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Werner Ehrmann

Werner Ehrmann

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Earth Science

D-Index
35
Citations
5447
World Ranking
7532
National Ranking
548

Overview

Werner Ehrmann is affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany, focusing on research within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Engineering. Their primary research subfields include Atmospheric Science, Ocean Engineering, Ecology, Paleontology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's work spans several main topics that feature prominently in their publications. These topics are:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Polar Research and Ecology
  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Oil and Gas Production Techniques
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance

Ehrmann has contributed to multiple frequent publication venues. These include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Climate of the past
  • Quaternary Research
  • Nature

Collaborations have been integral to their research. Frequent co-authors are:

  • Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand
  • Birger Larsen
  • John A. Barron
  • Jack G. Baldauf
  • Chantal Alibert

Among notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Werner Ehrmann are:

  • "Temperate rainforests near the South Pole during peak Cretaceous warmth," 2020, Nature
  • "Drivers of river reactivation in North Africa during the last glacial cycle," 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • "Nature and dynamics of North African humid and dry periods during the last 200,000 years documented in the clay fraction of Eastern Mediterranean deep-sea sediments," 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "New insights from multi-proxy data from the West Antarctic continental rise: Implications for dating and interpreting Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental records," 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Synchronous retreat of Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers in response to external forcings in the presatellite era," 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Michael J Bentley;Colm Ó Cofaigh;John B Anderson;Howard Conway

  • Sedimentological evidence for the formation of an East Antarctic ice sheet in Eocene/Oligocene time

    Werner U. Ehrmann;Andreas Mackensen

  • Cenozoic glacial record of the Prydz Bay continental shelf, East Antarctica

    M. J. Hambrey;W. U. Ehrmann;B. Larsen

  • Significance of clay mineral assemblages in the Antarctic Ocean

    Werner U Ehrmann;Martin Melles;Gerhard Kuhn;Hannes Grobe

  • Implications of late Eocene to early Miocene clay mineral assemblages in McMurdo Sound (Ross Sea, Antarctica) on paleoclimate and ice dynamics

    Werner Ehrmann

  • Climatic forcing of eastern Mediterranean deep-water formation and benthic ecosystems during the past 22 000 years

    Gerhard Schmiedl;Tanja Kuhnt;Werner Ehrmann;Kay-Christian Emeis

  • Sub-ice-shelf sediments record history of twentieth-century retreat of Pine Island Glacier

    J. A. Smith;T. J. Andersen;M. Shortt;A. M. Gaffney

  • Progressive Cenozoic cooling and the demise of Antarctica’s last refugium

    John B. Anderson;Sophie Warny;Rosemary A. Askin;Julia S. Wellner

  • Deep-sea ecosystem variability of the Aegean Sea during the past 22 kyr as revealed by Benthic Foraminifera

    Tanja Kuhnt;Gerhard Schmiedl;Werner Ehrmann;Yvonne Hamann

  • Clay minerals in late glacial and Holocene sediments of the northern and southern Aegean Sea

    Werner Ehrmann;Gerhard Schmiedl;Yvonne Hamann;Tanja Kuhnt

  • Clay minerals in Cenozoic sediments off Cape Roberts (McMurdo Sound, Antarctica) reveal palaeoclimatic history

    Werner Ehrmann;Massimo Setti;Luigi Marinoni

  • Sedimentation processes in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea during the Late Glacial and Holocene revealed by end-member modelling of the terrigenous fraction in marine sediments

    Yvonne Hamann;Werner U Ehrmann;Gerhard Schmiedl;Stefan Krüger

  • Deglacial history of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the western Amundsen Sea Embayment

    James A. Smith;Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand;Gerhard Kuhn;Robert D. Larter

  • Late Neogene to Quaternary environmental changes in the Antarctic Peninsula region: evidence from drift sediments

    Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand;Werner Ehrmann

  • Reconstruction of changes in the Amundsen Sea and Bellingshausen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Robert D Larter;John B Anderson;Alastair G C Graham;Alastair G C Graham;Karsten Gohl

  • Middle Eocene through Early Oligocene climate history and paleoceanography in the Southern Ocean: Stable oxygen and carbon isotopes from ODP Sites on Maud Rise and Kerguelen Plateau

    Andreas Mackensen;W. U. Ehrmann

  • Temperate rainforests near the South Pole during peak Cretaceous warmth

    Johann P Klages;Ulrich Salzmann;Torsten Bickert;Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand

  • Cenozoic carbonate accumulation and compensation depth changes in the Indian Ocean

    L. C. Peterson;D. W. Murray;W. U. Ehrmann;P. Hempel

  • Intensity of African Humid Periods Estimated from Saharan Dust Fluxes.

    Werner Ehrmann;Gerhard Schmiedl;Sarah Beuscher;Stefan Krüger

  • Implications of sediment composition on the southern Kerguelen Plateau for paleoclimate and depositional environment

    W. U. Ehrmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert D Larter
Robert D Larter British Antarctic Survey
James P. Smith
James P. Smith Princeton University
Alastair G C Graham
Alastair G C Graham University of South Florida
Steven Grahame Moreton
Steven Grahame Moreton Natural Environment Research Council
Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand
Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand British Antarctic Survey
Matthias Forwick
Matthias Forwick University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Gerhard Kuhn
Gerhard Kuhn University of Bremen
Gerhard Schmiedl
Gerhard Schmiedl Universität Hamburg
Jörn Thiede
Jörn Thiede Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Karsten Gohl
Karsten Gohl Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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