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France
2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
123
Citations
85338
World Ranking
34
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in France Leader Award
  • 2019 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry
  • 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2015 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences
  • 2003 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2002 - CNRS Gold Medal, French National Centre for Scientific Research Climatology
  • 1989 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Jean Jouzel is affiliated with the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement in France. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a focus on Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Global and Planetary Change subfields.

The scientist's work includes contributions to Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Cryospheric studies and observations, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

Recent publications demonstrate an emphasis on climate and atmospheric processes. Notable papers include:

  • Interglacial Antarctic-Southern Ocean climate decoupling due to moisture source area shifts, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • Antarctic Water Stable Isotopes in the Global Atmospheric Model LMDZ6: From Climatology to Boundary Layer Processes, 2025, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Jean Jouzel has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Amaëlle Landais, Barbara Stenni, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Élise Fourré, and Bénédicte Minster. These collaborations have resulted in multiple joint publications.

Their work has appeared predominantly in venues such as Nature Geoscience and the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

The scientist has received multiple awards and honors over their career, including:

  • Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry, 2019
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences, 2015
  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2003
  • CNRS Gold Medal from the French National Centre for Scientific Research for Climatology, 2002
  • Member of Academia Europaea, 1989

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

  • Evidence for general instability of past climate from a 250-kyr ice-core record

    W. Dansgaard;S. J. Johnsen;S. J. Johnsen;H. B. Clausen;D. Dahl-Jensen

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

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

  • Correlations between climate records from North Atlantic sediments and Greenland ice

    Gerard Bond;Wallace Broecker;Sigfus Johnsen;Sigfus Johnsen;Jerry McManus

  • 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

  • Comparison of oxygen isotope records from the GISP2 and GRIP Greenland ice cores

    P. M. Grootes;M. Stuiver;J. W. C. White;S. Johnsen;S. Johnsen

  • Eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core

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

  • Irregular glacial interstadials recorded in a new Greenland ice core

    S. J. Johnsen;S. J. Johnsen;H. B. Clausen;W. Dansgaard;K. Fuhrer

  • Global climatic interpretation of the deuterium‐oxygen 18 relationship for precipitation

    Liliane Merlivat;Jean Jouzel

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

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

  • 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

  • Deuterium and oxygen 18 in precipitation: Modeling of the isotopic effects during snow formation

    Jean Jouzel;Liliane Merlivat

  • Asynchrony of Antarctic and Greenland climate change during the last glacial period

    T. Blunier;J. Chappellaz;J. Schwander;A. Dällenbach

  • 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

  • A mid-european decadal isotope-climate record from 15,500 to 5000 years B.P

    Ulrich von Grafenstein;Helmut Erlenkeuser;Achim Brauer;Jean Jouzel

  • A 150,000-year climatic record from Antarctic ice

    C. Lorius;J. Jouzel;C. Ritz;L. Merlivat

  • Precise dating of Dansgaard–Oeschger climate oscillations in western Europe from stalagmite data

    D. Genty;D. Blamart;R. Ouahdi;M. Gilmour

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

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

  • Orbital and millenial antarctic climate variability over the last 800 000 years

    Jean Jouzel;Jean-Louis Tison

  • Global Climatic Interpretation of the Deuterium-Oxygen 18 Relationship

    Liliane Merlivat;Jean Jouzel;Boite Postale

Frequent Co-Authors

Sigfus J Johnsen
Sigfus J Johnsen University of Copenhagen
Dominique Raynaud
Dominique Raynaud Grenoble Alpes University
Amaelle Landais
Amaelle Landais Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
Barbara Stenni
Barbara Stenni Ca Foscari University of Venice
Roland Souchez
Roland Souchez Université Libre de Bruxelles
Jakob Schwander
Jakob Schwander University of Bern
Frédéric Parrenin
Frédéric Parrenin Grenoble Alpes University
Michel Stievenard
Michel Stievenard Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
James W. C. White
James W. C. White University of Colorado Boulder
Jérôme Chappellaz
Jérôme Chappellaz École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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