2026 Christian Schoof: 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	36	7071	6546	360	328	160	7392

Research.com Recognitions

2011 - James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2011 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Christian Schoof is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research principally focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to Atmospheric Science as a subfield. Additionally, their work intersects with Medicine, particularly in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and areas related to Management, Monitoring, Policy, and Law.

Their scholarly output includes studies spanning several topics such as:

Cryospheric studies and observations
Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
Climate change and permafrost
Landslides and related hazards
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Christian Schoof's research has appeared frequently in key scientific journals. Their most common publication venues include:

The Cryosphere
Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
arXiv (Cornell University)

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Schoof include:

"The Role of Englacial Hydrology in the Filling and Drainage of an Ice-Dammed Lake, Kaskawulsh Glacier, Yukon, Canada" (2020), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
"The effect of hydrology and crevasse wall contact on calving" (2022), published in The Cryosphere
"Channelized, distributed, and disconnected: spatial structure and temporal evolution of the subglacial drainage under a valley glacier in the Yukon" (2023), published in The Cryosphere
"The role of sliding in ice stream formation" (2021), published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
"The evolution of isolated cavities and hydraulic connection at the glacier bed - Part 2: A dynamic viscoelastic model" (2023), published in The Cryosphere

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, most notably with:

Maryam Zarrinderakht
Anthony Peirce
Elisa Mantelli
Sue Cook
Bernd Kulessa

Christian Schoof has been recognized with awards such as:

Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2011
James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2011

Best Publications

Ice sheet grounding line dynamics: Steady states, stability, and hysteresis

Christian Schoof

1522
Citations
Ice-sheet acceleration driven by melt supply variability

Christian Schoof

753
Citations
The effect of cavitation on glacier sliding

Christian Schoof;Christian Schoof

501
Citations
Modeling channelized and distributed subglacial drainage in two dimensions

Mauro A. Werder;Mauro A. Werder;Ian J. Hewitt;Ian J. Hewitt;Christian G. Schoof;Gwenn E. Flowers

346
Citations
Marine ice-sheet dynamics. Part 1. The case of rapid sliding

Christian Schoof

291
Citations
Thin-Film Flows with Wall Slip: An Asymptotic Analysis of Higher Order Glacier Flow Models

Christian Schoof;Richard C. A. Hindmarsh

289
Citations
Grounding line movement and ice shelf buttressing in marine ice sheets

D. Goldberg;D. M. Holland;C. Schoof

279
Citations
Results of the Marine Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project, MISMIP

F. Pattyn;C. Schoof;L. Perichon;R. C. A. Hindmarsh

267
Citations
Regularized Coulomb Friction Laws for Ice Sheet Sliding: Application to Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica.

Ian Joughin;Benjamin E. Smith;Christian G. Schoof

239
Citations
Drainage through subglacial water sheets

Timothy T. Creyts;Christian G. Schoof

185
Citations
A variational approach to ice stream flow

Christian Schoof

170
Citations
River piracy and drainage basin reorganization led by climate-driven glacier retreat

Daniel H. Shugar;John J. Clague;James L. Best;Christian Schoof

162
Citations
Marine ice sheet stability

Christian Schoof

136
Citations
Flotation and free surface flow in a model for subglacial drainage. Part 1. Distributed drainage

Christian Schoof;Ian J. Hewitt;Mauro A. Werder

109
Citations
Ice-Sheet Dynamics

Christian Schoof;Ian Hewitt

108
Citations
Flotation and free surface flow in a model for subglacial drainage. Part 2. Channel flow

Ian J Hewitt;Christian Schoof;Mauro A Werder

106
Citations
Neural Networks Applied to Estimating Subglacial Topography and Glacier Volume

Garry K. C. Clarke;Etienne Berthier;Christian G. Schoof;Alexander H. Jarosch

101
Citations
COULOMB FRICTION AND OTHER SLIDING LAWS IN A HIGHER-ORDER GLACIER FLOW MODEL

Christian Schoof

100
Citations
Present dynamics and future prognosis of a slowly surging glacier

G. E. Flowers;N. Roux;N. Roux;S. Pimentel;S. Pimentel;C. G. Schoof

89
Citations
A hydrologically coupled higher‐order flow‐band model of ice dynamics with a Coulomb friction sliding law

S. Pimentel;S. Pimentel;G. E. Flowers;C. G. Schoof

86
Citations
Channelized, distributed, and disconnected: subglacial drainage under a valley glacier in the Yukon

Camilo Rada;Christian Schoof

86
Citations
On the mechanics of ice-stream shear margins

Christian Schoof

84
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gwenn E. Flowers Simon Fraser University

Olivier Gagliardini Grenoble Alpes University

Eli Tziperman Harvard University

Richard C. A. Hindmarsh British Antarctic Survey

Stephen F. Price Los Alamos National Laboratory

Victor C. Tsai Brown University

Bernd Kulessa Swansea University

Luke Copland University of Ottawa

David Pollard Pennsylvania State University

Frank Pattyn Université Libre de Bruxelles

External Links

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