WP3 - Harmonization
Responsibles: Giovanni Macedonio (WP Coordinator), Flora Giudicepietro (WP3.1), Jacopo Selva (WP3.2), Laura Sandri (WP3.3)
Main goals: extending tephra ground deposition, airspace and airborne ash monitoring and forecasting procedure, and ICT to the active volcanoes affecting the metropolitan areas of Naples and Catania.
Based on its expertise and its monitoring facilities in the Italian territory, INGV has been charged of the surveillance of Italian active volcanoes for the aviation purposes (ICAO, Doc 9766). Such institutional responsibilities are currently held by Osservatorio Etneo and Osservatorio Vesuviano. Based on their historical record, eruptions at Campi Flegrei and Vesuvio may have a significant effect even at a continental scale, directly threating the airspace of the entire South Mediterranean region. On the other hand, at Etna, the current level of syn-eruptive forecasting is already very advanced due to the high frequency of its paroxysmal eruptions. During Ash-RESILIENCE, the syn-eruptive infrastructure for volcanic ash clouds monitoring and forecasting working at Etna will be extended and adapted to the Neapolitan volcanoes, while the operational tool BET_VH-Tephra@CF, used for the pre-eruptive probabilistic hazard assessment from tephra loading at the ground, will be improved and implemented for Vesuvio and Etna. In particular, the output of this procedure can be very useful, in case of tephra fallout at Etna, to assess the long-term and pre-eruptive short-term hazard, thus reducing the relative uncertainty and land use planning.