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Elisabeth Michel is affiliated with the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement in France. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on subfields including Environmental Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Oceanography, and Ecology.

Their scholarly output encompasses key topics such as Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Astro and Planetary Science, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies, Planetary Science and Exploration, and Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics.

Elisabeth Michel's publication record includes contributions to frequently targeted journals and platforms, notably Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Quaternary Science Reviews, Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research), Marine Micropaleontology, and Goldschmidt2021 abstracts.

The scholar has coauthored extensively with several researchers, including Julia Gottschalk, Lester Lembke-Jene, Simone Moretti, Frank Lamy, and Gisela Winckler.

Selected recent publications illustrate the scope and interdisciplinary nature of their work:

  • Five million years of Antarctic Circumpolar Current strength variability, 2024, Nature
  • Southern Ocean upwelling, Earth's obliquity, and glacial-interglacial atmospheric CO 2 change, 2020, Science
  • Glacial heterogeneity in Southern Ocean carbon storage abated by fast South Indian deglacial carbon release, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Benthic foraminifera as tracers of brine production in the Storfjorden "sea ice factory", 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Antarctic Polar Front migrations in the Kerguelen Plateau region, Southern Ocean, over the past 360 kyrs, 2021, Global and Planetary Change

Best Publications

  • Sea-level and deep water temperature changes derived from benthic foraminifera isotopic records

    C. Waelbroeck;Laurent Labeyrie;Laurent Labeyrie;Elisabeth Michel;Jean-Claude Duplessy

  • A 1000-year high precision record of δ 13 C in atmospheric CO 2

    R. J. Francey;R. J. Francey;C. E. Allison;D. M. Etheridge;C. M. Trudinger;C. M. Trudinger

  • Ventilation of the Deep Southern Ocean and Deglacial CO2 Rise

    Luke C. Skinner;Stewart J. Fallon;C. Waelbroeck;Elisabeth Michel

  • Evidence for changes in the North Atlantic Deep Water linked to meltwater surges during the Heinrich events

    L. Vidal;L. Labeyrie;E. Cortijo;M. Arnold

  • The timing of the last deglaciation in North Atlantic climate records

    Claire Waelbroeck;Jean-Claude Duplessy;Elisabeth Michel;Laurent Labeyrie;Laurent Labeyrie

  • Mediterranean Sea Surface Radiocarbon Reservoir Age Changes Since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Giuseppe Siani;Martine Paterne;Elisabeth Michel;Roberto Sulpizio

  • Changes in the vertical structure of the North Atlantic Ocean between glacial and modern times

    Laurent D. Labeyrie;Jean-Claude Duplessy;Josette Duprat;Anne Juillet-Leclerc

  • Carbon isotope records reveal precise timing of enhanced Southern Ocean upwelling during the last deglaciation.

    Giuseppe Siani;Elisabeth Michel;Ricardo De Pol-Holz;Tim DeVries

  • Hydrographic changes of the Southern Ocean (southeast Indian Sector) Over the last 230 kyr

    Laurent Labeyrie;Monique Labracherie;Nabila Gorfti;Jean Jacques Pichon

  • The timing of deglacial circulation changes in the Atlantic

    C. Waelbroeck;L. C. Skinner;L. Labeyrie;J.-C. Duplessy

  • Constraint of the CO2 rise by new atmospheric carbon isotopic measurements during the last deglaciation

    Anna Lourantou;Jošt V. Lavrič;Peter Köhler;Jean-Marc Barnola

  • Persistent influence of ice sheet melting on high northern latitude climate during the early Last Interglacial

    Aline Govin;Aline Govin;Pascale Braconnot;Emilie Capron;Elsa Cortijo

  • Geomagnetic field intensity, North Atlantic Deep Water circulation and atmospheric Δ14C during the last 50 kyr

    Carlo Laj;Catherine Kissel;Alain Mazaud;Elisabeth Michel

  • Modelling the temperature dependent growth rates of planktic foraminifera

    Fabien Lombard;Laurent Labeyrie;Elisabeth Michel;Howard J. Spero

  • Southern Ocean upwelling, Earth's obliquity, and glacial-interglacial atmospheric CO2 change

    Xuyuan E. Ai;Xuyuan E. Ai;Anja S. Studer;Daniel M. Sigman;Alfredo Martínez-García

  • Updated calibration of the clumped isotope thermometer in planktonic and benthic foraminifera

    Marion Peral;Mathieu Daëron;Dominique Blamart;Franck Bassinot

  • Modelling planktic foraminifer growth and distribution using an ecophysiological multi-species approach

    Fabien Lombard;Fabien Lombard;L. Labeyrie;E. Michel;L. Bopp

  • Evidence for northward expansion of Antarctic Bottom Water mass in the Southern Ocean during the last glacial inception

    Aline Govin;Aline Govin;Elisabeth Michel;Laurent Labeyrie;Claire Waelbroeck

  • Variations in the strength of the North Atlantic bottom water during Holocene

    Catherine Kissel;Aurélie Van Toer;Carlo Laj;Elsa Cortijo

  • COULD DEEP SUBANTARCTIC CONVECTION FEED THE WORLD DEEP BASINS DURING THE LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM

    Elisabeth Michel;Laurent D. Labeyrie;Jean-Claude Duplessy;Nabila Gorfti

  • Calibration of the carbon isotope composition (δ13C) of benthic foraminifera

    Andreas Schmittner;Helen C. Bostock;Olivier Cartapanis;Olivier Cartapanis;William B. Curry;William B. Curry

  • Distant origin of circulation changes in the Indian Ocean during the last deglaciation

    C. Waelbroeck;C Levi;Jean-Claude Duplessy;Laurent Labeyrie

Frequent Co-Authors

Giuseppe Siani
Giuseppe Siani Université Paris Cité
Laurent Labeyrie
Laurent Labeyrie University of Southern Brittany
Claire Waelbroeck
Claire Waelbroeck Sorbonne University
Frank Bassinot
Frank Bassinot University of Paris-Saclay
Alain Mazaud
Alain Mazaud Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
Samuel L. Jaccard
Samuel L. Jaccard University of Lausanne
Jean-Claude Duplessy
Jean-Claude Duplessy Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Catherine Kissel
Catherine Kissel Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
Didier Paillard
Didier Paillard Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Gerald H. Haug
Gerald H. Haug Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

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