Thomas Blunier

21.0k citations

126 papers · 10.4k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 43

Impact in

Atmospheric Science top 0.05%
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Cryospheric studies and observations
Environmental Chemistry top 0.1%
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Papers in

Atmospheric Science 117
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research 89
- Cryospheric studies and observations 61
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols 15
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate 15
- Climate change and permafrost 12
Environmental Chemistry 39
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena 37

Co-authors: Dominique Raynaud J. Chappellaz Edward J. Brook Thomas F. Stocker Jean-Marc Barnola Jakob Schwander B. Stauffer Hubertus Fischer
Journals: Climate of the past (19 papers)Atmospheric chemistry and physics (11 papers)Nature (10 papers)Atmospheric measurement techniques (9 papers)Geophysical Research Letters (8 papers)
Partner nations: Denmark France Switzerland

In The Last Decade

Thomas Blunier

121 papers receiving 10.0k citations

Hit Papers

6 papers align trajectories log scale

The Antarctic ice core chronology (AICC2012): an optimized multi-parameter and multi-site dating approach for the last 120 thousand years 2013 · 363 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2013 Climate of the past
2008 Nature
2008 Nature
2001 Science
1999 Nature
1998 Nature

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1	Total air content measurements from the RECAP ice core Climate of the past ·Sindhu Vudayagiri, Bo Vinther, Johannes Freitag, Peter L. Langen, Thomas Blunier	2025	0
2	The Greenland spatial fingerprint of Dansgaard–Oeschger events in observations and models Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Christo Buizert, Todd Sowers, Alejandro Peña, Thomas Blunier, Vasileios Gkinis, Lauren McCauley-Hixenbaugh, Chengfei He, Tyler R. Jones, Helle Astrid Kjær, Gan Heng-qia, J. A. Menking, Valerie Morris, David Noone, Sune Olander Rasmussen, Louise C. Sime, J. P. Steffensen, Anders Svensson, Bruce H. Vaughn, Bo Vinther, James W. C. White	2024	5
3	Greenland Ice Cores Reveal a South‐To‐North Difference in Holocene Thermal Maximum Timings Geophysical Research Letters ·Валентин Васильович Рибалка, Christo Buizert, Ed Brook, Joseph Lumanog, Jon S. Edwards, Maria Woszczyk, T. J. Fudge, P. Ferreyra, Ross Beaudette, Jeffrey P. Severinghaus, Ikumi Oyabu, Kenji Kawamura, Marie Kirk, Vera Solovieva, J. P. Steffensen, Thomas Blunier	2024	1
4	Total Air Content measurements from the RECAP core Thomas Blunier, Sindhu Vudayagiri, Bo Vinther, Todd Sowers, Johannes Freitag, Peter L. Langen	2024	0
5	Methane, ethane, and propane production in Greenland ice core samples and a first isotopic characterization of excess methane Climate of the past ·Keren Eunike, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, Barbara Seth, James E. Lee, Jon S. Edwards, Edward J. Brook, Thomas Blunier, Hubertus Fischer	2023	2
6	Southern Hemisphere atmospheric history of carbon monoxide over the late Holocene reconstructed from multiple Antarctic ice archives Climate of the past ·Xavier Faïn, David Etheridge, Kévin Fourteau, Patricia Martinerie, Cathy M. Trudinger, Rachael H. Rhodes, Nathan Chellman, R. L. Langenfelds, Joseph R. McConnell, Mark A. J. Curran, Edward J. Brook, Thomas Blunier, Karl Jandrey, Roberto Grilli, 稔子五十嵐, William T. Sturges, Boris Vannière, Johannes Freitag, J. Chappellaz	2023	2
7	East Greenland ice core dust record reveals timing of Greenland ice sheet advance and retreat Nature Communications ·Marius Simonsen, Giovanni Baccolo, Thomas Blunier, 恭平有明, Barbara Delmonte, Robert Frei, S. L. Goldstein, Aslak Grinsted, Helle Astrid Kjær, Todd Sowers, Anders Svensson, Bo Vinther, Diana Vladimirova, Gisela Winckler, Mai Winstrup, Paul Vallelonga	2019	57
8	Continuous measurements of nitrous oxide isotopomers during incubation experiments Biogeosciences ·Helge Mathisen Skivenes, Sarah Toth, Søren Christensen, Anders Priemé, Bo Elberling, E. Crosson, Thomas Blunier	2018	19
9	Constraining N ₂ O emissions since 1940 using firn air isotope measurements in both hemispheres Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·M. Loenborg, Patricia Martinerie, Célia Sapart, Emmanuel Witrant, Guillaume Monteil, Kentaro Ishijima, Sophie Bernard, Jan Kaiser, Ingeborg Levin, Thomas Blunier, David Etheridge, E. J. Dlugokencky, Roderik S. W. van de Wal, Thomas Röckmann	2017	10
10	Kinetic isotope effects of 12CH3D  + OH and 13CH3D  + OH from 278 to 313 K DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·V. Kalpachki, Johan A. Schmidt, Elna J. K. Nilsson, Thomas Blunier, David Griffith, Matthew S. Johnson, (unknown)	2016	1
