The delegation, led by Tiziana Paccagnella, head of the meteorological modeling area of the ARPA-SIMC of Emilia Romagna, was welcomed at the top by the director of CAMM, lieutenant colonel Di Diodato, who led them through the measurement laboratories of CO2, methane and the Center's meteorological station.
The visit is part of a specialized training course on topics related to "Limited Area Forecasted Meteorological Modeling" that the Omani meteorological group follows at ARPA-SIMC. The course, organized by the ARPA-SIMC itself, is preparatory to the use, by the Omani meteorological service for the production of numerical forecasts, of the COSMO model (Consortium for Small-Scale Modeling), developed within the homonymous European consortium to which Italy joins through an international agreement signed by the meteorological service of the air force.
The visit, according to the visitors, was extremely interesting and appreciated as, as pointed out by Dr. Paccagnella: "the observatory / laboratory of Monte Cimone represents an excellence within the global network of observation of the atmosphere both for its physical location, truly unique, and for the advanced instrumentation technology and the exceptional scientific expertise developed over years of activity. "
The Monte Cimone observatory is the first and only station in Italy recognized as a "global" station, along with only other 27 stations in the world, within the GAW (Global Atmosphere Watch) program of the world meteorological organization, based on the diversification of the measures carried out and the quality of the data produced.
The mountain air force center, headed by Lieutenant Colonel Attilio Di Diodato, operates from 1937 in the field of classical meteorology for air navigation assistance and the statistical-climatological and forecasting aspects of the study of climate and the environment and telecommunications . The CAMM, employed by the national center of meteorology and aeronautical climatology of Pratica di Mare, is also, thanks to its position, in the center of Italy, with a free horizon at 360 ° and far from polluting sources of anthropic origin, one of the few stations in the world that makes continuous greenhouse gas surveys, in particular of carbon dioxide, whose historical series started in 1979 is among the oldest in the international field. Other measures include methane, sunshine, solar radiation, atmospheric turbidity, ultraviolet UVA and UVB radiation, acid rain harvest for subsequent sampling and, from 1975, ozone at the Sestola logistics base at 1.020 meters height.
Source: Mountain Air Force Center (CAMM) - Monte Cimone, Sestola (MO) - 1st m.llo Antonio Proietti
