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Overview

Thomas Blunier is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, and Spectroscopy.

Their main topics of research encompass:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Polar Research and Ecology
  • Spectroscopy and Laser Applications

Thomas Blunier has published extensively in scientific journals, with frequent contributions to venues such as:

  • Climate of the Past
  • Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern)
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Geoscience

Their recent published papers include:

  • Bipolar volcanic synchronization of abrupt climate change in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores during the last glacial period, 2020, Climate of the Past
  • N 2 O isotopocule measurements using laser spectroscopy: analyzer characterization and intercomparison, 2020, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Atmospheric methane, record from Greenland ice core over the last 1000 years, 2021, Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern)
  • An 83,000-year-old ice core from Roosevelt Island, Ross Sea, Antarctica, 2020, Climate of the Past
  • Exceptionally high biosphere productivity at the beginning of Marine Isotopic Stage 11, 2020, Nature Communications

In collaboration, Thomas Blunier frequently works with researchers such as Edward J. Brook, Christo Buizert, Hubertus Fischer, James E. Lee, and Anders Svensson. These coauthors have jointly contributed to multiple scientific publications within overlapping research themes.

Best Publications

  • High-resolution carbon dioxide concentration record 650,000–800,000 years before present

    Dieter Lüthi;Martine Le Floch;Bernhard Bereiter;Thomas Blunier

  • A stratigraphic framework for abrupt climatic changes during the Last Glacial period based on three synchronized Greenland ice-core records: refining and extending the INTIMATE event stratigraphy

    Sune O. Rasmussen;Matthias Bigler;Simon P. Blockley;Thomas Blunier

  • Timing of Millennial-Scale Climate Change in Antarctica and Greenland During the Last Glacial Period

    Thomas Blunier;Edward J. Brook

  • 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

  • Asynchrony of Antarctic and Greenland climate change during the last glacial period

    T. Blunier;J. Chappellaz;J. Schwander;A. Dällenbach

  • Holocene carbon-cycle dynamics based on CO2 trapped in ice at Taylor Dome, Antarctica

    A. Indermühle;T. F. Stocker;F. Joos;H. Fischer

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

    D. Dahl-Jensen;M. R. Albert;A. Aldahan;N. Azuma

  • Millennial-scale variability during the last glacial: The ice core record

    Eric W. Wolff;J. Chappellaz;T. Blunier;S.O. Rasmussen

  • The Antarctic ice core chronology (AICC2012): an optimized multi-parameter and multi-site dating approach for the last 120 thousand years

    D. Veres;D. Veres;L. Bazin;A. Landais;H. Toyé Mahamadou Kele

  • Holocene thinning of the Greenland ice sheet

    B. M. Vinther;S. L. Buchardt;H. B. Clausen;D. Dahl-Jensen

  • An optimized multi-proxy, multi-site Antarctic ice and gas orbital chronology (AICC2012): 120--800 ka

    L. Bazin;A. Landais;B. Lemieux-Dudon;H. Toyé Mahamadou Kele

  • Variations in atmospheric methane concentration during the Holocene epoch

    T. Blunier;J. Chappellaz;J. Schwander;B. Stauffer

  • The EDC3 chronology for the EPICA Dome C ice core

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

  • Consistently dated records from the Greenland GRIP, GISP2 and NGRIP ice cores for the past 104 ka reveal regional millennial-scale δ18O gradients with possible Heinrich event imprint

    Inger K. Seierstad;Peter M. Abbott;Matthias Bigler;Matthias Bigler;Thomas Blunier

  • Variations in Atmospheric N2O Concentration During Abrupt Climatic Changes

    J. Flückiger;A. Dällenbach;T. Blunier;B. Stauffer

  • Changes in the atmospheric CH4 gradient between Greenland and Antarctica during the Holocene

    Jéro‸me Chappellaz;Thomas Blunier;Sophie Kints;André Dällenbach

  • Changes in the atmospheric CH4 gradient between Greenland and Antarctica during the Last Glacial and the transition to the Holocene

    A. Dällenbach;T. Blunier;J. Flückiger;B. Stauffer

  • Age scale of the air in the summit ice: Implication for glacial-interglacial temperature change

    J. Schwander;T. Sowers;J.-M. Barnola;T. Blunier

  • A first chronology for the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) ice core

    S. O. Rasmussen;P. M. Abbott;T. Blunier;A. J. Bourne

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core (SCI)

    D Dahl-Jensen;M R Albert;A Aldahan;N Azuma

Frequent Co-Authors

Jérôme Chappellaz
Jérôme Chappellaz École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Jakob Schwander
Jakob Schwander University of Bern
Edward J. Brook
Edward J. Brook Oregon State University
Hubertus Fischer
Hubertus Fischer University of Bern
Thomas F. Stocker
Thomas F. Stocker University of Bern
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen University of Copenhagen
Bo M Vinther
Bo M Vinther University of Copenhagen
Christo Buizert
Christo Buizert Oregon State University
Thomas Röckmann
Thomas Röckmann Utrecht University
Dominique Raynaud
Dominique Raynaud Grenoble Alpes University

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