2026 Bert Wouters: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	61	1758	1578	42	41	183	17686

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

1463
Citations
Mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet from 1992 to 2017.

Andrew Shepherd;Erik Ivins;Eric Rignot;Ben Smith

1116
Citations
Partitioning Recent Greenland Mass Loss

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

997
Citations
Key indicators of Arctic climate change : 1971–2017

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

781
Citations
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

559
Citations
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

517
Citations
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

510
Citations
Global sea-level budget 1993 - present

Anny Cazenave;Benoit Meyssignac;Michael Ablain

497
Citations
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

406
Citations
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

387
Citations
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

365
Citations
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

346
Citations
STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

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

344
Citations
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

338
Citations
State of the Climate in 2014

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

332
Citations
GRACE observes small?scale mass loss in Greenland

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

323
Citations
Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020

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293
Citations
The land ice contribution to sea level during the satellite era

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

276
Citations
High mountain areas

Regine Hock;Golam Rasul;Carolina Adler;Bolivar Cáceres

264
Citations
Observing and Modeling Ice Sheet Surface Mass Balance

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

260
Citations
Dynamic thinning of glaciers on the Southern Antarctic Peninsula

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

258
Citations
Timing and origin of recent regional ice-mass loss in Greenland

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

257
Citations
Damage accelerates ice shelf instability and mass loss in Amundsen Sea Embayment.

Stef Lhermitte;Sainan Sun;Christopher Shuman;Bert Wouters

240
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan L. Bamber University of Bristol

Alex S. Gardner California Institute of Technology

Michiel R. van den Broeke Utrecht University

John Wahr University of Colorado Boulder

Ernst Schrama Delft University of Technology

Wilco Hazeleger Utrecht University

Brice Noël University of Liège

Jan T. M. Lenaerts University of Colorado Boulder

Martin Sharp University of Alberta

Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

External Links

Personal website of Bert Wouters

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