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Barbara Delmonte is affiliated with the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant number of publications in Environmental Science as well. Specific subfields include Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The scientist's main topics of work cover a variety of areas: Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Cryospheric studies and observations, Polar Research and Ecology, Aeolian processes and effects, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Climate variability and models, and Radioactive contamination and transfer.

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations include Valter Maggi, Giovanni Baccolo, Jefferson Cárdia Simões, Rafael S. dos Reis, and Elena Di Stefano.

Delmonte's publication record spans several journals and venues, with multiple papers published in The Cryosphere, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Quaternary Science Reviews, Scientific Reports, and Nature Communications.

Significant recent papers include:

  • Cryoconite: an efficient accumulator of radioactive fallout in glacial environments, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • Jarosite formation in deep Antarctic ice provides a window into acidic, water-limited weathering on Mars, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Artificial and natural radionuclides in cryoconite as tracers of supraglacial dynamics: Insights from the Morteratsch glacier (Swiss Alps), 2020, CATENA
  • Two-dimensional impurity imaging in deep Antarctic ice cores: snapshots of three climatic periods and implications for high-resolution signal interpretation, 2021, The Cryosphere
  • South African dust contribution to the high southern latitudes and East Antarctica during interglacial stages, 2022, Communications Earth & Environment

Best Publications

  • Eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core

    Laurent Augustin;Carlo Barbante;Piers R. F. Barnes;Jean Marc Barnola

  • One-to-one coupling of glacial climate variability in Greenland and Antarctica.

    C. Barbante;J.-M. Barnola;J.-M. Barnola;S. Becagli;J. Beer;J. Beer

  • Dust-climate couplings over the past 800,000 years from the EPICA Dome C ice core

    F. Lambert;B. Delmonte;J.R. Petit;M. Bigler;M. Bigler

  • Comparing the Epica and Vostok dust records during the last 220,000 years: stratigraphical correlation and provenance in glacial periods

    B. Delmonte;B. Delmonte;I. Basile-Doelsch;J. R. Petit;V. Maggi

  • Expression of the bipolar see-saw in Antarctic climate records during the last deglaciation

    B. Stenni;D. Buiron;M. Frezzotti;S. Albani

  • Glacial to Holocene implications of the new 27000-year dust record from the EPICA Dome C (East Antarctica) ice core

    B. Delmonte;J. R. Petit;V. Maggi

  • Eastern Australia: A possible source of dust in East Antarctica interglacial ice

    M Revel-Rolland;P De Deckker;B Delmonte;P. P Hesse

  • Mineral dust impact on snow radiative properties in the European Alps combining ground, UAV, and satellite observations

    B Di Mauro;F. Fava;Luca Ferrero;R. Garzonio

  • Aeolian dust in East Antarctica (EPICA‐Dome C and Vostok): Provenance during glacial ages over the last 800 kyr

    Barbara Delmonte;Per Andersson;Margareta Hansson;Hans Schöberg

  • Dust size evidence for opposite regional atmospheric circulation changes over east Antarctica during the last climatic transition

    B. Delmonte;J. R. Petit;K. K. Andersen;I. Basile-Doelsch

  • Geographic provenance of aeolian dust in East Antarctica during Pleistocene glaciations: preliminary results from Talos Dome and comparison with East Antarctic and new Andean ice core data

    B. Delmonte;P. S. Andersson;H. Schöberg;M. Hansson

  • Twelve thousand years of dust: the Holocene global dust cycle constrained by natural archives

    S. Albani;S. Albani;N. M. Mahowald;G. Winckler;R. F. Anderson

  • Effect of impurities on grain growth in cold ice sheets

    G. Durand;G. Durand;J. Weiss;V. Lipenkov;J. M. Barnola

  • Comparing modeled and observed changes in mineral dust transport and deposition to Antarctica between the Last Glacial Maximum and current climates

    Samuel Albani;Samuel Albani;Samuel Albani;Natalie M. Mahowald;Barbara Delmonte;Valter Maggi

  • Characteristics and sources of tephra layers in the EPICA-Dome C ice record (East Antarctica): Implications for past atmospheric circulation and ice core stratigraphic correlations

    B. Narcisi;Jean-Robert Petit;B. Delmonte;B. Delmonte;I. Basile-Doelsch

  • A major glacial-interglacial change in aeolian dust composition inferred from Rare Earth Elements in Antarctic ice

    Paolo Gabrielli;Paolo Gabrielli;Anna Wegner;Jean-Robert Petit;Barbara Delmonte

  • Aeolian dust in the Talos Dome ice core (East Antarctica, Pacific/Ross Sea sector): Victoria Land versus remote sources over the last two climate cycles†

    Barbara Delmonte;Carlo Baroni;Per S. Andersson;Hans Schoberg

  • Paleodust variability since the Last Glacial Maximum and implications for iron inputs to the ocean

    S. Albani;S. Albani;N. M. Mahowald;L. N. Murphy;R. Raiswell

  • Lead isotopic compositions in the EPICA Dome C ice core and Southern Hemisphere Potential Source Areas

    P Vallelonga;P Gabrielli;Eleonora Balliana;Eleonora Balliana;A Wegner

  • Proxies and Measurement Techniques for Mineral Dust in Antarctic Ice Cores

    Urs Ruth;Carlo Barbante;Matthias S. Bigler;Barbara Delmonte

  • East Greenland ice core dust record reveals timing of Greenland ice sheet advance and retreat

    Marius Folden Simonsen;Giovanni Baccolo;Thomas Blunier;Alejandra Borunda

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias Bigler
Matthias Bigler University of Bern
Carlo Barbante
Carlo Barbante Ca Foscari University of Venice
Samuel Albani
Samuel Albani University of Milano-Bicocca
Barbara Stenni
Barbara Stenni Ca Foscari University of Venice
Roberto Udisti
Roberto Udisti University of Florence
Paolo Gabrielli
Paolo Gabrielli The Ohio State University
J. R. Petit
J. R. Petit Grenoble Alpes University
Margareta Hansson
Margareta Hansson Stockholm University
Thomas F. Stocker
Thomas F. Stocker University of Bern
Hubertus Fischer
Hubertus Fischer University of Bern

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