Ermanno Pietropaolo is a physicist whose research at the University of L'Aquila links observations of the Sun to measurements of the solar wind and the environment around Earth. His institutional research profile describes studies of dynamics in the photosphere and chromosphere, Alfvén wave fluctuations at different distances from the Sun, and instrumentation for ground-based observations relevant to space weather.[ref]
He coauthored the 2007 study that tested an energy cascade using solar wind measurements from the Ulysses spacecraft.[ref]
Observation of inertial energy cascade in interplanetary space plasma by Luca Sorriso-Valvo and others. byline and abstract
The scientific connection is between a physical flow and a measurement procedure: instruments record velocity and magnetic field, and statistical analysis asks whether changes at different separations agree with magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. His profile's emphasis on apparatus and observing conditions is relevant because a change in a measured fluctuation must be distinguished from a change introduced by the observing system itself. Articles by others on the same topic
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