Paolo Fiorucci

Born September 25th 1969
Nationality: Italian

Project Leader, Ph.D.

paolo.fiorucci@cimafoundation.org

Scientific and Academic experiences

Operational and research experience in environmental modelling. Main research interests focus on three aspects of forest fires. First, developed models have been used to implement several operational systems for potential forest fire danger assessment both on a Regional and National scale. Such systems, making use of meteorological forecasts and observations, are able to provide a Fire Danger Index useful for preventive management. Second, research in the field of forest fire regime characterization aiming to partition a region by articulating differences in timing, frequency and intensity of the phenomena among different zones allowing wildfire managers to allocate and position resources in order to minimize wildfire risk. Third, research on the impact of climate variability on wildfire regime.
Author and co-author of more than 30 papers, 7 published on international refereed journals.
Teaching experience 1997-present. Supporting different courses on Modelling and Simulation within the undergraduate courses on Environmental Engineering and Electronic Engineering at the University of Genoa.
Design, teaching and co-teaching on Natural risk management and Wild Fires risk within the undergraduate courses on Environmental Engineering at the University of Genoa.

Work experiences

1996-2000: Research activity for the Gruppo Nazionale per la Difesa dalle Catastrofi Idrogeologiche (GNDCI) of the National Research Council.
2000-2001: CIMA-EU Interreg 2a Ge.Ri.A – Management of Environmental Risk.
2000-2005: CIMA - Regione Liguria – S.P.I.R.L. – Forest Fire Risk Forecasting Regione Liguria;
2002-2003: CIMA- Italian Civil Protection – Design of a DSS for forest fire risk management - Progetto esecutivo 2002, Ex. Art. 5, Convenzione DPC-GNDCI;
2005-2008: CIMA-EU - “PREVENTION, INFORMATION and EARLY WARNING pre-operational services to support the management of risks” (PREVIEW) - 6th FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME PRIORITY 4 AERONAUTICS & SPACE – SPACE 2004. Platform Geophysical Hazard, Cluster Fires, Work Package 4240.
Since 2005: CIMA- Italian Civil Protection – co-ordinator of research unit in the field of “Forest Fires” - project DPC-CIMA “Proscenio”;
2006-2007: CIMA-Regione Liguria- “GRINFOMED + MEDIFIRE” INTERREG III B MEDOC. Development of phenological models for dynamic fuel map definition.
2006-2008: CIMA- Italian Civil Protection - EU Forest Focus Regulation (EC)2152/2003. Wildfire regime characterization and analysis of the cause of ignition.
2007-2008: Consultant of Italian Civil Protection in the CYCLOPS project - 6th FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME;
2008-2009: CIMA- Regione Liguria – Review and design of the new regional Forest Fire Prevention and Management Plan - Regione Liguria
2008-2009: CIMA - Italian Civil Protection – Development of a propagation model within the Convenzione n. 707 Fondazione CIMA-DPC;
2009-2012: PROTERINA-C. EU “Obiettivo 3 Italia-Francia Marittimo” programme. Development of a system for the forecast and the prevention of the impact of climatic conditions variability on natural risks.

Publications 2007-2009

Refereed journals:

Fiorucci, P., F. Gaetani, A. Lanorte, and R. Lasaponara, (2007). Dynamic Fire Danger Mapping from Satellite Imagery and Meteorological Forecast Data. Earth Interactions, 11, 1–17 American Geosciences Union. doi: 10.1175/EI199.1 (Link)

Fiorucci, P., F. Gaetani, and R. Minciardi (2008), Regional partitioning for wildfire regime characterization, J. Geophys. Res., 113, F02013, doi:10.1029/2007JF000771. (Link)

Fiorucci P., F. Gaetani, and R. Minciardi, (2008). Development and application of a system for dynamic wildfire risk assessment in Italy. Environmental Modelling & Software, Volume 23, Issue 6, June 2008, Pages 690-702. doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2007.05.008. (Link) 

Mazzetti P., S. Nativi, V. Angelini, M. Verlato, and P. Fiorucci, (2009) A Grid platform for the European Civil Protection e-Infrastructure: the Forest Fires use scenario. Earth Science Informatics, Volume 2, Numbers 1-2,pp.53-62. doi: 10.1007/s12145-009-0025-8. (Link)

Conference proceedings:

Fiorucci, P., F. Gaetani, R. Minciardi, F. Rosso, (2007). Using MODIS/NDVI imagery for the validation and calibration of a live vegetation moisture content model. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, v 6742, 2007, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology IX. (Link)

Capitoni B., Carlini M., Fiorucci P., Gaetani F., Minciardi R., Scipioni A., and Troiani L., (2007). Fire causes influence on wildfire regime. Proceedings of Wildfire 2007 4th International Wildland Fire Conference, Seville (E). ISBN 78-84-8014-690-6. (Link)

Fiorucci P., Gaetani F., Minciardi R., and Scipioni A., (2007). Nation-wide forest fire risk assessment. Performance analysis and validation of two different dynamic fire weather systems in Italy. Proceedings of Wildfire 2007 4th International Wildland Fire Conference, Seville (E) ISBN 78-84-8014-690-6. (Link)