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Hubertus Fischer

Hubertus Fischer

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
85
Citations
45501
World Ranking
728
National Ranking
25

Overview

Hubertus Fischer is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to subfields including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Anthropology.

The scientist's work focuses on topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Cryospheric studies and observations, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, and Winter Sports Injuries and Performance.

Among their recent scientific papers are these examples:

  • Bipolar volcanic synchronization of abrupt climate change in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores during the last glacial period, 2020, Climate of the Past
  • Global ocean heat content in the Last Interglacial, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • Magnitude, frequency and climate forcing of global volcanism during the last glacial period as seen in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores (60-9 ka), 2022, Climate of the Past
  • Old carbon reservoirs were not important in the deglacial methane budget, 2020, Science
  • The anatomy of past abrupt warmings recorded in Greenland ice, 2021, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hubertus Fischer include:

  • J. H. M. M. Schmitt
  • Thomas F. Stocker
  • Daniel Baggenstos
  • Christoph Nehrbass-Ahles
  • Frédéric Parrenin

Publication venues where Hubertus Fischer has frequently published consist of:

  • Climate of the Past
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth System Science Data
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

  • High-resolution carbon dioxide concentration record 650,000–800,000 years before present

    Dieter Lüthi;Martine Le Floch;Bernhard Bereiter;Thomas Blunier

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

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

  • High-resolution record of Northern Hemisphere climate extending into the last interglacial period.

    K. K. Andersen;N. Azuma;J.-M. Barnola;M. Bigler

  • A stratigraphic framework for abrupt climatic changes during the Last Glacial period based on three synchronized Greenland ice-core records: refining and extending the INTIMATE event stratigraphy

    Sune O. Rasmussen;Matthias Bigler;Simon P. Blockley;Thomas Blunier

  • A new Greenland ice core chronology for the last glacial termination

    S. O. Rasmussen;Katrine Krogh Andersen;A. M. Svensson;J. P. Steffensen

  • Eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core

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

  • Stable carbon cycle-climate relationship during the Late Pleistocene.

    Urs Siegenthaler;Thomas F. Stocker;Eric Monnin;Dieter Lüthi

  • Timing and climate forcing of volcanic eruptions for the past 2,500 years

    M. Sigl;M. Winstrup;J. R. McConnell;K. C. Welten

  • 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

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

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

  • Holocene carbon-cycle dynamics based on CO2 trapped in ice at Taylor Dome, Antarctica

    A. Indermühle;T. F. Stocker;F. Joos;H. Fischer

  • High-Resolution Greenland Ice Core Data Show Abrupt Climate Change Happens in Few Years

    Jørgen Peder Steffensen;Katrine K. Andersen;Matthias Bigler;Matthias Bigler;Henrik B. Clausen

  • Revision of the EPICA Dome C CO2 record from 800 to 600 kyr before present

    Bernhard Bereiter;Bernhard Bereiter;Bernhard Bereiter;Sarah Skye Eggleston;Sarah Skye Eggleston;Jochen Schmitt;Jochen Schmitt;Christoph Nehrbass-Ahles;Christoph Nehrbass-Ahles

  • The Indian Ocean Experiment: Widespread Air Pollution from South and Southeast Asia

    Jos Lelieveld;Paul J. Crutzen;V. Ramanathan;M. O. Andreae

  • 9,400 years of cosmic radiation and solar activity from ice cores and tree rings

    Friedhelm Steinhilber;Jose A. Abreu;Jürg Beer;Irene Brunner

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

    D. Dahl-Jensen;M. R. Albert;A. Aldahan;N. Azuma

  • Southern Ocean sea-ice extent, productivity and iron flux over the past eight glacial cycles

    E.W. Wolff;H. Fischer;F. Fundel;U. Ruth

  • 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

  • Carbon Isotope Constraints on the Deglacial CO2 Rise from Ice Cores

    Jochen Schmitt;Jochen Schmitt;Robert Schneider;Joachim Elsig;Daiana Leuenberger

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core (SCI)

    D Dahl-Jensen;M R Albert;A Aldahan;N Azuma

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas F. Stocker
Thomas F. Stocker University of Bern
Jochen Schmitt
Jochen Schmitt University of Bern
Matthias Bigler
Matthias Bigler University of Bern
Eric W. Wolff
Eric W. Wolff University of Cambridge
Fortunat Joos
Fortunat Joos University of Bern
Jakob Schwander
Jakob Schwander University of Bern
Jørgen Peder Steffensen
Jørgen Peder Steffensen University of Copenhagen
Peter Köhler
Peter Köhler Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Robert Mulvaney
Robert Mulvaney British Antarctic Survey
Jérôme Chappellaz
Jérôme Chappellaz École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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