Under the coordination of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), through its Institute for BioEconomy (CNR-IBE), and the LaMMA Consortium — the operational meteorological service of the Tuscany Region — an international meeting titled “International Cooperation in Applied Meteorology for Reducing Hydroclimatic Risks” has been held in Florence, Italy, on 14 October 2025. The event brings together representatives of Italian and African meteorological services, researchers, international organizations, and cooperation agencies to share experiences, consolidate partnerships, and discuss future directions for operational forecasting in the region.

As highlighted by CNR, “Climate change and natural disasters represent a common challenge at all latitudes.” This shared challenge requires joint scientific action, capacity building, and knowledge exchange. For more than forty years, CNR has been engaged in research, technology transfer and training  — through the World Meteorological Organization’s Regional Training Centre in Italy (WMO-RTC Italy) — in Africa promoting collaboration and co-development in meteorology, climatology, and agrometeorology.

The Florence meeting showcases this long-standing cooperation, particularly through projects such as SLAPIS Sahel, funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) and implemented by the Politecnico di Torino, CNR-IBE, LaMMA, and the national meteorological services of Niger and Burkina Faso. The initiative focuses on improving operational meteorological forecasting chains and developing hydrometeorological early-warning services adapted to local contexts. It also invests in human capacity — training African forecasters, modellers, and IT specialists both in Italy and in their home countries — to ensure that advanced tools like the MOLOCH and WRF models can be effectively used for real-time weather prediction.

Beyond its scientific dimension, the event symbolizes a broader vision of international cooperation: building resilience together, across continents, through shared knowledge and trust. It includes the signing of new collaboration agreements between the Italian and African institutions, reaffirming the commitment to long-term partnerships that go beyond project cycles.

As LaMMA emphasizes, “operational meteorology and international cooperation go hand in hand when it comes to protecting lives and livelihoods.” By pooling expertise and resources, Italy, Niger and Burkina Faso are contributing to a global effort to make meteorological services more accurate, inclusive, and impactful.

At a time when climate extremes are increasing everywhere, initiatives like this one highlight how joint scientific collaboration can turn forecasting into foresight — and foresight into resilience.

Links

https://www.cnr.it/it/evento/20145 : CNR – Previsione meteorologica per la riduzione dei rischi naturali nel Sahel: la cooperazione scientifica Italia-Africa

https://www.cnr.it/it/news/13836/cambiamenti-climatici-e-disastri-naturali-una-sfida-comune-a-tutte-le-latitudini : CNR – Cambiamenti climatici e disastri naturali una sfida comune a tutte le latitudini

https://www.lamma.toscana.it/news/previsione-meteo-e-riduzione-dei-rischi-sahel-la-cooperazione-italia-africa : LaMMA – Cooperazione internazionale e meteorologia operativa: a Firenze una giornata di confronto

Presentations

1. Weather forecasting and climate risk reduction in dry tropical Africa (Vieri Tarchiani, IBE-CNR)
2. State of the art and applications of NWP in Burkina Faso (Lazare Sawadogo, ANAM)
3. Towards autonomy for Niger’s Meteorological Service in the production of climate services based on NWP (Ousman Baoua, DMN)
4. Training activities on meteorology and climatology hosted by the Italian Air Force (Antonio Vocino, Sezione Cooperazione Internazionale dell’Ufficio Generale AVIAMM dell’Aeronautica Militare)
5. Training in applied meteorology (Marina Baldi, WMO Regional Training Center in Italy/IBE-CNR)
6. MOLOCH: a CNR operational model for Europe (Oxana Drofa, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate-CNR)
7. MOLOCH West Africa (Francesco Pasi, LaMMA/IBE-CNR)
8. WRF verification in Niger and Burkina Faso (T. Bere / Y. Adamou Sayri – IBE-CNR/ANAM/DMN)
9. A Review of Recent Advances in AI Models for Weather Forecasting (Valerio Capecchi – LaMMA and ItaliaMeteo)
10. Forecasting, thresholds, and triggers for droughts in Mozambique (Massimiliano Pasqui, IBE-CNR)
11. International cooperation at Italia Meteo: Albatros project (Eva Merloni, Agenzia ItaliaMeteo)

