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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:
Universita’ di Pisa (Italy)
Physics, (1997).