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Regine Hock is affiliated with the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial number of publications in Atmospheric Science. The scientist's work spans several specialized subfields, including Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography.

The main research topics covered by Regine Hock include:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Climate variability and models
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements

Regine Hock has published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Glaciology
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Regine Hock are:

  • Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise, 2021, Nature
  • Global glacier change in the 21st century: Every increase in temperature matters, 2023, Science
  • Glacier Mass Change in High Mountain Asia Through 2100 Using the Open-Source Python Glacier Evolution Model (PyGEM), 2020, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Partitioning the Uncertainty of Ensemble Projections of Global Glacier Mass Change, 2020, Earth's Future
  • Understanding of Contemporary Regional Sea-Level Change and the Implications for the Future, 2020, Reviews of Geophysics

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several coauthors including David R. Rounce, Fabien Maussion, Matthias Huss, Shichang Kang, and Federico Covi, reflecting a sustained engagement in collaborative research efforts.

Best Publications

  • Temperature index melt modelling in mountain areas

    Regine Hock

  • 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

  • The Randolph Glacier inventory: a globally complete inventory of glaciers

    W Tad Pfeffer;Anthony A Arendt;Andrew Bliss;Tobias Bolch;Tobias Bolch

  • Global-scale hydrological response to future glacier mass loss

    Matthias Huss;Matthias Huss;Regine Hock;Regine Hock

  • Glacier melt: a review of processes and their modelling

    Regine Hock

  • The concept of glacier storage: a review

    Peter Jansson;Regine Hock;Thomas Schneider

  • A distributed temperature-index ice- and snowmelt model including potential direct solar radiation

    Regine Hock

  • Global glacier change in the 21st century: Every increase in temperature matters

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  • Glossary of glacier mass balance and related terms

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

  • A new model for global glacier change and sea-level rise

    Matthias Huss;Matthias Huss;Regine Hock;Regine Hock

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

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

  • Regional and global projections of twenty-first century glacier mass changes in response to climate scenarios from global climate models

    Valentina Radić;Andrew Bliss;A. Cody Beedlow;Regine Hock

  • Regionally differentiated contribution of mountain glaciers and ice caps to future sea-level rise

    Valentina Radić;Valentina Radić;Regine Hock;Regine Hock

  • Contribution of the Greenland Ice Sheet to sea level over the next millennium

    Andy Aschwanden;Mark A. Fahnestock;Martin Truffer;Douglas J. Brinkerhoff

  • A distributed surface energy-balance model for complex topography and its application to Storglaciaren, Sweden

    Regine Hock;Björn Holmgren

  • Regional and global volumes of glaciers derived from statistical upscaling of glacier inventory data

    Valentina Radić;Valentina Radić;Regine Hock;Regine Hock

  • Global response of glacier runoff to twenty‐first century climate change

    Andrew Bliss;Regine Hock;Regine Hock;Valentina Radić

  • GlacierMIP - A model intercomparison of global-scale glacier mass-balance models and projections

    Regine Hock;Andrew Bliss;B. E.N. Marzeion;Rianne H. Giesen

  • Partitioning the uncertainty of ensemble projections of global glacier mass change

    Ben Marzeion;Regine Hock;Brian Anderson;Andrew Bliss

  • High mountain areas

    Regine Hock;Golam Rasul;Carolina Adler;Bolivar Cáceres

  • Glacier Mass Change in High Mountain Asia Through 2100 Using the Open-Source Python Glacier Evolution Model (PyGEM)

    David R. Rounce;Regine Hock;David E. Shean

  • Determination of the seasonal mass balance of four Alpine glaciers since 1865

    M. Huss;A. Bauder;M. Funk;Regine Hock;Regine Hock

  • Contribution of the Greenland Ice Sheet to Sea-Level over the Next Millennium

    A. Aschwanden;M. A. Fahnestock;M. Truffer;D. J. Brinkerhoff

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias Huss
Matthias Huss University of Fribourg
Ben Marzeion
Ben Marzeion University of Bremen
Andy Aschwanden
Andy Aschwanden University of Alaska Fairbanks
Jon Ove Hagen
Jon Ove Hagen University of Oslo
Andreas Bauder
Andreas Bauder ETH Zurich
Martin Truffer
Martin Truffer University of Alaska Fairbanks
Alex S. Gardner
Alex S. Gardner California Institute of Technology
Martin Funk
Martin Funk ETH Zurich
Koji Fujita
Koji Fujita Nagoya University
Georg Kaser
Georg Kaser University of Innsbruck

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