Between the 24th and the 26th of December 2013 Northern Italy was interested by heavy and diffuse precipitations events. The same stormy event, called "Christmas storm", interested all European area producing numerous damages and diseases especially in France and UK. The aim of the present...

This document describes the numerical models and tools constituting the integrated system for the qualitative and quantitative assessment of the hydrogeological risks due to climate change developed in the framework of the GEMINA project (product P91). In particular the work package 6.2.17...

To produce regional climate scenarios, traditionally, the statistical downscaling has been considered as an alternative to dynamical downscaling. However, the use of the two kinds of downscaling approaches together consents, at least to some extent, to combine their advantages. This report...

This study presents the results of a dynamically downscaled high resolution (about 8 km) climate simulation over Italy, produced with COSMO-CLM model, forced by ERA-Interim reanalysis and covering the time period from 1979 to 2011. Model results have been analysed in terms of two-meter...

This report provides a preliminary analysis of discharges, precipitation and temperature data since 1923 for 18 closure sections of Po river and its tributaries. First we have investigated the consistency of the data, evaluating the inter-basin correlations, and the relationship between...

Climate shows a natural variability that influences the dynamics of river discharges. In particular, intense precipitations would cause floods, while prolonged dry periods are associated to droughts phenomena. In the Mediterranean area, climate change is expected to increase the frequency of...

In this paper, the capabilities of COSMO CLM on simulating the main features of the observed climate over the whole Mediterranean area have been analyzed. The investigated period is 1971-2000. A simulation driven by ERA40 Reanalysis has been performed at a spatial resolution of 14 km in order to...

This paper analyzes the capabilities of the regional climate model COSMO-CLM to simulate the main features of the observed climate over the entire Italian domain. Two simulations on the period 1971-2000, driven by ERA40 Reanalysis and by the CMCC-MED global model respectively, have been...

This report represents the description of the first activity performed within the work package 7.1.6 of the "B action" in the Gemina project. The "B action" of the Gemina project concerns the consolidation and development of international scientific network. In particular the cooperation between...

In this paper we analyze some caveats found in the state-of-the-art ENSEMBLES regional projections dataset focusing on precipitation over Spain, and highlight the need of a task-oriented validation of the GCM-driven control runs. In particular, we compare the performance of the GCM-driven...