Brice Noël

11.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
96 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Brice Noël is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Brice Noël has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Atmospheric Science, 30 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Brice Noël's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (95 papers), Climate change and permafrost (62 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (41 papers). Brice Noël is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (95 papers), Climate change and permafrost (62 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (41 papers). Brice Noël collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Belgium. Brice Noël's co-authors include M. R. van den Broeke, Willem Jan van de Berg, Stef Lhermitte, Ian M. Howat, Bert Wouters, Peter Kuipers Munneke, Erik van Meijgaard, Mathieu Morlighem, Jan T. M. Lenaerts and Xavier Fettweis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Brice Noël

91 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Forty-six years of Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance from 1972 to 2018

2019 524 citations J. Mouginot, Eric Rignot et al. profile →
On the recent contribution of the Greenland ice sheet to sea level change

2016 361 citations M. R. van den Broeke, Ellyn M. Enderlin et al. The cryosphere profile →
Modelling the climate and surface mass balance of polar ice sheets using RACMO2 – Part 2: Antarctica (1979–2016)

2018 324 citations Jan Melchior van Wessem, Willem Jan van de Berg et al. The cryosphere profile →
Continuity of Ice Sheet Mass Loss in Greenland and Antarctica From the GRACE and GRACE Follow‐On Missions

2020 189 citations I. Velicogna, Yara Mohajerani et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Brice Noël	5.0k	1.4k	1.2k	836	638	96	5.4k
Willem Jan van de Berg	7.0k 1.4×	2.1k 1.5×	1.9k 1.6×	1.1k 1.3×	739 1.2×	98	7.4k
Geir Moholdt	4.9k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	603 0.5×	737 0.9×	582 0.9×	65	5.4k
Stefan Ligtenberg	4.0k 0.8×	1.6k 1.1×	623 0.5×	948 1.1×	507 0.8×	56	4.3k
Jan Melchior van Wessem	3.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	914 0.8×	581 0.7×	483 0.8×	59	3.8k
Jan T. M. Lenaerts	8.1k 1.6×	2.4k 1.7×	2.7k 2.3×	1.2k 1.4×	977 1.5×	146	8.7k
Carleen H. Reijmer	5.3k 1.1×	1.6k 1.1×	1.4k 1.2×	741 0.9×	310 0.5×	126	5.6k
W. T. Pfeffer	5.7k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	921 0.8×	1.3k 1.6×	925 1.4×	83	6.7k
Mathieu Morlighem	8.1k 1.6×	3.5k 2.5×	852 0.7×	2.0k 2.3×	558 0.9×	183	8.6k
S. O’Neel	3.1k 0.6×	843 0.6×	498 0.4×	809 1.0×	499 0.8×	63	3.8k
Sarah B. Das	3.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	513 0.4×	655 0.8×	373 0.6×	63	3.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brice Noël

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sole, Andrew, et al.. (2025). Ice Thickness‐Induced Variations in Effective Pressure and Basal Conditions Influence Seasonal and Multi‐Annual Ice Velocity at Sermeq Kujalleq (Jakobshavn Isbræ). Geophysical Research Letters. 52(4).

Zheng, Lei, M. R. van den Broeke, Brice Noël, et al.. (2025). Rapid increases in satellite-observed ice sheet surface meltwater production. Nature Climate Change. 15(7). 769–774.

Leeson, Amber, et al.. (2025). A comparison of supraglacial meltwater features throughout contrasting melt seasons: southwest Greenland. The cryosphere. 19(3). 1047–1066.

Noël, Brice, Jan Melchior van Wessem, Bert Wouters, et al.. (2023). Higher Antarctic ice sheet accumulation and surface melt rates revealed at 2 km resolution. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7949–7949. 18 indexed citations

Zender, Charles S., et al.. (2023). Wind‐Associated Melt Trends and Contrasts Between the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(16). 3 indexed citations

Solgaard, Anne, et al.. (2022). Seasonal Patterns of Greenland Ice Velocity From Sentinel‐1 SAR Data Linked to Runoff. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(24). 8 indexed citations

Vijay, Saurabh, Michalea D. King, Ian M. Howat, et al.. (2021). Greenland ice-sheet wide glacier classification based on two distinct seasonal ice velocity behaviors. Journal of Glaciology. 67(266). 1241–1248. 15 indexed citations

Wood, Michael, Eric Rignot, Ian Fenty, et al.. (2021). Ocean forcing drives glacier retreat in Greenland. Science Advances. 7(1). 117 indexed citations

Mankoff, Kenneth D., Xavier Fettweis, Peter L. Langen, et al.. (2021). Greenland ice sheet mass balance from 1840 through next week. Earth system science data. 13(10). 5001–5025. 40 indexed citations

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Velicogna, I., Yara Mohajerani, A Geruo, et al.. (2020). Continuity of Ice Sheet Mass Loss in Greenland and Antarctica From the GRACE and GRACE Follow‐On Missions. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(8). 189 indexed citations breakdown →

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Verjans, Vincent, Amber Leeson, Christopher Nemeth, et al.. (2020). Bayesian calibration of firn densification models. The cryosphere. 14(9). 3017–3032. 12 indexed citations

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Noël, Brice, Constantijn L. Jakobs, Ward van Pelt, et al.. (2020). Low elevation of Svalbard glaciers drives high mass loss variability. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4597–4597. 62 indexed citations

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Pelt, Ward van, Veijo Pohjola, Rickard Pettersson, et al.. (2019). A long-term dataset of climatic mass balance, snow conditions, and runoff in Svalbard (1957–2018). The cryosphere. 13(9). 2259–2280. 84 indexed citations

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Zhang, Bao, Lin Liu, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, et al.. (2019). Geodetic and model data reveal different spatio-temporal patterns of transient mass changes over Greenland from 2007 to 2017. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 515. 154–163. 22 indexed citations

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Wessem, Jan Melchior van, Willem Jan van de Berg, Brice Noël, et al.. (2018). Modelling the climate and surface mass balance of polar ice sheets using RACMO2 – Part 2: Antarctica (1979–2016). The cryosphere. 12(4). 1479–1498. 324 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bamber, Jonathan, Andrew Tedstone, Michalea D. King, et al.. (2018). Land Ice Freshwater Budget of the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans: 1. Data, Methods, and Results. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 123(3). 1827–1837. 135 indexed citations

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Box, Jason E., Robert S. Fausto, William Colgan, et al.. (2018). Application of PROMICE Q‐Transect in Situ Accumulation and Ablation Measurements (2000–2017) to Constrain Mass Balance at the Southern Tip of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 123(6). 1235–1256. 18 indexed citations

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Noël, Brice, Willem Jan van de Berg, Jan Melchior van Wessem, et al.. (2018). Modelling the climate and surface mass balance of polar ice sheets using RACMO2 – Part 1: Greenland (1958–2016). The cryosphere. 12(3). 811–831. 231 indexed citations

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Overeem, Irina, B. Hudson, James P. M. Syvitski, et al.. (2017). Substantial export of suspended sediment to the global oceans from glacial erosion in Greenland. Nature Geoscience. 10(11). 859–863. 131 indexed citations

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Stevens, Laura A., M. D. Behn, Sarah B. Das, et al.. (2016). Greenland Ice Sheet flow response to runoff variability. Geophysical Research Letters. 43(21). 11295–11303. 36 indexed citations

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