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José-Abel Flores

José-Abel Flores

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Earth Science

D-Index
66
Citations
13614
World Ranking
1344
National Ranking
12

Overview

José-Abel Flores is affiliated with the University of Salamanca in Spain and works primarily in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Oceanography, Ocean Engineering, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their research encompasses a range of topics including Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, and Geological Formations and Processes.

Recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • "Coccolithophore biodiversity controls carbonate export in the Southern Ocean," 2020, Biogeosciences
  • "Mediterranean Overflow Over the Last 250 kyr: Freshwater Forcing From the Tropics to the Ice Sheets," 2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • "Full annual monitoring of Subantarctic Emiliania huxleyi populations reveals highly calcified morphotypes in high-CO2 winter conditions," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Late Oligocene-Miocene proto-Antarctic Circumpolar Current dynamics off the Wilkes Land margin, East Antarctica," 2020, Global and Planetary Change
  • "Late Miocene onset of the modern Antarctic Circumpolar Current," 2024, Nature Geoscience

Frequent co-authors collaborating with José-Abel Flores include:

  • Francisco Javier Sierro
  • F.J. Jiménez-Espejo
  • Bárbara Balestra
  • David A Hodell
  • Fatima F Abrantes

The scientist has published in a variety of venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Journal of Nannoplankton Research

José-Abel Flores has also contributed to book literature, with a publication titled "Impact of the Sea Breeze and Wind in the Bioclimate of Mexico" published by EPOMEX-UAC eBooks in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Dansgaard-Oeschger and Heinrich event imprints in Alboran Sea paleotemperatures

    Isabel Cacho;Joan O Grimalt;Carles Pelejero;Miquel Canals

  • Abrupt Temperature Changes in the Western Mediterranean over the Past 250,000 Years

    Belen Martrat;Joan O. Grimalt;Constancia López-Martínez;Isabel Cacho;Isabel Cacho

  • Evidence for middle Eocene and younger land emergence in central Panama: Implications for Isthmus closure

    Camilo Montes;Camilo Montes;A. Cardona;A. Cardona;R. McFadden;S.E. Morón

  • Orbitally-paced climate evolution during the middle Miocene “Monterey” carbon-isotope excursion

    Ann E L Holbourn;Wolfgang Kuhnt;Michael Schulz;José Abel Flores

  • Dynamic behaviour of the East Antarctic ice sheet during Pliocene warmth

    Carys P. Cook;Tina van de Flierdt;Trevor Williams;Sidney R. Hemming;Sidney R. Hemming

  • Depositional history of estuarine infill during the last postglacial transgression (Gulf of Cadiz, Southern Spain)

    Cristino J Dabrio;Cari Zazo;José L Goy;Francisco J Sierro

  • Evolution of the Late Miocene Mediterranean–Atlantic gateways and their impact on regional and global environmental change

    Rachel Flecker;Wout Krijgsman;Walter Capella;Cesar de Castro Martíns

  • Impact of iceberg melting on Mediterranean thermohaline circulation during Heinrich events

    F. J. Sierro;D. A. Hodell;J. H. Curtis;J. A. Flores

  • Geological record and reconstruction of the late Pliocene impact of the Eltanin asteroid in the Southern Ocean

    Rainer Gersonde;F. T. Kyte;U. Bleil;Bernhard Diekmann

  • The Abad composite (SE Spain): a Messinian reference section for the Mediterranean and the APTS

    F.J. Sierro;F.J. Hilgen;W. Krijgsman;J.A. Flores

  • Revised technique for calculation of calcareous nannofossil accumulation rates

    J. A. Flores;F. J. Sierro

  • Holocene climate variability in the western Mediterranean region from a deepwater sediment record

    J. Frigola;A. Moreno;I. Cacho;M. Canals

  • Orbital forcing of the East Antarctic ice sheet during the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene

    M O Patterson;R McKay;T Naish;C Escutia

  • Onset of Mediterranean outflow into the North Atlantic

    F. Javier Hernández-Molina;Dorrik A. V. Stow;Carlos A. Alvarez-Zarikian;Gary Acton

  • Pleistocene fluctuations in the Agulhas Current Retroflection based on the calcareous plankton record

    José-Abel Flores;Rainer Gersonde;F.Javier Sierro

  • Late Miocene globorotaliid event-stratigraphy and biogeography in the NE-Atlantic and Mediterranean

    F.J. Sierro;J.A. Flores;J. Civis;J.A. Gonza´lez Delgado

  • Ocean surface water response to short-term climate changes revealed by coccolithophores from the Gulf of Cadiz (NE Atlantic) and Alboran Sea (W Mediterranean)

    Elena Colmenero-Hidalgo;José Abel Flores;Francisco Javier Sierro;M.ª Ángeles Bárcena

  • The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in southern Iberia

    Miguel Cortés Sánchez;Francisco J. Jiménez Espejo;Francisco J. Jiménez Espejo;María D. Simón Vallejo;Juan F. Gibaja Bao

  • The last 100,000 years in the western Mediterranean: sea surface water and frontal dynamics as revealed by coccolithophores

    J.A. Flores;F.J. Sierro;G. Francés;A. Vázquez

  • Decrease in coccolithophore calcification and CO2 since the middle Miocene.

    Clara T. Bolton;Maria T. Hernandez-Sanchez;Miguel-Ángel Fuertes;Saul Gonzalez-Lemos

  • Pleistocene through Miocene calcareous nannofossils from eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean (Leg 138)

    I. Raffi;J.-A. Flores

Frequent Co-Authors

Francisco Javier Sierro
Francisco Javier Sierro University of Salamanca
Joan O. Grimalt
Joan O. Grimalt Spanish National Research Council
Antje H L Voelker
Antje H L Voelker Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Francisco J Jiménez-Espejo
Francisco J Jiménez-Espejo Spanish National Research Council
Gabriel M. Filippelli
Gabriel M. Filippelli Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Maria Marino
Maria Marino University of Bari Aldo Moro
Isabel Cacho
Isabel Cacho University of Barcelona
Belen Martrat
Belen Martrat Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research
Peter K Bijl
Peter K Bijl Utrecht University
Robert M. McKay
Robert M. McKay Victoria University of Wellington

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