iCOLT - Seasonal forecasts of crop irrigation needs at ARPA-SIMC
Villani, Giulia ; Botarelli, Lucio ; Marletto, Vittorio ; Spisni, Andrea ; Pavan, Valentina ; Pratizzoli, William ; Tomei, Fausto
The iCOLT system takes advantage of the ECMWF facilities made available as part of the Special Project SPIT-SPIA, aimed at producing seasonal predictions for Italian agriculture. It was mostly developed in the framework of the Italian national project Agroscenari, which is concerned with evaluating the impact of climate change on agriculture and devising specific adaptation strategies. The system has been operational at ARPA-SIMC since 2010, with the results made available via the agency's official website. It is an example of a climate service for agriculture, with specific application in the field of water management at regional and irrigation consortium scales. In the following, we give a description of the system, of its workflow in operational conditions, and of the results obtained for the summers of 2011, 2012 and 2013.
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