
Edoardo BucchignaniCIRA Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali | CIRA · Meteorology Laboratory
Edoardo Bucchignani
PhD Teoretical and applied Mechanics
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February 1994 - present
October 2008 - present
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Nowadays the phenomenon of global warming is unequivocal, as confirmed by the latest reports of the IPCC and studies of the climate-change impacts on ecosystems, global economy, and populations. The effect of climate change on groundwater is a very relevant task especially for regions dependent chiefly on groundwater availability, as for the southe...
The present work is focused on the validation of the urban canopy scheme TERRA-URB, implemented in ICON weather forecast model. TERRA-URB is used to capture the behavior of urbanized areas as sources of heat fluxes, mainly due to anthropogenic activities that can influence temperature, humidity, and other atmospheric variables of the surrounding ar...
In the frame of the current growing awareness of climate change and its impact on society and ecosystems [...]
In the last decades, there has been a renewed interest in the commercial usage of the stratosphere, since it is possible to use less expensive and high-resolution Earth monitoring services with respect to satellites, covering four times the areas of standard aircraft. Being the horizontal motion of stratospheric balloons associated with winds, it i...
In the framework of the COAST (Cost Optimized Avionics SysTem) project, the Integrated Mission Management System (IMMS) has been developed, a technology aimed to automatically optimize the trajectory of Small Air Transport (SAT) vehicles considering, among possible obstacles, weather conditions, air-traffic and terrain. It is based on the interacti...
ICON-LEM SIMULATION OVER SOUTHERN-ITALY REGION AT 600M GRID RESOLUTION, during a severe heat waves in July 2022. Comparison of 1D Turbulence model vs 3D Smagorinsky-Lilly model.
In the present work, a methodology for wind field reconstruction based on the Meteo Particle model (MPM) from numerical weather prediction (NWP) data is presented. The development of specific wind forecast services is a challenging research topic, in particular for what concerns the availability of accurate local weather forecasts in highly populat...
In the present work, a methodology for wind field reconstruction based on the Meteo Particle Model (MPM) from Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) data is presented. The development of specific wind forecast services is a challenging research topic, in particular for what concerns the availability of accurate local weather forecasts in highly populat...
In the present work, the main methodologies used to reconstruct wind fields in the U-SPACE have been analyzed. The SESAR U-SPACE program aims to develop an Unmanned Traffic Management system with a progressive introduction of procedures and services designed to support secure access to the air space for a large number of drones. Some of these techn...
In the present work, the main methodologies used to reconstruct wind fields in the U-SPACE have been analyzed. The SESAR U-SPACE program aims to develop an Unmanned Traffic Management system with a progressive introduction of procedures and services designed to support a secure access to the air space for a large number of drones. The Italian Aeros...
Nowadays the phenomenon of Global Warming is unequivocal, as confirmed by the latest reports of the IPCC and studies of the climate-change impacts on ecosystems, global economy, and populations. Among these analyses the effect of climate change on groundwater is a very relevant task especially for regions whose economic and social development depen...
The knowledge derived from successful case studies can act as a driver for the implementation and upscaling of nature-based solutions (NBS). This work reviewed 547 case studies to gain an overview of NBS practices and their role in reducing the adverse impact of natural hazards and climate change. The majority (60 %) of case studies are situated in...
div class="section abstract"> In-flight icing is a major weather hazard to aviation; therefore, the remote detection of meteorological conditions leading to icing is a very aspired goal for the scientific community. In 2017, the Meteorological Laboratory of CIRA has developed a satellite-based tool for in-flight icing detection in collaboration wit...
In 2021, a group of seven Italian institutions decided to bring together their know-how, experience, and instruments for measuring the drop size distribution (DSD) of atmospheric precipitation, giving birth to the Italian Group of Disdrometry (in Italian named Gruppo Italiano Disdrometria, GID, https://www.gid-net.it/, last access: 16 May 2023). GI...
The COAST (Cost Optimized Avionics SysTem) project, funded by Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking, works toward the realization of cost-effective key technologies for cockpit and avionics of Small Air Transport (SAT) aircraft. In 2020 the design of a new technology started, the Integrated Mission Management System (IMMS), devoted to automatically opti...
This work represents a first step in the definition of a framework aimed at finding, by means of efficient global optimization based on metamodels, an optimal configuration of physical parameters for the ICON (ICOsahedral Nonhydrostatic) Limited Area Mode at high resolution (about 1.1 km) over Southern Italy, to be used for operational runs. The ob...
