Christoph Kittel

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Christoph Kittel is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Christoph Kittel has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Atmospheric Science, 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 12 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Christoph Kittel's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (51 papers), Climate variability and models (28 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (21 papers). Christoph Kittel is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (51 papers), Climate variability and models (28 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (21 papers). Christoph Kittel collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, France and United Kingdom. Christoph Kittel's co-authors include Xavier Fettweis, Charles Amory, Cécile Agosta, Hubert Gallée, Alison Delhasse, Charlotte Lang, Vincent Favier, Dirk van As, Nicolas C. Jourdain and Ella Gilbert and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Geophysical Research Letters and Nature Climate Change.

In The Last Decade

Christoph Kittel

56 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

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

2017 329 citations Xavier Fettweis, Cécile Agosta et al. The cryosphere profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Christoph Kittel	1.5k	709	320	165	133	56	1.6k
David E. Gwyther	750 0.5×	280 0.4×	248 0.8×	89 0.5×	196 1.5×	45	986
Lambertus H. van Ulft	877 0.6×	370 0.5×	226 0.7×	115 0.7×	72 0.5×	14	978
A. F. Glazovsky	1.0k 0.7×	134 0.2×	203 0.6×	178 1.1×	126 0.9×	50	1.1k
Mathieu Depoorter	806 0.5×	243 0.3×	341 1.1×	131 0.8×	76 0.6×	9	926
Johannes J. Fürst	1.3k 0.9×	194 0.3×	482 1.5×	320 1.9×	86 0.6×	30	1.4k
Hiroyuki Enomoto	892 0.6×	205 0.3×	129 0.4×	79 0.5×	73 0.5×	80	965
Miren Vizcaíno	1.2k 0.8×	526 0.7×	110 0.3×	53 0.3×	146 1.1×	42	1.3k
Liss M. Andreassen	1.8k 1.2×	283 0.4×	359 1.1×	323 2.0×	22 0.2×	67	1.9k
Michele Citterio	912 0.6×	119 0.2×	219 0.7×	203 1.2×	40 0.3×	44	978
Sarah Shannon	794 0.5×	202 0.3×	196 0.6×	182 1.1×	46 0.3×	15	869

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christoph Kittel

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kittel, Christoph, et al.. (2024). Disentangling the drivers of future Antarctic ice loss with a historically calibrated ice-sheet model. The cryosphere. 18(2). 653–681. 17 indexed citations

Picard, Ghislain, et al.. (2023). Sensitivity of the MAR regional climate model snowpack to the parameterization of the assimilation of satellite-derived wet-snow masks on the Antarctic Peninsula. The cryosphere. 17(10). 4267–4288. 4 indexed citations

Wille, Jonathan, Vincent Favier, Nicolas C. Jourdain, et al.. (2022). Intense atmospheric rivers can weaken ice shelf stability at the Antarctic Peninsula. Communications Earth & Environment. 3(1). 72 indexed citations

Hansen, Nicolaj, Sebastian B. Simonsen, Fredrik Boberg, et al.. (2022). Brief communication: Impact of common ice mask in surface mass balance estimates over the Antarctic ice sheet. The cryosphere. 16(2). 711–718. 10 indexed citations

Carter, Jeremy, Amber Leeson, Andrew Orr, Christoph Kittel, & Jan Melchior van Wessem. (2022). Variability in Antarctic surface climatology across regional climate models and reanalysis datasets. The cryosphere. 16(9). 3815–3841. 12 indexed citations

Kittel, Christoph. (2021). Present and future sensitivity of the Antarctic surface mass balance to oceanic and atmospheric forcings: insights with the regional climate model MAR. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 9 indexed citations

Hansen, Nicolaj, Sebastian B. Simonsen, Fredrik Boberg, et al.. (2021). Brief communication: Impact of common ice mask in surface mass balance estimates over the Antarctic ice sheet. 3 indexed citations

Vance, Tessa R., Alexander Fraser, Nerilie J. Abram, et al.. (2021). El Niño–Southern Oscillation signal in a new East Antarctic ice core, Mount Brown South. Climate of the past. 17(5). 1795–1818. 12 indexed citations

Mottram, Ruth, Nicolaj Hansen, Christoph Kittel, et al.. (2021). What is the surface mass balance of Antarctica? An intercomparison of regional climate model estimates. The cryosphere. 15(8). 3751–3784. 86 indexed citations

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Pohl, Benjamin, Vincent Favier, Jonathan Wille, et al.. (2021). Relationship Between Weather Regimes and Atmospheric Rivers in East Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(24). 32 indexed citations

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Verjans, Vincent, Amber Leeson, Malcolm McMillan, et al.. (2021). Uncertainty in East Antarctic Firn Thickness Constrained Using a Model Ensemble Approach. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(7). 13 indexed citations

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Jourdain, Nicolas C., Christoph Kittel, Cécile Agosta, et al.. (2021). Future surface mass balance and surface melt in the Amundsen sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The cryosphere. 15(2). 571–593. 27 indexed citations

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Amory, Charles, Christoph Kittel, Cécile Agosta, et al.. (2021). Performance of MAR (v3.11) in simulating the drifting-snow climate and surface mass balance of Adélie Land, East Antarctica. Geoscientific model development. 14(6). 3487–3510. 46 indexed citations

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Hofer, Stefan, Charlotte Lang, Charles Amory, et al.. (2020). Doubling of future Greenland Ice Sheet surface melt revealed by the new CMIP6 high-emission scenario. 1 indexed citations

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Delhasse, Alison, Edward Hanna, Christoph Kittel, & Xavier Fettweis. (2020). Brief communication: CMIP6 does not suggest any atmospheric blocking increase in summer over Greenland by 2100. International Journal of Climatology. 41(4). 2589–2596. 28 indexed citations

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Jourdain, Nicolas C., Christoph Kittel, Cécile Agosta, et al.. (2020). Future ice-sheet surface mass balance and melting in the Amundsen region, West Antarctica. 1 indexed citations

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Kittel, Christoph, Charles Amory, Cécile Agosta, Alison Delhasse, & Xavier Fettweis. (2019). Added value of the regional climate model MAR for simulating the surface mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet compared to a global climate model (ACCESS1.3). Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 1 indexed citations

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Agosta, Cécile, Charles Amory, Christoph Kittel, et al.. (2019). Estimation of the Antarctic surface mass balance using the regional climate model MAR (1979–2015) and identification of dominant processes. The cryosphere. 13(1). 281–296. 183 indexed citations

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Amory, Charles & Christoph Kittel. (2019). Brief communication: Rare ambient saturation during drifting snow occurrences in coastal East Antarctica. 1 indexed citations

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Agosta, Cécile, Charles Amory, Christoph Kittel, et al.. (2018). Estimation of the Antarctic surface mass balance using MAR(1979–2015) and identification of dominant processes. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 13 indexed citations

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