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INFLUENZA DELL‟URBANIZZAZIONE SULLO STATO DI QUALITÀ DEI CORPI IDRICI RICETTORI ATTRAVERSO UN APPROCCIO DI TIPO INTEGRATO
2009
Il cambiamento climatico è una delle principali cause che possono indurre a una modifica delle caratteristiche idrologiche e ambientali dei bacini naturali. Per quanto attiene la qualità delle acque naturali superficiali, tale fattore va combinato con quello antropogenico (urbanizzazione, variazione di popolazione e domanda idrica, etc.), che può ridurre o incrementare l‟effetto delle variazioni climatiche. Un aspetto che merita un‟attenta valutazione è l‟analisi degli effetti che i cambiamenti sia climatici che antropogenici hanno sulla qualità di un corpo idrico ricettore. Al fine di valutare tali effetti, nel presente studio è stato impiegato un modello di tipo integrato messo a punto in…
La qualità nel monitoraggio di variabili meteoclimatiche
2008
The emissions reduction potential of substituting short-haul flights with non-high-speed rail (NHSR) : The case of Finland
2021
Replacing short-haul flights with high-speed rail (HSR) has been widely discussed as one solution to mitigate the climate change impacts of aviation. However, although HSR can provide travel times similar to those provided by short-haul flights, and at lower emission levels, it also requires considerable investments in time and infrastructure to build. Instead, this study considers the feasibility of replacing short-haul flights with existing non-high-speed rail (NHSR). Our study is based in Finland, a country that has an extensive route network of short-haul flights but does not possess any HSR. We compared all 16 city pairs for which short-haul flights are offered with existing NHSR based…
Determinants of the interannual relationships between remote sensed photosynthetic activity and rainfall in tropical Africa
2007
International audience; The response of photosynthetic activity to interannual rainfall variations in Africa South of the Sahara is examined using 20 years (1981-2000) of Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) AVHRR data. Linear correlations and regressions were computed between annual NDVI and annual rainfall at a 0.5° latitude/longitude resolution, based on two gridded precipitation datasets (Climate Prediction Center Merged Analysis of Precipitation [CMAP] and Climatic Research Unit [CRU]). The spatial patterns were then examined to detect how they relate to the mean annual rainfall amounts, land-cover types as from the Global Land Cover 2000 data set, soil properties and soil typ…
A simple scaling procedure to assess the impact of climate change on extreme precipitation
2017
In this study we used the products of the Regional Climate Models (RCMs) to evaluate the impact of climate alterations on extreme events across the Region of Sicily (Italy). Data have been retrieved from EURO-CORDEX simulations at 12 km of spatial resolution. Because of the low resolution, the RCMs products are likely unsuitable to reproduce consistently sub-daily heavy precipitations. For this reason, extreme events at daily scale were first checked out by comparing the quantiles estimated from raingauge observations and RCMs outputs. Secondly, we implemented a temporal downscaling approach to estimate rainfall for durations of 1, 3, 6, 12, 24 hours from the modeled daily precipitation. La…
Global Estimation of Biophysical Variables from Google Earth Engine Platform
2018
This paper proposes a processing chain for the derivation of global Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR), Fraction Vegetation Cover (FVC), and Canopy water content (CWC) maps from 15-years of MODIS data exploiting the capabilities of the Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud platform. The retrieval chain is based on a hybrid method inverting the PROSAIL radiative transfer model (RTM) with Random forests (RF) regression. A major feature of this work is the implementation of a retrieval chain exploiting the GEE capabilities using global and climate data records (CDR) of both MODIS surface reflectance and LAI/FAPAR datasets allowing the global estim…
IPCC:n raportti julkaistiin poliittisesti jännitteiseen aikaan - Yhdysvallat ja muu maailma ovat nokikkain ilmastokeskustelussa
2018
KOSMOS 2017 Peru Side Experiment: nutrients, phytoplankton abundances, enzyme rates, photophysiology
2022
This data was collected during an short-term incubation experiment in March 2017 that investigated the response of a surface plankton community to upwelling. This experiment was carried in the framework of the SFB754-funded KOSMOS mesocosm study that took place in La Punta, Callao, Peru between February-April 2017. A total of six different treatments were used to disentangle chemical and biological characteristics of deep water that influence surface plankton blooms: 2 different deep water sources with different nutrient concentrations; 3 treatments to distinguish the effects of inorganic nutrients, organic nutrients and deep water microbial populations. Measured variables include inorganic…
The importance of the analysis of the environment in the classroom to improve the educational inclusion
2015
El presente articulo defiende la importancia de analizar el clima de las aulas como primer paso para la mejora de los procesos de inclusión educativa. Concretamente se analiza el rechazo entre iguales en un aula. Inicialmente se describen los términos en los que se conocen los conceptos de rechazo-inclusión. Posteriormente se explica el diseño y los resultados de una intervención concreta en un aula de primaria. El análisis que se plantea muestra cómo además de cumplirse la hipótesis de un niño con problemas de inclusión en el aula, emergió un caso que hasta el momento no había sido detectado por la profesora. Por último, atendiendo a los resultados obtenidos, se concluye que es necesario r…
Subtropical streams harbour higher genus richness and lower abundance of insects compared to boreal streams, but scale matters
2018
Aim: Biological diversity typically varies between climatically different regions, and regions closer to the equator often support higher numbers of taxa than those closer to the poles. However, these trends have been assessed for a few organism groups, and the existing studies have rarely been based on extensive identical surveys in different climatic regions. Location: We conducted standardized surveys of wadeable streams in a boreal (western Finland) and a subtropical (south-eastern Brazil) region, sampling insects identically from 100 streams in each region and measuring the same environmental variables in both regions. Taxon: Aquatic insects. Methods: Comparisons were made at the scale…