Nuova ricerca

Luca LOMBROSO

Personale tecnico amministrativo
Dipartimento di Ingegneria "Enzo Ferrari"

Home |


Pubblicazioni

2015 - Analysis of the urban heat island effects on building energy consumption [Articolo su rivista]
Magli, Susanna; Lodi, Chiara; Lombroso, Luca; Muscio, Alberto; Teggi, Sergio
abstract

Urban areas usually experience higher temperatures when compared to their rural surroundings. Several studies underlined that specific urban conditions are strictly connected with the Urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon, which consists in the environmental overheating related to anthropic activities. As a matter of fact, urban areas, characterized by massive constructions that reduce local vegetation coverage, are subject to the absorption of a great amount of solar radiation (short wave) which is only partially released into the atmosphere by radiation in the thermal infrared (long wave). On the contrary, green areas and rural environments in general show a reduced UHI effect, that is lower air temperatures, due to evapo-transpiration fluxes. Several studies demonstrate that urban microclimate affects buildings’ energy consumption and calculations based on typical meteorological year could misestimate their actual energy consumption. In this study, two different sets of meteorological data are used for the calculation of the heating and cooling energy needs of an existing university building. The building is modeled using TRNSYS v.17 software. The first set of data was collected by a weather station located in the city center of Modena, while the second set of data was collected by another station, located in the surrounding area of the city, near to the studied building. The influence of the different meteorological situations described by the two weather stations are analyzed and assumed to be representative of the UHI effect. Furthermore, the effects of UHI mitigation strategies on the building energy needs are evaluated and discussed.

2014 - Study of Saharan dust outbreak episode over the Po valley (northern Italy) using IDEA-international air quality forecast product [Relazione in Atti di Convegno]
Arvani, Barbara; Pierce, R. Bradley; Teggi, Sergio; Ghermandi, Grazia; Lombroso, Luca
abstract

Transport of Saharan (northern Africa) dust above the Mediterranean Sea and Europe is widely studied throughout the literature. A plume of African dust may result in an anomalous increase of Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD), often accompanied by increases in surface Particulate Matter (PM) concentrations over the entire Mediterranean basin, including the Po valley in northern Italy. Therefore, it is important for air quality assessment and forecasting to understand how Saharan dust contributes to the increase of the AOD, since AOD is strongly correlated with an increment of the daily legal limit of particulate matter PM10 (50 μg/m3), set by the European Union on 2008 (2008/50/CE). The present work studies an intense African dust outbreak episode which affected the Po valley in early May, 2013. The approach used in this work includes the use of the International MODIS/AIRS Processing Package (IMAPP) Air Quality Applications software, IDEA-I (Infusing satellite Data into Environmental Applications-International) in order to evaluate the impact of the plume of Sahara dust on the air quality measurements of surface PM10 concentrations over the Po valley domain. The satellite (MODIS Terra/Aqua) observations show the intense outbreak of dust from north of Africa over Italy. They also show significant cloud cover over northern Italy during the outbreak. Even though significant outbreak occurred between the end of April and May 2013, the ground based concentrations do not show significant increases, with values of PM10 remaining within the daily legal limit.

2008 - ETNA 2003 FIELD CAMPAIGN: CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION OF SPACEBORNE AND AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTS FOR VOLCANIC APPLICATIONS [Articolo su rivista]
M. F., Buongiorno; S., Amici; L., Colini; G., Di Stefano; F., Doumaz; V., Lombardo; M., Musacchio; L., Merucci; M. I., Pannaccione Apa; C., Spinetti; T., Caltabiano; B., Behncke; M., Burton; N., Bruno; S., Giammanco; V., Longo; F., Murè; M., Neri; G., Salerno; B., Badalamenti; I. S., Diliberto; M., Liotta; P., Madonna; M., Silvestri; Pugnaghi, Sergio; Corradini, Stefano; Guerrieri, Lorenzo; Lombroso, Luca; Teggi, Sergio; Remitti, Matteo; G. P., Gobbi; F., Barnaba; M., Sgavetti; L., Pompilio; V., Tramutoli; V., Lanorte; N., Pergola; F., Marchese; G., Di Bello; O., Candela; E., Lindermeier; P., Haschberger; V., Tank; D., Oertel; H., Kick; N., Santantonio; M., Mannarella; M. P., Bogliolo
abstract

The field measurements campaign madein July 2003 on Etna, Vulcano Island and CampiFlegrei was dedicated to the calibration and validationof airborne and spaceborne data. Thecampaign activities were relevant part of twoASI funded projects:1) FASA, dedicated to airborne system and datavalidation/calibration2) HypSEO, dedicated to multispectral anhyperspectral spaceborne datavalidation/calibration on specific test areas.The airborne campaign was organized inthe frame of a three-year project funded by ASIand DLR as it represented the flight test of theFASA system, which combines a Fourier interferometerin the MIR-TIR region and an imager(ABAS).The main objectives of this proposal are:1. Design and implementation of an airbornesystem for the Fourier Spectrometer MIRORand ABAS (Bird Airborne Simulator);2. Airborne Operational tests of the FASAsystem over the main Italian volcanic areas(i.e. Etna, Stromboli and Vulcano) and possiblyon controlled forest fires (Germany);3. Organization of the necessary ground campaignfor calibration and validation of theacquired data;4. Development of the algorithms for the selectionof the “spectral windows” and for thedetermination of the presence of some gasses:in particular SO2, CO2, H2S and othergasses of volcanic origin.

2006 - ESTIMATION OF THE SO2 FLUX OF THE ERUPTION PLUME OF THE MT. ETNA VOLCANO USING MIVIS AND ASTER DATA [Articolo su rivista]
Pugnaghi, Sergio; Teggi, Sergio; Corradini, Stefano; P., Medici; Lombroso, Luca
abstract

In this paper two procedures to estimatethe SO2 flux emitted from Mt. Etna volcano areshortly described. These procedures are basedon the atmospheric simulations performed usingMODTRAN 3.5 radiative transfer code. Thefirst procedure, named LUT-procedure [seeTeggi et al. 1999], inverts the radiative transferequation minimizing the square differences ofthe experimental and simulated radiances at thesensor. The second procedure is based on theSplit-Window technique (i.e. it uses two bandswith different absorption characteristics). TheSplit-Window permits a direct (and fast) determinationof the SO2 columnar abundance of thevolcanic plume, but at least two of the four parametersof the algorithm depend on the state ofthe atmosphere (temperature and precipitablewater). Considering four years of radio soundingscarried out at midday at Trapani WMOstation, a seasonal trend of the above mentionedparameters have been obtained. The quoted procedureshave been applied to aircraft (MIVIS)and spacecraft (ASTER) remotely sensed imagesand the SO2 abundance maps have beenobtained; for ASTER data the shown results arequite preliminary. Knowing the wind speed atthe craters altitude the SO2 flux has been alsocomputed.

2006 - SNOWFALL TIME SERIES COMPARISON BETWEEN APENNINES AND BALKANS PENINSULAS - A CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGE [Abstract in Atti di Convegno]
Fazlagic, Slobodan; Boccolari, Mauro; Lombroso, Luca; Majstorović, Z.; Quattrocchi, Salvatore; Tais, M.
abstract

Precipitation long-term time series are important source for the climate variability evaluation. In this work snowfall records for Apennines Peninsula sites of Modena (34 m asl, since 1830 till 2005) and Abetone (1390 m asl, since 1969 till 2005) together to Balkans Peninsula sites of Sarajevo (630 m asl, since 1888 till 2005) and Mount Bjelasnica (2067 m asl, since 1950 till 2005) are examined. Total annually (seasonally) snowfall amounts are discussed using a moving average over 30 years. From the moving averages it can be noted a quasi-linear downward trend for the recent period (from 1960 till 2000), but seemingly interrupted in the last several years. Moreover, in order to obtain smooth signal and more clear indications of possible climate oscillations, the snow precipitation signal has been filtered with one of the known wavelet transforms (the discrete Meyer wavelet is applied). Apparently, from the 3-level and especially from the 4-level approximations of the wavelet transform, oscillatory thirty/forty year’s snowfalls periods can be distinguished also in the past 150 years. The coincidence of snowfalls series either at Apennines or at Balkans Peninsula with the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is found.

