Piero di Carlo

Lecturer with tenure (Ricercatore) at the Physics Department  Leader of the LIF & Chemical Modeling Group  at the Centre of Excellence CETEMPS  University of L’Aquila  Via vetoio  67100 Coppito-L’Aquila (Italy)  e-mail: piero.dicarlo@aquila.infn.it  office phone: +39 0862433084  mobile phone: +39 3665700135  fax: +39 0862433089  Research Group URL

Research Interests

My research focuses on the development and use of state-of-the-art experimental systems to study the processes controlling the chemical composition of the Earth's atmosphere.

Current research activities include:

Development of a Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) system for measurements of NO₂, peroxy nitrates, alkyl nitrates and HNO₃. The LIF system has been used in ground-based campaigns, and in summer 2010 was also installed on the British FAAM BAe 146 research aircraft, for airborne campaigns.

High altitude site observations of the atmospheric chemical composition.

Detailed chemical box model and statistical regression model to study the atmospheric composition changes.

Selected Publications

Full list here

• Fowler D., E., ..., C. Dari-Salisburgo, P. Di Carlo, E. Aruffo, F. Giammaria, J. A. Pyle, C. N. Hewitt, Effects of land use on surface–atmosphere exchanges of trace gases and energy in Borneo: comparing fluxes over oil palm plantations and a rainforest, Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. B-Biological Science, 366, 3196-3209, 2011.

• Hewitt C. N., Lee J., M. P. Barkley, N. Carslaw, Chappell N.A., Coe H., Collier C., Commane R., Davies F., Di Carlo P., et al., Oxidant and particle photochemical processes above a south-east Asian tropical rain forest (the OP3 project): introduction, rationale, location characteristics and tools, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 10, 169-199, 2010.

• Hewitt C.N., A.R. MacKenzie, P. Di Carlo et al., Nitrogen management is essential to prevent tropical oil palm plantations from causing ground level ozone pollution, PNAS, 106, 44, 18447-18451, 2009.

• Di Carlo P., Barone M., D’Altorio A., Dari-Salisburgo C., Pietropaolo E., High-resolution spectrometer for atmospheric studies, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 71, 1383–1388, 2009.

• Dari-Salisburgo C., P. Di Carlo, F. Giammaria, Y. Kajii, A. D’Altorio, Laser Induced fluorescence instrument for NO₂ measurements: observations at a central Italy background site, Atmospheric Environment, 43, 970-977, 2009.

• Di Carlo, P., G. Pitari, E. Mancini, S. Gentile, E. Pichelli, and G. Visconti, Evolution of surface ozone in central Italy based on observations and statistical model, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, D10316, doi:10.1029/2006JD007900, 2007.

• Di Carlo P., W. H. Brune, M. Martinez, H. Harder, R. Lesher, X. Ren, T. Thornberry, M. A. Carroll,V. Young, P. B. Shepson, D. Riemer, E. Apel, C. Campbell, Missing OH reactivity in a forest: Evidence for unknown reactive biogenic VOCs, Science, 304, 722-725, 2004.