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Elisabeth Isaksson

Elisabeth Isaksson

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Earth Science

D-Index
51
Citations
10094
World Ranking
3203
National Ranking
39

Overview

Elisabeth Isaksson is affiliated with the Norwegian Polar Institute in Norway. Their research focuses on multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their main research topics encompass:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Polar Research and Ecology
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance

Isaksson has authored numerous papers published in respected scientific journals. Recent publications include:

  • Surface Mass Balance Controlled by Local Surface Slope in Inland Antarctica: Implications for Ice-Sheet Mass Balance and Oldest Ice Delineation in Dome Fuji (2021), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • Hemispheric black carbon increase after the 13th-century Māori arrival in New Zealand (2021), published in Nature
  • Atmospheric Deposition of Organochlorine Pesticides and Industrial Compounds to Seasonal Surface Snow at Four Glacier Sites on Svalbard, 2013-2014 (2020), published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • Sea surface temperature in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean over the Late Glacial and Holocene (2020), published in Climate of the past
  • First discrete iron(II) records from Dome C (Antarctica) and the Holtedahlfonna glacier (Svalbard) (2020), published in Chemosphere

Their work has been published frequently in the following venues:

  • Journal of Glaciology
  • ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Nature

Isaksson collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Dmitry Divine
  • Jean-Charles Gallet
  • Mark H. Hermanson
  • Lisa Orme
  • Arto Miettinen

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Ground‐based measurements of spatial and temporal variability of snow accumulation in East Antarctica

    Olaf Eisen;Olaf Eisen;Massimo Frezzotti;Christophe Genthon;Elisabeth Isaksson

  • A Review of Antarctic Surface Snow Isotopic Composition : Observations, Atmospheric Circulation, and Isotopic Modeling

    V. Masson-Delmotte;S. Hou;A. Ekaykin;J. Jouzel

  • A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

    Julien Emile-Geay;Nicholas P. McKay;Darrell S. Kaufman;Lucien Von Gunten

  • Reconstructed changes in Arctic sea ice over the past 1,450 years

    Christophe Kinnard;Christian M. Zdanowicz;David A. Fisher;Elisabeth Isaksson

  • Measuring snow and glacier ice properties from satellite

    Max König;Jan-Gunnar Winther;Elisabeth Isaksson

  • Insignificant Change in Antarctic Snowfall Since the International Geophysical Year

    Andrew J. Monaghan;David H. Bromwich;Ryan L. Fogt;Sheng Hung Wang

  • Insights from Antarctica on volcanic forcing during the Common Era

    Michael Sigl;Joseph R. McConnell;Joseph R. McConnell;Matthew Toohey;Mark Curran

  • Antarctic climate variability on regional and continental scales over the last 2000 years

    Barbara Stenni;Mark A. J. Curran;Mark A. J. Curran;Nerilie J. Abram;Anais Orsi

  • Ice cores from Svalbard - useful archives of past climate and pollution history

    Elisabeth Isaksson;Mark Hermanson;Sheila Hicks;Makoto Igarashi

  • Effect of periodic melting on geochemical and isotopic signals in an ice core from Lomonosovfonna, Svalbard

    V. A. Pohjola;J. C. Moore;E. Isaksson;T. Jauhiainen

  • Snow chemistry across Antarctica

    N. Bertler;P.A. Mayewski;A. Aristarain;P. Barrett

  • Spatial distribution of snow in western Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, mapped by a ground‐based snow radar

    Cecilia Richardson;Eldar Aarholt;Svein-Erik Hamran;Per Holmlund

  • Recent snowfall anomalies in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, in a historical and future climate perspective

    Jan T. M. Lenaerts;Erik van Meijgaard;Michiel R. van den Broeke;Stefan R. M. Ligtenberg

  • A century of accumulation and temperature changes in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica

    Elisabeth Isaksson;Wibjörn Karlén;Niels Gundestrup;Paul Andrew Mayewski

  • Thousand years of winter surface air temperature variations in Svalbard and northern Norway reconstructed from ice-core data

    Dmitri Divine;Elisabeth Isaksson;Tonu Martma;Harro A. J Meijer

  • Climate variables along a traverse line in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica

    Michiel R. van den Broeke;Jan-Gunnar Winther;Elisabeth Isaksson;Jean Francis Pinglot

  • High-resolution hydrothermal structure of Hansbreen, Spitsbergen, mapped by ground-penetrating radar

    J.C. Moore;A. Pälli;F. Ludwig;H. Blatter

  • A Comparison of Antarctic Ice Sheet Surface Mass Balance from Atmospheric Climate Models and In Situ Observations

    Yetang Wang;Minghu Ding;J. M. van Wessem;E. Schlosser

  • Elemental carbon distribution in Svalbard snow

    S. Forsstrom;Johan Ström;Johan Ström;C.A. Pedersen;E. Isaksson

  • Review of regional Antarctic snow accumulation over the past 1000 years

    Elizabeth R. Thomas;J. Melchior van Wessem;Jason Roberts;Jason Roberts;Elisabeth Isaksson

Frequent Co-Authors

Veijo A. Pohjola
Veijo A. Pohjola Uppsala University
John C. Moore
John C. Moore Beijing Normal University
Tõnu Martma
Tõnu Martma Tallinn University of Technology
Dmitry Divine
Dmitry Divine Norwegian Polar Institute
Jack Kohler
Jack Kohler Norwegian Polar Institute
Jan-Gunnar Winther
Jan-Gunnar Winther Norwegian Polar Institute
R. S. W. van de Wal
R. S. W. van de Wal Utrecht University
Joseph R. McConnell
Joseph R. McConnell Desert Research Institute
Harro A. J. Meijer
Harro A. J. Meijer University of Groningen
Johan Ström
Johan Ström Stockholm University

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