Dario Camuffo
Biographic Data
| ID | 633665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dario Camuffo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dario |
| FAMILY NAME | Camuffo |
| SIGNATURE | CAMUFFO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1087-5797 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Nuovi approfondimenti sulle origini della Gondola Veneziana, e il suo antico uso militare
Questo lavoro considera la nascita e l’evoluzione della gondola partendo dalle origini fino al 1700, quando assume l’aspetto finale, o poco discosto da questo. Lo studio si basa sulle fonti scritte e su quelle iconografiche. La gondola è l’evoluzione della cymbula, la barchetta romana a fondo piatto, che veniva usata nelle lagune del nord-Adriatico da Ravenna ad Altino. Il nome appare citato per la prima volta nell’XI secolo, ma non ne conosciamo…
Climate Risk and Conservation Challenges at Palermo’s Specola Museum
The Specola Museum is housed on the premises of the old Palermo Observatory, founded in 1790, and preserves most of the observatory’s cultural heritage. Environmental monitoring following the activation of air conditioning systems in 2018 revealed significant deviations from the historic thermo-hygrometric trends, with particularly dangerous fluctuations in relative humidity. A notable example of the impact of these changes is a 19th-century pain…
Preventing Glass Misting in Indoor Showcases with Burial Remains at Al Ain, UAE
The historic house of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa, Al Ain (Abu Dhabi, UAE) belongs to the World Heritage Cultural Sites. The courtyard and two rooms include mudbrick archaeological remains that are preserved in showcases for public display. The building lies in a hot desert climate and needs air conditioning to be comfortable. This paper is concerned with indoor showcases and their compatibility with the indoor climate. Sometimes, misting for con…
The Gondola
Origin and evolution of the gondola have been reconstructed from historical and documentary written and pictorial sources (figures in books, engravings and paintings), in relation to the physical environment of the Lagoon, its morpho-dynamics with shallow and deep waters, marshes and canals. Particular care has been applied to the physical and hydrodynamic aspects in order to interpret the data and understand how the ancient Venetians could have …
Galileo’s revolution and the infancy of meteorology in Padua, Florence and Bologna
This article reconstructs the historical and scientific framework within which modern science, and meteorology in particular, were born and developed beginning in the late XVI century. Scientific knowledge during this period was based on Aristotle’s books and the Holy Bible, and this constituted a serious obstacle for the new astronomical discoveries that contradicted this framework. The paper starts with the earliest experiments made by Galileo,…
When the Lagoon was frozen over in Venice from A.D. 604 to 2012
The paper reconstructs when the Lagoon of Venice, Italy, was frozen over in the last 1400 years. The paper combines various proxies and instrumental readings, i.e.: written documentary sources since the origin of Venice; evidence from visual arts referring to 1709, 1789 and 1791 as well as some pictures taken in 1929 and 2012; finally, instrumental observations since 1716. A critical revision has been made of all sources in order to reject duplic…
Wind-driven rain impinging on monuments and mountain slopes
A critical analysis of the definitions of climate and hydrological extreme events
How much temperature will increase the efficiency of electro-osmosis
A Model Simulation of the Solar Energy Impinging on the Giza Pyramids
A simulation model of the solar energy impinging on stone blocks is made to ascertain theimpact of solar radiation on the walls of the Pyramids of Giza, Egypt. The model considers thesolar radiation hitting the upper surface, and the vertical sides of stone blocks on the four walls.The calculation concerns: the solar height and azimuth; the daily total amount of solar radiation;the instantaneous values of the flux of solar radiation. The results …
A method to obtain precise determinations of relative humidity using thin film capacitive sensors under normal or extreme humidity conditions
Standardization activity in the evaluation of moisture content
European summer temperatures since Roman times
The spatial context is criticalwhen assessing present-day climate anomalies, attributing them to potential forcings and making statements regarding their frequency and severity in a long-term perspective. Recent international initiatives have expanded the number of high-quality proxy-records and developed new statistical reconstruction methods. These advances allow more rigorous regional past temperature reconstructions and, in turn, the possibil…
Calibration and multi-source consistency analysis of reconstructed precipitation series in Portugal since the early 17th century
A calibration of reconstructed winter, spring and autumn precipitation series in Portugal from 1600 onwards is undertaken in the present study using new instrumental sources for the period of 1815–2012. As summer precipitation in Portugal is scarce and irregular, it is not considered. A consistency analysis of the calibrated time series is then undertaken using: (1) precipitation indices for Portugal in 1675–1799; (2) teleconnections between seas…
