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Overview

Renato Spahni is a researcher affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland. Their work spans several areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, reflecting a focus on understanding complex interactions in natural systems over time.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these disciplines, Spahni explores specific subfields such as:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Oceanography

The core topics in their research relate to:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems

Spahni has contributed to peer-reviewed literature with publications in venues notable for research in environmental and earth sciences. The primary publication venue found in their record is:

  • Biogeosciences

One recent paper authored by the researcher is titled N 2 O changes from the Last Glacial Maximum to the preindustrial - Part 2: terrestrial N 2 O emissions and carbon-nitrogen cycle interactions, published in 2020 within Biogeosciences.

Their research collaborations include work with several co-authors, indicating interdisciplinary and cooperative approaches within the environmental sciences. Frequent co-authors are:

  • Fortunat Joos
  • Benjamin D. Stocker
  • Sebastian Lienert
  • Jurek Müller
  • Hubertus Fischer

Best Publications

  • Orbital and Millennial Antarctic Climate Variability over the Past 800,000 Years

    J. Jouzel;V. Masson-Delmotte;O. Cattani;G. Dreyfus

  • Three decades of global methane sources and sinks

    Stefanie Kirschke;Philippe Bousquet;Philippe Ciais;Marielle Saunois

  • Anthropogenic perturbation of the carbon fluxes from land to ocean

    Pierre Regnier;Pierre Friedlingstein;Philippe Ciais;Fred T. Mackenzie

  • Orbital and millennial-scale features of atmospheric CH4 over the past 800,000 years.

    Laetitia Loulergue;Adrian Schilt;Renato Spahni;Valérie Masson-Delmotte

  • 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

  • The global methane budget 2000–2012

    Marielle Saunois;Philippe Bousquet;Ben Poulter;Anna Peregon

  • Rates of change in natural and anthropogenic radiative forcing over the past 20,000 years

    Fortunat Joos;Renato Spahni

  • Present state of global wetland extent and wetland methane modelling: conclusions from a model inter-comparison project (WETCHIMP)

    J. R. Melton;J. R. Melton;R. Wania;E. L. Hodson;B. Poulter

  • Atmospheric Methane and Nitrous Oxide of the Late Pleistocene from Antarctic Ice Cores

    Renato Spahni;Renato Spahni;Jérôme Chappellaz;Jérôme Chappellaz;Thomas F. Stocker;Thomas F. Stocker;Laetitia Loulergue;Laetitia Loulergue

  • The EDC3 chronology for the EPICA Dome C ice core

    Frédéric Parrenin;Jean-Marc Barnola;J. Beer;Thomas Blunier

  • Isotope calibrated Greenland temperature record over Marine Isotope Stage 3 and its relation to CH4

    Christof Huber;Markus Leuenberger;Renato Spahni;Jacqueline Flückiger

  • Long-Term climate change commitment and reversibility: An EMIC intercomparison

    Kirsten Zickfeld;Michael Eby;Andrew J. Weaver;Kaitlin Alexander

  • Constraining global methane emissions and uptake by ecosystems

    Renato Spahni;Renato Spahni;R. Wania;R. Wania;L. Neef;M. van Weele

  • Multiple greenhouse-gas feedbacks from the land biosphere under future climate change scenarios

    Benjamin D. Stocker;Raphael Roth;Fortunat Joos;Renato Spahni

  • Atmospheric nitrous oxide during the last 140,000 years

    Adrian Schilt;Adrian Schilt;Matthias Baumgartner;Matthias Baumgartner;Jakob Schwander;Jakob Schwander;Daphné Buiron

  • Glacial–interglacial and millennial-scale variations in the atmospheric nitrous oxide concentration during the last 800,000 years

    Adrian Schilt;Adrian Schilt;Matthias Baumgartner;Matthias Baumgartner;Thomas Blunier;Jakob Schwander;Jakob Schwander

  • Historical and idealized climate model experiments: an intercomparison of Earth system models of intermediate complexity

    Michael Eby;Andrew J. Weaver;K. Alexander;K. Zickfeld

  • Spatial variability and temporal trends in water-use efficiency of European forests

    Matthias Saurer;Renato Spahni;Renato Spahni;David C. Frank;Fortunat Joos;Fortunat Joos

  • Global wetland contribution to 2000–2012 atmospheric methane growth rate dynamics

    Benjamin Poulter;Philippe Bousquet;Josep G. Canadell;Philippe Ciais

  • Changing boreal methane sources and constant biomass burning during the last termination

    Hubertus Fischer;Melanie Behrens;Michael Bock;Ulrike Richter

  • Present state of global wetland extent and wetland methane modelling: methodology of a model inter-comparison project (WETCHIMP)

    Rita Wania;Joe Melton;Joe Melton;EL Hodson;B Poulter

  • Global Methane Budget 2000-2012

    M. Saunois;P. Bousquet;B. Poulter;A. Peregon

Frequent Co-Authors

Fortunat Joos
Fortunat Joos University of Bern
Thomas F. Stocker
Thomas F. Stocker University of Bern
Hubertus Fischer
Hubertus Fischer University of Bern
Jochen Schmitt
Jochen Schmitt University of Bern
Jakob Schwander
Jakob Schwander University of Bern
Benjamin D. Stocker
Benjamin D. Stocker University of Bern
Sander Houweling
Sander Houweling Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Thomas Blunier
Thomas Blunier University of Copenhagen
Jérôme Chappellaz
Jérôme Chappellaz École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Maarten Krol
Maarten Krol Wageningen University & Research

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