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Overview

Mirko Severi is affiliated with the University of Florence in Italy. Their research spans several areas within Earth and Environmental Sciences, with particular focus on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. The main fields of their work include Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, showcasing a broad engagement with the natural environment and planetary processes.

Their scientific contributions emphasize topics such as:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Polar Research and Ecology
  • Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics

Severi's work has been published in a variety of journals, frequently in venues specializing in climate and atmospheric sciences. Those venues include:

  • Climate of the past
  • Atmosphere
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Earth system science data

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Severi demonstrate a focus on paleoclimate and environmental hazards, as well as volcanic and glacial period studies. Some representative titles include:

  • "Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum," published in 2021 in Science
  • "Heavy metal biosorption by Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPS) recovered from anammox granular sludge," published in 2021 in Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • "Volcanic stratospheric sulfur injections and aerosol optical depth during the Holocene (past 11,500 years) from a bipolar ice-core array," published in 2022 in Earth system science data
  • "Bipolar volcanic synchronization of abrupt climate change in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores during the last glacial period," published in 2020 in Climate of the past
  • "Magnitude, frequency and climate forcing of global volcanism during the last glacial period as seen in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores (60-9 ka)," published in 2022 in Climate of the past

Severi regularly collaborates with a core group of co-authors. Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Rita Traversi
  • Silvia Becagli
  • Laura Caiazzo
  • Michael Sigl
  • Eric Wolff

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

    Moinuddin Ahmed;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Asfawossen Asrat;Hemant P. Borgaonkar

  • Southern Ocean sea-ice extent, productivity and iron flux over the past eight glacial cycles

    E.W. Wolff;H. Fischer;F. Fundel;U. Ruth

  • The Antarctic ice core chronology (AICC2012): an optimized multi-parameter and multi-site dating approach for the last 120 thousand years

    D. Veres;D. Veres;L. Bazin;A. Landais;H. Toyé Mahamadou Kele

  • An optimized multi-proxy, multi-site Antarctic ice and gas orbital chronology (AICC2012): 120--800 ka

    L. Bazin;A. Landais;B. Lemieux-Dudon;H. Toyé Mahamadou Kele

  • The EDC3 chronology for the EPICA Dome C ice core

    Frédéric Parrenin;Jean-Marc Barnola;J. Beer;Thomas Blunier

  • A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

    Julien Emile-Geay;Nicholas P. McKay;Darrell S. Kaufman;Lucien Von Gunten

  • AIRUSE-LIFE+: a harmonized PM speciation and source apportionment in five southern European cities

    Fulvio Amato;Andrés Alastuey;Angeliki Karanasiou;Franco Lucarelli

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

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

  • Changes in environment over the last 800,000 years from chemical analysis of the EPICA Dome C ice core

    E. W. Wolff;C. Barbante;S. Becagli;M. Bigler

  • Reconstruction of millennial changes in dust emission, transport and regional sea ice coverage using the deep EPICA ice cores from the Atlantic and Indian Ocean sector of Antarctica

    Hubertus Fischer;Felix Fundel;Urs Ruth;Birthe Twarloh

  • Insights from Antarctica on volcanic forcing during the Common Era

    Michael Sigl;Joseph R. McConnell;Joseph R. McConnell;Matthew Toohey;Mark Curran

  • Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum

    Christo Buizert;T. J. Fudge;William H. G. Roberts;Eric J. Steig

  • Abrupt ice-age shifts in southern westerly winds and Antarctic climate forced from the north

    Christo Buizert;Michael Sigl;Mirko Severi;Bradley R. Markle

  • New estimations of precipitation and surface sublimation in East Antarctica from snow accumulation measurements

    Massimo Frezzotti;Michel Pourchet;Onelio Flora;Stefano Gandolfi

  • EDML1: a chronology for the EPICA deep ice core from Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, over the last 150 000 years

    Urs Ruth;Jean-Marc Barnola;Jurg Beer;Matthias Bigler;Matthias Bigler

  • Heavy metal biosorption by Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPS) recovered from anammox granular sludge.

    Benedetta Pagliaccia;Emiliano Carretti;Mirko Severi;Debora Berti

  • Spatial and temporal variability of snow accumulation in East Antarctica from traverse data

    Massimo Frezzotti;Michel Pourchet;Onelio Flora;Stefano Gandolfi

  • 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

  • A review of Holocene solar-linked climatic variation on centennial to millennial timescales: Physical processes, interpretative frameworks and a new multiple cross-wavelet transform algorithm

    Willie Soon;Victor M. Velasco Herrera;Kandasamy Selvaraj;Rita Traversi

  • Holocene volcanic history as recorded in the sulfate stratigraphy of the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica Dome C (EDC96) ice core

    E. Castellano;Silvia Becagli;M. Hansson;M. Hutterli

Frequent Co-Authors

Rita Traversi
Rita Traversi University of Florence
Roberto Udisti
Roberto Udisti University of Florence
Silvia Becagli
Silvia Becagli University of Florence
Eric W. Wolff
Eric W. Wolff University of Cambridge
Frédéric Parrenin
Frédéric Parrenin Grenoble Alpes University
Barbara Stenni
Barbara Stenni Ca Foscari University of Venice
Franco Lucarelli
Franco Lucarelli National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Jørgen Peder Steffensen
Jørgen Peder Steffensen University of Copenhagen
Giulia Calzolai
Giulia Calzolai University of Florence
Matthias Bigler
Matthias Bigler University of Bern

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