Publications in high-impact journals

Nature

Hörhold, M., Münch, T., Weißbach S., Kipfstuhl S., Freitag J., Sasgen I., Lohmann G., Vinther B., T. Laepple: Modern temperatures in central-north Greenland warmest in past millennium (Nature, 2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05517-z

Klages, J. P. , Salzmann, U. , Bickert, T. , Hillenbrand, C. D. , Gohl, K. , Kuhn, G. , Bohaty, S. , Titschack, J. , Müller, J. , Frederichs, T. , Bauersachs, T. , Ehrmann, W. , van de Flierdt, T. , Simoes Pereira, P. , Larter, R. D. , Lohmann, G. , Niezgodzki, I. , Uenzelmann-Neben, G. , Zundel, M. , Spiegel, C. , Mark, C. , Chew, D. , Francis, J. E. , Nehrke, G. , Schwarz, F. , Smith, J. A. , Freudenthal, T. , Esper, O. , Pälike, H. , Ronge, T. , Dziadek, R. , Afanasyeva, V. , Arndt, J. E. , Ebermann, B. , Gebhardt, C. , Hochmuth, K. , Küssner, K. , Najman, Y. , Riefstahl, F. and Scheinert, M. , Science Team of Expedition PS104 (2020): Temperate rainforests near the South Pole during peak Cretaceous warmth, Nature, 580 (7801), pp. 81-86, doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2148-5.

Maier, E., Zhang, X., Abelmann-Gersonde, A., Gersonde, R., Mulitza, S., Werner, M., Méheust, M., Ren, J., Chapligin, B., Meyer, H., Stein, R., Tiedemann, R. and Lohmann, G. (2018): North Pacific freshwater events linked to changes in glacial ocean circulation, Nature, 559, pp. 241-245, doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0276-y.

The IMBIE team, Shepherd, A., Sasgen, I. and Helm, V. (2018): Mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2017, Nature, 558 (7709), pp. 219-222, doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0179-y.

Barker, S., Chen, J., Gong, X., Jonkers, L., Knorr, G. and Thornalley, D. (2015): Icebergs not the trigger for North Atlantic cold events, Nature, 520, pp. 333-336, doi:10.1038/nature14330

Zhang, X.Lohmann, G.Knorr, G. and Purcell, C. (2014): Abrupt glacial climate shifts controlled by ice sheet changes, Nature, 512 (7514), pp. 290-294, doi:10.1038/nature13592.

Weber, M. E., Clark, P. U., Kuhn, G., Timmermann, A., Sprenk, D., Gladstone, R., Zhang, X.Lohmann, G., Menviel, L., Chikamoto, M. O., Friedrich, T. and Ohlwein, C. (2014): Millennial-scale variability in Antarctic ice-sheet discharge during the last deglaciation, Nature, 510 (7503), pp. 134-138, doi:10.1038/nature13397.

