STabilising coastal lagoon ecosystems)

Coordinator: R. De Wit Université Bordeaux I, (F)

Participants:
Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Yerseke (NL); University of Parma, University of Ferrara (I), University of Dundee (UK), Universidad de Alicante (E), University of Aarhus (DK).

http://www.

Extended Abstract of ROBUST

 

 

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PAGES activity - related projects
 Focal Point: G. Orombelli
Deputy Focal Point: D. Magri

 

National Projects

Mass balance, monitoring and paleoclimatic studies of the Pacific sector of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet

Contact: 2a@alpha.disat.unimi.it

 

Permafrost and buried ice in the Victoria Land

Contact: dramis@uniroma3.it

 

Meteorite traps of the Victoria Land

Contact: mellini@unisi.it

 

Late Quaternary climatic cycles in the Ross Sea sediments

Contact: museo@univ.trieste.it

 

ALPCLIM European Project
Environmental and climate records from high Alpine glaciers

Contact: maggi@alpha.disat.unimi.it

 

EV-K2-CNR National Project
To study the paleolimnology and paleoclimate records of high altitude lakes of central Asia

Contact: lami@iii.to.cnr.it

 

PALICLAS European Project
To study the paleolimnology and paleoclimate records of high altitude lakes of central Asia

Contact: lami@iii.to.cnr.it

 

SELF II European Project
Sea Level Fluctuations

Contact: antonioli@infos1.casaccia.enea.it

 

ITASE International Project
International TransAntarctic Scientific Expedition
200 years of past climate and environmental change, traverse Terra Nova Bay

Contact: frezzotti_m@eca401.enea.it

 

ANTIME International Project
Late Quaternary sedimentary record of Antarctic ice margin evolution

Contact: M. Taviani CNR-IGM, Bologna

 

EPICA International Project
European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica

Italian Representative: G. Orombelli , DISAT, University of Milano

 

ARIDUSEUROMED
environmental changes of last thousands years, defining strategies in order to protect desert-risk areas

Contact: follieri@uniroma1.it and narcisi@uniroma1.it

 

LIBYAN-ITALIAN JOINT MISSION AT JEBEL GHARBY (LYBIA)
Environmental changes and men-environment interactions in the Sahara and Mediterranean area in prehistoric time

Contact: barich@rmcisadua.let.uniroma1.it and giraudi@casaccia.enea.it

 

LATE PLEISTOCENE AND HOLOCEN CLIMATIC ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES IN ENDORETIC BASINS OF CENTRAL ITALY
Stratigraphy and chronology of continental deposits of enclosed basins

Contact: giraudi@casaccia.enea.it

 

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LUCC activity - related projects
 Focal Point: B. Cori
Deputy Focal Point: N. Famoso

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GLOBEC activity - related projects
 Focal Point: N. Pinardi
Deputy Focal Point: M. Zavattarelli

GLOBEC Italy Activities

SINAPSI
To forecast atmospheric climatic fluctuations in oceans and marine ecosystems

http://www.imga.bo.cnr.it:80/ismare/sinapsi.html

 

MERMAIDS
To test different ways to treat oceanographic data in order to develop homogenous long time records data base.
Mediterranean Eddy resolving and interdisciplinary studies, to study the annual variability of the Mediterranean Sea circulation, using mathematical models and data.Climate and circulation in the Mediterranean

Coordinator: N. Pinardi, IMGA-CNR, Bo, Italy

http://www.imga.bo.cnr.it/mermaids

 

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CNR projects - Coordination
International Projects on atmosphere, meteorology and climate coordinated by CNR

DICE
Observations and simulations in order to understand the climate variability, expecially the natural vs. the man-induced one.

Coordinator: A. Navarra, IMGA-CNR, Bologna

 

AGORA (DIS)
To test different ways to treat oceanographic data in order to develop homogenous long time records data base

Coordinator: A. Navarra, IMGA-CNR, Bologna

http://www.imga.bo.cnr.it/~nicola/agora.html

 

SINTEX (CLIVAR)
To simulate the climatic evolution for periods of centuries , using numerical models to study the coupled system ocean-atmosphere

A. Navarra, IMGA-CNR, Bologna

http://www.imga.bo.cnr.it/~nicola/agora.html

 

PRISMA 2
Mechanisms of formation of discontinuity fronts of water masses, and study of the mechanisns which determine the fate of mainland coming matters. Definition of indicators which can give useful information about the variables related to them (GAIM)

http://adriatico.ced.rm.cnr.it

 

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CNR projects - Participation
International projects on atmosphere, meteorology and climate with CNR partecipation

Progetto CHEMDROP
Composizione chimica e processi nelle nuvole e nelle nebbie: dipendenza dalle dimensione delle particelle e delle gocce

Participant: S. Fuzzi CNR-FISBAT, Bologna

 

Progetto AARGA
Misure da aereo di aerosols e gas-traccia ad essi collegati

Coordinator: A. Adriani IFA-CNR, Roma

 

Progetto ARIAS
Sviluppo di nuova strumentazione per la misura degli aerosols mediante palloni sonda o aerei

Coordinator: A. Adriani IFA-CNR, Roma

 

Progetto
The use of sar to map ice thickness in the odden ice tongue and determine its role in deep convention

Participant: F. Parmiggiani, IMGA-CNR, Bologna

 

Progetto ANOMALIA
 Anomalies induced by mountains and sea in rainfall over land in the western mediterranean area

Participant: A. Buzzi CNR-FISBAT, Bologna

 

Progetto FOREST-DYNAMO
 Forest environmental dynamics monitoring by microwave remote sensing

Participant: P. Pampaloni, IROE, Florence

 

