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Michiel R. van den Broeke

Michiel R. van den Broeke

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Earth Science
Netherlands
2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
130
Citations
65920
World Ranking
24
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2015 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Michiel R. van den Broeke is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple disciplines within Earth and Environmental Sciences, focusing extensively on cryospheric studies and climate change.

Their main fields of study include Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography. Their work touches on topics like cryospheric studies and observations, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, climate change and permafrost, and climate variability and models.

Michiel van den Broeke has contributed to several well-regarded publication venues. Frequent venues for their research outputs include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Cryosphere
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Recent papers authored or co-authored by van den Broeke include:

  • Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise, 2021, Nature
  • Dynamic ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet driven by sustained glacier retreat, 2020, Communications Earth & Environment
  • The future sea-level contribution of the Greenland ice sheet: a multi-model ensemble study of ISMIP6, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • Quantarctica, an integrated mapping environment for Antarctica, the Southern Ocean, and sub-Antarctic islands, 2021, Environmental Modelling & Software
  • Continuity of Ice Sheet Mass Loss in Greenland and Antarctica From the GRACE and GRACE Follow-On Missions, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent collaborators in their research include Brice Noël, Willem Jan van de Berg, Peter Kuipers Munneke, Stef Lhermitte, and Xavier Fettweis. The co-author network reflects a focus on interdisciplinary approaches involving ice dynamics and climate modeling.

Michiel van den Broeke's research topics include:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

In 2015, Michiel van den Broeke was recognized by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core

    Laurent Augustin;Carlo Barbante;Piers R. F. Barnes;Jean Marc Barnola

  • The Community Land Model version 5 : description of new features, benchmarking, and impact of forcing uncertainty

    David M. Lawrence;Rosie A. Fisher;Charles D. Koven;Keith W. Oleson

  • Four decades of Antarctic Ice Sheet mass balance from 1979-2017.

    Eric Rignot;Eric Rignot;Jérémie Mouginot;Jérémie Mouginot;Bernd Scheuchl;Michiel van den Broeke

  • A reconciled estimate of ice-sheet mass balance

    Andrew Shepherd;Erik R. Ivins;A. Geruo;Valentina R. Barletta

  • Antarctic ice-sheet loss driven by basal melting of ice shelves

    H. D. Pritchard;S. R. M. Ligtenberg;H. A. Fricker;D. G. Vaughan

  • 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

  • Acceleration of the contribution of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to sea level rise

    Eric Rignot;Eric Rignot;I. Velicogna;I. Velicogna;M.R. van den Broeke;A. Monaghan

  • One-to-one coupling of glacial climate variability in Greenland and Antarctica.

    C. Barbante;J.-M. Barnola;J.-M. Barnola;S. Becagli;J. Beer;J. Beer

  • Recent Antarctic ice mass loss from radar interferometry and regional climate modelling

    Eric Rignot;Eric Rignot;Eric Rignot;Jonathan L. Bamber;Michiel R. van den Broeke;Curt Davis

  • Mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet from 1992 to 2017.

    Andrew Shepherd;Erik Ivins;Eric Rignot;Ben Smith

  • Partitioning Recent Greenland Mass Loss

    Michiel van den Broeke;Jonathan Bamber;Janneke Ettema;Eric Rignot;Eric Rignot

  • Deep glacial troughs and stabilizing ridges unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet

    M. Morlighem;Eric Rignot;Tobias Binder;Donald Blankenship

  • BedMachine v3: Complete Bed Topography and Ocean Bathymetry Mapping of Greenland From Multibeam Echo Sounding Combined With Mass Conservation.

    M. Morlighem;C. N. Williams;C. N. Williams;E. Rignot;E. Rignot;L. An

  • Forty-six years of Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance from 1972 to 2018

    Jérémie Mouginot;Jérémie Mouginot;Eric Rignot;Eric Rignot;Anders A. Bjørk;Anders A. Bjørk;Michiel van den Broeke

  • Calving fluxes and basal melt rates of Antarctic ice shelves

    Mathieu A Depoorter;Jonathan L Bamber;Jennifer A Griggs;Jtm Lenaerts

  • An improved mass budget for the Greenland ice sheet

    Ellyn M. Enderlin;Ellyn M. Enderlin;Ian M. Howat;Seongsu Jeong;Myoung-Jong Noh

  • Revisiting the Earth's sea-level and energy budgets from 1961 to 2008

    John A. Church;Neil J. White;Leonard F. Konikow;Catia M. Domingues

  • Higher surface mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet revealed by high-resolution climate modeling.

    Janneke Ettema;Michiel R. van den Broeke;Erik van Meijgaard;Willem Jan van de Berg

  • Increased West Antarctic and unchanged East Antarctic ice discharge over the last 7 years

    Alex S. Gardner;Geir Moholdt;Ted Scambos;Mark Fahnstock

  • Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise

    Tamsin L Edwards;Sophie Nowicki;Sophie Nowicki;Ben Marzeion;Regine Hock;Regine Hock

  • Estimating the Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance contribution to future sea level rise using the regional atmospheric climate model MAR

    X. Fettweis;B. Franco;Marco Tedesco;J. H. van Angelen

  • Supplementary Materials for A Reconciled Estimate of Ice-Sheet Mass Balance

    Andrew Shepherd;Erik R. Ivins;Geruo A;Valentina R. Barletta

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan T. M. Lenaerts
Jan T. M. Lenaerts University of Colorado Boulder
Brice Noël
Brice Noël University of Liège
Willem Jan van de Berg
Willem Jan van de Berg Utrecht University
Xavier Fettweis
Xavier Fettweis University of Liège
Eric Rignot
Eric Rignot University of California, Irvine
Bert Wouters
Bert Wouters Utrecht University
Peter Kuipers Munneke
Peter Kuipers Munneke Utrecht University
Stefan R. M. Ligtenberg
Stefan R. M. Ligtenberg Utrecht University
Carleen Reijmer
Carleen Reijmer Utrecht University
Heiko Goelzer
Heiko Goelzer Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research

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