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Overview

Catherine Ritz is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France and focuses their research primarily in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly output includes a substantial number of publications related to Antarctic and cryospheric studies.

The primary areas of study covered in their work include:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change

Key research topics addressed in their publications are:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Polar Research and Ecology

Their recent research papers include:

  • "Quantarctica, an integrated mapping environment for Antarctica, the Southern Ocean, and sub-Antarctic islands," 2021, published in Environmental Modelling & Software
  • "Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum," 2021, published in Science
  • "Response of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet to past and future climate change," 2022, published in Nature
  • "Brief communication: New radar constraints support presence of ice older than 1.5 Myr at Little Dome C," 2021, published in The Cryosphere
  • "Geothermal heat flux from measured temperature profiles in deep ice boreholes in Antarctica," 2020, published in The Cryosphere

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Catherine Ritz include:

  • Robert Mulvaney
  • Carlos Martín
  • Massimo Frezzotti
  • Olaf Eisen
  • Aurélien Quiquet

The principal publication venues for their work are:

  • The Cryosphere
  • Earth System Science Data
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Modelling & Software
  • Science

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

  • Eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core

    Laurent Augustin;Carlo Barbante;Piers R. F. Barnes;Jean Marc Barnola

  • 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

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

    D. Dahl-Jensen;M. R. Albert;A. Aldahan;N. Azuma

  • An optimized multi-proxy, multi-site Antarctic ice and gas orbital chronology (AICC2012): 120--800 ka

    L. Bazin;A. Landais;B. Lemieux-Dudon;H. Toyé Mahamadou Kele

  • Potential sea-level rise from Antarctic ice-sheet instability constrained by observations

    Catherine Ritz;Catherine Ritz;Tamsin L. Edwards;Tamsin L. Edwards;Gaël Durand;Gaël Durand;Anthony J. Payne

  • Modeling the evolution of Antarctic ice sheet over the last 420,000 years: Implications for altitude changes in the Vostok region

    Catherine Ritz;Vincent Rommelaere;Christophe Dumas

  • Ice-sheet mass balance and climate change

    Edward Hanna;Francisco J. Navarro;Frank Pattyn;Catia M. Domingues

  • Revisiting Antarctic ice loss due to marine ice-cliff instability

    Tamsin L. Edwards;Mark A. Brandon;Gael Durand;Neil R. Edwards

  • Consistent dating for Antarctic and Greenland ice cores

    Bénédicte Lemieux-Dudon;Eric Blayo;Jean-Robert Petit;Claire Waelbroeck

  • Past and future polar amplification of climate change: climate model intercomparisons and ice-core constraints

    Valérie Masson-Delmotte;Masa Kageyama;Pascale Braconnot;S. Charbit

  • Quantarctica, an integrated mapping environment for Antarctica, the Southern Ocean, and sub-Antarctic islands

    Kenichi Matsuoka;Anders Skoglund;George Roth;Jean de Pomereu

  • Sensitivity of a Greenland ice sheet model to ice flow and ablation parameters: consequences for the evolution through the last climatic cycle

    C. Ritz;A. Fabre;A. Letréguilly

  • Greenland ice sheet contribution to sea-level rise from a new-generation ice-sheet model

    Fabien Gillet-Chaulet;Olivier Gagliardini;Olivier Gagliardini;Hakime Seddik;Maëlle Nodet

  • Modeling the densification of polar firn including heat diffusion: Application to close-off characteristics and gas isotopic fractionation for Antarctica and Greenland sites

    C. Goujon;J.-M. Barnola;C. Ritz

  • Expression of the bipolar see-saw in Antarctic climate records during the last deglaciation

    B. Stenni;D. Buiron;M. Frezzotti;S. Albani

  • Results from the EISMINT model intercomparison : the effects of thermomechanical coupling

    A. J. Payne;Philippe Huybrechts;A. Abe-Ouchi;R. Calov

  • Where to find 1.5 million yr old ice for the IPICS "Oldest-Ice" ice core

    H. Fischer;J. Severinghaus;E. Brook;E. Wolff;E. Wolff

  • Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum

    Christo Buizert;T. J. Fudge;William H. G. Roberts;Eric J. Steig

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core (SCI)

    D Dahl-Jensen;M R Albert;A Aldahan;N Azuma

Frequent Co-Authors

Frédéric Parrenin
Frédéric Parrenin Grenoble Alpes University
Olivier Gagliardini
Olivier Gagliardini Grenoble Alpes University
Jean Jouzel
Jean Jouzel Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
Gaël Durand
Gaël Durand Grenoble Alpes University
Eric W. Wolff
Eric W. Wolff University of Cambridge
Robert Mulvaney
Robert Mulvaney British Antarctic Survey
Jérôme Chappellaz
Jérôme Chappellaz École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Philippe Huybrechts
Philippe Huybrechts Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Jason L. Roberts
Jason L. Roberts Australian Antarctic Division
Dominique Raynaud
Dominique Raynaud Grenoble Alpes University

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