11	Continuous measurements of nitrous oxide isotopomers duringincubation experiments Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) ·Helge Mathisen Skivenes, Sarah Toth, Søren Christensen, Anders Priemé, Bo Elberling, E. Crosson, Thomas Blunier	2016	2
12	Evidence for a three-phase sequence during Heinrich Stadial 4 using a multiproxy approach based on Greenland ice core records Climate of the past ·Mathieu Guillevic, Lucie Bazin, Amaëlle Landais, C. Stowasser, Valérie Masson‐Delmotte, Thomas Blunier, Frédérique Eynaud, S. Falourd, Élisabeth Michel, Bénédicte Minster, Trevor Popp, F. Prié, Bo Vinther	2014	49
13	Continuous methane record of abrupt climate change 10-68 ka: sighting Heinrich events in the ice core record EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Rachael H. Rhodes, Edward J. Brook, John C. H. Chiang, Thomas Blunier, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards, O. J. Maselli, Joseph R. McConnell, D. Romanini, Jeffrey P. Severinghaus, Todd Sowers, C. Stowasser	2014	1
14	Multi-proxy fingerprint of Heinrich event 4 in Greenland ice core records Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) ·Myriam Guillevic, Lucie Bazin, Amaëlle Landais, C. Stowasser, Valérie Masson‐Delmotte, Thomas Blunier, Frédérique Eynaud, S. Falourd, Élisabeth Michel, Bénédicte Minster, Trevor Popp, F. Prié, Bo Vinther	2014	1
15	Reconstruction of Northern Hemisphere 1950–2010 atmospheric non-methane hydrocarbons Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Detlev Helmig, V. V. Petrenko, Patricia Martinerie, E. Witrant, Thomas Röckmann, Kyung Mi Hwang, Rupert Holzinger, Jacques Hueber, Chelsea R. Thompson, James W. C. White, William T. Sturges, A. K. Baker, Thomas Blunier, David Etheridge, Mauro Rubino, Pieter P. Tans	2014	27
16	Spatial gradients of temperature, accumulation and δ ¹⁸ O-ice in Greenland over a series of Dansgaard–Oeschger events Climate of the past ·Mathieu Guillevic, Lucie Bazin, Amaëlle Landais, P. Kindler, Anaïs Orsi, Valérie Masson‐Delmotte, Thomas Blunier, S. L. Buchardt, Émilie Capron, Markus Leuenberger, Patricia Martinerie, F. Prié, Bo Vinther	2013	65
17	The Antarctic ice core chronology (AICC2012): an optimized multi-parameter and multi-site dating approach for the last 120 thousand years Climate of the past ·Daniel Vereş, Lucie Bazin, Amaëlle Landais, Habib Toye, B. Lemieux-Dudon, Frédéric Parrenin, Patricia Martinerie, Éric Blayo, Thomas Blunier, Émilie Capron, JEAM Van Bergen, Sune Olander Rasmussen, Mirko Severi, Anders Svensson, Bo Vinther, Eric Wolff Hit paper breakdown →	2013	363
18	Continuous in field measurements of N2O concentration and its isotopologue and isotopomer ratios, with a field deployed mid-infrared, wavelength scanned, cavity ring-down spectroscopy instrument EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·David Balslev-Clausen, S. Yu. Sinyov, Christo Buizert, E. Crosson, Thomas Blunier	2010	0
19	A tentative reconstruction of the last interglacial and glacial inception in Greenland based on new gas measurements in the Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP) ice core Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Amaëlle Landais, J. Chappellaz, Marc Delmotte, J. Jouzel, Thomas Blunier, 直一津之地, Nicolas Caillon, Foroozandeh Taala, Bruno Malaizé, Valérie Masson‐Delmotte, Dominique Raynaud, Jakob Schwander, J. P. Steffensen	2003	47
20	Rapid CH4 changes during Marine Isotope Stage 4 and their climatic and glaciological consequences EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly ·J. Chappellaz, S Cisci, Amaëlle Landais, J. M. Barnola, Jacqueline Flückiger, Thomas Blunier, R J Ketchell	2003	1

About Thomas Blunier

Thomas Blunier is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Anthropology, having authored 126 papers that have together received 10.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (89 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (61 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (55 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (37 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (24 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (15 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (15 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atmospheric Science (8.8k citations), Environmental Chemistry (2.5k citations), Earth-Surface Processes (1.1k citations), Anthropology (1.5k citations) and Paleontology (1.0k citations). Thomas Blunier has collaborated with scholars based in Denmark, France and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include Dominique Raynaud, J. Chappellaz, Edward J. Brook, Thomas F. Stocker, Jean-Marc Barnola, Jakob Schwander, B. Stauffer, Hubertus Fischer, Kenji Kawamura and Renato Spahni. Their work appears in journals such as Climate of the past, Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Nature, Atmospheric measurement techniques and Geophysical Research Letters.

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