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Norway
2022

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Earth Science

D-Index
65
Citations
12129
World Ranking
1444
National Ranking
16

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Atle Nesje is affiliated with the University of Bergen in Norway and has a research focus primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly work spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Earth-Surface Processes, Anthropology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

Their research topics cover a range of areas, most notably:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance

Nesje has contributed to a variety of peer-reviewed journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Holocene
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Quaternary Research
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Boreas

Their recent papers demonstrate involvement in studies of glaciers, rock glaciers, and geological hazards. Notable works include:

  • A reconstruction of Jostedalsbreen during the Little Ice Age and geometric changes to outlet glaciers since then, 2022, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • New evidence for active talus-foot rock glaciers at Øyberget, southern Norway, and their development during the Holocene, 2021, The Holocene
  • Mass balance and hydrological modeling of the Hardangerjøkulen ice cap in south-central Norway, 2021, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Evidence for rapid paraglacial formation of rock glaciers in southern Norway from 10Be surface-exposure dating, 2020, Quaternary Research
  • Anatomy of a Catastrophe: Reconstructing the 1936 Rock Fall and Tsunami Event in Lake Lovatnet, Western Norway, 2021, Frontiers in Earth Science

Among frequent collaborators are Jacob C. Yde, John A. Matthews, Henriette Linge, Stefan Winkler, and Jonathan L. Carrivick, suggesting a network of research partnerships focused on geological and cryospheric studies.

Best Publications

  • Holocene glacier fluctuations

    Olga N. Solomina;Raymond S. Bradley;Dominic A. Hodgson;Susan Ivy-Ochs;Susan Ivy-Ochs

  • A new approach to calculating Holocene winter precipitation by combining glacier equilibrium-line altitudes and pine-tree limits: a case stud from Hardangerjokulen, central southern Norway:

    Svein Olaf Dahl;Atle Nesje

  • Holocene glacier fluctuations of Flatebreen and winter-precipitation changes in the Jostedalsbreen region, western Norvay, based on glaciolacustrine sediment records:

    Atle Nesje;John A. Matthews;Svein Olaf Dahl;Mark S. Berrisford

  • Norwegian mountain glaciers in the past, present and future

    Atle Nesje;Atle Nesje;Jostein Bakke;Jostein Bakke;Svein Olaf Dahl;Svein Olaf Dahl;Øyvind Lie

  • Quaternary glaciations in southern Fennoscandia: evidence from southwestern Norway and the northern North Sea region

    H.P. Sejrup;E. Larsen;J. Landvik;E.L. King

  • A Piston Corer for Lacustrine and Marine Sediments

    Atle Nesje

  • Holocene glacial and climate history of the Jostedalsbreen region, Western Norway; evidence from lake sediments and terrestrial deposits

    Atle Nesje;Mons Kvamme;Noralf Rye;Reidar Løvlie

  • Latest Pleistocene and Holocene alpine glacier fluctuations in Scandinavia

    Atle Nesje;Atle Nesje

  • The 'Little Ice Age' – only temperature?

    Atle Nesje;Svein Olaf Dahl

  • Glacier fluctuations during the past 2000 years

    Olga N. Solomina;Raymond S. Bradley;Vincent Jomelli;Aslaug Geirsdottir

  • Is the North Atlantic Oscillation reflected in Scandinavian glacier mass balance records

    Atle Nesje;Øyvind Lie;Svein Olaf Dahl

  • Glaciers and environmental change

    Atle Nesje;Svein Olat Dahl

  • Paleoclimatic implications based on equilibrium-line altitude depressions of reconstructed Younger Dryas and Holocene cirque glaciers in inner Nordfjord, western Norway

    Svein Olaf Dahl;Atle Nesje

  • The Greenland 8200 cal. yr BP event detected in loss‐on‐ignition profiles in Norwegian lacustrine sediment sequences

    Atle Nesje;Svein Olaf Dahl

  • Holocene glacier and climate variations in western Norway: Evidence for early Holocene glacier demise and multiple Neoglacial events

    Atle Nesje;Mons Kvamme

  • Holocene glacier fluctuations at Hardangerjøkulen, central-southern Norway: a high-resolution composite chronology from lacustrine and terrestrial deposits:

    Svein Olaf Dahl;Atle Nesje

  • Holocene glacier variations in central Jotunheimen, southern Norway based on distal glaciolacustrine sediment cores

    John A. Matthews;Svein Olaf Dahl;Atle Nesje;Mark S. Berrisford

  • Holocene mean July temperature and winter precipitation in western Norway inferred from palynological and glaciological lake-sediment proxies

    Anne Elisabeth Bjune;Jostein Bakke;Atle Nesje;Harry John Betteley Birks

  • THE LAST ICE SHEET IN NORTH-WEST SCOTLAND: RECONSTRUCTION AND IMPLICATIONS

    Colin K. Ballantyne;Danny McCARROLL;Atle Nesje;Svein Olaf Dahl

  • Glacier fluctuations, equilibrium-line altitudes and palaeoclimate in Lyngen, northern Norway, during the Lateglacial and Holocene

    Jostein Bakke;Svein Olaf Dahl;Øyvind Paasche;Reidar Løvlie

Frequent Co-Authors

Svein Olaf Dahl
Svein Olaf Dahl University of Bergen
Jostein Bakke
Jostein Bakke University of Bergen
John A. Matthews
John A. Matthews Swansea University
Reidar Løvlie
Reidar Løvlie University of Bergen
Danny McCarroll
Danny McCarroll Swansea University
Anne E. Bjune
Anne E. Bjune Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Emmanuel Chapron
Emmanuel Chapron University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès
Daniel Ariztegui
Daniel Ariztegui University of Geneva
Colin K. Ballantyne
Colin K. Ballantyne University of St Andrews
Margit Schwikowski
Margit Schwikowski Paul Scherrer Institute

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