Livorno is the first equipped Italian port of system of measure of the speed of the wind until 200 meters of height



Livorno has been the first Italian port to equip itself of a modern wind-detector. The system calls Lidar and affords the measurement of the speed of the wind on its vertical one from 40 to 200 meters of height. hardly conclusosi and developed in the within of the Program of "Marine" Italy cross-border cooperation/France 2007-2013 (Liguria, Tuscany, Sardinia and Corsica) that it is financed by the European Bottom for Regional Development (FESR).

With the exception of the anemometer that measure the speed of the air mass in the point in which it is installed, Lidar extremely signals speed and direction of the wind until 200 meters of height affording taken care of forecasts. The wind-detector is installed various months ago in the Leighorn harbour port of call near the tip of the Fort of Bocca (Porto Mediceo, behind yacth the club) and totally is integrated with the system of the anemometers and of the stations weather already you anticipate in the harbour area.

After Livorno other ports, firstly Genoa, Savona and La Spezia, have equipped of a modern system of monitoring of the wind and of a model of calculation statistical-mathematician in a position to supplying to stakeholder the information on the forecast of the wind attended in the medium term (12-24 hours) and in the short term (an hour) through visualization on WebGis system.

"In the course of these six years of project - it has specified the leader Safety and atmosphere of the Leighorn harbour agency, Giovanni Motta - the Harbour Authority of Livorno has obviously collected quantitative an enormous one of data, that they could become useful also to the aims of studies in wind field, diffusionale and meteorological. The net of measurement installed in the port of Livorno comprises seven anemometers, a weather station and a Lidar. We intend to disclose the results of this project, returning them available to anyone you make some demanded".

To the page web http://www.ventoeporti.net/public/SITO_VPM/public/sv_attivita_livorno_1.asp it is possible to visualize on a map the exact position of the instrumentation installed in the livornese port, while to the page web http://www.ventoeporti.net/public/anemometri_misure.asp it is possible to retrieve relative information to the standards used for the recording of the anemometrici data. The Leighorn harbour agency has specified that for every instrument they will be made available, who make some demanded the email oliviero@porto.livorno.it, the data of the intensity recordings and direction of the speed of the wind, mediated on 10 minutes.