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Overview

Pierre Sepulchre is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France and has contributed extensively to Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Paleontology, Geophysics, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Climate variability and models
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Sepulchre has published research in a variety of scientific venues. The most frequent include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Climate of the past
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Sepulchre include:

  • "Presentation and Evaluation of the IPSL-CM6A-LR Climate Model", 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna", 2020, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "DeepMIP: model intercomparison of early Eocene climatic optimum (EECO) large-scale climate features and comparison with proxy data", 2021, Climate of the past
  • "IPSL-CM5A2 - an Earth system model designed for multi-millennial climate simulations", 2020, Geoscientific model development
  • "The origin of Asian monsoons: a modelling perspective", 2020, Climate of the past

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers. Their most common co-authors include:

  • Frédéric Fluteau
  • Delphine Tardif
  • Yannick Donnadieu
  • Thomas W. Wong Hearing
  • Alexandre Pohl

Best Publications

  • Presentation and evaluation of the IPSL‐CM6A‐LR climate model

    Olivier Boucher;Jérôme Servonnat;Anna Lea Albright;Olivier Aumont

  • Tectonic Uplift and Eastern Africa Aridification

    Pierre Sepulchre;Gilles Ramstein;Frédéric Fluteau;Mathieu Schuster

  • Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna

    Thomas L.P. Couvreur;Gilles Dauby;Anne Blach‐Overgaard;Vincent Deblauwe

  • Revised paleoaltimetry data show low Tibetan Plateau elevation during the Eocene

    Svetlana Botsyun;Svetlana Botsyun;Pierre Sepulchre;Yannick Donnadieu;Yannick Donnadieu;Camille Risi

  • Human ecological niches and ranges during the LGM in Europe derived from an application of eco-cultural niche modeling

    William E. Banks;Francesco d'Errico;A. Townsend Peterson;Marian Vanhaeren

  • The role of eastern Tethys seaway closure in the Middle Miocene Climatic Transition (ca. 14 Ma)

    Noémie Hamon;Noémie Hamon;P. Sépulchre;V. Lefebvre;V. Lefebvre;G. Ramstein

  • DeepMIP: model intercomparison of early Eocene climatic optimum (EECO) large-scale climate features and comparison with proxy data

    Daniel J. Lunt;Fran J. Bragg;Wing Le Chan;David Karel Hutchinson

  • Tectonic-driven climate change and the diversification of angiosperms

    Anne-Claire Chaboureau;Pierre Sepulchre;Yannick Donnadieu;Alain Franc

  • H4 abrupt event and late Neanderthal presence in Iberia

    Pierre Sepulchre;Gilles Ramstein;Masa Kageyama;Marian Vanhaeren

  • Consequences of shoaling of the Central American Seaway determined from modeling Nd isotopes

    P Sepulchre;Thomas Arsouze;Thomas Arsouze;Y Donnadieu;J.-C Dutay

  • IPSL-CM5A2 – an Earth system model designed for multi-millennial climate simulations

    Pierre Sepulchre;Arnaud Caubel;Jean-Baptiste Ladant;Laurent Bopp

  • A reassessment of lake and wetland feedbacks on the North African Holocene climate

    Gerhard Krinner;Anne-Marie Lézine;Pascale Braconnot;Pierre Sepulchre

  • Evidence of Sundaland’s subsidence requires revisiting its biogeography

    Laurent Husson;Florian C. Boucher;Anta‐Clarisse Sarr;Pierre Sepulchre

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  • The Last Glacial Maximum and Heinrich Event 1 in terms of climate and vegetation around the Alboran Sea: a preliminary model-data comparison

    Masa Kageyama;Nathalie Combourieu Nebout;Pierre Sepulchre;Odile Peyron

  • The origin of Asian monsoons: a modelling perspective

    Delphine Tardif;Frédéric Fluteau;Yannick Donnadieu;Guillaume Le Hir

  • Deciphering the role of southern gateways and carbon dioxide on the onset of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

    Vincent Lefebvre;Yannick Donnadieu;Pierre Sepulchre;Didier Swingedouw

  • Chad Basin: Paleoenvironments of the Sahara since the Late Miocene

    Mathieu Schuster;Philippe Duringer;Jean-François Ghienne;Claude Roquin

  • Modeling a modern-like p CO 2 warm period (Marine Isotope Stage KM5c) with two versions of an Institut Pierre Simon Laplace atmosphere–ocean coupled general circulation model

    Ning Tan;Ning Tan;Camille Contoux;Gilles Ramstein;Yong Sun

  • Exploring the MIS M2 glaciation occurring during a warm and high atmospheric CO 2 Pliocene background climate

    Ning Tan;Gilles Ramstein;Christophe Dumas;Camille Contoux

  • Impacts of Tibetan Plateau uplift on atmospheric dynamics and associated precipitation δ 18 O

    Svetlana Botsyun;Pierre Sepulchre;Camille Risi;Yannick Donnadieu

  • Surface geosciences (Palaeoenvironment) Chad Basin: Paleoenvironments of the Sahara since the Late Miocene

    Mathieu Schuster;Philippe Duringer;Jean-François Ghienne;Claude Roquin

Frequent Co-Authors

Yannick Donnadieu
Yannick Donnadieu Aix-Marseille University
Frédéric Fluteau
Frédéric Fluteau Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Gilles Ramstein
Gilles Ramstein University of Paris-Saclay
Mathieu Schuster
Mathieu Schuster University of Strasbourg
Camille Risi
Camille Risi Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Laurent Husson
Laurent Husson Grenoble Alpes University
Masa Kageyama
Masa Kageyama Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Dabang Jiang
Dabang Jiang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhongshi Zhang
Zhongshi Zhang NORCE Research
Thomas L. P. Couvreur
Thomas L. P. Couvreur University of Montpellier

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