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Helge W Arz is affiliated with the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong focus on various subfields including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Ecology.

The main topics in Helge W Arz's work cover a diverse range of environmental and geological studies. These include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Marine and environmental studies

The scientist's publication record includes a number of recent papers focusing on the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and related climatic and geological phenomena. Notable publications include:

  • "Five million years of Antarctic Circumpolar Current strength variability", 2024, published in Nature
  • "Orbital- and millennial-scale Antarctic Circumpolar Current variability in Drake Passage over the past 140,000 years", 2021, published in Nature Communications
  • "Antarctic Circumpolar Current Dynamics at the Pacific Entrance to the Drake Passage Over the Past 1.3 Million Years", 2020, published in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • "The Norwegian-Greenland Sea, the Laschamps, and the Mono Lake Excursions Recorded in a Black Sea Sedimentary Sequence Spanning From 68.9 to 14.5 ka", 2020, published in Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • "Geochemical focusing and sequestration of manganese during eutrophication of Lake Stechlin (NE Germany)", 2020, published in Biogeochemistry

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Helge W Arz include:

  • Frank Lamy
  • Lester Lembke-Jene
  • Oliver Esper
  • Gisela Winckler
  • Shinya Iwasaki

The scientist's work has been published extensively across several venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). Other frequent publication venues include:

  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Climate of the past
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

Best Publications

  • Holocene changes in the position and intensity of the southern westerly wind belt

    Frank Lamy;Rolf Kilian;Helge W. Arz;Jean-Pierre Francois

  • Consistently dated Atlantic sediment cores over the last 40 thousand years

    Claire Waelbroeck;Bryan C. Lougheed;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Lise Missiaen

  • Mediterranean Moisture Source for an Early-Holocene Humid Period in the Northern Red Sea

    Helge W Arz;Frank Lamy;Jürgen Pätzold;Peter J Müller

  • Correlated Millennial-Scale Changes in Surface Hydrography and Terrigenous Sediment Yield Inferred from Last-Glacial Marine Deposits off Northeastern Brazil

    Helge W. Arz;Jürgen Pätzold;Gerold Wefer

  • Antarctic timing of surface water changes off Chile and Patagonian ice sheet response.

    Frank Lamy;Jérome Kaiser;Ulysses Ninnemann;Dierk Hebbeln

  • Late Quaternary vegetational and climate dynamics in northeastern Brazil, inferences from marine core GeoB 3104-1

    Hermann Behling;Helge W. Arz;Jürgen Pätzold;Gerold Wefer

  • A Pronounced Dry Event Recorded Around 4.2 ka in Brine Sediments from the Northern Red Sea

    Helge W. Arz;Frank Lamy;Jürgen Pätzold

  • Late glacial to Holocene climate and sedimentation history in the NW Black Sea

    André Bahr;Frank Lamy;Helge W Arz;Holger Kuhlmann

  • Dominant Northern Hemisphere climate control over millennial-scale glacial sea-level variability

    Helge W Arz;Frank Lamy;Andrey Ganopolski;Norbert R Nowaczyk

  • Modulation of the bipolar seesaw in the Southeast Pacific during Termination 1

    Frank Lamy;Jérôme Kaiser;Helge W. Arz;Dierk Hebbeln

  • Global enhancement of ocean anoxia during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2: A quantitative approach using U isotopes

    Carolina Montoya-Pino;Stefan Weyer;Ariel D. Anbar;Jörg Pross

  • Asynchronous Terrestrial and Marine Signals of Climate Change During Heinrich Events

    Tim C. Jennerjahn;Venugopalan Ittekkot;Helge W. Arz;Hermann Behling

  • Arctic/North Atlantic Oscillation signature in Holocene sea surface temperature trends as obtained from alkenone data

    Norel Rimbu;Gerrit Lohmann;Jung-Hyun Kim;Helge W Arz

  • Multicentennial-scale hydrological changes in the Black Sea and northern Red Sea during the Holocene and the Arctic/North Atlantic Oscillation

    Frank Lamy;Helge Wolfgang Arz;Gérard C. Bond;André Bahr

  • Coupling of millennial‐scale changes in sea surface temperature and precipitation off northeastern Brazil with high‐latitude climate shifts during the last glacial period

    Andrea Jaeschke;Carsten Rühlemann;Helge W Arz;Gerrit M N Heil

  • Dynamics of the Laschamp geomagnetic excursion from Black Sea sediments

    N.R. Nowaczyk;H.W. Arz;U. Frank;J. Kind

  • The deglacial history of the western tropical Atlantic as inferred from high resolution stable isotope records off northeastern Brazil

    Helge W. Arz;Jürgen Pätzold;Gerold Wefer

  • Late glacial to Holocene paleoenvironmental evolution of the Black Sea, reconstructed with stable oxygen isotope records obtained on ostracod shells

    André Bahr;Helge W. Arz;Frank Lamy;Gerold Wefer

  • Glacial reduction and millennial-scale variations in Drake Passage throughflow

    Frank Lamy;Helge W Arz;Rolf Kilian;Rolf Kilian;Carina Beatriz Lange

  • Influence of Northern Hemisphere climate and global sea level rise on the restricted Red Sea marine environment during termination I

    Helge W. Arz;Jürgen Pätzold;Peter J. Müller;Mustafa O. Moammar

  • Consistently dated Atlantic sediment cores

    Claire Waelbroeck;Bryan C Lougheed;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Lise Missiaen

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Lamy
Frank Lamy Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Jürgen Pätzold
Jürgen Pätzold University of Bremen
Olaf Dellwig
Olaf Dellwig Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Trond Dokken
Trond Dokken NORCE Research
Carsten Rühlemann
Carsten Rühlemann Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources
Claire Waelbroeck
Claire Waelbroeck Sorbonne University
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi University of Bordeaux
Lukas Wacker
Lukas Wacker ETH Zurich
Stéphanie Desprat
Stéphanie Desprat University of Bordeaux
Luke C Skinner
Luke C Skinner University of Cambridge

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