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Overview

Mimmo Palano is affiliated with the University of Catania in Italy, focusing research activities primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences. This field is further specialized into several subfields including Geophysics, Aerospace Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Artificial Intelligence, and Atmospheric Science.

The research topics explored include earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, geological and geophysical studies worldwide, high-pressure geophysics and materials, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) applications and techniques, GNSS positioning and interference, and seismic waves and analysis.

Frequent coauthors in Mimmo Palano's work include Federica Sparacino, Giuseppe Pezzo, José Fernández, Andrea Billi, and C. Chiarabba. Collaboration with these researchers occurs consistently across multiple publications.

Publication venues where Mimmo Palano has contributed frequently include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Remote Sensing, Scientific Reports, Earth-Science Reviews, and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Recent papers authored or coauthored demonstrate a focus on geophysical and geodynamic topics and their implications:

  • Detection of volcanic unrest onset in La Palma, Canary Islands, evolution and implications, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Geodetic Deformation versus Seismic Crustal Moment-Rates: Insights from the Ibero-Maghrebian Region, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Geodynamics, geophysical and geochemical observations, and the role of CO2 degassing in the Apennines, 2022, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Retracing the Africa-Eurasia nascent convergent boundary in the western Mediterranean based on earthquake and GNSS data, 2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Active Fold-Thrust Belt to Foreland Transition in Northern Adria, Italy, Tracked by Seismic Reflection Profiles and GPS Offshore Data, 2020, Tectonics

Best Publications

  • The 2011 Lorca earthquake slip distribution controlled by groundwater crustal unloading

    Pablo J. González;Kristy F. Tiampo;Mimmo Palano;Flavio Cannavó

  • GPS velocity and strain fields in Sicily and southern Calabria, Italy: updated geodetic constraints on tectonic block interaction in the central Mediterranean

    Mimmo Palano;Luigi Ferranti;Carmelo Monaco;Mario Mattia

  • GPS velocity and strain fields in Sicily and southern Calabria, Italy: updated geodetic constraints on tectonic block interaction in the central Mediterranean

    M. Palano;L. Ferranti;C. Monaco;M. Mattia

  • Feeding system and magma storage beneath Mt. Etna as revealed by recent inflation/deflation cycles

    Alessandro Bonforte;Alessandro Bonaccorso;Francesco Guglielmino;Mimmo Palano

  • The Diffuse Plate boundary of Nubia and Iberia in the Western Mediterranean: Crustal deformation evidence for viscous coupling and fragmented lithosphere

    Mimmo Palano;Pablo J. González;José Fernández

  • Ground deformation patterns at Mt. Etna from 1993 to 2000 from joint use of InSAR and GPS techniques

    M. Palano;G. Puglisi;S. Gresta

  • Composite ground deformation pattern forerunning the 2004–2005 Mount Etna eruption

    Alessandro Bonaccorso;Alessandro Bonforte;Francesco Guglielmino;Mimmo Palano

  • Twenty-year advanced DInSAR analysis of severe land subsidence: The Alto Guadalentín Basin (Spain) case study

    Roberta Bonì;Gerardo Herrera;Gerardo Herrera;Claudia Meisina;Davide Notti;Davide Notti

  • On the present-day crustal stress, strain-rate fields and mantle anisotropy pattern of Italy

    Mimmo Palano

  • Strain and stress fields along the Gibraltar Orogenic Arc: Constraints on active geodynamics

    Mimmo Palano;Pablo J. González;José Fernández

  • Dynamics of Mount Etna before, during, and after the July-August 2001 eruption inferred from GPS and differential synthetic aperture radar interferometry data

    Giuseppe Puglisi;Alessandro Bonforte;Alessandro Ferretti;Francesco Guglielmino

  • Current stress and strain-rate fields across the Dead Sea Fault System: Constraints from seismological data and GPS observations

    Mimmo Palano;Paola Imprescia;Stefano Gresta

  • Possible role of fluid overpressure in the generation of earthquake swarms in active tectonic areas: The case of the Peloritani Mts. (Sicily, Italy)

    S. Giammanco;M. Palano;A. Scaltrito;L. Scarfì

  • Etn@ref: a geodetic reference frame for Mt. Etna GPS networks

    Mimmo Palano;Massimo Rossi;Flavio Cannavò;Valentina Bruno

  • Foreland segmentation along an active convergent margin: New constraints in southeastern Sicily (Italy) from seismic and geodetic observations

    Carla Musumeci;Luciano Scarfì;Mimmo Palano;Domenico Patanè;Domenico Patanè

  • Detection of volcanic unrest onset in La Palma, Canary Islands, evolution and implications

    José Fernández;Joaquín Escayo;Zhongbo Hu;Antonio G Camacho

  • Are the source models of the M 7.1 1908 Messina Straits earthquake reliable? Insights from a novel inversion and a sensitivity analysis of levelling data

    M. Aloisi;V. Bruno;F. Cannavò;L. Ferranti

  • Rates of geodetic deformation across active faults in southern Italy

    Luigi Ferranti;Mimmo Palano;Flavio Cannavò;Maria Enrica Mazzella

  • Modeling the two- and three-dimensional displacement field in Lorca, Spain, subsidence and the global implications.

    Jose Fernandez;Juan F. Prieto;Joaquin Escayo;Antonio G. Camacho

  • Imaging the multi‐level magma reservoir at Mt. Etna volcano (Italy)

    Marco Aloisi;Mario Mattia;Carmelo Ferlito;Mimmo Palano

  • Space-Time Evolution of Magma Storage and Transfer at Mt. Etna Volcano (Italy): The 2015-2016 Reawakening of Voragine Crater

    Andrea Cannata;Andrea Cannata;Giuseppe Di Grazia;Marisa Giuffrida;Stefano Gresta

  • Ground deformations and volcanic processes as imaged by CGPS data at Mt. Etna (Italy) between 2003 and 2008

    Valentina Bruno;Mario Mattia;Marco Aloisi;Mimmo Palano

  • Tectonic features of the Lipari–Vulcano complex (Aeolian archipelago, Italy) from 10 years (1996–2006) of GPS data

    Mario Mattia;Mimmo Palano;Valentina Bruno;Valentina Bruno;Flavio Cannavò

Frequent Co-Authors

Giuseppe Puglisi
Giuseppe Puglisi National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Pablo J. González
Pablo J. González Spanish National Research Council
Alessandro Bonforte
Alessandro Bonforte National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Kristy F. Tiampo
Kristy F. Tiampo University of Colorado Boulder
Andrea Cannata
Andrea Cannata University of Catania
José M. García Fernández
José M. García Fernández University of Seville
Luigi Ferranti
Luigi Ferranti University of Naples Federico II
Claudio Chiarabba
Claudio Chiarabba National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Sergey Samsonov
Sergey Samsonov Natural Resources Canada
Carmelo Monaco
Carmelo Monaco University of Catania

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