Dahl-Jensen, D., Albert, M. R., Aldahan, A., Azuma, N., Balslev-Clausen, D., Baumgartner, M., Berggren, A. M., Bigler, M., Binder, T., Blunier, T., Bourgeois, J. C., Brook, E. J., Buchardt, S. L., Buizert, C., Capron, E., Chappellaz, J., Chung, J., Clausen, H. B., Cvijanovic, I., Davies, S. M., Ditlevsen, P., Eicher, O., Fischer, H., Fisher, D. A., Fleet, L. G., Gfeller, G., Gkinis, V., Gogineni, S., Grinsted, A., Goto-Azuma, K., Gudlaugsdottir, H., Guillevic, M., Hansen, S. B., Hansson, M., Hirabayashi, M., Hong, S., Hur, S. D., Huybrechts, P., Hvidberg, C. S., Jenk, T., Iizuka, Y., Johnsen, S. J., Jones, T. R., Jouzel, J., Karlsson, N. B., Kawamura, K., Keegan, K., Kettner, E., Kipfstuhl, S., Kjær, H. A., Koutnik, M., Kuramoto, T., Köhler, P.Laepple, T., Landais, A., Langen, P. L., Larsen, L. B., Leuenberger, D., Leuenberger, M., Leuschen, C., Li, J., Lipenkov, V., Martinerie, P., Maselli, O. J., Masson-Delmotte, V., McConnell, J. R., Miller, H., Mini, O., Miyamoto, A., Montagnat-Rentier, M., Mulvaney, R., Muscheler, R., Paden, J., Orsi, A. J., Panton, C., Pattyn, F., Petit, J. R., Pol, K., Popp, T., Possnert, G., Prié, F., Prokopiou, M., Quiquet, A., Rasmussen, S. O., Raynaud, D., Ren, J., Reutenauer, C., Ritz, C., Röckmann, T., Rosen, J. L., Rubino, M., Rybak, O., Samyn, D., Sapart, C. J., Schilt, A., Schmidt, A. M. Z., Schüpbach, S., Schwander, J., Seierstad, I., Severinghaus, J. P., Sheldon, S., Simonsen, S. B., Sjolte, J., Solgaard, A. M., Sowers, T., Sperlich, P., Steen-Larsen, H. C., Steffen, K., Steffensen, J. P., Steinhage, D., Stocker, T. F., Stowasser, C., Sturevik, A. S., Sturges, W. T., Sveinbjörnsdottir, A., Svensson, A., Tison, J. L., Uetake, J., Vallelonga, P., van de Wal, R. S. W., van der Wel, G., Vaughn, B. H., Vinther, B., Waddington, E., Wegner, A., Weikusat, I., White, J. W. C., Wilhelms, F., Winstrup, M., Witrant, E., Wolff, E. W., Xiao, C. and Zheng, J., NEEM community members (2013): Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core, Nature, 493 (7433), pp. 489-494, doi:10.1038/nature11789.

Laepple, T.Werner, M. and Lohmann, G. (2011): Reply to "Antarctic accumulation seasonality", Nature, 479 (7372), E2-E4, doi:10.1038/nature10614

Laepple, T.Werner, M. and Lohmann, G. (2011): Synchronicity of Antarctic temperatures and local solar insolation on orbital time scales, Nature, 471 (7336), pp. 91-94, doi:10.1038/nature09825.

Barker, S., Diz, P., Vautravers, M. J., Pike, J., Knorr, G., Hall, I. R. and Broecker, W.S. (2009): Interhemispheric Atlantic seesaw response during the last deglaciation, Nature, 457, pp. 1097-1102, doi:10.1038/nature07770

Braun, H., Christl, M., Rahmstorf, S., Ganopolski, A., Mangini, A., Kubatzki, C., Roth, K. and Kromer, B. (2005): Possible solar origin of the 1,470-year glacial climate cycle demonstrated in a coupled model, Nature, 438, pp. 208-211, doi:10.1038/nature04121.

Felis, T., G. Lohmann, H. Kuhnert, S. Lorenz, D. Scholz, J. Pätzold, S. A. Al-Rousan, S. M. Al-Moghrabi (2004): Increased seasonality in Middle East temperatures during the last interglacial period. Nature 429, 164-168, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02546, link Nature-link

Knorr, G., and G. Lohmann (2003): Southern Ocean Origin for Resumption of Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation during Deglaciation. Nature, 424, 532-536. Abstract pdf link news and views

Nature Climate Change

Cohen, J. , Zhang, X. , Francis, J. , Jung, T. , Kwok, R. , Overland, J. , Ballinger, T. J. , Bhatt, U. S. , Chen, H. W. , Coumou, D. , Feldstein, S. , Gu, H. , Handorf, D. , Henderson, G. , Ionita, M. , Kretschmer, M. , Laliberte, F. , Lee, S. , Linderholm, H. W. , Maslowski, W. , Peings, Y. , Pfeiffer, K. , Rigor, I. , Semmler, T. , Stroeve, J. , Taylor, P. C. , Vavrus, S. , Vihma, T. , Wang, S. , Wendisch, M. , Wu, Y. and Yoon, J. (2019): Divergent consensuses on Arctic amplification influence on midlatitude severe winter weather, Nature Climate Change, 10 (1), pp. 20-29, doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0662-y.

Salzmann, U., Dolan, A. M., Haywood, A. M., Chan, W. L., Voss, J., Hill, D. J., Abe-Ouchi, A., Otto-Bliesner, B., Bragg, F. J., Chandler, M. A., Contoux, C., Dowsett, H. J., Jost, A., Kamae, Y., Lohmann, G., Lunt, D. J., Pickering, S. J., Pound, M. J., Ramstein, G., Rosenbloom, N. A., Sohl, L., Stepanek, C., Ueda, H. and Zhang, Z. (2013): Challenges in quantifying Pliocene terrestrial warming revealed by data–model discord, Nature Climate Change, 3 (11), pp. 969-974, doi:10.1038/nclimate2008.
 

