Biomedical subjects

Giuseppe Consolini

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PubMed2005

Generalized dimensions for fluctuations in the solar wind.

We analyze time series of velocities of the solar wind plasma including the outward-directed component of Alfvénic turbulence within slow wind observed by the Helios 2 spacecraft in the inner heliosphere. We demonstrate that the influence of noise in the data can be efficiently reduced by a singular-value decomposition filter. The resulting generalized dimensions show a multifractal structure of the solar wind attractor in the inner heliosphere. The obtained multifractal spectrum is consistent with that for the multifractal measure on the self-similar weighted baker's map with two parameters describing uniform compression and natural invariant measure on the attractor of the system.

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PubMed2003

Stochastic resonance in geomagnetic polarity reversals.

Among noise-induced cooperative phenomena a peculiar relevance is played by stochastic resonance. In this paper we offer evidence that geomagnetic polarity reversals may be due to a stochastic resonance process. In detail, analyzing the distribution function P(tau) of polarity residence times (chrons), we found the evidence of a stochastic synchronization process, i.e., a series of peaks in the P(tau) at T(n) approximately (2n+1)T(Omega)/2 with n=0,1,...,j and T(omega) approximately 0.1 Myr. This result is discussed in connection with both the typical time scale of Earth's orbit eccentricity variation and the recent results on the typical time scale of climatic long-term variation.

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PubMed2002

Fluid motions in the Earth's core inferred from time spectral features of the geomagnetic field.

The aim of this work is to investigate the time spectral features of the main geomagnetic field fluctuations as measured on the Earth's surface in connection with a nontraditional turbulent dynamics of the fluid motions in the outer layers of the Earth's liquid core. The average geomagnetic field spectrum is found to be a power law, characterized by a spectral exponent alpha approximately -11/3, on time scales longer than 5 yr. We discuss the spectral exponent in connection with an intense magnetic field in the Earth's core and with a vortex coalescence process in a regime of drift-wave turbulence.

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