2006 - Summer raids of Arocatus melanocephalus (Heteroptera, Lygaeidae) in urban buildings in Northern Italy: Is climate change to blame? [Articolo su rivista]
Maistrello, Lara; Lombroso, Luca; E., Pedroni; A., Reggiani; S., Vanin
abstract

Starting in 1999, repeated massive intrusions of the bug Arocatus melanocephalus inside urban buildings have been reported every summer in different locations in Northern Italy. This investigation, performed in the town of Modena, where the problem was particularly intense, by means of a survey and meteorological data series, showed a significant positive correlation between the intensity of insect outbreaks and the daily mean temperature increase. These findings suggest that current climatic warming might have affected the behaviour and/or population dynamics of A. melanocephalus and that building intrusions might represent an attempt to escape exceptionally high summer temperatures. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

2004 - ONE YEAR OF AERONET SUN-PHOTOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS AT LAMPEDUSA SITE: MONTHLY AVERAGED AOT COMPARISON WITH SATELLITE DATA AND SAHARAN DUST EVENTS DETECTION [Articolo su rivista]
Corradini, Stefano; E., Carboni; Guerrieri, Lorenzo; Lombroso, Luca; Pugnaghi, Sergio; R., Santangelo
abstract

Not available

2003 - Continuous photometric observations at ENEA base in Lampedusa to estimate precipitable water [Articolo su rivista]
Santangelo, Renato; Pugnaghi, Sergio; Corradini, S; Lombroso, Luca; Teggi, Sergio
abstract

Water vapour is a variable component of the atmosphere both in space and time. It is one of the most important components because of its effects in many fields: Meteorology, Chimatology, Remote Sensing, Energy-Budget, Hydrology, etc. This work compares radiometric (sun photometer) readings. Global Positioning System (GPS) data and a meteorological model forecasted data. The aim is to understand if GPS measurements may help Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models. It is well known that GPS measurements are affected by the so-called tropospheric delay. Part of it, the so-called wet delay is related mainly to the amount of water vapour alone the path of the GPS signal through the troposphere. Precise knowledge of the abundance of water vapour, in space and time. is important for NWP model because water vapour is the predecessor of precipitation. Despite the high variability of water vapour compared to other meteorological fields, like pressure and wind, water vapour observations are scarce, so that additional measurements of water vapour are expected to benefit meteorology. A new suit photometer, which is part of the AERONET (AErosol and RObotic NETwork) program, has been installed at the ENEA (Ente per le Move tecnologie, I'Energia e l'Ambiente) base of Lampedusa Island. The sun photometer is quite close (less then 4 km) to an ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana) GPS permanent receiver. A long record (summer period of the year 2000) of sun photometric measurements is available for the station at Lampedusa. We found that the GPS and sun photometric data are better correlated (std. dev. about 10 mm for the wet delay) than are the GPS measurements with the NWP model predictions. This is an indication that GPS delay data may contain information useful for weather prediction.

2001 - A REVIEW OF MAP-SOP EVENTS IN THE NORTH-EASTERN ITALY LOOKING AT VERONA SOUNDINGS [Articolo su rivista]
Boccolari, Mauro; Fazlagic, Slobodan; Lombroso, Luca; Frontero, Paolo; Pugnaghi, Sergio; Santangelo, Renato; Corradini, Stefano; Teggi, Sergio
abstract

http://www.map.ethz.ch/NL15

2001 - TRACE ELEMENT BEHAVIOUR IN DRINKING WATER DURING THE DISINFECTION PROCESS [Articolo su rivista]
Ghermandi, Grazia; Cecchi, Rodolfo; Am, Stortini; Lombroso, Luca; Teggi, Sergio
abstract

