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Stéphanie Desprat

Stéphanie Desprat

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Earth Science

D-Index
32
Citations
4514
World Ranking
8611
National Ranking
697

Overview

Stéphanie Desprat is affiliated with Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques et Continentaux in France. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions across several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Anthropology, and Ecology.

The scientist's work spans multiple topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Tree-ring climate responses, Cryospheric studies and observations, Climate variability and models, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

Desprat has published in a variety of scientific venues, illustrating a broad impact on their fields. Notable publication venues include:

  • Earth system science data
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Communications Earth & Environment

Recent publications by Stéphanie Desprat include:

  • "Extreme Indian summer monsoon states stifled Bay of Bengal productivity across the last deglaciation," 2025, Nature Geoscience
  • "Greening of India and revival of the South Asian summer monsoon in a warmer world," 2024, Communications Earth & Environment
  • "When Eastern India Oscillated Between Desert Versus Savannah-Dominated Vegetation," 2022, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Combination of insolation and ice-sheet forcing drive enhanced humidity in northern subtropical regions during MIS 13," 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2," 2020, Earth system science data

Throughout their career, Stéphanie Desprat has frequently collaborated with several researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Kaustubh Thirumalai
  • Qiuzhen Yin
  • Steven C. Clemens
  • Basil Davis
  • William J. Fletcher

Best Publications

  • Contrasting impacts of Dansgaard-Oeschger events over a western European latitudinal transect modulated by orbital parameters

    María Fernanda Sánchez Goñi;Amaelle Landais;Amaelle Landais;William J. Fletcher;Filipa Naughton

  • Consistently dated Atlantic sediment cores over the last 40 thousand years

    Claire Waelbroeck;Bryan C. Lougheed;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Lise Missiaen

  • Revealing climatic variability of the last three millennia in northwestern Iberia using pollen influx data

    Stéphanie Desprat;Marı́a Fernanda Sánchez Goñi;Marie-France Loutre

  • Present-day and past (last 25000 years) marine pollen signal off western Iberia

    F. Naughton;M.F. Sanchez Goñi;S. Desprat;J.-L. Turon

  • Rapid climatic variability in the west Mediterranean during the last 25 000 years from high resolution pollen data

    N. Combourieu Nebout;O. Peyron;I. Dormoy;S. Desprat

  • North-south palaeohydrological contrasts in the central Mediterranean during the Holocene: tentative synthesis and working hypotheses

    M. Magny;N. Combourieu-Nebout;J. L. de Beaulieu;V. Bout-Roumazeilles

  • Wet to dry climatic trend in north-western Iberia within Heinrich events

    F. Naughton;F. Naughton;M. F. Sánchez Goñi;M. Kageyama;E. Bard

  • Orbital-scale climate forcing of grassland burning in southern Africa.

    Anne-Laure Daniau;Anne-Laure Daniau;Maria Fernanda Sánchez Goñi;Philippe Martinez;Dunia H. Urrego;Dunia H. Urrego

  • Is vegetation responsible for glacial inception during periods of muted insolation changes

    S. Desprat;M.F. Sánchez Goñi;J.-L. Turon;J.F. McManus

  • What drives the millennial and orbital variations of δ18Oatm

    A. Landais;G. Dreyfus;G. Dreyfus;E. Capron;V. Masson-Delmotte

  • Climate variability across the last deglaciation in NW Iberia and its margin

    F. Naughton;M.F. Sanchez Goñi;T. Rodrigues;E. Salgueiro

  • European climate optimum and enhanced Greenland melt during the Last Interglacial

    Maria Fernanda Sánchez Goñi;Pepijn Bakker;Stéphanie Desprat;Anders E. Carlson

  • Precipitation changes in the Mediterranean basin during the Holocene from terrestrial and marine pollen records: a model-data comparison

    Odile Peyron;Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout;David Brayshaw;Simon Goring

  • Deglacial and Holocene vegetation and climatic changes in the southern Central Mediterranean from a direct land–sea correlation

    Stéphanie Desprat;N. Combourieu-Nebout;L. Essallami;Marie-Alexandrine Sicre

  • Climatic variability of Marine Isotope Stage 7: direct land¿sea¿ice correlation from a multiproxy analysis of a north-western Iberian margin deep-sea core

    Stéphanie Desprat;Maria Fernanda Sánchez Goñi;Jean-Louis Turon;Josette Duprat

  • The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2

    Basil A. S. Davis;Manuel Chevalier;Philipp Sommer;Vachel A. Carter

  • Reconstructing the interacting effects of base level, climate, and tectonic uplift in the lower Miño River terrace record: A gradient modelling evaluation

    W. Viveen;W. Viveen;J.M. Schoorl;A. Veldkamp;R.T. van Balen

  • Millennial-scale variability during the last glacial in vegetation records from North America

    Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno;R. Scott Anderson;Stéphanie Desprat;Laurie D. Grigg

  • The complexity of millennial-scale variability in southwestern Europe during MIS 11

    Dulce Oliveira;Stephanie Desprat;Teresa Rodrigues;Teresa Rodrigues;Filipa Naughton;Filipa Naughton

  • Land-sea climatic variability in the eastern North Atlantic subtropical region over the last 14,200 years: Atmospheric and oceanic processes at different timescales

    Ludivine Chabaud;María F Sánchez Goñi;Stéphanie Desprat;Linda Rossignol

  • Tropically-driven climate shifts in southwestern Europe during MIS 19, a low eccentricity interglacial

    M.F. Sanchez Goñi;Teresa Rodrigues;Teresa Rodrigues;D.A. Hodell;J.M. Polanco-Martínez

  • Tracking atmospheric and riverine terrigenous supplies variability during the last glacial and the Holocene in central Mediterranean

    V. Bout-Roumazeilles;N. Combourieu-Nebout;S. Desprat;G. Siani

  • Consistently dated Atlantic sediment cores

    Claire Waelbroeck;Bryan C Lougheed;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Lise Missiaen

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi University of Bordeaux
Filipa Naughton
Filipa Naughton Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Bruno Malaizé
Bruno Malaizé University of Bordeaux
Antje H L Voelker
Antje H L Voelker Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Frédérique Eynaud
Frédérique Eynaud University of Bordeaux
Anders E. Carlson
Anders E. Carlson Oregon State University
Helge W Arz
Helge W Arz Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Lukas Wacker
Lukas Wacker ETH Zurich
Delia W Oppo
Delia W Oppo Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
William E. N. Austin
William E. N. Austin University of St Andrews

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