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A new dataset of Italian precipitation records for the period 1921–1950 from the Cli-DaRe@School citizen science project - Bulletin of Atmospheric Science and TechnologyA huge heritage of meteorological data has been accumulated in the Italian archives over the past three centuries. The project Cli-DaRe@School, launched in 2022, aims to carry on a long-term pathway to strengthen citizen science initiatives to rescue these data by engaging high-school students within their “dual training” activities. In the last three years, the project focused on four monographs published by the Italian Hydrographic Service between 1918 and 1966 concerning both monthly precipitation and temperature data. This paper focuses on the largest among these monographs, which is Publication N. 24 of the Italian Hydrographic Service: it is organised in fourteen issues reporting monthly precipitation data for the period 1921–1950 for 3614 stations. About half of the data tables reported in this monograph were digitised within the Cli-DaRe@School project, while the data of the other stations were recovered from the SCIA (Sistema nazionali per la raccolta, l’elaborazione e la diffusione di dati Climatologici di Interesse Ambientale – the national system for the collection, processing, and dissemination of climatological data of environmental interest) dataset produced by Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) and from a large dataset of long-term Italian records jointly set up by the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC) and the Milan University (UniMi) in the last 30 years. The scanned images of the monograph are stored and freely accessible in Portable Document Format at https://aisam.eu/progetti/cli-dare-at-school/ , while the monthly precipitation data are freely accessible in tabular format at https://zenodo.org/records/15084062 . The new dataset presented in this paper has the most complete coverage of monthly precipitation records in Italy for the period 1921–1950, allowing the possibility of analysing the precipitation variability for over a century in the past.

Multi-scale assessment of high-resolution reanalysis precipitation fields over ItalyThis study focuses on the validation of high-resolution regional reanalyses to understand their effectiveness in reproducing precipitation patterns ov…

MODIS (2001-2022) snow cover variability over the Italian territoryThe Italian territory including the southern part of the Alps and the Apennine chain.The snow cover variables (duration – SCD, onset – SOD, end - SED)…

Inter‐comparison and validation of high‐resolution surface air temperature reanalysis fields over ItalyThis study assesses the ability of global and high-resolution regional reanalyses to reproduce surface air temperature over Italy during 1991–2020, comparing their field against an observational data...

Innovative tools for teaching geosciences: the case of immersive videos

Evaluating long‐term trends in annual precipitation: A temporal consistency analysis of ERA5 data in the Alps and ItalyReanalyses, especially ERA5, are key for calculating climatological trends. This study focuses on precipitation trends in the Alps and Italy. Analyzing ERA5's deviations from other reanalyses and hom...

A User-Friendly Tool to Increase Awareness about Impacts of Human Daily Life Activities on Carbon FootprintIn recent decades, climate change has demanded more and more attention. Consumers have the power to influence the carbon footprint of goods and services through their purchasing decisions, but to do this they need to learn more. To address this need, it is necessary to develop online questionnaires able to make people aware of which activities have a greater environmental impact in their daily lives. Focusing on this goal, we formulated two tools for quantifying an individual’s carbon footprint over a year. The innovativeness of these tools lies in being user-friendly and providing online open access to compilers, as well as using specific emission factors for the reference context. Specifically, we focused on the main emission sources: gas and electricity consumption, mobility, food, and waste. During these last years, the tools have been proposed to Italian students at different levels of education and to employees of Italian and international companies. The responses from 3260 users revealed an average annual direct carbon footprint per capita of about 5600 kg CO2-eq, which, integrated with the estimate of indirect emissions, provides an estimate in good agreement with the value provided by the Italian National Inventory of greenhouse gases. With the developed tools, people are able to observe which sectors have the greatest impact and consequently are stimulated to emit less by adopting more sustainable behaviors.

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