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Austria
2026

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Earth Science

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75
Citations
27844
World Ranking
693
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Tobias Bolch is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular emphasis on Atmospheric Science. Bolch's work spans multiple interconnected subfields, including Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Water Science and Technology, and Aerospace Engineering.

The main topics addressed in their publications include:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Bolch has a significant record of publication in various scientific journals. Frequent venues for their research include:

  • The Cryosphere
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Earth system science data
  • Earth-Science Reviews

Among their recent papers are:

  • "The imbalance of the Asian water tower" (2022) published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Response of Tibetan Plateau lakes to climate change: Trends, patterns, and mechanisms" (2020) published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • "High Mountain Asian glacier response to climate revealed by multi-temporal satellite observations since the 1960s" (2021) published in Nature Communications
  • "High Mountain Asia hydropower systems threatened by climate-driven landscape instability" (2022) published in Nature Geoscience
  • "Automated detection of rock glaciers using deep learning and object-based image analysis" (2020) published in Remote Sensing of Environment

Tobias Bolch's collaborative work involves frequent co-authors including Owen King, Atanu Bhattacharya, Guoqing Zhang, Tandong Yao, and Shiyin Liu. These collaborations have contributed to a body of interdisciplinary research intersecting cryospheric studies, climate change impacts, and remote sensing technologies.

Best Publications

  • The state and fate of Himalayan glaciers

    Tobias Bolch;Tobias Bolch;A Kulkarni;Andreas Kääb;Christian Huggel;Christian Huggel

  • Importance and vulnerability of the world's water towers

    W W Immerzeel;A F Lutz;M Andrade;M Andrade;A Bahl

  • 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

  • The imbalance of the Asian water tower

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  • Climate change impacts on glaciers and runoff in Tien Shan (Central Asia)

    Annina Sorg;Annina Sorg;Tobias Bolch;Tobias Bolch;Markus Stoffel;Markus Stoffel;Olga Solomina

  • Landsat-based inventory of glaciers in western Canada, 1985-2005

    Tobias Bolch;Brian Menounos;Roger Wheate

  • Response of debris-covered glaciers in the Mount Everest region to recent warming, and implications for outburst flood hazards

    D I Benn;D I Benn;Tobias Bolch;Tobias Bolch;K Hands;J Gulley;J Gulley

  • On the accuracy of glacier outlines derived from remote-sensing data

    Frank Paul;N. Barrand;S. Baumann;E. Berthier

  • Response of Tibetan Plateau lakes to climate change: Trends, patterns, and mechanisms

    Guoqing Zhang;Guoqing Zhang;Tandong Yao;Tandong Yao;Hongjie Xie;Kun Yang;Kun Yang

  • Multi-decadal mass loss of glaciers in the Everest area (Nepal Himalaya) derived from stereo imagery

    T. Bolch;T. Bolch;T. Pieczonka;D. I. Benn;D. I. Benn

  • Planimetric and volumetric glacier changes in the Khumbu Himal, Nepal, since 1962 using Corona, Landsat TM and ASTER data

    Tobias Bolch;Manfred F Buchroithner;Tino Pieczonka;André Kunert

  • Substantial glacier mass loss in the Tien Shan over the past 50 years

    Daniel Farinotti;Laurent Longuevergne;Geir Moholdt;Doris Duethmann

  • Glacier changes in the Garhwal Himalaya, India, from 1968 to 2006 based on remote sensing

    Rakesh Bhambri;Tobias Bolch;Ravinder Kumar Chaujar;Subhash Chandra Kulshreshtha

  • Lake volume and groundwater storage variations in Tibetan Plateau's endorheic basin

    Guoqing Zhang;Guoqing Zhang;Tandong Yao;Tandong Yao;C. K. Shum;Shuang Yi

  • Climate change and glacier retreat in northern Tien Shan (Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan) using remote sensing data

    Tobias Bolch

  • The glaciers climate change initiative: Methods for creating glacier area, elevation change and velocity products

    Frank Paul;Tobias Bolch;Andreas Kääb;Thomas Nagler

  • Identification of glacier motion and potentially dangerous glacial lakes in the Mt. Everest region/Nepal using spaceborne imagery

    Tobias Bolch;Tobias Bolch;Manfred F Buchroithner;J Peters;M Baessler

  • A glacier inventory for the western Nyainqentanglha Range and the Nam Co Basin, Tibet, and glacier changes 1976-2009

    Tobias Bolch;Tobias Bolch;T Yao;S Kang;Manfred F Buchroithner

  • Extensive and drastically different alpine lake changes on Asia's high plateaus during the past four decades

    Guoqing Zhang;Guoqing Zhang;Tandong Yao;Tandong Yao;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Tobias Bolch;Tobias Bolch

  • Status and change of the cryosphere in the Extended Hindu Kush Himalaya Region

    Tobias Bolch;Joseph M. Shea;Joseph M. Shea;Joseph M. Shea;Shiyin Liu;Farooq M. Azam

  • Glacier mass changes on the Tibetan Plateau 2003-2009 derived from ICESat laser altimetry measurements

    N Neckel;J Kropáček;J Kropáček;T Bolch;T Bolch;V Hochschild

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Paul
Frank Paul University of Zurich
Tandong Yao
Tandong Yao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Andreas Kääb
Andreas Kääb University of Oslo
Guoqing Zhang
Guoqing Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Horst Machguth
Horst Machguth University of Fribourg
Etienne Berthier
Etienne Berthier Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales
Holger Frey
Holger Frey University of Zurich
Markus Stoffel
Markus Stoffel University of Geneva
Joseph M. Shea
Joseph M. Shea University of Northern British Columbia
Anil V. Kulkarni
Anil V. Kulkarni Indian Institute of Science

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