Andreas Kääb

29.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
237 papers, 17.5k citations indexed

About

Andreas Kääb is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Andreas Kääb has authored 237 papers receiving a total of 17.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 226 papers in Atmospheric Science, 89 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 51 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Andreas Kääb's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (219 papers), Climate change and permafrost (155 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (88 papers). Andreas Kääb is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (219 papers), Climate change and permafrost (155 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (88 papers). Andreas Kääb collaborates with scholars based in Norway, Switzerland and France. Andreas Kääb's co-authors include Christopher Nuth, Wilfried Haeberli, Frank Paul, Christian Huggel, Étienne Berthier, J. Gardelle, Yves Arnaud, Jeffrey S. Kargel, F. Paul and T. Heid and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Andreas Kääb

232 papers receiving 16.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The State and Fate of Himalayan Glaciers

2012 1.6k citations Tobias Bolch, Andreas Kääb et al. profile →
Contrasting patterns of early twenty-first-century glacier mass change in the Himalayas

2012 927 citations Andreas Kääb, Étienne Berthier et al. Nature profile →
Co-registration and bias corrections of satellite elevation data sets for quantifying glacier thickness change

2011 740 citations Christopher Nuth, Andreas Kääb The cryosphere profile →
Region-wide glacier mass balances over the Pamir-Karakoram-Himalaya during 1999–2011

2013 684 citations Étienne Berthier, Andreas Kääb et al. The cryosphere profile →
Brief Communication: Contending estimates of 2003–2008 glacier mass balance over the Pamir–Karakoram–Himalaya

2015 351 citations Andreas Kääb, Désirée Treichler et al. The cryosphere profile →
Massive collapse of two glaciers in western Tibet in 2016 after surge-like instability

