Variazioni climatiche ed effetto sulle specie marine = Climate changes and effect on marine species

Castelli D., Pagano P., Coro G.

Climate changes analysis  H.3.7 Digital Libraries 

Many scientific and industrial environments show lively interest in the capability of analyzing climate changes and how these changes affect marine species. In the context of the European VENUS-C project, the Networked Multimedia Information Systems Laboratory of the Institute of information Science and Technology "Alessandro Faedo" (ISTI) has developed a service that allows biologists to identify and process a set of parameters which affect the presence of marine species in the oceans (e.g., salinity, ice concentration, temperature, etc.). By exploiting this service scientists can specify for each parameter the actual measures and which are the assumed ones for a certain year (e.g., 2050), interpolate such values and generate intermediate climate scenarios. Further, this tool allows to train a probabilistic model on the basis of such parameters. The trained model can then be used to measure the variation of the occurrence of certain species in certain ocean zone. The huge datasets involved for supporting this service are efficiently processed by exploiting parallel and distributed computing solutions.

Source: Le tecnologie del CNR per il mare / Marine Technologies, edited by Marco Faimail, pp. 139–139. Roma: CNR, 2013

Publisher: CNR, Roma, ITA