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Environmental Sciences
France
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
75
Citations
39966
World Ranking
1240
National Ranking
41

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award

Overview

Jérôme Chappellaz is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research work spans various fields within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their publications address topics including Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Cryospheric studies and observations, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Arctic and Russian Policy Studies, Climate change and permafrost, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Recent papers by Jérôme Chappellaz include:

  • Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum, 2021, Science
  • Abrupt CO 2 release to the atmosphere under glacial and early interglacial climate conditions, 2020, Science
  • Atmospheric methane, record from Greenland ice core over the last 1000 years, 2021, Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern)
  • Millennial-scale atmospheric CO 2 variations during the Marine Isotope Stage 6 period (190-135 ka), 2020, Climate of the past
  • Northern Hemisphere atmospheric history of carbon monoxide since preindustrial times reconstructed from multiple Greenland ice cores, 2022, Climate of the past

Frequent co-authors with whom Jérôme Chappellaz has collaborated include Jinhwa Shin, Roberto Grilli, Hubertus Fischer, Frédéric Parrenin, and Xavier Faïn.

Their work has been published in several venues, notably:

  • Climate of the past
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Science
  • Geoscientific instrumentation, methods and data systems
  • Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern)

Their research addresses atmospheric gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and carbon monoxide, analyzing ice core records to reconstruct past climatic and environmental conditions. This work contributes to understanding climate dynamics during glacial and interglacial periods, with implications for cryospheric studies and global environmental change.

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

  • 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

  • Eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core

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

  • Orbital and millennial-scale features of atmospheric CH4 over the past 800,000 years.

    Laetitia Loulergue;Adrian Schilt;Renato Spahni;Valérie Masson-Delmotte

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • Extending the Vostok ice-core record of palaeoclimate to the penultimate glacial period

    Jean Jouzel;Jean Jouzel;N.I. Barkov;J.M. Barnola;M. Bender;M. Bender

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

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

  • Millennial-scale variability during the last glacial: The ice core record

    Eric W. Wolff;J. Chappellaz;T. Blunier;S.O. Rasmussen

  • Ice-core record of atmospheric methane over the past 160,000 years

    J. Chappellaz;J. M. Barnola;D. Raynaud;Y. S. Korotkevich

  • Atmospheric Methane and Nitrous Oxide of the Late Pleistocene from Antarctic Ice Cores

    Renato Spahni;Renato Spahni;Jérôme Chappellaz;Jérôme Chappellaz;Thomas F. Stocker;Thomas F. Stocker;Laetitia Loulergue;Laetitia Loulergue

  • The Antarctic ice core chronology (AICC2012): an optimized multi-parameter and multi-site dating approach for the last 120 thousand years

    D. Veres;D. Veres;L. Bazin;A. Landais;H. Toyé Mahamadou Kele

  • The ice record of greenhouse gases

    D. Raynaud;J. Jouzel;J. M. Barnola;J. Chappellaz

  • Synchronous changes in atmospheric CH4 and Greenland climate between 40 and 8 kyr BP

    J. Chappellaz;T. Bluniert;D. Raynaud;J. M. Barnola

  • 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

  • Variations in atmospheric methane concentration during the Holocene epoch

    T. Blunier;J. Chappellaz;J. Schwander;B. Stauffer

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominique Raynaud
Dominique Raynaud Grenoble Alpes University
Thomas F. Stocker
Thomas F. Stocker University of Bern
Thomas Blunier
Thomas Blunier University of Copenhagen
Jakob Schwander
Jakob Schwander University of Bern
Hubertus Fischer
Hubertus Fischer University of Bern
Jean Jouzel
Jean Jouzel Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
Jean-Marc Barnola
Jean-Marc Barnola Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
J. M. Barnola
J. M. Barnola Grenoble Alpes University
Frédéric Parrenin
Frédéric Parrenin Grenoble Alpes University
Markus Leuenberger
Markus Leuenberger University of Bern

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