Nature Communications

Chen, F. , Chen, S. , Zhang, X. , Chen, J. , Wang, X. , Gowan, E. J. , Qiang, M. , Dong, G. , Wang, Z. , Li, Y. , Xu, Q. , Xu, Y. , Smol, J. P. and Liu, J. (2020): Asian dust-storm activity dominated by Chinese dynasty changes since 2000 BP, Nature Communications, 11 (1), pp. 1-7, doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14765-4.

Baker, A. , Hartmann, A. , Duan, W. , Hankin, S. , Comas-Bru, L. , Cuthbert, M. O. , Treble, P. C. , Banner, J. , Genty, D. , Baldini, L. M. , Bartolomé, M. , Moreno, A. , Pérez-Mejías, C. and Werner, M.  (2019): Global analysis reveals climatic controls on the oxygen isotope composition of cave drip water, Nature Communications, 10 (1), pp. 1-7, doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11027-w.

Bonne, J. L. , Behrens, M. , Meyer, H. , Kipfstuhl, S. , Rabe, B. , Schoenicke, L. , Steen-Larsen, H. C. and Werner, M.  (2019): Resolving the controls of water vapour isotopes in the Atlantic sector, Nature Communications, 10, doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09242-6.

Gong, X. , Lembke-Jene, L. , Lohmann, G. , Knorr, G. , Tiedemann, R. , Zou, J. and Shi, X. (2019): Enhanced North Pacific deep-ocean stratification by stronger intermediate water formation during Heinrich Stadial 1: Nature Communications, 10 (656), doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08606-2.

Winterfeld, M., Mollenhauer, G., Dummann, W., Köhler, P.Lembke-Jene, L., Meyer, V. D., Hefter, J., McIntyre, C., Wacker, L., Kokfelt, U. and Tiedemann, R. (2018): Deglacial mobilization of pre-aged terrestrial carbon from degrading permafrost, Nature Communications, 9 (1), p. 3666, doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06080-w.

Werner, M., Jouzel, J., Masson-Delmotte, V. and Lohmann, G. (2018): Reconciling glacial Antarctic water stable isotopes with ice sheet topography and the isotopic paleothermometer, Nature Communications, 9 (3537), doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05430-y.

Colleoni, F., de Santis, L., Siddoway, C. S., Bergamasco, A., Golledge, N. R., Lohmann, G., Passchier, S. and Siegert, M. J. (2018): Spatio-temporal variability of processes across Antarctic ice-bed-ocean interfaces, Nature Communications, 9, doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04583-0.

Stärz, M., Jokat, W., Knorr, G. and Lohmann, G. (2017): Threshold in North Atlantic-Arctic Ocean circulation controlled by the subsidence of the Greenland-Scotland Ridge, Nature Communications, 8 (15681), pp. 1-13, doi:10.1038/ncomms15681.

Hasenclever, J., Knorr, G., Rüpke, L. H., Köhler, P., Morgan, J., Garofalo, K., Barker, S., Lohmann, G. and Hall, I. R. (2017): Sea level fall during glaciation stabilized atmospheric CO2 by enhanced volcanic degassing, Nature Communications, 8 (15867), pp. 1-11, doi:10.1038/ncomms15867.

Stein, R., Fahl, K., Gierz, P., Niessen, F. and Lohmann, G. (2017): Arctic Ocean sea ice cover during the penultimate glacial and the last interglacial, Nature Communications, 373, doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00552-1.

Stein, R., Fahl, K., Schreck, M., Knorr, G., Niessen, F., Forwick, M., Gebhardt, C., Jensen, L., Kaminski, M., Kopf, A., Matthiessen, J., Jokat, W. and Lohmann, G. (2016), Evidence for ice-free summers in the late Miocene central Arctic Ocean, Nature Communications, 7, pp. 1-13, doi:10.1038/ncomms11148.

Abelmann, A., Gersonde, R.Knorr, G.Zhang, X., Chapligin, B., Maier, E., Esper, O., Friedrichsen, H., Lohmann, G., Meyer, H. and Tiedemann, R. (2015): The seasonal sea-ice zone in the glacial Southern Ocean as a carbon sink, Nature Communication, 6 (8136), pp. 1-12, doi:10.1038/ncomms9136.

