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Catherine Ritz's Degrees
- Masters Geophysics Université Paris Cité
- Bachelors Physics Université Paris Cité
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Catherine Ritz is a French Antarctic researcher, best known for her work on ice sheets and their impact on sea level rise. Early life and education Catherine Ritz received her master's degree Maîtrise de Physique in physics in France in 1975. She conducted her PhD research leading toward the degree Thèse de 3ème cycle in 1980 from the University of Grenoble, and she received her Thèse de Doctorat d’Etat in 1992.
Catherine Ritz's Published Works
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- Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica (1999) (6140)
- Eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core (2004) (1774)
- Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core (2013) (594)
- A 150,000-year climatic record from Antarctic ice (1985) (571)
- Extending the Vostok ice-core record of palaeoclimate to the penultimate glacial period (1993) (567)
- An optimized multi-proxy, multi-site Antarctic ice and gas orbital chronology (AICC2012): 120--800 ka (2012) (368)
- Potential sea-level rise from Antarctic ice-sheet instability constrained by observations (2015) (335)
- Modeling the evolution of Antarctic ice sheet over the last 420,000 years: Implications for altitude changes in the Vostok region (2001) (328)
- Ice-sheet mass balance and climate change (2013) (277)
- Consistent dating for Antarctic and Greenland ice cores (2010) (270)
- Past and future polar amplification of climate change: climate model intercomparisons and ice-core constraints (2006) (270)
- Sensitivity of a Greenland ice sheet model to ice flow and ablation parameters: consequences for the evolution through the last climatic cycle (1996) (233)
- Expression of the bipolar see-saw in Antarctic climate records during the last deglaciation (2011) (222)
- Results from the EISMINT model intercomparison: the effects of thermomechanical coupling (2000) (221)
- Greenland ice sheet contribution to sea-level rise from a new-generation ice-sheet model (2012) (220)
- Revisiting Antarctic ice loss due to marine ice-cliff instability (2018) (214)
- Modeling the densification of polar firn including heat diffusion: Application to close‐off characteristics and gas isotopic fractionation for Antarctica and Greenland sites (2003) (208)
- Climatic interpretation of the recently extended Vostok ice records (1996) (172)
- 1-D-ice flow modelling at EPICA Dome C and Dome Fuji, East Antarctica (2007) (151)
- Where to find 1.5 million yr old ice for the IPICS "Oldest-Ice" ice core (2013) (138)
- A comparison of the present and last interglacial periods in six Antarctic ice cores (2010) (135)
- New modeling of the Vostok ice flow line and implication for the glaciological chronology of the Vostok ice core (2004) (128)
- The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets under 1.5 °C global warming (2018) (123)
- Heinrich event 1: an example of dynamical ice-sheet reaction to oceanic changes (2011) (118)
- Enhancement factors for grounded ice and ice shelves inferred from an anisotropic ice-flow model (2010) (113)
- Modeling of the thermal behavior and of the chemical differentiation of cometary nuclei (1991) (112)
- Links between ocean temperature and iceberg discharge during Heinrich events (2010) (111)
- Enhanced ice sheet growth in Eurasia owing to adjacent ice-dammed lakes (2004) (103)
- Dating the Vostok ice core by an inverse method (2001) (100)
- Numerical reconstructions of the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets through the last glacial-interglacial cycle (2006) (95)
- Is there a conflict between the Neoproterozoic glacial deposits and the snowball Earth interpretation: an improved understanding with numerical modeling (2003) (93)
- Effect of impurities on grain growth in cold ice sheets (2006) (93)
- Simulations of Northern Hemisphere ice-sheet retreat:: sensitivity to physical mechanisms involved during the Last Deglaciation (2002) (91)
- Effect of uncertainty in surface mass balance-elevation feedback on projections of the future sea level contribution of the Greenland ice sheet (2013) (84)
- Assimilation of surface velocities acquired between 1996 and 2010 to constrain the form of the basal friction law under Pine Island Glacier (2016) (82)
- Modelling the Early Weichselian Eurasian Ice Sheets: role of ice shelves and influence of ice-dammed lakes (2007) (80)
- An ice-shelf model test based on the Ross ice shelf (1996) (79)
