Acronimo IR CMCC

Nome IR Centro euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici

Soggetto regionale DIVISIONI: ODA - Ocean modeling and Data Assimilation; CSP - Climate Simulation and Prediction

Tipologia DISTRIBUITA Caratteristiche IR-N

Area PNIR Blue Growth

Link http://www.cmcc.it/

Abstract:

Il Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC) è un ente di ricerca no-profit fondato nel 2005 con il supporto finanziario del Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (MIUR), del Ministero dell’Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio (MATT), del Ministero delle Politiche Agricole e Forestali (MIPAF) e del Ministero delle Finanze (MEF), grazie al finanziamento del Fondo Integrativo Speciale della Ricerca (FISR), nell’ambito del Programma Strategico Nazionale della ricerca. Nato con l’obiettivo principale di realizzare in Italia un Centro di eccellenza sullo studio integrato di temi riguardanti i cambiamenti climatici, il CMCC rappresenta, a livello nazionale e internazionale, un punto di riferimento istituzionale per decisori pubblici, istituzioni, aziende pubbliche e private che hanno bisogno di supporto tecnico-scientifico.

Pienamente operativo dal 2006, il CMCC organizza, gestisce e promuove attività scientifiche e applicate nel campo della ricerca internazionale sui cambiamenti climatici attraverso il proprio network di ricerca – con sedi e uffici a Lecce, Bologna, Capua, Milano, Sassari, Venezia, Viterbo e Benevento – costituito da istituzioni pubbliche e private che collaborano nelle attività multidisciplinari di studio e di indagine di temi inerenti le scienze dei cambiamenti climatici. L’organizzazione del Centro ha la forma di una vera e propria rete distribuita sul territorio nazionale, una struttura che consente al CMCC di unire in un’unica istituzione le capacità e le conoscenze di esperti e professionisti altamente qualificati provenienti da diverse aree di ricerca e discipline. Il flusso di lavoro all’interno del CMCC favorisce l’integrazione di risorse tecnologiche e delle competenze richieste per sviluppare un approccio globale ed estensivo alla ricerca sul clima, integrando tra loro discipline quali: matematica, fisica, economia e computer science.

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Acronimo Progetto EARTHSERVER

Titolo Progetto European Scalable Earth Science Service Environment

Soggetto regionale METEOROLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH OBSERVATION SRL EC Contribution 450.647

Anno 2011

Area PNIR Smart, Secure and Inclusive Communities Abstract:

EarthServer aims at open access and ad-hoc analytics on Earth Science (ES) data, based on the OGC geo service standards Web Coverage Service (WCS) and Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS). The WCS model defines

"coverages" as unifying paradigm for multi-dimensional raster data, point clouds, meshes, etc., thereby addressing most of Earth Science data. WCPS as aka "XQuery for raster data" allows declarative, SQL-style queries on coverages. The project will develop a pilot implementing these standards, integrated with NetCDF and GeoSciML, two core formats used in the ESs, and open-source GIS tools. Integration of WCPS with XQuery will allow mixed data/metadata queries. The unified service will support navigation, extraction, aggregation, and ad-hoc analysis on massive n-D ES data through queries of open-ended complexity, achieving a flexibility on coverage data as it is known from SQL. Clients will range from mobile devices over Web tools to high-end immersive virtual reality. In the RTD part, EarthServer will establish open-source client and server technology which is scalable to Petabyte/Exabyte volumes, based on distributed processing, supercomputing, and cloud virtualization. Implementation will be based on the existing rasdaman server technology developed by one

partner, an operational system similar to SciDB. In the Service part, this new service will be installed on super-scale archives of data centers serving atmospheric, oceanography, geology, and general earth observation communities. Queries can span archive sites and cross-domain data sets. Volumes of 20+ TB will be demoed. In the Networking part, user training, community involvement and outreach, education of society (students, pupils, etc.) and public authorities, and standardization will be performed (e.g., OGC and INSPIRE). This novel quality of service, with its unified overarching retrieval, will enable new discoveries and enhanced collaboration, both ad-hoc and in "long tail science".

