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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
sergio.nordio@meteo.fvg.it

Science Education and guidance in schools: the way forward

Firenze, 21-22 ottobre 2013

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

f.e. lightning

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…
500 mm/day

0 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
• Linguistical
• Climatological
• Ethnical
• Meteorological
• Cultural




Friuli Venezia Giulia as a geographical crossing-point




Duino and Miramare Castle - Trieste

Julian Alps - Udine


Friuli Venezia Giulia as a climatological crossing-point




Average temperature distribution

Winter
record
-49°C
49°

(Julian Alps
Slovenija,
Slovenija,
closed to the
borderline)

Summer
record
+ 40°C
40°
near
Gorizia




Rainfall
yearly
distribution
in mm
3300 mm
Julian
Prealps



Friuli Venezia Giulia as a meteorological crossing-point

Westerly flow




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 wellknown
Bora wind




Video Bora



The Voice of rain – linguistic situation

FVG as a linguistical, ethnical, cultural crossing-point

German
Friulian

Italian


Slovenian


Meteorology and climatology education – linguistic situation

German

This small Land is
exclusive in Europa
because they are living
3 different languages
family:

Slovenian
Friulian
(Ladin subfamily)
subfamily)

Romance
(Italian and Istrovenetian dialect and
exclusive Ladin
subfamily
Friulian language)
Slav
(Slovenian with
almost 10 dialect)

Italian
(Istro-Venetian dialect)
Istrodialect)

German
(with 4 dialect)



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
1871




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 teenagers and pre-teen implemented too the
methodology of peer-tutoring (called too peereducation 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 preteens, 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
schools (principally primary school)

for

the

- 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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