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Denis-Didier Rousseau

Denis-Didier Rousseau

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Earth Science

D-Index
52
Citations
8409
World Ranking
3101
National Ranking
212

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Denis-Didier Rousseau is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France. Their research primarily spans the domain of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong emphasis on several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Anthropology, Economics and Econometrics, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their work covers diverse topics, focusing on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Ecosystem dynamics and resilience, Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis, Tree-ring climate responses, Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies, and Aeolian processes and effects.

Denis-Didier Rousseau has published extensively in various academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Scientific Reports
  • Climate of the past
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Recent papers by Rousseau illustrate a focus on paleoclimate and abrupt climate transitions. Notable publications include:

  • "Dansgaard-Oeschger-like events of the penultimate climate cycle: the loess point of view" (2020), published in Climate of the past
  • "Abrupt climate changes and the astronomical theory: are they related?" (2022), published in Climate of the past
  • "How dusty was the last glacial maximum over Europe?" (2021), published in Quaternary Science Reviews

Rousseau frequently collaborates with other researchers. Prominent coauthors include:

  • Witold Bagniewski
  • Michael Ghil
  • Pierre Antoine
  • Christine Hatté
  • France Lagroix

Among Rousseau's recognized contributions to their field is membership in Academia Europaea, awarded in 2012.

Best Publications

  • High-resolution record of the last Interglacial–glacial cycle in the Nussloch loess–palaeosol sequences, Upper Rhine Area, Germany

    Pierre Antoine;Denis Didier Rousseau;Denis Didier Rousseau;Ludwig Zöller;Andreas Lang

  • Selecting models to predict the timing of flowering of temperate trees: implications for tree phenology modelling

    I. Chuine;P. Cour;D. D. Rousseau;D. D. Rousseau

  • Rapid and cyclic aeolian deposition during the Last Glacial in European loess: a high-resolution record from Nussloch, Germany

    Pierre Antoine;Denis Didier Rousseau;Denis Didier Rousseau;Olivier Moine;Stéphane Kunesch

  • Fitting models predicting dates of flowering of temperate‐zone trees using simulated annealing

    I. Chuine;P. Cour;D. D. Rousseau;D. D. Rousseau

  • How long and how stable was the last interglacial

    George Kukla;Jerry F. McManus;Denis-Didier Rousseau;Denis-Didier Rousseau;Isabelle Chuine

  • High-resolution record of the environmental response to climatic variations during the Last Interglacial-Glacial cycle in Central Europe: the loess-palaeosol sequence of Dolní Věstonice (Czech Republic)

    Pierre Antoine;Denis-Didier Rousseau;Denis-Didier Rousseau;Jean-Philippe Degeai;Olivier Moine

  • Abrupt millennial climatic changes from Nussloch (Germany) Upper Weichselian eolian records during the Last Glaciation.

    Denis-Didier Rousseau;Denis-Didier Rousseau;Pierre Antoine;Christine Hatté;Andreas Lang

  • High-resolution record of the last climatic cycle in the southern Carpathian Basin (Surduk, Vojvodina, Serbia)

    Pierre Antoine;Denis-Didier Rousseau;Denis-Didier Rousseau;Markus Fuchs;Christine Hatté

  • Paleoclimate changes during the last 100,000 yr from a record in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest region and interhemispheric comparison

    M.-P. Ledru;M.-P. Ledru;D.-D. Rousseau;F.W. Cruz;F.W. Cruz;C. Riccomini

  • δ13C of Loess Organic Matter as a Potential Proxy for Paleoprecipitation

    Christine Hatté;Pierre Antoine;Michel Fontugne;Andreas Lang

  • High-resolution chronologies for loess: comparing AMS 14C and optical dating results

    Andreas Lang;Christine Hatté;Denis-Didier Rousseau;Denis-Didier Rousseau;Pierre Antoine

  • Last interglacial‐glacial climatic cycle in loess‐palaeosol successions of north‐western France

    Pierre Antoine;Denis-Didier Rousseau;Jean-Pierre Lautridou;Christine Hatté

  • δ13C variations of loess organic matter as a record of the vegetation response to climatic changes during the Weichselian

    Christine Hatté;Michel Fontugne;Denis-Didier Rousseau;Pierre Antoine

  • Paléoenvironnements pléistocènes et peuplements paléolithiques dans le bassin de la Somme (Nord de la France)

    Pierre Antoine;Nicole Limondin-Lozouet;Patrick Auguste;Agnès Lamotte

  • Long-distance pollen transport from North America to Greenland in spring

    Denis-Didier Rousseau;Denis-Didier Rousseau;Patrick Schevin;Jackie Ferrier;Dominique Jolly

  • The impact of Last Glacial climate variability in west-European loess revealed by radiocarbon dating of fossil earthworm granules

    Olivier Moine;Pierre Antoine;Christine Hatté;Amaëlle Landais

  • Link between European and North Atlantic abrupt climate changes over the last glaciation

    Denis Didier Rousseau;Adriana Sima;Pierre Antoine;Christine Hatté

  • Paleoclimatology of the Achenheim series (middle and upper pleistocene, Alsace, France) A. malacological analysis

    Denis-Didier Rousseau

  • Late Pleistocene Environments of the Central Ukraine

    Denis-Didier Rousseau;Denis-Didier Rousseau;Natalia Gerasimenko;Zhanna Matviischina;George Kukla

  • The loess sequence of Dolní Věstonice, Czech Republic: A new OSL-based chronology of the Last Climatic Cycle

    Markus Fuchs;Sebastian Kreutzer;Denis-Didier Rousseau;Pierre Antoine

  • Climatic transfer function from quaternary molluscs in European loess deposits

    Denis-Didier Rousseau

  • Ocean circulation, ice shelf, and sea ice interactions explain Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles.

    Niklas Boers;Michael Ghil;Denis-Didier Rousseau;Denis-Didier Rousseau

Frequent Co-Authors

Christine Hatté
Christine Hatté University of Paris-Saclay
Pierre Antoine
Pierre Antoine Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Markus Fuchs
Markus Fuchs University of Giessen
Ludwig Zöller
Ludwig Zöller University of Bayreuth
Michael Ghil
Michael Ghil École Normale Supérieure
Andreas Lang
Andreas Lang University of Salzburg
Michel Fontugne
Michel Fontugne Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
George Kukla
George Kukla Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Dominique Jolly
Dominique Jolly University of Montpellier
Fabien Arnaud
Fabien Arnaud Université Savoie Mont Blanc

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