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Earth Science

D-Index
40
Citations
8869
World Ranking
5700
National Ranking
2086

Best Publications

  • Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

    Moinuddin Ahmed;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Asfawossen Asrat;Hemant P. Borgaonkar

  • Recent Warming Reverses Long-Term Arctic Cooling

    Darrell S. Kaufman;David P. Schneider;Nicholas P. McKay;Caspar M. Ammann

  • The time-transgressive termination of the African Humid Period

    Timothy Michael Shanahan;Nicholas P. Mckay;Konrad A. Hughen;Jonathan T. Overpeck

  • A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

    Julien Emile-Geay;Nicholas P. McKay;Darrell S. Kaufman;Lucien Von Gunten

  • Consistent multi-decadal variability in global temperature reconstructions and simulations over the Common Era.

    Raphael Neukom;Luis A. Barboza;Michael P. Erb;Feng Shi

  • Holocene global mean surface temperature, a multi-method reconstruction approach

    Darrell Scott Kaufman;Nicholas Paul McKay;Cody C Routson;Michael Erb

  • Early onset of industrial-era warming across the oceans and continents

    Nerilie J. Abram;Helen V. McGregor;Jessica E. Tierney;Jessica E. Tierney;Michael N. Evans

  • Mid-latitude net precipitation decreased with Arctic warming during the Holocene.

    Cody C. Routson;Nicholas P. McKay;Darrell S. Kaufman;Michael P. Erb

  • Holocene climate change in Arctic Canada and Greenland.

    Jason P. Briner;Nicholas P. McKay;Yarrow Axford;Ole Bennike

  • A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

    Darrell Kaufman;Nicholas McKay;Cody Routson;Michael Erb

  • Glacier fluctuations during the past 2000 years

    Olga N. Solomina;Raymond S. Bradley;Vincent Jomelli;Aslaug Geirsdottir

  • How warm was the last interglacial? New model-data comparisons

    Bette L. Otto-Bliesner;Nan Rosenbloom;Emma J. Stone;Nicholas P. McKay

  • The role of ocean thermal expansion in Last Interglacial sea level rise

    Nicholas P. McKay;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Bette L. Otto-Bliesner

  • Holocene climate changes in eastern Beringia (NW North America) – A systematic review of multi-proxy evidence

    Darrell S. Kaufman;Yarrow L. Axford;Andrew C.G. Henderson;Nicholas P. McKay

  • An extended Arctic proxy temperature database for the past 2,000 years

    Nicholas P. McKay;Darrell S. Kaufman

  • Large-scale features and evaluation of the PMIP4-CMIP6 midHolocene simulations

    Chris M. Brierley;Anni Zhao;Sandy P. Harrison;Pascale Braconnot

  • Arctic Holocene proxy climate database – new approaches to assessing geochronological accuracy and encoding climate variables

    H. S. Sundqvist;D. S. Kaufman;N. P. McKay;N. L. Balascio

  • Early Last Interglacial ocean warming drove substantial ice mass loss from Antarctica

    Chris S.M. Turney;Christopher J. Fogwill;Christopher J. Fogwill;Nicholas R. Golledge;Nicholas R. Golledge;Nicholas P. McKay

  • Biogenic silica concentration as a high‐resolution, quantitative temperature proxy at Hallet Lake, south‐central Alaska

    Nicholas P. McKay;Darrell S. Kaufman;Neal Michelutti

  • The Iso2k database: a global compilation of paleo-δ18O and δ2H records to aid understanding of Common Era climate

    Bronwen L. Konecky;Nicholas P. McKay;Olga V. Churakova (Sidorova);Laia Comas-Bru

Frequent Co-Authors

Darrell S. Kaufman
Darrell S. Kaufman Northern Arizona University
Julien Emile-Geay
Julien Emile-Geay University of Southern California
Jonathan T. Overpeck
Jonathan T. Overpeck University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Christopher J. Fogwill
Christopher J. Fogwill Cranfield University
Erik van Sebille
Erik van Sebille Utrecht University
Jessica E. Tierney
Jessica E. Tierney University of Arizona
Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand
Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand British Antarctic Survey
Mark A. J. Curran
Mark A. J. Curran University of Tasmania
Brian M. Chase
Brian M. Chase University of Montpellier
Christopher A. Scholz
Christopher A. Scholz Syracuse University

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