Publications by authors named "Renato R Colucci"

Article Synopsis
  • This paper develops a new method to study how air dynamics contribute to ice melting in caves, focusing on the Leupa ice cave (LIC) in the southeastern Alps.
  • It utilizes advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models to assess factors like air circulation, ice properties, and heat exchange between air and ice, revealing complex interactions that affect melting.
  • The findings predict an initial ice thickness reduction of 4 cm per year at LIC, with expectations of accelerated melting, and propose that this methodology can be applied to other similar cave environments to analyze ice evolution.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has not been fixed in the paper.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

The Barents Sea Ice Sheet was a marine-based ice sheet, i.e., it rested on the Barents Sea floor during the Last Glacial Maximum (21 ky BP).

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

We document the occurrence in December 2015 of unprecedented high monthly mean temperatures in the observational record of mountain sites in the eastern Alps. For the first time in the last 150 years mean December temperature exceeded 0 °C at elevations between 2100 and 2500 m, with December mean anomalies exceeding 6.5 °C with respect to the 1971-2000 mean.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: fwrite(): Write of 34 bytes failed with errno=28 No space left on device

Filename: drivers/Session_files_driver.php

Line Number: 272

Backtrace:

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: session_write_close(): Failed to write session data using user defined save handler. (session.save_path: /var/lib/php/sessions)

Filename: Unknown

Line Number: 0

Backtrace: