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Roberto Sulpizio is a researcher affiliated with the University of Bari Aldo Moro in Italy. Their academic work primarily encompasses the Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial focus on Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, and Earth-Surface Processes. Additional subfields include Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law as well as Archeology.

Their contributions to scientific literature reflect involvement in a variety of core topics, such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, earthquake and tectonic studies, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Landslides and related hazards, Geological formations and processes, and Granular flow and fluidized beds.

Roberto Sulpizio's recent publications include:

  • Multiple hazards and paths to eruptions: A review of the volcanic system of Vulcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy), 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Volcanic evolution of the Somma-Vesuvius Complex (Italy), 2020, Journal of Maps
  • The impact of pyroclastic density currents duration on humans: the case of the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Lake Ohrid's tephrochronological dataset reveals 1.36 Ma of Mediterranean explosive volcanic activity, 2021, Scientific Data
  • Olive groves around the lake. A ten-thousand-year history of a Cretan landscape (Greece) reveals the dominant role of humans in making this Mediterranean ecosystem, 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews

Their research has appeared frequently in venues such as the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Bulletin of Volcanology, Scientific Reports, Science Advances, and the International Journal of Multiphase Flow.

Frequent collaborators in their work include Daniela Mele, Antonio Costa, Fabio Dioguardi, Pierfrancesco Dellino, and Silvia Massaro, evidencing an extensive network of co-authorship within the volcanology and geosciences fields.

Best Publications

  • Age and whole rock–glass compositions of proximal pyroclastics from the major explosive eruptions of Somma-Vesuvius: A review as a tool for distal tephrostratigraphy

    Roberto Santacroce;Raffaello Cioni;Paola Marianelli;Alessandro Sbrana

  • Mediterranean Sea Surface Radiocarbon Reservoir Age Changes Since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Giuseppe Siani;Martine Paterne;Elisabeth Michel;Roberto Sulpizio

  • Pyroclastic density currents: state of the art and perspectives

    R Sulpizio;P Dellino;D M Doronzo;D Sarocchi

  • The analysis of the influence of pumice shape on its terminal velocity

    Pierfrancesco Dellino;Daniela Mele;Rosanna Bonasia;Giuseppe Braia

  • Characteristics of May 5–6, 1998 volcaniclastic debris flows in the Sarno area (Campania, southern Italy): relationships to structural damage and hazard zonation

    Giovanni Zanchetta;R. Sulpizio;M. T. Pareschi;F. M. Leoni

  • Tephrostratigraphy, chronology and climatic events of the Mediterranean basin during the Holocene: an overview

    Giovanni Zanchetta;Roberto Sulpizio;Neil Roberts;Raffaello Cioni

  • Mediterranean winter rainfall in phase with African monsoons during the past 1.36 million years

    Bernd Wagner;Hendrik Vogel;Alexander Francke;Alexander Francke;Tobias Friedrich

  • A paleoclimate record with tephrochronological age control for the last glacial-interglacial cycle from Lake Ohrid, Albania and Macedonia

    Hendrik Vogel;Bernd Wagner;Giovanni Zanchetta;Roberto Sulpizio

  • Tephrostratigraphy study for the last 18,000 14 C years in a deep-sea sediment sequence for the South Adriatic

    Giuseppe Siani;Roberto Sulpizio;Martine Paterne;Alessandro Sbrana

  • A complex, Subplinian-type eruption from low-viscosity, phonolitic to tephri-phonolitic magma: the AD 472 (Pollena) eruption of Somma-Vesuvius, Italy

    Roberto Sulpizio;Daniela Mele;Pierfrancesco Dellino;Luigi La Volpe

  • Deposits and physical properties of pyroclastic density currents during complex Subplinian eruptions: the AD 472 (Pollena) eruption of Somma-Vesuvius, Italy

    Roberto Sulpizio;Daniela Mele;Pierfrancesco Dellino;Luigi La Volpe

  • A tephrostratigraphic record for the last glacial-interglacial cycle from Lake Ohrid, Albania and Macedonia

    Hendrik Vogel;Giovanni Zanchetta;Roberto Sulpizio;Bernd Wagner

  • A 40,000-year record of environmental change from ancient Lake Ohrid (Albania and Macedonia)

    Bernd Wagner;André F. Lotter;Norbert Nowaczyk;Jane M. Reed

  • Assessing pyroclastic fall hazard through field data and numerical simulations: Example from Vesuvius

    Raffaello Cioni;Antonella Longo;Giovanni Macedonio;Roberto Santacroce

  • Climate and environmental change in the Balkans over the last 17 ka recorded in sediments from Lake Prespa (Albania/F.Y.R. of Macedonia/Greece)

    Anne Aufgebauer;Konstantinos Panagiotopoulos;Bernd Wagner;Frank Schaebitz

  • Sedimentological processes and environmental variability at Lake Ohrid (Macedonia, Albania) between 637 ka and the present

    Alexander Francke;Bernd Wagner;Janna Just;Niklas Leicher

  • Chapter 2 Sedimentology, Depositional Mechanisms and Pulsating Behaviour of Pyroclastic Density Currents

    Roberto Sulpizio;Pierfrancesco Dellino

  • A method for the calculation of the impact parameters of dilute pyroclastic density currents based on deposit particle characteristics

    Pierfrancesco Dellino;Daniela Mele;Roberto Sulpizio;Luigi La Volpe

  • Variability of the eruption dynamics during a Subplinian event: the Greenish Pumice eruption of Somma–Vesuvius (Italy)

    R Cioni;R Sulpizio;N Garruccio

  • The late Pleistocene pyroclastic deposits of the Campanian Plain: New insights into the explosive activity of Neapolitan volcanoes

    M.A. Di Vito;R. Sulpizio;G. Zanchetta;M. D'Orazio

  • A 90,000–200,000 yrs marine tephra record of Italian volcanic activity in the Central Mediterranean Sea

    M. Paterne;F. Guichard;J.C. Duplessy;G. Siani

Frequent Co-Authors

Giovanni Zanchetta
Giovanni Zanchetta University of Pisa
Pierfrancesco Dellino
Pierfrancesco Dellino University of Bari Aldo Moro
Antonio Costa
Antonio Costa National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Melanie J. Leng
Melanie J. Leng University of Nottingham
Roberto Santacroce
Roberto Santacroce University of Pisa
Hendrik Vogel
Hendrik Vogel University of Bern
Giuseppe Siani
Giuseppe Siani Université Paris Cité
Martine Paterne
Martine Paterne Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Biagio Giaccio
Biagio Giaccio Institute of Environmental Geology and Geoengineering
Bernd Wagner
Bernd Wagner University of Cologne

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