Temperature trends in the Campania Region (Southern Italy) deduced from some bioclimatic indices.

Temperaturni trendi v regiji Campanja (južna Italija), izpeljani iz nekaterih bioklimatskih indeksov Izvleček:Regija Campanja (Italija) je svetovno znana po svoji umetniški, monumentalni in zgodovinski lepoti, ima pa tudi kar šest znanih Unescovih območij. Toda ta regija, najbolj naseljena v južni Italiji, je znana tudi po svoji neprecenljivi okoljski, geološki in kmetijski dediščini. V njenem skrajnem, neobalnem delu, ki leži na Apeninski verigi, gojijo najbolj cenjene in nagrajene sorte vinske trte. Ta preliminarna raziskava se osredotoča na najbolj intenzivna vinogradniška območja in si prizadeva analizirati trend nihanja temperatur zraka z uporabo nekaterih pomembnih bioklimatskih indeksov, kot sta Cool Night Index in Huglinov indeks, ter variacije srednjih letnih temperatur. Rezultati, ki temeljijo na temperaturnih podatkih, ki so jih zbrale merilne agencije v regiji Campanja in se nanašajo na obdobje 2001–2024, kažejo trend naraščanja vseh vrednosti indeksa, kar je dobro znano na območju Sredozemlja. To je treba obravnavati v povezavi s podnebnimi spremembami, ki se pojavljajo tudi v majhnih in srednje velikih regijah in vodijo do sprememb v vegetaciji in razpoložljivosti vode, ki smo jim priča v zadnjih desetletjih, z očitnimi posledicami za upravljanje zemljišč.

The Campania Region (Italy) is world-renowned for its artistic, monumental and historical beauty and possesses no less than six famous UNESCO Sites. But this Region, the most populated in Southern Italy, is also known for its inestimable environmental, geological and agricultural heritage. In its innermost, landlocked part, placed on the Apennine Chain, the most prized and award-winning vine plant varieties are cultivated. This preliminary research focuses its interest on the most intensive vine-growing areas and sets out to analyse the trend of variation in air temperatures through the use of some significant bioclimatic indices such as Cool Night Index and Huglin Index, as well as the variation in mean annual temperatures. The results, based on temperature data collected by measurement agencies in the Campania Region and referring to the period 2001-2024, seem to indicate an upward trend in all index values, which is well known in the Mediterranean area. This has to be seen in relation to the climate changes that are also occurring in small and medium-sized regions and that lead to the changes in vegetation and water availability that we have witnessed in recent decades, with obvious implications for land management.