Publications

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Peer review publications

Published and in press

• Affek H.P. Clumped isotopic equilibrium and the rate of isotope exchange between CO₂ and water. American Journal of Science. In press.
  
• Affek H.P., Yakir D. The stable isotopic composition of atmospheric CO₂. Invited review article for the Treatise on Geochemistry, 2^nd edition. In press.
• Kluge T., Affek H.P., Marx T., Aeschbach-Hertig W., Riechelmann D.F.C., Scholz D., Riechelmann S., Immenhauser A., Richter D.K., Fohlmeister J., Wackerbarth A., Mangini A., Spötl C. (2013) Reconstruction of drip-water δ¹⁸O based on calcite oxygen and clumped isotopes of kinetic speleothems from Bunker Cave (Germany). Climate of the Past. 9. 377-391.
• Saenger C., Affek H.P., Felis T., Thiagarajan N., Lough J.M., Holcomb M. (2012) Carbonate clumped isotope variability in shallow water corals: Temperature dependence and growth-related vital effects. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 99. 224-242.
  

• Affek, H.P. (2012) Clumped isotope paleothermometry: Principles, applications, and challenges. in Linda C. Ivany and Brian Huber (eds.), Reconstructing Earth’s Deep-Time Climate – The State of the Art in 2012. Paleontological Society Papers, v. 18. 101-114.
• Kluge T., Affek H.P. (2012) Quantifying kinetic fractionation in Bunker cave speleothems using ∆₄₇. Quaternary Science Reviews. 49. 82-94.
• Brand U., Posenato R., Came R., Affek H., Angiolini L., Azmy K., Farabegoli E. (2012) The end Permian mass extiction: a volcanic CO₂ – climatic global catastrophe. Chemical Geology. 322-3. 121-144.
• Zaarur S., Olack G.A., Affek H.P. (2011) Paleo-environmental implications of clumped isotopes in land snails shells. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75. 6859-6869.
• Dennis K.J., Affek H.P., Passey B.H., Schrag D.P., Eiler J.M., Defining an absolute reference frame for ‘clumped’ isotope studies of CO₂. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 75. 7117-7131.
• Keating-Bitonti C., Ivany L., Affek H., Douglas P., Samson S. (2011) Warm, not super-hot, temperatures in the Early Eocene subtropics. Geology 39 (8). 771-774.
• Yeung L.Y.*, Affek H.P.*, Hoag K.J., Guo W., Wiegel A.A., Atlas E.L., Schauffler S.M., Okumura M., Boering K.A. and Eiler J.M. (2009) Large and unexpected enrichment in stratospheric ¹⁶O¹³C¹⁸O and its meridional variations.  PNAS 106 (28). 11496-11501 (*equal contribution by Yeung and Affek).
• Huntington K., Eiler J., Affek H.P., Guo W., Bonafacie M., Yeung L.Y., Thiagarajan N., Passey B., Tripati A., Daëron M., Came R. (2009) Methods and limitations of ‘clumped’ CO₂ isotope (∆₄₇) analysis by gas source isotope ratio mass spectrometry. Journal of Mass Spectrometry 44. 1318-1329.
• Newman S., Xu X., Affek H.P., Stolper E., Epstein S. (2008) Changes in mixing ratio and isotopic composition of CO₂ in urban air in the Los Angeles basin, California, between 1972 and 2003. Journal of Geophysical research - atmospheres. 113. D23304.
• Affek H.P., Bar-Matthews M., Ayalon A., Matthews A., and Eiler J.M. (2008) Glacial/interglacial temperature variations in Soreq cave speleothems as recorded by 'clumped isotope' thermometry. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72. 5351-5360.
• Affek H.P., Xu, X. and Eiler J.M. (2007) Seasonal and diurnal variations of ¹³C¹⁸O¹⁶O in air: Initial observations from Pasadena, CA.Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71. 5033-5043.
• Ghosh P., Adkins J., Affek H.P., Balta B., Guo W., Schauble E. A. and Eiler J.M. (2006) ¹³C-¹⁸O bonds in carbonate minerals: A new kind of paleothermometer. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70, 1439-1456.
• Affek H.P. and Eiler J.M. (2006) Abundance of mass 47 CO₂ in urban air, car exhaust and human breath. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70, 1-12.
• Affek H.P., Krisch M.J. and Yakir D. (2006) Effects of intra-leaf variations in carbonic anhydrase activity and gas exchange on leaf C¹⁸OO isoflux in Zea mays. New Phytologist 169(2), 321-329.
• Affek H.P. and Yakir D. (2003) Natural abundance carbon isotope composition of isoprene reflects incomplete coupling between isoprene synthesis and photosynthetic carbon flow. Plant Physiology 131, 1727-1736.
• Affek H.P. and Yakir D. (2002) Protection by isoprene against singlet oxygen in leaves. Plant Physiology 129(1), 269-277.
• Affek H.P., Ronen D. and Yakir D. (1998) Production of CO₂ in the capillary fringe of a deep phreatic aquifer. Water Resources Research 34(5), 989-996. 

Submitted manuscripts

• Zaarur S., Affek H.P., Brandon M.T. A revised calibration of the clumped isotopes thermometer. Submitted to Earth and Planetary Research Letters.
• Kluge T., Affek H.P., Dublyansly Y., Spötl C., Immenhauser A., Richter D.K. Clumped isotope thermometry of cryogenic cave calcites in the Herbstlabyrinth-Adventhöhle cave system (Germany). Submitted to Geochimica et Cosmichimica Acta.

Non peer review publications

• Affek H.P. (2010) What we know about the climate. Yale Alumni Magazine, Forum article. July/August 2010. 28-29. Invited opinion article.