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Scientific Publications:

 

2012

59) N. Scafetta, “The forgotten 60-year natural cycle and its significance for the development of our future climate.” (2012) Invited.  In F. Vahrenholt and S. Lüning, "Die kalte Sonne - Warum die Klimakatastrophe nicht stattfindet (The cold sun: Why the climate crisis is not happening)", (Hoffmann und Campe, Germany) in press.

 

58) N. Scafetta, “Testing an astronomically based decadal-scale empirical harmonic climate model versus the IPCC (2007) general circulation climate models” Journal of Atmospheric
and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, in press. DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2011.12.005. PDF

 

 

2011

 

57) N. Scafetta, “A shared frequency set between the historical mid-latitude aurora records and the global surface temperature” Journal of Atmospheric
and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 74, 145-163 (2011). DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2011.10.013. PDF

 

56) N. Scafetta, "Understanding the complexity of the Levy-walk nature of human mobility with a multi-scale cost/benefit model," Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (2011). PDF

 

55) N. Scafetta, "Total Solar Irradiance Satellite Composites and their Phenomenological Effect on Climate," chapter 12, pag 289-316. (In "Evidence-Based Climate Science: Data opposing CO2 emissions as the primary source of global warming" edited by Don Easterbrook, Elsevier) (2011). PDF

 

54) A. Mazzarella and N. Scafetta, "Evidences for a quasi 60-year North Atlantic Oscillation since 1700 and its meaning for global climate change," Theor. Appl. Climatol., DOI 10.1007/s00704-011-0499-4 (2011). PDF

 

53) C. Loehle and N. Scafetta, "Climate Change Attribution Using Empirical Decomposition of Climatic Data," The Open Atmospheric Science Journal, 5, 74-86 (2011). PDF

 

2010

 

52) N. Scafetta, “I cicli climatici e le loro implicazioni” (Climate cycles and their implications), (invited article), Bollettino della Scuola Normale di Pisa 13(2), 6-10 (2010). PDF

 

51) N. Scafetta and B. J. West, "Comment on `Testing hypotheses about Sun-climate complexity linking' " Phys. Rev. Lett. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.219801 (2010). PDF

50) N. Scafetta, “Empirical evidence for a celestial origin of the climate oscillations and its implications”. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 72, 951–970 (2010), doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2010.04.015  PDF

 

49) N. Scafetta, “I cambiamenti climatici sono regolati da cicli naturali di origine astronomica” (“Climate change is regulated by natural cycles with an astronomical orogins”) (invited article)  21mo Secolo, Scienza e Tecnologia 2,  5-10 (2010). PDF

 

48) N. Scafetta,  “Climate Change and Its Causes, A Discussion About Some Key Issues”, SPPI original paper, March 4 (2010). PDF

 

 

47) N. Scafetta, “I cambi climatici e le loro cause, una discussione su alcuni punti chiave”, (invited article)  La Chimica e l’Industria 1, page 70-75 (2010). PDF

 

2009

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

45) 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

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

43) Nicola Scafetta and Richard 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

2008

42) Nicola Scafetta and Bruce J. West, reply letter in "Variation on Sun's role in climate change," Physics Today, October, page 10-16 (2008).

41) 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

40) Nicola Scafetta, "Comment on ``Heat capacity, time constant, and sensitivity of Earth's climate system' by Schwartz." In press on J. Geophys. Res. (2008). PDF

39) Erik Kabela and Nicola Scafetta, “Solar Effect and Climate Change,” BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY Volume: 89 Issue: 1 Pages: 34-35 Published: 2008  PDF

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

37) Ivy F. Forkner, Claude A. Piantadosi, Nicola Scafetta, Richard E. Moon, “Hyperoxia-Induced Tissue Hypoxia: A Danger?Reply to MS #200707041,”, Anesthesiology, 108  169-170  Article Number: ISSN 0003-3022 Article Number: ISSN 0003-3022 (2007-8). PDF