THE TRACE ELEMENT BEHAVIOUR DEREMINED BY PIXE ANALYSIS IN DRINKING WATER SAMPLES COLLECTED DURING THE DISINFECTION PROCESS IS PRESENTED

2000 - PIXE ANALYSIS OF MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS IN ANTARCTIC ICE SAMPLES FROM EPICA [Articolo su rivista]
Ghermandi, Grazia; Cecchi, Rodolfo; M., Capotosto; Lombroso, Luca
abstract

MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS HAVE BEEN DETERMINED BY PIXE IN ANTARCTIC ICE SAMPLES FROM EPICA ICE CORE.

1999 - SEASONAL VARIABILITY OF ELEMENTS AND MINERALS IN COASTAL ANTARCTIC AEROSOLS BY MEANS OF PIXE AND SEM-EDAX ANALYSES OF SNOW SAMPLES [Articolo su rivista]
Ghermandi, Grazia; P., Laj; M., Capotosto; Cecchi, Rodolfo; C., Riontino; Lombroso, Luca
abstract

SEASONAL VARIABILITY OF ELEMENTS AND MINERAL CONCENTRATION IN COASTAL ANTARCTIC AEROSOLS IS DETERMINED BY MEANS OF PIXE AND SEM-EDAX ANALYSES OF SNOW SAMPLES COLLECTED DURING PNRA CAMPAIGN

1998 - PIXE APPLICATION IN THE STUDY OF POLLUTANT ENRICHMENT IN MARINE AEROSOLS [Articolo su rivista]
Ghermandi, Grazia; Cecchi, Rodolfo; A. M., Stortini; Lombroso, Luca
abstract

POLLUTANT ENRICHMENT IN MARINE AEROSOLS IS STUDIED BY MEANS OF PIXE MEASUREMENTS OF AEROSOL SAMPLES FROM SEA WATER

1997 - STUDY OF URBAN AEROSOL BY MEANS OF PIXE AND MICRO-PIXE [Articolo su rivista]
Cecchi, Rodolfo; Ghermandi, Grazia; Lombroso, Luca; Lusvarghi, Luca
abstract

URBAN AEROSOL COMPOSITION IS STUDIED BY MEANS OF PIXE AND MICRO-PIXE

1996 - PALEOCLIMATIC STUDY OF ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS IN ICE CORE [Articolo su rivista]
Ghermandi, Grazia; Cecchi, Rodolfo; P., Laj; Lombroso, Luca
abstract

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOL COMPOSITION IS DETERMINED FROM PIXE ANALYSIS OF ICE CORE SAMPLES TO SUPPORT PALEOCLIMATIC STUDY

1995 - DEVELOPMENTS IN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH OF FISAMB MO PIXE GROUP [Articolo su rivista]
Ghermandi, Grazia; M., Capotosto; Cecchi, Rodolfo; P., Laj; Lombroso, Luca
abstract

THE DEVELOPMENTS IN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH ACTIVITY AT LNL OF FISAMB MO PIXE GROUP ARE PRESENTED

1994 - Measurement of turbidity parameters (AMA-MILANO 93 first result) [Articolo su rivista]
Campolieti, D; Frontero, P; Lombroso, Luca; Pugnaghi, Sergio; Santangelo, Renato; Teggi, Sergio
abstract

In this paper we propose to show some sun photometry results obtained by the MILANO 93 experiment of the AMA (Aree Metropolitane ed Ambiente) Strategic Project of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). The experiment was carried out between the 8th and the 20th of February 1993. The aerosol optical thickness is compared with similar results obtained at Modena (a town in the Po Valley); the meteorological situation is also considered. The measurements were taken at seven different locations across the metropolitan area of Milan, beginning at the Monza racetrack, about 20 km North of Milan, and finishing at Lacchiarella, a rural village about 20 km South of Milan.

