The February 2012 exceptional snowfall along the Adriatic side of Central Italy
Between the end of January and mid February 2012, the Italian peninsula has been subject to the influence of many advections of arctic-continental air generating a series of cyclogenesis over the central-Mediterranean Sea. This caused widely spread mainly snowy precipitation, often persistent, mostl...
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ftunivferrarair:oai:sfera.unife.it:11392/1867117 2024-09-09T19:25:07+00:00 The February 2012 exceptional snowfall along the Adriatic side of Central Italy Bisci C. Beltrando G. Cardillo A. Romeo V. FAZZINI, Massimiliano Bisci, C. Fazzini, Massimiliano Beltrando, G. Cardillo, A. Romeo, V. 2012 STAMPA http://hdl.handle.net/11392/1867117 https://doi.org/10.1127/0941-2948/2012/0536 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:000310746100005 volume:21 issue:5 firstpage:503 lastpage:508 numberofpages:6 journal:METEOROLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT http://hdl.handle.net/11392/1867117 doi:10.1127/0941-2948/2012/0536 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-84874597793 february 2012 snowfall polar continental advection info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2012 ftunivferrarair https://doi.org/10.1127/0941-2948/2012/0536 2024-06-19T13:34:02Z Between the end of January and mid February 2012, the Italian peninsula has been subject to the influence of many advections of arctic-continental air generating a series of cyclogenesis over the central-Mediterranean Sea. This caused widely spread mainly snowy precipitation, often persistent, mostly affecting the centralsouthern Regions, as well as Rome and Naples. Snowfalls and low temperatures caused some sixty casualties, besides huge damage to economic and productive facilities. The analysis of a large number of nivometric monitoring points, belonging to different institutions (Meteomont, Military Aviation, Civil Protection and Universities) allowed evaluating the spatial distribution of total snowfall. Comparing these figures with those referring to past perturbation phases similar in length - recorded in the winter of 1929, 1956, 1985 and 2005 - demonstrates that the 2012 event can be considered exceptional being characterized by a higher total thickness of snow cover almost everywhere along the hills and low mountains of the Adriatic side of Central Italy. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Università degli Studi di Ferrara: CINECA IRIS Arctic Meteorologische Zeitschrift 21 5 503 508 |
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Between the end of January and mid February 2012, the Italian peninsula has been subject to the influence of many advections of arctic-continental air generating a series of cyclogenesis over the central-Mediterranean Sea. This caused widely spread mainly snowy precipitation, often persistent, mostly affecting the centralsouthern Regions, as well as Rome and Naples. Snowfalls and low temperatures caused some sixty casualties, besides huge damage to economic and productive facilities. The analysis of a large number of nivometric monitoring points, belonging to different institutions (Meteomont, Military Aviation, Civil Protection and Universities) allowed evaluating the spatial distribution of total snowfall. Comparing these figures with those referring to past perturbation phases similar in length - recorded in the winter of 1929, 1956, 1985 and 2005 - demonstrates that the 2012 event can be considered exceptional being characterized by a higher total thickness of snow cover almost everywhere along the hills and low mountains of the Adriatic side of Central Italy. |
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The February 2012 exceptional snowfall along the Adriatic side of Central Italy |
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The February 2012 exceptional snowfall along the Adriatic side of Central Italy |
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The February 2012 exceptional snowfall along the Adriatic side of Central Italy |
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