The importance of meteorological events is felt in everyday life and the critical impact of the weather on human activities has led to the development of the science of weather forecasting [...]
The Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA) as member of COSMO consortium is taking part to the process of transition from COSMO to ICON Limited Area Model (LAM). To this aim, ICON software package has been installed on CIRA supercomputing facilities and is currently running every day over a domain located in southern Italy, including the northern...
In 2021, a group of seven italian institutions decided to bring together their know-how, experience, and instruments for measuring the drop size distribution (DSD) of atmospheric precipitation giving birth to the Italian Group of Disdrometry (in Italian named: Gruppo Italiano Disdrometria, GID, https://www.gid-net.it/). The GID has made freely avai...
A new urban canopy scheme for the ICON atmospheric model is presented. Increasing the resolution of atmospheric models for numerical weather prediction (NWP) or climate simulations allows, among others, for a more realistic description of the processes at the land surface. Here, one field of growing interest are the processes in urban areas. Beside...
In the last few decades there has been increasing interest in the commercial usage of the stratosphere, especially for Earth observation systems. Stratospheric platforms allow Earth monitoring at a regional scale with persistency toward a limited area. For this reason, accurate meteorological forecasts are needed in order to guarantee stationarity....
Nature-based Solutions function as an umbrella concept for ecosystem-based approaches that are an alternative to traditional engineering solutions for Disaster Risk Reduction. Their rising popularity is explained partly by their entailing additional benefits (so called co-benefits) for the environment, society, and economy. The few existing framewo...
In this work, the results of a sensitivity study based on ICON-LAM simulations at 2.5 km of spatial resolution over the Italian area, driven by ECMWF IFS global data, are presented. The main aim is to provide a contribution to the selection of suitable parameterization schemes that result in more effective for a proper representation of the Italian...
Weather conditions and Air Traffic Management (ATM) operations are strongly related, due to the relevant influence that the observed and forecasted weather conditions into assigned airspace have on the operational conditions that are therefore possible for such airspace. In the framework of the SESAR JU funded project CREATE (Innovative operations...
In the framework of the COAST (Cost Optimized Avionics SysTem) project funded by Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking in the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, several key technologies are under development, aimed to enable single pilot operations of Small Air Transport (SAT) vehicles. One of these technologies is AWAS (Advan...
In recent years, the scientific community has paid particular attention to the analysis of extreme events, such as heat waves, droughts, and intense rain events that have caused loss of human life and significant economic damage. Climate-related extremes generally produce large impact on infrastructures, especially on those with insufficient design...
The objective calibration method originally performed on regional climate models is applied to a fine horizontal resolution Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) model over a mainly continental domain covering the Alpine Arc. The method was implemented on the MeteoSwiss COSMO (consortium for a small-scale modeling) model with a resolution of 0.01° (ap...
In the last decade, the Climate Limited-area Modeling Community (CLM-Community) has contributed to the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) with an extensive set of regional climate simulations. Using several versions of the COSMO-CLM-Community model, ERA-Interim reanalysis and eight global climate models from phase 5 of the...
Global warming is likely to cause a progressive drought increase in some regions, but how population and natural resources will be affected is still underexplored. This study focuses on global population, forests, croplands and pastures exposure to meteorological drought hazard in the 21st century, expressed as frequency and severity of drought eve...
The high relevance of satellites for collecting information regarding precipitation at global scale implies the need of a continuous validation of satellite products to ensure good data quality over time and to provide feedback for updating and improving retrieval algorithms. However, validating satellite products using measurements collected by se...
Nature-based solutions are increasingly implemented to tackle disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Their rising popularity over grey solutions is partially explained by their number of additional benefits (so called co-benefits) for the socio-ecological system (SES). Frameworks are available to monitor and assess co-benefits, howe...
Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) refer to the sustainable management, protection and use of nature to preserve the ecosystem and prevent the loss of biodiversity. Given the multiple environmental, social, and economic benefits they provide to society, NBS have been increasingly promoted and implemented in cities, especially for air pollution mitigation...
Global climate projections suggest a significant intensification of summer heat extremes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). To assess regional impacts, and underpin mitigation and adaptation measures, robust information is required from climate downscaling studies, which has been lacking for the region. Here, we project future hot spells b...
