2026 Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen: 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	67	1919	1829	21	21	240	32206

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Denmark Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. Additional subfields include Ecology, Oceanography, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The scientist's notable research topics include:

Climate variability and models
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Climate change and permafrost
Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
Hydrology and Drought Analysis
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Cryospheric studies and observations

Among recent publications, key papers are:

Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community, 2020, published in Regional Environmental Change
Past perspectives on the present era of abrupt Arctic climate change, 2020, published in Nature Climate Change
Global exposure of population and land-use to meteorological droughts under different warming levels and SSPs: A CORDEX-based study, 2021, published in International Journal of Climatology
The transient sensitivity of sea level rise, 2021, published in Ocean Science
Climate change information over Fenno-Scandinavia produced with a convection-permitting climate model, 2022, published in Climate Dynamics

Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen frequently collaborates with:

Dominic Matte (7 co-authored works)
Ole B. Christensen (5 co-authored works)
Fredrik Boberg (4 co-authored works)
Erik Kjellström (4 co-authored works)
Shuting Yang (4 co-authored works)

The scientist has published extensively in several scientific venues, most often in:

Climate Dynamics (4 publications)
Geophysical Research Letters (3 publications)
International Journal of Climatology (2 publications)
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (2 publications)
Regional Environmental Change (1 publication)

Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen has contributed to book publications as well. Notably, they have a publication with Springer International Publishing titled Multiplicity of Time Scales in Complex Systems, released in 2024.

Best Publications

Regional Climate Projections. Chapter 11

J H Christensen;B Hewitson;A Busuioc;A Chen

5580
Citations
Regional climate projections

J. H. Christensen;B. Hewitson;A. Busuioc;A. Chen

5269
Citations
A summary of the PRUDENCE model projections of changes in European climate by the end of this century

Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen;Ole Bøssing Christensen

1439
Citations
Climate phenomena and their relevance for future regional climate change

Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen;Krishna Kumar Kanikicharla;Gareth Marshall;John Turner

1369
Citations
An intercomparison of regional climate simulations for Europe: assessing uncertainties in model projections

M. Déqué;D. P. Rowell;D. Lüthi;F. Giorgi

924
Citations
On the need for bias correction of regional climate change projections of temperature and precipitation

Jens H. Christensen;Fredrik Boberg;Ole B. Christensen;Philippe Lucas-Picher

905
Citations
Evaluating the performance and utility of regional climate models: the PRUDENCE project

Jens H. Christensen;Timothy R. Carter;Markku Rummukainen;Georgios Amanatidis

897
Citations
Regional Climate Information—Evaluation and Projections

F. Giorgi;J. Christensen;M. Hulme;H. von Storch

829
Citations
Climate modelling: Severe summertime flooding in Europe.

Jens H. Christensen;Ole B. Christensen

779
Citations
An inter-comparison of regional climate models for Europe: model performance in present-day climate

Daniela Jacob;Lars Bärring;Ole Bøssing Christensen;Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

758
Citations
EC-Earth A Seamless Earth-System Prediction Approach in Action

Wilco Hazeleger;Camiel Severijns;Tido Semmler;Simona Ştefănescu

618
Citations
Precipitation manipulation experiments - challenges and recommendations for the future

Claus Beier;Carl Beierkuhnlein;Thomas Wohlgemuth;Josep Penuelas

605
Citations
Daily precipitation statistics in regional climate models: Evaluation and intercomparison for the European Alps

Christoph Frei;Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen;Michel Déqué;Daniela Jacob

567
Citations
Future global meteorological drought hot spots: A study based on CORDEX data

Jonathan Spinoni;Paulo Barbosa;Edoardo Bucchignani;John Cassano

438
Citations
Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community

Daniela Jacob;Claas Teichmann;Stefan Sobolowski;Eleni Katragkou

411
Citations
Very High-Resolution Regional Climate Simulations over Scandinavia—Present Climate

Ole B. Christensen;Jens H. Christensen;Bennert Machenhauer;Michael Botzet

405
Citations
Weight assignment in regional climate models

Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen;Erik Kjellström;Filippo Giorgi;Geert Lenderink

386
Citations
PRUDENCE employs new methods to assess European climate change

Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen;Timothy R. Carter;Filippo Giorgi

318
Citations
Climate variability and physical forcing of the food webs and the carbon budget on panarctic shelves

Eddy Carmack;David Barber;Jens Christensen;Robie Macdonald

317
Citations
Future climate change: Modeling and scenarios for the Arctic

Vladimir M. Kattsov;Erland Källén;Howard P. Cattle;Jens Christensen

315
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Annette Rinke Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

Ole Bøssing Christensen Danish Meteorological Institute

Jens Christian Refsgaard Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

Klaus Dethloff Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

René Laprise University of Quebec at Montreal

Jouni Räisänen University of Helsinki

Filippo Giorgi International Centre for Theoretical Physics

Erik Kjellström Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

Daniela Jacob Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research

Charlotte Bay Hasager Technical University of Denmark

External Links

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