A5087365837- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Climate variability and models
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
- Climate change and permafrost
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Remote Sensing and Land Use
- Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications
- Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
- Landslides and related hazards
- Wind Energy Research and Development
- Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Impact of Light on Environment and Health
- Photovoltaic System Optimization Techniques
Eurac Research
2014-2025
University of Trento
2011-2019
Photovoltaic (PV) module temperature predictions are crucial to accurately assess the efficiency of PV installations. In this study we focus on cooling effect wind cell temperature. We show that for most technologies installed at a test facility in Bolzano (Italy), models including data predict better than standard approaches which do not include data. Moreover, from numerical weather prediction can replace in-situ measurements: when they used as model input, also improves significantly...
Climate change is profoundly affecting the global water cycle, increasing likelihood and severity of extreme water-related events. Better decision-support systems are vital to accurately predict monitor environmental disasters optimally manage resources. These must integrate advances in remote sensing, situ , citizen observations with high-resolution Earth system modeling, artificial intelligence (AI), information communication technologies, high-performance computing. Digital Twin (DTE)...
Abstract. A systematic study of black carbon (BC) vertical profiles measured at high-resolution over three Italian basin valleys (Terni Valley, Po Valley and Passiria Valley) is presented. BC are scarcely available in literature. The campaign lasted 45 days resulted 120 profiles. Besides the mass concentration, measurements along also included aerosol size distributions optical particle counter range, chemical analysis filter samples a full set meteorological parameters. Using collected...
In this study, we evaluated three different downscaling approaches to enhance spatial resolution of thermal imagery over Alpine vegetated areas. Due the topographical and land-cover complexity sparse distribution meteorological stations in region, remotely-sensed land surface temperature (LST) at regional scale is major area interest for environmental applications. Even though Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) LST fills gap regarding high temporal length time-series, its...
Droughts during the growing season are projected to increase in frequency and severity Central Europe future. Thus, area-wide monitoring of agricultural drought this region is becoming more important. In context, it essential know where when vegetation growth primarily water-limited whether remote sensing-based indices can detect these areas. To answer questions, we conducted a correlation analysis between Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) Land Surface Temperature (LST) within...
The Alps serve as Europe's water tower, making perialpine regions heavily dependent on their balance and susceptible to climate management induced changes in availability. In recent decades, the have experienced an increasing number of droughts, leading severe impacts hydropower production, drinking irrigation allocation, ecosystem health, tourism. These trends necessitate a comprehensive understanding future drought patterns region.To evaluate analyze alpine regional model data from...
In recent years, the Alpine region has experienced an increasing frequency of drought events, leading to periods reduced water availability and consequent impacts on both agricultural hydropower production. Evapotranspiration (ET) is a key variable for detecting conditions optimizing resource management, yet accurate estimates ET at high spatial resolution remain scarce in mountainous regions. Remote sensing become valuable tool generating spatially distributed maps using thermal infrared...
The Alpine region faces heightened risks from climate change due to its complex terrain and ecosystems, highlighting the significant global challenge posed by a warming climate. is particularly susceptible effects of warming, which not only intensifies weather extremes but also significantly impacts hydrological processes. These changes increase frequency severity extreme events like droughts floods, further heightening region's vulnerability. Accurate local predictions are essential for...
Hydrological modelling in ungauged basins faces significant challenges due to the lack of in-situ measurements for model calibration and validation. Remote sensing (RS) data has emerged as a valuable alternative, providing spatially distributed estimates key hydrological variables such precipitation, evapotranspiration (ET), vegetation dynamics. These datasets not only serve inputs but also are increasingly used validation, thereby reducing uncertainty enhancing applicability. Despite this...
The Alpine water towers are essential for sustaining life and driving the economy across central southern Europe. This vital resource faces growing pressure from global warming, which is changing precipitation patterns, reducing snow availability accelerating glacier melt, economic growth, an ever-increasing demand water. Consequently, significant shifts in water’s spatial temporal observed, accompanied by a rising frequency intensity of drought events. In this context, Interreg...
Snow droughts are increasingly recognized as an important feature of dry periods in mountain regions worldwide. While the phenomenology this hazard is becoming clearer, its implications for hydrology, ecosystems, and upstream downstream communities remain poorly understood. This knowledge gap leaves scientists decision-makers without necessary tools to support adaptation face accelerating climate change declining, ephemeral snow water resources. Leveraging 13 years hydrological...
