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Barbara Wohlfarth

Barbara Wohlfarth

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Earth Science

D-Index
56
Citations
13527
World Ranking
2378
National Ranking
20

Overview

Barbara Wohlfarth is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a focus on Atmospheric Science among other subfields. Their published work predominantly covers areas such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological formations and processes, and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies.

Their notable research topics extend to Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, and Tree-ring climate responses. These thematic interests reflect a multidisciplinary approach to understanding past climates and environmental changes.

Wohlfarth's recent publications include:

  • "Norway spruce postglacial recolonization of Fennoscandia," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Hydroclimate variability of central Indo-Pacific region during the Holocene," 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Floral evidence for high summer temperatures in southern Scandinavia during 15-11 cal ka BP," 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "A muted El Niño-like condition during late MIS 3," 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "A 725-year integrated offshore terrestrial varve chronology for southeastern Sweden suggests rapid ice retreat ~15 ka BP," 2020, Boreas

These publications indicate a consistent engagement with high-impact journals including Quaternary Science Reviews, where the majority of their recent work appears, alongside contributions to Nature Communications and Boreas.

Their frequent collaborators encompass a range of researchers with whom they have co-authored multiple papers, including Minna Väliranta, Sakonvan Chawchai, Ludvig Löwemark, Frederik Schenk, and Rachael S. Avery.

Best Publications

  • The Last Glacial Maximum.

    Peter U. Clark;Arthur S. Dyke;Jeremy D. Shakun;Anders E. Carlson

  • An event stratigraphy for the Last Termination in the North Atlantic region based on the Greenland ice-core record: a proposal by the INTIMATE group

    Svante Bjorck;Michael J.C. Walker;Les C. Cwynar;Sigfus Johnsen

  • Synchronized terrestrial-atmospheric deglacial records around the North Atlantic

    Svante Björck;Bernd Kromer;Sigfus Johnsen;Ole Bennike

  • High‐resolution X‐ray fluorescence core scanning analysis of Les Echets (France) sedimentary sequence: new insights from chemical proxies

    Malin E. Kylander;Linda Ampel;Barbara Wohlfarth;Daniel Veres

  • Isotopic &events' in the GRIP ice core: a stratotype for the Late Pleistocene

    M.J.C. Walker;S. Björck;J.J. Lowe;L.C. Cwynar

  • 14C Chronostratigraphic Techniques in Paleolimnology

    Svante Björck;Barbara Wohlfarth

  • Timing and east–west correlation of south Swedish ice marginal lines during the Late Weichselian

    Jan Lundqvist;Barbara Wohlfarth

  • The chronology of the last termination: A review of radiocarbon-dated, high-resolution terrestrial stratigraphies

    Barbara Wohlfarth

  • Pitfalls in the AMS radiocarbon-dating of terrestrial macrofossils

    Barbara Wohlfarth;Göran Skog;G. Possnert;Björn Holmquist

  • Pollen-based quantitative reconstructions of Holocene climate variability in NW Romania

    Angelica Feurdean;Stefan Klotz;Volker Mosbrugger;Barbara Wohlfarth

  • Warm summers during the Younger Dryas cold reversal.

    Frederik Schenk;Frederik Schenk;Minna Väliranta;Francesco Muschitiello;Francesco Muschitiello;Francesco Muschitiello;Lev Tarasov

  • Tropical tales of polar ice: evidence of Last Interglacial polar ice sheet retreat recorded by fossil reefs of the granitic Seychelles islands

    Andrea Dutton;Andrea Dutton;Jody M. Webster;Dan Zwartz;Kurt Lambeck

  • Rapid ecosystem response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period in western Europe, 40–16 ka

    Barbara Wohlfarth;Daniel Veres;Linda Ampel;Terri Lacourse

  • Extending the known distribution of the Younger Dryas Vedde Ash into northwestern Russia

    Stefan Wastegård;Barbara Wohlfarth;Dmitry A. Subetto;Tatyana V. Sapelko

  • The influence of refugial population on Lateglacial and early Holocene vegetational changes in Romania

    Angelica Feurdean;Barbara Wohlfarth;Leif Björkman;Ioan Tantau

  • AMS dating Swedish varved clays of the last glacial/interglacial transition and the potential/difficulties of calibrating Late Weichselian ‘absolute’ chronologies

    Barbara Wohlfarth;Svante Björck;Göran Possnert;Geoffrey Lemdahl

  • Final deglaciation of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet and implications for the Holocene global sea-level budget

    Joshua K. Cuzzone;Peter U. Clark;Anders E. Carlson;David J. Ullman

  • Evidence for the occurrence of Vedde Ash in Sweden: radiocarbon and calendar age estimates

    Stefan Wastegård;Stefan Wastegård;Svante Björck;Göran Possnert;Barbara Wohlfarth

  • Rainfall variations in central Indo-Pacific over the past 2,700 y.

    Liangcheng Tan;Liangcheng Tan;Chuan Chou Shen;Ludvig Löwemark;Sakonvan Chawchai

  • The Würmian Late-glacial in lowland Switzerland

    Brigitta Ammann;André F. Lotter;U. Eicher;M.-J. Gaillard

  • Constraining the age of Lateglacial and early Holocene pollen zones and tephra horizons in southern Sweden with Bayesian probability methods

    Barbara Wohlfarth;Maarten Blaauw;Siwan Davies;Mamite Andersson

  • Extending the limits of the Borrobol Tephra to Scandinavia and detection of new early Holocene tephras

    Siwan M. Davies;Stefan Wastegård;Barbara Wohlfarth

Frequent Co-Authors

Svante Björck
Svante Björck Lund University
Göran Possnert
Göran Possnert Uppsala University
Maarten Blaauw
Maarten Blaauw Queen's University Belfast
Daniel Veres
Daniel Veres Romanian Academy
Rienk H. Smittenberg
Rienk H. Smittenberg Stockholm University
Paula J. Reimer
Paula J. Reimer Queen's University Belfast
Stefan Wastegård
Stefan Wastegård Stockholm University
Ole Bennike
Ole Bennike Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Minna Väliranta
Minna Väliranta University of Helsinki
Siwan M. Davies
Siwan M. Davies Swansea University

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