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Wolfgang Kuhnt

Wolfgang Kuhnt

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Earth Science

D-Index
64
Citations
11427
World Ranking
1545
National Ranking
99

Overview

Wolfgang Kuhnt is affiliated with Kiel University in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research covers a wide range of topics within these fields, with a particular focus on Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Geology, Ecology, and Oceanography.

Their work encompasses numerous topics including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Geological formations and processes

Wolfgang Kuhnt has published in multiple scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Ann Holbourn
  • Karlos Guilherme Diemer Kochhann
  • Sebastian Beil
  • Steven C. Clemens
  • Nils Andersen

Among recent papers, the following publications stand out for their impact and topics:

  • Warm pool ocean heat content regulates ocean-continent moisture transport, 2022, Nature
  • Pacific warm pool subsurface heat sequestration modulated Walker circulation and ENSO activity during the Holocene, 2020, Science Advances
  • Global warming-induced Asian hydrological climate transition across the Miocene-Pliocene boundary, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Cretaceous oceanic anoxic events prolonged by phosphorus cycle feedbacks, 2020, Climate of the Past
  • A ∼12 Myr Miocene Record of East Asian Monsoon Variability From the South China Sea, 2021, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Best Publications

  • Impacts of orbital forcing and atmospheric carbon dioxide on Miocene ice-sheet expansion

    Ann E L Holbourn;Wolfgang Kuhnt;Michael Schulz;Helmut Erlenkeuser

  • Orbitally-paced climate evolution during the middle Miocene “Monterey” carbon-isotope excursion

    Ann E L Holbourn;Wolfgang Kuhnt;Michael Schulz;José Abel Flores

  • Late Miocene climate cooling and intensification of southeast Asian winter monsoon

    Ann E. Holbourn;Wolfgang Kuhnt;Steven C. Clemens;Karlos G. D. Kochhann;Karlos G. D. Kochhann

  • Global perturbation of the carbon cycle at the onset of the Miocene Climatic Optimum

    Ann Holbourn;Wolfgang Kuhnt;Karlos G.D. Kochhann;Nils Andersen

  • Fundamental Modes and Abrupt Changes in North Atlantic Circulation and Climate over the last 60 ky - Concepts, Reconstruction and Numerical Modeling

    Michael Sarnthein;Karl Stattegger;Derek Dreger;Helmut Erlenkeuser

  • Neogene History of the Indonesian Throughflow

    Wolfgang Kuhnt;Ann Holbourn;Robert Hall;Mafia Zuvela

  • Middle Miocene climate cooling linked to intensification of eastern equatorial Pacific upwelling

    Ann Holbourn;Wolfgang Kuhnt;Mitch Lyle;Leah Schneider

  • The response of benthic foraminifers to carbon flux and primary production in the Arctic Ocean

    Jutta Wollenburg;W. Kuhnt

  • Late Quaternary Upwelling Intensity and East Asian Monsoon Forcing in the South China Sea

    Zhimin Jian;Baoqi Huang;Wolfgang Kuhnt;Hui-Ling Lin

  • Middle to late Miocene stepwise climate cooling: Evidence from a high-resolution deep water isotope curve spanning 8 million years

    Ann Holbourn;Wolfgang Kuhnt;Steven Clemens;Warren Prell

  • Black shale deposition on the northwest African Shelf during the Cenomanian/Turonian oceanic anoxic event: Climate coupling and global organic carbon burial

    Sadat Kolonic;Thomas Wagner;Astrid Forster;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Changes in the thermocline structure of the Indonesian outflow during Terminations I and II

    Jian Xu;Ann Holbourn;Wolfgang Kuhnt;Zhimin Jian

  • Paleoecology, biostratigraphy, paleoceanography and taxonomy of agglutinated foraminifera

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  • Orbital-scale record of the late Cenomanian–Turonian oceanic anoxic event (OAE-2) in the Tarfaya Basin (Morocco)

    Wolfgang Kuhnt;Florian Luderer;Sandra Nederbragt;Jürgen Thurow

  • Benthic foraminiferal paleoceanography of the South China Sea over the last 40,000 years

    Zhimin Jian;Luejiang Wang;Markus Kienast;Michael Sarnthein

  • Distribution of Cenomanian-Turonian Organic Facies in the Western Mediterranean and Along the Adjacent Atlantic Margin: Chapter 10

    Wolfgang Kuhnt;Jean Paul Herbin;Jurgen Thurow;Jost Wiedmann

  • Cretaceous separation of Africa and South America: the view from the West African margin (ODP Leg 159)

    T. Pletsch;J. Erbacher;A. E. L. Holbourn;W. Kuhnt

  • Surface and subsurface seawater temperature reconstruction using Mg/Ca microanalysis of planktonic foraminifera Globigerinoides ruber, Globigerinoides sacculifer, and Pulleniatina obliquiloculata

    Aleksey Sadekov;Aleksey Sadekov;Stephen M. Eggins;Patrick De Deckker;Ulysses Ninnemann

  • Orbitally paced paleoproductivity variations in the Timor Sea and Indonesian Throughflow variability during the last 460 kyr

    Ann Holbourn;Wolfgang Kuhnt;Hiroshi Kawamura;Zhimin Jian

  • Deep-sea benthic foraminiferal recolonization of the 1991 Mt. Pinatubo ash layer in the South China Sea

    S. Hess;W. Kuhnt

  • Distribution of Cenomanian-Turonian Organic Facies in the Western Mediterranean and Along the Adjacent Atlantic Margin

    Wolfgang Kuhnt;Jean Paul Herbin;Jurgen Thurow;Jost Wiedmann

  • Continent-ocean interactions within the East Asian Marginal seas

    Peter D. Clift;Pinxian Wang;Wolfgang Kuhnt;Robert Hall

Frequent Co-Authors

Ann Holbourn
Ann Holbourn Kiel University
Nils Andersen
Nils Andersen Kiel University
Michael Sarnthein
Michael Sarnthein Kiel University
Markus Kienast
Markus Kienast Dalhousie University
Pinxian Wang
Pinxian Wang Tongji University
Helmut Erlenkeuser
Helmut Erlenkeuser Kiel University
Andreas Mackensen
Andreas Mackensen Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Michael Schulz
Michael Schulz Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Pieter Meiert Grootes
Pieter Meiert Grootes Kiel University
Steven C. Clemens
Steven C. Clemens Brown University

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