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Claire Waelbroeck

Claire Waelbroeck

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Earth Science

D-Index
52
Citations
12848
World Ranking
2982
National Ranking
199

Overview

Claire Waelbroeck is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The main topics addressed in Waelbroeck's research include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems

Waelbroeck has published in several prominent venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Climate of the Past
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Waelbroeck include:

  • "Atlantic Ocean Ventilation Changes Across the Last Deglaciation and Their Carbon Cycle Implications," 2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • "The North Atlantic Glacial Eastern Boundary Current as a Key Driver for Ice-Sheet-AMOC Interactions and Climate Instability," 2021, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • "Impact of Southern Ocean surface conditions on deep ocean circulation during the LGM: a model analysis," 2021, Climate of the Past
  • "Dansgaard-Oeschger and Heinrich event temperature anomalies in the North Atlantic set by sea ice, frontal position and thermocline structure," 2022, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Radiocarbon Dating of Small-sized Foraminifer Samples: Insights into Marine sediment Mixing," 2020, Radiocarbon

Frequent collaborators in Waelbroeck's scientific work include:

  • Élisabeth Michel
  • Antje H L Voelker
  • Julia Gottschalk
  • Jörg Lippold
  • Natalia Vázquez Riveiros

This body of work situates Waelbroeck in interdisciplinary studies that integrate paleoclimatology, oceanography, and geochemistry. Their research addresses key questions about climate instability, ocean circulation, and marine sediment processes, drawing on both empirical data and model analyses to understand environmental changes during critical periods such as the Last Glacial Maximum and deglaciation events.

Best Publications

  • Sea-level and deep water temperature changes derived from benthic foraminifera isotopic records

    C. Waelbroeck;Laurent Labeyrie;Laurent Labeyrie;Elisabeth Michel;Jean-Claude Duplessy

  • Ventilation of the Deep Southern Ocean and Deglacial CO2 Rise

    Luke C. Skinner;Stewart J. Fallon;C. Waelbroeck;Elisabeth Michel

  • Constraints on the magnitude and patterns of ocean cooling at the Last Glacial Maximum

    C. Waelbroeck;A. Paul;M. Kucera;A. Rosell-Melé

  • The EDC3 chronology for the EPICA Dome C ice core

    Frédéric Parrenin;Jean-Marc Barnola;J. Beer;Thomas Blunier

  • Reconstruction of sea-surface temperatures from assemblages of planktonic foraminifera: multi-technique approach based on geographically constrained calibration data sets and its application to glacial Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

    Michal Kucera;Mara Weinelt;Thorsten Kiefer;Uwe Pflaumann

  • Consistently dated Atlantic sediment cores over the last 40 thousand years

    Claire Waelbroeck;Bryan C. Lougheed;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Lise Missiaen

  • Marine isotope stage 3 sea level fluctuations: Data synthesis and new outlook

    M. Siddall;M. Siddall;Eelco J. Rohling;William G. Thompson;Claire Waelbroeck

  • The timing of the last deglaciation in North Atlantic climate records

    Claire Waelbroeck;Jean-Claude Duplessy;Elisabeth Michel;Laurent Labeyrie;Laurent Labeyrie

  • Consistent dating for Antarctic and Greenland ice cores

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

  • Multiproxy approach for the reconstruction of the glacial ocean surface (MARGO)

    Michael Kucera;Antoni Rosell-Mele;Ralph Schneider;Claere Waelbroeck

  • Temporal and spatial structure of multi-millennial temperature changes at high latitudes during the Last Interglacial

    Emilie Capron;Aline Govin;Emma J. Stone;Valérie Masson-Delmotte

  • Constraints on the ocean oxygen isotopic enrichment between the Last Glacial Maximum and the Holocene: Paleoceanographic implications

    Jean-Claude Duplessy;Laurent Labeyrie;Claire Waelbroeck

  • Influence of Bering Strait flow and North Atlantic circulation on glacial sea-level changes

    Aixue Hu;Gerald A. Meehl;Bette L. Otto-Bliesner;Claire Waelbroeck

  • Climatic interpretation of the recently extended Vostok ice records

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

  • Improving past sea surface temperature estimates based on planktonic fossil faunas

    C Waelbroeck;Laurent Labeyrie;Jean-Claude Duplessy;Joel Guiot

  • Biological and physical controls in the Southern Ocean on past millennial-scale atmospheric CO2 changes

    Julia Gottschalk;Luke Cameron Skinner;Jörg Lippold;Hendrik Vogel

  • Sequence of events from the onset to the demise of the Last Interglacial: Evaluating strengths and limitations of chronologies used in climatic archives

    Aline Govin;E Capron;P C Tzedakis;S Verheyden

  • The timing of deglacial circulation changes in the Atlantic

    C. Waelbroeck;L. C. Skinner;L. Labeyrie;J.-C. Duplessy

  • Persistent influence of ice sheet melting on high northern latitude climate during the early Last Interglacial

    Aline Govin;Aline Govin;Pascale Braconnot;Emilie Capron;Elsa Cortijo

  • A comparison of PMIP2 model simulations and the MARGO proxy reconstruction for tropical sea surface temperatures at last glacial maximum

    Bette L. Otto-Bliesner;Ralph Schneider;E. C. Brady;Michal Kucera

  • Consistently dated Atlantic sediment cores

    Claire Waelbroeck;Bryan C Lougheed;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Lise Missiaen

  • Constraints on the magnitude and patterns of ocean cooling at the Last Glacial Maximum: report of the MARGO Project

    C. Waelbroeck;A. Paul;M. Kucera;A. Rosell-Melé

Frequent Co-Authors

Luke C Skinner
Luke C Skinner University of Cambridge
Trond Dokken
Trond Dokken NORCE Research
Helge W Arz
Helge W Arz Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Lukas Wacker
Lukas Wacker ETH Zurich
Frédérique Eynaud
Frédérique Eynaud University of Bordeaux
Stéphanie Desprat
Stéphanie Desprat University of Bordeaux
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi University of Bordeaux
Samuel Toucanne
Samuel Toucanne French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Irka Hajdas
Irka Hajdas ETH Zurich
Delia W Oppo
Delia W Oppo Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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