A5056277209- Climate variability and models
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Forest ecology and management
- Forest Management and Policy
- Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Climate change and permafrost
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
- Malaria Research and Control
Joint Research Centre
2022-2025
European Commission
2025
National Research Council
2022-2025
CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
2017-2023
Istituto di Scienze Marine del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
2019-2022
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
2012-2016
University of Bologna
2010-2012
Agenzia Regionale Prevenzione e Ambiente della Regione Emilia-Romagna
2011
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
2009
Anthropogenic land cover changes (LCC) affect regional and global climate through biophysical variations of the surface energy budget mediated by albedo, evapotranspiration, roughness. This change in may exacerbate or counteract biogeochemical greenhouse gas effects LCC, with a large body emerging assessments being produced, sometimes apparently contradictory. We reviewed existing scientific literature objective to provide an overview state-of-the-knowledge LCC effects, support assessment...
The population experiencing high temperatures in cities is rising due to anthropogenic climate change, settlement expansion, and growth. Yet, efficient tools evaluate potential intervention strategies reduce exposure Land Surface Temperature (LST) extremes are still lacking. Here, we implement a spatial regression model based on remote sensing data that able assess the LST urban environments across 200 surface properties like vegetation cover distance water bodies. We define as number of...
Land use and land cover change (LULCC) affects the climate through both biogeochemical (BGC) biophysical (BPH) mechanisms. While BGC effects are assessed at global scale heart of treaties such as Paris Agreement, BPH totally absent despite their increasingly recognized impact, especially local scale. This stems from complexity in characterizing impacts scale, which makes it impractical to offer clear advices for development policies. To overcome this barrier, we built a prototype an...
Abstract This study presents a new global gridded dataset of bioclimatic indicators at 0.5° by resolution for historical and future conditions. The dataset, called CMCC-BioClimInd, provides set 35 indices, expressed as mean values over each time interval, derived from post-processing both climate reanalysis period (1960–1999) an ensemble 11 bias corrected CMIP5 simulations under two greenhouse gas concentration scenarios projections along periods (2040–2079 2060–2099). complements the...
Abstract This work tackles the problem of automated detection atmospheric boundary layer (BL) height h , from aerosol lidar/ceilometer observations. A new method, Bayesian selective method (BSM), is presented. It implements a statistical inference procedure which combines in statistically optimal way different sources information. Firstly, stratification boundaries are located discontinuities ceilometer backscattered signal. The BSM then identifies discontinuity edge that has highest...
A new multiscale Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) dataset is provided for a reference period (1960–1999) and two future time horizons (2040–2079) (2060–2099). The historical forcing based on combined climate observations reanalysis (WATer global CHange Forcing Dataset), the projections are fed by Fast Track experiment of Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project under representative concentration pathways (RCPs) 4.5 8.5 an additional Earth system model...
Abstract The international community, through treaties such as the Paris agreement, aims to limit climate change well below 2 °C, which implies reaching carbon neutrality around second half of century. In current calculations underpinning various roadmaps toward neutrality, a major component is steady or even expanding terrestrial sink, supported by an increase global forest biomass. However, recent research has challenged this view. Here we developed framework that assesses potential...
<title>Abstract</title> Vegetation plays a pivotal role in regulating climate and sustaining the hydrological cycle, with both quantity distribution of trees influencing surface atmospheric processes. While direct effects vegetation on properties are well-documented, indirect impacts clouds—especially those from outside forest—are less explored, spatial tree often neglected. This study examines how cover, terms absolute coverage configuration, affects cloud formation over Africa. Our...
Vegetation plays a crucial role in regulating climate and sustaining the hydrological cycle. Preserving expanding tree cover is potentially vital for mitigating change, as both amount spatial distribution of trees influence surface atmospheric processes. While direct effects vegetation on properties are relatively well-studied, indirect biophysical impacts cloud formation&#8212;particularly from outside forested areas&#8212;remain less explored, with patterns often overlooked. In...
