Dissemination and Exploitation of Regional Meteo-Hydrological Datasets through Web-based Interactive Applications: The SOL System Case Study

Marco Pellegrini

doi:10.31586/ojes.2021.180

Abstract

The effects of climate change are already being felt in several parts of the World. Variability of changing rainfall intensity, drought and weather patterns contribute to determining the vulnerability of many human activities such as agriculture. In the next future, climate change considerations will depend on having appropriate strategies such as strengthen implementation agencies working in a coordinated manner and with a data-driven approach in order to ensure monitoring, reporting and data verification. In this context, national and regional meteorological Services are facing with high demand for timely and quality information, services and products. A web-based interactive application with the aim of disseminating meteo-hydrological information at regional scale is described in this paper. The web application is built on a relational database and client-side programming has been used for implementing the user interface and controlling the web page behavior. The combination of PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor, a general-purpose scripting language, especially suited to server-side web development) and JavaScript (high-level object-oriented scripting language, nowadays the dominant client-side scripting language of the Web) has been chosen for this reason, since such software is free to use for everyone. The SOL system, developed on behalf of Marche region, Italy, was chosen as a case study, due to its multi-source data framework and because of the processing and public dissemination of several ad-hoc data elaborations.

Highlights

A web-based interactive application with the aim of disseminating meteo-hydrological information at regional scale is described in this paper
The main aim of the present work is to present a web-based interactive application, which provides publicly and free of charge meteo-hydrological data related to Marche region, located in Central-Eastern Italy
This paper aims to present a web-based interactive application which was created using all available current technology, with the purpose of spreading Marche region meteo-hydrological data widely

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Introduction

The main aim of the present work is to present a web-based interactive application, which provides publicly and free of charge meteo-hydrological data related to Marche region, located in Central-Eastern Italy (https://www.italyheritage.com/regions/marche). Most of the territory is mountainous or hilly, the main features being the Apennine chain along the internal boundary and an extensive system of hills descending towards the sea. The mountains do not exceed 2400 m, two thirds of the region are covered by the hilly area interrupted by wide gullies with several rivers and by alluvial plains perpendicular to the principal chain. Civil Protection Service of Marche Region manages the regional meteorological and hydrological monitoring network (acronym SIRMIP in Italian) [1]; data and elaborations

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