Angela Pomaro

Italian National Research Council | CNR · Institute of Marine Science CNR-ISMAR

This study concerns the analysis of a 37-year long directional wave time series recorded since 1979 at the CNR-ISMAR oceanographic research tower, located in the Northern Adriatic Sea. The length of the time series allows to describe the wave climate in the North Adriatic and to identify trends and links with large-scale climate patterns. The north...

The wind climatology of the Red Sea is described based on a 30-year high-resolution regional reanalysis generated using the Advanced Weather Research Forecasting model. The model was reinitialized on a daily basis with ERA-Interim global data and regional observations were assimilated using a cyclic three-dimensional variational approach. The reana...

The wave climatology of the Red Sea is described based on a 30-year hindcast generated using WAVEWATCH III configured on a 5-km resolution grid and forced by Red Sea reanalysis surface winds from the advanced Weather Research and Forecasting model. The wave simulations have been validated using buoy and altimeter data. The four main wind systems in...

At this fiftieth anniversary of the storm that flooded the historical Italian centers of Venice and Florence, we review the event from the perspective of the modern scientific knowledge. In particular, we discuss the components of relative sea level rise in Venice that are contributing to the flooding, the monitoring networks and forecast capabilit...

A 40‐year hindcast of the wave conditions in the Arabian Gulf, the elongated basin between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran, is described. The input wind fields were derived from the ERA5 reanalysis by the European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts for the period 1979–2019. Extensive comparisons with scatterometer data suggested a direction‐d...

The presentation will showcase the EuroGOOS 'Scientists for Ocean Literacy' project endorsed by the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030. The 'Scientists for Ocean Literacy' project aims to empower scientists as ocean advocates to their communities, countries, and regions, and help transform ocean knowledge and awareness...

A very severe storm in the Antarctic belt is analysed that sent a very large swell throughout the South-Pacific Ocean. The reasons for the storm were a deep depression passing over an anomalous warm sea area, with consequent increased intensity, more active wind input, gustiness, with also dynamical generation. Wind and wave model results are verif...

This paper presents major gaps and challenges for implementing the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) in the Mediterranean region. The authors make recommendations on the scientific knowledge needs and codesign actions identified during two consultations, part of the Decade preparatory-phase, framing them in the Medi...

We analyse high rate (20 Hz) altimeter derived sea level information, both from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) altimetry missions and Low Resolution Mode missions, in an inner sea and coastal environment. They are compared versus measured and high resolution model data. After a compact description of the relevant physical processes affecting the lo...

Both public and policymakers require a basic Ocean Literacy to support relevant policies and sustainable economic activities. Without Ocean Literacy it will be impossible to achieve a collective action and behaviour change towards sustained science operations and funding. This policy brief emphasises Ocean Literacy as a strategic activity area in o...

In: Pomaro, A et al. (2020): An exceptionally high wave at the Acqua Alta Oceanographic Tower on December 15, 2009. Istituto di Scienze Marine - CNR, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.915465 Related to: Cavaleri, Luigi; Barbariol, Francesco; Bastianini, Mauro; Benetazzo, Alvise; Bertotti, Luciana; Pomaro, Angela (2021): An exceptionally hi...

In: Pomaro, A et al. (2020): An exceptionally high wave at the Acqua Alta Oceanographic Tower on December 15, 2009. Istituto di Scienze Marine - CNR, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.915465 Related to: Cavaleri, Luigi; Barbariol, Francesco; Bastianini, Mauro; Benetazzo, Alvise; Bertotti, Luciana; Pomaro, Angela (2021): An exceptionally hi...

In: Pomaro, A et al. (2020): An exceptionally high wave at the Acqua Alta Oceanographic Tower on December 15, 2009. Istituto di Scienze Marine - CNR, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.915465 Related to: Cavaleri, Luigi; Barbariol, Francesco; Bastianini, Mauro; Benetazzo, Alvise; Bertotti, Luciana; Pomaro, Angela (2021): An exceptionally hi...

In: Pomaro, A et al. (2020): An exceptionally high wave at the Acqua Alta Oceanographic Tower on December 15, 2009. Istituto di Scienze Marine - CNR, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.915465 Related to: Cavaleri, Luigi; Barbariol, Francesco; Bastianini, Mauro; Benetazzo, Alvise; Bertotti, Luciana; Pomaro, Angela (2021): An exceptionally hi...

In: Pomaro, A et al. (2020): An exceptionally high wave at the Acqua Alta Oceanographic Tower on December 15, 2009. Istituto di Scienze Marine - CNR, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.915465 Related to: Cavaleri, Luigi; Barbariol, Francesco; Bastianini, Mauro; Benetazzo, Alvise; Bertotti, Luciana; Pomaro, Angela (2021): An exceptionally hi...

