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  • 11
    Publication Date: 2024-04-30
    Description: ESA's Swarm constellation entered in a “overfly” configuration in the period between September and October 2021, when the longitudinal distance between the lower pair and the upper satellite was at its minimum since the launch of the spacecrafts. In addition, the local time of the nighttime tracks was favorable to detect and study the morphology of post-sunset equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs). In this study, we focus on the Swarm overfly occurring between 00:41 UT and 00:59 UT on 30 September 2021, which covered one of the most densely instrumented regions for the study of the ionospheric irregularities embedded in the EPBs: the South American sector. By exploiting the use of ground-based receivers of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals in combination with the Swarm plasma density measurements, we study the irregularities in the EPB formed at ∼60°W and investigate the different scales of the irregularities and the cascading processes along the magnetic flux tubes. We also highlight how diffusion along the magnetic field lines occurs simultaneously with the plasma uplift, contributing then to the correct interpretation of the EPB evolution and decay process. The precious overfly conditions also allow the introduction of ionosphere-related quantities, evaluated across the tracks at satellite altitudes enlarging the possibilities given by the same quantities already available along the tracks. Such opportunity envisages the possibility to proxy the impact of EPBs on GNSS signals with Low-Earth Orbit satellite data provided by future missions specifically dedicated to the characterization of the near-Earth environment and ionospheric studies.
    Description: Published
    Description: e2022SW003331
    Description: OSA3: Climatologia e meteorologia spaziale
    Description: JCR Journal
    Repository Name: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
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  • 12
    Publication Date: 2024-04-30
    Description: The subduction of continental lithosphere is a complex process because the buoyancy of the crust is higher than the oceanic and should resist sinking into the mantle. Anyway, studies on the Alpine-Himalayan collision system indicate that a large portion of the continental crust is subducted, while some material is accreted in the orogens. The Apennine is a perfect case for studying how such processes evolve, thanks to high quality seismic images that illuminate a critical depth range not commonly resolved in many collisional settings. In this paper, we show the structure of the Apennines orogen, as jointly revealed by seismicity and deep structure from regional and teleseismic tomography and receiver function profiles. The westward subducting Adria lithosphere is well defined along the orogen showing a mid-crustal delamination. Seismicity within the underthrusting lower crust and velocity anomalies in the mantle wedge highlight how the subduction evolution is entangled with the liberation of fluids. The eclogitization of subducted material enhances the fluid release into the wedge, the delamination and retreat of the Adria plate. This delamination/subduction generates a coupled compression and extension system that migrates eastward following the retreat of the lithosphere, with broad sets of normal faults that invert or interfere with pre-existing compressional structures all over the roof plate. The sparseness and non-ubiquity of intermediate depth earthquakes along the subduction panel suggest that the brittle response of the subducting crust is governed by its different composition and fluid content. Therefore, the lower crust composition appears essential in conditioning the evolution of continental subduction.
    Description: Published
    Description: 1253443
    Description: OST1 Alla ricerca dei Motori Geodinamici
    Description: JCR Journal
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  • 13
    Publication Date: 2024-04-30
    Description: The study of the micro-meteoroid environment is relevant to planetary science and space weathering of airless bodies, as the Moon or Mercury. In fact, the meteoroids hit directly the surfaces producing impact debris and vapor, thus contributing to shape the exosphere of the planet. This work is focused on the study and modelling of the Mercury's Ca exosphere formation through the process of Micro-Meteoroids Impact Vaporization (MMIV). The MESSENGER/NASA mission provided measurements of Mercury's Ca exosphere, allowing the study of its configuration and its seasonal variations. The observed Ca exhibited very high energies, with a scale height consistent with a temperature 〉 50,000 K, originated mainly on the dawn-side of the planet. It was suggested that the originating process is due to MMIV, but previous estimations were not able to justify the observed intensity and energy. We investigate the possible pathways to produce the high energy observed in the Ca exosphere and discuss about the generating mechanism. The most likely origin may be a combination of different processes involving the release of atomic and molecular surface particles. We use the exospheric Monte Carlo model by Mura et al. (2007) to simulate the 3-D spatial distribution of the Ca-bearing molecule and atomic Ca exospheres generated through the MMIV process, and we show that their morphology and intensity are consistent with the available MESSENGER observations if we consider a cloud quenching temperature 〈 3750 K. The results presented in this paper can be useful in the exospheric studies and in the interpretation of active surface release processes, as well as in the exosphere observations planning for the ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission that will start its nominal mission phase in 2026.