High-resolution climate data significantly enhance the accuracy and understanding of water budgets, particularly in mountainous regions. Evapotranspiration (ET), largest terrestrial flux, is a critical parameter for surface modelling monitoring change impacts on resources agriculture. Its influence especially pronounced Europe Mediterranean, recognized as hotspots.This study presents high-resolution (1 km daily) Potential (PET) dataset, derived from combination ground-based remote sensing...
Irrigation is an essential component of food systems. Worldwide, 40% global production comes from irrigated croplands despite the latter accounting for 20% total cropland. With limited available locations to grow crops, increasing population and a changing climate, irrigation crucial help meet rising demand on It also process with consideration in current hydrological model developments.Building previously flexible open-source digital twin Adige River basin (~11000 km2), located north-east...
This study evaluates the suitability of method HelioMont, developed by MeteoSwiss, for estimating solar radiation from geostationary satellite data over Alpine region.The algorithm accounts influence topography, clouds, snow cover and atmosphere on incoming radiation.The main error sources are investigated both direct diffuse components comparison with ground-based measurement taken at three sites, namely Bolzano (IT), Davos (CH) Payerne (CH), encompassing different topographic...
In this article, we present a new concept for predicting satellite-derived land surface temperature (LST) under cloudy skies over vegetated areas in the Alps. Although many different reconstruction methods have been developed, they require rarely available inputs, or restore missing pixels from clear-sky observations with low spatial resolution (1–5 km), which makes them unreliable heterogenous ecosystems. Given these limitations, propose station-based procedure to predict cloud-covered...
In the Alps, understanding how climate change is affecting evapotranspiration (ET) relevant due to possible implications on water availability for large lowland areas of Europe. Here, changes in ET were studied based 20 years MODIS data. MOD16 and operational Simplified Surface Energy Balance (SSEBop) products compared with eddy-covariance data analyzed trend detection. The two showed a similar relationship ground observations, RMSE between 0.69 2 mm day−1, correlation coefficient 0.6 0.83....
Abstract. Evapotranspiration (ET) is responsible for regulating the hydrological cycle with a relevant impact on air humidity and precipitation, particularly important in context of acute drought events recent years. With intensification rainfall deficits extreme heat events, Mediterranean region requires regular monitoring to enhance water resources management. Even though remote sensing provides spatially continuous information estimating ET large scales, existing global products spatial...
Many satellite-derived evapotranspiration (ET) estimates rely on coarse resolution (CR) land surface temperature (LST) from 1-km thermal infrared bands offered by NASA and ESA instruments, like Terra MODIS Sentinel-3 SLSTR. This affects prediction performance of ET, especially in complex regions, such as the Alps. Since most twosource energy balance (TSEB) models assume no variability within a pixel, major challenge ET modelling is related to cell grid heterogeneity. Given this limitation,...
This work estimates yield losses due to drought events in the mountain grasslands north-eastern Italy, laying groundwork for index-based insurance. Given high correlation between leaf area index (LAI) and grassland yield, we exploit LAI as a proxy yield. We estimate by using Sentinel-2 biophysical processor compare different gap-filling methods, including time series interpolation fusion with Sentinel-1 SAR data. derive production (GPI) growing season cumulate of daily product meteorological...
Abstract. This study presents the first measured high resolution vertical profiles of black carbon and calculation aerosol radiative forcing atmospheric heating rates in lower troposphere, over Italy Europe. The is based on carbon, number size distribution chemical composition three Italian basin valleys (Po Valley, Terni Valley Passiria Valley) by means a tethered balloon equipped with micro-Aethalometer, an optical particle counter (OPC), cascade impactor meteorological station....
Remote sensing measurements offer great potential to quantify evapotranspiration (ET) more accurately. This work assesses several remotely-sensed ET datasets at high, medium and coarse scale through a comparison with eddy covariance (EC) measurements. In particular, daily retrievals obtained from the Sen-ET model ECOSTRESS product, both having resolutions of tens meters, were considered. addition, 3-km estimates derived SEVIRI analyzed, together 8-day MODIS composites 500-m spatial...