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Marcus Christl

Marcus Christl

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Earth Science

D-Index
48
Citations
10085
World Ranking
3760
National Ranking
98

Overview

Marcus Christl is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a focus on Environmental Science. Their research encompasses several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Geophysics, Global and Planetary Change, and aspects related to Management, Monitoring, Policy, and Law.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics primarily centered on geological and paleoclimatological research. Key themes in their publications include cryospheric studies and observations, geological formations and processes, landslides and related hazards, radioactive contamination and transfer, Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, as well as radioactivity and radon measurements.

Marcus Christl has contributed to numerous academic papers, with select recent publications as follows:

  • Eleven-year solar cycles over the last millennium revealed by radiocarbon in tree rings, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • Late-Pleistocene catchment-wide denudation patterns across the European Alps, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Cosmogenic radionuclides reveal an extreme solar particle storm near a solar minimum 9125 years BP, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Deciphering the evolution of the Bleis Marscha rock glacier (Val d'Err, eastern Switzerland) with cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating, aerial image correlation, and finite element modeling, 2021, The Cryosphere
  • Glacial erosion by the Trift glacier (Switzerland): Deciphering the development of riegels, rock basins and gorges, 2020, Geomorphology

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Geomorphology, Quaternary Science Reviews, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Communications, and Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms.

Regular collaborators in their research include Christof Vockenhuber, Raimund Muscheler, Susan Ivy-Ochs, Dmitry Tikhomirov, and Markus Egli, with multiple coauthored works indicating sustained cooperative research efforts.

Best Publications

  • 9,400 years of cosmic radiation and solar activity from ice cores and tree rings

    Friedhelm Steinhilber;Jose A. Abreu;Jürg Beer;Irene Brunner

  • Ancient Biomolecules from Deep Ice Cores Reveal a Forested Southern Greenland

    Eske Willerslev;Enrico Cappellini;Wouter Boomsma;Rasmus Nielsen

  • Latest Pleistocene and Holocene glacier variations in the European Alps

    Susan Ivy-Ochs;Susan Ivy-Ochs;Hanns Kerschner;Max Maisch;Marcus Christl

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

    Reiner Schlitzer;Robert F. Anderson;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Maeve Lohan

  • Possible solar origin of the 1,470-year glacial climate cycle demonstrated in a coupled model

    Holger Braun;Marcus Christl;Stefan Rahmstorf;Andrey Ganopolski

  • A 600‐year annual 10Be record from the NGRIP ice core, Greenland

    A.-M. Berggren;J. Beer;G. Possnert;A. Aldahan

  • Eleven-year solar cycles over the last millennium revealed by radiocarbon in tree rings

    Nicolas Brehm;Alex Bayliss;Marcus Christl;Hans Arno Synal

  • Tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 CE.

    Ulf Büntgen;Lukas Wacker;J. Diego Galván;Stephanie Arnold

  • Dating the onset of LGM ice surface lowering in the High Alps

    Christian Wirsig;Jerzy Zasadni;Marcus Christl;Naki Akçar

  • Does sedimentary 231Pa/230Th from the Bermuda Rise monitor past Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation?

    Jörg Lippold;Jens Grützner;Diane M Winter;Yann Lahaye

  • Deep water provenance and dynamics of the (de)glacial Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

    Jörg Lippold;Jörg Lippold;Marcus Gutjahr;Patrick Blaser;Emanuel Christner

  • Multiradionuclide evidence for an extreme solar proton event around 2,610 B.P. (∼660 BC)

    Paschal O’Hare;Florian Mekhaldi;Florian Adolphi;Grant Raisbeck

  • The dependence of meteoric 10Be concentrations on particle size in Amazon River bed sediment and the extraction of reactive 10Be/9Be ratios

    H. Wittmann;F. von Blanckenburg;J. Bouchez;N. Dannhaus

  • Rapid Holocene thinning of an East Antarctic outlet glacier driven by marine ice sheet instability.

    R. S. Jones;A. N. Mackintosh;K. P. Norton;N. R. Golledge;N. R. Golledge

  • Rapid increase in cosmogenic 14C in AD 775 measured in New Zealand kauri trees indicates short-lived increase in 14C production spanning both hemispheres

    D. Güttler;F. Adolphi;J. Beer;N. Bleicher

  • The AD 1717 rock avalanche deposits in the upper Ferret Valley (Italy): a dating approach with cosmogenic 10Be

    Naki Akçar;Philip Deline;Susan Ivy-Ochs;Vasily Alfimov

  • Spatial variability of 10Be-derived erosion rates across the southern Peninsular Indian escarpment: A key to landscape evolution across passive margins

    Sanjay Kumar Mandal;Maarten Lupker;Jean-Pierre Burg;Pierre G. Valla

  • Plutonium release from Fukushima Daiichi fosters the need for more detailed investigations

    Stephanie Schneider;Clemens Walther;Stefan Bister;Viktoria Schauer

  • A first transect of 236U in the North Atlantic Ocean

    N Casacuberta;M Christl;J Lachner;M Rutgers Van Der Loeff

  • First 236U data from the Arctic Ocean and use of 236U/238U and 129I/236U as a new dual tracer

    N. Casacuberta;P. Masqué;P. Masqué;P. Masqué;G. Henderson;M. Rutgers van-der-Loeff

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Ivy-Ochs
Susan Ivy-Ochs ETH Zurich
Naki Akçar
Naki Akçar University of Bern
Peter W. Kubik
Peter W. Kubik ETH Zurich
Markus Egli
Markus Egli University of Zurich
Lukas Wacker
Lukas Wacker ETH Zurich
Pere Masqué
Pere Masqué Edith Cowan University
Christian Schlüchter
Christian Schlüchter University of Bern
Fritz Schlunegger
Fritz Schlunegger University of Bern
Augusto Mangini
Augusto Mangini Heidelberg University

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