77 citations
Counting papers with at most 25 authors, so collaboration author lists do not stand in for the people here.
- Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and ClimateIT7 papers
- National Research CouncilLK7 papers
- Trieste Astronomical ObservatoryIT6 papers
- Politecnico di TorinoIT5 papers
- Institute for Fundamental Physics of the UniverseIT4 papers
- University of ReadingGB3 papers
- University of TriesteIT3 papers
- Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFR2 papers
- National Institute for AstrophysicsIT2 papers
- Universität HamburgDE2 papers
- University of PaduaIT2 papers
- Astrobiology CenterJP1 paper
18 papers
Assessing the Climate and Habitability of Tidally Locked Rocky Exoplanets
Erica Bisesi, Giuseppe Murante, Jost von Hardenberg +5
Tidally locked exoplanets orbiting M dwarf stars are prime targets in the search for habitable worlds, yet their complex climate dynamics challenge conventional models of habitabil…
Interaction between vegetation and Snowball phases in the late Proterozoic Earth
Erica Bisesi, Giuseppe Murante, Antonello Provenzale +3
Between 2.4 and 0.6 Gy ago, our planet underwent several episodes of global glaciations, including the Snowball Earth case that ended 635 My ago. Causes of this last Snowball event…
Impact of vegetation albedo on the habitability of Earth-like exoplanets
Erica Bisesi, Giuseppe Murante, Antonello Provenzale +8
Vegetation can modify the planetary surface albedo via the Charney mechanism, as plants are usually darker than the bare surface of the continents. We updated ESTM (Earth-like Surf…
Fire responses shape plant communities in a minimal model for fire ecosystems across the world
Marta Magnani, Rubén Díaz-Sierra, Luke Sweeney +2
Across plant communities worldwide, fire regimes reflect a combination of climatic factors and plant characteristics. To shed new light on the complex relationships between plant c…
Extracting causation from millennial-scale climate fluctuations in the last 800 kyr
Marco Baldovin, Fabio Cecconi, Antonello Provenzale +1
The detection of cause-effect relationships from the analysis of paleoclimatic records is a crucial step to disentangle the main mechanisms at work in the climate system. Here, we…
EOS-ESTM: A flexible climate model for habitable exoplanets
L. Biasiotti, P. Simonetti, G. Vladilo +8
Rocky planets with temperate conditions provide the best chance for discovering habitable worlds and life outside the Solar System. In the last decades, new instrumental facilities…
Mechanics and Thermodynamics of a New Minimal Model of the Atmosphere
Gabriele Vissio, Valerio Lucarini
The understanding of the fundamental properties of the climate system has long benefitted from the use of simple numerical models able to parsimoniously represent the essential ing…
Ranking IPCC Models Using the Wasserstein Distance
Gabriele Vissio, Valerio Lembo, Valerio Lucarini +1
We propose a methodology for intercomparing climate models and evaluating their performance against benchmarks based on the use of the Wasserstein distance (WD). This distance prov…
Climate bistability of Earth-like exoplanets
Murante G., Provenzale A., Vladilo G. +8
Before about 500 million years ago, most probably our planet experienced temporary snowball conditions, with continental and sea ices covering a large fraction of its surface. This…
A comparison of remotely-sensed and inventory datasets for burned area in Mediterranean Europe
Marco Turco, Sixto Herrera, Etienne Tourigny +2
Quantitative estimate of observational uncertainty is an essential ingredient to correctly interpret changes in climatic and environmental variables such as wildfires. In this work…
Cosmic History and a Candidate Parent Asteroid for the Quasicrystal-bearing Meteorite Khatyrka
Matthias M. M. Meier, Luca Bindi, Philipp R. Heck +8
The unique CV-type meteorite Khatyrka is the only natural sample in which "quasicrystals" and associated crystalline Cu,Al-alloys, including khatyrkite and cupalite, have been foun…
Quantitative estimates of the surface habitability of Kepler-452b
Laura Silva, Giovanni Vladilo, Giuseppe Murante +1
Kepler-452b is currently the best example of an Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a sun-like star, a type of planet whose number of detections is expected to increase in t…
From climate models to planetary habitability: temperature constraints for complex life
Laura Silva, Giovanni Vladilo, Patricia M. Schulte +2
In an effort to derive temperature based criteria of habitability for multicellular life, we investigated the thermal limits of terrestrial poikilotherms, i.e. organisms whose body…
Modeling the surface temperature of Earth-like planets
G. Vladilo, L. Silva, G. Murante +2
We introduce a novel Earth-like planet surface temperature model (ESTM) for habitability studies based on the spatial-temporal distribution of planetary surface temperatures. The E…
Generation of large-scale winds in horizontally anisotropic convection
J. von Hardenberg, D. Goluskin, A. Provenzale +1
We simulate three-dimensional, horizontally periodic Rayleigh-Bénard convection between free-slip horizontal plates, rotating about a distant horizontal axis. When both the tempera…
Crystal-chemistry and short-range order of fluoro-edenite and fluoro-pargasite: a combined x-ray diffraction and ftir spectroscopic approach
Giancarlo Della Ventura, Fabio Bellatreccia, Fernando Cámara +1
In this study we address the crystal-chemistry of a set of five samples of F-rich amphiboles from the Franklin marble (USA), using a combination of microchemical (EMPA), SREF, and…
The "Quantum Mousetrap": Entangled States and Gravitational Waves
Fabrizio Tamburini, Bruce A. Bassett, Carlo Ungarelli
We propose a "thought technique" for detecting Gravitational Waves using Einstein-Podolski-Rosen photon Entangled States. GWs decohere the entangled photon pairs, introduce a relat…
Non-local dilaton coupling to dark matter: cosmic acceleration and pressure backreaction
L. Amendola, M. Gasperini, C. Ungarelli
A model of non-local dilaton interactions, motivated by string duality symmetries, is applied to a scenario of "coupled quintessence" in which the dilaton dark energy is non-locall…