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, Yves Arnaud, J. Gardelle, 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

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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 →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Andreas Kääb	15.7k	5.3k	2.7k	1.8k	988	237	17.5k
Étienne Berthier	11.6k 0.7×	2.7k 0.5×	2.9k 1.1×	1.6k 0.9×	599 0.6×	169	13.1k
Tobias Bolch	14.2k 0.9×	2.5k 0.5×	2.4k 0.9×	2.9k 1.6×	358 0.4×	158	16.2k
Wilfried Haeberli	13.4k 0.9×	5.4k 1.0×	1.5k 0.5×	1.6k 0.9×	202 0.2×	250	14.7k
Neil F. Glasser	8.6k 0.5×	3.0k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	693 0.4×	453 0.5×	221	11.8k
Adrian Luckman	6.7k 0.4×	1.9k 0.4×	2.5k 0.9×	1.0k 0.6×	746 0.8×	165	8.6k
Michael Lehning	9.5k 0.6×	3.0k 0.6×	1.2k 0.4×	2.7k 1.5×	330 0.3×	312	11.1k
Jonathan Bamber	11.5k 0.7×	2.2k 0.4×	3.3k 1.2×	2.7k 1.5×	380 0.4×	243	13.4k
Helmut Rott	5.5k 0.4×	1.5k 0.3×	1.2k 0.4×	723 0.4×	1.2k 1.2×	180	6.8k
Ian M. Howat	8.9k 0.6×	1.9k 0.4×	3.5k 1.3×	973 0.5×	269 0.3×	133	9.6k
Robert Bindschadler	8.1k 0.5×	2.8k 0.5×	3.4k 1.3×	701 0.4×	352 0.4×	179	9.1k

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Kääb, Andreas, et al.. (2026). Recent giant detachment of a glacier on the Tibetan plateau provoked by its frozen tongue. Communications Earth & Environment. 7(1).

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Schellenberger, Thomas, et al.. (2025). Tracking glacier surge evolution using interferometric SAR coherence—examples from Svalbard. Journal of Glaciology. 71. 2 indexed citations

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Hugonnet, Romain, Robert McNabb, Étienne Berthier, et al.. (2021). Accelerated global glacier mass loss in the early twenty-first century. Nature. 592(7856). 726–731. 17 indexed citations

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Gärtner‐Roer, Isabelle, et al.. (2021). Glacier-permafrost relations in a high-mountain environment: 5 decades of kinematic monitoring at the Gruben site, Swiss Alps. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 3 indexed citations

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Strozzi, Tazio, Rafael Caduff, Chloé Barboux, et al.. (2020). Monitoring Rock Glacier Kinematics with Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar. Remote Sensing. 12(3). 559–559. 70 indexed citations

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Kääb, Andreas, Mylène Jacquemart, Adrien Gilbert, et al.. (2020). Sudden large-volume detachments of low-angle mountain glaciers –more frequent than thought. 6 indexed citations

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McNabb, Robert, et al.. (2020). From high friction zone to frontal collapse: dynamics of an ongoing tidewater glacier surge, Negribreen, Svalbard. Journal of Glaciology. 66(259). 742–754. 23 indexed citations

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Nuth, Christopher, Adrien Gilbert, Andreas Köhler, et al.. (2019). Dynamic vulnerability revealed in the collapse of an Arctic tidewater glacier. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 5541–5541. 34 indexed citations

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Barandun, Martina, Matthias Huss, Ryskul Usubaliev, et al.. (2018). Multi-decadal mass balance series of three Kyrgyz glaciers inferred from modelling constrained with repeated snow line observations. The cryosphere. 12(6). 1899–1919. 52 indexed citations

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Antonova, Sofia, Henriette Sudhaus, Tazio Strozzi, et al.. (2018). Thaw Subsidence of a Yedoma Landscape in Northern Siberia, Measured In Situ and Estimated from TerraSAR-X Interferometry. Remote Sensing. 10(4). 494–494. 78 indexed citations

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Bartsch, Annett, Guido Grosse, Andreas Kääb, et al.. (2017). Examining Environmental Gradients with Remotely Sensed Data – the ESA GlobPermafrost project. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut).

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Strozzi, Tazio, Andreas Kääb, & Thomas Schellenberger. (2017). Frontal destabilization of Stonebreen, Edgeøya, Svalbard. The cryosphere. 11(1). 553–566. 21 indexed citations

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Paul, Frank, Tazio Strozzi, Thomas Schellenberger, & Andreas Kääb. (2017). The 2015 Surge of Hispar Glacier in the Karakoram. Remote Sensing. 9(9). 888–888. 44 indexed citations

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Antonova, Sofia, Claude Duguay, Andreas Kääb, et al.. (2016). Monitoring Bedfast Ice and Ice Phenology in Lakes of the Lena River Delta Using TerraSAR-X Backscatter and Coherence Time Series. Remote Sensing. 8(11). 903–903. 38 indexed citations

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Kääb, Andreas, et al.. (2006). Surface elevation change and high resolution surface velocities for advancing outlets of jostedalsbreen. Geografiska Annaler Series A Physical Geography. 88(1). 55–74. 8 indexed citations

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Bishop, Michael P., John F. Shroder, Roger G. Barry, et al.. (2004). Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS): Remote Sensing and GIS Investigations of the Earth's Cryosphere. Geocarto International. 19(2). 57–84. 97 indexed citations

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Haeberli, Wilfried, Andreas Kääb, Stephan Wagner, et al.. (1999). 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. Journal of Glaciology. 45(149). 1–8. 71 indexed citations

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Kääb, Andreas & Martin Funk. (1999). Modelling mass balance using photogrammetric and geophysical data: a pilot study at Griesgletscher, Swiss Alps. Journal of Glaciology. 45(151). 575–583. 46 indexed citations

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Kääb, Andreas & Martin Funk. (1999). Modelling mass balance using photogrammetric and geophysical data: a pilot study at Griesgletscher, Swiss Alps. Journal of Glaciology. 45(151). 575–583. 14 indexed citations

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Haeberli, Wilfried, Andreas Kääb, Stephan Wagner, et al.. (1999). 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. Journal of Glaciology. 45(149). 1–8. 26 indexed citations

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