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Solar activity in the last millennium recorded in the δ18O profile of planktonic foraminifera of a shallow water Ionian Sea core
In this paper we present the δ18O profile of Globigerinoides ruber measured in the GT90/3 shallow water Ionian sea core, dated with high precision. The δ18O profile covers the period 1200–1900 AD, with a resoluti...
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Radio-acoustic temperature profiling in the troposphere
The RASS can measure thermal vertical profiles of the lower atmosphere with an accuracy generally within a few tenths K. Several systems have been designed and built with different purposes. The RASS of the fi...
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Record of galactic-cosmic-ray variations in terrestrial archives and meteorites
A fundamental contribution to the understanding of several physical processes influencing the galactic-cosmic-ray (GCR) variations can be given by proxy data of the past GCR flux obtained in terrestrial archiv...
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Similar response to climate stage 3 (20–62 ky BP) in Mediterranean and Bahama carbonate records
In this paper, we compare the carbonate record obtained by us (Cini-Castagnoliet al., Nuovo Cimento C,15 (1992) 547) in the CT85-5 Tyrrhenian deep-sea core with that obtained by Kegwin and Jones (J. Geophys. Res....
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Long-lasting fog episode monitored by radioacoustic systems
A long-lasting and deep-fog episode, occurred in the western region of the Po Valley (Italy) during February 1992, has been studied by means of remote-sensing systems, coupled to more conventional meteorologic...
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On the cosmogenic radionuclides in meteorites
Different fluxes and spectra of galactic cosmic rays (GCR) and solar cosmic rays result in a wide variety of radioactive and stable-nuclides production rates. The records of cosmic-ray interactions, have been ...
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Study of local scaling in the stable atmospheric boundary layer for the evaluation of turbulence parameters
A renewed interest in the dynamic and thermal structure of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) has recently revived, due to the contribution that this layer can provide to the improvement of skill of weather ...
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Solar magnetic and bolometric cycles recorded in sea sediments
The total carbonate and thermoluminescence (TL) profiles of the GT89-3 Ionian sea sediment core have been measured in the upper 200 cm of the core spanning the last 3100 years in order to test the presence of ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The 10.8 Years Solar Cycle Recorded in Sea Sediments During the Last 4000 Years
The thermoluminescence (TL) and carbonate profiles are measured in shallow water Ionian Sea cores, dated precisely by radiometric and tephroanalysis methods. Their time series, covering the last 4000 years, ar...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Solar Magnetic and Bolometric Cycles Recorded in Sea Sediments
The total carbonate and thermoluminescence (TL) profiles of the GT89-3 Ionian sea sediment core have been measured in the upper 200 cm of the core spanning the last 3100 years in order to test the presence of ...
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Thermoluminescence in sea sediments during the cosmogenic isotopes enhancement 35000 y BP
We have measured the thermoluminescence (TL) profile of the Mediterranean Sea core CT85.5 at the same depths where the cosmogenic-isotope10Be production peak at 35 ky BP was found. Strong TL peaks are evident at ...
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Cronologia dei sedimenti marini costali e fenomeni cosmogeofisici negli ultimi 5000 anni
The total carbonate deposited as CaCO3 in four recent Ionian Sea sediment cores spanning the last 5000 years is analysed. The thermoluminescence (TL) in one of these cores, spanning the last 2000 years, is also s...
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Radiometric and tephroanalysis dating of recent Ionian Sea cores
An accurate dating of recent Ionian Sea sediment cores has been performed by the210Pb radiometric method and by a detailed tephroanalysis. The markers of the historical volcanic eruptions which occurred in the Ca...
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Measurement of44Ti(44Sc) in meteorites
The measurement of44Ti produced by spallation reaction of cosmic rays in meteorites fell in the last hundred years can be used for investigations on century-scale variations of solar activity. The low specific ac...
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The CaCO3 profiles of deep and shallow Mediterranean sea cores as indicators of past solar-terrestrial relationships
We study the total carbonate profiles of three coastal cores extracted from the continental shelf in the Ionian Sea and of two deep-sea cores extracted from the Tyrrhenian abissal plane. An overall similarity ...
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Measurement of cosmogenic radionuclides in meteorites with a sensitive gamma-ray spectrometer
A large-volume HPGe gamma-ray spectrometer in a NaI(Tl) well has been set up underground at 70 m.w.e. depth for whole body counting of cosmogenic radionuclides in meteorites. The detectors are housed in a 20 c...
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On the solar origin of the thermoluminescence profile of the GT14 core
The thermoluminescence (TL) profile of the GT14 Ionian Sea core has been recently analyzed in connection with other records of solar activity. Phenomenological similarities among the TL profile, the radiocarbo...
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Evolution of the atmospheric convective boundary layer monitored by the metric RASS
The automatic metric RASS (Radio Acoustic Sounding System), operating at an acoustic wavelength ∼1 m, proved to be able to measure continuously the thermal vertical profiles as far as about 1 km in 50% of soun...
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The thermoluminescence profile of a recent sea sediment core and the solar variability
The analysis of the thermoluminescence (TL) profile of the GT14 recent sea sedimentary core shows the existence of four main periodicities of 137.7, 59,12.06, and 10.8 years. Here we discuss the affinity of th...
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Solar Imprint in Sea Sediments: The Thermoluminescence Profile as a New Proxy Record
A new method for tracing the solar behaviour in the past is proposed. We show that the relative thermoluminescence signals from the different layers of a recent mud carbonate sediment core, measured as a funct...
