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Overview

Didier M. Roche is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a focus on several specialized subfields and topics.

The main fields covered by their work include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

In their research, Didier has contributed extensively to several subfields such as:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Anthropology
  • Ecology

The principal topics that feature in their work consist of:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Climate variability and models
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Tree-ring climate responses

Didier M. Roche has co-authored papers frequently with several researchers, among them:

  • Aurélien Quiquet
  • Nathaëlle Bouttes
  • Fanny Lhardy
  • H. Renssen
  • Didier Paillard

Their publications often appear in a range of scientific venues, including:

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

Selected recent papers demonstrate the scope and focus of their work:

  • The PMIP4 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: preliminary results and comparison with the PMIP3 simulations, 2021, Climate of the Past
  • Interglacial instability of North Atlantic Deep Water ventilation, 2020, Science
  • Impact of Southern Ocean surface conditions on deep ocean circulation during the LGM: a model analysis, 2021, Climate of the Past
  • Deglacial Ice Sheet Instabilities Induced by Proglacial Lakes, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Dynamics of Spontaneous (Multi) Centennial-Scale Variations of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Strength During the Last Interglacial, 2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Best Publications

  • The spatial and temporal complexity of the Holocene thermal maximum

    Hans Renssen;H. Sëppa;O. Heiri;Didier Roche

  • Global characterization of the Holocene Thermal Maximum

    Hans Renssen;Heikki Seppä;Xavier Crosta;Hugues Goosse

  • Description of the Earth system model of intermediate complexity LOVECLIM version 1.2

    Hugues Goosse;Viktor Brovkin;Thierry Fichefet;R Haarsma

  • The PMIP4 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: Preliminary results and comparison with the PMIP3 simulations

    Masa Kageyama;Sandy P. Harrison;Marie L. Kapsch;Marcus Lofverstrom

  • The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 1: Overview and over-arching analysis plan

    Masa Kageyama;Pascale Braconnot;Sandy P. Harrison;Alan M. Haywood

  • The PMIP4 Contribution to CMIP6-Part 4: Scientific Objectives and Experimental Design of the PMIP4-CMIP6 Last Glacial Maximum Experiments and PMIP4 Sensitivity Experiments

    Masa Kageyama;Samuel Albani;Pascale Braconnot;Sandy P Harrison

  • Climatic impacts of fresh water hosing under Last Glacial Maximum conditions: a multi-model study

    M Kageyama;Ute Merkel;B Otto-Bliesner;Matthias Prange

  • How did Marine Isotope Stage 3 and Last Glacial Maximum climates differ? – Perspectives from equilibrium simulations

    C.J.V.C. van Meerbeeck;H. Renssen;D.M.V.A.P. Roche;D.M.V.A.P. Roche

  • On the reconstruction of palaeo-ice sheets: Recent advances and future challenges

    Chris R. Stokes;Lev Tarasov;Robin Blomdin;Robin Blomdin;Thomas M. Cronin

  • Orbital Asian summer monsoon dynamics revealed using an isotope-enabled global climate model

    Thibaut Caley;Didier M. Roche;Hans Renssen

  • Constraints on the duration and freshwater release of Heinrich event 4 through isotope modelling.

    D. Roche;D. Paillard;E. Cortijo

  • Multiple causes of the Younger Dryas cold period

    Hans Renssen;Aurélien Mairesse;Hugues Goosse;Pierre Mathiot

  • Modelling glacial climatic millennial-scale variability related to changes in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation: a review

    Masa Kageyama;André Paul;Didier M. Roche;Didier M. Roche;Cédric J. Van Meerbeeck

  • Transient climate simulations of the deglaciation 21-9 thousand years before present (version 1) - PMIP4 Core experiment design and boundary conditions

    Ruza F. Ivanovic;Lauren J. Gregoire;Masa Kageyama;Didier M. Roche;Didier M. Roche

  • Impact of brine-induced stratification on the glacial carbon cycle

    Nathaëlle Bouttes;D. Paillard;Didier Roche;Didier Roche

  • A systematic study of the impact of freshwater pulses with respect to different geographical locations

    Didier M. Roche;Ane P. Wiersma;Hans Renssen

  • Climate of the Last Glacial Maximum: sensitivity studies and model-data comparison with the LOVECLIM coupled model

    D. M. Roche;T.M. Dokken;Hugues Goosse;H. Renssen

  • Last Glacial Maximum CO2 and δ13C successfully reconciled

    Nathaelle Bouttes;Didier Paillard;Didier M. Roche;Didier M. Roche;Victor Brovkin

  • Quantifying the roles of ocean circulation and biogeochemistry in governing ocean carbon-13 and atmospheric carbon dioxide at the last glacial maximum

    A. Tagliabue;L. Bopp;D.M.V.A.P. Roche;D.M.V.A.P. Roche;N. Bouttes

  • A two-million-year-long hydroclimatic context for hominin evolution in southeastern Africa

    Thibaut Caley;Thomas Extier;Thomas Extier;James A Collins;Enno Schefuß

  • On the use of δ18Oatm for ice core dating

    Thomas Extier;Amaelle Landais;Camille Bréant;Frédéric Prié

  • The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 -- Part 4: Scientific objectives and experimental design of the PMIP4-CMIP6 Last Glacial Maximum experiments and PMIP4 sensitivity experiments (in open review for Geoscientific Model Development - doi:10.5194/gmd-2017-18)

    M. Kageyama;S. Albani;P. Braconnot;S. P. Harrison

  • Description of the Earth system model of intermediate complexity LOVECLIM version 1.2

    H. Goosse;V. Brovkin;T. Fichefet;R. Haarsma

Frequent Co-Authors

Didier Paillard
Didier Paillard Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Claire Waelbroeck
Claire Waelbroeck Sorbonne University
Masa Kageyama
Masa Kageyama Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Hugues Goosse
Hugues Goosse Université Catholique de Louvain
Catherine Ritz
Catherine Ritz Grenoble Alpes University
Paul J. Valdes
Paul J. Valdes University of Bristol
Ayako Abe-Ouchi
Ayako Abe-Ouchi University of Tokyo
Xavier Crosta
Xavier Crosta University of Bordeaux
Frédérique Eynaud
Frédérique Eynaud University of Bordeaux
Jef Vandenberghe
Jef Vandenberghe Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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