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EMERGENCY PLANNING IN CASE OF CBRN EVENTS: AN INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGY TO IMPROVE THE SAFETY KNOWLEDGE OF ADVISORS AND FIRST RESPONDERS BY A MULTIDISCIPLINARY TABLE TOP EXERCISE.
ABSTRACT
Nowadays Chemical-Biological-Radiological-Nuclear (CRBN) risks are one of the main safety concern. The radiological disasters of Fukushima and Chernobyl, the chemical events of Seveso or the release of Sarin in the Tokio Subway,and the biological emergencies such as the H1N1 flue represent few examples of a dreadful evidence: : CBRNe risks are a real and global threat around us. A CBRNe event can be either of an intentional and un-intentional nature and it is important to have highly specialized advisors that can support decision makers and first responders to face this threat. The University of Rome Tor Vergata, in collaboration with the most important Italian and International Bodies that work in the field of CBRN safety and security and supported by NATO and OPCW, organized two International Master Courses in Protection against CBRN events. In this context, a Table Top Exercise (TTX) was organized, in collaboration with the Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Defence, taking into account that, in each country, the system response to CBRNe events strongly depends also on law and procedures, that enforce the advisors and first responders to rely with different skills and roles in function of the administration of origin. The organized TTX was aimed to test the level preparation of the Master students and experts working in Italy in the field of CBRN events and to test the emergency planning preparation. In particular, a radiological release was simulated in a Harbour facility in Urban Area. The students were divided in multidisciplinary groups with heterogeneous competences. Each group was supported by CBRNì experts and was stressed by the injects from a Command and Operative Centre. Responsiveness to
the injects and to the stress together with the ability to organize and manage safety and security operations, but also to interpret each role in the team according to according to national laws, were evaluated for each group. The scenario, the logistic organization, on-going adjustments during the exercise and the outcomes will be presented and analyzed by the authors in this paper.
PRELIMINARY INDEX
1. Abstract
2. Introduction
3. Table Top Exercise (TTX)
3.1 What is a TTX
3.2 How the TTX is organized
3.3 Scenario and injects
3.4 Organizational and technical solutions
4. Dat
Acquisizione dati meteo-disdrometrici. Parte 3.: Sistema di acquisizione e memorizzazione dati
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Climatic features of the Mediterranean Sea detected by the analysis of the longwave radiative bulk formulae
Some important climatic features of the
Mediterranean Sea stand out from an analysis of the systematic discrepancies
between direct measurements of longwave radiation budget and predictions
obtained by the most widely used bulk formulae. In particular, under clear-sky
conditions the results show that the surface values of both air temperature and
humidity over the Mediterranean Sea are larger than those expected over an open
ocean with the same amount of net longwave radiation. Furthermore, the twofold
climatic regime of the Mediterranean region strongly affects the downwelling
clear-sky radiation. This study suggests that a single bulk formula with
constant numerical coefficients is unable to reproduce the fluxes at the surface
for all the seasons.Key words: Meteorology and Atmospheric dynamics (radiative
processes) – Oceanography: general (marginal and semienclosed seas; marine
meteorology