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Earth Science

D-Index
35
Citations
7537
World Ranking
7455
National Ranking
159

Best Publications

  • Global glacier mass changes and their contributions to sea-level rise from 1961 to 2016

    Michael Zemp;Matthias Huss;E Thibert;N Eckert

  • Historically unprecedented global glacier decline in the early 21st century

    A. P. Ahlström;B. Anderson;M. Arenillas;S. Bajracharya

  • Glossary of glacier mass balance and related terms

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

  • Six decades of glacier mass-balance observations: a review of the worldwide monitoring network

    M. Zemp;M. Hoelzle;W. Haeberli

  • Alpine glaciers to disappear within decades

    Michael Zemp;Wilfried Haeberli;Martin Hoelzle;Frank Paul

  • Integrated monitoring of mountain glaciers as key indicators of global climate change: the European Alps

    Wilfried Haeberli;Martin Hoelzle;Frank Paul;Michael Zemp

  • Reanalysing glacier mass balance measurement series

    M. Zemp;E. Thibert;M. Huss;D. Stumm

  • Rapid glacier retreat and downwasting throughout the European Alps in the early 21st century.

    Christian Sommer;Philipp Malz;Thorsten C. Seehaus;Stefan Lippl

  • Reanalysis of multi-temporal aerial images of Storglaciären, Sweden (1959–99) – Part 1: Determination of length, area, and volume changes

    Thomas Koblet;Ingrid Gärtner-Roer;Michael Zemp;Peter Jansson

  • High uncertainty in 21st century runoff projections from glacierized basins

    Matthias Huss;Matthias Huss;Michael Zemp;Philip C. Joerg;Nadine Salzmann

  • Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023

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  • Reanalysis of multi-temporal aerial images of Storglaciären, Sweden (1959–99) – Part 2: Comparison of glaciological and volumetric mass balances

    Michael Zemp;Peter Jansson;Per Holmlund;Ingrid Gärtner-Roer

  • Distributed modelling of the regional climatic equilibrium line altitude of glaciers in the European Alps

    Michael Zemp;Martin Hoelzle;Wilfried Haeberli

  • Uncertainty assessment of multi-temporal airborne laser scanning data: A case study on an Alpine glacier

    Philip Claudio Joerg;Felix Morsdorf;Michael Zemp

  • Methodological approaches to infer end-of-winter snow distribution on alpine glaciers

    Leo Sold;Matthias Huss;Martin Hoelzle;Hubert Andereggen

  • Global glacier changes: a revised assessment of committed mass losses and sampling uncertainties

    Sebastian H Mernild;Sebastian H Mernild;William H Lipscomb;David B Bahr;Valentina Radić

  • Closing the Water Cycle from Observations across Scales: Where Do We Stand?

    Wouter Dorigo;Stephan Dietrich;Filipe Aires;Luca Brocca

  • Global glacier changes : facts and figures

    Michael Zemp;Jaap van Woerden

  • Supra-glacial debris cover changes in the Greater Caucasus from 1986 to 2014

    Levan G. Tielidze;Levan G. Tielidze;Levan G. Tielidze;Tobias Bolch;Roger D. Wheate;Stanislav S. Kutuzov;Stanislav S. Kutuzov

  • Fluctuations of glaciers 2005-2010

    Michael Zemp;Holger Frey;Isabelle Gärtner-Roer;Samuel U Nussbaumer

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