A5044495253- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Underwater Acoustics Research
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
- Marine and fisheries research
- Marine animal studies overview
- Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Environmental Monitoring and Data Management
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Climate variability and models
- Maritime Navigation and Safety
- Blind Source Separation Techniques
- Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
- Energy Load and Power Forecasting
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
- IoT Networks and Protocols
- Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
- Hydrological Forecasting Using AI
National Research Council
2014-2024
Institute for Coastal Marine Environment
2020-2024
Institute for the Study of Anthropic Impact and Sustainability in the Marine Environment
2020-2024
Consorzio Roma Ricerche
2008-2023
Istituto di Scienze Marine del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
2018
Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation
2005-2016
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
2013-2014
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova
2004
Rina Services (Italy)
1997-2002
University of Genoa
2002
The oceans play a key role in global issues such as climate change, food security and human health. Given their vast dimensions internal complexity, efficient monitoring predicting of the planet's ocean must be collaborative effort both regional scale. A first foremost requirement for observing is need to follow well-defined reproducible methods across activities: from strategies structuring systems, sensor deployment usage, generation data information products, ethical governance aspects...
The Mediterranean community represented in this paper is the result of more than 30 years EU & nationally funded coordination that has led to key contributions science concepts and operational initiatives. Together with establishment services, been coordinating Universities, research centers, infrastructures private companies implement advanced multi-platform integrated observing forecasting systems facilitate advancement scientific achievements mission-oriented innovation. As a result, able...
Abstract. Meteorological and sea temperature data from the ODAS Italia 1 buoy (Ligurian Sea, Western Mediterranean) are used to study anomalous warming of summer 2003 at sea. The event was related record heat wave that interested much Europe June September year. show prevalently confined within a few meters below surface. On contrary, temperatures in underlying layers were lower than usual. limited vertical propagation is ascribed high difference arose between surface deeper due protracted...
Ocean surface radiation measurement best practices have been developed as a first step to support the interoperability of measurements across multiple ocean platforms and between land networks. This document describes consensus by working group experts from land, ocean, aircraft communities. The scope was limited broadband shortwave (solar) longwave (terrestrial infrared) irradiance for quantification budget. Best spectral biological purposes like photosynthetically active color are only...
The European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water-column Observatory (EMSO) is a distributed pan-European Research Infrastructure, structured as an organisation with autonomous governance based on the Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) legislation defined by Commission. It composed of 8 Member States (Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Ireland, Norway, Greece, Romania) goal to explore, monitor improve understanding deep ocean variability ocean-climate nexus. EMSO ERIC currently comprises ten...
EMSO is a distributed infrastructure dedicated to the long-term, real-time monitoring of environmental processes in oceans, covering ocean dynamics, géohazards, and marine ecosystems functioning. To achieve these goals, operates network high-technology platforms deployed from surface seafloor based on multiparametric observation. develops data services products providing valuable insights climate change processes, human activity sounds natural hazards early warnings capability. This abstract...
Oceanic ambient noise measurements can be analyzed to obtain qualitative and quantitative information about wind rainfall phenomena over the ocean filling existing gap of reliable meteorological observations at sea. The Ligurian Sea Acoustic Experiment was designed collect long-term synergistic from a passive acoustic recorder surface sensors (i.e., buoy mounted rain gauge anemometer weather radar) support error analysis rate speed quantification techniques developed in past studies. study...
ICOS-Oceans is the marine domain of European Research Infrastructure Consortium "Integrated Carbon Observation System" (ICOS). It aims at delivering high quality greenhouse gas (GHG) observations and derived data products (e.g. regional GHG-flux maps) for constraining GHG balance on a level, sustained long-term basis. currently consists 11 Ship Opportunity lines (SOOP – Program) 10 Fixed Stations (FOS) spread across waters, including North Atlantic Ocean Barents, North, Baltic Mediterranean...
The Italian Fixed-Point Observatory Network (IFON) integrates well-established coastal and ocean infrastructures (buoys, platforms, moorings, mast etc.), most of them providing real-time multidisciplinary monitoring for a number marine atmospheric variables. Here, we describe the network characteristics then discuss an example its operation during cold spell winter 2012. One goals Flagship Project Ricerca Italiana per il mare (RITMARE) is to create common, validated IFON database able fulfil...
Abstract. Three years of 300 kHz acoustic doppler current profiler data collected in the central Ligurian Sea are analysed to investigate variability zooplankton biomass and diel vertical migration upper thermocline. After a pre-processing phase aimed at avoiding slant range attenuation, hourly volume backscattering strength time series obtained. Despite lack concurrent net samples collection, different patterns identified their temporal examined by means time–frequency analysis. The effect...
