Descrizione
Questa sessione prevede brevi presentazioni orali da parte di ricercatori, tecnologi, tecnici e collaboratori coinvolti nel progetto ITINERIS. Tali presentazioni offriranno una panoramica concisa delle attività e dei risultati significativi realizzati nel progetto, rappresentando un'opportunità per la condivisione delle conoscenze e la promozione della discussione all'interno della comunità ITINERIS.
The way RIs can enhance their fruitful impacts on local communities from both social and economic perspectives, cannot be measured by scientific publications, while rather on the concrete implications achieved on territorial stakeholders through improving their policies and procedures focused on fulfilling peoples’ real needs (Russo, 2025a).
One of these policies in the framework of the...
Semantic interoperability is crucial for the accurate interpretation of digital resources in environmental sciences. The variety of data and digital objects produced and shared across disciplines necessitates open and shared semantic artefacts and services for the integration and reuse of digital objects. While semantic artefacts define domain-specific concepts, semantic services support their...
The ITINERIS–ACTRIS Pilot Access Program introduced, for the first time in Italy and the EU, a coordinated and nationally funded scheme for access to ACTRIS facilities. The initiative allowed international scientists to use advanced Italian platforms within ACTRIS and supported Italian researchers in accessing ACTRIS facilities across Europe and beyond, fostering scientific exchange and...
The adoption of shared and technologically advanced FAIR practices among digital Research Infrastructures (RIs) is crucial for efficient collection, dissemination, and reuse of scientific data and digital objects. Within this framework, the ITINERIS research infrastructure was designed as the central HUB for accessing Italian digital resources of the environmental domain. However, knowledge of...
Understanding environmental challenges requires navigating a complex network of interconnected systems, where Research Infrastructures (RIs) play a key role in integrating observations, data, and services to develop actionable strategies for understanding and predicting the Earth’s system. In this multifaceted environmental research domain, it is crucial to harmonize multi-source datasets...
The ITINERIS User Strategy establishes a comprehensive and integrated framework to improve accessibility, usability, and impact across Italian environmental Research Infrastructures (RIs). Bringing together 22 national nodes operating in the atmospheric, marine, terrestrial, and geosphere domains, ITINERIS is designed to deliver coordinated and interoperable services to a diversified user...
Tumors can be described as evolving ecosystems, where cancer cells act as invasive species that increase their fitness compared to non-tumoral cells. In this framework, ecological fitness refers to the ability of tumor cells to survive, proliferate, evolve within the TME, and adapt to selective pressures. One of the most aggressive and early metastatic neoplasia is the pancreatic ductal...
This study aims to analyze thermal comfort in a selected area of Lecce, a typical Mediterranean city, using a modelling approach to evaluate the microclimatic mitigation effects of urban greenery. The study involves the use of ENVI-met, a CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) microclimatic model to reproduce the physical and thermal behavior of urban spaces. It accounts for surface...
This study investigates the potential for automated discrimination between volcanic ash and desert dust aerosols using AERONET (Aerosol Robotic Network) sun photometer data, in support of EARLINET (European Aerosol Research Lidar Network) lidar measurements. The motivation stems from the challenge that both ash and dust exhibit similar optical signatures in atmospheric lidar signals, in fact...
ChAMBRe (Chamber for Aerosol Modelling and Bio-aerosol Research) is an atmospheric simulation chamber (ASC) managed by the Genoa division of INFN at the Department of Physics of the University of Genoa. The ASC is characterized by a high versatility of applications, due to the wide range of instruments that can be connected. Several examples of these applications will be presented at the...
Black carbon (BC) is a key short-lived climate forcer, with atmospheric concentrations influenced by both emissions and meteorological processes. In the Mediterranean—where climate change and air quality challenges intersect—understanding the drivers of BC trends is critical. This study investigates whether *observed BC reductions are solely due to air pollution control policies or if emerging...
Since 1993, atmospheric aerosol studies based on multi-wavelength Raman lidar observations have been one of the core research activities at the CNR-IMAA Atmospheric Observatory (CIAO). Over the years, the observatory has significantly contributed to the understanding of various aerosol types, including mineral dust, biomass burning aerosol, and volcanic ash, and their role in atmospheric...
For the first time, we present the results obtained from an innovative instrument purchased with the support of the ITINERIS project within the European Research Infrastructure Consortium – Aerosols, Clouds, and Trace gas Research InfraStructure (ERIC-ACTRIS). Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) techniques have proven to be a highly reliable tool for studying both the atmospheric domain, with...
This study focuses on the elemental characterization of atmospheric particulate matter (PM), a key aspect in identifying pollution sources due to PM's harmful effects on human health.
The research compares data from two ED-XRF systems: an online Xact® 625i, which uses Teflon tape and provides near real-time PM₁₀ data every 3 hours at the Environmental-Climate Observatory (ECO), and an...
The Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) is the atmospheric layer where most mixing of aerosols and gases occurs. Understanding its dynamics is crucial to interpret ground-level pollutant variability. This study combines remote sensing and in-situ measurements to investigate the interplay between emissions and atmospheric dilution, focusing on Milan during the year 2023 (Po Valley), one of Europe’s...
Carbonaceous aerosols represent a significant component of atmospheric aerosol. Among them, the equivalent black carbon (eBC), identified as the result of optical determination of the carbon content in the atmospheric aerosol (PM), has become a serious concern because of its detrimental impact on human health, and because it is regarded as the second most major contributor to global warming...
