Collection
9th MetMed Conference
This topical collection welcomes contributions that were presented at the 9th International Conference on Meteorology and Climatology of the Mediterranean (MetMed) held in Genoa on 22-24 May 2023 and jointly organized by the Italian Association of Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology (AISAM), the Catalan Association of Meteorology (ACAM), and the University of Genoa. The aim is to provide an updated overview of the scientific progresses in the broad field of meteorology and climatology in a very peculiar area of the globe, such as the Mediterranean basin.
Contributions presented in the six topical sessions are welcome:
1) Climatology;
2) Processes and mechanisms;
3) Remote and in-situ measurements;
4) Numerical modelling;
5) Interdisciplinary studies;
6) Statistical and AI-based methods.
Editors
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Silvio Davolio
Silvio Davolio is senior research scientists at the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the National Research Council of Italy, with a particular interest in meteorology and atmospheric dynamics. Most of his research deals with the application of numerical models to study the processes responsible for intense and extreme meteorological phenomena in the Mediterranean basin, in particular heavy precipitation and cyclones. He has published over 60 scientific peer-reviewed articles, is currently Vice Chair of COST Action “Medcyclone”, devoted to Mediterranean cyclones and their impacts and chaired the 9th MetMed Scientific Committee.
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Ilaria Ferrando
Ilaria Ferrando is Assistant Professor in Geomatics at Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering of Genoa University, Italy since October 2020. Between December 2017 and September 2020 she was Research Fellow at the same Department. She received her Ph.D. in Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering in March 2017, with the thesis “GNSS contribution to monitor severe rainfalls: an innovative procedure for wide and orographically complex area with existing infrastructures”. Ilaria’s research activity develops in Geomatics, with particular focus on GNSS Meteorology, GIS applications and multi-techniques integrated survey.
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Maria Antonia Jiménez
Maria A. Jiménez is a senior lecturer at the Physics Department of the University of Balearic Islands, Spain and vice-dean of the Faculty of Science. Her research line is focused in studying the physical mechanisms that take place in complex terrain regions such as thermally-driven circulations (slope winds or breezes) and their interaction with cool air pooling and fog. Methodologies are based on a combined inspection of model outputs (from 1D or LES simulations to mesoscale using the MesoNH model) and data analysis (surface weather station networks, specially designed experimental field campaigns and remote sensing products).
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Dino Zardi
Dino Zardi’s research interests focus on atmospheric boundary layer processes, especially over complex terrain, and on their implications on air quality, agriculture, renewable energy resources, and climate change impacts. He is professor of Atmospheric Physics at the Department of Civil Environmental and Mechanical Engineering of the University of Trento (Italy), where he is also the Coordinator of the MSc Programme in Environmental Meteorology, and Deputy Dean of the Centre Agriculture Food Environment. He got a degree in Physics cum laude from the University of Bologna (1991) and a PhD in Hydrodynamics from the University of Genova (1995).
