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Margareta Hansson

Margareta Hansson

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Earth Science

D-Index
32
Citations
7447
World Ranking
8544
National Ranking
74

Overview

Margareta Hansson is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and conducts research primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their academic work spans several specialized subfields including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, and Oceanography.

The main research topics covered by Margareta Hansson include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Margareta Hansson include:

  • Hubertus Fischer
  • Eric Wolff
  • Mirko Severi
  • Tobias Erhardt
  • Urs Ruth

Margareta Hansson has published multiple papers in peer-reviewed venues, with frequent publications in "Earth system science data," which has appeared twice. Other publication venues include "Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres," "Nature Geoscience," and "Apollo (University of Cambridge)." Notable publications include:

  • High-resolution aerosol concentration data from the Greenland NorthGRIP and NEEM deep ice cores, 2022, Earth system science data
  • Compositions of Dust and Sea Salts in the Dome C and Dome Fuji Ice Cores From Last Glacial Maximum to Early Holocene Based on Ice-Sublimation and Single-Particle Measurements, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Ice-core data used for the construction of the Greenland Ice-Core Chronology 2005 and 2021 (GICC05 and GICC21), 2023, Earth system science data
  • Limited decrease of Southern Ocean sulfur productivity across the penultimate termination, 2025, Nature Geoscience
  • Compositions of Dust and Sea Salts in the Dome C and Dome Fuji Ice Cores From Last Glacial Maximum to Early Holocene Based on Ice-Sublimation and Single-Particle Measurements, 2020, Apollo (University of Cambridge)

This body of work addresses several aspects of paleoclimatic data interpretation, ice core analysis, and environmental chemistry through various methods such as ice-sublimation and single-particle measurements.

Best Publications

  • High-resolution record of Northern Hemisphere climate extending into the last interglacial period.

    K. K. Andersen;N. Azuma;J.-M. Barnola;M. Bigler

  • A new Greenland ice core chronology for the last glacial termination

    S. O. Rasmussen;Katrine Krogh Andersen;A. M. Svensson;J. P. Steffensen

  • Eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core

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

  • 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

  • High-Resolution Greenland Ice Core Data Show Abrupt Climate Change Happens in Few Years

    Jørgen Peder Steffensen;Katrine K. Andersen;Matthias Bigler;Matthias Bigler;Henrik B. Clausen

  • Dust sources and deposition during the last glacial maximum and current climate: A comparison of model results with paleodata from ice cores and marine sediments

    Natalie Mahowald;Karen Kohfeld;Margaret Hansson;Yves Balkanski

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

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

  • Southern Ocean sea-ice extent, productivity and iron flux over the past eight glacial cycles

    E.W. Wolff;H. Fischer;F. Fundel;U. Ruth

  • Changes in environment over the last 800,000 years from chemical analysis of the EPICA Dome C ice core

    E. W. Wolff;C. Barbante;S. Becagli;M. Bigler

  • Reconstruction of millennial changes in dust emission, transport and regional sea ice coverage using the deep EPICA ice cores from the Atlantic and Indian Ocean sector of Antarctica

    Hubertus Fischer;Felix Fundel;Urs Ruth;Birthe Twarloh

  • Ice core evidence for a very tight link between North Atlantic and east Asian glacial climate

    Urs Ruth;Matthias Bigler;Matthias Bigler;Regine Röthlisberger;Regine Röthlisberger;Marie-Louise Siggaard-Andersen

  • Radiative forcing of climate by ice-age atmospheric dust

    T Claquin;C Roelandt;KE Kohfeld;SP Harrison

  • Aeolian dust in East Antarctica (EPICA‐Dome C and Vostok): Provenance during glacial ages over the last 800 kyr

    Barbara Delmonte;Per Andersson;Margareta Hansson;Hans Schöberg

  • Nitrate in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores: a detailed description of post-depositional processes

    Regine Röthlisberger;Manuel A. Hutterli;Eric W. Wolff;Robert Mulvaney

  • Holocene volcanic history as recorded in the sulfate stratigraphy of the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica Dome C (EDC96) ice core

    E. Castellano;Silvia Becagli;M. Hansson;M. Hutterli

  • A "deep" ice core from east Greenland

    Sigfus J. Johnsen;Henrik B. Clausen;Willi Dansgaard;Niels S. Gundestrup

  • Geographic provenance of aeolian dust in East Antarctica during Pleistocene glaciations: preliminary results from Talos Dome and comparison with East Antarctic and new Andean ice core data

    B. Delmonte;P. S. Andersson;H. Schöberg;M. Hansson

  • Greenland records of aerosol source and atmospheric lifetime changes from the Eemian to the Holocene.

    Simon Schüpbach;Hubertus Fischer;M. Bigler;Tobias Erhardt

  • Holocene winter climate variability in Central and Eastern Europe

    Aurel Perșoiu;Bogdan P. Onac;Bogdan P. Onac;Jonathan G. Wynn;Maarten Blaauw

  • Spatial and temporal variability of snow accumulation rate on the East Antarctic ice divide between Dome Fuji and EPICA DML

    S. Fujita;Per Holmlund;I. Andersson;Ian Brown

  • Aeolian dust in the Talos Dome ice core (East Antarctica, Pacific/Ross Sea sector): Victoria Land versus remote sources over the last two climate cycles†

    Barbara Delmonte;Carlo Baroni;Per S. Andersson;Hans Schoberg

  • The Renland ice core. A Northern Hemisphere record of aerosol composition over 120,000 years

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  • Limited dechlorination of sea-salt aerosols during the last glacial period: Evidence from the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) Dome C ice core

    Regine Röthlisberger;Regine Röthlisberger;Robert Mulvaney;Eric W. Wolff;Manuel A. Hutterli

  • Comparison of analytical methods used for measuring major ions in the EPICA Dome C (Antarctica) ice core

    Geneviève C. Littot;Robert Mulvaney;Regine Röthlisberger;Roberto Udisti

  • ASSESSING THE PALAEOCLIMATE POTENTIAL OF CAVE GLACIERS: THE EXAMPLE OF THE SCǍRIŞOARA ICE CAVE (ROMANIA)

    Per Holmlund;Bogdan P. Onac;Margareta Hansson;Karin Holmgren

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric W. Wolff
Eric W. Wolff University of Cambridge
Matthias Bigler
Matthias Bigler University of Bern
Roberto Udisti
Roberto Udisti University of Florence
Jørgen Peder Steffensen
Jørgen Peder Steffensen University of Copenhagen
Hubertus Fischer
Hubertus Fischer University of Bern
Sigfus J Johnsen
Sigfus J Johnsen University of Copenhagen
Regine Röthlisberger
Regine Röthlisberger Federal Office for the Environment
Manuel A. Hutterli
Manuel A. Hutterli British Antarctic Survey
Barbara Delmonte
Barbara Delmonte University of Milano-Bicocca
Frank Wilhelms
Frank Wilhelms Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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