World Meteorological Day 2017

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GEO-K will participate in the celebration of the World Meteorological Day (GMM2017) to be held Thursday, March 23 at the Aula Magna del rettorato of the Sapienza University in Rome.

The event is organized by the Italian Association of Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology (AISAM) in collaboration with the Meteorological Service of the Italian Air Force, Sapienza University of Rome and the National Research Council.

The occasion will be useful to address and explore, together with industry experts and representatives of government and institutions, some of the main meteorological topics such as  the understanding of clouds.
The reports presented are aimed to broadly involve students and anyone with an interest on meteorological topics.
The Day also provides an opportunity to discuss the state of Meteorology in Italy.
It is an important moment for Italian meteorology: the recent success in the assignment to Italy of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) provides tremendous opportunities for the revival of the entire sector in Italy.

The event will be broadcast LIVE “streaming” on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjjA1a91naE

Participation is free: You are kindly requested to registrate on aisam.eu.

ROMA METEO CAPITALE – First WeatherDay in Rome

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A first for Rome: on 26th Novembre 2016, the first Convention dedicated to the Meteorology in Rome will take place at the Link Campus University.

ROMA METEO CAPITALE, organized by GEO-K and Tempo Roma, will be a free and open access divulgation event focused on the sharing of knowledge of this science, thanks to the participation of main actors of Italian meteorology and climatology. DIVULGATION is the key-item for ROMA METEO CAPITALE!

Keynote speaker of the event will be Paolo Sottocorona, expert meteorologist on Italian Channel La7.

Main partners of the event are:
Datameteo, Lombard & Marozzini s.r.l, Link Campus University

Find the event poster at this link.

GEO-K StormTrek at 2015 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference

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“The number of the extreme meteorological events has increased in the last few years and the trend should be the same for the next future”.

GEO-K participated in the 2015 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference, held in Toulouse, France, 21-25 September, presenting StormTrek, the innovative algorithm for the nowcasting of extreme meteorological events.

“These events generally develop very quickly and on a small scale, nevertheless they may provoke several damages and affect also the human’s safety. For these reasons it is very important to monitor and prevent these natural hazards by means of advanced techniques which must be able to:
● detect the event as soon as possible
● track the behavior of the event
● predict the short term development of the event

StormTrek is a novel multispectral algorithm for the detection, the tracking and the short term forecast of convective objects developed by GEO-K.
The model is already operational and some web services based on its output are already available. Our work is aimed to show the results of the validation activity developed in the last year. StormTrek validation involves the comparison with benchmarks like the Rapid Development Thunderstorms, developed by Meteo France, and the lightning activity over Europe and South Africa”.

Here is the link to the presentation.

“Short-term weather forecast for precision farming” at the XVIII AIAM Convention 2015

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Precision Farming will benefit from satellite weather forecasting.

GEO-K took part in the XVIII AIAM Convention 2015, the annual Convention of the Italian Association of Farm-Meteorology, hold at San Michele all’Adige (Trento), 9-11 June 2015.

At the meeting, the use of satellite data and short-term weather forecast (nowcasting) was proposed as an important tool to detect dramatic weather events, such as severe thunderstorms and hailstorms.

Take a look at the interview (in Italian only).