    Description: Published
    Description: 115616
    Description: OSA3: Climatologia e meteorologia spaziale
    Description: JCR Journal
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  • 14
    Publication Date: 2024-04-30
    Description: The Rhenish Massif in Central Europe, which includes the Eifel Volcanic Fields, has shown ongoing ground deformation and signs of possible unrest. A buoyant plume exerting uplift forces at the bottom of the lithosphere was proposed to explain such deformation; the hypothesis of (possibly concurrent) melt accumulation in the crust/lithospheric mantle has not been explored yet. Here, we test deformation models in an elastic half-space considering sources of varying aspect ratio, size and depth. We explore the effects of data coverage, noise and uncertainty on the inferred source parameters. We find that the observed deformation would require melt accumulation in sub-horizontal sill-like structures expanding at the rate of up to ∼0.045 km3/yr. We discuss feasibility, limitations and possible interpretations of our resulting models and elaborate on further observations which may help constrain the structure of the Rhenish Massif magmatic system.
    Description: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
    Description: Published
    Description: e2023GL105824
    Description: OSV2: Complessità dei processi vulcanici: approcci multidisciplinari e multiparametrici
    Description: JCR Journal
    Keywords: Rhenish Massif ; volcanic unrest ; GPS deformation ; lithospheric intrusion ; Solid Earth
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  • 15
    Publication Date: 2024-04-30
    Description: Bromine monoxide (BrO) is a key radical in the atmosphere, influencing the chemical state of the atmosphere, most notably the abundance of ozone (O3). O3 depletion caused by the release of bromine has been observed and modeled in polar regions, salt pans, and in particular inside volcanic plumes. Furthermore, the molar ratio of BrO and SO2 – which can be detected simultaneously via spectroscopic measurements using the differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS) method – is a proxy for the magmatic composition of a volcano and potentially an eruption forecast parameter. The detection of BrO in volcanic plumes from satellite spectroscopic observations is limited by the precision and sensitivity of the retrieval, which so far only allowed for the detection of BrO during major eruptions. The unprecedented spatial resolution of up to 3.5 km×5.5 km and the high signal-to-noise ratio of the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) on board Sentinel-5 Precursor (S-5P) enable observing and monitoring volcanic bromine release globally even for minor eruptions or even quiescent degassing. In this study, we investigate how far the BrO retrieval can be improved using TROPOMI data and how well BrO can be detected, even in small eruptions and during quiescent volcanic degassing. There are two steps for which improvements in accuracy are investigated and applied: the improvement and quantitative determination of (1) the detection limit of the DOAS BrO column retrieval and (2) the correction of the non-volcanic background BrO signal. First, the DOAS retrieval settings are varied, and their influence on accuracy and precision is investigated with respect to the detection limit and potential systematic influences. Based on these results, we propose a dedicated DOAS evaluation scheme optimized for the detection of BrO in volcanic plumes. For the DOAS retrieval, we propose the use of a large fit window from 323–360 nm, yielding a statistical uncertainty lower by a factor of 1.8 compared to previous BrO DOAS algorithms while not enhancing systematic influences. Second, the effect of the background BrO is reduced by a latitude-dependent empirical correction scheme correlated to cloud information as well as information on the O3 column. Via these improvements, the combined statistical and systematic uncertainties in the resulting BrO vertical column density is on the order of . We present a new and accurate retrieval algorithm of BrO columns from TROPOMI observations which allows for the detection of even slightly enhanced BrO amounts inside minor eruptive plumes of bromine-rich volcanoes. While designed specifically for TROPOMI observations, the retrieval algorithm is in general also applicable to other hyperspectral satellite observations. However, some parts might require adaptation.
