ANYWHERE PROJECT (EnhANcing emergencY management and response to

exreme WeatHER and climate Events)

Meteohydrological modeling and monitoring in Liguria

ARPAL – CFMI - PC, Agenzia Regionale per l’Ambiente Ligure, Viale B. Partigiane 2, 16121 Genova, Italy

Contact person: laura.pedemonte@arpal.gov.it

ABSTRACT

The Liguria region, located in the North-Western Mediterranean, is the small area of Northern Italy where the southern Alps and the northern Appenines link themselves creating a mountainous chain near the sea.

Catchments extension ranges from few square km to a maximum of 1600 km2 (Magra River); floods and flash-floods occur due to heavy rain. For meteo-hydrological purposes, the aims of Liguria Regional

Agency for Environment Protection (ARPAL) are: meteorological forecast and risk condition evaluation, alert giving, nowcasting and real-time observations, discharge measurements in order to obtain the rating

curves for most of the stream level gauging stations.

The poster shows how operational ARPAL activity deals with the aims of Anywhere Project i.e. enhance risk analysis, improve the coordination of emergencies and improve the communication and information

between the actors involved through the development of tools, products and services. The ARPAL data management procedures together with the high-resolution ensemble hydrometeorological models in use are

presented. The development of the project are discussed focusing on possible improvements of the observational and modelling systems for emergency management.

Daily ordinary condition activities:

• Weather, and sea and hydrological forecast for

the Ligurian territory by using an integrated

meteo-hydrological forecasted chain

• Meteorological observation network management

including the Settepani radar and a sea-buoy

• Climatological analysis, data management,

climatological studies publishing (including Annali

Idrologici)

• Direct discharge measurememtns

• “H24 on demand Service” for Civil Protection

purposes

Emergency conditions:

• Technical support to the Regional Civil Protection

during emergency and storm conditions

According to the National law (Direttiva

PCM 27/2/2004), CFMI-PC belongs to

the National network of Centri

Funzionali and it is organised as:

Regional Service for the Civil Protection

METEOROLOGIC

FORECASTCLIMATOLOGIC

STUDIES

HYDROLOGIC

EVALUATION

ITOBSERVING

NETWORK MANAGING

CF Liguria

NEW: GEOLOGICAL

EVALUATION

ALERT DISSEMINATION AND MANAGING

Alert

yes

Centri Funzionali

National net

Risk condition evaluation Technical documents

Nowcasting, event monitoringTechnical

documents update

Territory control Opening/closing

Alert period

DATA END USER

Within the framework of the project, we can participate to the project activities

furnishing data recorded by our observing network (Precipitation: 184,

Temperature, Relative Humidity, Atmospheric Pressure, Solar radiation,

Hydrometric level, Snow cover, Canopy wetness) in order to contribute to

producing a new long-term and highly temporally and spatially resolved data-set

over the Mediterranean basins. The network has been working and continuosly

updating since 2001.

Radio Data Transmition

technology

Signal goes on a dedicated network

able to cover more then 90% of the

Ligurian territory with an acquisition

lag time minor then5 minutes

Radio

connection

PC Server,

DataPC Client, data

display

• GSM/GPRS

• dedicated Radio networkDATA TRANSMITION

Network consistency

Precipitation: 184

Temperature: 144

Relative Humidity: 46

Atmospheric Pressure: 9

Solar radiation: 20

Hydrometric level: 46

Snow cover: 1

Canopy wetness: 11

The observation network was designed and realised in the period 1998-

2000. Since that it allows the monitoring of meteorological conditions over

the regional territory through the use of more than 200 stations connected

to the control centre that elaborates and re-distributes the collected data.

The control centre:

•collect

•transmit

•store

•elaborate

•Display

Real timeLocal-on

line network

GTS network

On line

Una tantum

Hystorical

Data

Delayed time

Mechanical

NetworkAuthomatic

local network

Control centreDelayed time

208 meteorological stations:• 171 telemetry;

• 36 mechanical;

• 1 automatic not connected station.

PROVINCIAL LEVEL: PREFECTURES (Resque unit Coordination)

Municipality Level – Major: localauthority of Civil protection –Municipal Emergency plans

REGIONAL LEVEL:

Civil Protection + Regional Centro Funzionale ARPAL

ECMWF (16-25 km

resolution, up to 15days)

BOLAM10 (10 km resolution 3 days)

MOLOCH (2,3 km resolution 2 days)

WP1: Developing a framework for co-ownership and co-evaluation ensuring the

successful implementation of the project

Task: 1.1 - 1.2 - 1.4 - 1.5

Our contribution to the WP1 Anywhere Project is devoted to:

• Developing a co-ownership and co-evaluation ensuring the successful

implementation

• Incorporating user’ needs to ensure that tools, products and services are useful

for a large variety of users and successful implementation

• Developing a framework co-evaluate the performance of the Anywhere Products

and services

• Evaluating the benefits of the innovation and its application to the Pilot studies.

We will provide data and run hydrological models (small catchment areas and

information chain to responders); set of quality criteria for education/communication

activities; educational tools and communication material for increasing preparedness.

Expectations: definition of key indicators and definition of ethical implications related

to the necessity to reach vulnerable groups

WP5: Raising self-preparedeness and self-protection to educe population

vulnerability

Task: 5.2 – 5.6

Our contribution to the WP5 Anywhere Project is devoted to:

• Collaborate with other partners in order to improving communications

and social effectiveness of warnings

• Increasing self-awareness and self-protection in front of flooding risk in

school

Expectations: Establish a more efficient data-exchange chain (protocol)

with local authorities in order to the have a faster response of the local

system to face actual crisis situations; + Tailoring of the actual alerting

system to school organizations

WP6: User driven pilot sites implementation and demonstration

Task: 6.1 - 6.2 – 6.3 – 6.7

Our contribution to the WP6 Anywhere Project is devoted to:

• Sharing with project partners the local date necessary for the

pilot case study in the Liguria sea-region

• Give users feedback based on the experience collected during

the demonstration period on the pilot sites.

Expectations: Establish a better communication system for the

last mile (reaching the population) and a better integration of

data from different informative layers

The result shows what will be possible to adopt and use when

the system will have reached the coordination and the efficiency

requested and also how an appropriate integration between

existing informations and tools can generate different real-time

risk scenarios that are crucial in the support decision system

chain