!!Antonio Costa - Publications
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Author of more than 130 papers published in refereed science journals and more than 10 book chapters (more than 30 are first-authored), more than 30 technical reports (including 2 refereed technical reports for the IAEA, the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction for the United Nations, and 2 reports for the Italian DPC). His papers have more than ~8400-6200 citations and I have an h-index of 48-44 ([https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=7BjARHAAAAAJ&hl=it]   [http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=12546184200]).
 He is in the list of the "100,000 top scientists" of the world elaborated by Ioannidis et al. (2019) (A standardized citation metrics author database annotated for scientific field; [https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000384]).\\
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__Selected publications:__\\
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Smith V.C., Costa A.*, Aguirre-Diaz G., Pedrazzi D., Scifo A., Plunkett G., Poret M., Tournigand P.Y., Miles D., Dee M., McConnell J.R., Sunye-Puchol I., Davila Harris P., Sigl. M., Pilcher J.R., Chellman N., Gutierrez E. (2020) The magnitude and impact of the 431 CE Tierra Blanca Joven eruption of Ilopango, El Salvador, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 117, 42, 26061-26068, doi:10.1073/pnas.2003008117\\
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Albert P.G., Giaccio B., Isaia R., Costa A. Niespolo E.M., Nomade S., Pereira A., Renne P.R., Hinchliffe A., Mark D.F., Brown R.J., Smith V.C. (2019) Evidence for a large magnitude eruption from Campi Flegrei caldera (Italy) at 29 ka, Geology, 47 (7), 595-599, doi:10.1130/G45805.1\\
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Costa A., Suzuki Y.J., Koyaguchi T. (2018) Understanding the plume dynamics of explosive super-eruptions, Nature Comm., Vol. 9: 654, doi:10.1038/s41467-018-02901-0 \\
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Costa A., Pioli L., Bonadonna C. (2016) Assessing tephra total grain-size distribution: Insights into from field data analysis, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., Vol. 443: 90-107, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.02.040 \\
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Costa A., Suzuki Y.J., Cerminara M.; Devenish B.; Esposti Ongaro T., Herzog M., Van Eaton A., Denby L.C.; Bursik M., de Michieli Vitturi M., Engwell S., Neri A., Barsotti S., Folch A., Macedonio G., Girault F., Carazzo G., Tait S., Kaminski E., Mastin L., Woodhouse M., Phillips J. C., Hogg A.J., Degruyter W.J., Bonadonna C. (2016) Results of the Eruption Column Model Inter- comparison Study, J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 326, 2-25, doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2016.01.017 
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Costa A., Smith V., Macedonio G. and Matthews N. (2014). The magnitude and impact of the Youngest Toba Tuff super-eruption. Front. Earth Sci. Vol. 2 (16): 1-8, doi:10.3389/feart.2014.00016
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Costa A., Folch A., Macedonio G. (2013) Density-driven transport in the umbrella region of volcanic clouds: Implications for tephra dispersion models, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 40: 4823– 4827, doi: 10.1002/grl.50942 
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Bonadonna C., Costa A. (2012) Estimating volume of tephra deposits: a new simple strategy, Geology, Vol. 40: 415-418, doi:10.1130/G32769.1 
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Costa A., Folch A., Macedonio G., Giaccio B., Isaia R., Smith V.C. (2012) Quantifying volcanic ash dispersal and impact from Campanian Ignimbrite super-eruption, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 39: L10310, doi:10.1029/2012GL051605 (Selected for the AGU Research Spotlight) \\
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Costa A., Folch A., Macedonio G. (2010) A Model for Wet Aggregation of Ash Particles in Volcanic Plumes and Clouds: I. Theoretical Formulation, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 115: B09201, doi:10.1029/2009JB007175 
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Costa A., Melnik O., Sparks R.S.J., Voight,B.(2007) Control of magma flow in dykes on cyclic lava dome extrusion, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 34: L02303, doi:10.1029/2006GL027466 \\
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Costa A., Macedonio G., Folch A.(2006) A three-dimensional Eulerian model for transport and deposition of volcanic ashes. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., Vol. 241: 634-647, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.11.019 \\
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Costa A.(2006) Permeability-porosityrelationship:are-examinationoftheKozeny-Carman equation based on fractal pore-space geometry. Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 33: L02318, doi:10.1029/2005GL025134 
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Costa A.(2005) Viscosity of high crystal content melts: dependence on solid fraction.Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 32: L22308, doi:10.1029/2005GL024303