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2026

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Citations
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457
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Hugues Goosse is affiliated with the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Their research focuses on several areas within earth and environmental sciences, including atmospheric science, global and planetary change, ecology, oceanography, and environmental chemistry. The main fields of study for Goosse encompass Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science.

The scientist's work covers a variety of key topics such as cryospheric studies and observations, geology and paleoclimatology research, climate variability and models, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, tree-ring climate responses, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, and polar research and ecology.

Goosse has contributed to multiple research papers, with notable recent publications including:

  • "Tropical teleconnection impacts on Antarctic climate changes" (2021), published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Modes of climate variability: Synthesis and review of proxy-based reconstructions through the Holocene" (2020), published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Insolation triggered abrupt weakening of Atlantic circulation at the end of interglacials" (2021), published in Science
  • "Reconstructing atmospheric circulation and sea-ice extent in the West Antarctic over the past 200 years using data assimilation" (2021), published in Climate Dynamics
  • "Multi-decadal trends in Antarctic sea-ice extent driven by ENSO-SAM over the last 2,000 years" (2021), published in Nature Geoscience

The frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Goosse include Quentin Dalaiden, Thierry Fichefet, Lesley De Cruz, Nicolas Ghilain, and Stéphane Vannitsem.

Publication venues where Goosse often publishes research are varied and include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Cryosphere
  • Climate of the Past
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Communications Earth & Environment

Best Publications

  • Mid- to Late Holocene climate change: an overview

    Heinz Wanner;Jürg Beer;Jonathan Bütikofer;Thomas J. Crowley

  • Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

    Moinuddin Ahmed;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Asfawossen Asrat;Hemant P. Borgaonkar

  • High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects:

    P.D. Jones;K.R. Briffa;T.J. Osborn;J.M. Lough

  • Earth system models of intermediate complexity: closing the gap in the spectrum of climate system models

    M. Claussen;LA Mysak;AJ Weaver;Michel Crucifix

  • The spatial and temporal complexity of the Holocene thermal maximum

    Hans Renssen;H. Sëppa;O. Heiri;Didier Roche

  • Importance of ice-ocean interactions for the global ocean circulation: A model study

    Hugues Goosse;Thierry Fichefet

  • Antarctic climate change and the environment: an update

    John Turner;Nicholas E Barrand;Thomas J Bracegirdle;Peter Convey

  • Thermohaline circulation hysteresis: A model intercomparison

    Stefan Rahmstorf;Michel Crucifix;Andrey Ganopolski;Hugues Goosse

  • Quantifying climate feedbacks in polar regions

    Hugues Goosse;Jennifer E. Kay;Kyle C. Armour;Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo

  • A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

    Julien Emile-Geay;Nicholas P. McKay;Darrell S. Kaufman;Lucien Von Gunten

  • Simulating the mass balance and salinity of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. 1. Model description and validation

    Martin Vancoppenolle;Thierry Fichefet;Hugues Goosse;Sylvain Bouillon

  • Global characterization of the Holocene Thermal Maximum

    Hans Renssen;Heikki Seppä;Xavier Crosta;Hugues Goosse

  • Influence of the Southern Annular Mode on the sea ice-ocean system

    Wouter Lefebvre;Hugues Goosse;R Timmermann;Thierry Fichefet

  • Assessing recent trends in high-latitude Southern Hemisphere surface climate

    Julie M. Jones;Sarah T. Gille;Hugues Goosse;Nerilie J. Abram

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

    Hugues Goosse;Viktor Brovkin;Thierry Fichefet;R Haarsma

  • On the representation of high latitude processes in the ORCA-LIM global coupled sea ice–ocean model

    Ralph Timmermann;Hugues Goosse;Gurvan Madec;Thierry Fichefet

  • Constraining projections of summer Arctic sea ice

    F. Massonnet;T. Fichefet;H. Goosse;C. M. Bitz

  • Long-Term climate change commitment and reversibility: An EMIC intercomparison

    Kirsten Zickfeld;Michael Eby;Andrew J. Weaver;Kaitlin Alexander

  • Sea ice evolution over the 20th and 21st centuries as simulated by current AOGCMs

    Olivier Arzel;Thierry Fichefet;Hugues Goosse

  • The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 3: The last millennium, scientific objective, and experimental design for the PMIP4 past1000 simulations

    Johann H. Jungclaus;Edouard Bard;Mélanie Baroni;Pascale Braconnot

  • Climate of the Last Glacial Maximum: sensitivity studies and model-data comparison with the LOVECLIM coupled model

    D. M. Roche;T.M. Dokken;Hugues Goosse;H. Renssen

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

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

  • Importance of physics, resolution and forcing in hindcast simulations of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice variability and trends

    François Massonnet;Thierry Fichefet;Hugues Goosse;Martin Vancoppenolle

Frequent Co-Authors

Thierry Fichefet
Thierry Fichefet Université Catholique de Louvain
François Massonnet
François Massonnet Université Catholique de Louvain
Pierre Mathiot
Pierre Mathiot British Antarctic Survey
Marie-France Loutre
Marie-France Loutre University of Bern
Philippe Huybrechts
Philippe Huybrechts Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Didier M. Roche
Didier M. Roche Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Barbara Stenni
Barbara Stenni Ca Foscari University of Venice
Jean-Louis Tison
Jean-Louis Tison Université Libre de Bruxelles
Michel Crucifix
Michel Crucifix Université Catholique de Louvain
Michael E. Mann
Michael E. Mann Pennsylvania State University

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