Dataset on Weather-related Disasters in Agriculture (WDA) in Italy 2005-2021.

The geodatabase on weather-related disasters in agriculture is a part of the cloud storage which hosts the materials of the Observatory for Agricultural meteorology and climatology of the Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA). A specific relational SQL geodatabase has been created by data entry from the official decrees of disaster declaration of the Italian Ministry of Agriculture, food sovereignty and forests within the "National Solidarity Fund for natural disasters in agriculture" (Italian law d.lgs.

MADIA - Meteorological variables for agriculture: A dataset for the Italian area.

The MADIA gridded dataset provides the dekadal series of the main agro-meteorological variables derived from ERA5 hourly surface data, across Italy for the period 1981-2021, and their respective 1981-2010 and 1991-2020 climate normals, also including absolute minimum and maximum and the main quantiles. Temporal and spatial resolutions are 10-day and 0.25 degrees respectively and the dataset is annotated with standard metadata.