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Jeffrey P. Severinghaus publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jeffrey P. Severinghaus sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

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Jeffrey P. Severinghaus D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jeffrey P. Severinghaus sits on this spectrum.

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The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2013 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Jeffrey P. Severinghaus is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research activity centers primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to Environmental Science. The scientist's work spans various subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

Severinghaus's main research topics cover:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate

The scientist has published in several peer-reviewed venues, with frequent contributions in:

  • Climate of the past
  • The Cryosphere
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Communications
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Preindustrial 14CH4 indicates greater anthropogenic fossil CH4 emissions," 2020, Nature
  • "Timing and structure of the Younger Dryas event and its underlying climate dynamics," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum," 2021, Science
  • "Widespread six degrees Celsius cooling on land during the Last Glacial Maximum," 2021, Nature
  • "Old carbon reservoirs were not important in the deglacial methane budget," 2020, Science

Frequently collaborating co-authors include:

  • Christo Buizert
  • Edward J. Brook
  • Sarah Shackleton
  • V. V. Petrenko
  • Alan Seltzer

Severinghaus has been recognized by multiple scientific organizations. Honors include:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2015)
  • Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) (2013)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2012)

Best Publications

  • A redetermination of the isotopic abundances of atmospheric Ar

    Jee-Yon Lee;Jee-Yon Lee;Jee-Yon Lee;Kurt Marti;Jeffrey P. Severinghaus;Kenji Kawamura;Kenji Kawamura

  • Timing of abrupt climate change at the end of the Younger Dryas interval from thermally fractionated gases in polar ice

    Jeffrey P. Severinghaus;Todd Sowers;Edward J. Brook;Richard B. Alley

  • Abrupt Climate Change at the End of the Last Glacial Period Inferred from Trapped Air in Polar Ice

    Jeffrey P. Severinghaus;Edward J. Brook

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

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

  • Northern Hemisphere forcing of climatic cycles in Antarctica over the past 360,000 years

    Kenji Kawamura;Frédéric Parrenin;Lorraine Lisiecki;Ryu Uemura

  • Centennial-scale changes in the global carbon cycle during the last deglaciation

    Shaun A. Marcott;Thomas K. Bauska;Christo Buizert;Eric J. Steig

  • Consistently dated records from the Greenland GRIP, GISP2 and NGRIP ice cores for the past 104 ka reveal regional millennial-scale δ18O gradients with possible Heinrich event imprint

    Inger K. Seierstad;Peter M. Abbott;Matthias Bigler;Matthias Bigler;Thomas Blunier

  • Precise interpolar phasing of abrupt climate change during the last ice age

    Christo Buizert;Betty Adrian;Jinho Ahn;Mary Albert

  • Onset of deglacial warming in West Antarctica driven by local orbital forcing

    T.J. Fudge;Eric J. Steig;Bradley R. Markle;Spruce W. Schoenemann

  • On the origin and timing of rapid changes in atmospheric methane during the Last Glacial Period

    Edward J. Brook;Susan Harder;Jeff Severinghaus;Eric J. Steig

  • Greenland temperature response to climate forcing during the last deglaciation.

    Christo Buizert;Vasileios Gkinis;Vasileios Gkinis;Jeffrey P. Severinghaus;Feng He

  • Precise timing and characterization of abrupt climate change 8200 years ago from air trapped in polar ice

    Takuro Kobashi;Jeffrey P. Severinghaus;Edward J. Brook;Jean-Marc Barnola

  • Timing of atmospheric CO2 and Antarctic temperature changes across termination III.

    Nicolas Caillon;Nicolas Caillon;Jeffrey P. Severinghaus;Jean Jouzel;Jean-Marc Barnola

  • A record of atmospheric halocarbons during the twentieth century from polar firn air

    James H. Butler;Mark Battle;Michael L. Bender;Stephen A. Montzka

  • The WAIS Divide deep ice core WD2014 chronology – Part 1: Methane synchronization (68–31 ka BP) and the gas age–ice age difference

    C. Buizert;K. M. Cuffey;J. P. Severinghaus;D. Baggenstos

  • Preindustrial 14CH4 indicates greater anthropogenic fossil CH4 emissions.

    Benjamin Hmiel;V. V. Petrenko;M. N. Dyonisius;C. Buizert

  • Chapter 1: Cenozoic geometry and thermal state of the subducting slabs beneath western North America

    Jeff Severinghaus;Tanya Atwater

  • The Holocene-Younger Dryas Transition Recorded at Summit, Greenland

    Kendrick C. Taylor;Paul A. Mayewski;R. B. Alley;E. J. Brook

  • Timing and structure of the Younger Dryas event and its underlying climate dynamics.

    Hai Cheng;Hai Cheng;Haiwei Zhang;Christoph Spötl;Jonathan Baker

  • A first chronology for the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) ice core

    S. O. Rasmussen;P. M. Abbott;T. Blunier;A. J. Bourne

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward J. Brook
Edward J. Brook Oregon State University
Kenji Kawamura
Kenji Kawamura National Institute of Polar Research
Christo Buizert
Christo Buizert Oregon State University
Anais Orsi
Anais Orsi University of British Columbia
Thomas Blunier
Thomas Blunier University of Copenhagen
Joseph R. McConnell
Joseph R. McConnell Desert Research Institute
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen University of Copenhagen
Eric J. Steig
Eric J. Steig University of Washington
Ray F. Weiss
Ray F. Weiss University of California, San Diego
Todd Sowers
Todd Sowers Pennsylvania State University

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