The success of the upcoming summer season will depend, more than anything else, on making the most of the local environment. The people working in the tourism industry are sure.
In these weeks, new ideas are emerging all over Italy. In the Covid-19 summer, mass tourism and packed events will make room for holidays designed around safety and sustainability.
And the tourist season on Lake Garda will follow this trend as well, but from a position of advantage, because the environment has always been a top priority here.
The research study on the lake currents carried out by the University of Trento with the local community confirms this.
Building on local knowledge, for the first time researchers have described, with a mathematical model, phenomena such as the transport of debris after floods, and the Corif, a surface current that originates along the eastern shore when the 'Ora' blows from south.
Researchers also managed to describe what occurred to a boat that capsized on 6 August 2017 on the north side of the lake and was found two days later dozens of kilometres away.
The study was widely circulated because it also appeared in the international journal Science of the Total Environment
It all started from the dissertations of two UniTrento students. Local knowledge was first considered for the hydrodynamic modelling of Lake Garda by Giuliano Morini in his dissertation for the degree in Engineering for the Environment and the Territory, and Marina Amadori continued the work in her doctoral thesis in Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering.
The press release (.pdf | 110 KB) includes further information and the comments of Marco Toffolon, professor of hydraulics at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering of UniTrento and coordinator of the study.
About the article
The article “Involving citizens in hydrodynamic research: A combined local knowledge - numerical experiment on Lake Garda, Italy”, was written for "Science of The Total Environment" by Marina Amadori, Giuliano Morini and Marco Toffolon of the University of Trento, and Sebastiano Piccolroaz of the University of Utrecht.
The paper will appear in the issue of 20 June (volume 722, 2020, 137720, ISSN 0048-9697), but is already available online:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720312316
(DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137720)