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The IBE-CNR has been involved in the development of climate services for agriculture for a long time. In a recent study, the IBE-CNR developed an algorithm to identify a composite index that can summarise the risk of having exceptionally low yields due to the co-occurrence of multiple stressors. The study focused on olive yields and climate stressors in Italy as a pilot case, but the idea is easily transferable to other contexts. Specifically, for olive yields, the composite index showed how the occurrence of warm winters and early springs (Jan-Apr), followed by a cool late spring (May-Jun) and early autumn (Sep-Oct), have the highest negative impact on yields.

The authors suggest that improving the understanding of how interannual crop yields are modulated by seasonal local climate would enhance the development of actionable services to alert stakeholders of potential climate risks. Additionally, the composite risk approach could lay the groundwork for an integrated meteorological seasonal forecasting system that provides stakeholders with timely insights on factors affecting within-season yield development. This would enable farmers to schedule suitable agronomic practices to manage climate risks.

The full article can be read online at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jac.12636

Reference:
Di Paola, A., Di Giuseppe, E., Gutierrez, A P., Ponti, L., & Pasqui, M. (2023). Climate stressors modulate interannual olive yield at province level in Italy: A composite index approach to support crop management. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science, 00, 1– 14. https://doi.org/10.1111/jac.12636

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Cette crue a atteint et a dépassé les côtes d’alerte jaune (530 cm pour un débit de 1444 m3/s le 20 novembre) et orange (580 cm pour un débit de 1766 m3/s le 29 décembre) avant d’amorcer une descente. La décrue se poursuit lentement, avec un niveau de 567 cm le 16 janvier 2023.

Le volume d’eau transité à la station de Niamey sur la période allant du 1er juin 2022 au 16 janvier 2023 a été de 22,3 milliards de m3, supérieur de celui observé l’année passée 2021 qui était de 19,4 milliards de m3 sur la même période. Ces volumes d’eau transités seront à mesure de satisfaire les besoins des différents usagers.

Pour plus d’information voyez le Bulletin hydrologique au 16-01-2023_Crue Guinéenne & celle de la Komadougou Yobé préparé par la Direction de l’Hydrologie du Niger.

Pour suivre en temps réel le niveau et le débit di Fleuve Niger à la station hydrométrique de Niamey visitez la plateforme SLAPIS (www.slapis-niger.org)

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Pour plus d’information voyez le Bulletin Hydrologique_Décembre _19-12-2022 de la Direction de l’Hydrologie du Niger.

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Tema centrale dell’edizione 2017 sono i dati nella ricerca: un bene prezioso che sempre di più costituisce il vero valore del lavoro scientifico e che, nelle varie sfaccettature e declinazioni, è presente in tutte le discipline con requisiti comuni, peculiarità proprie e necessità emergenti.

Dai Big Data agli open data, dalla condivisione alla conservazione, dai servizi di elaborazione di grandi moli di dati all’Internet of Things: sono tanti gli argomenti affrontati nel corso della tre giorni su innovazione e collaborazione al servizio della ricerca.

Si invitano contributi che abbiano un particolare riferimento a:

• Uso di infrastrutture di rete e servizi per la gestione, condivisione, archiviazione di dati;
• Metodologie e politiche di gestione dati replicabili in ambito multidisciplinare;
• Interoperabilità dei dati e modalità di autenticazione e accesso ai dati.

