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68
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National Ranking
60

Overview

J. R. Petit is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with specific contributions to Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Anthropology, Paleontology, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Scientific Research and Discoveries

J. R. Petit has published in the following venues:

  • Nature
  • National Science Review
  • Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut)
  • La Météorologie

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by J. R. Petit include:

  • Forty years of ice-core records of CO2, 2020, Nature
  • Iron in the NEEM ice core relative to Asian loess records over the last glacial-interglacial cycle, 2020, National Science Review
  • The EDC3 chronology for the EPICA Dome C ice core, 2021, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut)
  • En mémoire de Claude Lorius, 2023, La Météorologie

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Dominique Raynaud
  • С. А. Булат
  • J. Chappellaz
  • Jean Jouzel
  • Cunde Xiao

Best Publications

  • Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica

    J. R. Petit;J. Jouzel;D. Raynaud;N. I. Barkov

  • Eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core

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

  • Vostok ice core: a continuous isotope temperature record over the last climatic cycle (160,000 years)

    J. Jouzel;C. Lorius;J. R. Petit;C. Genthon

  • 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

  • Dust-climate couplings over the past 800,000 years from the EPICA Dome C ice core

    F. Lambert;B. Delmonte;J.R. Petit;M. Bigler;M. Bigler

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

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

  • Palaeoclimatological and chronological implications of the Vostok core dust record

    J. R. Petit;L. Mourner;J. Jouzel;Y. S. Korotkevich

  • The EDC3 chronology for the EPICA Dome C ice core

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

  • A Review of Antarctic Surface Snow Isotopic Composition : Observations, Atmospheric Circulation, and Isotopic Modeling

    V. Masson-Delmotte;S. Hou;A. Ekaykin;J. Jouzel

  • Patagonian origin of glacial dust deposited in East Antarctica (Vostok and Dome C) during glacial stages 2, 4 and 6

    Isabelle Basile;Francis E. Grousset;Francis E. Grousset;Marie Revel;Jean Robert Petit

  • Holocene Climate Variability in Antarctica Based on 11 Ice-Core Isotopic Records

    Valérie Masson;Françoise Vimeux;Jean Jouzel;Vin Morgan

  • Ice age aerosol content from East Antarctic ice core samples and past wind strength

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  • Antarctic (Dome C) ice-core dust at 18 k.y. B.P.: Isotopic constraints on origins

    Francis E. Grousset;Francis E. Grousset;Pierre E. Biscaye;Marie Revel;Jean-Robert Petit

  • Consistent dating for Antarctic and Greenland ice cores

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

  • Comparing the Epica and Vostok dust records during the last 220,000 years: stratigraphical correlation and provenance in glacial periods

    B. Delmonte;B. Delmonte;I. Basile-Doelsch;J. R. Petit;V. Maggi

  • Physical, chemical and biological processes in Lake Vostok and other Antarctic subglacial lakes

    Martin J. Siegert;J. Cynan Ellis-Evans;Martyn Tranter;Christoph Mayer

  • More Than 200 Meters of Lake Ice Above Subglacial Lake Vostok, Antarctica

    J. Jouzel;J. R. Petit;R. Souchez;N. I. Barkov

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

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

  • Deuterium excess in recent Antarctic snow

    J. R. Petit;J. W. C. White;N. W. Young;J. Jouzel

  • Glacial–interglacial changes in ocean surface conditions in the Southern Hemisphere

    F. Vimeux;V. Masson;J. Jouzel;M. Stievenard

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean Jouzel
Jean Jouzel Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
Barbara Delmonte
Barbara Delmonte University of Milano-Bicocca
Dominique Raynaud
Dominique Raynaud Grenoble Alpes University
Sigfus J Johnsen
Sigfus J Johnsen University of Copenhagen
Roland Souchez
Roland Souchez Université Libre de Bruxelles
Roberto Udisti
Roberto Udisti University of Florence
Eric W. Wolff
Eric W. Wolff University of Cambridge
C. Lorius
C. Lorius Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Barbara Stenni
Barbara Stenni Ca Foscari University of Venice
Carlo Barbante
Carlo Barbante Ca Foscari University of Venice

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