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Meteorology and climatology education:

an Experience with young people in Friuli Venezia Giulia - Italy

S. Nordio, A. Pucillo, S. Micheletti, M.Gani

OSMER ARPA FVG Via G. Oberdan, 18/a – 33040 Visco (Ud)

www.meteo.fvg.it

[email protected]

Science Education and guidance in schools: the way forward Firenze, 21-22 ottobre 2013

http://www.meteo.fvg.it/

Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell’Ambiente

del Friuli Venezia Giulia

s.o.c. OSMER Osservatorio Meteorologico Regionale

Via Oberdan, 18/a – Visco (UD)

L’OSMER: what it’s and what we are doing

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Meteorology and climatology education

This Experience of Meteorology and Climatology education began more than 20 years ago because we have a big request of explain to the people some of interesting meteorological phenomena and climatological characteristics in this very small borderline land.


Example of radar map precipitation…

0 mm/day

500 mm/day

9 m of snow on the road at 1650 m msl Canin Udine


Location of Friuli Venezia Giulia (North-East Italy).



FVG is in Europe a crossing-point under several aspects:

• Geographical

• Climatological • Meteorological

• Linguistical • Ethnical

• Cultural



Friuli Venezia Giulia as a geographical crossing-point



Julian Alps - Udine

Duino and Miramare Castle - Trieste



Friuli Venezia Giulia as a climatological crossing-point



Average temperature distribution WinterWinter recordrecord --4949°°C C (Julian (Julian AlpsAlps SlovenijaSlovenija, , closedclosed to the to the borderline) borderline)

SummerSummer record record + 40+ 40°°C C nearnear Gorizia Gorizia



Rainfall yearly distribution in mm 3300 mm Julian Prealps



Friuli Venezia Giulia as a meteorological crossing-point

WesterlyWesterly flowflow

A typical pattern: an Atlantic trough, when impinging the Alps…



… makes a moist southerly flow arise, carrying cloudiness and rain from the Adriatic towards Alps, where orographic lift and convection triggering take place



… but the cold air masses following the descending leg of the trough overcome Alps in the lowest layers through the East, into the Adriatic Sea…



the well-known BoraBora wind





Video Bora

The Voice of rain – linguistic situation

Friulian

German

Slovenian


FVG as a linguistical, ethnical, cultural crossing-point

Italian

ItalianItalian

((IstroIstro--VenetianVenetian dialectdialect))

This small Land is exclusive in Europa

because they are living 3 different languages

family:

Romance (Italian and Istro-

venetian dialect and exclusive Ladin

subfamily Friulian language)

Slav

(Slovenian with almost 10 dialect)

German

(with 4 dialect)

GermanGerman

SlovenianSlovenian

FriulianFriulian

((LadinLadin subfamilysubfamily))

Meteorology and climatology education – linguistic situation



All this special features have developed a lot of public interest in meteorology and climatology, since the days of Habsburg Empire (that has dominated in Trieste for 700 years all long) and now a big request of meteo-clima education


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What should be meant as “meteorological divulgation? All the chances (conferences, lessons, courses and guided tours) that allow to make a proposal of diffusion, comprehensible and adapted for each level of the population, are a dialog over:



- principles and main phenomena of meteorology and climatology, general and local;

- activity, technology and operational practice of a meteorological office;

- meteorological literature (books, publications, reviews, quarterlies) about discoveries and scientific refreshers;

- information sources of meteo/climate (Radio-Tv program, Teletext, Internet, App,…

- institutes and other offices that operated in meteo/climate;

- laboratorial experience and stages with teen-agers and pre-teen implemented too the methodology of peer-tutoring (called too peer-education or teaching);

- special meetings with young for estimates that meteo/clima topics have inspired Art, Music, Literature




The project “Touch the air not with the hands, but with the eyes of reason” supported by a pattern of Clubs Service that have donated to schools the traditional shelters with meteorological instruments.



The Students started weather observation


Together with the first approach to the meteorological data, theoretic and practical lessons have been done to improve elements of meteo/clima, start to digitalize data in tabulations, to schedule an open-web site After a big series of activity started, that have involved the student in all topics: Science Mathematics and statistics, starting from the data Technology about instruments, (also those built from the students) Literature Other languages Music Theatre Arts



In the first year we involved in a big performance more than 600 students, they were all protagonists…




Peer-tutoring experience: we offer at teen-agers a chance as tutor versus pre-teens, this educational strategy activates a spontaneus transfer of knowledge, emotion and experiences, from some older students to a group of younger. During the stage of training they face this topics: • Physics (temperature, air pressure, wind,

precipitation, relative humidity, fluid dynamics,..) • Heat conservation, photovoltaic, dynamo, energetic

performance, renewable resources,.. • Meteorology and climatology, general and local, the

hypotesis, cause and effect of the global warming, the greehouse effect

During the “event” the Tutors accompany and illustrate the exhibits, making experimentation and “touching” the kits.

The experience of meteorological peer-tutoring have a remarkable follow-up of people, parents, other students, Mass-Media, with a lot Radio and Tv interviews that represent for the tutor the first opportunity to speak in public.




Last Step: video production This first video-clip “The voices of the rain” have more goals, first of all contribute to increase the knowledge of the rain in this area of the Alps, that presents the maximum of yearly precipitation in Italy.


The Voice of rain - goals

This job is supported by “Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia – Servizio corregionali all’estero e lingue minoritarie” (funds from L.482/1999, art. 9 and 15) and presents, too with some cartoons elaborated in traditional animation (2D animation: - physical causes and effects of heavy rain over

this land;

- climatic characteristics of different areas : coastal zone, plain, hills, pre-alpine and alpine zones;

- behavior of the people during the heavy rain events;

- popular forecast traditions;

- case-studies of historical and recent flash-flood events



The job is in the 4 natural languages of the people of this land (Italian, Friulian, Slovenian and German) with a series of interviews (the voice) in typical towns, subtitled in Italian for general understanding. We think to have reached twice goals: - realize a didatic-informative base for the

schools (principally primary school)

- exploit the languages spoken in the land and encourage the knowledge and the spread of some simple words



In the job there is too an insert about: - an educational training for young people to

understand instrumental basic concepts of rainfall measure;

- explanation of the forecaster’s job during a day in the meteorological regional observatory (OSMER);

- the climatological description of the land;



Trailer of the video…



THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION ….

…and you are invited to “taste” a strong Bora day in Trieste …. “All that is not given or donated to young generation, is lost…Give always; give a smile, an understanding, a pardon, listening; our intelligence, our will, our availability; our experiences, capabilities. Give: this is the word that can’t give us respite”

Chiara Lubich


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