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Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

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Environmental Sciences
Denmark
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
67
Citations
32206
World Ranking
1919
National Ranking
21

Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 240 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

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

  • Regional climate projections

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

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

    Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen;Ole Bøssing Christensen

  • Climate phenomena and their relevance for future regional climate change

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

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

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Regional Climate Information—Evaluation and Projections

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

  • Climate modelling: Severe summertime flooding in Europe.

    Jens H. Christensen;Ole B. Christensen

  • 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

  • EC-Earth A Seamless Earth-System Prediction Approach in Action

    Wilco Hazeleger;Camiel Severijns;Tido Semmler;Simona Ştefănescu

  • Precipitation manipulation experiments - challenges and recommendations for the future

    Claus Beier;Carl Beierkuhnlein;Thomas Wohlgemuth;Josep Penuelas

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

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

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

    Jonathan Spinoni;Paulo Barbosa;Edoardo Bucchignani;John Cassano

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

    Daniela Jacob;Claas Teichmann;Stefan Sobolowski;Eleni Katragkou

  • Very High-Resolution Regional Climate Simulations over Scandinavia—Present Climate

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

  • Weight assignment in regional climate models

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

  • PRUDENCE employs new methods to assess European climate change

    Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen;Timothy R. Carter;Filippo Giorgi

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

    Eddy Carmack;David Barber;Jens Christensen;Robie Macdonald

  • Future climate change: Modeling and scenarios for the Arctic

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Annette Rinke
Annette Rinke Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Ole Bøssing Christensen
Ole Bøssing Christensen Danish Meteorological Institute
Jens Christian Refsgaard
Jens Christian Refsgaard Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Klaus Dethloff
Klaus Dethloff Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
René Laprise
René Laprise University of Quebec at Montreal
Jouni Räisänen
Jouni Räisänen University of Helsinki
Filippo Giorgi
Filippo Giorgi International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Erik Kjellström
Erik Kjellström Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Daniela Jacob
Daniela Jacob Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Charlotte Bay Hasager
Charlotte Bay Hasager Technical University of Denmark

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