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Nazzareno Diodato

Nazzareno Diodato was educated at the University of Naples Federico II, where he completed his degree in 1996, subsequently pursued postgraduate studies through the COMET Program of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). He is the Founding Director and Fellow Research Career Scientist of the Met European Research Observatory, an institution that received the ComputerWorld Honors Program Award in 2011, and was later endorsed by the UCAR International Affiliates’s Program of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in 2019. His research concerns the climate reconstruction and related models, environmental hydrology and geostatistics.

Under the Mediterranean sun: The thousand year tale of changing skies

Nazzareno Diodato and Gianni Bellocchi August 17, 2026

When you picture the western Mediterranean, you likely imagine sun-drenched beaches, terracotta roofs, and bright blue skies. But has it always been this sunny? A groundbreaking study published in the journal Research provides a definitive answer: it has not. By pulling back the curtain – or rather, the cloud cover – on a thousand years of …[Read More]