Thomas Opel

3.6k total citations
72 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Thomas Opel is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Opel has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Atmospheric Science, 36 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 9 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Thomas Opel's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (53 papers), Climate change and permafrost (46 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (36 papers). Thomas Opel is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (53 papers), Climate change and permafrost (46 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (36 papers). Thomas Opel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Russia and United Kingdom. Thomas Opel's co-authors include Hanno Meyer, Sebastian Wetterich, Lutz Schirrmeister, Alexander Yu Dereviagin, Frank Günther, Thomas Laepple, Diedrich Fritzsche, Andrei Andreev, M. N. Grigoriev and Alisa Baranskaya and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Opel

68 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Opel Germany	25	1.6k	656	218	190	177	72	1.8k
Volker Rachold Germany	27	1.5k 0.9×	856 1.3×	235 1.1×	143 0.8×	289 1.6×	65	2.0k
Denis Lacelle Canada	28	2.2k 1.4×	521 0.8×	542 2.5×	114 0.6×	89 0.5×	89	2.8k
Naja Mikkelsen Denmark	21	738 0.5×	419 0.6×	197 0.9×	125 0.7×	173 1.0×	48	1.1k
Michael J. Retelle United States	14	1.4k 0.8×	253 0.4×	300 1.4×	313 1.6×	72 0.4×	34	1.5k
Mathias Ulrich Germany	19	1.2k 0.8×	381 0.6×	191 0.9×	128 0.7×	128 0.7×	44	1.5k
Matthias Forwick Norway	30	2.0k 1.2×	1.1k 1.7×	435 2.0×	123 0.6×	212 1.2×	101	2.5k
Vladimir Tumskoy Russia	18	1.2k 0.7×	737 1.1×	112 0.5×	272 1.4×	208 1.2×	41	1.6k
Georg Schwamborn Germany	20	1.3k 0.8×	554 0.8×	206 0.9×	59 0.3×	265 1.5×	57	1.5k
C. R. Burn Canada	33	2.6k 1.6×	368 0.6×	289 1.3×	183 1.0×	126 0.7×	79	2.7k
Mikhail N. Grigoriev Russia	26	2.0k 1.3×	1.3k 2.0×	305 1.4×	306 1.6×	305 1.7×	64	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Opel

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Murton, Julian B., Thomas Opel, Phillip Toms, et al.. (2025). Preliminary paleoenvironmental analysis and luminescence dating of upper Middle Pleistocene permafrost deposits of the Ulakhan Sular Formation, Adycha River, east Siberia. Quaternary Research. 124. 1–25. 1 indexed citations

Zhai, Shuting, Joseph R. McConnell, Nathan Chellman, et al.. (2024). Anthropogenic Influence on Tropospheric Reactive Bromine Since the Pre‐industrial: Implications for Arctic Ice‐Core Bromine Trends. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(5). 5 indexed citations

Zhai, Shuting, Joseph R. McConnell, Nathan Chellman, et al.. (2023). Implications of Snowpack Reactive Bromine Production for Arctic Ice Core Bromine Preservation. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(20). 3 indexed citations

Müller, Juliane, Thomas Opel, Sebastian Mieruch, et al.. (2023). Deglacial and Holocene sea-ice and climate dynamics in the Bransfield Strait, northern Antarctic Peninsula. Climate of the past. 19(5). 1061–1079. 7 indexed citations

Wetterich, Sebastian, Hanno Meyer, Michael Fritz, et al.. (2021). Northeast Siberian Permafrost Ice‐Wedge Stable Isotopes Depict Pronounced Last Glacial Maximum Winter Cooling. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(7). 21 indexed citations

Murton, Julian B., Thomas Opel, Phillip Toms, et al.. (2021). A multimethod dating study of ancient permafrost, Batagay megaslump, east Siberia. Quaternary Research. 105. 1–22. 31 indexed citations

Wetterich, Sebastian, Alexander Kizyakov, Michael Fritz, et al.. (2020). The cryostratigraphy of the Yedoma cliff of Sobo-Sise Island (Lena delta) reveals permafrost dynamics in the central Laptev Sea coastal region during the last 52 kyr. The cryosphere. 14(12). 4525–4551. 17 indexed citations

Müller, Juliane, Lorena Rebolledo, Xiaoxu Shi, et al.. (2020). Sea Ice dynamics at the Western Antarctic Peninsula during the industrial era: a multi-proxy intercomparison study. 1 indexed citations

Grosse, Guido, Mathias Ulrich, Lutz Schirrmeister, et al.. (2020). Organic carbon characteristics in ice-rich permafrost in alas and Yedoma deposits, central Yakutia, Siberia. Biogeosciences. 17(14). 3797–3814. 20 indexed citations

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Müller, Juliane, Lorena Rebolledo, Xiaoxu Shi, et al.. (2020). Sea ice dynamics in the Bransfield Strait, Antarctic Peninsula, during the past 240 years: a multi-proxy intercomparison study. Climate of the past. 16(6). 2459–2483. 23 indexed citations

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Fernandoy, Francisco, Hanno Meyer, Elizabeth R. Thomas, et al.. (2020). Stable water isotopes and accumulation rates in the Union Glacier region, Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica, over the last 35 years. The cryosphere. 14(3). 881–904. 9 indexed citations

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Opel, Thomas, Julian B. Murton, Sebastian Wetterich, et al.. (2019). Past climate and continentality inferred from ice wedges at Batagay megaslump in the Northern Hemisphere's most continental region, Yana Highlands, interior Yakutia. Climate of the past. 15(4). 1443–1461. 44 indexed citations

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Wetterich, Sebastian, Thomas A. Davidson, Anatoly Bobrov, et al.. (2019). Stable isotope signatures of Holocene syngenetic permafrost trace seabird presence in the Thule District (NW Greenland). Biogeosciences. 16(21). 4261–4275. 4 indexed citations

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Wetterich, Sebastian, Lutz Schirrmeister, Larisa Nazarova, et al.. (2018). Holocene thermokarst and pingo development in the Kolyma Lowland (NE Siberia). Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. 29(3). 182–198. 29 indexed citations

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Opel, Thomas, Julian B. Murton, Sebastian Wetterich, et al.. (2018). Middle and Late Pleistocene climate and continentality inferred from ice wedges at Batagay megaslump in the Northern Hemisphere’s most continental region, Yana Highlands, interior Yakutia. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 6 indexed citations

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Fernandoy, Francisco, Hanno Meyer, Elizabeth R. Thomas, et al.. (2018). Stable water isotopes and accumulation rates in the Union Glacierregion, West Antarctica over the last 35 years. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 1 indexed citations

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Albedyll, Luisa von, Thomas Opel, Diedrich Fritzsche, et al.. (2017). ¹⁰ Be in the Akademii Nauk ice core – first results for CE 1590–1950 and implications for future chronology validation. Journal of Glaciology. 63(239). 514–522. 3 indexed citations

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Fritz, Michael, Hugues Lantuit, Hanno Meyer, et al.. (2012). Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) in Ground Ice: Is It Significant?. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut).

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Fritzsche, Diedrich, Thomas Opel, & Hanno Meyer. (2010). Ice core from Akademii Nauk ice cap, Severnaya Zemlya (Russian Arctic), dated with a Nye model modified for a growing glacier. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 2 indexed citations

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Heim, Birgit, Annett Bartsch, Julia Boike, et al.. (2010). The Lena River Delta, Arctic Siberia: an Arctic ground data observatory of the DUE Permafrost Project. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 6 indexed citations

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