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Wilfried Jokat

Wilfried Jokat

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Earth Science

D-Index
56
Citations
14782
World Ranking
2361
National Ranking
154

Overview

Wilfried Jokat is affiliated with the University of Bremen in Germany and focuses their research primarily within the broad field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly work encompasses a variety of subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Geology, Environmental Chemistry, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of geological and geophysical phenomena, with a notable emphasis on areas such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological and Geophysical Studies, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geological Studies and Exploration, as well as Earthquake and Tectonic Studies.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Wilfried Jokat include:

  • "Antarctic Bedmap data: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) sharing of 60 years of ice bed, surface, and thickness data", 2023, Earth system science data
  • "Bathymetry Beneath Ice Shelves of Western Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, and Implications on Ice Shelf Stability", 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Mantle plume and rift-related volcanism during the evolution of the Rio Grande Rise", 2022, Communications Earth & Environment
  • "The crustal structure of the southern Davie Ridge offshore northern Mozambique - A wide-angle seismic and potential field study", 2020, Tectonophysics
  • "Preserved landscapes underneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet reveal the geomorphological history of Jutulstraumen Basin", 2021, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Wilfried Jokat frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Hannes Eisermann
  • Graeme Eagles
  • Wolfram Geissler
  • Tabea Altenbernd
  • German Leitchenkov

The scientist's work is regularly published in several academic journals and platforms, with repeated publications found in:

  • Tectonophysics
  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Bedmap2: improved ice bed, surface and thickness datasets for Antarctica

    Peter Fretwell;Hamish D. Pritchard;David G. Vaughan;J. L. Bamber

  • Deep glacial troughs and stabilizing ridges unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet

    M. Morlighem;Eric Rignot;Tobias Binder;Donald Blankenship

  • The Cenozoic palaeoenvironment of the Arctic Ocean.

    Kathryn Moran;Jan Backman;Henk Brinkhuis;Steven C. Clemens

  • Magmatic and amagmatic seafloor generation at the ultraslow-spreading Gakkel ridge, Arctic Ocean

    P. J. Michael;C. H. Langmuir;H. J. B. Dick;J. E. Snow

  • Timing and geometry of early Gondwana breakup

    Wilfried Jokat;Tobias Boebel;Matthias König;Uwe Meyer

  • The early Miocene onset of a ventilated circulation regime in the Arctic Ocean

    Martin Jakobsson;Jan Backman;Bert Rudels;Jonas Nycander

  • The Mesozoic breakup of the Weddell Sea

    Matthias König;Wilfried Jokat

  • Geophysical evidence for reduced melt production on the Arctic ultraslow Gakkel mid-ocean ridge

    Wilfried Jokat;O. Ritzmann;Mechita C. Schmidt-Aursch;S. Drachev

  • The Weddell Gyre, Southern Ocean: Present Knowledge and Future Challenges

    M. Vernet;Walter Geibert;Mario Hoppema;P.J. Brown

  • Lomonosov Ridge—A double-sided continental margin

    Wilfried Jokat;Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben;Yngve Kristoffersen;Thorkild Maack Rasmussen

  • Repeated Pleistocene glaciation of the East Siberian continental margin

    Frank Niessen;Jong Kuk Hong;Anne Hegewald;Jens Matthiessen

  • Tectonic reconstructions for paleobathymetry in Drake Passage

    Graeme Eagles;Wilfried Jokat

  • New insights into the evolution of the Lomonosov Ridge and the Eurasian Basin

    W. Jokat;E. Weigelt;Y. Kristoffersen;T. Rasmussen

  • Geophysical characteristics of the ultraslow spreading Gakkel Ridge, Arctic Ocean

    Wilfried Jokat;Mechita C. Schmidt-Aursch

  • Advanced insights into magmatism and volcanism of the Mozambique Ridge and Mozambique Basin in the view of new potential field data

    Matthias König;Wilfried Jokat

  • Seismic investigations along the western sector of Alpha Ridge, Central Arctic Ocean

    Wilfried Jokat

  • Evidence for ice-free summers in the late Miocene central Arctic Ocean

    Ruediger Stein;Kirsten Fahl;Michael Schreck;Gregor Knorr

  • Constraints on past plate and mantle motion from new ages for the Hawaiian-Emperor Seamount Chain

    John M. O'Connor;John M. O'Connor;John M. O'Connor;Bernhard Steinberger;Bernhard Steinberger;Marcel Regelous;Anthony A. P. Koppers

  • The sedimentary structure of the Lomonosov Ridge between 88°N and 80°N

    Wilfried Jokat

  • The Jurassic history of the Africa–Antarctica corridor — new constraints from magnetic data on the conjugate continental margins

    Volker Thor Leinweber;Wilfried Jokat

  • Continent-ocean transition and voluminous magmatic underplating derived from P-wave velocity modelling of the East Greenland continental margin

    Max Voss;Wilfried Jokat

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Niessen
Frank Niessen Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Jens Matthiessen
Jens Matthiessen Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Gerrit Lohmann
Gerrit Lohmann University of Bremen
Gregor Knorr
Gregor Knorr Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Catalina Gebhardt
Catalina Gebhardt Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Trond Ryberg
Trond Ryberg University of Potsdam
Matthias Forwick
Matthias Forwick University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Karsten Gohl
Karsten Gohl Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Michael A. Kaminski
Michael A. Kaminski King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Jan Wijbrans
Jan Wijbrans Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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