2007

36) Nicola Scafetta, and Bruce J. West, “Phenomenological reconstructions of the solar signature in the NH surface temperature records since 1600.” J. Geophys. Res., 112, D24S03, doi:10.1029/2007JD008437 (2007).   PDF

35) Nicola Scafetta, and Bruce J. West, “Emergence of bi-fractal time series from noise via allometric filters.” European Physical Letters 79, 30003, (2007).  PDF

34) Ivy F. Forkner, Claude A. Piantadosi, Nicola Scafetta, Richard E. Moon, “Hyperoxia-Induced Tissue Hypoxia: A Danger?,” Anesthesiology 106, 1051-5 (2007). PDF

33) Nicola Scafetta, Richard Moon, and Bruce J. West, “Fractal Response of Physiological Signals to Stress Conditions, Environmental Changes and Neurodegenerative Diseases,” Complexity 12, 12-17 (2007).   PDF

32) Nicola Scafetta, and Bruce J. West, “Probability distributions in conservative energy exchange models of multiple interacting agents”, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 19 065138 (18pp) doi:10.1088/0953-8984/19/6/065138 (2007). PDF

 

2006

(31) Nicola Scafetta, Richard Moon, and Bruce J. West, “Physiological signals and their fractal response to stress conditions, environmental changes and neurodegenerative diseases. ” in the proceedings of The 25th Army Science Conference (ASC),Orlando, Florida, November 27-30, (2006).

(30) Nicola Scafetta and Bruce J. West ,Phenomenological solar signature in 400 years of reconstructed Northern Hemisphere temperature record,” Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, doi:10.1029/2006GL027142. (2006). PDF

(29) Nicola Scafetta and Bruce J. West, ‘‘Reply to comments by J. Lean on “Estimated solar contribution to the global surface warming using the ACRIM TSI satellite composite”, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, doi:10.1029/2006GL025668. (2006). PDF

(28) Richard Moon, Lynn Eschenbacher and Nicola Scafetta, “Perioperative Respiratory Depression and Monitoring”, chapter in Pain Management and Patient-Controlled Analgesia: Improving Safety and Quality of Care, Proceedings from The Sixth Conference Center for Medication Safety and Clinical Improvement San Diego, CA. (2006).

 (27) Nicola Scafetta and Bruce J. West, “Phenomenological solar contribution to the 1900-2000 global surface warming, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L05708, doi:10.1029/2005GL025539 (2006). PDF

(26) Nicola Scafetta, Asok Ray and Bruce J. West, “Correlation regimes in fluctuations of fatigue crack growth,” Physica A 359, 1-23 (2006). PDF

 

2005

 (25) Nicola Scafetta and Bruce J. West, “Estimated solar contribution to the global surface warming using the ACRIM TSI satellite composite,” Geophys. Res. Lett., 32(24), doi:10.1029/2005GL023849 (2005). PDF

(24) Nicola Scafetta and Bruce J. West, “Multiscaling comparative analysis of time series and geophysical phenomena,” Complexity 10(4) 51-56.        PDF

(23) Bruce J. West and Nicola Scafetta, “A Multifractal Dynamical Model of Human Gait”, Conference proceedings of the International Symposium on Fractals in Biology and Medicine vol. IV, in Ascona, Switzerland March 9. Preprint PDF

 2004

(22) Nicola Scafetta and Bruce J. West, “Multi-scaling comparative analysis of time series and a discussion on ‘earthquake conversations’ in California” Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 138501 (2004). PDF

 (21) Bruce J. West, Nicola Scafetta, William Cooke and Rita Balocchi, “Influence of progressive central hypovolemia on multifractal dimension of cardiac interbeat intervals,” Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 32 1077-1087 (2004).  PDF

 (20) Nicola Scafetta, Sergio Picozzi and Bruce J. West, “An out-of-equilibrium model of the distributions of wealth” Quantitative Finance 4, 353-364 (2004). PDF

 (19) Nicola Scafetta, Bruce J. West and Sergio Picozzi, “A trade-investment model for distribution of wealth,” on a special issue of Physica D "Anomalous Distributions, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Nonextensivity" 193 338–352 (2004). PDF

