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Frédéric Parrenin

Frédéric Parrenin

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
52
Citations
18628
World Ranking
2964
National Ranking
197

Frédéric Parrenin publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Frédéric Parrenin sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 181 publications — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Frédéric Parrenin D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Frédéric Parrenin sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Frédéric Parrenin is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France and conducts research primarily within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their scholarly contributions focus extensively on Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Anthropology, Environmental Chemistry, and aspects of Management, Monitoring, Policy, and Law.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Polar Research and Ecology
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Among frequently publishing venues, the most notable are:

  • Climate of the past
  • The Cryosphere
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Nature
  • Geoscientific Model Development

Parrenin's notable recent publications include:

  • Bipolar volcanic synchronization of abrupt climate change in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores during the last glacial period, 2020, Climate of the past
  • Brief communication: New radar constraints support presence of ice older than 1.5 Myr at Little Dome C, 2021, The Cryosphere
  • An extension of the TALDICE ice core age scale reaching back to MIS 10.1, 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • An 83 000-year-old ice core from Roosevelt Island, Ross Sea, Antarctica, 2020, Climate of the past
  • A gradual change is more likely to have caused the Mid-Pleistocene Transition than an abrupt event, 2023, Communications Earth & Environment

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Parrenin include:

  • Amaëlle Landais
  • Hubertus Fischer
  • Robert Mulvaney
  • Émilie Capron
  • Thomas F. Stocker

Best Publications

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

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

  • Eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core

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

  • A 60 000 year Greenland stratigraphic ice core chronology

    A. Svensson;K. K. Andersen;M. Bigler;H. B. Clausen

  • 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

  • Interglacials of the last 800,000 years

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

  • Northern Hemisphere forcing of climatic cycles in Antarctica over the past 360,000 years

    Kenji Kawamura;Frédéric Parrenin;Lorraine Lisiecki;Ryu Uemura

  • The Antarctic ice core chronology (AICC2012): an optimized multi-parameter and multi-site dating approach for the last 120 thousand years

    D. Veres;D. Veres;L. Bazin;A. Landais;H. Toyé Mahamadou Kele

  • 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

  • The EDC3 chronology for the EPICA Dome C ice core

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

  • 800,000 Years of Abrupt Climate Variability

    Stephen Barker;Gregor Knorr;R. Lawrence Edwards;Frédéric Parrenin

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

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

  • Absolute calibration of the Greenland time scale: implications for Antarctic time scales and for Δ14C

    N.J Shackleton;R.G Fairbanks;Tzu-chien Chiu;F Parrenin

  • Homogeneous climate variability across East Antarctica over the past three glacial cycles

    O. Watanabe;J. Jouzel;Sigfus Johann Johnsen;Sigfus Johann Johnsen;F. Parrenin

  • Magnitude of isotope/temperature scaling for interpretation of central Antarctic ice cores

    J. Jouzel;F. Vimeux;N. Caillon;G. Delaygue

  • Consistent dating for Antarctic and Greenland ice cores

    Bénédicte Lemieux-Dudon;Eric Blayo;Jean-Robert Petit;Claire Waelbroeck

  • Expression of the bipolar see-saw in Antarctic climate records during the last deglaciation

    B. Stenni;D. Buiron;M. Frezzotti;S. Albani

  • Where to find 1.5 million yr old ice for the IPICS "Oldest-Ice" ice core

    H. Fischer;J. Severinghaus;E. Brook;E. Wolff;E. Wolff

  • The Antarctic ice sheet and the triggering of deglaciations

    Didier Paillard;Frédéric Parrenin

  • State dependence of climatic instability over the past 720,000 years from Antarctic ice cores and climate modeling

    Kenji Kawamura;Ayako Abe-Ouchi;Hideaki Motoyama;Yutaka Ageta

  • 1-D-ice flow modelling at EPICA Dome C and Dome Fuji, East Antarctica

    F. Parrenin;G. Dreyfus;Geoffroy Durand;Geoffroy Durand;S. Fujita

  • Abrupt ice-age shifts in southern westerly winds and Antarctic climate forced from the north

    Christo Buizert;Michael Sigl;Mirko Severi;Bradley R. Markle

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine Ritz
Catherine Ritz Grenoble Alpes University
Eric W. Wolff
Eric W. Wolff University of Cambridge
Emilie Capron
Emilie Capron Grenoble Alpes University
Jakob Schwander
Jakob Schwander University of Bern
Mirko Severi
Mirko Severi University of Florence
Jean Jouzel
Jean Jouzel Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
Amaelle Landais
Amaelle Landais Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
Jérôme Chappellaz
Jérôme Chappellaz École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Hubertus Fischer
Hubertus Fischer University of Bern
Carlo Barbante
Carlo Barbante Ca Foscari University of Venice

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