    Description: Published
    Description: 5537–5573
    Description: OSV3: Sviluppo di nuovi sistemi osservazionali e di analisi ad alta sensibilità
    Description: JCR Journal
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  • 16
    Publication Date: 2024-04-30
    Description: 9 pages, 6 figures
    Description: Many natural systems show emergent phenomena at different scales, leading to scaling regimes with signatures of deterministic chaos at large scales and an apparently random behavior at small scales. These features are usually investigated quantitatively by studying the properties of the underlying attractor, the compact object asymptotically hosting the trajectories of the system with their invariant density in the phase space. This multi-scale nature of natural systems makes it practically impossible to get a clear picture of the attracting set. Indeed, it spans over a wide range of spatial scales and may even change in time due to non-stationary forcing. Here, we combine an adaptive decomposition method with extreme value theory to study the properties of the instantaneous scale-dependent dimension, which has been recently introduced to characterize such temporal and spatial scale-dependent attractors in turbulence and astrophysics. To provide a quantitative analysis of the properties of this metric, we test it on the well-known low-dimensional deterministic Lorenz-63 system perturbed with additive or multiplicative noise. We demonstrate that the properties of the invariant set depend on the scale we are focusing on and that the scale-dependent dimensions can discriminate between additive and multiplicative noise despite the fact that the two cases have exactly the same stationary invariant measure at large scales. The proposed formalism can be generally helpful to investigate the role of multi-scale fluctuations within complex systems, allowing us to deal with the problem of characterizing the role of stochastic fluctuations across a wide range of physical systems.
    Description: Published
    Description: 023144
    Description: OSA2: Evoluzione climatica: effetti e loro mitigazione
    Description: JCR Journal
    Keywords: Nonlinear Sciences - Chaotic Dynamics; Nonlinear Sciences - Chaotic Dynamics
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  • 17
    Publication Date: 2024-04-30
    Description: We investigate effects of the three-dimensional (3D) structure of volcanic plumes on the retrieval results of satellite and ground-based UV–Vis observations. For the analysis of such measurements, 1D scenarios are usually assumed (the atmospheric properties only depend on altitude). While 1D assumptions are well suited for the analysis of many atmospheric phenomena, they are usually less appropriate for narrow trace gas plumes. For UV–Vis satellite instruments with large ground pixel sizes like the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2), the SCanning Imaging Absorption spectroMeter for Atmospheric CHartographY (SCIAMACHY) or the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI), 3D effects are of minor importance, but usually these observations are not sensitive to small volcanic plumes. In contrast, observations of the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) on board Sentinel-5P have a much smaller ground pixel size (3.5 × 5.5 km2). Thus, on the one hand, TROPOMI can detect much smaller plumes than previous instruments. On the other hand, 3D effects become more important, because the TROPOMI ground pixel size is smaller than the height of the troposphere and also smaller than horizontal atmospheric photon path lengths in the UV–Vis spectral range. In this study we investigate the following 3D effects using Monte Carlo radiative transfer simulations: (1) the light-mixing effect caused by horizontal photon paths, (2) the saturation effect for strong SO2 absorption, (3) geometric effects related to slant illumination and viewing angles and (4) plume side-effects related to slant illumination angles and photons reaching the sensor from the sides of volcanic plumes. The first two effects especially can lead to a strong and systematic underestimation of the true trace gas content if 1D retrievals are applied (more than 50 % for the light-mixing effect and up to 100 % for the saturation effect). Besides the atmospheric radiative transfer, the saturation effect also affects the spectral retrievals. Geometric effects have a weaker influence on the quantitative analyses but can lead to a spatial smearing of elevated plumes or even to virtual double plumes. Plume side-effects are small for short wavelengths but can become large for longer wavelengths (up to 100 % for slant viewing and illumination angles). For ground-based observations, most of the above-mentioned 3D effects are not important because of the narrow field of view (FOV) and the closer distance between the instrument and the volcanic plume. However, the light-mixing effect shows a similar strong dependence on the horizontal plume extension as for satellite observations and should be taken into account for the analysis of ground-based observations.
