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Rita Traversi is affiliated with the University of Florence in Italy and conducts research primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work focuses extensively on Atmospheric Science, with significant contributions to Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecology, and Biomedical Engineering as subfields.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting

Traversi's frequent co-authors highlight ongoing collaborative research efforts. These co-authors include Silvia Becagli, Mirko Severi, Mauro Mazzola, Laura Caiazzo, and Radovan Krejčí. Their collaboration demonstrates a networked approach to advancing knowledge in atmospheric and environmental sciences.

Their research is disseminated in multiple scientific venues with repeated publications in:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Atmosphere
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Climate of the past

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Rita Traversi include:

  • "Differing Mechanisms of New Particle Formation at Two Arctic Sites," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Pan-Arctic seasonal cycles and long-term trends of aerosol properties from 10 observatories," 2022, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "Magnitude, frequency and climate forcing of global volcanism during the last glacial period as seen in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores (60-9 ka)," 2022, Climate of the past
  • "Dimethyl Sulfide-Induced Increase in Cloud Condensation Nuclei in the Arctic Atmosphere," 2021, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • "Equal abundance of summertime natural and wintertime anthropogenic Arctic organic aerosols," 2022, Nature Geoscience

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

  • 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

  • Differing Mechanisms of New Particle Formation at Two Arctic Sites

    Lisa J. Beck;Nina Sarnela;Heikki Junninen;Heikki Junninen;Clara J. M. Hoppe

  • Annual variability of ice-nucleating particle concentrations at different Arctic locations

    Heike Wex;Lin Huang;Wendy Zhang;Hayley Hung

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

    Massimo Frezzotti;Michel Pourchet;Onelio Flora;Stefano Gandolfi

  • 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

  • Pan-Arctic seasonal cycles and long-term trends of aerosol properties from 10 observatories

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  • 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

  • Sea spray aerosol in central Antarctica. Present atmospheric behaviour and implications for paleoclimatic reconstructions

    R. Udisti;U. Dayan;S. Becagli;M. Busetto

  • 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

  • Equal abundance of summertime natural and wintertime anthropogenic Arctic organic aerosols

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  • Holocene sea ice variability driven by wind and polynya efficiency in the Ross Sea.

    K. Mezgec;K. Mezgec;B. Stenni;X. Crosta;V. Masson-Delmotte

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

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

  • Synchronisation of the EDML and EDC ice cores for the last 52 kyr by volcanic signature matching

    Mirko Severi;Silvia Becagli;Emiliano Castellano;Andrea Morganti

  • Saharan dust impact in central Italy: An overview on three years elemental data records

    S. Nava;S. Becagli;G. Calzolai;M. Chiari

  • Vertical profiles of aerosol and black carbon in the Arctic: a seasonalphenomenology along 2 years (2011–2012) of field campaigns

    Luca Ferrero;David Cappelletti;Maurizio Busetto;Mauro Mazzola

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

    Silvia Becagli;Fabrizio Anello;Carlo Bommarito;Federico Cassola

  • An improved flow analysis–ion chromatography method for determination of cationic and anionic species at trace levels in Antarctic ice cores

    Andrea Morganti;Silvia Becagli;Emiliano Castellano;Mirko Severi

  • Sea-spray deposition in Antarctic coastal and plateau areas from ITASE traverses

    Silvia Benassai;Silvia Becagli;Roberto Gragnani;Olivier Magand

  • Sulfate source apportionment in the Ny-Ålesund (Svalbard Islands) Arctic aerosol

    Roberto Udisti;Andrea Bazzano;Silvia Becagli;Ezio Bolzacchini

  • Volcanic eruption frequency over the last 45 ky as recorded in Epica-Dome C ice core (East Antarctica) and its relationship with climatic changes

    E Castellano;S Becagli;J Jouzel;A Migliori

Frequent Co-Authors

Roberto Udisti
Roberto Udisti University of Florence
Silvia Becagli
Silvia Becagli University of Florence
Mirko Severi
Mirko Severi University of Florence
Franco Lucarelli
Franco Lucarelli National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Silvia Nava
Silvia Nava National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Giulia Calzolai
Giulia Calzolai University of Florence
David Cappelletti
David Cappelletti University of Perugia
Barbara Stenni
Barbara Stenni Ca Foscari University of Venice
Massimo Frezzotti
Massimo Frezzotti Roma Tre University
Ilya Usoskin
Ilya Usoskin University of Oulu

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