Climate change is triggering new water management challenges affecting regional and global water quantity and quality. Despite potential impacts of climate change on water availability have been widely studied in the last ...

An impact assessment of a Fishery Observing System (FOS) network in the Adriatic Sea was carried out with an ocean circulation model fully-coupled with a data assimilation system. The FOS data are single point vertical ...

An ice core from one of the highest summit of the Eastern European Alps has been analysed for the first time through the use of a brand new melting and de-contamination system. The melting system was prepared and tuned in ...

Questa tesi studia le maggiori dinamiche del Nexus Acqua-Energia-Cibo (WEF), utilizzando un innovativo approccio modellistico e progredendo lo stato dell'arte dei modelli Computazionali di Equilibrio Economico Generale ...

The Mediterranean Sea is a small yet interesting basin of study. The number of external forcings acting on it, together with its topography and other local factors confer unique characteristics to the basin. As a consequence, ...

La tesi di dottorato mira a rispondere a due pressanti questioni in ecologia: l’impatto del cambiamento climatico sul funzionamento ecosistemico marino e la relazione spaziale tra funzionamento e servizi ecosistemici. La ...

Nelle carote di ghiaccio gli isotopi stabili di ossigeno e idrogeno sono utilizzati per le ricostruzioni climatiche. Nel 2011 quattro carote sono state estratte sul Monte Ortles, a 3859 m s.l.m. Nell'ambito di questo ...

Increasing frequencies of heavy rainfall events in urban areas threaten to disrupt urban systems causing political, economic, social and environmental loses and damages. While cities make stormwater adaptation decisions, ...

Most precipitation in the mid-latitudes is attributable to convective clouds and frontal systems. Although their development is not induced by the underlying terrain, the orography can play a substantial role in altering ...

Atmospheric blocking is a mid-latitude weather pattern that describes a quasi-stationary, long-lasting, high-pressure system that modifies the westerly flow, blocking (or at least di- verting) the eastward movement of the ...