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Acronimo Progetto EUROPLANET RI

Titolo Progetto European Planetology Network Research Infrastructure Soggetto regionale CONSORZIO INTERUNIVERSITARIO CINECA

EC Contribution 67.500

Anno 2009

Area PNIR Aerospazio Abstract:

The Europlanet RI project will provide the European planetary science community with a unique research infrastructure, combining access to a suite of state of the art facilities while fostering their joint development and integration in terms of capacity and performance. This research infrastructure will include access to laboratory and field site facilities, advanced modelling, simulation and data analysis resources and to data produced by space missions and ground-based telescopes hence maximising the scientific impact of major European space missions and ground-based installations. Access will be provided in two forms. Three coordinated Trans National Access activities will open to many users the unique range of laboratory and field site facilities selected for this project. In parallel, the IDIS e-service will provide a user-friendly web-based access to the available planetary science data, information and software tools. Four Joint Research Activities will broaden the scope of the infrastructure, opening access to new field sites, offering new models and data analysis tools for users and widening the opportunity of remote data access by progressively upgrading IDIS into a Planetary Virtual Observatory. Four complementary networking activities will publicize the objectives and opportunities of Europlanet RI and disseminate project results amongst the scientific community, industries, SME’s, space agencies and the public.

They will consolidate the establishment of a European Research Area for planetary science and exploration.

Building on the synergies between its services, joint research activities and networking activities, Europlanet RI will provide the ideal scientific and technical environment to fully analyse data from past and present planetary missions and prepare the next generation of missions. In this way it will play a vital role in establishing the European Community as a leading player in planetary and space exploration.

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Acronimo Progetto GLORIA

Titolo Progetto GLObal Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array for e-Science Soggetto regionale ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ASTROFISICA

EC Contribution 175.021

Anno 2011

Area PNIR Aerospazio Abstract:

GLORIA is an innovative citizen-science network of robotic telescopes, which will give free access and research to a virtual community via the Internet. The GLORIA partners will offer access to a growing collection of robotic telescopes via a Web 2.0 environment - 17 telescopes on 4 continents by the project’s end.

The GLORIA partners can do this because most of the telescopes are already robotized using the same free/open-source RTS2 software (maintained by GLORIA members), and the web access will be based on Ciclope Astro (also by a GLORIA member), which currently provides the world’s first free-access robotic telescope at Montegancedo Observatory (http://om.fi.upm.es). The Internet experiments will be coordinated by Galaxy Zoo (http://galaxyzoo.org). The challenge will be to involve people from around the world, to maximise their

collective intelligence, and to foster their participation in astronomy research both in data analysis and actual observations. The e-Infrastructure will be managed using the method of ‘karma’, proven in most successful web 2.0 sites, whereby those users who participate the most are awarded corresponding observing time. GLORIA will be an e-Science network for the virtual community, demonstrating how networking and open e-Infrastructures can increase the quality of research. During the project, 17 telescopes and 2 experiments will be deployed for these citizen scientists, and a foundation will be built up of documentation, free software, and a community of people will have grown, to maintain and grow GLORIA into the future. Significant dissemination efforts will be made to draw in ordinary people, as well as scholars, to use the network, to learn about astronomy, and to do real science. Currently, GLORIA’s telescopes are individually supported from national funds and as this should continue, the network will not bear the cost of their maintenance. GLORIA can easily survive in the future with minimal national funding or even donations.

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Acronimo Progetto INTERACT

Titolo Progetto International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic Soggetto regionale CLU srl

EC Contribution 89.651

Anno 2011

Area PNIR Blue Growth Abstract:

Environmental change and particularly amplified global climate change are accelerating in the Arctic. These changes already affect local residents and feedback from the Arctic’s land surface to the climate system, will have global implications. However, climate change and its impacts are variable throughout the wide environmental and land use envelopes of the Arctic. Unfortunately, the Arctic is generally remote, sparsely populated and research and monitoring activities are more restricted in time and space than elsewhere. This limitation comes when there is a rapidly expanding need for knowledge as well as increasing technological opportunities to make data collection in the field and accessibility more efficient. INTERACT is a network under the auspices of SCANNET, a circumarctic network of terrestrial field bases. INTERACT specifically seeks to build capacity for research and monitoring in the European Arctic and beyond. Partnerships will be established between Station Managers and researchers within Joint Research Activities that will develop more efficient networks of sensors to measure changing environmental conditions and make data storage and accessibility more efficient through a single portal. New communities of researchers will be offered access to Arctic terrestrial infrastructures while local stakeholders as well as major international organisations will be involved in interactions with the infrastructures. This will lead to increased public awareness of environmental change and methods to adapt to them, increased access to information for education at all levels, and input to major international research and assessment programmes.The whole consortium will form a coherent and integrated unit working within a concept of a wide environmental and land use envelopes in which local conditions determine the directions and magnitudes of environmental change whereas the balance and synergies of processes integrated across the whole region have global impacts.

