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Hubertus Fischer

Prof. Hubertus Fischer

Physikalisches Institut - Klima- und Umweltphysik
Universität Bern
Sidlerstr. 5
CH-3012 Bern
Switzerland

Phone: +41 (0) 31 631 85 03
Phone2: +41 (0) 31 631 44 64
Fax: +41 (0) 31 631 87 42
E-mail: hubertus.fischer(at)climate.unibe.ch
URL Institution: www.climate.unibe.ch/
Personal URL: link


Programs in which Hubertus Fischer holds an official function:
PAGESscientific steering committee2011 -
PAGESco-chair2011 -



Additional functions:
  • Member of the steering group of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Focus Program INTERDYNAMIK
  • Member of the Steering Committee of the International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences (IPICS), a multinational effort to plan, coordinate and support ice core paleoclimatology for the next decade
  • Head of the international lab consortium working on gases enclosed in the EPICA (European Project of Ice Coing in Antarctica) ice cores
  • Editor for Climate of the Past, an interactive scientific journal of the European Geosciences Union
  • Guest Editor for PAGES news (Special issue on ice core science), Vol, 14, No. 1


    Key Publications of Hubertus Fischer (up to five) :
  • Fischer, H, Behrens,, M., Bock, M., Salzer, U., Schmitt, J., Loulergue, L., Chappellaz, J., Spahni, R., Blunier, T., Leuenberger, M., Stocker, T., Changing boreal methane sources and constant biomass burning during the last termination, Nature, 452, 864-867, 2008.
  • Fischer, H., Siggaard-Andersen, M.-L., Ruth, U., Röthlisberger, R. and Wolff, E., Glacial/interglacial changes in mineral dust and sea salt records in polar ice cores: sources, transport, deposition, Reviews of Geophysics, 45, RG1002, doi:10.1029/2005RG000192, 2007.
  • EPICA community members (corresponding author: H. Fischer) One-to-one coupling of glacial climate variability in Greenland and Antarctica, Nature, 444, 195-198, 2006.
  • Winckler, G. & Fischer, H., 30,000 years of cosmic dust in Antarctic ice, Science, 313, 491, 2006.
  • Wolff, E.W., Fischer, H., Fundel, F., Ruth, U., Twarloh, B., Littot, G., Mulvaney, R., Röthlisberger, R., de Angelis, M., Boutron, C., Hansson, M., Jonsell, U., Hutterli, M., Bigler, M., Lambert, F., Kaufmann, P., Stauffer, B., Steffensen, J.P., Siggaard-Andersen, M.L., Udisti, R., Becagli, S., Castellano, E., Severi, M., Wagenbach, D., Barbante, C., Gabrielli, P. and Gaspari, V., Southern Ocean sea ice, DMS production and iron flux over the last eight glacial cycles, Nature, 440, 491-496, 2006.



    Expertise of Hubertus Fischer:
    Expertise CategorySpecific Expertise
    PAGES TopicsClimate Dynamics
    Biogeochemical Cycles
    PAGES TimescalesPleistocene (glacial-interglacial cycles)
    Holocene (10,000 years)
    Last Millennium
    Abrupt Events
    PAGES LocationGlobal
    Northern Hemisphere
    Southern Hemisphere
    Polar Regions
    PAGES ParametersTemperature
    Chemical Tracers
    Isotopes
    Carbon
    PAGES ArchivesIce Cores/Glaciers
    PAGES ProxiesIsotopes
    Other Proxies (aerosol chemistry)

    Specialties of Hubertus Fischer: Changes in climate and biogeochemical cycles in the past

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