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Climate-Lab personnel works in a number of projects, and activities, also offering chances for Thesis
Climate-Lab personnel works in a number of projects, and activities, also offering chances for Thesis
Here, main projects and activites of Climate-Lab are reported, amenable for BS/MS Thesis. Abract and/or recent pulbications reported.
C-Lab personnel pursues a number of avenues of research, in short covering:
1) Assessment of impacts of global warming, on heat waves, ecosystem services, precipitation, water demand, and natural hazards, energy demand, wind power potential, solar radiation for fhotovoltaic energy, etc.
2)Testing of exportable methods for climate change assessment in several areas,including mountain areas with pluvio-nival regime ,e.g. African Atlas, Andes, Himalaya, Caucasus, Central Asia, Siberia.
3) Energy supply strategies under the developing climate, with specific interest in hydropower production.
4)Tools, and protocols development, assistance and support to stake holders for climate change mitigation and adaptation.
5) Interdisciplinary activity in Politecnico also linked to recent joining of the Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici CMCC, to implement and test mitigation and adaptation strategies for climate change under the current international effort.
6) Hydrological, and ecological impacts of climate change within high altitude catchments, and cryospheric driven areas.
Contact: daniele.bocchiola@polimi.it
Fa caldo sul Serio
Fa caldo sul Serio
We want to study the impact of climate change hydrology and ecossytems dynamics in alpine streams, focusing upon a case study in the Lombardy Pre-Alps.
We want to study the impact of climate change hydrology and ecossytems dynamics in alpine streams, focusing upon a case study in the Lombardy Pre-Alps.
Glacial Fever
Glacial Fever
This project studies the impacts of cliamte change upon glacial areas in the Alps, where global warming is accelerating the retreat of ice bodies, and decreasing stream flows depending upon snow and ice feeding in Spring and Summer.
This project studies the impacts of cliamte change upon glacial areas in the Alps, where global warming is accelerating the retreat of ice bodies, and decreasing stream flows depending upon snow and ice feeding in Spring and Summer.
Climate-attribute
Climate-attribute
This project focuses upon climate attribution, to quantify local impacts of climate change in terms of increased upon natural hazard, and potential damage. The project will use statistical, and physical tools to unravel underlying mechanisms of increased hazard for climate driven phenomena, i.e. droughts, floods, avalanches, cryospheric downwasting, and risk thereby.
This project focuses upon climate attribution, to quantify local impacts of climate change in terms of increased upon natural hazard, and potential damage. The project will use statistical, and physical tools to unravel underlying mechanisms of increased hazard for climate driven phenomena, i.e. droughts, floods, avalanches, cryospheric downwasting, and risk thereby.
AVAL-RISK
AVAL-RISK
Avalanche risk under present and prospective climate change: experimental modeling and mathematical models for risk mapping. Purpose of the project is the mapping of snow avalanches risk, little investigated and yet tremendously important in the Alps nowadays under climate change.
Learn from the mummies !
Learn from the mummies !
In cooperation with the Department of Humanities of the University of Salento (Prof. Paola Davoli) we will study the effect of climate change on the hydrological dynamics of the River Nile, with particular attention to the artificial oasis of El Faiyum. The idea is to exploit the wisdom of the ancient Egyptian to imagine adaptation strategies to climate change in the area.
Extreme climate
Extreme climate
In cooperation with several research bodies, we will pursue field, and modeling activity to assess the effects of climate change upon climatic extremes, with focus upon hot waves, extreme storms, floods.
In cooperation with several research bodies, we will pursue field, and modeling activity to assess the effects of climate change upon climatic extremes, with focus upon hot waves, extreme storms, floods.
We will use IPCC projections to assess the evolution of climate, and extremes
We will use IPCC projections to assess the evolution of climate, and extremes
Some case study areas:
Some case study areas:
1) Northern Italy
1) Northern Italy
2) Caribbeans, Cuba.
2) Caribbeans, Cuba.
3) Middle East, and Central Asia.
3) Middle East, and Central Asia.
Fifty shades of green
Fifty shades of green
Global climate change has strong impacts at the urban scale and the interaction with the urban heat islands results, on one hand into heat waves, and on the other hand into extremes of precipitation, with consequences on public health, infrastructures, energy consumption (e.g. conditioning), urban ecosystems, and urban water cycle. This line of research investigates use of Green Based Solutions, to foster urban man-nature cohabitation, promoting the design of spaces (urban ecosystems) that are properly connected (ecological connections) and can help to reduce the effects of climate change.
Global climate change has strong impacts at the urban scale and the interaction with the urban heat islands results, on one hand into heat waves, and on the other hand into extremes of precipitation, with consequences on public health, infrastructures, energy consumption (e.g. conditioning), urban ecosystems, and urban water cycle. This line of research investigates use of Green Based Solutions, to foster urban man-nature cohabitation, promoting the design of spaces (urban ecosystems) that are properly connected (ecological connections) and can help to reduce the effects of climate change.
Water stress
Water stress
In cooperation with the CAP authority of Milano province, the project will assess the impact of climate change upon water availability in the Po valley aquifers.
In cooperation with the CAP authority of Milano province, the project will assess the impact of climate change upon water availability in the Po valley aquifers.
Aval-Protect
Aval-Protect
In cooperation with the Lombardia Civil Protection Agency, the project will develop an avalanche hazard mapping procedure for the Lombardia region.
The three gorges dam
The three gorges dam
Under the umbrella of a funded research project by China Scholarship Council (CSC), this activity will carry research upon optimization of joint operation of the Three Gorges Reservoir Group under climate change.
Under the umbrella of a funded research project by China Scholarship Council (CSC), this activity will carry research upon optimization of joint operation of the Three Gorges Reservoir Group under climate change.
GE.RI.KO. Mera
GE.RI.KO. Mera
GE.RI.KO. Mera is an Interreg Project (Italy-Switzerland) for the common management of water resources and aquatic environments between Italy and Switzerland, in particular for the Mera river watershed. The project involves set up of hydrological, and hydraulic models, and the simulations under IPCC climate change scenarios, to evaluate climate change adaptation in the watershed until the end of the XXI century.
The changing cryosphere
The changing cryosphere
Cryosphere is the portion of Earth covered by water at the solid state, including snow, ice, and permafrost. Cryosphere dynamics can have a large impact on hydrological cycle of high-altitude area, where water is stored through the winter and released during spring and summer. Recent Increase of temperature under global warming caused everywhere glacier down wasting. Climate-Lab group is a leading group at Politecnico di Milano in this field, and proposes studies on climate change impact on the continental cryosphere worldwide.
Water-Energy nexus
Water-Energy nexus
Water from the cryosphere is paramount important for hydropower production in the Alps, and several mountain areas worldwide. This line of investigation explores the nexus between climate change, cryospheric dynamics, and hydropower potential from micro, and macro hydropower plants, as necessary for exploitation of renewable energy for climate change mitigation.
Water conflicts
Water conflicts
Water management in transboundary/contested catchments may result into conflictual management. This project uses hydrological theories, coupled with social/conflictive interaction modeling (e.g. game theory, etc..) to investigate complex operation of reservoirs, and catchment within trasnboundary catchments, and potential for conflicts therein, also under climate change.
MOUPA Mountain Pastures
MOUPA Mountain Pastures
IPCC_MOUPA, Interdisciplinary Project for assessing current and expected Climate Change impacts on MOUntain Pastures was funded by Fondazione Cariplo under the AGER call 2017. The project tackles the impact of climate change on cropping systems (pastures and grasslands) in the high mountain areas.
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