- Iceberg discharges of the last glacial period driven by oceanic circulation changes (2013) (78)
- Air content along the Greenland Ice Core Project core: A record of surface climatic parameters and elevation (1997) (78)
- Quantifying ice‐sheet feedbacks during the last glacial inception (2004) (71)
- Global budget of water isotopes inferred from polar ice sheets (2005) (68)
- Quantarctica, an integrated mapping environment for Antarctica, the Southern Ocean, and sub-Antarctic islands (2021) (64)
- New MIS 19 EPICA Dome C high resolution deuterium data: hints for a problematic preservation of climate variability at sub-millennial scale in the "oldest ice" (2010) (64)
- Evolution of the Antarctic ice sheet throughout the last deglaciation: A study with a new coupled climate—north and south hemisphere ice sheet model (2006) (64)
- Assessment of the Greenland ice sheet–atmosphere feedbacks for the next century with a regional atmospheric model coupled to an ice sheet model (2017) (63)
- Greenland ice sheet contribution to sea level rise during the last interglacial period: a modelling study driven and constrained by ice core data (2013) (55)
- Results from the Ice-Sheet Model Intercomparison Project–Heinrich Event Intercomparison (ISMIP HEINO) (2010) (53)
- Interpretation of the Temperature Profile Measured at Vostok, East Antarctica (1989) (51)
- Greenland under changing climates: sensitivity experiments with a new three-dimensional ice-sheet model (1995) (47)
- Mass balance of the ice sheets and glaciers – Progress since AR5 and challenges (2020) (45)
- Sustained Antarctic Research: A 21st Century Imperative (2019) (45)
- Greenland climate change: from the past to the future (2012) (45)
- The crystal fabric of ice from full‐waveform borehole sonic logging (2012) (45)
- Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum (2021) (44)
- The GRISLI ice sheet model (version 2.0): calibration and validation for multi-millennial changes of the Antarctic ice sheet (2018) (42)
- Sensitivity of a Greenland ice sheet model to atmospheric forcing fields (2012) (41)
- Is there 1.5-million-year-old ice near Dome C, Antarctica? (2015) (41)
- Recommendations for the collection and synthesis of Antarctic Ice Sheet mass balance data (2004) (40)
- Report of the Third EISMINT Workshop on Model Intercomparison (1998) (38)
- Adding a dynamical cryosphere to iLOVECLIM (version 1.0): coupling with the GRISLI ice-sheet model (2013) (37)
- Investigating the mechanisms leading to the deglaciation of past continental northern hemisphere ice sheets with the CLIMBER¿GREMLINS coupled model (2005) (36)
- Influence of regional factors on the surface mass balance of the large Eurasian ice sheet during the peak Saalian (140 kyrs BP) (2009) (33)
- Time dependent boundary conditions for calculation of temperature fields in ice sheets (2007) (33)
- The Last Deglaciation in Antarctica: Further Evidence of a “Younger Dryas” Type Climatic Event (1992) (32)
- Influence of ablation-related processes in the build-up of simulated Northern Hemisphere ice sheets during the last glacial cycle (2012) (32)
- High-resolution boundary conditions of an old ice target near Dome C, Antarctica (2016) (30)
- A thermomechanical model of ice-shelf flow (1996) (29)
- Probabilistic parameterisation of the surface mass balance--elevation feedback in regional climate model simulations of the Greenland ice sheet (2014) (28)
- Interdependence of the growth of the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets during the last glaciation: the role of atmospheric circulation (2014) (26)
- Accumulation patterns around Dome C, East Antarctica, in the last 73 kyr (2018) (25)
- On the retrieval of internal temperature of Antarctica Ice Sheet by using SMOS observations (2019) (23)
- The Antarctic ice core chronology (AICC2012) (2013) (22)
- Analysis of A 870 M Deep Temperature Profile at Dome C (1982) (21)
- Geothermal flux and basal melt rate in the Dome C region inferred from radar reflectivity and heat modelling (2017) (21)
- Analyzing and modeling the SMOS spatial variations in the East Antarctic Plateau (2016) (21)
- Past and future polar amplification of climate change: climate model intercomparisons and ice-core constraints (2006) (21)
- Global change over the last climatic cycle from the vostok ice core record (Antarctica) (1989) (20)
- An ice-shelf model test based on the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica (1996) (19)
- How might the North American ice sheet influence the northwestern Eurasian climate (2015) (18)
- Ice-sheet flow features and rheological parameters derived from precise altimetric topography (1996) (18)