PUBBLICAZIONE
SensorWeb Hub as an interoperable research data infrastructure for low-cost sensor data sharing (533 KB) – Tiziana De Filippis, Leandro Rocchi, Elena Rapisardi in ATTI DELLA CONFERENZA GARR 2017 DOI: 10.26314/GARR-Conf17-proceedings, Febbraio 2018 [link]

Sito web della conferenza 2017

Programma

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Plenary programme highlights

• 75+ Working and Interest Group meetings
• Plenary Sessions on RDA Recommendations and Adoption
• Leading Industry Panel discussions
• RDA Recommendation demos and networking opportunitie
• Supporting Fellows and Early Career Researchers and Scientists working with data

Programme

About Research Data Alliance (RDA)

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La telecamera di rilevamento dei flussi di traffico non memorizza né trasmette alcuna immagine che viene trattenuta nella memoria del dispositivo per il tempo strettamente necessario all’analisi e quindi, subito dopo eliminata.

Questa indagine è parte di una attività di Citizen Science – termine inglese che indica una metodologia di partecipazione attiva dei cittadini alla ricerca – ed è propedeutica sia allo sviluppo di progetti di monitoraggio ambientale urbano sia alla raccolta di suggerimenti da parte dei cittadini per migliorare la ricerca e la conoscenza.

Si ricorda che la compilazione del questionario è assolutamente anonima e richiederà circa 10 minuti.

Vai al questionario on line

La ringraziamo molto per la preziosa collaborazione e, nel caso desideri ulteriori informazioni, non esiti a scrivere a questo indirizzo
f.camilli@ibimet.cnr.it

Cordiali saluti
Il gruppo di ricerca

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SensorWeb Hub supported the development of the first prototype of the Mobile Urban Network (RUM) in the Florence metropolitan area—a meteorological monitoring system based on low-cost sensors connected to Arduino open-source platforms, and mounted on mobile units (public transport vehicles on wheels and rails). The goal: monitor key meteorological and environmental variables across the city in real time.

Between 2012 and 2015, over 1,180,000 data points were collected from six mobile stations. Although the analysis is still ongoing, the data gathered show a strong correlation with measurements from nearby fixed weather stations—particularly regarding temperature and humidity. This confirms the accuracy and reliability of the low-cost sensors, demonstrating that even economically accessible tools can provide robust data coverage across urban environments.

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The Ecovino project, funded by GAL Castelli Romani e Monti Prenestini, is the result of a collaboration between the Antiche Terre Tuscolane Cooperative—producer of Frascati DOCG wine—and leading research institutions including the Department of Agricultural, Forestry, Nature and Energy Sciences and Technologies (DAFNE) at the University of Tuscia, IBIMET – CNR, and METEOTEC.

In response to the fragmented structure of local vineyards—often divided into small plots with distinct microclimates—the project aims to provide detailed, location-specific information to help winegrowers:

• Optimize vineyard management practices

• Combat the European grapevine moth (Lobesia botrana)

• Manage grape ripening based on evolving climate conditions

At the heart of Ecovino is a smart digital platform that integrates local weather data, vine phenology, and pest development models. Through this system, growers receive SMS and email alerts indicating the best times for field interventions. The goal? A more efficient and environmentally conscious use of plant protection treatments.

Want to learn more? Check out the coverage below:

• GAL Castelli Romani – Project Wrap-Up

• Ontuscia – Ecovino with UNITUS

• Il Mamilio – Final Results Coming Soon

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• the low-cost platform “AIRQino” for air quality monitoring, developed by Ibimet, and already used in several projects on smart-cities
• the Magenta platform for traffic flow.

Magenta and IBIMET are going to share their monitoring platforms and collect data, in order to investigate the correlation between traffic flows and the concentration of pollutants (CO2, NO2, CO)  in urban environments.

For this purpose, an AIRQino monitoring station has already been installed at Magenta headquarters, where it is also managed the sensor CHEST/TrafficFlow.

The collaboration is at its very early stage and it has already achieved a positive result: the paper “An integrated low-cost road traffic and air pollution monitoring platform for next citizen observatories”, written by IBIMET’s researchers and Magenta’s engineers, has been accepted for presentation at the 3rd Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility to be held in Volos, Greece, on 26-27 May 2016.

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