CMMMA (Center for Monitoring and Modelling Marine and Atmosphere Research & Applications, aka meteo@uniparthenope) is a forecast service that monitors forecasts and marine, weather, and air quality simulations in real time, with a particular focus on the Campania Region of Italy.
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The Center (CMMMA, Center for Monitoring and Modelling for Marine and Atmosphere applications, aka meteo@uniparthenope) was born from decades of experience in the field of modeling, measurement and computational simulation in the marine and atmospheric environment of the Department of Environmental Sciences (DiSAM) and of the Department of Applied Sciences (DSA) of the University of Naples Parthenope, already Naval University Institute, which since 2013 have merged with the Department of Science and Technology.
The Center was funded by the University of Naples Parthenope with financial resources obtained from the Campania Region in the context of the L.R. n.13 2009 (Project PROMETEO / TASK 1). Prof. Giulio Giunta is the director, and Prof. Giorgio Budillon is the scientific coordinator. Prof. Raffaele Montella manages computer services and computational resources.
CMMMA offers its weather, marine, and air quality forecast services to common people, local government, research institutions, business companies, environmental and health assessment companies, yachting control authorities, sporting partnerships, and others. The data provided by the Center is available on the official web page http://meteo.uniparthenope.it.
From this perspective, CMMMA commits to providing a high-resolution weather forecast for the America’s Cup World Series event in Napoli on April 7- 15, 2012, in a new dedicated website section. In particular, wind speed and direction forecasts are produced with up to 250m resolution on the racecourse, using the model chain and computational resources available to CMMMA. It is relevant to underline that this is the highest resolution achievable with current forecast technologies.
CMMMA monitors the Gulf of Naples area through a data acquisition network with various weather stations. A CODAR radar system determines the surface ocean current and, for the first time in Campania, a next-generation weather radar on Castel Sant’Elmo, which can evaluate an approaching storm front and its evolution in the area of the Gulf of Napoli with 300m resolution.
The Center uploads the results of its numerical weather predictions on an interactive user interface. The data is compatible with professional navigation tools (Grib), scientific software (OpenDAP), and 3D visualization in the Google Earth browser (KML).
Mobile Android apps are available, and application programming interfaces will be provided to allow the development of new applications in the smart cities project.
