Adaptive Bologna 2.0: Flood-proofing Bologna by 2025 through the LIFE RAINBO project. eng.giovanni Fini eng. Raffaella Gueze

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1 Adaptive Bologna 2.0: Flood-proofing Bologna by 2025 through the LIFE RAINBO project eng.giovanni Fini eng. Raffaella Gueze Environment and Energy Department City of Bologna

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3 About Bologna Capital of Emilia-Romagna Region Crucial railway and motorway junction close to ROME, MILAN and VENICE Population: inhabitants ( in metropolitan area) Land area: 140,846 Km2 Strong presence of small and medium industry (Lamborghini...) Historical University: almost students

4 Climate has been and still is a precious resource for the city. The Latin word Bononia, from which the name of the city derives, refers to a community which builds its own existence on food and farm production. 4

5 Bologna has been considered a city of water because of the canal network which used to have different functions: energy source, urban hygiene, transportation, irrigation, etc. If, on the one hand, it is necessary to prevent the intensifying weather phenomena from damaging the territory, on the other hand it is important to preserve the resources linked to the local climatic characteristics, first and foremost the water resources.

6 Project: BLUE AP (LIFE11 ENV/IT/119) Coordinator: Comune di Bologna Partners: Kyoto Club, Ambiente Italia, ARPA Emilia Romagna Project duration: 36 months (01/10/ /09/2015) Main objectives: In the context of European initiatives to improve awareness and actions regarding climate change, the BLUEAP project aims to support activities which will lead to the production and adoption of the climate change adaptation plan for Bologna.

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11 The City Council approved on June 4, 2014 Bologna adhesion to " Mayors Adapt The Coventant of Mayors initiative on adaptation to climate change". The Bologna adaptation plan was approvedi in October 2015

12 Life RainBo The Adaptation plan shows that together with the increase of intensity and frequency of risks that are already managed (heat waves, floods of major rivers), new risks are emerging. Intense concentrated rains may cause localized flood events in small torrents passing through the city. These events are difficult to be predicted and the time between the event (intense rain) and the flood is of some minutes (while in bigger rivers this time is of several hours). This means that an improvement of existing structures for weather forecast and civil pr otection alert is n ot sufficien t. The development of innovative solutions is necessary.

13 ARPAE Urban flooding in Bologna Bologna - hydrographic network event Prec [mm] Level [m] Measurements and simulation with CRITERIA3D Physically based, 3D model of surface and subsurface water flows /02/ /02/ /02/2015 Prec [mm] Obs. Level [m] Criteria3D - 10 cm soil

14 Life RainBo OBJECTIVES & SCOPE: The RainBo project aims to improvement of knowledge, methods and tools to respond to extreme weather events. Particulary on the potential impacts of the catastrophic rains in river basins (the so-called flash flooding). On medium term project objective is to build a possible response system (forecasting models, warning protocols) to emergencies caused by sudden and destructive weather events. PARTNERS Lepida (coordinator), Agenzia Regionale Prevenzione e l Ambiente dell Emilia-Romagna (ArpaE), Comune di Bologna Meteorological and Environmental Earth Observation (MEEO) NIER Ingegneria SpA Project duration:31/07/ /07/2019

15 EXPECTED IMPACTS Implementing an advanced monitoring framework based on LepidaSpA SensorNet system. Creation of a software platform and a support forecasting model for Public Administration in the case of catastrophic weather events. Development of a response (warning) protocol in order to allert on potential impacts of catastrophic events on risky territories.

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17 Azioni NIER

18 RainBo and the Microwave LinkTechnology Idea Transmitter Receiver Microwave data provides Raininduced signal attenuation info Method customization of the RainLink package by MEEO Data Availability of telecommunication data RainLink Algorythm implemented by WUR Deman d More reliable and distributed data, to improve local weather forecast are required Result Impact More reliable precipitation monitoring To reduce time to action for climate change adaptation. 18

19 MEEO Objective: Improvement and extension of existing sensors infrastructures for precipitation measurements and water rivers level status. Adoption of an innovative technology based on commercial cellular communication microwave (MW) links System Requirements Telecommunication Data requirements collections New monitoring Infrastructure (lead) Data collection Contact the telecomunication data provider Rainlink4EMR module implementation Implementation of the algorithm to produce precipitation maps based on microwave data Crowdsourcing module implementation validation of the new monitoring system Implementation of the data collection module C3 RainBO prototype C4 test and validation Name, Surname, Position Logo(s) 19

20 C2 action: activities 2.1 MEEO - Analysis and implementation of the new rainfall monitoring infrastructure based on MW links data (M1-M6) MEEO-Lepida-Arpa identification of the area contact Telecommunication operators for data assessment Collection of radar and rain gauges data Interpolation method evaluation D MEEO Implementation of the new monitoring sensors networks (M4-M6) Arpa New hydrometer by Arpa, a new rain gauge and additional sensors for the soil moisture in the river - D Integration with conventional/existing monitoring system (M7-M8) MEEO-Arpa Arpa evaluation on the integration D Design of Crowd sourcing meteo data access module (M8-M9) MEEO-CoBO New croud sourcing app or plug-in for existing app D2.4 Data Format definition Dissemination towards citizens 2.5 Validation of the new monitoring system (M10) MEEO-Arpa Consistency and reliability evaluation by Arpa D Design and implementation of required data collection modules (M10-M12) MEEO Design, developement and implementation of a data collection sw module D2.6 Name, Surname, Position Logo(s) 20

21 THANKS for your attention! More info Blueap.eu Rainbolife.eu