Sandro Calmanati - ENEA

1. DATA
is not
INFORMATION
is not
INNOVATION
Sandro Calmanti, Matteo De Felice, Alessandro Dell’Aquila
SSPT-MET-CLIM

2. Data Information Decision Action
«Innovation» is all about solving 3 problems!
Problem #1 Problem #2 Problem #3

3. DONEC QUIS NUNC
NATURE REPORTS CLIMATE CHANGE
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 31 JULY 2008 | DOI:10.1038/CLIMATE.2008.76
“How can progress be accelerated? The
strategy for building up interdisciplinary
science must be twofold: developing people
who are comfortable in multiple fields and
providing them with the resources they
need for continued interdisciplinary work.”

4. Problem #1: dig information
double time(time) ;
time:standard_name = "time" ;
time:long_name = "Time in days" ;
time:units = "days since 1950-01-01 00:00:00" ;
time:calendar = "standard" ;
short pp(time, latitude, longitude) ;
pp:standard_name = "air_pressure_at_sea_level" ;
pp:long_name = "sea level pressure" ;
pp:units = "hPa" ;
pp:add_offset = 0.f ;
pp:scale_factor = 0.1f ;
pp:_FillValue = -9999s ;
pp:missing_value = -9999s ;
// global attributes:
:CDI = "Climate Data Interface version 1.6.4 (http://code.zmaw.de/projects/cdi)" ;
:Conventions = "CF-1.4" ;
:history = "Tue Jan 13 15:48:45 2015: cdo sellonlatbox,-45,60,30,68 pp_0.50deg_reg_v10.0.mon.nc pp_0.50deg_
reg_v10.0.mon.EUROPE.ncn",
"Tue Jan 13 15:46:58 2015: cdo -monavg pp_0.50deg_reg_v10.0.nc pp_0.50deg_reg_v10.0.mon.nc" ;
:Ensembles_ECAD = "10.0" ;
:References = "http://www.ecad.eunhttp://www.ecad.eu/download/ensembles/ensembles.phpnvan den Besselaar
et al. (2011) J. Geophys. Res., 116, D11110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010JD015468" ;
:CDO = "Climate Data Operators version 1.6.4 (http://code.zmaw.de/projects/cdo)" ;
data:
longitude = -40.25, -39.75, -39.25, -38.75, -38.25, -37.75, -37.25, -36.75,
-36.25, -35.75, -35.25, -34.75, -34.25, -33.75, -33.25, -32.75, -32.25,
-31.75, -31.25, -30.75, -30.25, -29.75, -29.25, -28.75, -28.25, -27.75,
-27.25, -26.75, -26.25, -25.75, -25.25, -24.75, -24.25, -23.75, -23.25,
-22.75, -22.25, -21.75, -21.25, -20.75, -20.25, -19.75, -19.25, -18.75,
-18.25, -17.75, -17.25, -16.75, -16.25, -15.75, -15.25, -14.75, -14.25,
-13.75, -13.25, -12.75, -12.25, -11.75, -11.25, -10.75, -10.25, -9.75,
-9.25, -8.75, -8.25, -7.75, -7.25, -6.75, -6.25, -5.75, -5.25, -4.75,
-4.25, -3.75, -3.25, -2.75, -2.25, -1.75, -1.25, -0.75, -0.25, 0.25,
0.75, 1.25, 1.75, 2.25, 2.75, 3.25, 3.75, 4.25, 4.75, 5.25, 5.75, 6.25,

5. Problem #2: take decisions

6. Data Information Decision Action
Problem #3: take action

7. Example: drought early warning system
Rainfall Crop Monitoring
Drougth
Index
Needs
The Livelihoods, Early Assessment and Protection project
(LEAP) system, developed in 2008 by the Government of
Ethiopia in collaboration with WFP, as an innovative early
warning – early action tool.
Its overarching aim is to ensure early and well-targeted
response, to protect livelihoods and save lives.
(http://www.wfp.org/disaster-risk-reduction/leap)

8. Changing the timeline of drought early warning
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Planting
Crop season
June
July
August
September

9. Changing the timeline
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Planting
Drought map 01
Drought map 02
Drought map 03
Drought map …
Drought map N
Observed data Forecast data
Crop season
Mayforecast
June
July
August
September
Wait + no regret
T0 T+2 T+4T-3
Planning Act 1
New action here

10. Data Information Decision Action
New data for new decisions
New New

11. THANK YOU