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Nicole Van Lipzig

Nicole Van Lipzig

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
50
Citations
8621
World Ranking
5026
National Ranking
74

Nicole Van Lipzig 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 Nicole Van Lipzig sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 294 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Nicole Van Lipzig 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 Nicole Van Lipzig sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Nicole Van Lipzig is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium, contributing to research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's research topics cover a diverse range of areas:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Wind Energy Research and Development
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

Among their recent published papers are:

  • Global hunger and climate change adaptation through international trade, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • What is the surface mass balance of Antarctica? An intercomparison of regional climate model estimates, 2021, The Cryosphere
  • Smart renewable electricity portfolios in West Africa, 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • COSMO-CLM regional climate simulations in the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) framework: a review, 2021, Geoscientific Model Development
  • Global Heat Uptake by Inland Waters, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with this scientist include:

  • Hendrik Wouters
  • Karen Allacker
  • Delphine Ramon
  • Sam Vanden Broucke
  • Wim Thiery

Publication venues where the scientist has most commonly contributed include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Wind Energy Science
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Best Publications

  • A review on regional convection-permitting climate modeling: Demonstrations, prospects, and challenges.

    Andreas F. Prein;Andreas F. Prein;Wolfgang Langhans;Giorgia Fosser;Andrew Ferrone

  • The Impact of a Changing Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode on Antarctic Peninsula Summer Temperatures

    Gareth J. Marshall;Andrew Orr;Nicole P. M. van Lipzig;John C. King

  • The role of atmospheric rivers in anomalous snow accumulation in East Antarctica

    Irina V. Gorodetskaya;Maria Tsukernik;Kim Claes;Martin F. Ralph

  • The Impact of the African Great Lakes on the Regional Climate

    Wim Thiery;Edouard Léopold Davin;Hans-Jürgen Panitz;Matthias Demuzere

  • Global hunger and climate change adaptation through international trade.

    Charlotte Janssens;Charlotte Janssens;Petr Havlík;Tamás Krisztin;Justin Baker

  • Heat stress increase under climate change twice as large in cities as in rural areas: A study for a densely populated midlatitude maritime region

    Hendrik Wouters;Hendrik Wouters;Koen De Ridder;Lien Poelmans;Patrick Willems

  • Tropospheric clouds in Antarctica

    David H. Bromwich;Julien P. Nicolas;Keith M. Hines;Jennifer E. Kay

  • Factors Controlling the Near-Surface Wind Field in Antarctica*

    M. R. van den Broeke;N. P. M. van Lipzig

  • Changes in Antarctic temperature, wind and precipitation in response to the Antarctic Oscillation

    Michiel R. van den Broeke;Nicole P. M. van Lipzig

  • What is the surface mass balance of Antarctica? An intercomparison of regional climate model estimates

    Ruth Mottram;Nicolaj Hansen;Christoph Kittel;J. Melchior van Wessem

  • A first description of the Antarctic Peninsula Coastal Current

    Carlos Moffat;Robert C. Beardsley;Breck Owens;Nicole van Lipzig

  • LakeMIP Kivu: Evaluating the representation of a large, deep tropical lake by a set of one-dimensional lake models

    Wim Thiery;Victor M. Stepanenko;Xing Fang;Klaus D. Jöhnk

  • The efficient urban canopy dependency parametrization (SURY) v1.0 foratmospheric modelling: description and application with the COSMO-CLM modelfor a Belgian summer

    Hendrik Wouters;Matthias Demuzere;Ulrich Blahak;Krzysztof Fortuniak

  • Hazardous thunderstorm intensification over Lake Victoria

    Wim Thiery;Wim Thiery;Edouard Léopold Davin;Sonia I. Seneviratne;Kristopher Bedka

  • Variability in the freshwater balance of northern Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula: results from δ18O

    Michael P. Meredith;Mark A. Brandon;Margaret I. Wallace;Andrew Clarke

  • Characteristics of Summer Airflow over the Antarctic Peninsula in Response to Recent Strengthening of Westerly Circumpolar Winds

    Andrew Orr;Gareth J. Marshall;Julian C. R. Hunt;Joel Sommeria

  • Smart renewable electricity portfolios in West Africa

    Sebastian Hendrik Sterl;Sebastian Hendrik Sterl;Sebastian Hendrik Sterl;Inne Vanderkelen;Celray James Chawanda;Daniel Russo

  • How well can a convection-permitting climate model reproduce decadal statistics of precipitation, temperature and cloud characteristics?

    Erwan Brisson;Erwan Brisson;Kwinten Van Weverberg;Kwinten Van Weverberg;Matthias Demuzere;Annemarie Devis

  • A new approach for assessing synergies of solar and wind power: implications for West Africa

    Sebastian Hendrik Sterl;Sebastian Hendrik Sterl;Sebastian Hendrik Sterl;Stefan Liersch;Hagen Koch;Nicole van Lipzig

  • COSMO-CLM regional climate simulations in the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) framework: a review

    Silje Lund Sørland;Roman Brogli;Praveen Kumar Pothapakula;Emmanuele Russo

  • The Regional Climate Impact of a Realistic Future Deforestation Scenario in the Congo Basin

    Tom Akkermans;Wim Thiery;Nicole P. M. Van Lipzig

  • A review on regional convection permitting climate modeling

    Nicole van Lipzig;Andreas Prein;Erwan Brisson;Kwinten Van Weverberg

  • Heat-stress increase under climate change twice as large in cities as in rural areas

    Hendrik Wouters;Koen De Ridder;Lien Poelmans;Patrick Willems

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias Demuzere
Matthias Demuzere Ruhr University Bochum
Wim Thiery
Wim Thiery Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Irina Gorodetskaya
Irina Gorodetskaya University of Porto
Jan T. M. Lenaerts
Jan T. M. Lenaerts University of Colorado Boulder
Susanne Crewell
Susanne Crewell University of Cologne
Xavier Fettweis
Xavier Fettweis University of Liège

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