New particle formation (NPF) plays a critical role in the atmospheric aerosol population, influencing both climate and human health (Lai, 2024). Understanding the driving mechanisms behind this process is essential for accurately assessing the anthropogenic impact on our planet.
Several studies have recently pointed out the crucial role covered by RO2-RO2 interactions and their contribution...
Heatwaves, often associated with quasi-stationary anticyclones, can be locally mitigated by coastal land-sea breeze circulations. To investigate this mechanism, the MESSA-DIN (MEditerranean Sea Salt And Dust Ice Nuclei) campaign was carried out by CNR-IMAA in Soverato (Southern Italy, 38°41′16′′N 16°33′00′′E) from June to November 2021. Ground-based remote sensing instrumentation, including a...
A new atmospheric station dedicated to the observation of greenhouse gases has recently been implemented at the CNR-IMAA Atmospheric Observatory (CIAO). The station, called POT, is part of the Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) Research Infrastructure and provides continuous measurements of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and methane (CH₄) atmospheric concentrations.
Thanks to the ITINERIS...
The steady expansion of the aviation sector, a pillar of global connectivity, demands growing attention to its environmental footprint, particularly with regard to air quality.1 While exhaust gas emissions have been extensively investigated, non-exhaust sources such as tire wear particles (TWPs) remain comparatively underexplored.2 These particles constitute a major source of microplastics and...
Atmospheric submicron aerosols have long been studied due to their impact on climate, ecosystems, and human health. Organic Aerosol (OA), the predominant constituent of PM₁ mass, can be directly emitted (Primary OA, POA) or formed through atmospheric processes (Secondary OA, SOA). Understanding the evolution and oxidation of OA during atmospheric transport is a key research focus.
This...
The CNR-IMAA Atmospheric Observatory (CIAO), located in Potenza, Southern Italy, has recently enhanced its observational capabilities with the implementation of a state-of-the-art aerosol in-situ facility (Laurita et al., 2025), made possible also thanks to the ITINERIS project. This new component complements CIAO’s remote sensing infrastructure, providing continuous, high-quality ground-level...
The study of thermodynamical variables, such as temperature and relative humidity in the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere (UT/LS), is one of the key elements for understanding climate change. Several studies estimated trends both regionally and globally in the UT/LS, using both satellite and ground-based data and different measurement techniques. However, the accuracy and spatial-temporal...
Within the ITINERIS project (WP 4 – Atmosphere), significant progress has been made in upgrading the OGS PA-34 Seneca III research aircraft to host advanced aerosol and meteorological instrumentation, compliant with ACTRIS standards. The activity focused on the procurement, calibration, and integration design of a comprehensive payload, including an isokinetic sampling inlet, a microphysical...
Climate change in the Mediterranean region raises serious concerns about the role of open vegetation fires in the climate-altering species. This study reviews current methodologies for quantifying greenhouse gas and black carbon emissions from open vegetation fires and examines the data provided by four state-of-the-art inventories of carbon dioxide (CO2), me-thane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O)...
The main objective of this project was to assess the reliability and suitability of Pylon detector (TEL model) Rn analyser for scientific applications, particularly in complex mountain environments. This evaluation was carried out within the ITINERIS TNA Access, with the specific goal of testing the performance of the Pylon detector coupled with the Radon Mapper Monitor developed by...
Open fires represent one of the most influent events on ecosystems, climate, and human health. Their study is a challenging research topic, set to lead to a better understanding of their impact.
The ITINERIS project allowed us to empower and strengthen the observation capability of the main chemical-physical parameters involved in open fire events, via the implementation of new instruments...
The volcanic aerosol plume following the paroxysmal event of Mount Etna on 2nd June 2025 was detected and characterized in the Mediterranean area of Naples city (Italy), together with transported Saharan dust, using remote sensing and satellite observations in combination with back-trajectory and dispersion model simulations.
Lidar profiles obtained using an Elastic/Raman system of the...
ITINERIS’ EYES is an inter-disciplinary research cruise designed to tackle the health of Mediterranean planktonic ecosystems, and improve their predictability, through multi-platform experiments acquiring several ocean, climate and biodiversity Essential Variables (EVs). The approach of ITINERIS’ EYES is to leverage on the technological contribution of 11 European and national Research...
In the framework of ITINERIS, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (LNS) of Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) is leading the implementation of the Ocean Sound Subsystem (OS-SS), part of the ITalian Integrated Ocean Observing System (IT-IOOS), will establish for the first time a national-level integrated platform with standardized procedures, guidelines, and tools for collecting, analyzing,...
The ocean regulates Earth’s climate, sustains biodiversity, and supports key human activities such as fisheries, transport, and coastal economies. Monitoring these complex systems requires continuous and reliable observations of “Essential Ocean Variables” (EOVs). Marine gliders—autonomous vehicles that move by changing buoyancy—are increasingly used to collect EOV data due to several...
eLTER-RI is a pan-European in-situ Research Infrastructure whose mission is to study long-term ecological changes in terrestrial, freshwater, coastal and transitional ecosystems through a holistic “whole system” approach, based on the integration of different environmental disciplines, to understand the role and interactions of multiple and complex ecosystem variables. The Italian network,...
