Servizio Meteorologico dell'Aeronautica Militare

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Servizio Meteorologico
dell'Aeronautica Militare (MeteoAM)

Lineup 1876
Country Italy
Armed forces Forze Armate Italiane
Armed forces Aeronautica Militare
Subordinate troops

COAMet, CTM, CAMM

Insinuation Reparto per la Meteorologia (ReMET)
Location Pratica di Mare
Web presence www.meteoam.it

The Servizio Meteorologico dell'Aeronautica Militare ( MeteoAM ) is an organizational unit of the Italian Air Force and as such the national meteorological service of Italy . Its weather forecasts and other services serve both the armed forces and the general public.

organization

In contrast to almost all other countries, the historical development in Italy has led to a national weather service in the armed forces. On the one hand, this avoids redundancies between state civil and military weather services. On the other hand, military priorities cause certain disadvantages compared to purely civil organizations, including in the area of ​​international cooperation. In the public sector , the weather services of the Italian regions , including the Provincial Weather Service of South Tyrol , and some special institutions of national authorities form an important supplement.

The weather service of the Italian Air Force is subordinate to a department at the Air Fleet Command Comando della Squadra Aerea in Rome ( Reparto per la Meteorologia - ReMET ). She mainly takes care of planning and policy matters, international cooperation and cooperation with other public organizations. She represents Italy at the World Meteorological Organization .

The headquarters of the weather service is located at the Pratica di Mare military airfield near Rome ( Centro Operativo per la Meteorologia - COMet ). This is where the central data processing takes place and the distribution of analyzes and forecasts to the armed forces , civil aviation , maritime shipping , civil defense and other authorities and users, as well as to the mass media .

Facilities of the Italian Weather Service on Monte Cimone

The headquarters in Pratica di Mare have three branches

as well as 84 manned weather stations and 110 automatic stations ( data collection platforms ) that transmit their data to the Meteosat weather satellite . There are aviation weather services at 26 military airfields ; elsewhere this task is carried out by the civil air navigation service provider ENAV . There is also a special meteorological department of the Ministry of Agriculture .

history

The history of the weather service is closely linked to the Pontifical Observatory at the Palazzo del Collegio Romano in Rome . Weather data has been recorded there since 1782. In 1855, the organized Jesuit priest , astronomer and director of the Observatory, Angelo Secchi , in the then Papal States a daily telegraphic exchange of weather information between Rome, Ancona and Ferrara . After the unification of Italy , Secchi's weather station became the national weather service of Italy on November 26, 1876. The civil organization based in the Palazzo del Collegio Romano was then called Regio Ufficio Centrale di Meteorologia or "Royal Central Office for Meteorology".

Secchi's pupil and friend, the Barnabite father Francesco Denza , had set up a weather service in Moncalieri, northern Italy, from 1859 onwards, from which the meteorological society Società Meteorologica Italiana emerged from 1865 . From the 1880s, the state central office gradually took over several hundred weather stations and stations of the Società Meteorologica Italiana nationwide , which thus contributed significantly to the development of the state meteorological service.

As early as April 9, 1865, a meteorological office had been set up in the Ministry of the Navy , and its approximately 20 coastal meteorological stations transmitted their weather data by telegram from April 1, 1866. Together with the information received from French and British authorities, the office sent the data to the maritime authorities in the largest Italian ports. In 1880 the Hydrographic Institute in Genoa took over the tasks of the meteorological service for maritime shipping and in the following years also a large part of the weather stations and stations of the Società Meteorologica Italiana . The development of aviation in Italy led to the establishment of the special weather service Regio Servizio Aerologico Italiano on February 27, 1913 .

The civil inter-ministerial organization Servizio Meteorologico Nazionale arose from these bodies with two decrees of December 30, 1923 and July 2, 1925 . In 1931 she came to the Ministry of Aviation and gradually received military personnel. This centralization prevented the emergence of a national civil weather service, the tasks of which the weather service of the Italian Air Force has taken on to this day.

Since around 1990 the Italian regions have set up their own weather services, which are linked to one another via an interregional coordination center. We aim to expand it.

Others

  • For weather forecasts in the television of the public RAI sometimes occur officers to the weather service of the Italian Air Force. The weather forecast for shipping ( Bollettino del Mare ), which is mainly distributed via radio and the Internet , is one of the best-known services of the weather service.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reparto per la Meteorologia - REMet , meteoam.it
  2. ^ Centro Operativo per la Meteorologia - COMet , meteoam.it
  3. ↑ Cenni storici , meteoam.it
  4. ^ History of the Società Meteorologica Italiana , nimbus.it
  5. ↑ Law No. 205 of December 27, 2017, Articles 1-549 to 561
  6. ↑ ilgiornaledellaprotezionecivile.it, October 30, 2017