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Xavier Fettweis

Xavier Fettweis

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
84
Citations
24271
World Ranking
794
National Ranking
14

Xavier Fettweis 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 Xavier Fettweis sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 516 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Xavier Fettweis 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 Xavier Fettweis sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 84 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Xavier Fettweis is affiliated with the University of Liège in Belgium. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, contributing extensively to these domains through a substantial number of publications.

Their subfields of study include Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. These areas reflect a multifaceted approach towards understanding environmental and climatic processes.

The main topics covered in their work are:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements

Xavier Fettweis has contributed to numerous research papers, with selected recent publications including:

  • Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise, 2021, Nature
  • The future sea-level contribution of the Greenland ice sheet: a multi-model ensemble study of ISMIP6, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • Return to rapid ice loss in Greenland and record loss in 2019 detected by the GRACE-FO satellites, 2020, Communications Earth & Environment
  • GrSMBMIP: intercomparison of the modelled 1980-2012 surface mass balance over the Greenland Ice Sheet, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020, 2023, Earth system science data

Frequent co-authors in their scholarly work include Christoph Kittel, M. R. van den Broeke, Brice Noël, Cécile Agosta, and Charles Amory.

Xavier Fettweis has a significant presence in several publication venues with multiple contributions, especially in:

  • The Cryosphere
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • Bulletin de la Société Géographique de Liège
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Coastal flood damage and adaptation costs under 21st century sea-level rise

    Jochen Hinkel;Daniel Lincke;Athanasios T. Vafeidis;Mahé Perrette

  • Mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet from 1992 to 2017.

    Andrew Shepherd;Erik Ivins;Eric Rignot;Ben Smith

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

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

  • Reconstructions of the 1900–2015 Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance using the regional climate MAR model

    Xavier Fettweis;Jason E. Box;Cécile Agosta;Charles Amory

  • Estimating the Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance contribution to future sea level rise using the regional atmospheric climate model MAR

    X. Fettweis;B. Franco;Marco Tedesco;J. H. van Angelen

  • Greenland ice sheet albedo feedback: thermodynamics and atmospheric drivers

    J. E. Box;X. Fettweis;J. C. Stroeve;Marco Tedesco

  • Cost733cat - A database of weather and circulation type classifications

    Andreas Philipp;Judit Bartholy;Christoph Beck;Michel Erpicum

  • Evidence and analysis of 2012 Greenland records from spaceborne observations, a regional climate model and reanalysis data

    Marco Tedesco;X. Fettweis;T. Mote;J. Wahr

  • Return to rapid ice loss in Greenland and record loss in 2019 detected by the GRACE-FO satellites

    Ingo Sasgen;Bert Wouters;Bert Wouters;Alex S. Gardner;Michalea D. King

  • Ice-sheet mass balance and climate change

    Edward Hanna;Francisco J. Navarro;Frank Pattyn;Catia M. Domingues

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • Estimation of the Antarctic surface mass balance using the regional climate model MAR (1979-2015) and identification of dominant processes

    Cecile Agosta;Cecile Agosta;Cecile Agosta;Charles Amory;Christoph Kittel;Anais Orsi

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • 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 role of albedo and accumulation in the 2010 melting record in Greenland

    M. Tedesco;X. Fettweis;X. Fettweis;M.R. van den Broeke;R.S.W. van de Wal

  • Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020

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  • Atmospheric and oceanic climate forcing of the exceptional Greenland ice sheet surface melt in summer 2012

    Edward Hanna;Xavier Fettweis;Sebastian H. Mernild;John Cappelen

  • Twentieth-century global-mean sea-level rise: is the whole greater than the sum of the parts?

    Jonathan M Gregory;N. J. White;J. A. Church;M. F. P. Bierkens

  • Reconstruction of the 1979–2006 Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance using the regional climate model MAR

    Xavier Fettweis;Xavier Fettweis

  • Melting trends over the Greenland ice sheet (1958–2009) from spaceborne microwave data and regional climate models

    X. Fettweis;X. Fettweis;Marco Tedesco;M. van den Broeke;J. Ettema

  • GrSMBMIP: intercomparison of the modelled 1980-2012 surface mass balance over the Greenland Ice Sheet

    Xavier Fettweis;Stefan Hofer;Stefan Hofer;Uta Krebs-Kanzow;Charles Amory

  • [Regional Climates] Central South America 2016

    J. A. Marengo;Jhan Carlo Espinoza;L. M. Alves;J. Ronchail

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Tedesco
Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Cécile Agosta
Cécile Agosta Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
Charles Amory
Charles Amory Grenoble Alpes University
Michiel R. van den Broeke
Michiel R. van den Broeke Utrecht University
Hubert Gallée
Hubert Gallée Grenoble Alpes University
Heiko Goelzer
Heiko Goelzer Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Edward Hanna
Edward Hanna University of Lincoln
Jason E. Box
Jason E. Box Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Thomas L. Mote
Thomas L. Mote University of Georgia
Jonathan M. Gregory
Jonathan M. Gregory University of Reading

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