On December 15, 2009, a very high wave crest was recorded by a local camera at the CNR-ISMAR oceanographic tower, 15 km offshore Venice in the Northern Adriatic Sea (Italy). The height of the estimated crest elevation appears well beyond the value (1,25· H s ) commonly used to identify a wave as freak. We document the wave event with a full descrip...

In the context of the Copernicus Program, EUMETSAT prioritizes the creation of an ocean color infrastructure for system vicarious calibration (OC-SVC). This work aims to reply to this need by proposing the European Radiometry Buoy and Infrastructure (EURYBIA). EURYBIA is designed as an autonomous European infrastructure operating within the Marine...

Wave climate projections at global scales are often of little direct use for local or regional coastal applications, where bathymetric gradients and coastal geometry dominate onshore wave propagation and transformation. In such systems, and even more in the case of semi‐enclosed basins where coastal orography can play a major role in wind modulatio...

Climate change is widely acknowledged as a major threat for coastal and transitional systems. In this contribution we present some results and ongoing progress in the assessment of climate change impacts on the main physical drivers of coastal and metocean dynamics in the Adriatic Sea, characterised by different coastal landscapes and strong anthro...

On October 29, 2018 a very severe storm affected Northern Italy, including the Adriatic Sea. The ensuing surge and wave conditions at and in front of Venice stand at the extreme tail of the respective historical return period distributions. The large set of available measured data, at the coast and at the offshore oceanographic tower, coupled with...

Almost any societal objective of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development requires integrated, sustained and fit-for-purpose ocean observing. Increased societal and policy awareness of the needs, challenges and opportunities of ocean observing will not be possible without the Ocean Literacy tools and approaches.

Un primo articolo dedicato alla Palazzina Canonica a Venezia è apparso sul numero 19-20 del luglio-dicembre 2017 della rivista ARKOS. In quel testo si riportavano alcuni momenti delle vicende storiche a partire dal 1911, anno della sua costruzione; una descrizione dell’architettura ed una serie di schede, con immagini di dettaglio, relative alla de...

A first article dedicated to the “Palazzina Canonica” in Venice appeared in ARKOS (issue 19-20, July-December 2017). In that text were reported some historical events starting from 1911, the year of its construction; a description of the architecture and a series of boards, with detailed images, relating to the stone decoration in reference to the...

The dataset consists of 39 years of directional wave time series recorded since 1979 at the CNR-ISMAR “Acqua Alta” oceanographic research tower, located in the Northern Adriatic Sea. The extent of the time series allows us to describe the wave climate in the North Adriatic region and to identify trends and links with large scale climate patterns ob...

The dataset consists of 39 years of directional wave time series recorded since 1979 at the CNR-ISMAR “Acqua Alta” oceanographic research tower, located in the Northern Adriatic Sea. The extent of the time series allows us to describe the wave climate in the North Adriatic region and to identify trends and links with large scale climate patterns ob...

The wind and wave climatology of the Red Sea is derived from a validated 30-yr high-resolution model simulation. After describing the relevant features of the basin, the main wind and wave systems are identified by using an innovative spectral partition technique to explain their genesis and characteristics. In the northern part of the sea, wind an...

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Multi­decadal time­series of observational wave data are relatively rare and potentially very relevant for assessing trends and characteristics of marine storminess. The present study analyses the 36­year long directional wave time­series recorded between 1979 and 2014 at the CNR­ISMAR “Acqua Alta” oceanographic tower, located in the Northern Adria...

Time-series of observational wave data beginning from the early 1970’s are relatively rare. Their length allows to exploit their content not only for modelling purposes or short-term statistical analyses, but also for climatological scale considerations. We analyse the 36-year long directional wave time series recorded in the period 1979-2014 at th...

We analyse the performance of two top level meteorological models and their associated analyses versus the corresponding results obtained with high resolution nesting both for wind and for the derived wave field using the same advanced wave model. The comparison is also done versus both locally (buoys) and large scale (altimeter and scatterometer)...

Within the framework of MyWave project, work package n. 3, UKMO (United Kingdom Meteorological Office) and CNMCA (Italian Meteorological Service) have developed and implemented two independent ensemble prediction systems (EPS) for the Mediterranean Sea. The main purpose of present report is the description of the observational dataset availability...

Tasks in MyWave WP4 will define operational verification methods that can be robustly applied within a wave element of a Marine Core Service (MCS). The purpose of this document is to propose metrics that provide model developers and (downstream) users with model performance or uncertainty data for (short-range) ensemble wave forecasts. Whilst there...

MyWave work package n. 3 will apply different ensemble techniques in wave forecast, assessing, for two separate and different areas, their performance and increased information with respect to a deterministic approach. The technique will be applied both at large and local scales, in the latter case for three specific harbours. Different approaches...