In the last decade, the Climate Limited-area Modeling (CLM) Community has contributed to the Coordinated Re- gional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) with an extensive set of regional climate simulations. Using several versions of the COSMO-CLM community model, ERA-Interim reanalysis and eight Global Climate Models from phase 5 of the Coupled...
The increase in built surfaces constitutes the main reason for the formation of the Urban Heat Island (UHI), that is a metropolitan area significantly warmer than its surrounding rural areas. The urban heat islands and other urban-induced climate feedbacks may amplify heat stress and urban flooding under climate change and therefore to predict them...
It is well known that, in the aviation sector, flights are strongly influenced by weather conditions, especially considering small aircrafts. This kind of vehicles, ideal for transportation on regional base, are having an increasing importance in the last decades. In the framework of the COAST (Cost Optimized Avionics SysTem) project, funded by Cle...
This study aims to assess the capabilities of a weather forecasting system based on simulations performed with the COSMO (COnsortium for Small-scale Modeling) model over a domain located in southern Italy, employing a spatial resolution of about 1 km, driven by ECMWF-IFS global data. The model is run daily at the Italian Aerospace Research Center (...
The history of the COSMO (COnsortium for Small-scale Modelling) model goes back to the early 1990s, when the Deutscher Wetterdienst (German Meteorological Service, DWD) decided to develop a non-hydrostatic model, the Lokalmodell (LM) [...]
The ambition of OPERANDUM is to provide science-based evidence for the usability of nature-based
solutions (NBS) ranging from local to landscape scales, and to foster the market opportunities,
upscaling and replication of NBS in Europe and other non-European territories. It is important to
develop a set of co-designed, co-developed, deployed, and d...
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Risks associated with public health have no borders, as the recent Corona virus (COVID-19)
pandemic developing during the course of the workshop, clearly demonstrated. Thus, the
15 challenges climate change pose to society and especially to public health can only be properly
met with inter-disciplinary regional collaborations. In January 27...
Two questions motivated this study: 1) Will meteorological droughts become more frequent and severe during the 21 st century? 2) Given the projected global temperature rise, to what extent does the inclusion of temperature (in addition to precipitation) in drought indicators, play a role in future meteorological droughts? To answer, we analyzed the...
Nature-based solutions (NBS) are being promoted as adaptive measures against predicted increasing hydrometeorological hazards (HMHs), such as heatwaves and floods which have already caused significant loss of life and economic damage across the globe. However, the underpinning factors such as policy framework, end-users’ interests and participation...
The results of a sensitivity analysis based on COSMO-LM (COnsortium for Small-Scale MOdeling—Lokal Model) simulations driven by ECMWF-IFS (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts – Integrated Forecasting System). global data over a domain located in southern Italy are presented. Simulations have been performed at very high resolution (ab...
In this work, some preliminary numerical simulations with
the COSMO model including TERRA_URB parameterization have
been performed. In particular, this work concerns simulations over a small
domain located in southern Italy, in order to test the capabilities of the
model in reproducing the main climate features of Urban Heat Islands over
this area....
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...
Report of the COSMO Consortium about the effects of the urban parametrization in the Cosmo Model over different EU cities.
As a founding member of the COSMO Consortium, the Hellenic National Meteorological Service considers the climatic version (CCLM) of the COSMO Model as a suitable candidate towards the investigation of the climate of the wider area of Greece as well as a potential tool for seasonal forecasting. Of particular importance is the non-hydrostatic formula...
High resolution climate projections over Israel (about 8 km) have been obtained with the regional model COSMO-CLM, nested into the CORDEX-MENA simulations at 25 km resolution. This simulation provides high-resolution spatial variability of total precipitation and precipitation intensity. Projections are presented not only in terms of average proper...
It is often assumed that, as a consequence of global warming, a reduction of snow load on the ground should be expected. In reality, snow load is often depending on local orographic situations that can determine an increase of its height, even when the average snow height over the surrounding areas is reduced. Large snow loads on roofs during the w...
In this work we assess the quality of the wind fields provided over the Adriatic Sea by the Regional Climate Model COSMO-CLM with reference to a control (CTR) period from 1971 to 2000 and to a future period from 2071 to 2100 under IPCC RCP 8.5 scenario (SCE), focusing on the implications for wave climate characterisation. Model skills have been ass...
