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Overview

Giorgio Spada is affiliated with the University of Bologna in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong emphasis on subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Archeology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Geophysics.

The scientist's work covers a variety of main topics, including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
  • Marine and environmental studies
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies

Giorgio Spada has contributed to numerous publications, with notable recent papers such as:

  • Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020 (2023), published in Earth System Science Data
  • Local sea level trends, accelerations and uncertainties over 1993-2019 (2021), in Scientific Data
  • Exploring the Drivers of Global and Local Sea-Level Change Over the 21st Century and Beyond (2020), in Earth's Future
  • Sea-level rise in Venice: historic and future trends (review article) (2021), in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
  • New insights into active tectonics and seismogenic potential of the Italian Southern Alps from vertical geodetic velocities (2020), in Solid Earth

The venues where Giorgio Spada frequently publishes include:

  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
  • PLoS ONE

Collaborations have been an integral part of Spada's research with frequent co-authors such as Daniele Melini, Matteo Vacchi, Fernando Linsalata, Gaia Galassi, and Nick Marriner.

Additionally, Giorgio Spada has authored a book titled Glacial Isostatic Adjustment, with publication by Springer International Publishing scheduled for 2025.

Best Publications

  • Mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet from 1992 to 2017.

    Andrew Shepherd;Erik Ivins;Eric Rignot;Ben Smith

  • Creep, relaxation and viscosity properties for basic fractional models in rheology

    F. Mainardi;G. Spada

  • Global sea-level budget 1993 - present

    Anny Cazenave;Benoit Meyssignac;Michael Ablain

  • Vertical GPS ground motion rates in the Euro-Mediterranean region: New evidence of velocity gradients at different spatial scales along the Nubia-Eurasia plate boundary

    Enrico Serpelloni;Claudio Faccenna;Giorgio Spada;Danan Dong

  • Multiproxy assessment of Holocene relative sea-level changes in the western Mediterranean: Sea-level variability and improvements in the definition of the isostatic signal

    Matteo Vacchi;Nick Marriner;Christophe Morhange;Giorgio Spada

  • Holocene relative sea-level changes and vertical movements along the Italian and Istrian coastlines

    Fabrizio Antonioli;Luigi Ferranti;Alessandro Fontana;Alessandro Amorosi

  • Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020

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  • SELEN: A Fortran 90 program for solving the sea-level equation

    G. Spada;P. Stocchi

  • Mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet (2003–2008) from ICESat data – the impact of interpolation, sampling and firn density

    Louise Sandberg Sørensen;Sebastian Bjerregaard Simonsen;Karina Nielsen;P. Lucas-Picher

  • Trends and acceleration in global and regional sea levels since 1807

    S. Jevrejeva;S. Jevrejeva;J. C. Moore;J. C. Moore;J. C. Moore;A. Grinsted;A. Grinsted;A. P. Matthews

  • MiR-146a as marker of senescence-associated pro-inflammatory status in cells involved in vascular remodelling

    Fabiola Olivieri;Raffaella Lazzarini;Rina Recchioni;Fiorella Marcheselli

  • A benchmark study for glacial isostatic adjustment codes

    Giorgio Spada;V.R. Barletta;Volker Klemann;R.E.M. Riva

  • Global post-seismic deformation

    Antonio Piersanti;Giorgio Spada;Roberto Sabadini;Maurizio Bonafede

  • Uncertainty in satellite estimates of global mean sea-level changes, trend and acceleration

    Michaël Ablain;Benoît Meyssignac;Lionel Zawadzki;Rémi Jugier

  • Present-day uplift of the European Alps: Evaluating mechanisms and models of their relative contributions

    Pietro Sternai;Christian Sue;Laurent Husson;Enrico Serpelloni

  • Polar wandering of a dynamic earth

    Yanick Ricard;Giorgio Spada;Giorgio Spada;Roberto Sabadini

  • Uncertainty of the 20th century sea-level rise due to vertical land motion errors

    Alvaro Santamaría-Gómez;Alvaro Santamaría-Gómez;Médéric Gravelle;Sönke Dangendorf;Marta Marcos

  • Excitation of true polar wander by subduction

    Giorgio Spada;Giorgio Spada;Yanick Ricard;Roberto Sabadini

  • Effects on post-glacial rebound from the hard rheology in the transition zone

    Giorgio Spada;Roberto Sabadini;Roberto Sabadini;David A. Yuen;Yanick Ricard

  • Sea-level variability in the Mediterranean Sea from altimetry and tide gauges

    A. Bonaduce;N. Pinardi;P. Oddo;P. Oddo;G. Spada

  • Global postseismic rebound of a viscoelastic Earth: Theory for finite faults and application to the 1964 Alaska earthquake

    A. Piersanti;Giorgio Spada;R. Sabadini

Frequent Co-Authors

Roberto Sabadini
Roberto Sabadini University of Milan
Yanick Ricard
Yanick Ricard École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Benoit Meyssignac
Benoit Meyssignac Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales
Francesco Mainardi
Francesco Mainardi National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Christophe Morhange
Christophe Morhange Aix-Marseille University
Riccardo Riva
Riccardo Riva Technical University of Denmark
Xavier Fettweis
Xavier Fettweis University of Liège
Nick Marriner
Nick Marriner University of Franche-Comté
Ben Marzeion
Ben Marzeion University of Bremen
Enzo Boschi
Enzo Boschi University of Bologna

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