1,1,1,1,2,- 1Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering (DICAM), University of Trento, Trento, Italy.
- 2Center Agriculture Food Environment (C3A), University of Trento, Trento, Italy.
- *A full list of authors appears at the end of the abstract
We present the intensive field campaign conducted from mid-June to mid-October 2025 on Monte Baldo (Italian Pre-Alps) within the TEAMx programme, aimed at improving process understanding and model representation of mountain boundary-layer exchanges. This effort was driven by the DECIPHER project, which aims at disentangling mechanisms controlling atmospheric transport and mixing processes over mountain areas at different space- and timescales.
Measurements targeted a steep (~25°), east-facing, grass-covered slope in the southern Monte Baldo range, selected for its regular topography and pronounced diurnal cycle of thermally driven slope winds. The setting also enables investigation of coupling at the mountain–plain interface, linking local slope circulations to the adjacent lowland atmosphere in the Po Valley.
A coordinated suite of instruments captured processes from the surface layer to the lower troposphere and their interactions across scales. Near-surface thermodynamic variability and turbulent exchange were monitored using multi-level flux towers and a slope-wide network of thermohygrometers. Variability in aerosol and particulate matter was measured using co-located mass and optical sensors. Along- and cross-slope winds were observed with multiple wind lidars, while boundary-layer and lower-tropospheric profiles were obtained with a tethered balloon system and a Raman lidar. The surface heat budget was characterized using radiation measurements together with soil temperature and moisture observations. Complementary observations included high-frequency near-surface turbulence profiling and distributed soil-moisture monitoring using a cosmic-ray neutron sensor.
This contribution details the observational setup, characterizes the regional setting, and illustrates the potential of the dataset for evaluating slope-wind structure and the associated surface fluxes, boundary-layer mixing, and exchange pathways between mountains and adjacent plains.
Barbara Biasuzzi [1], Francesco Barbano [2,3], Elena Barbaro [4], Carlotta Bonvicini [1], Alessandro Bracci [5], Christophe Brun [6], Warren R. L. Cairns [4], Massimo Cassiani [7,8], Franz Conen [9], Giulio Cozzi [4], Federico Dallo [4], Costanza Di Felice Fabrizi [2,10], Paolo Di Girolamo [11], Luca Di Liberto [5], Marco Di Paolantonio [12], Silvana Di Sabatino [3], Davide Dionisi [12], Annika Einbock [9], Théo Fernandez [6], Angelo Finco [13], Emmanuel Francisco-Alcantara [14], Stefano Gianessi [1], Giacomo Gerosa [13], Louis Gostiaux [15], Muriel Lagauzère [6], Riccardo Marzuoli [13], Christian Nardon [7], Ahmed Njimongbet [7], Ferdinando Pasqualini [5], Nathan Philippot [16], Davide Plebani [13,17], Davide Poggi [18], Federico Porcù [3], Akanksha Rajput [7], Florencia Rodriguez [14], Claudia Rossetti [4], Mira Shivani Sankar [2,19], Luca Stevanato [1], Donato Summa [20], Nadia Vendrame [21]. [1] Finapp s.r.l. Padova, Italy. [2] Center Agriculture Food Environment (C3A), University of Trento, Trento, Italy. [3] Department of Physics and Astronomy “Augusto Righi”, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. [4] Institute of Polar Sciences, National Research Council (CNR-ISP), Venice, Italy. [5] Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, National Research Council (CNR-ISAC), Italy. [6] Laboratoire des Écoulements Géophysiques et Industriels (LEGI), Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France. [7] Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering (DICAM), University of Trento, Trento, Italy. [8] Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), Kjeller, Norway [9] Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. [10] National Doctoral School in Polar Sciences, University of Venice “Ca’ Foscari”, Venice, Italy. [11] Department of Health Sciences (DISS), University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy. [12] Institute of Marine Sciences, National Research Council (CNR-ISMAR), Rome, Italy. [13] Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Brescia, Italy. [14] M2C, University Rouen Normandy, France [15] Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides et d'Acoustique (LMFA), Université de Lyon, France [16] Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement (IGE) Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Grenoble INP, France [17] Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium. [18] Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI), Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy. [19] University School for Advanced Studies (IUSS Pavia), Pavia, Italy. [20] Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, National Research Council (IMAA-CNR), Tito Scalo, Italy. [21] Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM), San Michele all'Adige, Italy
How to cite: Doglioni, G., Carpentari, S., Giovannini, L., and Zardi, D. and the Monte Baldo partners: The observational effort for characterising turbulence and transport processes on the pre-Alpine range of Monte Baldo during the TEAMx Observational Campaign. , EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, 3–8 May 2026, EGU26-18348, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-18348, 2026.