Winter, A., Zanchettin, D., Miller, T., Kushnir, Y., Black, D., Lohmann, G., Burnett, A., Haug, G. H., Estrella-Martínez, J., Breitenbach, S. F. M., Beaufort, L., Rubino, A. and Cheng, H. (2015): Persistent drying in the tropics linked to natural forcing, Nature Communications, 6 (7627), doi:10.1038/ncomms8627.

Felis, T., Giry, C., Scholz, D., Lohmann, G.Pfeiffer, M., Pätzold, J., Kölling, M. and Scheffers, S. R. (2015): Tropical Atlantic temperature seasonality at the end of the last interglacial, Nature Communications, 6 (6159), pp. 1-8, doi:10.1038/ncomms7159.

Kuhnt, W., Holbourn, A., Xu, J., Opdyke, B., De Deckker, P., Röhl, U. and Mudelsee, M. (2015): Southern hemisphere control on Australian monsoon variability during the late deglaciation and Holocene, Nature Communications, 6 (5916), pp. 1-7, doi:10.1038/ncomms6916.

Sinha, A., Kathayat, G., Cheng, H., Breitenbach, S. F. M., Berkelhammer, M., Mudelsee, M., Biswas, J. and Edwards, R. L. (2015): Trends and oscillations in the Indian summer monsoon rainfall over the last two millennia, Nature Communications, 6 (6309), pp. 1-8, doi:10.1038/ncomms7309.

Köhler, P.Knorr, G. and Bard, E. (2014): Permafrost thawing as a possible source of abrupt carbon release at the onset of the Bølling/Allerød, Nature Communications, 5, p. 5520, doi:10.1038/ncomms6520.

Felis, T., McGregor, H. V., Linsley, B. K., Tudhope, A. W., Gagan, M. K., Suzuki, A., Inoue, M., Thomas, A. L., Esat, T. M., Thompson, W. G., Tiwari, M., Potts, D. C., Mudelsee, M., Yokoyama, Y. and Webster, J. M. (2014), Intensification of the meridional temperature gradient in the Great Barrier Reef following the Last Glacial Maximum, Nature Communications, 5 (4102), pp. 1-7, doi:10.1038/ncomms5102.
 

Nature Geoscience

Niu, L., G. Knorr, U. Krebs-Kanzow, P. Gierz, G. Lohmann, 2024: Rapid Laurentide Ice Sheet growth preceding the Last Glacial Maximum due to summer snowfall. Nat Geo., doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01419-z (press) (press)

Jonkers, L., T. Laepple, M. C. Rillo, X. Shi, A. M. Dolman, G. Lohmann, A. Paul, A. Mix, and M. Kucera (2023): Plankton biogeography shows strong meridional variation in ice age to modern ocean warming. Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038/s41561-023-01328-7 (news and views) (press)

Knorr, G., S. Barker, X. Zhang, G. Lohmann, X. Gong, P. Gierz, C. Stepanek, L. Stap (2021): A salty deep ocean as a prerequisite for glacial termination. Nature Geoscience, 14, 930–936. doi:10.1038/s41561-021-00857-3  (press) (press German)

Konrad, H., Shepherd, A., Gilbert, L., Hogg, A. E., McMillan, M., Muir, A. and Slater, T. (2018): Net retreat of Antarctic glacier grounding lines, Nature Geoscience, 11 (4), pp. 258-262, doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0082-z.

Zhang, X.Knorr, G.Lohmann, G. and Barker, S. (2017): Abrupt North Atlantic circulation changes in response to gradual CO2 forcing in a glacial climate state, Nature Geoscience, 10 (7), pp. 518-523, doi:10.1038/ngeo2974.

Wassenburg, J. A., Dietrich, S., Fietzke, J., Fohlmeister, J., Jochum, K. P., Scholz, D., Richter, D. K., Sabaoui, A., Spötl, C., Lohmann, G., Andreae, M. O. and Immenhauser, A. (2016): Reorganization of the North Atlantic Oscillation during early Holocene deglaciation, Nature Geoscience, 9, pp. 602-605, doi:10.1038/ngeo2767.

