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Andreas Kääb

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Environmental Sciences
Norway
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
91
Citations
34116
World Ranking
556
National Ranking
5

Andreas Kääb publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Andreas Kääb sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 354 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Andreas Kääb D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Andreas Kääb sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 91 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Norway Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Norway Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Andreas Kääb is a researcher affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Global and Planetary Change, and Aerospace Engineering. The main topics of their research focus on cryospheric studies and observations, climate change and permafrost, landslides and related hazards, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, winter sports injuries and performance, geology and paleoclimatology research, and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) applications and techniques.

The scientist has published extensively, including prominent papers such as:

  • A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya, 2021, Science
  • Sudden large-volume detachments of low-angle mountain glaciers - more frequent than thought?, 2021, The Cryosphere
  • Reconciling Svalbard Glacier Mass Balance, 2020, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Monitoring Rock Glacier Kinematics with Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Inventory and changes of rock glacier creep speeds in Ile Alatau and Kungöy Ala-Too, northern Tien Shan, since the 1950s, 2021, The Cryosphere

The publication venues where this researcher frequently publishes include The Cryosphere, Remote Sensing, Journal of Glaciology, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, and Permafrost and Periglacial Processes.

Frequent collaborators in their research projects are Thomas V. Schuler, Xavier Bodín, Étienne Berthier, Tazio Strozzi, and Adrien Gilbert.

Best Publications

  • The state and fate of Himalayan glaciers

    Tobias Bolch;Tobias Bolch;A Kulkarni;Andreas Kääb;Christian Huggel;Christian Huggel

  • Contrasting patterns of early twenty-first-century glacier mass change in the Himalayas

    Andreas Kääb;Etienne Berthier;Christopher Nuth;Julie Gardelle

  • Accelerated global glacier mass loss in the early twenty-first century

    Romain Hugonnet;Romain Hugonnet;Romain Hugonnet;Robert McNabb;Robert McNabb;Etienne Berthier;Brian Menounos

  • Co-registration and bias corrections of satellite elevation data sets for quantifying glacier thickness change

    C. Nuth;A. Kääb

  • Northern Hemisphere permafrost map based on TTOP modelling for 2000–2016 at 1 km2 scale

    Jaroslav Obu;Sebastian Westermann;Annett Bartsch;Nikolai M. Berdnikov

  • Region-wide glacier mass balances over the Pamir-Karakoram-Himalaya during 1999–2011

    Julie Gardelle;Etienne Berthier;Yves Arnaud;Andreas Kääb

  • Permafrost and climate in Europe: Monitoring and modelling thermal, geomorphological and geotechnical responses

    Charles Harris;Lukas U. Arenson;Hanne H. Christiansen;Bernd Etzelmüller

  • A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya

    D. H. Shugar;M. Jacquemart;M. Jacquemart;M. Jacquemart;D. Shean;S. Bhushan

  • Permafrost creep and rock glacier dynamics

    Wilfried Haeberli;Bernard Hallet;Lukas Arenson;Roger Elconin

  • Remote sensing based assessment of hazards from glacier lake outbursts: a case study in the Swiss Alps

    Christian Huggel;Andreas Kääb;Wilfried Haeberli;Philippe Teysseire

  • Combining satellite multispectral image data and a digital elevation model for mapping debris-covered glaciers

    Frank Paul;Christian Huggel;Andreas Kääb

  • Rapid disintegration of Alpine glaciers observed with satellite data

    Frank Paul;Andreas Kääb;Max Maisch;Tobias Kellenberger

  • Geomorphic and geologic controls of geohazards induced by Nepal’s 2015 Gorkha earthquake

    J. S. Kargel;G. J. Leonard;D. H. Shugar;U. K. Haritashya

  • The new remote-sensing-derived Swiss glacier inventory: I. Methods

    Frank Paul;Andreas Kääb;Max Maisch;Tobias Kellenberger

  • Monitoring high-mountain terrain deformation from repeated air- and spaceborne optical data: examples using digital aerial imagery and ASTER data

    Andreas Kääb

  • A spatially resolved estimate of High Mountain Asia glacier mass balances from 2000 to 2016

    Fanny Brun;Etienne Berthier;Patrick Wagnon;Andreas Kääb

  • Brief Communication: Contending estimates of 2003–2008 glacier mass balance over the Pamir–Karakoram–Himalaya

    A. Kääb;D. Treichler;C. Nuth;E. Berthier

  • Combination of SRTM3 and repeat ASTER data for deriving alpine glacier flow velocities in the Bhutan Himalaya

    A. Kääb

  • Evaluation of existing image matching methods for deriving glacier surface displacements globally from optical satellite imagery

    T. Heid;A. Kääb

  • Sub-pixel precision image matching for measuring surface displacements on mass movements using normalized cross-correlation

    Misganu Debella-Gilo;Andreas Kääb

  • High mountain areas

    Regine Hock;Golam Rasul;Carolina Adler;Bolivar Cáceres

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Huggel
Christian Huggel University of Zurich
Frank Paul
Frank Paul University of Zurich
Wilfried Haeberli
Wilfried Haeberli University of Zurich
Christopher Nuth
Christopher Nuth University of Oslo
Tazio Strozzi
Tazio Strozzi Gamma Remote Sensing (Switzerland)
Sebastian Westermann
Sebastian Westermann University of Oslo
Jeffrey S. Kargel
Jeffrey S. Kargel Planetary Science Institute
Etienne Berthier
Etienne Berthier Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales
Annett Bartsch
Annett Bartsch Central Institution for Meteorology and Geodynamics
Andreas Wiesmann
Andreas Wiesmann University of Bern

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