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The Italian Civil Protection Department carries out tasks of guidance, promotion and coordination of the entire National Service of Civil Protection. In close collaboration with Regions and Autonomous Provinces, drafts and coordinates the National Plans for risk scenarios and test their effectiveness through drills, coordinates the Service's intervention in case of emergencies of national interest, promotes activities aimed at prevision and prevention of risks, defines the general criteria for the identification of seismic zones and develops general guidelines for training activities in the field of civil protection.

The Department also coordinates the participation of the National Service to the civil protection policies of the European Union and the response to emergencies abroad.

CIMA Foundation hydro-meteorological forecasting chain, including the cloud-resolving WRF model assimilating radar data and in situ weather stations (WRF-3DVAR), the fully distributed hydrological model Continuum (assimilating Sentinel 1 soil moisture data, the automatic system for water detection (AUTOWADE), using Sentinel 1 data, and the hydraulic model TELEMAC-2D, has been operated in real-time to predict the weather evolution and the corresponding hydrological and hydraulic impacts of the medicane Apollo, in support of the Italian Civil Protection Department early warning activities.

The Italian Civil Protection confirmed its interest in results like the one provided for the Apollo Medicane (24-31 October 2021). This is confirmed also by the presentation of the results at the HSAF User Workshop 2022, hosted by ZAMG and supported by EUMeTrain, where Italian Civil Protection Department (Dr. Silvia Puca) has a key role.

Climate change is changing mountains, creating new needs for safety and adaptation. MountaiNow – a live map of mountain hazards for the Alps and the world – was created to meet those needs.

Highly innovative is the combination of real-time in-situ crowdsourcing, space insight, and guided navigation – offering a new/unique set of actionable information.

Timely geo-localized information about mountain hazards is still hard to get. Most of the time, people go to the mountains missing critical information. Public/Private actors make decisions missing critical data – impacting thousands of lives and costing the outdoor/tourism/insurance industry millions.

 One key feature of MountaiNow is to allow for the easy capture and real-time sharing of critical hazard observations such as rock-falls, landslides, snow/ice avalanches, glacial lakes, and high river-discharge. Observations of hazard precursor signs such as glacier melt or fractured snow-pack are also included.

Benefits are multi-dimensional:  Social – Saved lives and less accidents or situations of distress; Economic – higher number of clients for tourism services; and Environmental/Scientific – advanced monitoring of mountain areas and related hazards (e.g. landslides, glacial lake outbursts).

Learn more about the service: www.mountainow.net

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