2026 Etienne Berthier: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	75	1254	1188	41	40	227	24387

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award

Overview

Etienne Berthier is affiliated with the Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales in France. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant number of publications in Environmental Science as well. The scientist's work extends into various subfields including Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Geophysics, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their main research topics revolve around Cryospheric studies and observations, Climate change and permafrost, Winter Sports Injuries and Performance, Landslides and related hazards, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Etienne Berthier has frequently published in notable venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Glaciology, The Cryosphere, Frontiers in Earth Science, and Geophysical Research Letters.

Among recent papers associated with the scientist's research interests are:

A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya (2021, Science)
Global glacier change in the 21st century: Every increase in temperature matters (2023, Science)
Damage accelerates ice shelf instability and mass loss in Amundsen Sea Embayment (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
A Review of the Current State and Recent Changes of the Andean Cryosphere (2020, Frontiers in Earth Science)
Sudden large-volume detachments of low-angle mountain glaciers - more frequent than thought? (2021, The Cryosphere)

Frequent co-authors working alongside Etienne Berthier include Joaquín M. C. Belart, Virginie Pinel, Romain Hugonnet, Fanny Brun, and Simon Gascoin.

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
Contrasting patterns of early twenty-first-century glacier mass change in the Himalayas

Andreas Kääb;Etienne Berthier;Christopher Nuth;Julie Gardelle

1240
Citations
Accelerated global glacier mass loss in the early twenty-first century

Romain Hugonnet;Romain Hugonnet;Romain Hugonnet;Robert McNabb;Robert McNabb;Etienne Berthier;Brian Menounos

1240
Citations
Region-wide glacier mass balances over the Pamir-Karakoram-Himalaya during 1999–2011

Julie Gardelle;Etienne Berthier;Yves Arnaud;Andreas Kääb

976
Citations
Slight mass gain of Karakoram glaciers in the early twenty-first century

Julie Gardelle;Etienne Berthier;Yves Arnaud

741
Citations
A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya

D. H. Shugar;M. Jacquemart;M. Jacquemart;M. Jacquemart;D. Shean;S. Bhushan

734
Citations
Remote sensing estimates of glacier mass balances in the Himachal Pradesh (Western Himalaya, India)

Etienne Berthier;Yves Arnaud;Rajesh Kumar;Sarfaraz Ahmad

666
Citations
Global glacier change in the 21st century: Every increase in temperature matters

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628
Citations
On the accuracy of glacier outlines derived from remote-sensing data

Frank Paul;N. Barrand;S. Baumann;E. Berthier

582
Citations
A spatially resolved estimate of High Mountain Asia glacier mass balances from 2000 to 2016

Fanny Brun;Etienne Berthier;Patrick Wagnon;Andreas Kääb

502
Citations
Global sea-level budget 1993 - present

Anny Cazenave;Benoit Meyssignac;Michael Ablain

497
Citations
Brief Communication: Contending estimates of 2003–2008 glacier mass balance over the Pamir–Karakoram–Himalaya

A. Kääb;D. Treichler;C. Nuth;E. Berthier

483
Citations
Contrasted evolution of glacial lakes along the Hindu Kush Himalaya mountain range between 1990 and 2009

Julie Gardelle;Yves Arnaud;Etienne Berthier

461
Citations
Twenty-first century glacier slowdown driven by mass loss in High Mountain Asia

Amaury Dehecq;Amaury Dehecq;Amaury Dehecq;Noel Gourmelen;Noel Gourmelen;Alex S. Gardner;Fanny Brun;Fanny Brun

442
Citations
Sea level budget over 2003-2008: A reevaluation from GRACE space gravimetry, satellite altimetry and Argo

A. Cazenave;K. Dominh;S. Guinehut;E. Berthier

430
Citations
The rate of sea-level rise

Anny Cazenave;Habib-Boubacar Dieng;Benoit Meyssignac;Karina von Schuckmann

422
Citations
Contribution of Alaskan glaciers to sea-level rise derived from satellite imagery

Etienne Berthier;Etienne Berthier;Eric Schiefer;Garry K. C. Clarke;Brian Menounos

409
Citations
The glaciers climate change initiative: Methods for creating glacier area, elevation change and velocity products

Frank Paul;Tobias Bolch;Andreas Kääb;Thomas Nagler

381
Citations
Two decades of glacier mass loss along the Andes

Ines Dussaillant;Ines Dussaillant;Etienne Berthier;Fanny Brun;Mariano Hugo Masiokas

366
Citations
Review of the status and mass changes of Himalayan-Karakoram glaciers

Mohd Farooq Azam;Patrick Wagnon;Etienne Berthier;Christian Vincent

351
Citations
Four years of mass balance on Chhota Shigri Glacier, Himachal Pradesh, India, a new benchmark glacier in the western Himalaya

Patrick Wagnon;Anurag Linda;Yves Arnaud;Rajesh Kumar

319
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Wagnon Grenoble Alpes University

Christian Vincent Grenoble Alpes University

Yves Arnaud Grenoble Alpes University

Andreas Kääb University of Oslo

Frédérique Rémy Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

Helgi Björnsson University of Iceland

Matthias Huss University of Fribourg

Tobias Bolch Graz University of Technology

Simon Gascoin Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère

Joseph M. Shea University of Northern British Columbia

External Links

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