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Jérôme Lavé is affiliated with the University of Lorraine in France and conducts research primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans various subfields including Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Earth-Surface Processes, and Soil Science.

The main topics of Jérôme Lavé's research encompass:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Rock Mechanics and Modeling

The scientist has contributed notably to various academic journals and conferences. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Scientific Reports
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Geomorphology

Jérôme Lavé's recent papers include:

  • "Medieval demise of a Himalayan giant summit induced by mega-landslide," 2023, Nature
  • "An unshakable carbon budget for the Himalaya," 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • "Bedload transport in rivers, size matters but so does shape," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Steady erosion rates in the Himalayas through late Cenozoic climatic changes," 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • "Antarctic-like temperature variations in the Tropical Andes recorded by glaciers and lakes during the last deglaciation," 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews

Frequent collaborators in Jérôme Lavé's research include Christian France-Lanord, S.J.P. Lenard, Didier Bourlès, Karim Keddadouche, and Georges Aumaître. These co-authors have contributed to multiple works alongside Jérôme Lavé across various studies.

Best Publications

  • Active folding of fluvial terraces across the Siwaliks Hills, Himalayas of central Nepal

    J. Lavé;J. P. Avouac

  • Fluvial incision and tectonic uplift across the Himalayas of central Nepal

    J. Lavé;J. P. Avouac

  • Interseismic strain accumulation on the Himalayan crustal ramp (Nepal)

    M. R. Pandey;R. P. Tandukar;J. P. Avouac;J. Lavé

  • Predominant floodplain over mountain weathering of Himalayan sediments (Ganga basin)

    Maarten Lupker;Christian France-Lanord;Valier Galy;Jérôme Lavé

  • Late Cenozoic evolution of the central Longmen Shan, eastern Tibet: Insight from (U-Th)/He thermochronometry

    Vincent Godard;Vincent Godard;R Pik;J Lavé;J Lavé;R Cattin;R Cattin

  • Evidence for a great medieval earthquake (~1100 A.D.) in the central Himalayas, Nepal.

    J. Lavé;D. Yule;S. Sapkota;K. Basant

  • Increasing chemical weathering in the Himalayan system since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Maarten Lupker;Christian France-Lanord;Valier Galy;Jérôme Lavé

  • Changes of bedload characteristics along the Marsyandi River (central Nepal): Implications for understanding hillslope sediment supply, sediment load evolution along fluvial networks, and denudation in active orogenic belts

    Mikaël Attal;Jérôme Lavé

  • The CREp program and the ICE-D production rate calibration database: A fully parameterizable and updated online tool to compute cosmic-ray exposure ages

    L.C.P. Martin;P.-H. Blard;G. Balco;J. Lavé

  • Stability of the Upper Nile drainage network (Ethiopia) deduced from (U–Th)/He thermochronometry: implications for uplift and erosion of the Afar plume dome

    Raphaël Pik;Bernard Marty;Bernard Marty;Jean Carignan;Jérôme Lavé

  • A Rouse-based method to integrate the chemical composition of river sediments: Application to the Ganga basin

    Maarten Lupker;Christian France-Lanord;Jérôme Lavé;Julien Bouchez

  • Pebble abrasion during fluvial transport: Experimental results and implications for the evolution of the sediment load along rivers

    Mikaël Attal;Jérôme Lavé

  • 10Be-derived Himalayan denudation rates and sediment budgets in the Ganga basin

    Maarten Lupker;Maarten Lupker;Pierre-Henri Blard;Jérôme Lavé;Christian France-Lanord

  • Investigation of the relationships between basin morphology, tectonic uplift, and denudation from the study of an active fold belt in the Siwalik Hills, central Nepal

    J.-E. Hurtrez;J.-E. Hurtrez;F. Lucazeau;F. Lucazeau;J. Lavé;J.-P. Avouac

  • Denudation processes and rates in the Transverse Ranges, southern California: Erosional response of a transitional landscape to external and anthropogenic forcing

    Jérôme Lavé;D. Burbank;D. Burbank

  • Quantifying sand provenance and erosion (Marsyandi River, Nepal Himalaya)

    Eduardo Garzanti;Giovanni Vezzoli;Sergio Andò;Jérôme Lavé

  • How to relate body wave and surface wave anisotropy

    Jean Paul Montagner;Daphné Anne Griot-Pommera;Jérôme Lavé

  • Spatial distribution of denudation in Eastern Tibet and regressive erosion of plateau margins

    Vincent Godard;J. Lavé;J. Carcaillet;R. Cattin

  • Thrust belts and foreland basins

    Olivier Lacombe;François Roure;Jérôme Lavé;Jaume Vergés

  • Lake highstands on the Altiplano (Tropical Andes) contemporaneous with Heinrich 1 and the Younger Dryas: new insights from ^(14)C, U-Th dating and δ^(18)O of carbonates

    P.H. Blard;P.H. Blard;Florence Sylvestre;A.K. Tripati;A.K. Tripati;C. Claude

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre-Henri Blard
Pierre-Henri Blard Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Christian France-Lanord
Christian France-Lanord University of Lorraine
Rodolphe Cattin
Rodolphe Cattin University of Montpellier
Jean Philippe Avouac
Jean Philippe Avouac California Institute of Technology
Raphaël Pik
Raphaël Pik University of Lorraine
Valier Galy
Valier Galy Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Didier Bourlès
Didier Bourlès Aix-Marseille University
Stéphane Dominguez
Stéphane Dominguez University of Montpellier
Frédéric Herman
Frédéric Herman University of Lausanne

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