- An ETKF approach for initial state and parameter estimation in ice sheet modelling (2014) (18)
- Millennial-scale oscillations in the Southern Ocean in response to atmospheric CO2 increase (2011) (17)
- Brief communication: Candidate sites of 1.5 Myr old ice 37 km southwest of the Dome C summit, East Antarctica (2018) (17)
- Modeling Northern Hemisphere ice-sheet distribution during MIS 5 and MIS 7 glacial inceptions (2014) (16)
- International Effort Helps Decipher Mysteries of Paleoclimate from Antarctic Ice Cores (1995) (16)
- Coupling an AGCM with an ISM to investigate the ice sheets mass balance at the Last Glacial Maximum (1998) (15)
- Phase relationships between orbital forcing and the composition of air trapped in Antarctic ice cores (2015) (15)
- Modelling of Last Glacial Maximum ice sheets using different accumulation parameterizations (1997) (13)
- Brief communication: New radar constraints support presence of ice older than 1.5 Myr at Little Dome C (2020) (13)
- Sensitivity of Northern Hemispheric continental ice sheets to tropical SST during deglaciation (2004) (13)
- Geothermal heat flux from measured temperature profiles in deep ice boreholes in Antarctica (2020) (13)
- Cryorad: A Low Frequency Wideband Radiometer Mission for the Study of the Cryosphere (2018) (12)
- A rapidly converging initialisation method to simulate the present-day Greenland ice sheet using the GRISLI ice sheet model (version 1.3) (2019) (12)
- Response of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet to past and future climate change (2022) (12)
- A simplified multi-scale model for predicting climatic variations of the ice-sheet surface elevation in central Antarctica (1996) (11)
- Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 11 in the Vostok Ice Core: CO2 Forcing and Stability of East Antarctica (2013) (11)
- Retrieval of the Absorption Coefficient of L-Band Radiation in Antarctica From SMOS Observations (2018) (10)
- Deglacial Ice Sheet Instabilities Induced by Proglacial Lakes (2020) (9)
- Ice-sheet mass balance during the last glacial maximum (1997) (8)
- Description and validation of the ice-sheet model Yelmo (version 1.0) (2019) (8)
- Modelling of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet (1993) (7)
- Polarimetric radar reveals the spatial distribution of ice fabric at domes and divides in East Antarctica (2022) (7)
- Performance and applicability of a 2.5-D ice-flow model in the vicinity of a dome (2016) (6)
- Polarimetric radar reveals the spatial distribution of ice fabric at domes in East Antarctica (2021) (6)
- ff ect of uncertainty in surface mass balance – elevation feedback on projections of the future sea level contribution of the Greenland ice sheet – Part 1 : Parameterisation (2013) (5)
- Antarctic Geothermal Heat Flow: Future research directions (2020) (4)
- Description and validation of the icesheet model Yelmo ( version 1 . 0 ) (2019) (4)
- Data assimilation in glaciology (2012) (4)
- How deep do you need to drill through ice to measure the geothermal heat flux (2010) (4)
- A rapidly converging spin-up method for the present-day Greenlandice sheet using the GRISLI ice-sheet model (2018) (4)
- Stable accumulation patterns around Dome C, East Antarctica, over the last glacial cycle (2017) (4)
- 38. Mechanisms leading to the last glacial inception over North America: Results from the CLIMBER-GREMLINS atmosphere-ocean-vegetation northern hemisphere ice-sheet model (2007) (3)
- Contribution of Greenland ice sheet melting to sea level rise during the last interglacial period: an approach combining ice sheet modelling and proxy data (2012) (3)
- A detailed radiostratigraphic data set for the central East Antarctic Plateau spanning the last half million years (2020) (3)
- A detailed radiostratigraphic data set for the central East Antarctic Plateau spanning from the Holocene to the mid-Pleistocene (2021) (3)
- Testing the validity of the boundary layer flux-thickness relationship at the grounding line (2011) (2)
- Calibration and spinup of an ice sheet model: application to the Antarctic ice sheet. (2010) (2)
- Interdependence of the Northern Hemisphere ice-sheets build-up during the last glaciation: the role of atmospheric circulation (2013) (2)
- Impact of Ice-dammed Lakes on the Early Weichselian Climate of Northern Eurasia (2003) (2)
- Carbon dioxide composite data on AICC2012 chronology (2013) (2)
- Sensitivity of a Greenland ice sheet model to atmospheric fields (2010) (2)
- delta Deuterium measured on ice core EDC on AICC2012 chronology (2013) (2)
