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1758
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Bert Wouters publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bert Wouters sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 183 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Bert Wouters D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bert Wouters sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Bert Wouters is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with strong specialization in Atmospheric Science as a subfield. Their work also touches on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Oceanography, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their publication record includes over a hundred papers addressing topics central to cryospheric studies and observations, as well as climate change and permafrost. Other key research topics include Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, winter sports injuries and performance, landslides and related hazards, geophysics and gravity measurements, and geology and paleoclimatology research.

Wouters frequently publishes in several scientific venues. These include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), The Cryosphere, Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, and Geophysical Research Letters.

Notable recent papers coauthored by Bert Wouters are:

  • Dynamic ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet driven by sustained glacier retreat (2020, Communications Earth & Environment)
  • Return to rapid ice loss in Greenland and record loss in 2019 detected by the GRACE-FO satellites (2020, Communications Earth & Environment)
  • Damage accelerates ice shelf instability and mass loss in Amundsen Sea Embayment (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • GrSMBMIP: intercomparison of the modelled 1980-2012 surface mass balance over the Greenland Ice Sheet (2020, The Cryosphere)
  • Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020 (2023, Earth system science data)

The scientist collaborates regularly with a core group of coauthors including Stef Lhermitte, M. R. van den Broeke, Brice Noël, Xavier Fettweis, and Sophie de Roda Husman. These collaborations reflect sustained engagement with experts in glaciology, climate modeling, and related fields.

Best Publications

  • A Reconciled Estimate of Glacier Contributions to Sea Level Rise: 2003 to 2009

    Alex S. Gardner;Alex S. Gardner;Geir Moholdt;J. Graham Cogley;Bert Wouters;Bert Wouters

  • Mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet from 1992 to 2017.

    Andrew Shepherd;Erik Ivins;Eric Rignot;Ben Smith

  • Partitioning Recent Greenland Mass Loss

    Michiel van den Broeke;Jonathan Bamber;Janneke Ettema;Eric Rignot;Eric Rignot

  • Key indicators of Arctic climate change : 1971–2017

    Jason E. Box;William T. Colgan;Torben Røjle Christensen;Torben Røjle Christensen;Niels Martin Schmidt

  • Important role for ocean warming and increased ice-shelf melt in Antarctic sea-ice expansion

    R. Bintanja;G. J. van Oldenborgh;S. S. Drijfhout;B. Wouters

  • On the recent contribution of the Greenland ice sheet to sea level change

    Michiel R. van den Broeke;Ellyn M. Enderlin;Ian M. Howat;Peter Kuipers Munneke

  • Modelling the climate and surface mass balance of polar ice sheets using RACMO2 – Part 2: Antarctica (1979–2016)

    Jan Melchior Van Wessem;Willem Jan Van De Berg;Brice P.Y. Noël;Erik Van Meijgaard

  • Global sea-level budget 1993 - present

    Anny Cazenave;Benoit Meyssignac;Michael Ablain

  • Sharply increased mass loss from glaciers and ice caps in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

    Alex S. Gardner;Alex S. Gardner;Geir Moholdt;Geir Moholdt;Bert Wouters;Gabriel J. Wolken

  • Evidence and analysis of 2012 Greenland records from spaceborne observations, a regional climate model and reanalysis data

    Marco Tedesco;X. Fettweis;T. Mote;J. Wahr

  • Return to rapid ice loss in Greenland and record loss in 2019 detected by the GRACE-FO satellites

    Ingo Sasgen;Bert Wouters;Bert Wouters;Alex S. Gardner;Michalea D. King

  • Improved representation of East Antarctic surface mass balance in a regional atmospheric climate model

    J. M. Van Wessem;C. H. Reijmer;M. Morlighem;J. Mouginot

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • Dynamic ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet driven by sustained glacier retreat

    Michalea D. King;Ian M. Howat;Salvatore G. Candela;Myoung J. Noh

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • GRACE observes small?scale mass loss in Greenland

    B. Wouters;Don P. Chambers;E.J. O. Schrama

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

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  • The land ice contribution to sea level during the satellite era

    Jonathan Bamber;Richard Martin Westaway;Ben Marzeion;Bert Wouters

  • High mountain areas

    Regine Hock;Golam Rasul;Carolina Adler;Bolivar Cáceres

  • Observing and Modeling Ice Sheet Surface Mass Balance

    Jan T M Lenaerts;Brooke Medley;Michiel R van den Broeke;Bert Wouters;Bert Wouters

  • Dynamic thinning of glaciers on the Southern Antarctic Peninsula

    B. Wouters;A. Martin-Español;V. Helm;T. Flament

  • Timing and origin of recent regional ice-mass loss in Greenland

    Ingo Sasgen;Michiel van den Broeke;J.L.Jonathan L. Bamber;Eric Rignot

  • Damage accelerates ice shelf instability and mass loss in Amundsen Sea Embayment.

    Stef Lhermitte;Sainan Sun;Christopher Shuman;Bert Wouters

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan L. Bamber
Jonathan L. Bamber University of Bristol
Alex S. Gardner
Alex S. Gardner California Institute of Technology
Michiel R. van den Broeke
Michiel R. van den Broeke Utrecht University
John Wahr
John Wahr University of Colorado Boulder
Ernst Schrama
Ernst Schrama Delft University of Technology
Wilco Hazeleger
Wilco Hazeleger Utrecht University
Brice Noël
Brice Noël University of Liège
Jan T. M. Lenaerts
Jan T. M. Lenaerts University of Colorado Boulder
Martin Sharp
Martin Sharp University of Alberta
Marco Tedesco
Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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