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Earth Science

D-Index
33
Citations
4447
World Ranking
8314
National Ranking
21

Best Publications

  • Time-scale for adjustment of glaciers to changes in mass balance

    Tómas Jóhannesson;Charles Raymond;Ed Waddington

  • Modelling the response of glaciers to climate warming

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

  • Degree-day glacier mass-balance modelling with applications to glaciers in Iceland, Norway and Greenland

    Tómas Jóhannesson;Oddur Sigurdsson;Tron Laumann;Michael Kennett

  • Estimating the Spatial Distribution of Precipitation in Iceland Using a Linear Model of Orographic Precipitation

    Philippe Crochet;Tómas Jóhannesson;Trausti Jónsson;Oddur Sigurðsson

  • Ice-volume changes, bias estimation of mass-balance measurements and changes in subglacial lakes derived by lidar mapping of the surface of Icelandic glaciers

    Tómas Jóhannesson;Helgi Björnsson;Eyjólfur Magnússon;Sverrir Guðmundsson

  • A Simple Method for Determining the Response Time of Glaciers

    T. Jóhannesson;C. F. Raymond;E. D. Waddington

  • Response of Hofsjökull and southern Vatnajökull, Iceland, to climate change

    G. Aðalgeirsdóttir;T. Jóhannesson;H. Björnsson;F. Pálsson

  • Contribution of Icelandic ice caps to sea level rise: Trends and variability since the Little Ice Age

    Helgi Björnsson;Finnur Pálsson;Sverrir Gudmundsson;Eyjólfur Magnússon

  • Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023

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  • Time–Scale for Adjustment of Glaciers to Changes in Mass Balance

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  • Propagation of a glacier surge into stagnant ice

    Charles Raymond;Tomas Johannesson;Tad Pfeffer;Martin Sharp

  • The response of two Icelandic glaciers to climatic warming computed with a degree-day glacier mass-balance model coupled to a dynamic glacier model

    Tómas Jóhannesson

  • The 2014 Lake Askja rockslide-induced tsunami: Optimization of numerical tsunami model using observed data

    Sigríður Sif Gylfadóttir;Jihwan Kim;Jón Kristinn Helgason;Sveinn Brynjólfsson

  • An oligarchic microbial assemblage in the anoxic bottom waters of a volcanic subglacial lake.

    Eric Gaidos;Eric Gaidos;Viggo Marteinsson;Thorsteinn Thorsteinsson;Tomas Jóhannesson

  • Propagation of a subglacial flood wave during the initiation of a jökulhlaup

    Tómas Jóhannesson

  • A laboratory study of the retarding effects of braking mounds on snow avalanches

    Kristín Martha Hákonardóttir;Andrew J. Hogg;Tómas Jóhannesson;Gunnar G. Tómasson

  • Laboratory measurements of impact forces of supercritical granular flow against mast-like obstacles

    Sigurjón Hauksson;Matteo Pagliardi;Massimiliano Barbolini;Tómas Jóhannesson

  • Microbial communities in the subglacial waters of the Vatnajökull ice cap, Iceland.

    Viggó Thór Marteinsson;Árni Rúnarsson;Andri Stefánsson;Thorsteinn Thorsteinsson

  • A multi-dimensional analysis of pro-glacial landscape change at Sólheimajökull, southern Iceland

    Kate E. H. Staines;Jonathan L. Carrivick;Fiona S. Tweed;Andrew J. Evans

  • Modelling the 20th and 21st century evolution of Hoffellsjökull glacier, SE-Vatnajökull, Iceland

    G. Aðalgeirsdóttir;G. Aðalgeirsdóttir;S. Guðmundsson;H. Björnsson;F. Pálsson

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