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Trond Dokken

Trond Dokken

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Earth Science

D-Index
39
Citations
6752
World Ranking
6072
National Ranking
80

Overview

Trond Dokken is affiliated with the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research in Norway. Their primary research fields span Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a notable focus on several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology.

The scientist's work notably covers a range of topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Climate change and permafrost, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Marine and environmental studies, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Dokken has published several papers in prominent scientific journals. Among the recent papers are:

  • Past perspectives on the present era of abrupt Arctic climate change, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Rapid reductions and millennial-scale variability in Nordic Seas sea ice cover during abrupt glacial climate changes, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Dansgaard-Oeschger and Heinrich event temperature anomalies in the North Atlantic set by sea ice, frontal position and thermocline structure, 2022, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Tephra horizons identified in the western North Atlantic and Nordic Seas during the Last Glacial Period: Extending the marine tephra framework, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Independent tephrochronological evidence for rapid and synchronous oceanic and atmospheric temperature rises over the Greenland stadial-interstadial transitions between ca. 32 and 40 ka b2k, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews

Their frequent co-authors, reflecting collaborative research efforts, include Eystein Jansen, M.H. Simon, Sarah M. P. Berben, Hendrik Saaddatzki, and Kerim H. Nisancioglu.

Dokken's research is regularly published in respected scientific venues, including Quaternary Science Reviews, Nature Climate Change, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Scientific Data, and Communications Earth & Environment.

Best Publications

  • Constraints on the magnitude and patterns of ocean cooling at the Last Glacial Maximum

    C. Waelbroeck;A. Paul;M. Kucera;A. Rosell-Melé

  • Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during the Last Glacial Maximum.

    Jean Lynch-Stieglitz;Jess F. Adkins;William B. Curry;Trond Dokken

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

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

  • Rapid oceanic and atmospheric changes during the Younger Dryas cold period

    Jostein Bakke;Jostein Bakke;Øyvind Lie;Einar Heegaard;Einar Heegaard;Trond Dokken

  • Rapid changes in the mechanism of ocean convection during the last glacial period

    Trond M. Dokken;Eystein Jansen

  • FLUCTUATIONS OF THE SVALBARD–BARENTS SEA ICE SHEET DURING THE LAST 150 000 YEARS

    Jan Mangerud;Trond Dokken;Dierk Hebbeln;Beathe Heggen

  • Moisture supply for northern ice-sheet growth during the Last Glacial Maximum

    Dierk Hebbeln;Trond Dokken;Espen S. Andersen;Morten Hald

  • Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles: Interactions between ocean and sea ice intrinsic to the Nordic seas

    Trond Martin Dokken;Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu;Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu;Camille Li;Camille Li;David Stephen Battisti;David Stephen Battisti

  • Rapid climatic variations during marine isotopic stage 3: magnetic analysis of sediments from Nordic Seas and North Atlantic

    C. Kissel;C. Laj;L. Labeyrie;T. Dokken

  • The Growth and Decay of the Late Weichselian Ice Sheet in Western Svalbard and Adjacent Areas Based on Provenance Studies of Marine Sediments

    Anders Elverhøi;Espen S. Andersen;Trond Dokken;Dierk Hebbeln

  • Past perspectives on the present era of abrupt Arctic climate change

    Eystein Jansen;Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen;Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen;Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen;Trond Dokken;Kerim H. Nisancioglu;Kerim H. Nisancioglu

  • Late quaternary sedimentation and glacial history of the western Svalbard continental margin

    Espen S. Andersen;Trond M. Dokken;Anders Elverhøi;Anders Solheim

  • Interhemispheric symmetry of the tropical African rainbelt over the past 23,000 years

    James A. Collins;Enno Schefuß;David Heslop;David Heslop;Stefan Mulitza

  • Comparing proxies for the reconstruction of LGM sea-surface conditions in the northern North Atlantic

    A. de Vernal;A. Rosell-Melé;M. Kucera;C. Hillaire-Marcel

  • Early Holocene temperature variability in the Nordic Seas: The role of oceanic heat advection versus changes in orbital forcing

    Bjørg Risebrobakken;Trond Dokken;Lars Henrik Smedsrud;Carin Andersson;Carin Andersson

  • Heinrich event 1: an example of dynamical ice-sheet reaction to oceanic changes

    J. Álvarez-Solas;J. Álvarez-Solas;M. Montoya;M. Montoya;C. Ritz;G. Ramstein

  • Rapid climatic shifts during isotope stages 2 4 in the Polar North Atlantic

    Trond M. Dokken;Morten Hald

  • RECENT AND LATE QUATERNARY DISTRIBUTION OF ELPHIDIUM EXCAVATUM F. CLAVATUM IN ARCTIC SEAS

    Morten Hald;Per Ivar Steinsund;Trond Dokken;Sergei Korsun

  • Coherent patterns of ice-rafted debris deposits in the Nordic regions during the last glacial (10–60 ka)

    Mary Elliot;Laurent Labeyrie;Trond Dokken;Sandrine Manthé

  • Climate of the Last Glacial Maximum: sensitivity studies and model-data comparison with the LOVECLIM coupled model

    D. M. Roche;T.M. Dokken;Hugues Goosse;H. Renssen

  • Consistently dated Atlantic sediment cores

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Claire Waelbroeck
Claire Waelbroeck Sorbonne University
Eystein Jansen
Eystein Jansen University of Bergen
Helge W Arz
Helge W Arz Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Antje H L Voelker
Antje H L Voelker Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Luke C Skinner
Luke C Skinner University of Cambridge
Frédérique Eynaud
Frédérique Eynaud University of Bordeaux
Lukas Wacker
Lukas Wacker ETH Zurich
Irka Hajdas
Irka Hajdas ETH Zurich
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi University of Bordeaux
William E. N. Austin
William E. N. Austin University of St Andrews

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