Peter B deMenocal

20.8k total citations · 9 hit papers
95 papers, 14.0k citations indexed

About

Peter B deMenocal is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter B deMenocal has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 14.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Atmospheric Science, 30 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 25 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Peter B deMenocal's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (80 papers), Geological formations and processes (23 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (22 papers). Peter B deMenocal is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (80 papers), Geological formations and processes (23 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (22 papers). Peter B deMenocal collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Israel. Peter B deMenocal's co-authors include Heidi Cullen, T. P. Guilderson, Jessica E. Tierney, Joseph D. Ortiz, Michael Sarnthein, Gérard C. Bond, Maziet Cheseby, Rusty Lotti, Georges Bonani and William Showers and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Peter B deMenocal

94 papers receiving 13.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

A Pervasive Millennial-Scale Cycle in North Atlantic Holocene and Glacial Climates

1997 2.5k citations Peter B deMenocal et al. Science profile →
Abrupt onset and termination of the African Humid Period:

2000 1.2k citations Peter B deMenocal, T. P. Guilderson et al. profile →
African climate change and faunal evolution during the Pliocene–Pleistocene

2004 913 citations Peter B deMenocal Earth and Planetary Science Letters profile →
Plio-Pleistocene African Climate

1995 894 citations Peter B deMenocal Science profile →
Cultural Responses to Climate Change During the Late Holocene

2001 683 citations Peter B deMenocal Science profile →
Coherent High- and Low-Latitude Climate Variability During the Holocene Warm Period

2000 566 citations Peter B deMenocal, T. P. Guilderson et al. Science profile →
Climate change and the collapse of the Akkadian empire: Evidence from the deep sea

2000 532 citations Peter B deMenocal, Sidney R. Hemming et al. profile →
Rainfall regimes of the Green Sahara

2017 261 citations Jessica E. Tierney, Peter B deMenocal et al. Science Advances profile →
The Greening of the Sahara: Past Changes and Future Implications

2020 138 citations Peter B deMenocal et al. profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Orbital‐ and Millennial‐Scale Variability in Northwest African Dust Emissions Over the Past 67,000 years 2021 ·Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology ·Christopher W. Kinsley, Louisa I Bradtmiller, David McGee, (unknown), Jan-Berend W Stuut, Rik Tjallingii, Gisela Winckler, Peter B deMenocal	6
2	Relationship between individual chamber and whole shell Mg/Ca ratios in Trilobatus sacculifer and implications for individual foraminifera palaeoceanographic reconstructions 2021 ·Scientific Reports ·(unknown), P. J. Polissar, Ana Christina Ravelo, Peter B deMenocal	3
3	Leaf Wax δD and δ¹³C in Soils Record Hydrological and Environmental Information Across a Climatic Gradient in Israel 2019 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Yonaton Goldsmith, P. J. Polissar, Peter B deMenocal, Wallace S. Broecker	12
4	Pliocene oceanic seaways and global climate 2017 ·Scientific Reports ·Cyrus Karas, Dirk Nürnberg, André Bahr, Jeroen Groeneveld, Jens O. Herrle, Ralf Tiedemann, Peter B deMenocal	69
5	Glacial to Holocene changes in trans-Atlantic Saharan dust transport and dust-climate feedbacks 2016 ·Science Advances ·Ross H. Williams, David McGee, Christopher W. Kinsley, D. A. Ridley, Shineng Hu, Alexey V. Fedorov, (unknown), Richard W. Murray, Peter B deMenocal	43
6	Changes in northeast African hydrology and vegetation associated with Pliocene–Pleistocene sapropel cycles 2016 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·(unknown), P. J. Polissar, Jessica E. Tierney, T. R. Filley, Peter B deMenocal	25
7	Ocean-Atmosphere climate shift during the Mid-to-Late Holocene transition 2014 ·EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Audrey Morley, Yair Rosenthal, Peter B deMenocal	1
8	Ocean-atmosphere climate shift during the mid-to-late Holocene transition 2013 ·Earth and Planetary Science Letters ·Audrey Morley, Yair Rosenthal, Peter B deMenocal	53
9	Towards a global calibration of the G. ruber (white) Mg/Ca paleothermometer 2009 ·GeCAS ·J. A. Arbuszewski, Peter B deMenocal, Alexey Kaplan, G. P. Klinkhammer, (unknown)	1
10	An Oceanic Perspective on the African Humid Period 2008 ·AGUFM ·(unknown), Peter B deMenocal, S. L. Goldstein, Sidney R. Hemming, F. Grousset, Timothy I. Eglinton, (unknown)	1
11	Towards a global calibration and validation of the G. ruber (white) Mg/Ca paleothermometer 2008 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·J. A. Arbuszewski, Peter B deMenocal, Alexey Kaplan	4
12	Reconstructing Sea-Surface Salinity of the Mid-Atlantic Using Mg/Ca and Oxygen Isotope Ratios of G. ruber 2006 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·(unknown), Peter B deMenocal, J. A. Arbuszewski	2
13	Pliocene-Pleistocene Shifts in Tropical Atlantic Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling 2006 ·AGUFM ·Peter B deMenocal, Maureen E. Raymo, Jean Lynch‐Stieglitz, (unknown)	1
14	Tracking the extent of the South Pacific Convergence Zone since 1619 AD 2005 ·AGUFM ·Braddock K. Linsley, Alexey Kaplan, Yves Gouriou, M. J. Salinger, Peter B deMenocal, G. M. Wellington, Stephen S. Howe	2
15	Tracking Past Shifts in the Eastern Pacific ITCZ With Foraminiferal Oxygen Isotopes and Mg Paleothermometry 2003 ·AGUFM ·A. Koutavas, Jean Lynch‐Stieglitz, Peter B deMenocal	1
16	Amplitudes and phasing of surface and deep NW Atlantic Ocean temperature changes during the late Holocene 2002 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Peter B deMenocal, Thomas M. Marchitto, T. P. Guilderson, Claude Hillaire‐Marcel	1
17	Cultural Responses to Climate Change During the Late Holocene breakdown → 2001 ·Science ·Peter B deMenocal	683
18	Global deep‐sea burial rate of calcium carbonate during the Last Glacial Maximum 1998 ·Paleoceanography ·(unknown), David Archer, Roger François, Peter B deMenocal, (unknown), Ein‐Fen Yu	84
19	Utilisation des minéraux sédimentaires argileux pour la reconstitution des variations paléoclimatiques à court terme en Mer d'Arabie 1992 ·Institutional Archive of Ifremer (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea) ·Nathalie Fagel, Pierre Debrabant, Peter B deMenocal, (unknown)	2
20	Pleistocene δ ¹³ C Variability of North Atlantic Intermediate Water 1992 ·Paleoceanography ·Peter B deMenocal, Delia W Oppo, Richard G. Fairbanks, Warren L Prell	67

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