Clima, mutamenti climatici ed effetti sulle biocenosi del Delta del Po. Il Progetto Climaparks

The Program for cross-border Interreg Italy / Slovenia 2007-2013 called Climaparks Project aims to highlight the impacts of climate change in protected areas and in particular on the flora and fauna and define a range of management strategies to mitigate negative effects so that such policies could be a reference for the entire area. To analyze the climate of the Po Delta and its changes we have made a search of the historical sources of the measurements of meteorological stations located in the vicinity of the monitoring sites (Mesola Wood, Ferrara and Classe Pine forest, Ravenna). The survey identified some weather stations in possession time series validated by institutions such as the Ermes DEXTER Meteorological Service of Emilia-Romagna, ARPAV Meteorological Service of the Veneto Region and the Province of Ferrara involved in the registration of meteorological data that have provided their databases. From May 2011 as part of the Climaparks program has been installed a weather station complete with sensors for temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, wind speed and direction and managed by ARPA Emilia-Romagna Region, which has allowed us to detect in real time the parameters weather for this station. Since 1990 the time series analysis confirmed a general trend of rising temperatures in the study area showing a significant increase of the minimum, average and maximum temperatures at a rate of +0.8 degrees C per decade corresponding to an increase of 8 degrees C per century.