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France
2023

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Environmental Sciences

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74
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36745
World Ranking
1311
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award

Overview

Gerhard Krinner is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Within these fields, Krinner has contributed notably to subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Oceanography, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their research work focuses on key topics such as cryospheric studies and observations, climate variability and models, climate change and permafrost, geology and paleoclimatology research, meteorological phenomena and simulations, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Krinner's recent publications include the following papers:

  • Presentation and Evaluation of the IPSL-CM6A-LR Climate Model, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Observed changes in dry-season water availability attributed to human-induced climate change, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • Historical Northern Hemisphere snow cover trends and projected changes in the CMIP6 multi-model ensemble, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020, 2023, Earth system science data
  • Evaluating permafrost physics in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6 (CMIP6) models and their sensitivity to climate change, 2020, The Cryosphere

Krinner frequently collaborates with several coauthors. Among the most frequent collaborators are Charles Amory, Cécile Agosta, Richard Essery, Christoph Kittel, and Robert E. Kopp.

The scientist's research has been published repeatedly in notable venues, including:

  • The Cryosphere
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth system science data
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Earth System Dynamics

Best Publications

  • Europe-wide reduction in primary productivity caused by the heat and drought in 2003

    Ph. Ciais;M. Reichstein;N. Viovy;A. Granier

  • Long-term Climate Change: Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility

    M. Collins;R. Knutti;J.M. Arblaster;J.-L. Dufresne

  • A dynamic global vegetation model for studies of the coupled atmosphere-biosphere system

    G. Krinner;Nicolas Viovy;Nathalie de Noblet‐Ducoudré;Jérôme Ogée;Jérôme Ogée

  • IPCC, 2023: Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, H. Lee and J. Romero (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland.

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  • Climate change projections using the IPSL-CM5 Earth System Model: From CMIP3 to CMIP5

    Jean-Louis Dufresne;M. A. Foujols;S. Denvil;A. Caubel

  • Presentation and evaluation of the IPSL‐CM6A‐LR climate model

    Olivier Boucher;Jérôme Servonnat;Anna Lea Albright;Olivier Aumont

  • Mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet from 1992 to 2017.

    Andrew Shepherd;Erik Ivins;Eric Rignot;Ben Smith

  • Permafrost carbon-climate feedbacks accelerate global warming.

    Charles D. Koven;Bruno Ringeval;Pierre Friedlingstein;Philippe Ciais

  • Impacts of 1.5°C Global Warming on Natural and Human Systems

    O. Hoegh-Guldberg;D. Jacob;M. Bindi;S. Brown

  • The LMDZ4 general circulation model: climate performance and sensitivity to parametrized physics with emphasis on tropical convection

    Frédéric Hourdin;Ionela Musat;Sandrine Bony;Pascale Braconnot

  • Dependence of the evolution of carbon dynamics in the northern permafrost region on the trajectory of climate change.

    A. David McGuire;David M. Lawrence;Charles Koven;Joy S. Clein

  • Ice-dammed lakes and rerouting of the drainage of northern Eurasia during the Last Glaciation.

    Jan Mangerud;Martin Jakobsson;Helena Alexanderson;Valery Astakhov

  • Expert assessment of vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change

    E. A. G. Schuur;B. W. Abbott;W. B. Bowden;V. Brovkin

  • Past and future polar amplification of climate change: climate model intercomparisons and ice-core constraints

    Valérie Masson-Delmotte;Masa Kageyama;Pascale Braconnot;S. Charbit

  • Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020

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  • Sahara and Sahel vulnerability to climate changes, lessons from Holocene hydrological data

    Anne-Marie Lézine;Christelle Hély;Christophe Grenier;Pascale Braconnot

  • Observed changes in dry-season water availability attributed to human-induced climate change

    Ryan S. Padrón;Lukas Gudmundsson;Bertrand Decharme;Agnès Ducharne

  • EPICA Dome C record of glacial and interglacial intensities

    V. Masson-Delmotte;B. Stenni;K. Pol;P. Braconnot

  • The new IPSL climate system model: IPSL-CM4

    O. Marti;P. Braconnot;J. Bellier;R. Benshila

  • Key features of the IPSL ocean atmosphere model and its sensitivity to atmospheric resolution

    Olivier Marti;Pascale Braconnot;Jean-Louis Dufresne;Jacques Bellier

  • LS3MIP (v1.0) Contribution to CMIP6: The Land Surface, Snow and Soil Moisture Model Intercomparison Project Aims, Setup and Expected Outcome.

    Bart Van Den Hurk;Hyungjun Kim;Gerhard Krinner;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • ESM-SnowMIP: assessing snow models and quantifying snow-related climate feedbacks

    Gerhard Krinner;Chris Derksen;Richard Essery;Mark Flanner

  • Chapter 12 - Long-term climate change: Projections, commitments and irreversibility

    M. Collins;R. Knutti;J. Arblaster;J.-L. Dufresne

  • Near-term climate change:Projections and predictability

    Nathaniel L. Bindoff;Paul J. Durack;Andrew Slater;Philip Cameron-Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Christophe Genthon
Christophe Genthon Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Shushi Peng
Shushi Peng Peking University
Cécile Agosta
Cécile Agosta Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
Masa Kageyama
Masa Kageyama Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Hubert Gallée
Hubert Gallée Grenoble Alpes University
Pierre Friedlingstein
Pierre Friedlingstein University of Exeter
Charles D. Koven
Charles D. Koven Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Annette Rinke
Annette Rinke Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
David M. Lawrence
David M. Lawrence National Center for Atmospheric Research

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