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Christian Schlüchter

Christian Schlüchter

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Earth Science

D-Index
61
Citations
12971
World Ranking
1800
National Ranking
48

Overview

Christian Schlüchter is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Anthropology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Geophysics.

Their research work covers a variety of interconnected topics, including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Climate change and permafrost

Recent publications highlight contributions to understanding climate dynamics, glacial activity, and isotope analysis. Notable papers include:

  • "Tree-rings reveal two strong solar proton events in 7176 and 5259 BCE" (2022), published in Nature Communications
  • "The glacier advance at the onset of the Little Ice Age in the Alps: New evidence from Mont Miné and Morteratsch glaciers" (2022), published in The Holocene
  • "Alpine Holocene tree-ring dataset: age-related trends in the stable isotopes of cellulose show species-specific patterns" (2020), published in Biogeosciences
  • "Larch Cellulose Shows Significantly Depleted Hydrogen Isotope Values With Respect to Evergreen Conifers in Contrast to Oxygen and Carbon Isotopes" (2020), published in Frontiers in Earth Science
  • "Glacier response to Holocene warmth inferred from in situ 10 Be and 14 C bedrock analyses in Steingletscher's forefield (central Swiss Alps)" (2022), published in Climate of the past

Frequent co-authors associated with Christian Schlüchter's work include Kurt Nicolussi, Naki Akçar, Susan Ivy-Ochs, Tito Arosio, and Markus Leuenberger.

The main publication venues where this scientist's work appears are:

  • Geosciences
  • Revue de géographie alpine
  • Nature Communications
  • The Holocene
  • Biogeosciences

Best Publications

  • Latest Pleistocene and Holocene glacier variations in the European Alps

    Susan Ivy-Ochs;Susan Ivy-Ochs;Hanns Kerschner;Max Maisch;Marcus Christl

  • Chronology of the last glacial cycle in the European Alps

    Susan Ivy-Ochs;Hanns Kerschner;Anne Reuther;Frank Preusser

  • Interhemispheric Correlation of Late Pleistocene Glacial Events

    T. V. Lowell;C. J. Heusser;B. G. Andersen;P. I. Moreno

  • High-Frequency Holocene Glacier Fluctuations in New Zealand Differ from the Northern Signature

    Joerg M. Schaefer;George H. Denton;Michael Kaplan;Aaron Putnam

  • Interhemispheric linkage of paleoclimate during the last glaciation

    G.H. Denton;C. J. Heusser;T.V. Lowel;P.I. Moreno

  • Alpine Evidence for Atmospheric Circulation Patterns in Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum

    Duri Florineth;Christian Schlüchter

  • Near-Synchronous Interhemispheric Termination of the Last Glacial Maximum in Mid-Latitudes

    Joerg M. Schaefer;George H. Denton;David J. A. Barrell;Susan Ivy-Ochs

  • Multicentury glacier fluctuations in the Swiss Alps during the Holocene

    Ulrich E. Joerin;Thomas F. Stocker;Christian Schlüchter

  • The Alps with little ice: evidence for eight Holocene phases of reduced glacier extent in the Central Swiss Alps

    Anne Hormes;Benjamin U. Müller;Christian Schlüchter

  • Glacier advance in southern middle-latitudes during the Antarctic Cold Reversal

    Aaron E. Putnam;George H. Denton;Joerg M. Schaefer;Joerg M. Schaefer;David J. A. Barrell

  • Timing of deglaciation on the northern Alpine foreland (Switzerland)

    Susan Ivy-Ochs;Jörg Schäfer;Peter W. Kubik;Hans-Arno Synal

  • Glacier response in the European Alps to Heinrich Event 1 cooling: the Gschnitz stadial

    Susan Ivy-Ochs;Hanns Kerschner;Peter W. Kubik;Christian Schlüchter

  • Cosmogenic noble gas studies in the oldest landscape on earth: surface exposure ages of the Dry Valleys, Antarctica

    Jörg M. Schäfer;Susan Ivy-Ochs;Rainer Wieler;Ingo Leya

  • Quaternary glaciation history of northern Switzerland

    Frank Preusser;Hans Rudolf Graf;Oskar Keller;Edgar Krayss

  • Geomorphology, Stratigraphy, and Radiocarbon Chronology of LlanquihueDrift in the Area of the Southern Lake District, Seno Reloncaví, and Isla Grande de Chiloé, Chile

    G.H. Denton;T.V. Lowell;C.J. Heusser;Christian Schlüchter

  • 10BE AND 26AL PRODUCTION RATES DEDUCED FROM AN INSTANTANEOUS EVENT WITHIN THE DENDRO-CALIBRATION CURVE, THE LANDSLIDE OF KOFELS, OTZ VALLEY, AUSTRIA

    Peter W. Kubik;Susan Ivy-Ochs;Jozef Masarik;Martin Frank

  • Characterisation of low OSL intensity quartz from the New Zealand Alps

    Frank Preusser;Karl Ramseyer;Christian Schlüchter

  • The limited influence of glaciations in Tibet on global climate over the past 170 000 yr

    Jörg M. Schäfer;Silvio Tschudi;Zhizhong Zhao;Xihao Wu

  • A reconstruction of the last glacial maximum (LGM) ice-surface geometry in the western Swiss Alps and contiguous Alpine regions in Italy and France

    Meredith A. Kelly;Meredith A. Kelly;Jean-François Buoncristiani;Christian Schlüchter

  • Distribution, geometry, age and origin of overdeepened valleys and basins in the Alps and their foreland

    Frank Preusser;Jürgen M. Reitner;Christian Schlüchter

  • Cosmogenic nuclides and the dating of Lateglacial and Early Holocene glacier variations: The Alpine perspective

    Susan Ivy-Ochs;Susan Ivy-Ochs;Hanns Kerschner;Christian Schlüchter

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Ivy-Ochs
Susan Ivy-Ochs ETH Zurich
Naki Akçar
Naki Akçar University of Bern
Peter W. Kubik
Peter W. Kubik ETH Zurich
Frank Preusser
Frank Preusser University of Freiburg
Joerg M. Schaefer
Joerg M. Schaefer Columbia University
Marcus Christl
Marcus Christl ETH Zurich
Rainer Wieler
Rainer Wieler ETH Zurich
George H. Denton
George H. Denton University of Maine
Markus Leuenberger
Markus Leuenberger University of Bern
Fritz Schlunegger
Fritz Schlunegger University of Bern

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