2018 236 citations Andreas Kääb, Silvan Leinss et al. profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Recent giant detachment of a glacier on the Tibetan plateau provoked by its frozen tongue 2026 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·Andreas Kääb, (unknown), Désirée Treichler, Luc Girod, (unknown)	0
2	Global clustering of recent glacier surges from radar backscatter data, 2017–2022 2023 ·Journal of Glaciology ·Andreas Kääb, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Tazio Strozzi	12
3	Accelerated global glacier mass loss in the early twenty-first century 2021 ·Nature ·Romain Hugonnet, Robert McNabb, Étienne Berthier, Brian Menounos, Christopher Nuth, Luc Girod, Daniel Farinotti, Matthias Huss, Inés Dussaillant, Fanny Brun, Andreas Kääb	17
4	Sudden large-volume detachments of low-angle mountain glaciers – more frequent than thought? 2021 ·The cryosphere ·Andreas Kääb, Mylène Jacquemart, Adrien Gilbert, Silvan Leinss, Luc Girod, Christian Huggel, Daniel Falaschi, Felipe Ugalde, Dmitry Petrakov, Sergey Chernomorets, М.Д. Докукин, Frank Paul, Simon Gascoin, Étienne Berthier, Jeffrey S. Kargel	101
5	Glacier-permafrost relations in a high-mountain environment: 5 decades of kinematic monitoring at the Gruben site, Swiss Alps 2021 ·Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) ·Isabelle Gärtner‐Roer, (unknown), Reynald Delaloye, Wilfried Haeberli, Andreas Kääb, P. Thee	3
6	Inventory and changes of rock glacier creep speeds in Ile Alatau and Kungöy Ala-Too, northern Tien Shan, since the 1950s 2021 ·The cryosphere ·Andreas Kääb, Tazio Strozzi, Tobias Bolch, Rafael Caduff, (unknown), Markus Stoffel, (unknown)	51
7	Monitoring Rock Glacier Kinematics with Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar 2020 ·Remote Sensing ·Tazio Strozzi, Rafael Caduff, (unknown), Chloé Barboux, Reynald Delaloye, Xavier Bodín, Andreas Kääb, (unknown), Lothar Schrott	70
8	Dynamic vulnerability revealed in the collapse of an Arctic tidewater glacier 2019 ·Scientific Reports ·Christopher Nuth, Adrien Gilbert, Andreas Köhler, Robert McNabb, Thomas Schellenberger, Heïdi Sevestre, Christian Weidle, Luc Girod, Adrian Luckman, Andreas Kääb	34
9	Sensitivity of glacier volume change estimation to DEM void interpolation 2019 ·The cryosphere ·Robert McNabb, Christopher Nuth, Andreas Kääb, Luc Girod	97
10	Multi-decadal mass balance series of three Kyrgyz glaciers inferred from modelling constrained with repeated snow line observations 2018 ·The cryosphere ·Martina Barandun, Matthias Huss, Ryskul Usubaliev, (unknown), Étienne Berthier, Andreas Kääb, Tobias Bolch, Martin Hoelzle	52
11	Regional Geomorphological Conditions Related to Recent Changes of Glacial Lakes in the Issyk-Kul Basin, Northern Tien Shan 2018 ·Geosciences ·(unknown), Chiyuki Narama, Tsutomu Yamanokuchi, Takeo Tadono, Andreas Kääb, Jinro Ukita	10
12	Sensitivity of geodetic glacier mass balance estimation to DEM voidinterpolation 2018 ·Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union) ·Robert McNabb, Christopher Nuth, Andreas Kääb, Luc Girod	4
13	Examining Environmental Gradients with Remotely Sensed Data – the ESA GlobPermafrost project 2017 ·Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ·Annett Bartsch, Guido Grosse, Andreas Kääb, Sebastian Westermann, Tazio Strozzi, Andreas Wiesmann, Claude Duguay, F. Seifert, Jaroslav Obu, Ingmar Nitze, Birgit Heim, (unknown), Barbara Widhalm	0
14	Frontal destabilization of Stonebreen, Edgeøya, Svalbard 2017 ·The cryosphere ·Tazio Strozzi, Andreas Kääb, Thomas Schellenberger	21
15	Surface elevation change and high resolution surface velocities for advancing outlets of jostedalsbreen 2006 ·Geografiska Annaler Series A Physical Geography ·(unknown), (unknown), Andreas Kääb, Trond Eiken, Jon Ove Hagen	8
16	Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS): Remote Sensing and GIS Investigations of the Earth's Cryosphere 2004 ·Geocarto International ·Michael P. Bishop, (unknown), John F. Shroder, Roger G. Barry, Bruce Raup, Andrew B. G. Bush, Luke Copland, John L. Dwyer, Andrew G. Fountain, Wilfried Haeberli, Andreas Kääb, Frank Paul, Dorothy K. Hall, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Bruce F. Molnia, Dennis C. Trabant, R. Wessels	97
17	Pollen analysis and ¹⁴C age of moss remains in a permafrost core recovered from the active rock glacier Murtèl-Corvatsch, Swiss Alps: geomorphological and glaciological implications 1999 ·Journal of Glaciology ·Wilfried Haeberli, Andreas Kääb, Stephan Wagner, Daniel Vonder Mühll, (unknown), Jean Nicolas Haas, (unknown), Dietmar Wagenbach	71
18	Modelling mass balance using photogrammetric and geophysical data: a pilot study at Griesgletscher, Swiss Alps 1999 ·Journal of Glaciology ·Andreas Kääb, Martin Funk	46
19	Modelling mass balance using photogrammetric and geophysical data: a pilot study at Griesgletscher, Swiss Alps 1999 ·Journal of Glaciology ·Andreas Kääb, Martin Funk	14
20	Pollen analysis and ¹⁴C age of moss remains in a permafrost core recovered from the active rock glacier Murtèl-Corvatsch, Swiss Alps: geomorphological and glaciological implications 1999 ·Journal of Glaciology ·Wilfried Haeberli, Andreas Kääb, Stephan Wagner, Daniel Vonder Mühll, (unknown), Jean Nicolas Haas, (unknown), Dietmar Wagenbach	26

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