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Grand Challenges in Biodiversity Informatics.

Using Biodiversity Information Effectively.

Urban Design Climate Workshops (UDCW) are underway to focus on urban heat stress adaptation integrated with flooding resiliency and greenhouse gas emission mitigation. Integrated Climate Mitigation and Climate Adaptation prioritizes mitigation strategies that yield concurrent adaptive benefits over those that do not. On the one hand, dense, compact urban forms that mix land use and support mass transit reduce the carbon footprint. On the other hand, these dense urban districts can be configured to reduce the impact of urban heat and storms due to the changing climate while enhancing quality of life.

The study proposes the analysis of some fundamental physical quantities in the surface layer and in the soil, in the geographical domain that involves most of the Alpine region and the Po basin (delimited by the meridians 5– 15°E and the parallels 43–48°N), using the UTOPIA land surface model (University of Turin model of land Processes Interaction with Atmosphere). The analysis includes the comparison by altitude, soil type and vegetation type of the components of the energy and hydrological balance and the comparison with the data of the NOAH Multi-Physics Land Surface Model. This work aims to create a climatological mapping of the soil and to confirm the validity of the UTOPIA model, with the aim of being the starting point for studies relating to potential changes in the components of surface balances, under certain future climatic conditions.