| Mediterranean climate patterns and wine quality in North and Central Italy. | |
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PMID: 23152193 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Results show that the year-to-year quality variation of wines produced in North and Central Italy depends on the large-scale climate variability, and that the wine quality improvement in the last four decades is partially due to an increase of temperature and to a decrease of precipitation in West and Central Mediterranean Europe (WME; CME). In addition, wine quality is positively correlated with air temperature throughout the entire active period of the grapevine, weakly negatively correlated with precipitation in spring, and well negatively correlated in summer and fall. The month-to-month composites of the NAO anomaly show that, in years of good quality wine, this anomaly is negative in late spring, oscillates around zero in summer, and is positive in early fall; while, in years of bad quality wine, it is positive in late spring and summer, and negative in early fall, i.e. its polarity has an opposite sign in spring and fall in good versus bad years. The composite seasonal maps show that good wines are produced when the spring jet stream over the Atlantic diverts most of the weather perturbations towards North Europe, still providing a sufficient amount of rainwater to CME; when summer warming induced by southerly winds is balanced by the cooling induced by westerly winds; and when a positive geopotential anomaly over WME shelters CME from fall Atlantic storms. Bad quality wines are produced when the jet stream favors the intrusion of the Atlantic weather perturbations into the Mediterranean. Results suggest that atmospheric pattern persistencies can be used as precursors for wine quality forecast. |
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John David Dalu; Marina Baldi; Anna Dalla Marta; Simone Orlandini; Gianpiero Maracchi; Giovanni Dalu; Daniele Grifoni; Marco Mancini |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-11-15 |
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Title: International journal of biometeorology Volume: - ISSN: 1432-1254 ISO Abbreviation: Int J Biometeorol Publication Date: 2012 Nov |
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Created Date: 2012-11-15 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0374716 Medline TA: Int J Biometeorol Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Climate and Sustainability Foundation, FCS, Florence, Italy. |
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