Past, present and future effects of climate change on a wooden inlay bookcase cabinet
The earliest daily barometric pressure readings in Italy
The earliest daily barometric pressure readings were taken during the Maunder Minimum of Solar activity (1645—1715). In Italy, observations were made at Pisa over the years 1657—1658 by V. Viviani and A. Borelli, and at Modena during the year 1694 by B. Ramazzini. These readings have been recovered, corrected and adjusted to modern units. The early instruments used and their problems have been thoroughly discussed. Barometer observations recorded…
An advanced church heating system favourable to artworks
Le niveau de la mer à Venise d'après l'œuvre picturale de Véronèse, Canaletto et Bellotto
La hausse du niveau de la mer due au réchauffement climatique contemporain met Venise en danger. Il est nécessaire, afin d'envisager des remèdes, de mieux connaître l'histoire de la hausse du niveau de la mer depuis le petit âge glaciaire. De manière générale, la peinture fournit des images qualitatives, mais dans le cas de Venise, elle permet une évaluation quantitative de la hausse du niveau de la mer apparent (HNMA), grâce aux tableaux peints …
Indoor environment and conservation in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
The impact of heating, lighting and people in re-using historical buildings
The microclimate inside the Pollaiolo and Botticelli rooms in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Canaletto's paintings open a new window on the relative sea-level rise in Venice
Seasonality of instability phenomena (hailstorms and thunderstorms) in Padova, northern Italy, from archive and instrumental sources since AD 1300
In northern Italy, and especially in the Po Valley, instability phenomena such as hail and thunder storms are mainly associated with the penetration of Atlantic disturbances, especially cold fronts, or pre-frontal squall lines in the mid-seasons, and with the thermal convection of hot and moist air in the summer. Changes of their seasonal distribution may be considered as an index of anomalies in the synoptic pressure pattern, which determines th…
Archaeometry of Air Pollution
Controlling the microclimate and particulate matter inside the historic anatomy theatre, Padua
Indoor environment and conservation in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
The microclimate inside the Pollaiolo and Botticelli rooms in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence
An advanced church heating system favourable to artworks
The impact of heating, lighting and people in re-using historical buildings
Microclimate in the Chiericati palace municipal museum, Vicenza
Standardization activity in the evaluation of moisture content
Past, present and future effects of climate change on a wooden inlay bookcase cabinet
The earliest daily barometric pressure readings in Italy
The earliest daily barometric pressure readings were taken during the Maunder Minimum of Solar activity (1645—1715). In Italy, observations were made at Pisa over the years 1657—1658 by V. Viviani and A. Borelli, and at Modena during the year 1694 by B. Ramazzini. These readings have been recovered, corrected and adjusted to modern units. The early instruments used and their problems have been thoroughly discussed. Barometer observations recorded…
Canaletto's paintings open a new window on the relative sea-level rise in Venice
Wall temperature and the soiling of murals
How much temperature will increase the efficiency of electro-osmosis
A method to obtain precise determinations of relative humidity using thin film capacitive sensors under normal or extreme humidity conditions
Archaeometry of Air Pollution
Controlling the microclimate and particulate matter inside the historic anatomy theatre, Padua
Wall temperature and the soiling of murals
Microclimate in the Chiericati palace municipal museum, Vicenza
Controlling the microclimate and particulate matter inside the historic anatomy theatre, Padua
Seasonality of instability phenomena (hailstorms and thunderstorms) in Padova, northern Italy, from archive and instrumental sources since AD 1300
In northern Italy, and especially in the Po Valley, instability phenomena such as hail and thunder storms are mainly associated with the penetration of Atlantic disturbances, especially cold fronts, or pre-frontal squall lines in the mid-seasons, and with the thermal convection of hot and moist air in the summer. Changes of their seasonal distribution may be considered as an index of anomalies in the synoptic pressure pattern, which determines th…
Archaeometry of Air Pollution
Canaletto's paintings open a new window on the relative sea-level rise in Venice
The microclimate inside the Pollaiolo and Botticelli rooms in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Indoor environment and conservation in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
The impact of heating, lighting and people in re-using historical buildings
The earliest daily barometric pressure readings in Italy
