Operandum – OPEn-air laboRAtories for Nature baseD solUtions

Reduce hydro-meteorological risks in European territories through co-designed, co- developed, deployed, tested and demonstrated innovative green and blue/grey/hybrid Nature Based Solutions for the environmental resilience, and push business exploitation.

CMCC is involved in the work package on “Multiple impact modelling for assessment and replication” with a specific focus on the Italian Open Air Laboratory, i.e. the Po river valley OAL. CMCC will also contruibute to the co-design and co-development of the NBSs for the Italian OAL.

Innovative Nature based Solutions will be designed and applied to seven OALs in Europe and two additional OALs in China and Australia, to tackle pressing issues: floods, droughts, landslides, coastal erosion and stormsurge. Specific Activities of the CMCC:

• Critical evaluation of risks and opportunities for the Italian OAL
• Conceptual framework/protocols for co-design and co-development of the planned NBSs
• Coastal erosion and storm surge modelling
• Nutrient and sediment loading
• Modelling of salt water intrusion

Successfully develop and apply the NBSs to the OALs and promote their use and replication CMCC expected results:

• Contribute to a high resolution modeling of the estuarine and the coastal sea dynamics focusing on the Italian OAL.
• Contribute to build up present day and climate change scenarios for predicting and assessing storm surge, coastal erosion, salt wedge intrusion
• Contribute to the design and development of the Natural based solutions planned for the Italian OAL: introduce a novel-vegetated sand dune in the complex land- marine environment of the north Emilia-Romagna coastline to reduce storm surge and related coastal erosion; install herbaceous perennial deep rooting plants as coverage of earth embankments for the mitigation of flood risk and salt wedge intrusion in the Po delta