In this study, projected changes in the future climate conditions for the Middle East-North Africa domain over the 21st century have been investigated. Two simulations with the COSMO-CLM model have been conducted respectively, at a spatial resolution of 0.44° and 0.22°, over the period 1979–2100, employing the IPCC RCP4.5 scenario. Initial and boun...
Climate change (CC) directly influences agricultural sectors, presenting the need to identify both adaptation and mitigation actions that can make local farming communities and crop production more resilient. In this context, the viticultural sector is one of those most challenged by CC due to the need to combine grape quality, grapevine cultivar a...
In this work, we discuss the results of numerical simulations performed with the regional model COSMO-CLM over the Mediterranean area at a spatial resolution of 14 km, employing an optimized model configuration. An assessment of model capabilities to reproduce the main features of the recent and past climate has been performed, using two different...
Small aircraft are the ideal transport mode for operations from regional airports. The project COAST (Cost Optimized Avionics SysTem), funded from the Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking in the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No CS2-SYS-ITD-GAM-2004-2015-01, has the aim to develop key technology enabl...
The modeling of urban environment has gained much attention in the last years; in fact, multiple parameterisations for the land use type have been developed.
The bulk schemes take into account the overall radiative, thermal, turbulent-transfer properties, and water-storage capacity of the urban canopy with a set of bulk parameters. These model par...
The melting of glaciers coming with climate change threatens the heritage of the last glaciation of Europe likely contained in subglacial lakes in Greenland and Svalbard. This aspect urges specialists to focus their studies (theoretical, numerical, and on-field) on such fascinating objects. Along this line, we have approached the validation of the...
Extreme climate events over a wide Chinese area are investigated with the regional climate model COSMO-CLM at high resolution (0.125°) through the use of some extreme indicators. Two hindcast simulations, driven respectively by ERA-Interim reanalysis and the global model CMCC-CM over the period 1979-2011 have been analysed in order to check the mod...
The likelihood of a subglacial lake beneath Amundsenisen Plateau at Southern Spitzbergen, Svalbard, pointed out by the flat signal within the Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) remote survey of the area, is justified, here, via numerical simulation.This investigation has been developed under the assumption that the icefield thickness does not change on...
This work is aimed to propose a methodology for the identification of areas for which extreme climatological conditions may intensify aridity processes and rainfall deficiency. The proposed procedure, which is based on the analysis of climate projections derived from high-resolution regional simulations, is composed of three main elements. First, e...
This study aimed to assess the capabilities of the regional climate model (RCM) COSMO-CLM in reproducing the main climate features of the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) domain. Two ERA-Interim-driven simulations were performed at 0.44° and 0.22° spatial resolution for the period 1979–2011 with an optimized model configuration. Model respons...
The results of a sensitivity work based on ERA-Interim driven COSMO-CLM simulations over the Middle East-North Africa (CORDEX-MENA) domain are presented. All simulations were performed at 0.44° spatial resolution. The purpose of this study was to ascertain model performances with respect to changes in physical and tuning parameters which are mainly...
The following supporting information is available as part of the online article:Fig. S1 The CORDEX-MENA domain (27 W–76E, 7S–45 N) with surface height (m) and the eleven evaluation regions defined in Almazroui (2015). Fig. S2 (a-b) Taylor diagrams of 2-meter temperature (1980–1984) for the eleven subdomains. The CRU dataset is used as a reference f...
We present a new numerical procedure to assess the plausibility of a subglacial lake in case of relative small/moderate extension and surging temperate icefield. In addition to the flat signal from Ground Penetrating Radar remote survey of the area, early indication of a likely subglacial lake, required icefield data are: top surface elevation and...
This study presents a detailed analysis of the present and expected future extreme climate conditions over Italy through the use of some extreme indicators. Climate data for this analysis were provided by the regional climate model COSMO-CLM, using different grid spacing to ascertain the real importance of using higher resolution climate data, espe...
This study presents the results of dynamically downscaled climate simulations over Italy produced with the COSMO-CLM model. Three simulations forced by ERA-Interim Reanalysis were conducted respectively at a spatial resolution of 0.22°, 0.125° and 0.0715° over the period 1979–2011. The results were analysed in terms of 2-m temperature and precipita...
Changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme events have significant impacts and are one of the most serious challenges faced by society in coping with a changing climate.
During the last ten years, floods have caused more damage than in the previous 30 years; for example, a flood event of 22 December 2011 in Dar es Salaam led to 20 deaths, co...