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Earth Science

D-Index
36
Citations
13654
World Ranking
7036
National Ranking
2429

Best Publications

  • Ice-Shelf Melting Around Antarctica

    E. Rignot;E. Rignot;S. Jacobs;J. Mouginot;B. Scheuchl

  • Four decades of Antarctic Ice Sheet mass balance from 1979-2017.

    Eric Rignot;Eric Rignot;Jérémie Mouginot;Jérémie Mouginot;Bernd Scheuchl;Michiel van den Broeke

  • A reconciled estimate of ice-sheet mass balance

    Andrew Shepherd;Erik R. Ivins;A. Geruo;Valentina R. Barletta

  • Ice Flow of the Antarctic Ice Sheet

    E. Rignot;E. Rignot;J. Mouginot;B. Scheuchl

  • Widespread, rapid grounding line retreat of Pine Island, Thwaites, Smith, and Kohler glaciers, West Antarctica, from 1992 to 2011

    E. Rignot;E. Rignot;J. Mouginot;M. Morlighem;H. Seroussi

  • Forty-six years of Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance from 1972 to 2018

    Jérémie Mouginot;Jérémie Mouginot;Eric Rignot;Eric Rignot;Anders A. Bjørk;Anders A. Bjørk;Michiel van den Broeke

  • Sustained increase in ice discharge from the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica, from 1973 to 2013

    J. Mouginot;E. Rignot;E. Rignot;B. Scheuchl

  • Antarctic grounding line mapping from differential satellite radar interferometry

    E. Rignot;E. Rignot;J. Mouginot;B. Scheuchl

  • Comprehensive Annual Ice Sheet Velocity Mapping Using Landsat-8, Sentinel-1, and RADARSAT-2 Data

    Jeremie Mouginot;Eric J. M. Rignot;Bernd Scheuchl;Romain Millan

  • Mapping of Ice Motion in Antarctica Using Synthetic-Aperture Radar Data

    Jeremie Mouginot;Bernd Scheuchl;Eric J. M. Rignot

  • Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020

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  • Continent-Wide, Interferometric SAR Phase, Mapping of Antarctic Ice Velocity

    J. Mouginot;J. Mouginot;E. Rignot;E. Rignot;B. Scheuchl

  • Fast retreat of Zachariæ Isstrøm, northeast Greenland

    J. Mouginot;E. Rignot;E. Rignot;B. Scheuchl;I. Fenty

  • Heterogeneous retreat and ice melt of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica.

    P. Milillo;E. Rignot;E. Rignot;P. Rizzoli;B. Scheuchl

  • Ocean forcing drives glacier retreat in Greenland.

    Michael Wood;Michael Wood;Eric Rignot;Eric Rignot;Ian Fenty;Lu An

  • Monitoring very slow slope movements by means of SAR interferometry: A case study from a mass waste above a reservoir in the Ötztal Alps, Austria

    Helmut Rott;Bernd Scheuchl;Andreas Siegel;Bernhard Grasemann

  • Modeling of ocean-induced ice melt rates of five west Greenland glaciers over the past two decades

    E. Rignot;E. Rignot;Y. Xu;D. Menemenlis;J. Mouginot

  • Rapid glacier retreat rates observed in West Antarctica

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  • Potential of RADARSAT-2 data for operational sea ice monitoring

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  • Grounding line retreat of Totten Glacier, East Antarctica, 1996 to 2013

    Xin Li;Eric Rignot;Eric Rignot;Mathieu Morlighem;Jeremie Mouginot

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