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Overview

Peter K Bijl is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and has a significant body of research within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly output includes 168 publications primarily focused on this main field of study.

The scientist's work spans several subfields, including:

  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Paleontology
  • Oceanography

Key topics covered in their research include:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies

Peter K Bijl's recent publications illustrate a focus on climate and geological history. Notable papers include:

  • Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO 2, 2023, Science
  • Subduction initiation in the Scotia Sea region and opening of the Drake Passage: When and why?, 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Gateway-driven weakening of ocean gyres leads to Southern Ocean cooling, 2021, Nature Communications
  • The middle to late Eocene greenhouse climate modelled using the CESM 1.0.5, 2020, Climate of the Past
  • Rapid expansion of meso-megathermal rain forests into the southern high latitudes at the onset of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, 2020, Geology

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Steven M. Bohaty
  • Kelsey E. Doiron
  • Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben
  • Thomas Wagner
  • Thomas Westerhold

The primary venues for Peter K Bijl's publications are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Climate of the Past
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Journal of Micropalaeontology

Best Publications

  • A Paleolatitude Calculator for Paleoclimate Studies

    Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen;Lennart V. de Groot;Sebastiaan J. van Schaik;Wim Spakman

  • Early Palaeogene temperature evolution of the southwest Pacific Ocean

    Peter K. Bijl;Stefan Schouten;Appy Sluijs;Gert-Jan Reichart

  • Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity

    E.J. Rohling;A. Sluijs;H.A. Dijkstra;P. Köhler

  • Persistent near-tropical warmth on the Antarctic continent during the early Eocene epoch

    Jörg Pross;Lineth Contreras;Peter K. Bijl;David R. Greenwood

  • 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

  • Eocene cooling linked to early flow across the Tasmanian Gateway

    Peter K. Bijl;James A. P. Bendle;Steven M. Bohaty;Jörg Pross

  • Synchronous tropical and polar temperature evolution in the Eocene

    Margot J Cramwinckel;Matthew Huber;Ilja J Kocken;Claudia Agnini

  • Transient Middle Eocene Atmospheric CO2 and Temperature Variations

    Peter K. Bijl;Alexander J. P. Houben;Stefan Schouten;Steven M. Bohaty

  • Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity

    E. J. Rohling;A. Sluijs;H. A. Dijkstra;P. Köhler

  • The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: methodologies for selection, compilation and analysis of latest Paleocene and early Eocene climate proxy data, incorporating version 0.1 of the DeepMIP database

    Christopher J Hollis;Tom Dunkley Jones;Eleni Anagnostou;Eleni Anagnostou;Peter K Bijl

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

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

  • Southern ocean warming, sea level and hydrological change during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum

    Appy Sluijs;Peter K Bijl;Stefan Schouten;Ursula Röhl

  • Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO2

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  • Reorganization of southern ocean plankton ecosystem at the onset of Antarctic glaciation

    Alexander J. P. Houben;Peter K. Bijl;Jörg Pross;Steven M. Bohaty

  • Southern Ocean warming and Wilkes Land ice sheet retreat during the mid-Miocene

    Francesca Sangiorgi;Peter K. Bijl;Sandra Passchier;Ulrich Salzmann

  • A middle Eocene carbon cycle conundrum

    Appy Sluijs;Richard E. Zeebe;Peter K. Bijl;Steven M. Bohaty

  • The role of ocean gateways on cooling climate on long time scales

    Willem P. Sijp;Anna S. von der Heydt;Henk A. Dijkstra;Sascha Flögel

  • New Age Constraints for the Salamanca Formation and Lower Río Chico Group in the Western San Jorge Basin, Patagonia, Argentina: Implications for Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction Recovery and Land Mammal Age Correlations

    William C. Clyde;Peter Wilf;Ari Iglesias;Rudy L. Slingerland

  • A magneto- and chemostratigraphically calibrated dinoflagellate cyst zonation of the early Palaeogene South Pacific Ocean

    Peter K. Bijl;Appy Sluijs;Henk Brinkhuis

  • Environmental forcings of Paleogene Southern Ocean dinoflagellate biogeography

    Peter K. Bijl;Jörg Pross;Jeroen Warnaar;Catherine E. Stickley;Catherine E. Stickley

  • Chronostratigraphic framework for the IODP Expedition 318 cores from the Wilkes Land Margin: Constraints for paleoceanographic reconstruction

    L. Tauxe;C.E. Stickley;S. Sugisaki;P.K. Bijl

  • Late Eocene Southern Ocean cooling and invigoration of circulation preconditioned Antarctica for full-scale glaciation

    Alexander J. P. Houben;Peter K. Bijl;Appy Sluijs;Stefan Schouten

  • Early to Middle Eocene vegetation dynamics at the Wilkes Land Margin (Antarctica)

    Lineth Contreras;Jörg Pross;Peter K. Bijl;Andreas Koutsodendris

Frequent Co-Authors

Henk Brinkhuis
Henk Brinkhuis Utrecht University
Appy Sluijs
Appy Sluijs Utrecht University
Jörg Pross
Jörg Pross Heidelberg University
Francesca Sangiorgi
Francesca Sangiorgi Utrecht University
Steven M Bohaty
Steven M Bohaty University of Southampton
Lisa Tauxe
Lisa Tauxe University of California, San Diego
Carlota Escutia
Carlota Escutia University of Granada
Gert-Jan Reichart
Gert-Jan Reichart Utrecht University
Stefan Schouten
Stefan Schouten Utrecht University
Francien Peterse
Francien Peterse Utrecht University

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