2026 Edward Hanna: 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	67	1221	1081	124	110	195	16379

Overview

Edward Hanna is affiliated with the University of Lincoln in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on earth and planetary sciences, with notable contributions in atmospheric science and environmental science. They have published extensively in the subfields of atmospheric science, global and planetary change, ecology, environmental chemistry, and plant science.

The scientific topics addressed by Edward Hanna include:

Climate variability and models
Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
Cryospheric studies and observations
Climate change and permafrost
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Among their recent papers are the following:

"Extreme weather and climate events in northern areas: A review," 2020, published in Earth-Science Reviews
"GrSMBMIP: intercomparison of the modelled 1980-2012 surface mass balance over the Greenland Ice Sheet," 2020, published in The Cryosphere
"Greenland surface air temperature changes from 1981 to 2019 and implications for ice-sheet melt and mass-balance change," 2020, published in International Journal of Climatology
"Glacier algae accelerate melt rates on the south-western Greenland Ice Sheet," 2020, published in The Cryosphere
"How do intermittency and simultaneous processes obfuscate the Arctic influence on midlatitude winter extreme weather events?" 2021, published in Environmental Research Letters

Edward Hanna frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

James E. Overland
Thomas J. Ballinger
Xavier Fettweis
Muyin Wang
Richard Thoman

Their work is published across a variety of scientific venues, with multiple publications in:

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
International Journal of Climatology
The Cryosphere
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Nature Communications

Best Publications

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

Andrew Shepherd;Erik Ivins;Eric Rignot;Ben Smith

1116
Citations
Increased Runoff from Melt from the Greenland Ice Sheet: A Response to Global Warming

Edward Hanna;Philippe Huybrechts;Konrad Steffen;John Cappelen

527
Citations
Mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet from 1958 to 2007

E. Rignot;E. Rignot;J. E. Box;E. Burgess;E. Hanna

494
Citations
Greenland ice sheet: increased coastal thinning

W. Krabill;E. Hanna;Philippe Huybrechts;Philippe Huybrechts;W. Abdalati

456
Citations
The Melting Arctic and Midlatitude Weather Patterns: Are They Connected?*

James Overland;Jennifer A. Francis;Richard Hall;Edward Hanna

431
Citations
Snowfall-driven growth in East Antarctic ice sheet mitigates recent sea-level rise.

Curt H. Davis;Yonghong Li;Joseph R. McConnell;Markus M. Frey

405
Citations
Melt-induced speed-up of Greenland ice sheet offset by efficient subglacial drainage

Aud Venke Sundal;Andrew Shepherd;Peter Nienow;Edward Hanna

404
Citations
Nonlinear response of mid-latitude weather to the changing Arctic

James E. Overland;Klaus Dethloff;Jennifer A. Francis;Richard J. Hall

401
Citations
Ice-sheet mass balance and climate change

Edward Hanna;Francisco J. Navarro;Frank Pattyn;Catia M. Domingues

346
Citations
STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

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

344
Citations
Runoff and mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet: 1958-2003

Edward Hanna;Philippe Huybrechts;Ives Janssens;John Cappelen

333
Citations
State of the Climate in 2014

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

332
Citations
Extreme weather and climate events in northern areas: A review

John E. Walsh;Thomas J. Ballinger;Eugénie S. Euskirchen;Edward Hanna

292
Citations
Spatial and temporal seasonal trends in coastal upwelling off Northwest Africa, 1981-2012

Thomas E. Cropper;Edward Hanna;Grant R. Bigg

287
Citations
Atmospheric and oceanic climate forcing of the exceptional Greenland ice sheet surface melt in summer 2012

Edward Hanna;Xavier Fettweis;Sebastian H. Mernild;John Cappelen

280
Citations
The recent shift in early summer Arctic atmospheric circulation

James E. Overland;Jennifer A. Francis;Edward Hanna;Muyin Wang

280
Citations
Greenland Blocking Index 1851–2015: a regional climate change signal

Edward Hanna;Thomas E. Cropper;Richard J. Hall;John Cappelen

276
Citations
Twentieth-century global-mean sea-level rise: is the whole greater than the sum of the parts?

Jonathan M Gregory;N. J. White;J. A. Church;M. F. P. Bierkens

274
Citations
The influence of North Atlantic atmospheric and oceanic forcing effects on 1900–2010 Greenland summer climate and ice melt/runoff

Edward Hanna;Julie M. Jones;John Cappelen;Sebastian H. Mernild

273
Citations
Ocean regulation hypothesis for glacier dynamics in southeast Greenland and implications for ice sheet mass changes

Tavi Murray;K. Scharrer;T.d. James;S.r. Dye

270
Citations
Rapid and synchronous ice-dynamic changes in East Greenland

Adrian Luckman;Tavi Murray;Remko de Lange;Remko de Lange;Edward Hanna

267
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Philippe Huybrechts Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Xavier Fettweis University of Liège

Sebastian H. Mernild University of Southern Denmark

Konrad Steffen Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

James E. Overland Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Thomas L. Mote University of Georgia

Grant R. Bigg University of Sheffield

Jason E. Box Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

Terry V. Callaghan University of Sheffield

External Links

Personal website of Edward Hanna

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