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Stef Lhermitte

Stef Lhermitte

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
51
Citations
8270
World Ranking
4801
National Ranking
72

Stef Lhermitte 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 Stef Lhermitte sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 195 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stef Lhermitte 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 Stef Lhermitte sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Stef Lhermitte is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and specializes in fields related to Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on atmospheric sciences and cryospheric studies, contributing significantly to the understanding of ice dynamics and environmental processes.

Their work spans several subfields, including:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Ecology

Main topics addressed in their research are:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Stef Lhermitte has frequently published research in notable venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Cryosphere
  • Nature Communications
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Nature Climate Change

Their publications include multiple research papers, with selected works such as:

  • "Damage accelerates ice shelf instability and mass loss in Amundsen Sea Embayment" (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Strong Summer Atmospheric Rivers Trigger Greenland Ice Sheet Melt through Spatially Varying Surface Energy Balance and Cloud Regimes" (2020), Journal of Climate
  • "Low elevation of Svalbard glaciers drives high mass loss variability" (2020), Nature Communications
  • "Observations of Buried Lake Drainage on the Antarctic Ice Sheet" (2020), Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Present-Day Greenland Ice Sheet Climate and Surface Mass Balance in CESM2" (2020), Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface

Stef Lhermitte collaborates frequently with a group of coauthors, including but not limited to:

  • Bert Wouters
  • M. R. van den Broeke
  • Maaike Izeboud
  • Peter Kuipers Munneke
  • Frank Pattyn

Best Publications

  • Modelling the climate and surface mass balance of polar ice sheets using RACMO2 – Part 2: Antarctica (1979–2016)

    Jan Melchior Van Wessem;Willem Jan Van De Berg;Brice P.Y. Noël;Erik Van Meijgaard

  • A comparison of time series similarity measures for classification and change detection of ecosystem dynamics

    Stef Lhermitte;Stef Lhermitte;Jan Verbesselt;Willem Verstraeten;Willem Verstraeten;Pol Coppin

  • Modelling the climate and surface mass balance of polar ice sheets using RACMO2 – Part 1: Greenland (1958–2016)

    Brice Noël;Willem Jan van de Berg;J. Melchior Van Wessem;Erik Van Meijgaard

  • Rapid ablation zone expansion amplifies north Greenland mass loss.

    Brice Noël;Willem Jan van de Berg;S.L.M. Lhermitte;Michiel R. van den Broeke

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

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

  • Meltwater produced by wind-albedo interaction stored in an East Antarctic ice shelf

    J. T. M. Lenaerts;J. T. M. Lenaerts;S. Lhermitte;S. Lhermitte;R. Drews;R. Drews;S. R. M. Ligtenberg

  • Clouds enhance Greenland ice sheet meltwater runoff

    K. Van Tricht;S. Lhermitte;J. T M Lenaerts;I. V. Gorodetskaya

  • A model quantifying global vegetation resistance and resilience to short‐term climate anomalies and their relationship with vegetation cover

    Wanda De Keersmaecker;Stef Lhermitte;Laurent Tits;Olivier Honnay

  • Damage accelerates ice shelf instability and mass loss in Amundsen Sea Embayment.

    Stef Lhermitte;Sainan Sun;Christopher Shuman;Bert Wouters

  • A daily, 1 km resolution data set of downscaled Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance (1958–2015)

    Brice Noël;Willem Jan van de Berg;Horst Machguth;Horst Machguth;Horst Machguth;S.L.M. Lhermitte

  • The temporal dimension of differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) fire/burn severity studies: the case of the large 2007 Peloponnese wildfires in Greece.

    Sander Veraverbeke;Stefaan Lhermitte;Willem Verstraeten;Rudi Goossens

  • Firn meltwater retention on the Greenland Ice Sheet: a model comparison

    Christian R. Steger;Carleen H. Reijmer;Michiel R. van den Broeke;Nander Wever

  • Sensitivity of Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance to surface albedo parameterization: a study with a regional climate model

    J. H van Angelen;Jan Lenaerts;Stef Lhermitte;X Fettweis

  • Wind effects on snow cover in Pascua-Lama, Dry Andes of Chile

    Simon Gascoin;Stefaan Lhermitte;Christophe Kinnard;Kirsten Bortels

  • Hazardous thunderstorm intensification over Lake Victoria

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

  • How to measure ecosystem stability? An evaluation of the reliability of stability metrics based on remote sensing time series across the major global ecosystems.

    Wanda De Keersmaecker;Stef Lhermitte;Stef Lhermitte;Olivier Honnay;Jamshid Farifteh

  • Glacier contribution to streamflow in two headwaters of the Huasco River, Dry Andes of Chile

    S Gascoin;C Kinnard;R Ponce;Stef Lhermitte

  • A tipping point in refreezing accelerates mass loss of Greenland’s glaciers and ice caps

    B.P.Y. Noël;W.J. van de Berg;S. Lhermitte;B. Wouters

  • Hierarchical image segmentation based on similarity of NDVI time series

    Stefaan Lhermitte;Jan Verbesselt;Inge Jonckheere;Kris Nackaerts

  • Evaluating satellite and climate data-derived indices as fire risk indicators in savanna ecosystems

    J. Verbesselt;P. Jonsson;S. Lhermitte;J. van Aardt

  • The Effect of Foehn-Induced Surface Melt on Firn Evolution Over the Northeast Antarctic Peninsula

    Rajashree Tri Datta;Marco Tedesco;Marco Tedesco;Xavier Fettweis;Cecile Agosta;Cecile Agosta

  • Six Decades of Glacial Mass Loss in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

    Brice P.Y. Noël;Willem Jan Van De Berg;S.L.M. Lhermitte;Bert Wouters

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan T. M. Lenaerts
Jan T. M. Lenaerts University of Colorado Boulder
Irina Gorodetskaya
Irina Gorodetskaya University of Porto
Pol Coppin
Pol Coppin KU Leuven
Michiel R. van den Broeke
Michiel R. van den Broeke Utrecht University
Brice Noël
Brice Noël University of Liège
Jan Verbesselt
Jan Verbesselt Wageningen University & Research
Ben Somers
Ben Somers KU Leuven
Wim Thiery
Wim Thiery Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Bert Wouters
Bert Wouters Utrecht University

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