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Hans-Arno Synal

Hans-Arno Synal

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
68
Citations
15436
World Ranking
1885
National Ranking
52

Hans-Arno Synal publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hans-Arno Synal sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 266 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Hans-Arno Synal D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hans-Arno Synal sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 68 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Hans-Arno Synal is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Radiation, Paleontology, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Radioactive contamination and transfer
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Radioactivity and Radon Measurements
  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies

Frequent publication venues for this scientist are:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
  • Radiocarbon
  • Nature Communications
  • Geomorphology

Recent significant papers authored or coauthored by Hans-Arno Synal include:

  • "Eleven-year solar cycles over the last millennium revealed by radiocarbon in tree rings" (2021), Nature Geoscience
  • "Cosmogenic radionuclides reveal an extreme solar particle storm near a solar minimum 9125 years BP" (2022), Nature Communications
  • "Glacial erosion by the Trift glacier (Switzerland): Deciphering the development of riegels, rock basins and gorges" (2020), Geomorphology
  • "Tree-rings reveal two strong solar proton events in 7176 and 5259 BCE" (2022), Nature Communications
  • "Unravelling 5 decades of anthropogenic 236U discharge from nuclear reprocessing plants" (2020), The Science of The Total Environment

The scientist collaborates frequently with several researchers including Marcus Christl, Christof Vockenhuber, Lukas Wacker, Susan Ivy-Ochs, and Irka Hajdas.

Best Publications

  • Tropical Climate Instability: The Last Glacial Cycle from a Qinghai-Tibetan Ice Core

    L. G. Thompson;T. Yao;M. E. Davis;K. A. Henderson

  • MICADAS: A new compact radiocarbon AMS system

    Hans-Arno Synal;Martin Stocker;Martin Suter

  • Contributions of fossil fuel, biomass-burning, and biogenic emissions to carbonaceous aerosols in Zurich as traced by 14C

    Sönke Szidat;Theo M. Jenk;Theo M. Jenk;Hans-Arno Synal;Markus Kalberer

  • Geomagnetic field intensity during the last 60,000 years based on 10Be and 36Cl from the Summit ice cores and 14C

    Raimund Muscheler;Jürg Beer;Peter W. Kubik;H.-A. Synal

  • The ETH Zurich AMS facilities: Performance parameters and reference materials

    M. Christl;C. Vockenhuber;P.W. Kubik;L. Wacker

  • MICADAS: Routine and High-Precision Radiocarbon Dating

    L Wacker;G Bonani;M Friedrich;I Hajdas

  • Bats: A new tool for AMS data reduction

    L. Wacker;M. Christl;Hans-Arno Synal

  • Fossil and non-fossil sources of organic carbon (OC) and elemental carbon (EC) in Göteborg, Sweden

    Sönke Szidat;Sönke Szidat;Matthias Ruff;Matthias Ruff;Nolwenn Perron;Lukas Wacker

  • Multiradionuclide evidence for the solar origin of the cosmic-ray events of ᴀᴅ 774/5 and 993/4.

    Florian Mekhaldi;Raimund Muscheler;Florian Adolphi;Ala Aldahan;Ala Aldahan

  • Timing of deglaciation on the northern Alpine foreland (Switzerland)

    Susan Ivy-Ochs;Jörg Schäfer;Peter W. Kubik;Hans-Arno Synal

  • A GAS ION SOURCE FOR RADIOCARBON MEASUREMENTS AT 200 kV

    Matthias Ruff;Lukas Wacker;Heinz Gäggeler;Martin Suter

  • A versatile gas interface for routine radiocarbon analysis with a gas ion source

    L. Wacker;Simon Fahrni;Simon Fahrni;Simon Fahrni;I. Hajdas;M. Molnar;M. Molnar

  • Dominant impact of residential wood burning on particulate matter in Alpine valleys during winter

    Sönke Szidat;Sönke Szidat;André S H Prévôt;Jisca Sandradewi;M. Rami Alfarra

  • Surface exposure dating of the Flims landslide, Graubünden, Switzerland

    S. Ivy-Ochs;A.v. Poschinger;H.-A. Synal;M. Maisch

  • 14C Analysis and Sample Preparation at the New Bern Laboratory for the Analysis of Radiocarbon with AMS (LARA)

    Sönke Szidat;Gary A Salazar;Edith Vogel;Michael Battaglia

  • Status report of the PSI/ETH AMS facility

    H.-A. Synal;G. Bonani;M. Döbeli;R.M. Ender

  • Eleven-year solar cycles over the last millennium revealed by radiocarbon in tree rings

    Nicolas Brehm;Alex Bayliss;Marcus Christl;Hans Arno Synal

  • The timing of glacier advances in the northern European Alps based on surface exposure dating with cosmogenic 10Be, 26Al, 36Cl, and 21Ne

    Susan Ivy-Ochs;Hanns Kerschner;Anne Reuther;Max Maisch

  • Radiocarbon (14C)-deduced biogenic and anthropogenic contributions to organic carbon (OC) of urban aerosols from Zürich, Switzerland

    S Szidat;T.M Jenk;T.M Jenk;H.W Gäggeler;H.W Gäggeler;H.-A Synal

  • Tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 CE.

    Ulf Büntgen;Lukas Wacker;J. Diego Galván;Stephanie Arnold

  • Chlorine-36 evidence for the Mono Lake event in the Summit GRIP ice core

    G. Wagner;J. Beer;C. Laj;C. Kissel

  • Geomagnetic modulation of the 36Cl flux in the GRIP Ice Core, Greenland

    S. Baumgartner;S. Baumgartner;J. Beer;J. Beer;J. Masarik;J. Masarik;G. Wagner;G. Wagner

  • SOURCE APPORTIONMENT OF AEROSOLS BY 14C MEASUREMENTS IN DIFFERENT CARBONACEOUS PARTICLE FRACTIONS

    Sönke Szidat;Theo Jenk;Heinz Gäggeler;H.-A. Synal

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcus Christl
Marcus Christl ETH Zurich
Lukas Wacker
Lukas Wacker ETH Zurich
Sönke Szidat
Sönke Szidat University of Bern
Peter W. Kubik
Peter W. Kubik ETH Zurich
Heinz W. Gäggeler
Heinz W. Gäggeler Paul Scherrer Institute
Raimund Muscheler
Raimund Muscheler Lund University
Irka Hajdas
Irka Hajdas ETH Zurich
Juerg Beer
Juerg Beer Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Susan Ivy-Ochs
Susan Ivy-Ochs ETH Zurich

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