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Philippe Huybrechts

Philippe Huybrechts

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Earth Science
Belgium
2026

Philippe Huybrechts publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Philippe Huybrechts sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

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Philippe Huybrechts D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Philippe Huybrechts sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Philippe Huybrechts is affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their scholarly work focuses primarily on cryospheric studies and observations, with significant exploration into climate change and permafrost, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, and related environmental phenomena.

Their body of research includes 55 publications in Earth and Planetary Sciences and 17 in Environmental Science. Within these fields, Huybrechts has explored several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Chemistry.

The topics most frequently covered in their work are:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Climate variability and models

Huybrechts has coauthored with several researchers multiple times. Frequent collaborators include Jonas Van Breedam, Heiko Goelzer, Roderik S. W. van de Wal, Hélène Seroussi, and William H. Lipscomb.

The venues where Huybrechts' work has often appeared include:

  • The Cryosphere
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth System Dynamics
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Nature

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Philippe Huybrechts include:

  • Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise, 2021, Nature
  • ISMIP6 Antarctica: a multi-model ensemble of the Antarctic ice sheet evolution over the 21st century, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • The future sea-level contribution of the Greenland ice sheet: a multi-model ensemble study of ISMIP6, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • GrSMBMIP: intercomparison of the modelled 1980-2012 surface mass balance over the Greenland Ice Sheet, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • Projecting Antarctica's contribution to future sea level rise from basal ice shelf melt using linear response functions of 16 ice sheet models (LARMIP-2), 2020, Earth System Dynamics

Best Publications

  • Eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core

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

  • Changes in Sea Level

    J. A. Church;J. M. Gregory;Philippe Huybrechts;M. Kuhn

  • 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

  • Ice-Sheet and Sea-Level Changes

    Richard B. Alley;Peter U. Clark;Philippe Huybrechts;Ian Joughin

  • Sea-level changes at the LGM from ice-dynamic reconstructions of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets during the glacial cycles

    Philippe Huybrechts

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

    D. Dahl-Jensen;M. R. Albert;A. Aldahan;N. Azuma

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

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

  • The Dynamic Response of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets to Multiple-Century Climatic Warming

    Philippe Huybrechts;Jan de Wolde

  • Increased Runoff from Melt from the Greenland Ice Sheet: A Response to Global Warming

    Edward Hanna;Philippe Huybrechts;Konrad Steffen;John Cappelen

  • Modelling the response of glaciers to climate warming

    J. Oerlemans;B. Anderson;A. Hubbard;Philippe Huybrechts

  • Greenland ice sheet: increased coastal thinning

    W. Krabill;E. Hanna;Philippe Huybrechts;Philippe Huybrechts;W. Abdalati

  • ISMIP6 Antarctica: a multi-model ensemble of the Antarctic ice sheet evolution over the 21st century

    Hélène Seroussi;Sophie Nowicki;Antony J. Payne;Heiko Goelzer;Heiko Goelzer

  • Melt-induced speed-up of Greenland ice sheet offset by efficient subglacial drainage

    Aud Venke Sundal;Andrew Shepherd;Peter Nienow;Edward Hanna

  • Threatened loss of the Greenland ice-sheet

    Jonathan M. Gregory;Jonathan M. Gregory;Philippe Huybrechts;Philippe Huybrechts;Sarah C. B. Raper

  • Description of the Earth system model of intermediate complexity LOVECLIM version 1.2

    Hugues Goosse;Viktor Brovkin;Thierry Fichefet;R Haarsma

  • Grounding-line migration in plan-view marine ice-sheet models: results of the ice2sea MISMIP3d intercomparison

    Frank Pattyn;Laura Perichon;Gaël Durand;Lionel Favier

  • Runoff and mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet: 1958-2003

    Edward Hanna;Philippe Huybrechts;Ives Janssens;John Cappelen

  • Marine‐terminating glaciers sustain high productivity in Greenland fjords

    Lorenz Meire;Lorenz Meire;John Mortensen;Patrick Meire;Thomas Juul-Pedersen

  • The future sea-level contribution of the Greenland ice sheet: a multi-model ensemble study of ISMIP6

    Heiko Goelzer;Heiko Goelzer;Heiko Goelzer;Sophie Nowicki;Anthony Payne;Eric Larour

  • The treatment of meltwater retention in mass-balance parameterisations of the Greenland ice sheet

    Ives Janssens;Philippe Huybrechts

  • J. Oerlemans Æ B. Anderson Æ A. Hubbard Æ Ph. Huybrechts Æ T. Jo« hannesson Æ W.H. Knap Æ M. Schmeits Æ A.P. Stroeven Æ R.S.W. van de Wal Æ J. Wallinga Æ Z. Zuo Modelling the response of glaciers to climate warming

    J. Oerlemans;M. Schmeits;J. Wallinga;Z. Zuo

  • Description of the Earth system model of intermediate complexity LOVECLIM version 1.2

    H. Goosse;V. Brovkin;T. Fichefet;R. Haarsma

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core (SCI)

    D Dahl-Jensen;M R Albert;A Aldahan;N Azuma

Frequent Co-Authors

Heiko Goelzer
Heiko Goelzer Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Frank Pattyn
Frank Pattyn Université Libre de Bruxelles
Jonathan M. Gregory
Jonathan M. Gregory University of Reading
Edward Hanna
Edward Hanna University of Lincoln
Marie-France Loutre
Marie-France Loutre University of Bern
Thierry Fichefet
Thierry Fichefet Université Catholique de Louvain
Anne Mouchet
Anne Mouchet University of Liège
Michiel R. van den Broeke
Michiel R. van den Broeke Utrecht University
Xavier Fettweis
Xavier Fettweis University of Liège
Angelika Humbert
Angelika Humbert Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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