The chapter organized a conference held in Rome titled Meteorology: A Continuously Changing Discipline, Analysis of the What Is New After Two Years, with the main objective to analyze the major changes that have occurred since the last AFCEA event.
Lt. Gen. A. Tangorra, ITAF (Ret.), chapter president, welcomed the numerous attendants and underlined how the chapter desires to continuously monitor the evolution of meteorology in the national context.
Frank Marzano, Sapienza Università degli Studi di Roma, opened the workshop with a discussion of high-level education in science and technologies of atmosphere. He also introduced the new degree with Sapienza and Univaq Universities and the course to build up skills in meteorology and climatology.
Carlo Cacciamani, Dipartimento di Protezione Civile, illustrated the national meteorological systems' current and future work, emphasizing the role of the agency to coordinate the national meteorology system.
BOND: Bologna Our New Data Center was presented by Brig. Gen. Silvio Cau, Aeronautica Militare Comando Squadra Aerea, introducing the new data center of the ECMWF (The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts), Bologna, Italy, and describing its organization and assigned tasks.
Carlo Vaiti, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, then presented Automatic Weather Stations: Perspectives and Advantages of the Edge, describing some applications of these stations to process a huge amount of data and transfer it to the control centers.
Tommi Linna, Eurelettronica, discussed advanced rain and visibility measures, thanks to a mix of technologies based on forward scatter. Linna introduced a technology developed by Vaisala, using high performance and precise measurements.
Emanuele Matarrese, Vitrociset presented An Integrated Approach to the Weather Station Management, in which he underlined the benefits of logistic management for weather stations.
Massimo Pagani, Hexagon Geospatial, illustrated integration and management of real-time meteorological data in critical applications to connect, visualize and analyze.
Iacopo Ficai Veltroni, Leonardo S.p.a., presented Leonardo's electro-optics systems for meteorology and provided an overview of the sensors developed for meteorological and climatological applications from space.
Col. Pier Francesco Coppola, Aeronautica Militare Comando Squadra Aerea, introduced WING, the new system for weather data visualization based on GIS, an information system with potential use for operational decision support.
Pekka Utela, Vaisala, then illustrated technologies currently used for the transmission of weather radars in his speech, underlining recent improvements in semiconductors for weather radars.
In the afternoon, Lt. Col. Daniele Biron, Comet Aeronautica Militare, presented The Space Weather in Current Meteorology. The basic elements of this discipline focused on the interplanetary physics. Franco De Siato, ISPRA, discussed Climatological Changes in Italy, with an overview of the current trends about the sources, data availability and processing methods.
The last speech was presented by Renata Pelosini, Arpa Piemonte, about the recent developments in the provisional models, COSMO LAMI, highlighting the models' verification and the current activities for improvement.
At the end, Gen. Tangorra thanked all speakers and attendees for the attention given to this crucial theme and invited them to attend the next workshop on cryptography.
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