Could climate change and urban growth make Europeans regard urban trees as an additional source of danger?

L Portoghesi, E Masini, A Tomao… - Frontiers in Forests and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In some geographical areas of North America and Southeast Asia cities are frequently hit by
heavy windstorms capable of knocking down hundreds of urban trees and large branches in …

Very high resolution projections over Italy under different CMIP5 IPCC scenarios

M Raffa, M Adinolfi, A Reder, GF Marras, M Mancini… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
This paper introduces VHR-PRO_IT (Very High-Resolution PROjections for ITaly), an open
access hourly climate projection with a resolution of≃ 2.2 km (ie, Convection Permitting …

Spatio-temporal pattern and meteo-climatic determinants of visceral leishmaniasis in Italy

G Moirano, M Ellena, P Mercogliano… - Tropical Medicine and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Historically, visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in Italy was constrained to Mediterranean areas.
However, in the last 20 years, sand fly vectors and human cases of VL have been detected …

Investigation on potential and limitations of ERA5 Reanalysis downscaled on Italy by a convection-permitting model

M Adinolfi, M Raffa, A Reder, P Mercogliano - Climate Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
This study presents a comprehensive assessment of a dynamical downscaling of ERA5
Reanalysis recently performed over Italy through the COSMO-CLM model at a convection …

Altitudinal shifting of major forest tree species in Italian Mountains under climate change

S Noce, C Cipriano, M Santini - Frontiers in Forests and Global …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Climate change has profound implications for global ecosystems, particularly in
mountainous regions where species distribution and composition are highly sensitive to …

[HTML][HTML] Suitability of ERA5-Land reanalysis dataset for hydrological modelling in the Alpine region

D Dalla Torre, N Di Marco, A Menapace… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Study region: The region of interest is the South-Tyrol in the southeastern Alps, Italy. A
comparison of meteorological forcing is performed with reference to this region while …

High performance computing to support land, climate, and user‐oriented services: The HIGHLANDER Data Portal

M Bottazzi, L Rodríguez‐Muñoz… - Meteorological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The Italian territory is located at the heart of one of the global hot spots of climate change,
where the implementation of climate‐smart land management practices is imperative to …

A convection-permitting and limited-area model hindcast driven by ERA5 data: precipitation performances in Italy

V Capecchi, F Pasi, B Gozzini, C Brandini - Climate Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
This study describes the implementation and performances of a weather hindcast obtained
by dynamically downscaling the ERA5 data across the period 1979–2019. The limited-area …

SPHERA, a new convection‐permitting regional reanalysis over Italy: Improving the description of heavy rainfall

A Giordani, IML Cerenzia, T Paccagnella… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Regional reanalyses allow us to better describe weather patterns related to rapidly evolving
high‐impact events thanks to substantially finer detailing than global datasets. However …

Survey of land cover datasets for updating the imperviousness field in urban parameterisation scheme TERRA_URB for climate and weather applications

C Apreda, JP Schulz, A Reder, P Mercogliano - Urban Climate, 2023 - Elsevier
In climate modelling, a critical issue is the accurate representation of urban areas in space
and variation over time. Urban features may be parameterised through urban canopy …