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Acronimo Progetto JERICO

Titolo Progetto Towards a joint european research infrastructure network for coastal observatories

Soggetto regionale ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA EC Contribution 26.525

Anno 2011

Area PNIR Blue Growth Abstract:

Around European coastal seas, the number of marine observing systems is quickly increasing under the pressure of both monitoring requirements and oceanographic research. Present demands for such systems include

reliable, high-quality and comprehensive observations, automated platforms and sensors systems, as well as autonomy over long time periods. In-situ data collected, combined with remote sensing and models output, contribute to detect, understand and forecast the most crucial coastal processes over extensive areas within the various national and regional marine environments. Coastal observations are an important part of the marine research puzzle of activities and applications. However significant heterogeneity exists in Europe concerning technological design of observing systems, measured parameters, practices for maintenance and quality control, as well as quality standards for sensors and data exchange. Up to now, the expansion of “coastal observatories”

has been driven by domestic interests and mainly undertaken through short-term research projects. Therefore the main challenge for the research community is now to increase the coherence and the sustainability of these dispersed infrastructures by addressing their future within a shared pan-European framework. This is the main objective of JERICO, which proposes a Pan European approach for a European coastal marine observatory network, integrating infrastructure and technologies such as moorings, drifters, ferrybox and gliders. Networking activities will lead to the definitions of best practices for design, implementation, maintenance and distribution of data of coastal observing systems, as well as the definition of a quality standard. Harmonisation and strengthening coastal observation systems within EuroGOOS regions will be sought. Unique twin Trans National Access experiments will be carried out in order to reveal the potential of datasets used in synergy. Central coastal infrastructure in Europe will be opened for international research. This will among other benefits GMES and European contribution to climate change research. New joint research will be conducted in order to identify new and strategic technologies to be implemented in the next generation European coastal observatories. Focus is given on emerging technologies and the biochemical compartment. JERICO intends to contribute to the international and global effort on climate change research (GEOSS), to provide coastal data inputs for operational ocean observing and forecasting, and also to answer to some of the needs of the environmental research and societal communities.

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Acronimo Progetto SEADATANET II

Titolo Progetto SeaDataNet II: Pan-European infrastructure for ocean and marine data management

Soggetto regionale ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA EC Contribution 133.100

Anno 2011

Area PNIR Blue Growth Abstract:

The overall objective of the SeaDataNet II project is to upgrade the present SeaDataNet infrastructure into an operationally robust and state-of-the-art Pan-European infrastructure for providing up-to-date and high quality access to ocean and marine metadata, data and data products originating from data acquisition activities by all engaged coastal states, by setting, adopting and promoting common data management standards and by realising technical and semantic interoperability with other relevant data management systems and initiatives on behalf of science, environmental management, policy making, and economy. SeaDataNet is undertaken by the National Oceanographic Data Centres (NODCs), and marine information services of major research institutes, from 31 coastal states bordering the European seas, and also includes Satellite Data Centres, expert modelling centres and the international organisations IOC, ICES and EU-JRC in its network. Its 40 data centres are highly skilled and have been actively engaged in data management for many years and have the essential capabilities and facilities for data quality control, long term stewardship, retrieval and distribution. SeaDataNet II will undertake activities to achieve data access and data products services that meet requirements of end-users and intermediate user communities, such as GMES Marine Core Services (e.g. MyOcean), establishing SeaDataNet as the core data management component of the EMODNet infrastructure and contributing on behalf of Europe to global portal initiatives, such as the IOC/IODE – Ocean Data Portal (ODP), and GEOSS. Moreover it aims to achieve INSPIRE compliance and to contribute to the INSPIRE process for developing implementing rules for oceanography.

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