Abstract. Long-time series of surface currents and meteorological parameters were analysed to estimate the variability upper layer circulation response local winds. Current meter data collected by an upward-looking RDI Sentinel 300 kHz ADCP deployed in Central Ligurian Sea (43°47.77' N; 9°02.85' E) near meteo-oceanographic buoy ODAS Italia 1 for more than eight months, from 13th September 2003 24th May 2004. The sampled 50 m water column at 8 vertical resolution h time interval; marine...
The effective management and protection of the marine ecosystem as requested by European latest directives can be achieved only an operational monitoring forecasting environmental conditions that require use multi-variable real-time measurements combined with advanced physical ecological numerical models. A modern approach to ocean observations involves a variety sources, including satellite-based instruments, in-situ platforms such surface sub-surface buoys floats, autonomous vehicles...
While in the past prediction of wind and rainfall from underwater noise was performed using empirical equations fed with very few spectral bins fitted to data, it has recently been shown that regression supervised machine learning techniques can benefit simultaneous use all bins, at cost increased complexity. However, both regressors perform only acoustic information collected time when one wants know speed or intensity. At most, averages are made between spectra measured subsequent times...
Abstract. A network of three multi-sensor timeseries stations able to deliver real time physical and biochemical observations the upper thermocline has been developed for needs Mediterranean Forecasting System during MFSTEP project. They follow experience prototype M3A system that was MFSPP project tested a pilot pre-operational period 22 months (2000–2001). The systems integrate sensors (temperature, salinity, turbidity, current speed direction) as well optical chemical (dissolved oxygen,...
Abstract. In the marine environment, complete datasets describing surface layer and vertical structure of Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer (MABL), through its entire depth, are less frequent than over land, due to high cost measuring campaigns. During seven days Ligurian Air-Sea Interaction Experiment (LASIE), organized by NATO Undersea Research Centre (NURC) in Mediterranean Sea, extensive situ remote sensing measurements were collected from instruments placed on a spar buoy ship. Standard...
This work deals with the installation of two smart in-situ sensors (for underwater radioactivity and sound monitoring) on Western 1-Mediterranean Moored Multisensor Array (W1-M3A) ocean observing system that is equipped all appropriate modules for continuous, long-term real-time operation. All necessary tasks their integration are described such as, upgrade interoperable power-efficient operation, conversion data in homogeneous standard format, automated pre-process raw data, metadata...
To address the recent needs for extended spatial and temporal in situ ocean data, new research is being implemented worldwide to develop apply cost-effective subsea sensors suitable large-scale production [...]
The growing need for interoperability among the different oceanic monitoring systems to deliver services able answer requirements of stakeholders and end-users led development a low-cost machine-to-machine communication system guarantee data reliability over marine paths. In this framework, an experimental evaluation performance long-range (LoRa) technology in fully operational scenario has been proposed. In-situ tests were carried out exploiting availability (i) passenger vessel (ii)...
The regions surrounding the North West Mediterranean Sea are often sites of intense precipitation events, particularly during autumn months. many casualties and high economic costs due to these events demand a continuous improvement in forecasting models support early warning systems. main weather conditions that determine episodes heavy rain over known, but number processes interactions taking place at different time space scales makes it extremely difficult increase skill pertaining their...
In the context of Copernicus Program, EUMETSAT prioritizes creation an ocean color infrastructure for system vicarious calibration (OC-SVC). This work aims to reply this need by proposing European Radiometry Buoy and Infrastructure (EURYBIA). EURYBIA is designed as autonomous operating within Marine Optical Network (MarONet) established University Miami (Miami, FL, USA) based on (MOBY) experience NASA support. MarONet addresses SVC requirements in different sites, consistently a traceable...
Abstract. Since numerical weather prediction (NWP) models are usually used to force ocean circulation models, it is important investigate their skill in reproducing surface meteorological parameters open sea conditions. Near-surface data (air temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed and direction) have been acquired from several sensors deployed on an offshore large spar buoy the Ligurian Sea (Northern Mediterranean Sea) February December 2000. The collected 7857 valid...
In European seas, ocean monitoring strategies in terms of key parameters, space and time scale vary widely for a range technical economic reasons. Nonetheless, the growing interest interior promotes investigation processes such as oxygen consumption, primary productivity acidity requiring that close attention is paid to instruments measurement setup, configuration, calibration, maintenance procedures quality assessment. To this aim, two separate hardware software tools were developed order...