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Erin L. McClymont

Erin L. McClymont

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Earth Science

D-Index
40
Citations
4702
World Ranking
5956
National Ranking
635

Overview

Erin L. McClymont is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom, with extensive research contributions in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work focuses on several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Geophysics, and Oceanography.

Their research topics cover a range of areas, notably:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

Erin L. McClymont has authored several papers, including:

  • Lessons from a high-CO 2 world: an ocean view from ∼ 3 million years ago, 2020, Climate of the past
  • Climate Evolution Through the Onset and Intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation, 2023, Reviews of Geophysics

Frequent co-authors associated with their work include:

  • Juliane Müller
  • Ellen A. Cowan
  • Oscar E Romero
  • Hirofumi Asahi
  • Joseph S. Stoner

Their publications have appeared consistently in notable venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Climate of the past
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Nature Communications

Erin L. McClymont's research includes highly cited works like "Lessons from a high-CO 2 world: an ocean view from ∼ 3 million years ago" published in 2020 with 130 citations, and "Climate Evolution Through the Onset and Intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation" from 2023 with 69 citations, reflecting their engagement with key questions around paleoclimate and climate change.

Best Publications

  • Introducing global peat-specific temperature and pH calibrations based on brGDGT bacterial lipids

    B. D. A. Naafs;G. N. Inglis;Y. Zheng;M. J. Amesbury

  • Subpolar Link to the Emergence of the Modern Equatorial Pacific Cold Tongue

    Alfredo Martínez-Garcia;Alfredo Martínez-Garcia;Alfredo Martínez-Garcia;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Erin L. McClymont;Rainer Gersonde

  • Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °C anthropogenic warming and beyond

    Hubertus Fischer;Hubertus Fischer;Katrin J Meissner;Alan C Mix;Nerilie J Abram

  • Pleistocene sea-surface temperature evolution: Early cooling, delayed glacial intensification, and implications for the mid-Pleistocene climate transition

    Erin L. McClymont;Sindia M. Sosdian;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Yair Rosenthal

  • A new European testate amoebae transfer function for palaeohydrological reconstruction on ombrotrophic peatlands

    Dan J. Charman;Antony Blundell;Jukka Alm;Sue Bartlett

  • Conservative composition of n-alkane biomarkers in Sphagnum species: Implications for palaeoclimate reconstruction in ombrotrophic peat bogs

    Elizabeth M. Bingham;Erin L. McClymont;Minna Väliranta;Minna Väliranta;Dmitri Mauquoy

  • Links between the onset of modern Walker circulation and the mid-Pleistocene climate transition

    Erin L. McClymont;Antoni Rosell-Melé

  • Palaeoclimate reconstructions reveal a strong link between El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Tropical Pacific mean state.

    Aleksey Yu Sadekov;Raja Ganeshram;Laetitia Pichevin;Rose Berdin

  • The potential of biomarker proxies to trace climate, vegetation, and biogeochemical processes in peat: A review

    B.D.A. Naafs;G.N. Inglis;J. Blewett;E.L. McClymont

  • Mid-Pleistocene climate transition drives net mass loss from rapidly uplifting St. Elias Mountains, Alaska

    Sean P. S. Gulick;John M. Jaeger;Alan C. Mix;Hirofumi Asahi

  • Sea‐surface temperature records of Termination 1 in the Gulf of California: Challenges for seasonal and interannual analogues of tropical Pacific climate change

    Erin L. McClymont;Erin L. McClymont;Raja S. Ganeshram;Laetitia E. Pichevin;Helen M. Talbot

  • On the identification of a Pliocene time slice for data–model comparison

    Alan M. Haywood;Aisling M. Dolan;Steven J. Pickering;Harry J. Dowsett

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

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

  • Lessons from a high CO2 world : an ocean view from ~ 3 million years ago.

    Erin L. McClymont;Heather L. Ford;Sze Ling Ho;Julia C. Tindall

  • Archaeol as a methanogen biomarker in ombrotrophic bogs

    Richard D. Pancost;Erin L. McClymont;Elizabeth M. Bingham;Zoë Roberts

  • Alkenone and coccolith records of the mid-Pleistocene in the south-east Atlantic: Implications for the U37K′ index and South African climate

    Erin L. McClymont;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Jacques Giraudeau;Catherine Pierre

  • Expansion of subarctic water masses in the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans and implications for mid-Pleistocene ice sheet growth

    Erin L. McClymont;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Gerald H. Haug;Jerry M. Lloyd

  • The disappearance of Sphagnum imbricatum from Butterburn Flow, UK

    Erin L. McClymont;Dmitri Mauquoy;Dan Yeloff;Peter Broekens

  • Climate Evolution Through the Onset and Intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation

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  • Carbon export from mountain forests enhanced by earthquake-triggered landslides over millennia

    Nicole V. Frith;Robert G. Hilton;Jamie D. Howarth;Jamie D. Howarth;Darren R. Gröcke

  • Oceanic forcing of the Marine Isotope Stage 11 interglacial

    Alexander J. Dickson;Christopher J. Beer;Ciara Dempsey;Mark A. Maslin

  • Lack of evidence for a substantial sea-level fluctuation within the Last Interglacial

    Natasha L. M. Barlow;Erin L. McClymont;Pippa L. Whitehouse;Chris R. Stokes

  • Oceanographic variability on the West Antarctic Peninsula during the Holocene and the influence of upper circumpolar deep water

    Victoria L. Peck;Claire S. Allen;Sev Kender;Sev Kender;Erin L. McClymont

Frequent Co-Authors

Antoni Rosell-Melé
Antoni Rosell-Melé Autonomous University of Barcelona
Richard D. Pancost
Richard D. Pancost University of Bristol
Alan C. Mix
Alan C. Mix Oregon State University
Matthias Forwick
Matthias Forwick University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Christian März
Christian März University of Bonn
Alan M. Haywood
Alan M. Haywood University of Leeds
Richard P. Evershed
Richard P. Evershed University of Bristol
Mark A. Maslin
Mark A. Maslin University College London
Oscar E Romero
Oscar E Romero University of Bremen
Melanie J. Leng
Melanie J. Leng University of Nottingham

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