Massimo Enrico Ferrario

• Degree in Physics
• Meteorologist at Arpa - Agenzia regionale per la prevenzione e l´ambiente

Radiometer MTP-5 and fog in Po valley. Several case study use also visibilimeter, Satellite images and Synop Data.

Temperature and humidity retrievals from an international network of ground‐based microwave radiometers (MWRs) have been collected to assess the potential of their assimilation into a convective‐scale numerical weather prediction (NWP) system. Thirteen stations over a domain encompassing the western Mediterranean basin were considered for a time pe...

During the first HyMeX Special Observation Period (SOP1) field campaign, the target site of north‐eastern Italy (NEI) experienced a large amount of precipitation, locally exceeding the climatological values and distributed among several heavy‐rainfall episodes. In particular, two events that occurred during the last period of the campaign drew our...

The first Special Observation Period (SOP1) field campaign of the HyMeX (HYdrological cycle in the Mediterranean EXperiment) program was held in fall 2012 and was devoted to the investigation of heavy precipitation and floods in the Western Mediterranean. Both the Italian research and operational meteorological communities actively participated by...

During the first Hymex campaign (5 September-6 November 2012) referred to as Special Observation Period (SOP-1), dedicated to heavy precipitation events and flash floods in Western Mediterranean, three Italian hydro-meteorological monitoring sites were activated: Liguria-Tuscany, North-Eastern Italy and Central Italy. The extraordinary deployment o...

This work is part of the strong coordinated activity carried on by the Italian HyMeX partners during the first Special Observation Period (SOP1: 5 Sep-6 Nov 2012). This activity, described in Ferretti et al. (2013), included the deployment of several observational instruments and weather forecasting modelling chains and the support to the HyMeX Ope...

During the first Hymex campaign (5 September–6 November 2012) referred to as Special Observation Period (SOP-1), dedicated to heavy precipitation events and flash floods in Western Mediterranean, three Italian hydro-meteorological monitoring sites were activated: Liguria-Tuscany, North-Eastern Italy and Central Italy. The extraordinary deployment o...

In this study the usefulness of deploying a network of planetary boundary layer (PBL) profilers on the scale of the Po Valley portion of the north-eastern Italian region Veneto is addressed. This is done analyzing the regional-scale heterogeneity of accumulation and dispersion conditions for atmospheric pollutants (e.g. particulate matter) in terms...

Low wind and stable atmospheric conditions cause frequent PM10 episodes in the Po Valley. Such weather conditions are well characterized by temperature and wind profiles. Thermal inversion strength, height and duration, as well as wind profiles are set in relation to daily PM10 increments, and guidelines for forecasting air quality (AQ) in said con...

Low wind and stable atmospheric conditions cause frequent PM10 episodes in the Po Valley. Such weather conditions are well characterized by temperature and wind profiles. Thermal inversion strength, height and duration, as well as wind profiles are set in relation to daily PM10 increments, and guidelines for forecasting air quality (AQ) in said con...

Stable boundary layer conditions are long known for causing increasing pollutant concentrations. The region of the Po Valley has a particularly unfortunate topographical conformation which favours low wind and strong inversion situations, a meteorological characteristic that leads to so-called episodic conditions, especially during the cold season....

The Centro Meteorologico di Teolo (CMT) of the Regional Agency for Protection and Prevention of the Environment of the Veneto Region (ARPAV) has recently installed on its territory a boundary layer profilers network, which consists of four passive microwave radiometers (1 Radiometer Physics GmbH, 3 Kipp & Zonen) and 4 SODAR (Metek). In the framewor...

The Centro Meteorologico di Teolo (CMT) of the Regional Agency for Protection and Prevention of the Environment of the region Veneto (ARPAV) has recently installed a network of four passive radiometers for air quality monitoring purposes. In this paper comparisons of profiler data acquired in the year April 2005 until March 2006 with the neighbouri...

Particulate matter ( PM 10 ) concentration at ground level is strongly affected by meteorological conditions. This study presents a multiple regression approach to daily average PM 10 concentration using log-normal variables transformation in order to better understand which factors are more appropriate for PM 10 forecasting. The meteorological fac...

CALMET model has been implemented on the Veneto Region, by the Meteorological Center of Teolo, as meteorological pre-processors for pollution dispersion models, with particular attention to the land-sea boundary, for Porto Marghera (the big industrial zone close to Venice). Considering the availability of only one station off-shore of Venice, we ha...

In response to the frequent air quality emergencies in the north-eastern Italian region Veneto, especially during the cold season, the Centro Meteorologico di Teolo (CMT) of the Regional Agency for Protection and Prevention of the Environment of the region Veneto (ARPAV) has recently installed a network of four passive radiometers and four SODAR fo...

INTRODUCTION This work began as part of the CTN–ACE, year 2004, Task 09.01.04: models observatory with two application on Mediterranean Area (Italy) held by dr. Marco Deserti of ARPA-Meteorological Service of Emilia Romagna (SIM). The Task had the aim to prepare input data (emissions inventory, boundary conditions and meteorology) for an inter-comp...