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Italian company specialized in meteorology, air quality and climate change is looking for partners interested in technical cooperation and service agreement

Country of Origin: Italy
Reference Number: TOIT20171110002
Publication Date: 10 November 2017

Summary

An Italian company located in Northern Italy performs forecasts, analyses, assessments and projections in the field of meteorology, air quality, renewable energy and climate change modelling. Partners are sought for a technical cooperation agreements.

Description

An Italian company located in Northern Italy has a focus in the field of climate change, renewable energy, meteorology / weather and air quality.

A common problem in air quality modelling is the underestimation of particulate matter (PM) simulated values by air chemistry transport models and that meteorological models underestimate temperature and overestimate wind profiles due to the lack of high accurate land-use and topography information in the models. 

The Italian company implemented high resolution topography and land-use information in their meteorological and air quality model to improve the accuracy of meteorological parameters and air quality indicators.

The company showed (in two peer-reviewed publications) that using high resolution topography and land-use improves the results of calculating wind speeds, temperature, precipitation and air quality indicators. Therefore air chemistry transport models will strongly benefit from the use of the high resolution topography and land-use data, especially with regard to reducing the bias between observed and simulated meteorological parameters and aerosol (precursor) concentrations, which is necessary for scientific studies and for policy-making. Besides this, environmental sustainable related projects for which meteorological and air chemistry transport models are used will benefit from higher precision precipitation, wind speed and temperature fields by the meteorological models.

A good estimate of meteorological variables in the meteorological datasets is crucial in providing accurate weather forecasts and calculating gas and aerosol impacts on air quality and climate change, and evaluating coherent reduction strategies.

The company proposes technical cooperation and service agreement to partners in order to help them evaluating and developing technical and cost effective solutions, reducing risks and support decision making. Through state-of-the-art models and technologies the company provides highly accurate analyses and forecasts and customer-oriented solutions.

The company provides high quality customer-oriented services in the following domains:

 

•	Meteorological modelling

•	Agrometeorology (optimizing irrigation, drought and evapotranspiration assessments)

•	Air quality modelling

•	Wind atlas/resource assessment

•	Solar atlas/resource assessment

•	Hindcasting, short term forecasting (a few days ahead) seasonal and long term scenarios (up to the year 2100)

•	High resolution and regional scale modelling

•	Statistical downscaling

•	Climate change scenarios

•	Renewable energy (solar and wind)

•	Oceanic products

Advantages and Innovations

The company provides services to help you evaluate and develop technical and cost-effective solutions, reduce risks and support decision-making. Through state-of-the-art models and technologies highly accurate analyses and forecasts and customer-oriented solutions are provided.

The staff has more than 15 years of experience in hindcasting, forecasting (short-, mid- and long-term), meteorology, air quality, climate scenarios, trends, assessments and renewable energy (solar and wind). The company uses state-of-the art models to simulate meteorological and air quality indicators, renewable energy assessments, climate change scenarios and agro-meteorological indicators using high performance computing systems. The company delivers short-, mid- and long-term accurate forecasts and historical profiles on local and regional scales. Another strength is that it uses very high-resolution land cover and topography datasets to improve the accuracy of meteorological and air quality indicators; a methodology that is unique. For example, in general NWPs underestimate temperature over urban areas, especially during the summer up to almost 3 degrees Celsius; and overestimate in general wind speeds. Implementing the very high-resolution topography and land cover reduced the biases significantly as shown in two peer-reviewed scientific publications.



Over the years company’s staff published peer reviewed articles on meteorological and air quality modelling, renewable energy and climate change in international scientific journals.

Stage Of Development

Already on the market

Requested partner

The partners sought could be any kind of company or entity that is interested in the collaboration with the Italian company in sectors such as agriculture, (re)insurance, energy, renewable energy, infrastructure (buildings and transport), tourism, water, health and ecosystems that will be affected by a changing environment. They can develop together a specific technological project or they can agree on a service agreement if a specific project development is not needed.