Nicola Scafetta, PhD

Research Scientist, Duke University

 

 

Department of Physics

Duke University

 

Office Location: 219 FEL

Office Phone: (919) 660-2643

Office Fax: (919) 660-2671

 

Email Address 1: ns2002@duke.edu

Email Address 2: nicola.scafetta@gmail.com

 

 

Curriculum Vitae (06/Dec/2009): PDF

Teaching: (web-page)


 

Interest:

My research interest is in theoretical and applied statistics and nonlinear models of complex processes with applications in several fields: astronomy, biology, climatology, economy, geology, medicine and social biology. I am currently studying solar and astronomical causes of climate change and modeling of physiological systems for diagnosing hypoxia and hyperoxia risk patients.  

 

Collaboration:

1) Duke Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental Physiology

2) Total Solar Irradiance experiment: Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor: ACRIM-SAT Experiment

                                                                                  

Conference on video (All conferences):

Climate Change and Its causes: A Discussion about Some Key Issues”  Nicola Scafetta. Invited author at the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, DC USA, February 26, 2009.

 

Books:

1) (Contributor author of) Climate Change Reconsidered: The Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC).: editors S. Fred Singer and Craig Idso. Chicago, IL: The Heartland Institute, 2009.

2) (Next publication) “Disrupted Networks: from physics to climate change,” Bruce J. West and Nicola Scafetta (2009-2010).

 

Selected Recent Publications (All publications):

N. Scafetta and B. J. West, "Interpretations of climate-change data," Physics Today, November, page 8-10 (2009). PDF

N. Scafetta, “Empirical analysis of the solar contribution to global mean air surface temperature change,” Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 71 1916–1923 (2009), doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2009.07.007. PDF

N. Scafetta, “Total solar irradiance satellite composites and their phenomenological effect on climate," In press on a special volume for the Geological Society of America. (2009). PDF

N. Scafetta, D. Marchi and B. J. West, “Understanding the complexity of human gait dynamics,” Chaos 19, 026108 (2009). PDF

N. Scafetta and R. Willson, “ACRIM-gap and Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) trend issue resolved using a surface magnetic flux TSI proxy model”, Geophysical Research Letter 36, L05701, doi:10.1029/2008GL036307 (2009). PDF Supporting material PDF

K. F. Froehlich, M. R. Graham, T. G. Buchman, L. G. Girling, N. Scafetta, B. J. West, E.K-Y. Walker, B.M. McManus and W. A. C. Mutch, “Physiological Noise versus White Noise to Drive a Variable Ventilator in a Porcine Model of Lung Injury,” Canadian Journal of Anesthesia 55(9) 572 - 576 (2008). PDF

N. Scafetta and B. J. West, “Is climate sensitive to solar variability?” Physics Today 3, 50-51 (2008). PDF

N. Scafetta, "Comment on ``Heat capacity, time constant, and sensitivity of Earth's climate system' by Schwartz." J. Geophys. Res., 113, D15104, doi:10.1029/2007JD009586. (2008). PDF

E. Kabela and N. Scafetta, “Solar Effect and Climate Change,” Bulletin of the american meteorological society, 89 -1, 34-35 (2008). PDF