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

Sisto, Michele (author), Lucadamo, Antonio (author), Russo, Filippo (author)

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.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Campania region, Southern Italy, Huglin index, cool night index, annual mean temperature, viticulture, climate change
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: BF - Biotechnical Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2026
• Number of pages: 15 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 122, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-180486
• UDC: 551.58
• ISSN on article: 1854-1941
• DOI: 10.14720/aas.2026.122.1.23877
• COBISS.SI-ID: 271126019
• Publication date in RUL: 10.03.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Acta agriculturae Slovenica
• Publisher: Biotehniška fakulteta, Oddelek za agronomijo in Oddelek za zootehniko, Biotehniška fakulteta, Oddelek za agronomijo in Oddelek za zootehniko, Univerza v Ljubljani, Biotehniška fakulteta, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 1854-1941
• COBISS.SI-ID: 219581184

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Temperaturni trendi v regiji Campanja (južna Italija), izpeljani iz nekaterih bioklimatskih indeksov
• Keywords: regija Kampanja, južna Italija, Huglinov indeks, indeks hladnih noči, povprečna letna temperatura, vinogradništvo, podnebne spremembe