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Jan A. Piotrowski

Jan A. Piotrowski

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Earth Science

D-Index
39
Citations
4764
World Ranking
6273
National Ranking
64

Overview

Jan A. Piotrowski is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics within this field, notably focusing on atmospheric science, management, monitoring, policy and law, earth-surface processes, neurology, and geophysics.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Geological Formations and Processes Exploration
  • Phytase and its Applications

Jan A. Piotrowski has contributed to numerous recent scientific papers, some of which are:

  • "A cross-validated three-dimensional model of an englacial and subglacial drainage system in a High-Arctic glacier" (2020) published in Journal of Glaciology
  • "Repetitive Late Pleistocene soft-sediment deformation by seismicity-induced liquefaction in north-western Lithuania" (2021) published in Sedimentology
  • "Formation and widening of a North Sea tunnel valley - The impact of slope processes on valley morphology" (2020) published in Geomorphology
  • "Inventory of glacial curvilineations (GCLs) at the southern periphery of the last Scandinavian Ice Sheet" (2021) published in Geomorphology
  • "Till kinematics in the Stargard drumlin field, NW Poland constrained by microstructural proxies" (2020) published in Journal of Quaternary Science

The frequent venues where Jan A. Piotrowski publishes include:

  • Boreas (8 publications)
  • Family Medicine & Primary Care Review (3 publications)
  • Geomorphology (2 publications)
  • Journal of Glaciology (1 publication)
  • Sedimentology (1 publication)

Collaborative work features several co-authors with whom Jan A. Piotrowski frequently publishes. These include:

  • Wojciech Wysota
  • Nicolaj K. Larsen
  • Ole Bennike
  • Michael Houmark-Nielsen
  • Juha Pekka

Best Publications

  • The last deglaciation of the southeastern sector of the Scandinavian ice sheet.

    V. R. Rinterknecht;P. U. Clark;G. M. Raisbeck;F. Yiou

  • Reflections on soft subglacial beds as a mosaic of deforming and stable spots.

    Jan A. Piotrowski;Nicolaj Krog Larsen;Frank Junge

  • Tunnel valleys: Concepts and controversies — A review

    Alan E. Kehew;Jan A. Piotrowski;Flemming Jørgensen

  • Subglacial hydrology in north-western germany during the last glaciation: groundwater flow, tunnel valleys and hydrological cycles

    Jan A. Piotrowski

  • The evolution of western Scandinavian topography: A review of Neogene uplift versus the ICE (isostasy–climate–erosion) hypothesis

    Søren B. Nielsen;Kerry Gallagher;Callum Leighton;Niels Balling

  • Were deforming subglacial beds beneath past ice sheets really widespread

    Jan A. Piotrowski;David M. Mickelson;Slawek Tulaczyk;Dariusz Krzyszkowski

  • Tunnel-valley formation in northwest Germany—geology, mechanisms of formation and subglacial bed conditions for the Bornhöved tunnel valley

    Jan A. Piotrowski

  • Subglacial conditions under the last ice sheet in northwest Germany: ice-bed separation and enhanced basal sliding?

    Jan A. Piotrowski;Slawek Tulaczyk

  • Formation of subglacial till under transient bed conditions: deposition, deformation, and basal decoupling under a Weichselian ice sheet lobe, central Poland

    Jan A. Piotrowski;Nicolaj Krog Larsen;John Menzies;Wojciech Wysota

  • Response of sediment to ice-sheet loading in northwestern Germany: effective stresses and glacier-bed stability

    Jan A. Piotrowski;Anna M. Kraus

  • A morphometric analysis of tunnel valleys in the eastern North Sea based on 3D seismic data

    Thomas B. Kristensen;Mads Huuse;Jan A. Piotrowski;Ole R. Clausen

  • Cosmogenic 10 Be ages on the Pomeranian Moraine, Poland

    Vincent R. Rinterknecht;Leszek Marks;Jan A. Piotrowski;Grant M. Raisbeck

  • Signature of the Baltic Ice Stream on Funen Island, Denmark during the Weichselian glaciation

    Flemming Jørgensen;Jan A. Piotrowski

  • A multiproxy study of a basal till: a time-transgressive accretion and deformation hypothesis

    Nicolaj Krog Larsen;Jan A. Piotrowski;Christian Kronborg

  • Subglacial groundwater flow during the last glaciation in northwestern Germany

    Jan A. Piotrowski

  • Basal processes beneath an Arctic glacier and their geomorphic imprint after a surge, Elisebreen, Svalbard

    Poul Christoffersen;Jan A. Piotrowski;Nicolaj Krog Larsen

  • Incremental subglacial meltwater sediment deposition and deformation associated with repeated ice-bed decoupling: a case study from the Island of Funen, Denmark

    Jerome-Etienne Lesemann;G. Ian Alsop;Jan A. Piotrowski;Jan A. Piotrowski

  • Modelling submarine groundwater discharge: an example from the western Baltic Sea

    V. Kaleris;G. Lagas;Silke Marczinek;Jan A. Piotrowski

  • Fabric Pattern in a Basal Till Succession and its Significance for Reconstructing Subglacial Processes

    Nicolaj Krog Larsen;Jan A. Piotrowski

  • Ice stream motion facilitated by a shallow-deforming and accreting bed

    Matteo Spagnolo;Emrys Phillips;Jan A. Piotrowski;Brice R. Rea

  • Till melange at Amsdorf, central Germany; sediment erosion, transport and deposition in a complex, soft-bedded subglacial system

    K Hoffmann;J.A Piotrowski

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicolaj K. Larsen
Nicolaj K. Larsen University of Copenhagen
Slawek Tulaczyk
Slawek Tulaczyk University of California, Santa Cruz
Mark D. Bateman
Mark D. Bateman University of Sheffield
Edward J. Brook
Edward J. Brook Oregon State University
Peter U. Clark
Peter U. Clark Oregon State University
John Menzies
John Menzies Brock University
Mads Huuse
Mads Huuse University of Manchester
Emrys Phillips
Emrys Phillips Queen Mary University of London
Grant M. Raisbeck
Grant M. Raisbeck University of Paris-Saclay
Chris D. Clark
Chris D. Clark University of Sheffield

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