IITAA
IITAA (Institute for Investigation and Technology of Agronomy and Environment) is very much engaged and has the know how to pursuit studies on insular climate characterization / prediction and effects of global change on communities from the open ocean to the islands tops, modernize agriculture ... Read more »
MISSION
The C_CMMG, created by resolution 31/2006 of the Senate of the University of the Azores, has the objective to do "research and technological development in the field of Meteorology, Meteo-Oceanography and Climatology either in the point of view of fundamental science, either in operational perspective, or in the light of understanding the current and future relations between these sciences and other fields of knowledge". GENERAL OBJECTIVES: The general objective of C_CMMG is to contribute to the scientific efforts and technological development in the field of Meteorology, Meteo-Oceanography and Climatology either in the operational perspective, or in the light of understanding the current and future relations between these sciences and other fields of knowledge. Generic OBJECTIVES: IN THE FIELD OF METEOROLOGY: * Study and monitoring of ocean-atmosphere interactions; * Development of the knowledge and the capacity to integrate the meteorological signal and forcing factors in the various sectors that depend on the weather conditions (resources, security and economy); * Development of methodologies and infrastructures for monitoring meteorological phenomenon, with levels of spatial resolution more detailed and more appropriate to regional and local interests, in particular related with insular environments. * Enhance the geostrategic position of the Azores, in order to meet the international scientific interest of monitoring the weather in the Atlantic basin, establishing the connection between the American, European and African continents; IN THE FIELD OF CLIMATOLOGY: * Adoption of methods of climate characterization and spatially generalizing the information more consistent with the location, size and orographic characteristics of the islands; * Adequacy of these methodologies to the requirements of the various sectors of applied climatology (environment, agriculture, hydrology, tourism, urban planning, transport, fisheries, civil protection, alternative energies, new construction technologies, etc.). * Promoting and supporting studies of the temporal evolution (in the scope of global changes) of the characteristics of large systems that affect the climate of the Atlantic regions (tropical storms, evolution of the polar front, North Atlantic Oscillation