Meyer, H., Opel, T., Laepple, T., Hoffmann, K., Dereviagin, A. Y. and Werner, M. (2015): Long-term winter warming trend in the Siberian Arctic during the mid- to late Holocene, Nature Geoscience, 8 (2), pp. 122-125, doi:10.1038/ngeo2349.

Knorr, G. and Lohmann, G. (2014): Climate warming during Antarctic ice sheet expansion at the Middle Miocene transition, Nature Geoscience, 7 (5), pp. 376-381, doi:10.1038/NGEO2119.

Barker, S., Knorr, G., Vautravers, M. J., Diz, P. and Skinner, L. C. (2010): Extreme deepening of the Atlantic overturning circulation during deglaciation, Nature Geosciences, 3, pp. 567-571, doi:10.1038/NGEO921.

Cruz, F. W., Vuille, M., Burns, S. J., Wang, X., Cheng, H., Werner, M., Edwards, R. L., Karmann, I., Auler, A. S. and Nguyen, H. (2009): Orbitally driven eastwest antiphasing of South American precipitation, Nature Geoscience, 2, 210-214, doi:10.1038/ngeo444.

PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)

Lembke-Jene, L., Tiedemann, R., Nürnberg, D., Gong, X. and Lohmann, G. (2018): Rapid shift and millennial-scale variations in Holocene North Pacific Intermediate Water ventilation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115 (21), pp. 5365-5370, doi:10.1073/pnas.1714754115.

McConnell, J. R., Burke, A., Dunbar, N. W., Köhler, P., Thomas, J. L., Arienzo, M. M., Chellman, N. J., Maselli, O. J., Sigl, M., Adkins, J. F., Baggenstos, D., Burkhart, J. F., Brook, E. J., Buizert, C., Cole-Dai, J., Fudge, T. J., Knorr, G., Graf, H. F., Grieman, M. M., Iverson, N., McGwire, K. C., Mulvaney, R., Paris, G., Rhodes, R. H., Saltzman, E. S., Severinghaus, J. P., Steffensen, J. P., Taylor, K. C. and Winckler, G. (2017): Synchronous volcanic eruptions and abrupt climate change ∼17.7 ka plausibly linked by stratospheric ozone depletion, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114 (38), pp. 10035-10040, doi:10.1073/pnas.1705595114.

Liu, Z., Zhu, J., Rosenthal, Y., Zhang, X., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Timmermann, A., Smith, R. S., Lohmann, G., Zheng, W. and Timm, O. E. (2014): The Holocene temperature conundrum, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111 (34), E3501-E3505, doi:10.1073/pnas.1407229111.

Stute, M., Clement, A. and Lohmann, G. (2001): Global climate models: Past, present and future, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 98 (19), pp. 10529-10530,  doi:10.1073/pnas.191366098.

Guo, D., H Wang, V Romanovsky, A Haywood, N Pepin, J Sun, Q Yan, Z Zhang, X Li, B Otto-Bliesner, R Feng, G Lohmann, C Stepanek, A Abe-Ouchi, W-L Chan, W. R. Peltier, D. Chandan, A. von der Heydt, C. Contoux, M. Chandler, N Tan, Q Zhang, S Hunter, Y Kamae 2023: Highly restricted near-surface permafrost extent during the mid-Pliocene warm period. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120 (36) e2301954120 doi:10.1073/pnas.2301954120 (press German) (press English)

Science

Barker, S., Knorr, G., Edwards, R. L., Parrenin, F., Putnam, A. E., Skinner, L. C., Wolff, E. and Ziegler, M. (2011): 800,000 Years of Abrupt Climate Variability, Science, 334, pp. 347-351, doi:10.1126/science.1203580.

Drysdale, R. N., Hellstrom, J. C., Zanchetta, G., Fallick, A. E., Sánchez Goñi, M. F., Couchoud, I., McDonald, J., Maas, R., Lohmann, G. and Isola, I. (2009), Evidence for Obliquity Forcing of Glacial Termination II, Science, 325 (5947), pp. 1527-1531, doi:10.1126/science.1170371

McGregor, H. V., Dima, M., Fischer, H. and Mulitza, S. (2007): Rapid 20th-Century Increase in Coastal Upwelling off Northwest Africa, Science, 315 ( 5812), pp. 637-639, doi:10.1126/science.1134839.