    Description: Published
    Description: 1609–1662
    Description: OSV3: Sviluppo di nuovi sistemi osservazionali e di analisi ad alta sensibilità
    Description: JCR Journal
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  • 18
    Publication Date: 2024-04-30
    Description: The cave system in the Sierra de Atapuerca holds one of the most important archaeological sites for the understanding of early human occupation in Europe. Among the different cavities and galleries, the Gran Dolina cave yielded a new hominin species coined as Homo antecessor of an Early Pleistocene age. Encouraged by our previous results in Gran Dolina, we carried out a study to extend and deepen our rockmagnetic investigation of the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the upper Gran Dolina cave based on experiments that include composition, relative concentration, and grain size of the magnetic iron oxides present in the sediments. Based on the rockmagnetic experiments, we identified magnetite, hematite, goethite, and possibly maghemite in changeable amounts along the profile, which allows us to complement the existing shortage in the literature on the palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the site. We tentatively interpret the rockmagnetic changes recorded in the cave sediments in terms of glacial/interglacial conditions, furnishing the base for a better understanding for the formation conditions of this unprecedented archaeological site.
    Description: Published
    Description: 4580
    Description: OSA1: Variazioni del campo magnetico terrestre, imaging crostale e sicurezza del territorio
    Description: JCR Journal
    Keywords: environmental magnetism ; rockmagnetic analysis ; cave ; Sierra de Atapuerca ; magnetic minerals
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  • 19
    Publication Date: 2024-04-30
    Description: Laser interferometry enables to remotely measure microscopical length changes of deployedtelecommunication cables originating from earthquakes. Long reach and compatibility with datatransmission make it attractive for the exploration of both remote regions and highly-populated areaswhere optical networks are pervasive. However, interpretation of its response still suffers from a limitednumber of available datasets. We systematically analyze 1.5 years of acquisitions on a land-basedtelecommunication cable in comparison to co-located seismometers, with successful detection ofevents in a broad magnitude range, including very weak ones. We determine relations between acable’s detection probability and the events magnitude and distance, introducing spectral analysis offiber data as a tool to investigate earthquake dynamics. Our results reveal that quantitative analysis ispossible, confirming applicability of this technique both for the global monitoring of our planet and thedaily seismicity monitoring of populated areas, in perspective exploitable for civilian protection
    Description: Published
    Description: 178
    Description: OST2 Deformazione e Hazard sismico e da maremoto
    Description: OST5 Verso un nuovo Monitoraggio
    Description: JCR Journal
    Keywords: Seismic monitoring ; Telecom fiber network ; Seismic detection ; Optical Fiber ; Laser interferometry ; 04.06. Seismology ; 05.04. Instrumentation and techniques of general interest
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  • 20
    Publication Date: 2024-04-30
    Description: Interpreting the signal deriving from interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) analyses in volcanic islands, characterized by strong regional deformations and recurrent seismicity, is a complex and challenging issue. In these zones, the secondary effects connected to the SAR acquisition system cannot be neglected, and it is important to consider that delay phenomena of the electromagnetic waves, due to the propagation in the tropospheric layer and loss of SAR coherence because of dense vegetation, could affect the interferometric phase. This work focuses on Pico, the second largest and the youngest island of the Azores Archipelago (North Atlantic Ocean). This island consists of a central volcano and a fissure zone. These systems are inactive but recurrent microseismicity occurs in a rock volume host- ing a partially crystallized magma storage system, which fed the recent activity of the central volcano. In the same area affected by microseismicity, the main volcanic edifice shows flank instability. All these elements support the hypothesis of possible reactivation of the shallow magmatic system. Aiming to check potential active ground displacements and to define their source, we collected two datasets of C-band Sentinel-1 SAR data, both in descending and ascending acquisition geometry, from January, 2017, to December, 2020. The application of the small baseline subset method of differential InSAR allowed drawing the mean ground velocity maps over the island and the displacement time series, useful to understand the defor- mation evolution. InSAR data only evidence areas affected by small-scale subsidence at the cinder cones of the fissure zone and along the southeastern slope of Pico volcano, where local debris flows activate during rainy periods.
    Description: Published
    Description: 032402
    Description: OSV2: Complessità dei processi vulcanici: approcci multidisciplinari e multiparametrici
    Description: JCR Journal
    Keywords: InSAR ; ground deformation ; volcanic hazard ; oceanic islands
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