Journal Article Study of atmospheric aerosols and mixing layer by LIDAR Get access Federico Angelini, Angelini * ISAC-CNR, Via del Fosso Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy Corresponding author: f.angelini@isac.cnr.it Search for other works this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Francesca Barnaba, Barnaba Tony Christian Landi, Landi Luca Caporaso, Caporaso Gian Paolo Gobbi Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Volume 137, Issue 3-4, December 2009, Pages 275–279,...
Abstract Although afforestation is a potential strategy to mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon, its biophysical effects on climate, such as regulating surface albedo, evapotranspiration, and energy balance, have not been fully incorporated into mitigation strategies. This partly due the challenges associated with modeling complex bidirectional interactions between vegetation climate. In this study, we assess impact of low cloud cover using regional model (RCM) Earth observation...
Abstract Large‐scale re‐/afforestation projects afford sizable atmospheric CO 2 removals yet questions loom surrounding their potentially offsetting biogeophysical radiative forcings. Forest area change alters not only the surface albedo but also heat, moisture, and momentum fluxes, which in turn modify atmosphere's radiative, thermodynamical, dynamical properties. These so‐called forcing “adjustments” have been little examined contexts, many remain relevance relation to instantaneous from...
Afforestation is widely considered as a key nature-based strategy for mitigating climate change, due to the carbon sequestration potential of forests. While much focus has been on benefits sinks, afforestation also induces biophysical changes that can influence energy budget and water cycle. A atmospheric variable potentially affected by these vapour pressure deficit (VPD), which critical role in terrestrial ecosystem functioning, affecting plant dynamics, growth health. Through its...
Afforestation and deforestation have profound diverse biophysical biogeochemical impacts on the climate system, especially in Europe, a region characterized by different climatic ecological zones. As tree planting is often considered viable way to increase carbon removal from atmosphere, understanding these crucial for achieving goals of European Green Deal. This study aims quantify consequences forest cover changes, evaluating both local broader non-local interactions.We use advanced...
Changing the properties of land surface may be one most direct ways to modulate local (and possibly non-local) land-atmosphere interactions, which in turn is great interest for designing proper land-based climate mitigation and adaptation strategies. When we change type vegetation across a landscape, biophysical that will change, potentially altering both radiative non-radiative fluxes. Land temperature (LST), as measured from remote sensing satellites, provides useful diagnostic,...
Using mathematical modelling tools, we assessed the potential for land use change (LUC) associated with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change low- and high-end emission scenarios (RCP2.6 RCP8.5) to impact malaria transmission in Africa. To drive a spatially explicit, dynamical model, data from four available earth system models (ESMs) that contributed LUC experiment of Fifth Model Intercomparison Project are used. Despite limited size ESM ensemble, stark differences assessment how can...
Abstract If climate services are to lead effective use of information in decision-making enable the transition a climate-smart, climate-ready world, then question trust products and is paramount importance. The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has been actively grappling with how build such trust: provision demonstrably independent assessments quality products, which was deemed an important element trust-building processes. C3S provides access essential variables (ECVs) from multiple...
Forest ecosystems of the Russian Federation are expected to face high risks under environmental dynamics related climate change. Analyzing likely impacts change on forest becomes crucial understand potential adaptation forests, guide management strategies, as well preserve their ecosystem services. With aim provide information possible modifications geographic ranges, medium long term, for some dominant species change, we applied a Cascade Ensemble System (CES) approach. This consists in...
AbstractThe objective of this study was to infer soil moisture variability from a combination passive microwave and infrared satellite observations. The proposed approach is mainly based on the concept apparent thermal inertia (ATI) makes use daily gradient in brightness temperature MODIS AQUA at moderate spatial resolution. Soil retrievals optical polar orbiting satellites are affected by discontinuities due presence clouds spurious fluctuations because low temporal sampling, which not...