- Full-Stokes finite element modelling of the Greenland ice-sheet using inverse methods. (2011) (1)
- Interactive comment on “ Adding a dynamical cryosphere into i LOVECLIM ( version 1 . 0 ) – Part 1 : Coupling with the GRISLI icesheet model ” by D (2013) (1)
- Stability of the accumulation pattern around Dome C over the last glacial cycle (2017) (1)
- Greenland Ice Sheet sensitivity to surface mass balance forcing using high resolution full-Stokes simulations (2012) (1)
- Two data assimilation problems in glaciology (2012) (1)
- The Climatic Record from Antarctic Ice Now Extends Back to 220 kyr BP (1994) (1)
- Data assimilation methods for ice-sheet model initialisation (2012) (1)
- Water stable oxygen isotope records from six Antarctic ice core sites for the present and last interglacial periods (2011) (1)
- Geothermal heat flux and basal melt rate in the Dome C region inferred from radar reflectivity and thermal modelling. (2017) (1)
- Quantifying ambiguity in sea-level projections (2021) (1)
- Investigating Greenland Ice Sheet dynamics over next century using high resolution full-Stokes simulations (2011) (1)
- AICC2012 chronology for ice core EDML (2013) (1)
- Intercomparison of Greenland ice sheet models (1999) (1)
- Brief Communication: Can recent ice discharges following the Larsen-B ice-shelf collapse be used to (2011) (1)
- To which extent can global ice volume records provide information on past ice sheets evolution and the climate that drove them (2011) (1)
- A comparison of two Antarctic ice sheet models applied to the glacial cycles (1999) (1)
- Ensemble methods for ice sheet model initialisation (2012) (1)
- Data from the EPICA Dome C ice core EDC (2004) (1)
- Developing an emulator to calculate present temperature field in the Antarctic Ice Sheet (2021) (0)
- Modelling the Early Weichselian Eurasian Ice Sheets (2007) (0)
- Role of the feedbacks between ocean /ice-shelves /streams in Heinrich events: from a conceptual to a 3D model (2009) (0)
- Grain radius from selected samples of the EPICA Dome C ice core EDC, 110-3100 metres (2004) (0)
- Marine Isotope Stage 11 : The Role of Co2, Insolation and Antarctica Ice Sheet On This Interglacial (2002) (0)
- Introduction to data assimilation in glaciology (2013) (0)
- The relationship between climate and ice rheology at Dome C, East Antarctica: a comparison of fabric determined by borehole sonic logging and thin sections. (2011) (0)
- Data assimilation in glaciology - Three inverse problems (2013) (0)
- The Friction Law Stress Exponent under Pine Island Glacier from 15 Years of Surface Elevation and Velocity Measurements (2015) (0)
- Icebase: A suborbital survey to map geothermal heat flux under an ice sheet (2013) (0)
- Improve the knowledge of bedrock/ice interface for polar ice sheets (2013) (0)
- Internal or induced discharges of the Laurentide ice sheet during the last glacial period (2012) (0)
- Simulation of A Glacial-interglacial Cycle With A 3d Ice-sheet Model Forced By Different Agcms (2002) (0)
- Impact of paleo ice streams dynamics on the topography of the Antarctic ice sheet during LGM (2012) (0)
- Methane measured on ice core NGRIP on AICC2012 chronology (2013) (0)
- The roughness of grounded ice sheet beds: Case studies from high resolution radio echo sounding studies in Antarctica (2017) (0)
- Internal ice-penetrating radar stratigraphy at the Little Dome C Oldest Ice site (2018) (0)
- Antarctic instability and possible associated contribution to sea-level rise (2012) (0)
- Initializing the Greenland ice sheet to investigate its sensitivity to climate changes: a study with the GRISLI model. (2016) (0)
- Regional differences in the δO2/N2 records from East Antarctica over the last interglacial (2013) (0)
- Antarctic ice sheet paleo-constraint database (2022) (0)
- Future projections of the Greenland ice sheet mass balance using the regional climate MAR model coupled with the GRISLI ice sheet model (2015) (0)
- Old ice investigation along the Dome C ridge using a 2.5D thermomecanical ice flow model (2015) (0)
- Geothermal flux beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet derived from measured temperature profiles in deep boreholes (2020) (0)
- AICC2012 chronology for ice core TALDICE (2013) (0)
- Data assimilation based on Ensemble Kalman filtering for ice sheet initialisation (2013) (0)
- Climate response to freshwater perturbations in Northern or Southern Hemispheres at the last glacial inception, the last glacial maximum and the present-day (2010) (0)
- Global possibilistic sea-level projections and their regional implications (2018) (0)
