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Earth Science

D-Index
41
Citations
21778
World Ranking
5389
National Ranking
394

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute
  • 2002 - CNRS Gold Medal, French National Centre for Scientific Research Climatology
  • 2001 - International Balzan Prize
  • 1989 - Member of Academia Europaea

Best Publications

  • Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica

    J. R. Petit;J. Jouzel;D. Raynaud;N. I. Barkov

  • Vostok ice core provides 160,000-year record of atmospheric CO2

    J. M. Barnola;D. Raynaud;Y. S. Korotkevich;C. Lorius

  • Vostok ice core: a continuous isotope temperature record over the last climatic cycle (160,000 years)

    J. Jouzel;C. Lorius;J. R. Petit;C. Genthon

  • A 150,000-year climatic record from Antarctic ice

    C. Lorius;J. Jouzel;C. Ritz;L. Merlivat

  • Extending the Vostok ice-core record of palaeoclimate to the penultimate glacial period

    Jean Jouzel;Jean Jouzel;N.I. Barkov;J.M. Barnola;M. Bender;M. Bender

  • Ice-core record of atmospheric methane over the past 160,000 years

    J. Chappellaz;J. M. Barnola;D. Raynaud;Y. S. Korotkevich

  • The ice record of greenhouse gases

    D. Raynaud;J. Jouzel;J. M. Barnola;J. Chappellaz

  • Palaeoclimatological and chronological implications of the Vostok core dust record

    J. R. Petit;L. Mourner;J. Jouzel;Y. S. Korotkevich

  • The ice-core record: climate sensitivity and future greenhouse warming

    C. Lorius;D. Raynaud;J. Jouzel;J. Hansen

  • A 30,000-yr isotope climatic record from Antarctic ice

    C. Lorius;L. Merlivat;J. Jouzel;M. Pourchet

  • Vostok ice core: climatic response to CO2 and orbital forcing changes over the last climatic cycle

    G. Genthon;J. M. Barnola;D. Raynaud;C. Lorius

  • Evidence for two intervals of enhanced 10 Be deposition in Antarctic ice during the last glacial period

    G. M. Raisbeck;F. Yiou;D. Bourles;C. Lorius

  • Deuterium excess in an East Antarctic ice core suggests higher relative humidity at the oceanic surface during the last glacial maximum

    Jean Jouzel;Liliane Merlivat;Claude Lorius

  • Vostok (Antarctica) ice core: Atmospheric chemistry changes over the last climatic cycle (160,000 years)

    M.R. Legrand;C. Lorius;N.I. Barkov;V.N. Petrov

  • The two-step shape and timing of the last deglaciation in Antarctica

    J Jouzel;R Vaikmae;J R Petit;M Martin

  • Four climate cycles in Vostok ice core

    J. R. Petit;I. Basile;A. Leruyuet;D. Raynaud

  • Climatic and CH4 cycle implications of glacial–interglacial CH4 change in the Vostok ice core

    D. Raynaud;J. Chappellaz;J. M. Barnola;Y. S. Korotkevich

  • Climatic interpretation of the recently extended Vostok ice records

    J. Jouzel;C. Waelbroeck;B. Malaize;M. Bender

  • Air content paleo record in the Vostok ice core (Antarctica): A mixed record of climatic and glaciological parameters

    P. Martinerie;V. Y. Lipenkov;D. Raynaud;J. Chappellaz

  • Climatic information over the last century deduced from a detailed isotopic record in the south pole snow

    J. Jouzel;L. Merlivat;J. R. Petit;C. Lorius

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean Jouzel
Jean Jouzel Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
Dominique Raynaud
Dominique Raynaud Grenoble Alpes University
J. R. Petit
J. R. Petit Grenoble Alpes University
J. M. Barnola
J. M. Barnola Grenoble Alpes University
Michel Stievenard
Michel Stievenard Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
Catherine Ritz
Catherine Ritz Grenoble Alpes University
Michael L. Bender
Michael L. Bender Princeton University
Jérôme Chappellaz
Jérôme Chappellaz École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Christophe Genthon
Christophe Genthon Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Grant M. Raisbeck
Grant M. Raisbeck University of Paris-Saclay

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