1994 - PIXE ANALYSIS OF PORE WATER TO STUDY TRACE METAL DISTRIBUTION IN BOTTOM SEDIMENT CORES FROM VENICE LAGOON [Articolo su rivista]
Cecchi, Rodolfo; Ghermandi, Grazia; Lombroso, Luca
abstract

PIXE ANALYSIS OF PORE WATER ARE PERFORMED TO STUDY TRACE METAL DISTRIBUTION IN BOTTOM SEDIMENT CORES AND EXCHANGE WITH SURFACE WATER IN VENICE LAGOON

1993 - TRACE ELEMENTS IN POLAR ICE. INVESTIGATION OF THEIR PAST VARIATION IN THE ATMOSPHERE [Articolo su rivista]
Cecchi, Rodolfo; Ghermandi, Grazia; P., Laj; Lombroso, Luca
abstract

The past variation of trace element concentration in atmosphere is studied by PIXE analysis of polar ice samples.

1992 - Distribuzione dei giorni continuativi di nebbia e delle annesse piccole precipitazioni a Modena [Relazione in Atti di Convegno]
Frontero, Paolo; Lombroso, Luca; Morelli, Sandra; Santangelo, Renato
abstract

Vengono studiate le serie storiche di osservazioni sulla nebbia a Modena, risalenti fino al 1892.Come schema interpretativo delle distribuzioni statistiche è stato adottato quello già considerato a riguardo delle precipitazioni idriche (Morelli e Santangelo, 1989).Nel caso della nebbia si suppone che essa sia conseguenza principale dei fenomeni di blocco. L'anno verrà suddiviso in periodi di 28 giorni per un totale di 13 periodi in un anno. I dati relativi a periodi omologhi in anni diversi sono stati accumulati nell'ipotesi di ciclostazionarietà e di evoluzione stagionale lenta. Precisamente verranno presentate le distribuzioni delle catene dei giorni consecutivi contrassegnati da presenza di nebbia e iniziate nel periodo considerato. La catena di giorni di nebbia viene interrotta per cause dinamiche che a fini statistici vengono considerate come casuali. A fini di agrometeorologia verranno anche riportate le concomitanti osservazioni di precipitazione idrica da nebbia (precipitazione < = 0.4 mm in 24 ore).Per meglio interpretare il fenomeno nebbioso verranno anche considerate le concomitanti distribuzioni di pressione.

1992 - THE STUDY OF ANTARCTIC ICE BY MEANS OF PIXE TECHNIQUE: AN APPLICATION PERFORMED BY FISAMB-MO GROUP IN 1991 [Articolo su rivista]
Cecchi, Rodolfo; D., Campolieti; Ghermandi, Grazia; Lombroso, Luca
abstract

The work describes the experimental set-up and the target preparation performed for PIXE analysis of ice samples.

1991 - FISAMB-MO ACTIVITY IN 1990: METHODOLOGICAL PROGRESS AND PIXE APPLICATION TO STUDY SEDIMENTATION IN VENICE LAGOON [Articolo su rivista]
Cecchi, Rodolfo; V., Dallari; Ghermandi, Grazia; Lombroso, Luca
abstract

THE WORK DESCRIBES THE METHODOLOGICAL PROGRESS AND THE PIXE APPLICATION OF THE RESEARCH GROUP IN THE STUDY OF SEDIMENTATION PHENOMENA IN VENICE LAGOON

1991 - Strutture dell'Osservatorio Geofisico di Modena a supporto di campagne di misura sul clima mediterraneo [Relazione in Atti di Convegno]
Boccolari, Mauro; Frontero, Paolo; Lombroso, Luca; Morelli, Sandra; Pugnaghi, Sergio; Santangelo, Renato
abstract

L'Osservatorio Geofisico vanta una secolare tradizione nella raccolta di dati meteorologici, la serie storica delle osservazioni inizia infatti nel 1827. Già da alcuni anni la maggior parte dei dati è stata trasferita su supporto magnetico direttamente utilizzabile da calcolatore ed è continuamente aggiornata.