- Corrigendum to "Influence of ablation-related processes in the build-up of simulated Northern Hemisphere ice sheets during the last glacial cycle" published in The Cryosphere, 7, 681–698, 2013 (2013) (0)
- The Cryosphere and Sea Level (2020) (0)
- Sensitivity of the climate of the European Arctic to changes in the continental surface conditions (2004) (0)
- Glaciological setting and subglacial conditions at Little Dome C, the future site for Beyond Epica – Oldest Ice Core (2020) (0)
- Can recent ice discharges following the Larsen-B ice-shelf collapse be used to infer the driving mechanisms of millennial-scale variations of the Laurentide ice sheet ? ” (2011) (0)
- Revisiting Antarctic ice loss due to marine ice cliff instability (2023) (0)
- Dome C age scale EDC2 for ice core EDC (2004) (0)
- MIS 7 and MIS 5 glacial inceptions: investigating the asynchronous build-up of Laurentide and Eurasian ice sheets (2012) (0)
- Climatic imprint in the mechanical properties of ice sheets and its effect on ice flow: Observations from South Pole and EPICA Dome C ice cores (2020) (0)
- Observationally constrained projections of Antarctic ice sheet instability (2015) (0)
- Combining Glaciological Models and Tracers for Understanding Isotopic Records in Antarctica (2002) (0)
- Modelling Northern Hemisphere ice sheets distribution during MIS5 and MIS7 glacial inceptions (2012) (0)
- AICC2012 chronology for ice core Vostok (2013) (0)
- Deuterium data from EPICA Dome C ice core EDC, 6.6-3140.5 metres (2004) (0)
- Methane measured on ice core Vostok on AICC2012 chronology (2013) (0)
- outputs Probabilistic parameterisation of the surface mass balance – elevation feedback in regional climate model simulations of the Greenland ice sheet (2017) (0)
- Transient simulation of the last inception (128 to 115ka BP): cryosphere and climate interactions (2010) (0)
- Brief communication: "Oldest Ice" patches diagnosed37 km southwest of Dome C, East Antarctica (2018) (0)
- Mountain glacier flow modelling: a comparison of different models from the shallow ice approximation to the full-stokes solution (2007) (0)
- Initialization of a full-Stokes finite element model of the Greenland ice-sheet using inverse methods (2010) (0)
- Modeling interactions between Antarctic Instability and Surface Mass Balance. (2015) (0)
- SUMMARY OF MAJOR CHANGES TO (2005) (0)
- Investigating Greenland Ice Sheet dynamics using high resolution full-Stokes simulations (2011) (0)
- Relation between the occurence of major glaciations of Antarctica and Greenland and the atmospheric CO2: a modelling approach (2009) (0)
- Heinrich events induced by oceanic circulation changes (2014) (0)
- Retrieval of ice sheet temperature profile in antarctica by using smos data: A combination of glaciological and microwave emission models (2017) (0)
- The Open University ’ s repository of research publications and other research outputs Effect of uncertainty in surface mass balance – elevation feedback on projections of the future sea level contribution of the Greenland ice sheet (2017) (0)
- Long-term climatic and environmental records from Antarctic ice (2013) (0)
- Toward a unified approach to quantify uncertainties in sea-level projections (2018) (0)
- AICC2012 chronology for ice core NGRIP (2013) (0)
- Collaborative data-modelling approach to infer Oldest Ice sites in the vicinity of Concordia. (2017) (0)
- Concentration of insoluble dust in the EPICA Dome C ice core EDC, 100-3138 metres (2004) (0)
- Evaluation of three methods of different levels of complexity to represent the interactions between the Greenland ice sheet and the atmosphere at the century time scale. (2017) (0)
- Delta 18O record versus age for 150 ka in ice core Vostok (1985) (0)
- delta 18O measured on ice core NGRIP on AICC2012 chronology (2013) (0)
- Investigating the impact of the ablation parameterization on simulated ice sheets over the last glacial cycle (2011) (0)
- Inverse Modeling of the Greenland Ice Sheet Flow Dynamics: from Local Sensitivity to Large-Scale Model Initialisation (2013) (0)
- Impact of planetary waves on ice-sheet evolution throughout the last glacial - interglacial cycle (2012) (0)
- Revisiting Antarctic ice loss due to marine ice-cliff instability (2019) (0)
- Open Revisiting Antarctic ice loss due to marine ice cliff instability (2022) (0)
- Simulation of the Late Saalian (140 ka BP) climate in Eurasia: Conditions for the existence of an (2007) (0)
- The French contribution to the atmospheric and cryospheric component of an Arctic Observatory (2010) (0)
- A Bayesian approach to infer ice sheet temperature in Antarctica from satellite observations (2021) (0)
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