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Overview

Clive Oppenheimer is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial focus on several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Global and Planetary Change, Archeology, and Paleontology.

The core topics covered in Oppenheimer's work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Climate variability and models
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Their recent published papers feature a range of climate variability, geological, and volcanic topics, with titles, years, and venues as follows:

  • "Prominent role of volcanism in Common Era climate variability and human history," 2020, published in Dendrochronologia
  • "The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions," 2021, published in Nature Communications
  • "Age of the oldest known Homo sapiens from eastern Africa," 2022, published in Nature
  • "Precise date for the Laacher See eruption synchronizes the Younger Dryas," 2021, published in Nature
  • "Rapid shifting of a deep magmatic source at Fagradalsfjall volcano, Iceland," 2022, published in Nature

Oppenheimer frequently collaborates with co-authors whose recurring partnerships highlight joint research efforts. These prominent co-authors include:

  • Ulf Büntgen
  • Jan Esper
  • Markus Stoffel
  • Frederick Reinig
  • Michael Sigl

The scientist has published extensively in notable venues with repeated contributions to:

  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature
  • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Dendrochronologia

Best Publications

  • Climatic, environmental and human consequences of the largest known historic eruption: Tambora volcano (Indonesia) 1815:

    Clive Oppenheimer

  • The size and frequency of the largest explosive eruptions on Earth

    Ben G. Mason;David M. Pyle;Clive Oppenheimer

  • A miniaturised ultraviolet spectrometer for remote sensing of SO2 fluxes: a new tool for volcano surveillance

    Bo Galle;Bo Galle;Clive Oppenheimer;Andreas Geyer;Andreas Geyer;Andrew J.S McGonigle

  • The 2010 explosive eruption of Java's Merapi volcano—A ‘100-year’ event

    Surono;Philippe Jousset;John S Pallister;Marie Boichu

  • Middle Paleolithic assemblages from the Indian subcontinent before and after the Toba super-eruption.

    Michael D. Petraglia;Michael D. Petraglia;Ravi Korisettar;Nicole Boivin;Christopher Clarkson

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

    Markus Stoffel;Myriam Khodri;Christophe Corona;Sébastien Guillet

  • Volcanic ash-leachates: a review and recommendations for sampling methods

    C.S. Witham;C. Oppenheimer;C.J. Horwell

  • Health Hazards from Volcanic Gases: A Systematic Literature Review

    Anna Hansell;Clive Oppenheimer

  • Source of the great A.D. 1257 mystery eruption unveiled, Samalas volcano, Rinjani Volcanic Complex, Indonesia

    Franck Lavigne;Jean-Philippe Degeai;Jean-Christophe Komorowski;Sébastien Guillet

  • Tropospheric Volcanic Aerosol

    T.A. Mather;D.M. Pyle;C. Oppenheimer

  • Sulfur Degassing From Volcanoes: Source Conditions, Surveillance, Plume Chemistry and Earth System Impacts

    Clive Oppenheimer;Clive Oppenheimer;Bruno Scaillet;Robert S. Martin

  • Remote measurements of volcanic gas compositions by solar occultation spectroscopy

    Peter Francis;Mike R. Burton;Clive Oppenheimer

  • Eruptions that Shook the World

    Clive Oppenheimer

  • Remote sensing of CO2 and H2O emission rates from Masaya volcano, Nicaragua

    Michael R. Burton;Clive Oppenheimer;Lisa A. Horrocks;Peter W. Francis

  • Limited global change due to the largest known Quaternary eruption, Toba ≈74 kyr BP?

    Clive Oppenheimer

  • Endogenous growth of persistently active volcanoes

    Peter Francis;Peter Francis;Clive Oppenheimer;David Stevenson

  • SO2 emissions from Soufrière Hills Volcano and their relationship to conduit permeability, hydrothermal interaction and degassing regime

    Marie Edmonds;Clive Oppenheimer;David M. Pyle;Richard A. Herd

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

    Sébastien Guillet;Christophe Corona;Markus Stoffel;Myriam Khodri

  • Infrared image analysis of volcanic thermal features: Láscar Volcano, Chile, 1984-1992

    Clive Oppenheimer;Peter W. Francis;David A. Rothery;Richard W. T. Carlton

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

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

  • Automated, high time-resolution measurements of SO2 flux at Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat

    M. Edmonds;R. A. Herd;B. Galle;C. M. Oppenheimer

Frequent Co-Authors

Tamsin A. Mather
Tamsin A. Mather University of Oxford
Andrew J. S. McGonigle
Andrew J. S. McGonigle University of Sheffield
David M. Pyle
David M. Pyle University of Oxford
Philip R. Kyle
Philip R. Kyle New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Marie Edmonds
Marie Edmonds University of Cambridge
Peter Francis
Peter Francis The Open University
Ulf Büntgen
Ulf Büntgen University of Cambridge
Bruno Scaillet
Bruno Scaillet University of Orléans
Alessandro Aiuppa
Alessandro Aiuppa University of Palermo
Bo Galle
Bo Galle Chalmers University of Technology

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