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Alcide di Sarra is affiliated with Ca Foscari University of Venice in Italy. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on atmospheric and environmental processes.

Their work is heavily concentrated in subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography, with additional contributions in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis as well as Ecology.

The key topics in their publications cover atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, marine and coastal ecosystems, coral and marine ecosystems studies, and water quality monitoring and analysis.

Alcide di Sarra's recent papers include:

  • The fingerprint of the summer 2018 drought in Europe on ground-based atmospheric CO2 measurements, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Does solar ultraviolet radiation play a role in COVID-19 infection and deaths? An environmental ecological study in Italy, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Vegetation type is an important predictor of the arctic summer land surface energy budget, 2022, Nature Communications
  • A wide-ranging investigation of the COVID-19 lockdown effects on the atmospheric composition in various Italian urban sites (AER - LOCUS), 2021, Urban Climate
  • Record-breaking persistence of the 2022/23 marine heatwave in the Mediterranean Sea, 2023, Environmental Research Letters

The researcher frequently publishes in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Remote Sensing, AIP conference proceedings, The Science of The Total Environment, and Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Among frequent co-authors are Daniela Meloni, Giandomenico Pace, Tatiana Di Iorio, Damiano Sferlazzo, and Giovanni Muscari.

Best Publications

  • Atmospheric Brown Clouds in the Himalayas: first two years of continuous observations at the Nepal Climate Observatory-Pyramid (5079 m)

    P. Bonasoni;Paolo Laj;A. Marinoni;M. Sprenger

  • Seven years of recent European net terrestrial carbon dioxide exchange constrained by atmospheric observations

    W. Peters;W. Peters;M. C. Krol;G. R. van der Werf;S. Houweling

  • Influence of the vertical profile of Saharan dust on the visible direct radiative forcing

    Daniela Meloni;Daniela Meloni;Alcide di Sarra;Tatiana Di Iorio;Giorgio Fiocco

  • Evidence for heavy fuel oil combustion aerosols from chemical analyses at the island of Lampedusa: a possible large role of ships emissions in the Mediterranean

    Silvia Becagli;D. M. Sferlazzo;G. Pace;A. di Sarra

  • Seasonal behavior of Saharan dust events at the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa in the period 1999-2005

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  • Overview of the Chemistry-Aerosol Mediterranean Experiment/Aerosol Direct Radiative Forcing on the Mediterranean Climate (ChArMEx/ADRIMED) summer 2013 campaign

    Marc Mallet;François Dulac;Paola Formenti;Pierre Nabat

  • Aerosol optical properties at Lampedusa (Central Mediterranean). 2. Determination of single scattering albedo at two wavelengths for different aerosol types

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  • Large atmospheric shortwave radiative forcing by Mediterranean aerosols derived from simultaneous ground‐based and spaceborne observations and dependence on the aerosol type and single scattering albedo

    Claudia Di Biagio;Alcide di Sarra;Daniela Meloni

  • Seasonal transport patterns of intense Saharan dust events at the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa

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  • Forest fire aerosol over the Mediterranean basin during summer 2003

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  • Saharan dust profiles measured by lidar at Lampedusa

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  • Saharan dust aerosol over the central Mediterranean Sea: PM10 chemical composition and concentration versus optical columnar measurements

    M. Marconi;D. M. Sferlazzo;S. Becagli;C. Bommarito

  • Influence of transport and trends in atmospheric CO2 at Lampedusa

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  • Effects of desert dust and ozone on the ultraviolet irradiance at the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa during PAUR II

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  • Relationships linking primary production, sea ice melting, and biogenic aerosol in the Arctic

    Silvia Becagli;Luigi Lazzara;C. Marchese;U. Dayan

  • Shortwave and longwave radiative effects of the intense Saharan dust event of 25–26 March 2010 at Lampedusa (Mediterranean Sea)

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  • Measurements of Mediterranean aerosol radiative forcing and influence of the single scattering albedo

    Claudia Di Biagio;Alcide di Sarra;Daniela Meloni;Francesco Monteleone

  • A new approach to correct for absorbing aerosols in OMI UV

    A. Arola;S. Kazadzis;A. Lindfors;A. Lindfors;N. Krotkov

  • Constraining the ship contribution to the aerosol of the central Mediterranean

    Silvia Becagli;Fabrizio Anello;Carlo Bommarito;Federico Cassola

  • Quantification of Saharan dust contribution to PM10 concentrations over Italy during 2003–2005

    A. Pederzoli;M. Mircea;S. Finardi;A. di Sarra

  • UV Index monitoring in Europe

    Alois W. Schmalwieser;Julian Gröbner;Mario Blumthaler;Barbara Klotz

  • Variability of mineral dust deposition in the western Mediterranean basin and South-East of France

    Julie Vincent;Benoit Laurent;Rémi Losno;Rémi Losno;Elisabeth Bon Nguyen

  • Comparison of ground‐based and Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer erythemal UV doses at the island of Lampedusa in the period 1998–2003: Role of tropospheric aerosols

    D. Meloni;D. Meloni;A. di Sarra;J. R. Herman;F. Monteleone

  • Absolute determination of the cross sections of ozone in the wavelength region 339–355 nm at temperatures 220–293 K

    Marco Cacciani;Alcide di Sarra;Giorgio Fiocco;Antonella Amoruso

  • Altitude‐resolved shortwave and longwave radiative effects of desert dust in the Mediterranean during the GAMARF campaign: Indications of a net daily cooling in the dust layer

    D. Meloni;W. Junkermann;A. di Sarra;M. Cacciani

  • Does solar ultraviolet radiation play a role in COVID-19 infection and deaths? An environmental ecological study in Italy.

    Giancarlo Isaia;Giancarlo Isaia;Henri Diémoz;Francesco Maluta;Ilias Fountoulakis

  • Characterization of PM 10 sources in the central Mediterranean

    Giulia Calzolai;Silvia Nava;Franco Lucarelli;Massimo Chiari

  • The impact of Mount Etna sulfur emissions on the atmospheric composition and aerosol properties in the central Mediterranean: A statistical analysis over the period 2000–2013 based on observations and Lagrangian modelling

    Pasquale Sellitto;Claudia Zanetel;Alcide di Sarra;Giuseppe Salerno

Frequent Co-Authors

Silvia Becagli
Silvia Becagli University of Florence
Paolo Di Girolamo
Paolo Di Girolamo University of Basilicata
Rita Traversi
Rita Traversi University of Florence
Mirko Severi
Mirko Severi University of Florence
Paolo Bonasoni
Paolo Bonasoni Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
Roberto Udisti
Roberto Udisti University of Florence
Giuseppe Salerno
Giuseppe Salerno National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Bernard Legras
Bernard Legras Sorbonne University
Marc Mallet
Marc Mallet University of Tasmania
Rosalia Santoleri
Rosalia Santoleri National Research Council (CNR)

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