Drought Situation
In Italian Only

- Ramona Magno
- September 6, 2023
Previsioni per i prossimi mesi
Per quanto riguarda le temperature dell’aria del trimestre Ottobre-Dicembre, il centro europeo per le previsioni a medio termine ECMWF indica valori sopra la media su tutta Europa, con una probabilità più elevata in particolare per Ottobre e Novembre. Le temperature superficiali del Mar Mediterraneo risultano superiori alla media per tutto il trimestre. Per quanto riguarda le piogge, il trimestre potrebbe risultare nella norma, con una maggiore probabilità di precipitazioni superiori alla media a Dicembre nel nord Italia e sulle zone adriatiche.Impatti nel resto del mondo
La siccità e le alte temperature di questi mesi hanno delle ripercussioni su diverse attività antropiche e sugli ecosistemi. Di seguito alcuni dei maggiori impatti segnalati a livello globale: (Clicca qui per vedere la mappa interattiva)- Meet the Italian farmers facing the extremes of climate change
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- 31/08/2023
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- 30/08/2023
- Italy’s Po delta’s race against a Changing Climate
- 15/08/2023
- FOCUS: servizio sulla “siccità”
- 24/07/2023
- Osservatorio ANBI Risorse Idriche – Tutto come previsto: torna l’allerta siccità che sta infiammando penisola iberica e nord Africa
- 29/06/2023
Drought WebGIS
Please Note: Due to the size of the images, it is possible to download sections of the vegetation indices smaller than the whole geographic window.
Please Note: due to problems concerning the Terra MODIS satellite, the TCI and VHI indices are available until the 9th of November 2022. They will be replaced soon with new products.

Other Services
Open data
Through CKAN and GeoServer, a complete catalog to publish data and metadata in several formats and standard protocols. Spatial data can be integrated and reused by any third-party client applications.
API REstful
The service allows the integration of any client application data from the Drought Observatory Spatial Data Infrastructure. The RESTful APIs developed are available on the GitHub platform.

The drought is a complex phenomenon
The challenge
Increasing environmental resilience
A Scientific Proactive approach
Technical support and timely information
A frequent Phenomenon
After flooding, it is the second natural disaster that affects the population.
Long term impact
The impact on the environment and human activities can show up late and persist even after the end of the drought event.

HIGH VARIABILITY
Its intensity and spatial extent are extremely variable.
A CREEPING PHENOMENON
With respect to other natural extreme events, drought is characterised by a slow and often difficult to define onset and a long-lasting evolution.
Drought Observatory: the reason why

Drought monitoring and forecasting system
Integration of ground-based and satellite data
The Indices: Drought occurrences and trends
The system is based on a monitoring component and on a forecasting ones. It uses two type of indices:
- direct climate-based indices.
- indirect vegetation-based indices
A continuous Work-in-Progress
Spatial Data Infrastructure
SOA | OGC | PostgreSQL
A Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) based on Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards. Database-centred architecture, with PostgreSQL DataBase Management System.
Innovative Approach
The geographic data flows (from the download of remote sensing and climatic data to the storage of final indices) and all the related geoprocessing functions are integrated in a single environment.
Advanced Statistical Procedures
The integration of the PL/R (R Procedural Language) wrapper into the procedural language of PostgreSQL (PL/pgSQL) allowed the creation of advanced statistical procedures using R engine.