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Christophe Corona is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on the study of climate, ecological systems, and geological processes.

The scientist's publication record includes significant contributions to atmospheric science and global and planetary change. Their work often intersects topics such as management, monitoring, policy, and law, as well as nature and landscape conservation and ecology.

Main areas of research include:

  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Climate variability and models

Frequent publication venues for Christophe Corona include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Climate of the past
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Communications

Notable recent papers illustrate the range and focus of the scientist's work:

  • The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Assessing the effects of earlier snow melt-out on alpine shrub growth: The sooner the better?, 2020, Ecological Indicators
  • Climatic and societal impacts of a "forgotten" cluster of volcanic eruptions in 1108-1110 CE, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Upslope migration of snow avalanches in a warming climate, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Current Siberian heating is unprecedented during the past seven millennia, 2022, Nature Communications

The scientist collaborates frequently with colleagues in the field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Markus Stoffel
  • Sébastien Guillet
  • Nicolas Eckert
  • Jérôme Lopez-Saez
  • Juan Antonio Ballesteros-Cánovas

Best Publications

  • Estimates of volcanic-induced cooling in the Northern Hemisphere over the past 1,500 years

    Markus Stoffel;Myriam Khodri;Christophe Corona;Sébastien Guillet

  • Dendroecological Dating of Geomorphic Disturbance in Trees

    Markus Stoffel;Markus Stoffel;Christophe Corona;Christophe Corona

  • Climate response to the Samalas volcanic eruption in 1257 revealed by proxy records

    Sébastien Guillet;Christophe Corona;Markus Stoffel;Myriam Khodri

  • Multi-proxy dating the ‘Millennium Eruption’ of Changbaishan to late 946 CE

    Clive Oppenheimer;Lukas Wacker;Jiandong Xu;Juan Diego Galván

  • Mass movements and tree rings: A guide to dendrogeomorphic field sampling and dating

    Markus Stoffel;Markus Stoffel;David R. Butler;Christophe Corona;Christophe Corona

  • Growing Season Temperatures in Europe and Climate Forcings Over the Past 1400 Years

    Joel Guiot;Christophe Corona;Escarsel members

  • The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions

    Ulf Büntgen;Kathy Allen;Kathy Allen;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Dominique Arseneault

  • Probability maps of landslide reactivation derived from tree-ring records: Pra Bellon landslide, southern French Alps

    Jérôme Lopez Saez;Christophe Corona;Markus Stoffel;Markus Stoffel;Philippe Schoeneich

  • Dendrogeomorphic reconstruction of past landslide reactivation with seasonal precision: the Bois Noir landslide, southeast French Alps

    Jérôme Lopez Saez;Christophe Corona;Markus Stoffel;Markus Stoffel;Laurent Astrade

  • How much of the real avalanche activity can be captured with tree rings? An evaluation of classic dendrogeomorphic approaches and comparison with historical archives

    Christophe Corona;Jérôme Lopez Saez;Markus Stoffel;Markus Stoffel;Mylène Bonnefoy

  • Dating and quantification of erosion processes based on exposed roots

    Markus Stoffel;Markus Stoffel;Christophe Corona;Juan Antonio Ballesteros-Cánovas;José Maria Bodoque

  • Defining optimal sample size, sampling design and thresholds for dendrogeomorphic landslide reconstructions

    Christophe Corona;Christophe Corona;Jérôme Lopez Saez;Markus Stoffel;Markus Stoffel

  • High resolution, quantitative reconstruction of erosion rates based on anatomical changes in exposed roots at Draix, Alpes de Haute-Provence — critical review of existing approaches and independent quality control of results

    Christophe Corona;Jérôme Lopez Saez;Georges Rovera;Markus Stoffel;Markus Stoffel

  • Climate change increases frequency of shallow spring landslides in the French Alps

    Jérôme Lopez Saez;Christophe Corona;Christophe Corona;Markus Stoffel;Markus Stoffel;Frédéric Berger

  • Millennium-long summer temperature variations in the European Alps as reconstructed from tree rings

    Christophe Corona;Joel Guiot;J. L. Edouard;F. Chalié

  • Current Siberian heating is unprecedented during the past seven millennia

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  • How to improve dating quality and reduce noise in tree-ring based debris-flow reconstructions

    Michelle Schneuwly-Bollschweiler;Michelle Schneuwly-Bollschweiler;Christophe Corona;Markus Stoffel;Markus Stoffel

  • Rolling stones and tree rings: A state of research on dendrogeomorphic reconstructions of rockfall

    Daniel Trappmann;Christophe Corona;Markus Stoffel

  • The Eldgjá eruption: timing, long-range impacts and influence on the Christianisation of Iceland

    Clive Oppenheimer;Andy Orchard;Markus Stoffel;Timothy P. Newfield

  • Assessing the effects of earlier snow melt-out on Alpine shrub growth: the sooner the better?

    Loïc Francon;Christophe Corona;I. Till-Bottraud;P. Choler

  • Mapping of erosion rates in marly badlands based on a coupling of anatomical changes in exposed roots with slope maps derived from LiDAR data

    Jérôme Lopez Saez;Christophe Corona;Markus Stoffel;Markus Stoffel;Georges Rovéra

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Stoffel
Markus Stoffel University of Geneva
Nicolas Eckert
Nicolas Eckert Grenoble Alpes University
Alexander V. Kirdyanov
Alexander V. Kirdyanov University of Cambridge
Joël Guiot
Joël Guiot Aix-Marseille University
Ulf Büntgen
Ulf Büntgen University of Cambridge
Clive Oppenheimer
Clive Oppenheimer University of Cambridge
Eugene A. Vaganov
Eugene A. Vaganov Siberian Federal University
Michael Sigl
Michael Sigl University of Oslo
Luca Bragazza
Luca Bragazza Agroscope
Rolf T. W. Siegwolf
Rolf T. W. Siegwolf Paul Scherrer Institute

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