Kurt A. Refsnider

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Kurt A. Refsnider is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Paleontology and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kurt A. Refsnider has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Atmospheric Science, 3 papers in Paleontology and 3 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Kurt A. Refsnider's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (22 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (15 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (7 papers). Kurt A. Refsnider is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (22 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (15 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (7 papers). Kurt A. Refsnider collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Kurt A. Refsnider's co-authors include Gifford H. Miller, John Southon, Scott J. Lehman, Yafang Zhong, D. J. Larsen, Áslaug Geirsdóttir, David A. Bailey, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Helgi Björnsson and Marika M. Holland and has published in prestigious journals such as Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Geophysical Research Letters and Geology.

In The Last Decade

Kurt A. Refsnider

24 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Abrupt onset of the Little Ice Age triggered by volcanism and sustained by sea‐ice/ocean feedbacks

2012 599 citations Gifford H. Miller, Áslaug Geirsdóttir et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kurt A. Refsnider United States	16	958	216	167	156	103	24	1.1k
D. J. Larsen United States	12	937 1.0×	233 1.1×	202 1.2×	157 1.0×	115 1.1×	18	1.1k
Sylvie Charbit France	21	1.1k 1.1×	256 1.2×	115 0.7×	121 0.8×	74 0.7×	36	1.2k
P. A. Mayewski United States	11	908 0.9×	166 0.8×	102 0.6×	176 1.1×	105 1.0×	14	980
Evan J. Gowan Germany	16	770 0.8×	204 0.9×	222 1.3×	122 0.8×	75 0.7×	40	1.0k
Nathan D. Stansell United States	20	984 1.0×	218 1.0×	141 0.8×	307 2.0×	162 1.6×	43	1.1k
Lesleigh Anderson United States	21	1.1k 1.2×	267 1.2×	183 1.1×	327 2.1×	123 1.2×	38	1.4k
Fuyuki Saito Japan	17	1.3k 1.4×	282 1.3×	89 0.5×	185 1.2×	63 0.6×	43	1.4k
G. Lamorey United States	10	781 0.8×	156 0.7×	114 0.7×	218 1.4×	103 1.0×	16	913
Vasileios Gkinis Denmark	17	1.2k 1.3×	245 1.1×	162 1.0×	326 2.1×	206 2.0×	41	1.5k
S. L. Buchardt Denmark	8	1.3k 1.4×	160 0.7×	178 1.1×	245 1.6×	249 2.4×	13	1.4k

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Brugger, Keith A., Eric M. Leonard, Kurt A. Refsnider, & P. Dolan. (2021). Climate on the Blanca Massif, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado, USA, during the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary. 4(3). 27–27. 7 indexed citations

Ault, Alexis K., et al.. (2018). Zircon grain selection reveals (de)coupled metamictization, radiation damage, and He diffusivity. Chemical Geology. 490. 1–12. 40 indexed citations

Gilbert, Adrien, Gwenn E. Flowers, Gifford H. Miller, et al.. (2017). The projected demise of Barnes Ice Cap: Evidence of an unusually warm 21st century Arctic. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(6). 2810–2816. 15 indexed citations

Leonard, Eric M., Benjamin Laabs, Mitchell A. Plummer, et al.. (2017). Late Pleistocene glaciation and deglaciation in the Crestone Peaks area, Colorado Sangre de Cristo Mountains, USA – chronology and paleoclimate. Quaternary Science Reviews. 158. 127–144. 28 indexed citations

Miller, Gifford H., Jason P. Briner, Kurt A. Refsnider, et al.. (2013). Substantial agreement on the timing and magnitude of Late Holocene ice cap expansion between East Greenland and the Eastern Canadian Arctic: a commentary on Lowell et al., 2013. Quaternary Science Reviews. 77. 239–245. 16 indexed citations

Refsnider, Kurt A. & Gifford H. Miller. (2013). Ice-sheet erosion and the stripping of Tertiary regolith from Baffin Island, eastern Canadian Arctic. Quaternary Science Reviews. 67. 176–189. 16 indexed citations

