2026 Georg Kaser: 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	49	5125	4908	43	43	139	18163

Overview

Georg Kaser is affiliated with the University of Innsbruck in Austria and has contributed extensively to fields related to Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research has a strong focus on cryospheric studies and observations, reflected in the range of publications and topics addressed.

The primary fields of study for Georg Kaser include:

Earth and Planetary Sciences
Environmental Science

Within these areas, the subfields they have significantly contributed to comprise:

Atmospheric Science
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Environmental Engineering
Global and Planetary Change
Geology

Key topics covered in their research work include:

Cryospheric studies and observations
Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
Climate change and permafrost
Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
Landslides and related hazards

Georg Kaser has frequently collaborated with several researchers, contributing to a body of work alongside:

Rainer Prinz
Annelies Voordendag
Brigitta Goger
Thomas Mölg
Lilian Schuster

Their research output appears in a variety of publication venues with multiple contributions to:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
The Cryosphere
Frontiers in Earth Science
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Earth System Dynamics

Selected recent papers associated with Georg Kaser's research include:

"Uncertainty assessment of a permanent long-range terrestrial laser scanning system for the quantification of snow dynamics on Hintereisferner (Austria)" (2023), published in Frontiers in Earth Science
"AUTOMATED AND PERMANENT LONG-RANGE TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING IN A HIGH MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT: SETUP AND FIRST RESULTS" (2021), published in ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
"Mesoscale atmospheric circulation controls of local meteorological elevation gradients on Kersten Glacier near Kilimanjaro summit" (2020), published in Earth System Dynamics
"Brief communication: The Glacier Loss Day as an indicator of a record-breaking negative glacier mass balance in 2022" (2023), published in The Cryosphere
"A novel framework to investigate wind-driven snow redistribution over an Alpine glacier: combination of high-resolution terrestrial laser scans and large-eddy simulations" (2024), published in The Cryosphere

Best Publications

Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

3266
Citations
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
The Randolph Glacier inventory: a globally complete inventory of glaciers

W Tad Pfeffer;Anthony A Arendt;Andrew Bliss;Tobias Bolch;Tobias Bolch

1370
Citations
Observations: Changes in Snow, Ice and Frozen Ground

Peter Lemke;Jian Ren;R. B. Alley;I. Allison

1338
Citations
Climate change and tropical Andean glaciers: Past, present and future

Mathias Vuille;Mathias Vuille;Bernard Francou;Patrick Wagnon;Irmgard Juen

896
Citations
Contribution potential of glaciers to water availability in different climate regimes

Georg Kaser;Martin Großhauser;Ben Marzeion

861
Citations
Glossary of glacier mass balance and related terms

J.G. Cogley;A.A. Arendt;A. Bauder;R.J. Braithwaite

611
Citations
Mass balance of glaciers and ice caps: Consensus estimates for 1961–2004

G. Kaser;J. G. Cogley;M. B. Dyurgerov;M. F. Meier

575
Citations
The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science

I. Allison;N. L. Bindoff;R. A. Bindschadler;P. M. Cox

560
Citations
A review of the modern fluctuations of tropical glaciers

Georg Kaser

378
Citations
Modern glacier retreat on Kilimanjaro as evidence of climate change: observations and facts

Georg Kaser;Douglas R. Hardy;Thomas Mölg;Raymond S. Bradley

297
Citations
Glacier-climate interaction at low latitudes

Georg Kaser

293
Citations
The impact of glaciers on the runoff and the reconstruction of mass balance history from hydrological data in the tropical Cordillera Blanca, Perú

Georg Kaser;Irmgard Juen;Christian Georges;Jesús Gómez

251
Citations
Modelling observed and future runoff from a glacierized tropical catchment (Cordillera Blanca, Perú)

Irmgard Juen;Georg Kaser;Christian Georges

245
Citations
A manual for monitoring the mass balance of mountain glaciers

G. Kaser;A. Fountain;P. Jansson

242
Citations
Glacier mass balance variability in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru and its relationship with climate and the large-scale circulation

Mathias Vuille;George Kaser;Irmgard Juen

241
Citations
A review of volume‐area scaling of glaciers

David B. Bahr;David B. Bahr;W. Tad Pfeffer;Georg Kaser

208
Citations
End of the Little Ice Age in the Alps forced by industrial black carbon

Thomas H. Painter;Mark G. Flanner;Georg Kaser;Ben Marzeion

187
Citations
Energy balance and runoff seasonality of a Bolivian glacier

Patrick Wagnon;Pierre Ribstein;Georg Kaser;Philippe Berton

183
Citations
Mass balance of a slope glacier on Kilimanjaro and its sensitivity to climate

Thomas Mölg;Nicolas J. Cullen;Douglas R. Hardy;G. Kaser

169
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Mölg University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Regine Hock University of Alaska Fairbanks

Tobias Bolch Graz University of Technology

Ben Marzeion University of Bremen

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

Ian Allison University of Tasmania

Alex S. Gardner California Institute of Technology

Stefan Rahmstorf Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

David J. Karoly Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Matthew H. England University of New South Wales

External Links

Personal website of Georg Kaser

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