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Eric Deleersnijder 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 Eric Deleersnijder sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 368 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Eric Deleersnijder 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 Eric Deleersnijder sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Eric Deleersnijder is affiliated with the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Engineering. Their work spans several subfields, particularly Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Earth-Surface Processes, and Ocean Engineering.

The scientist's research focuses on a wide array of topics related to oceanographic and atmospheric processes. These include ocean waves and remote sensing, meteorological phenomena and simulations, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, marine and coastal ecosystems, reservoir engineering and simulation methods, as well as radioactive contamination and transfer.

Eric Deleersnijder has published numerous papers in several specialized journals. Among the recent publications are:

  • Global warming decreases connectivity among coral populations, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Timescale Methods for Simplifying, Understanding and Modeling Biophysical and Water Quality Processes in Coastal Aquatic Ecosystems: A Review, 2020, Water
  • An implicit wetting-drying algorithm for the discontinuous Galerkin method: application to the Tonle Sap, Mekong River Basin, 2020, Environmental Fluid Mechanics
  • Hydrodynamic and sediment transport modelling in the Pearl River Estuary and adjacent Chinese coastal zone during Typhoon Mangkhut, 2022, Continental Shelf Research
  • Understanding the circulation in the deep, micro-tidal and strongly stratified Congo River estuary, 2021, Ocean Modelling

Their frequent co-authors include Jonathan Lambrechts, Insaf Draoui, Amit Ravindra Patil, Vincent Legat, and Fabricio Fiengo Pérez, reflecting collaborative work across multiple publications.

The scientist often publishes in venues such as:

  • Water
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental Fluid Mechanics
  • Ocean Modelling
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Eric Deleersnijder's contributions cover both theoretical developments and applied modeling, including work on hydrodynamic and sediment transport processes, as well as numerical methods suited for aquatic ecosystems and coastal zones. Their presence in environmental fluid mechanics and ocean modeling underscores a significant engagement with the dynamics of natural water bodies and their interaction with atmospheric conditions.

Best Publications

  • Lagrangian ocean analysis: Fundamentals and practices

    Erik van Sebille;Erik van Sebille;Stephen M. Griffies;Ryan Abernathey;Thomas P. Adams

  • Carbon and nitrogen cycling within the Bering/Chukchi Seas: Source regions for organic matter effecting AOU demands of the Arctic Ocean

    J. J. Walsh;C. P. McRoy;L. K. Coachman;J. J. Goering

  • The concept of age in marine modelling I. Theory and preliminary model results

    Eric Deleersnijder;Jean Michel Campin;Eric J. M. Delhez

  • Description of the Earth system model of intermediate complexity LOVECLIM version 1.2

    Hugues Goosse;Viktor Brovkin;Thierry Fichefet;R Haarsma

  • Toward a general theory of the age in ocean modelling

    Eric J.M. Delhez;Jean-Michel Campin;Anthony C. Hirst;Eric Deleersnijder

  • Residence time in a semi-enclosed domain from the solution of an adjoint problem

    Éric J.M. Delhez;Arnold W. Heemink;Éric Deleersnijder

  • Oceanic inflow from the Coral Sea into the Great Barrier Reef

    R. Brinkman;E. Wolanski;Eric Deleersnijder;F McAllister

  • A fully implicit wetting-drying method for DG-FEM shallow water models, with an application to the Scheldt Estuary

    Tuomas Kärnä;Benjamin de Brye;Olivier Gourgue;Jonathan Lambrechts

  • A multi-scale model of the hydrodynamics of the whole Great Barrier Reef

    Jonathan Lambrechts;Emmanuel Hanert;Eric Deleersnijder;Paul-Emile Bernard

  • Presentation of a family of turbulence closure models for stratified shallow water flows and preliminary application to the Rhine outflow region

    Patrick J. Luyten;Eric Deleersnijder;José Ozer;Kevin G. Ruddick

  • An efficient Eulerian finite element method for the shallow water equations

    Emmanuel Hanert;Daniel Y. Le Roux;Vincent Legat;Eric Deleersnijder

  • Three-dimensional island wakes in the field, laboratory experiments and numerical models

    Eric Wolanski;Takashi Asaeda;Akihiro Tanaka;Eric Deleersnijder;Eric Deleersnijder

  • The water residence time in the Mururoa atoll lagoon: Sensitivity analysis of a three-dimensional model

    B Tartinville;Eric Deleersnijder;J Rancher

  • Sensitivity of a global coupled ocean-sea ice model to the parameterization of vertical mixing

    Hugues Goosse;Eric Deleersnijder;Thierry Fichefet;MH England

  • Residence time, exposure time and connectivity in the Scheldt Estuary

    Anouk de Brauwere;Anouk de Brauwere;Benjamin de Brye;Sébastien Blaise;Eric Deleersnijder

  • Tidal impact on the division of river discharge over distributary channels in the Mahakam Delta

    Maximiliano G. Sassi;A. J. F. Hoitink;Benjamin de Brye;Bart Vermeulen

  • The concept of age in marine modelling II. Concentration distribution function in the English Channel and the North Sea

    Eric J. M. Delhez;Eric Deleersnijder

  • Large amplitude, leaky, island-generated, internal waves around Palau, Micronesia

    E. Wolanski;P. Colin;Jaya Naithani;Eric Deleersnijder

  • On the practical advantages of the quasi-equilibrium version of the Mellor and Yamada level 2.5 turbulence closure applied to marine modelling

    Eric Deleersnijder;Patrick Luyten

  • A finite-element, multi-scale model of the Scheldt tributaries, river, estuary and ROFI

    Benjamin de Brye;Anouk de Brauwere;Anouk de Brauwere;Olivier Gourgue;Tuomas Kärnä

  • Description of the Earth system model of intermediate complexity LOVECLIM version 1.2

    H. Goosse;V. Brovkin;T. Fichefet;R. Haarsma

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincent Legat
Vincent Legat Université Catholique de Louvain
Eric Wolanski
Eric Wolanski James Cook University
Jean-François Remacle
Jean-François Remacle Université Catholique de Louvain
Jean-Marie Beckers
Jean-Marie Beckers University of Liège
Anne Mouchet
Anne Mouchet University of Liège
Thierry Fichefet
Thierry Fichefet Université Catholique de Louvain
Hans Burchard
Hans Burchard Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Hugues Goosse
Hugues Goosse Université Catholique de Louvain
Pierre Servais
Pierre Servais Université Libre de Bruxelles
Véronique Dehant
Véronique Dehant Royal Observatory of Belgium

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