The earliest daily barometric pressure readings were taken during the Maunder Minimum of Solar activity (1645—1715). In Italy, observations were made at Pisa over the years 1657—1658 by V. Viviani and A. Borelli, and at Modena during the year 1694 by B. Ramazzini. These readings have been recovered, corrected and adjusted to modern units. The early instruments used and their problems have been thoroughly discussed. Barometer observations recorded…
An advanced church heating system favourable to artworks
Le niveau de la mer à Venise d'après l'œuvre picturale de Véronèse, Canaletto et Bellotto
La hausse du niveau de la mer due au réchauffement climatique contemporain met Venise en danger. Il est nécessaire, afin d'envisager des remèdes, de mieux connaître l'histoire de la hausse du niveau de la mer depuis le petit âge glaciaire. De manière générale, la peinture fournit des images qualitatives, mais dans le cas de Venise, elle permet une évaluation quantitative de la hausse du niveau de la mer apparent (HNMA), grâce aux tableaux peints …
Past, present and future effects of climate change on a wooden inlay bookcase cabinet
Calibration and multi-source consistency analysis of reconstructed precipitation series in Portugal since the early 17th century
A calibration of reconstructed winter, spring and autumn precipitation series in Portugal from 1600 onwards is undertaken in the present study using new instrumental sources for the period of 1815–2012. As summer precipitation in Portugal is scarce and irregular, it is not considered. A consistency analysis of the calibrated time series is then undertaken using: (1) precipitation indices for Portugal in 1675–1799; (2) teleconnections between seas…
European summer temperatures since Roman times
The spatial context is criticalwhen assessing present-day climate anomalies, attributing them to potential forcings and making statements regarding their frequency and severity in a long-term perspective. Recent international initiatives have expanded the number of high-quality proxy-records and developed new statistical reconstruction methods. These advances allow more rigorous regional past temperature reconstructions and, in turn, the possibil…
A Model Simulation of the Solar Energy Impinging on the Giza Pyramids
A simulation model of the solar energy impinging on stone blocks is made to ascertain theimpact of solar radiation on the walls of the Pyramids of Giza, Egypt. The model considers thesolar radiation hitting the upper surface, and the vertical sides of stone blocks on the four walls.The calculation concerns: the solar height and azimuth; the daily total amount of solar radiation;the instantaneous values of the flux of solar radiation. The results …
A method to obtain precise determinations of relative humidity using thin film capacitive sensors under normal or extreme humidity conditions
Standardization activity in the evaluation of moisture content
How much temperature will increase the efficiency of electro-osmosis
A critical analysis of the definitions of climate and hydrological extreme events
Galileo’s revolution and the infancy of meteorology in Padua, Florence and Bologna
This article reconstructs the historical and scientific framework within which modern science, and meteorology in particular, were born and developed beginning in the late XVI century. Scientific knowledge during this period was based on Aristotle’s books and the Holy Bible, and this constituted a serious obstacle for the new astronomical discoveries that contradicted this framework. The paper starts with the earliest experiments made by Galileo,…
When the Lagoon was frozen over in Venice from A.D. 604 to 2012
The paper reconstructs when the Lagoon of Venice, Italy, was frozen over in the last 1400 years. The paper combines various proxies and instrumental readings, i.e.: written documentary sources since the origin of Venice; evidence from visual arts referring to 1709, 1789 and 1791 as well as some pictures taken in 1929 and 2012; finally, instrumental observations since 1716. A critical revision has been made of all sources in order to reject duplic…
Wind-driven rain impinging on monuments and mountain slopes
The Gondola
Origin and evolution of the gondola have been reconstructed from historical and documentary written and pictorial sources (figures in books, engravings and paintings), in relation to the physical environment of the Lagoon, its morpho-dynamics with shallow and deep waters, marshes and canals. Particular care has been applied to the physical and hydrodynamic aspects in order to interpret the data and understand how the ancient Venetians could have …
Climate Risk and Conservation Challenges at Palermo’s Specola Museum
The Specola Museum is housed on the premises of the old Palermo Observatory, founded in 1790, and preserves most of the observatory’s cultural heritage. Environmental monitoring following the activation of air conditioning systems in 2018 revealed significant deviations from the historic thermo-hygrometric trends, with particularly dangerous fluctuations in relative humidity. A notable example of the impact of these changes is a 19th-century pain…
Geography (18 works) · Environmental Science (14 works) · Archaeology (13 works) · Building materials and conservation (13 works) · Conservation Techniques and Studies (13 works) · Art (10 works) · Meteorology (10 works) · Engineering (9 works) · Geology (9 works) · Climate variability and models (6 works)