Miller, Gifford H., Scott J. Lehman, Kurt A. Refsnider, John Southon, & Yafang Zhong. (2013). Unprecedented recent summer warmth in Arctic Canada. Geophysical Research Letters. 40(21). 5745–5751. 62 indexed citations

Miller, Gifford H., Áslaug Geirsdóttir, Yafang Zhong, et al.. (2012). Abrupt onset of the Little Ice Age triggered by volcanism and sustained by sea‐ice/ocean feedbacks. Geophysical Research Letters. 39(2). 599 indexed citations breakdown →

Briner, Jason P., et al.. (2012). Using in situ cosmogenic 10Be, 14C, and 26Al to decipher the history of polythermal ice sheets on Baffin Island, Arctic Canada. Quaternary Geochronology. 19. 4–13. 50 indexed citations

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Refsnider, Kurt A., Gifford H. Miller, Bianca Fréchette, & Dylan H. Rood. (2012). A chronological framework for the Clyde Foreland Formation, Eastern Canadian Arctic, derived from amino acid racemization and cosmogenic radionuclides. Quaternary Geochronology. 16. 21–34. 11 indexed citations

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Refsnider, Kurt A., Gifford H. Miller, Claude Hillaire‐Marcel, et al.. (2011). Subglacial carbonates constrain basal conditions and oxygen isotopic composition of the Laurentide Ice Sheet over Arctic Canada. Geology. 40(2). 135–138. 19 indexed citations

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Laabs, Benjamin, David W. Marchetti, Jeffrey S. Munroe, et al.. (2011). Chronology of latest Pleistocene mountain glaciation in the western Wasatch Mountains, Utah, U.S.A.. Quaternary Research. 76(2). 272–284. 19 indexed citations

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Refsnider, Kurt A. & Gifford H. Miller. (2010). Reorganization of ice sheet flow patterns in Arctic Canada and the mid‐Pleistocene transition. Geophysical Research Letters. 37(13). 15 indexed citations

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Refsnider, Kurt A., et al.. (2009). Last Glacial Maximum equilibrium‐line altitude trends and precipitation patterns in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, southern Colorado, USA. Boreas. 38(4). 663–678. 15 indexed citations

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Laabs, Benjamin, Kurt A. Refsnider, Jeffrey S. Munroe, et al.. (2009). Latest Pleistocene glacial chronology of the Uinta Mountains: support for moisture-driven asynchrony of the last deglaciation. Quaternary Science Reviews. 28(13-14). 1171–1187. 48 indexed citations

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Laabs, Benjamin, Kurt A. Refsnider, Richard A. Becker, et al.. (2007). Cosmogenic Surface-Exposure Age Limits for Latest-Pleistocene Glaciation and Paleoclimatic Inferences in the American Fork Canyon, Wasatch Mountains, Utah, U.S.A.. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2007. 2 indexed citations

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Refsnider, Kurt A., Benjamin Laabs, & David M. Mickelson. (2007). Glacial Geology and Equilibrium Line Altitude Reconstructions for the Provo River Drainage, Uinta Mountains, Utah, U.S.A. Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research. 39(4). 529–536. 5 indexed citations

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Refsnider, Kurt A. & Keith A. Brugger. (2007). Rock Glaciers in Central Colorado, U.S.A., as Indicators of Holocene Climate Change. Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research. 39(1). 127–136. 23 indexed citations

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Munroe, Jeffrey S., Benjamin Laabs, Jeremy D. Shakun, et al.. (2006). Latest Pleistocene advance of alpine glaciers in the southwestern Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA: Evidence for the influence of local moisture sources. Geology. 34(10). 841–841. 54 indexed citations

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Brugger, Keith A., et al.. (2005). Variation in glacier length and ice volume of Rabots Glaciär, Sweden, in response to climate change, 1910–2003. Annals of Glaciology. 42. 180–188. 7 indexed citations

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