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Dominique Raynaud

Dominique Raynaud

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Earth Science

D-Index
79
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40640
World Ranking
551
National Ranking
27

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1995 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Dominique Raynaud is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France and has an interdisciplinary research profile spanning social sciences, arts and humanities, and earth and planetary sciences. Their work integrates multiple fields of study and addresses diverse scientific topics.

The main fields of study for their research include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Arts and Humanities
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Subfields they have contributed to are:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Atmospheric Science
  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophy
  • Anthropology

The research topics covered in their publications comprise:

  • Education, sociology, and vocational training
  • French Urban and Social Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Philosophy, Sociology, Political Theory
  • Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Dominique Raynaud has published several scientific papers focusing mainly on topics related to climate, ice-core records, and their intersections with history and mathematics. Their recent publications include:

  • "Mathématiques et architecture: le tracé de l'entasis par Nicolas-François Blondel," 2020, Archive for History of Exact Sciences
  • "Local summer temperature changes over the past 440 ka revealed by the total air content in the Antarctic EPICA Dome C ice core," 2024, Climate of the past

Other notable recent papers in the broader research network they are associated with include:

  • "Atmospheric methane, record from Greenland ice core over the last 1000 years," 2021, Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern)
  • "The Antarctic Ice Core Chronology 2023 (AICC2023) chronological framework and associated timescale for the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) Dome C ice core," 2023, Climate of the past
  • "Forty years of ice-core records of CO2," 2020, Nature

The publications are concentrated in several frequent venues such as:

  • Climate of the past
  • Nature
  • Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern)
  • Archive for History of Exact Sciences
  • Archive

Dominique Raynaud collaborates often with several researchers, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Frédéric Parrenin
  • J. Chappellaz
  • Émilie Capron
  • V. Lipenkov
  • Jean-Robert Petit

In recognition of their academic contributions, Dominique Raynaud was made a Member of Academia Europaea in 1995.

Best Publications

  • Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica

    J. R. Petit;J. Jouzel;D. Raynaud;N. I. Barkov

  • High-resolution carbon dioxide concentration record 650,000–800,000 years before present

    Dieter Lüthi;Martine Le Floch;Bernhard Bereiter;Thomas Blunier

  • Orbital and Millennial Antarctic Climate Variability over the Past 800,000 Years

    J. Jouzel;V. Masson-Delmotte;O. Cattani;G. Dreyfus

  • High-resolution record of Northern Hemisphere climate extending into the last interglacial period.

    K. K. Andersen;N. Azuma;J.-M. Barnola;M. Bigler

  • Vostok ice core provides 160,000-year record of atmospheric CO2

    J. M. Barnola;D. Raynaud;Y. S. Korotkevich;C. Lorius

  • Eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core

    Laurent Augustin;Carlo Barbante;Piers R. F. Barnes;Jean Marc Barnola

  • Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations over the Last Glacial Termination

    Eric Monnin;Andreas Indermühle;André Dällenbach;Jacqueline Flückiger

  • Stable carbon cycle-climate relationship during the Late Pleistocene.

    Urs Siegenthaler;Thomas F. Stocker;Eric Monnin;Dieter Lüthi

  • Orbital and millennial-scale features of atmospheric CH4 over the past 800,000 years.

    Laetitia Loulergue;Adrian Schilt;Renato Spahni;Valérie Masson-Delmotte

  • One-to-one coupling of glacial climate variability in Greenland and Antarctica.

    C. Barbante;J.-M. Barnola;J.-M. Barnola;S. Becagli;J. Beer;J. Beer

  • Asynchrony of Antarctic and Greenland climate change during the last glacial period

    T. Blunier;J. Chappellaz;J. Schwander;A. Dällenbach

  • Extending the Vostok ice-core record of palaeoclimate to the penultimate glacial period

    Jean Jouzel;Jean Jouzel;N.I. Barkov;J.M. Barnola;M. Bender;M. Bender

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

    D. Dahl-Jensen;M. R. Albert;A. Aldahan;N. Azuma

  • Ice-core record of atmospheric methane over the past 160,000 years

    J. Chappellaz;J. M. Barnola;D. Raynaud;Y. S. Korotkevich

  • Interglacials of the last 800,000 years

    A. Berger;M. Crucifix;D.A. Hodell

  • Atmospheric Methane and Nitrous Oxide of the Late Pleistocene from Antarctic Ice Cores

    Renato Spahni;Renato Spahni;Jérôme Chappellaz;Jérôme Chappellaz;Thomas F. Stocker;Thomas F. Stocker;Laetitia Loulergue;Laetitia Loulergue

  • The ice record of greenhouse gases

    D. Raynaud;J. Jouzel;J. M. Barnola;J. Chappellaz

  • Synchronous changes in atmospheric CH4 and Greenland climate between 40 and 8 kyr BP

    J. Chappellaz;T. Bluniert;D. Raynaud;J. M. Barnola

  • Holocene thinning of the Greenland ice sheet

    B. M. Vinther;S. L. Buchardt;H. B. Clausen;D. Dahl-Jensen

  • An optimized multi-proxy, multi-site Antarctic ice and gas orbital chronology (AICC2012): 120--800 ka

    L. Bazin;A. Landais;B. Lemieux-Dudon;H. Toyé Mahamadou Kele

  • Variations in atmospheric methane concentration during the Holocene epoch

    T. Blunier;J. Chappellaz;J. Schwander;B. Stauffer

  • The ice-core record: climate sensitivity and future greenhouse warming

    C. Lorius;D. Raynaud;J. Jouzel;J. Hansen

  • The EDC3 chronology for the EPICA Dome C ice core

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

  • Evidence for substantial accumulation rate variability in Antarctica during the Holocene, through synchronization of CO 2 in the Taylor Dome, Dome C and DML ice cores

    Eric Monnin;Eric J. Steig;Urs Siegenthaler;Kenji Kawamura

  • Synchronous Change of Atmospheric CO2 and Antarctic Temperature During the Last Deglacial Warming

    F. Parrenin;V. Masson-Delmotte;P. Köhler;D. Raynaud

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core (SCI)

    D Dahl-Jensen;M R Albert;A Aldahan;N Azuma

Frequent Co-Authors

Jérôme Chappellaz
Jérôme Chappellaz École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Jean Jouzel
Jean Jouzel Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
Jakob Schwander
Jakob Schwander University of Bern
Thomas F. Stocker
Thomas F. Stocker University of Bern
Jean-Marc Barnola
Jean-Marc Barnola Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Bernhard Stauffer
Bernhard Stauffer University of Bern
J. M. Barnola
J. M. Barnola Grenoble Alpes University
Thomas Blunier
Thomas Blunier University of Copenhagen
Hubertus Fischer
Hubertus Fischer University of Bern
Eric W. Wolff
Eric W. Wolff University of Cambridge

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