 (18) Nicola Scafetta, Paolo Grigolini, Patti Hamilton and Bruce J. West, “Non-extensive diffusion entropy analysis and teen birth phenomena,” Chapter in: “Nonextensive Entropy: Interdisciplinary Applications,” M. Gell-Mann and C. Tsallis Eds., Oxford University Press (2004). Preprint PDF

 (17) Nicola Scafetta, Timothy Imholt, J.A. Roberts and Bruce J. West, “An intensity-expansion method to treat non-stationary time series: an application to the distance between prime numbers.” Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 20, 179 (2004). PDF

 (16) Nicola Scafetta and Bruce J. West, “Multiresolution Diffusion Entropy Analysis of time series: an application to births to teenagers in Texas” Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 20, 119 (2004). PDF

 (15) Nicola Scafetta, Paolo Grigolini, Timothy Imholt, J.A. Roberts and Bruce J. West, “Solar turbulence in earth's global and regional temperature anomalies” Phys. Rev. E 69, 026303 (2004).     PDF

 (14) Nicola Scafetta, Elizabeth Restrepo and Bruce J. West, “Seasonality of birth and conception to teenagers in Texas” Social Biology, 50 (1-2) 1-22 (2004).    PDF

 (13) Nicola Scafetta and Bruce J. West, “Complexity, multiresolution, non-stationarity and entropic scaling: Teen birth thermodynamics” Journal of Mathematical Sociology Volume 28, Number 4 / October–December, 229 - 259 (2004). PDF

 2003

(12) P. Allegrini, V. Benci, P. Grigolini, P. Hamilton, M. Ignaccolo, G. Menconi, L. Palatella, G. Raffaelli, Nicola Scafetta, M. Virgilio, J. Yang, “Compression and Diffusion: A Joint Approach to Detect Complexity,” Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 15 (3), 517-535 (2003). PDF

 (11) Nicola Scafetta, Lori Griffin and Bruce J. West, “Holder exponent spectra for human gait,” Physica A 328, 561, 15 Oct (2003). PDF

 (10) Bruce J. West and Nicola Scafetta, “A non linear model for human gait,” Phys. Rev. E 67, 051917 (2003). Selected for the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research 5 June 1, 2003. PDF

 (9) Nicola Scafetta and Bruce J. West, “Solar Flare Intermittency and the Earth's Temperature Anomalies,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 248701 (2003). PDF

 2002

(8) Paolo Grigolini, Deborah Leddon, Nicola Scafetta, “The Diffusion entropy and waiting time statistics of hard x-ray solar flares,” Phys. Rev. E 65, 046203 (2002). PDF

 (7) Nicola Scafetta, Vito Latora and Paolo Grigolini, “Lévy statistics in coding and non-coding nucleotide sequences,” Physics Letters A 299 (5-6), 565-570 (2002). PDF

 (6) Nicola Scafetta, Vito Latora and Paolo Grigolini, “Lévy Scaling: The diffusion entropy method applied to the DNA sequences,” Phys. Rev. E 66, 031906 (2002). Selected for the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research 4 Oct. 1, 2002. PDF

 (5) Nicola Scafetta, and Paolo Grigolini, “Scaling detection in time series: diffusion entropy analysis,” Phys. Rev. E 66, 036130 (2002). PDF

 2001

(4) Gerardo Aquino, Paolo Grigolini, Nicola Scafetta, “Sporadic Randomness, Maxwell's Demon and the Poincare' recurrence times,” Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 12, 2023-2038 (2001). PDF

 (3) Nicola Scafetta, Patti Hamilton and Paolo Grigolini, “The Thermodynamics of Social Process: the Teen Birth Phenomenon,” Fractals, 9, 193-208 (2001). PDF

 (2) Nicola Scafetta, “An entropic approach to the analysis of time series.” Ph. D. Dissertation, University of North Texas (USA) Physics (2001). PDF

 1997

(1) Nicola Scafetta, “Breakdown of the Renormalization group approach to slow relaxation processes.” Tesi di laurea: Universitadi Pisa (Italy) Physics, (1997).