EV5V 0503
Variability of the North Atlantic storm track

Participant: A. Provenzale, Ist. di cosmo-geofisica, Torino

 

Progetto CIME
 Cloud ice mountain experiment

Participant: S. Fuzzi CNR-FISBAT, Bologna

 

ENV4 0039
 Direct Determination of Polar Stratospheric Cloud Composition

Ist. di elettronica quantistica, Florence
Participant: P. Mazzinghi

 

ENV4 0040
 Stratospheric regular soundings

Participant: A. Adriani IFA-CNR, Roma

 

L'azione concertata EUROCLIVAR

A. Navarra, IMGA, Bologna

 

Progetto SAONAS
 Stratospheric Aerosols and Ozone in Northern and Southern Hemisphere

Contact: L. Stefanutti, IROE, Florence

 

Progetto MILLENNIA
 Numerical simulation and analysis of climate variablility on decadal and centennial time scales

Contact: A. Navarra, CNR-IMGA, Bologna

 

Progetto CLEARCOLUMN
 Clear SKY Column Closure Experiment

C. Tomasi, CNR-FISBAT, Bologna

 

Progetto PROVOST
 A European Programme on Prediction of Climate Variations on Seasonal and Interannual Timescales

Contact: A. Navarra, CNR-IMGA, Bologna

 

ENV4 0149
 Combined action to study the oceans thermal skin

Contact: E. Schiano, ISDGM - sez. oceanografica, Pozzuolo di Lerici (SP)

 

ENV4 0161
 Reconstruction of vertical ozone distribution from UMKEHER estimates

Contact: L. Stefanutti, IROE-CNR, Florence

 

ENV4 0163
 Instrument development proposal: Development of a condensation particle detection system (COPAS) with multiple inlets for implementation on stratospheric aircraft or balloons

Contact: A. Adriani IFA-CNR, Roma

 

ENV4 0311 SALMON
 Satellite Remote Sensing for Lake Monitoring

http://www.tel-irrs.mi.cnr.it/SALMON1/index.html

Co-ordinator:
Eugenio Zilioli, Ist. ricerche sul rischio sismico, Milano
L. Alberotanza, Ist. per lo studio della dinamica delle grandi masse, Venezia

The SALMON project intends to develop new methods for using EO (Earth Observation) satellite data for lake monitoring and management in Europe. Lakes and reservoirs represent major freshwater resources, and their economic implications are evident. Main objectives are:

' the optimization and actual limits in the use of existing and near-future EO data in this field of application;

' the exploration of new correlation between biological, chemical and physical parameters with the remotely sensed data;

' the definition of future space sensor needs for monitoring of European lakes;

' the definition of new protocols for standards in the acquisition of remotely sensed data of limnological interest.

Expected important advances are seen in the identification of the most suitable methodologies to correlate remotely sensed data to limnological parameters, and the definition of a reliable surveying tool for lake water quality analysis.

Major industrial implications concem the design and creation of new cost-effective tools for monitoring basic environmental emergencies for the European lakes.

 

ENV4 0332 HERA
 Heavy precipitation in ther Alpine Region

Participant: A. Buzzi, CNR-FISBAT, Bologna

 

ENV4 0344 REFIR
 Radiation explorer in the far infrared

Coordinator: B. Carli, IROE-CNR, Florence

 

MAS2 0052 EUROMARGE - AS
 Transfer pathways and fluxes of organic matter and related elements in water and sediments of the north Adriatic sea and their importance on the eastern Mediterranean Sea

Contact: P. Giordani, Ist. di geologia marina, Bologna

 

MAS2 0053 EUROMARGE - NB
 Northwestern Mediterranean

Contact: M. Frignani, IGM, Bologna

 

MAS2 0061 GEODYME
 Giochimie et Dynamique de la Miditerranie

Contact: G. Gasparini, ISDGM (sez. oceanografica), Pozzuolo di Lerici (SP)

 

MAS2 0068 MTP OTRANTO
 Hydrodynamics and geochemical fluxes in the strait of Otranto

Contact: S. Rabitti, Ist. di biologia del mare, Venezia
D. Bregant, Ist. Sperimentale talassografico, Trieste

 

MAS2 0075 MODB
Mediterranean oceanic data base (in situ) Concerted Action

Contact: A. Artegiani, IRPEM, Ancona

 

MAS2 0107 MEDMEX
(http://modb.oce.ulg.ac.be/MEDMEX )

MEDiterranean Models Evaluation eXperiment, concerted Action

Contact: N. Pinardi, CNR-IMGA, Bologna

 

MAS3 0015 ESOP II
European subpolar ocean programme Phase 2: the thermohaline circulation in the Greenland Sea

Contact: F. Parmiggiani, CNR-IMGA, Bologna

 

MAS3 0070 VEINS
Variability of exchanges in the northern seas

Contact: A. Luchetta, Ist. sperimentale talassografico, Trieste

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Miscellanea

ECOCRAFT I (finished in 1995?)
To study the forest species and ecosystems response to global and climatic changes, carried out over the main forest species present in Europe

 

ECOCRAFT II
To study the impacts of the climate changes on the European forests. The italian contribution studies the effects of large CO2 concentrations on forest of the mediterranean ecosystems

Univ. Edinburg, UK

 

CROPCHANGE
The potential effect of Climate Change on Arabe Eco-systems
To study the reactions of vegetal species under high CO2 concentrations. Finished in 1996

Contact: AB-DLO, Netherlands

 

ESPACE-GRASS
European Network for studying the impact of climate changes on grasses. 1995-97

Contact: Trinity College, Ireland

 

CLAIRE
Climate Change and Agriculture in Europe. To study the environmental impact on agriculture european systems

Contact: Oxford Univ., UK

Finished in 1996

 

 

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