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Johan Kleman is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and has contributed research primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work is notably focused within subfields including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and aspects of Management, Monitoring, Policy, and Law.

The main topics addressed in Johan Kleman's research encompass Geology and Paleoclimatology, Cryospheric studies and observations, Methane Hydrates and related phenomena, Landslides and related hazards, and Climate change impacts on permafrost.

Kleman's recent publications include:

  • The extreme yet transient nature of glacial erosion, 2022, Nature Communications
  • The Idre marginal moraine - An anchorpoint for Middle and Late Weichselian ice sheet chronology, 2020, Quaternary Science Advances
  • Age and duration of a MIS 3 interstadial in the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet core area - Implications for ice sheet dynamics, 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Johan Kleman are:

  • Arjen P. Stroeven
  • Martina Hättestrand
  • Ingmar Borgström
  • Frank Preusser
  • Derek Fabel

Their work appears regularly in journals such as Nature Communications, Quaternary Science Advances, and Quaternary Science Reviews, each venue hosting at least one of their publications. This selection of venues reflects a focus on interdisciplinary environmental and geological research with significant implications for understanding ice sheets and climate variability.

Best Publications

  • Deglaciation of Fennoscandia

    Arjen P. Stroeven;Clas Hättestrand;Johan Kleman;Jakob Heyman

  • Fennoscandian palaeoglaciology reconstructed using a glacial geological inversion model

    Johan Kleman;Clas Hättestrand;Ingmar Borgström;Arjen Stroeven

  • Frozen-bed Fennoscandian and Laurentide ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum

    Johan Kleman;Clas Hättestrand

  • Preservation of landforms under ice sheets and ice caps

    Johan Kleman

  • The glacial geomorphology and Pleistocene history of South America between 38°S and 56°S

    Neil Franklin Glasser;Krister N. Jansson;Stephan Harrison;Johan Kleman

  • Landscape preservation under Fennoscandian ice sheets determined from in situ produced 10Be and 26Al

    Derek Fabel;Arjen P. Stroeven;Jon Harbor;Johan Kleman

  • Pattern and Magnitude of Deforestation in the South Central Rift Valley Region of Ethiopia

    Gessesse Dessie;Johan Kleman

  • RECONSTRUCTION OF PALAEO-ICE SHEETS: THE USE OF GEOMORPHOLOGICAL DATA

    Johan Kleman;Ingmar Borgström

  • Preglacial surface remnants and Quaternary glacial regimes in northwestern Sweden

    Johan Kleman;Arjen P. Stroeven

  • The subglacial thermal organisation (STO) of ice sheets

    Johan Kleman;Neil F. Glasser

  • Patterns of Quaternary ice sheet erosion and deposition in Fennoscandia and a theoretical framework for explanation

    Johan Kleman;Arjen P. Stroeven;Jan Lundqvist

  • Catastrophic Ice Shelf Breakup as the Source of Heinrich Event Icebergs

    Christina L. Hulbe;Douglas R. MacAyeal;George H. Denton;Johan Kleman

  • North American Ice Sheet build-up during the last glacial cycle, 115–21 kyr

    Johan Kleman;Krister Jansson;Hernán De Angelis;Arjen P. Stroeven

  • The Palimpsest Glacial Landscape in Northwestern Sweden: Late Weichselian deglaciation landforms and traces of older west-centered ice sheets

    Johan Kleman

  • Ribbed moraine formation

    Clas Hättestrand;Johan Kleman

  • Evolution of the large-scale atmospheric circulation in response to changing ice sheets over the last glacial cycle

    Marcus Löfverström;Rodrigo Caballero;Johan Nilsson;Johan Kleman

  • Reconstruction of Palaeo‐Ice Sheets ‐ Inversion of their Glacial Geomorphological Record

    Johan Kleman;Clas Hättestrand;Arjen P. Stroeven;Krister N. Jansson

  • The boulder fields of Mt. Fulufjället, west-central Sweden ― Late Weichselian boulder blankets and interstadial periglacial phenomena

    Johan Klemån;Ingmar Borgström

  • Glacial land forms indicative of a partly frozen bed

    Johan Kleman;Ingmar Borgström

  • Zooming in on frozen-bed patches: scale-dependent controls on Fennoscandian ice sheet basal thermal zonation

    Johan Kleman;Clas Hättestrand;Anders Clarhäll

Frequent Co-Authors

Arjen P. Stroeven
Arjen P. Stroeven Stockholm University
Clas Hättestrand
Clas Hättestrand Stockholm University
Krister N. Jansson
Krister N. Jansson Stockholm University
Derek Fabel
Derek Fabel Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre
Jon Harbor
Jon Harbor Purdue University West Lafayette
Adrian M. Hall
Adrian M. Hall University of Edinburgh
Jakob Heyman
Jakob Heyman University of Gothenburg
John D. Jansen
John D. Jansen Czech Academy of Sciences
Sheng Xu
Sheng Xu Tianjin University
David Elmore
David Elmore Purdue University West Lafayette

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