Dirk van As

8.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
129 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Dirk van As is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Dirk van As has authored 129 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 122 papers in Atmospheric Science, 36 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 29 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Dirk van As's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (117 papers), Climate change and permafrost (68 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (51 papers). Dirk van As is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (117 papers), Climate change and permafrost (68 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (51 papers). Dirk van As collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United States and Netherlands. Dirk van As's co-authors include M. R. van den Broeke, Robert S. Fausto, Jason E. Box, Roderik S. W. van de Wal, Carleen H. Reijmer, Alun Hubbard, William Colgan, Xavier Fettweis, Andreas P. Ahlstrøm and Horst Machguth and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Dirk van As

127 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

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

2017 329 citations Xavier Fettweis, Jason E. Box et al. The cryosphere profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Dirk van As	4.4k	1.2k	1.1k	808	302	129	4.6k
Carleen H. Reijmer	5.3k 1.2×	1.6k 1.3×	1.4k 1.3×	741 0.9×	560 1.9×	126	5.6k
Horst Machguth	3.9k 0.9×	870 0.8×	647 0.6×	941 1.2×	192 0.6×	82	4.2k
G. S. Hamilton	3.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	442 0.4×	746 0.9×	329 1.1×	92	4.2k
Frank Pattyn	4.4k 1.0×	2.0k 1.7×	459 0.4×	1.2k 1.5×	396 1.3×	151	4.7k
Hamish D. Pritchard	3.6k 0.8×	1.4k 1.2×	555 0.5×	807 1.0×	388 1.3×	52	4.1k
Jan Melchior van Wessem	3.4k 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	914 0.9×	581 0.7×	355 1.2×	59	3.8k
Stefan Ligtenberg	4.0k 0.9×	1.6k 1.4×	623 0.6×	948 1.2×	203 0.7×	56	4.3k
H. Conway	3.9k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	431 0.4×	1.2k 1.5×	569 1.9×	122	4.1k
W. F. Budd	3.4k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	626 0.6×	947 1.2×	326 1.1×	106	3.6k
L. A. Stearns	3.3k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	246 0.2×	522 0.6×	215 0.7×	86	3.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dirk van As

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tedstone, Andrew, et al.. (2025). Concurrent superimposed ice formation and meltwater runoff on Greenland’s ice slabs. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4494–4494.

Smeets, Paul C. J. P., Carleen H. Reijmer, Dirk van As, et al.. (2024). Surface energy balance closure over melting snow and ice from in situ measurements on the Greenland ice sheet. Journal of Glaciology. 70. 1 indexed citations

Fausto, Robert S., Dirk van As, Kenneth D. Mankoff, et al.. (2021). PROMICE automatic weather station data. 4 indexed citations

Fausto, Robert S., Dirk van As, Kenneth D. Mankoff, et al.. (2021). Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE) automatic weather station data. Earth system science data. 13(8). 3819–3845. 98 indexed citations

Wang, Wenshan, et al.. (2021). Greenland Surface Melt Dominated by Solar and Sensible Heating. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(7). 12 indexed citations

Rennermalm, Å. K., et al.. (2020). Seasonal Variability in In-situ Supraglacial Streamflow and Drivers in Southwest Greenland in 2016. 1 indexed citations

Vandecrux, Baptiste, Robert S. Fausto, Dirk van As, et al.. (2020). Firn cold content evolution at nine sites on the Greenland ice sheet between 1998 and 2017. Journal of Glaciology. 66(258). 591–602. 21 indexed citations

Vandecrux, Baptiste, Michael MacFerrin, Horst Machguth, et al.. (2019). Firn data compilation reveals widespread decrease of firn air content in western Greenland. The cryosphere. 13(3). 845–859. 48 indexed citations

Mankoff, Kenneth D., William Colgan, Anne Solgaard, et al.. (2019). Greenland Ice Sheet solid ice discharge from 1986 through 2017. Earth system science data. 11(2). 769–786. 49 indexed citations

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Fausto, Robert S., S. B. Andersen, Andreas P. Ahlstrøm, et al.. (2018). Greenland ice sheet – snowline elevations at the end of the melt seasons from 2000 to 2017. Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU). 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Kang, L. C. Smith, Leif Karlstrom, et al.. (2018). Supraglacial meltwater routing through internally drainedcatchments on the Greenland Ice Sheet surface. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 3 indexed citations

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Vandecrux, Baptiste, Robert S. Fausto, Peter L. Langen, et al.. (2018). Drivers of Firn Density on the Greenland Ice Sheet Revealed by Weather Station Observations and Modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 123(10). 2563–2576. 21 indexed citations

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Vandecrux, Baptiste, Michael MacFerrin, Horst Machguth, et al.. (2018). Brief communication: Firn data compilation reveals the evolution ofthe firn air content on the Greenland ice sheet. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 1 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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Stibal, Marek, Jason E. Box, Karen A. Cameron, et al.. (2017). Algae Drive Enhanced Darkening of Bare Ice on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(22). 107 indexed citations

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Machguth, Horst, Michael MacFerrin, Dirk van As, et al.. (2016). Greenland meltwater storage in firn limited by near-surface ice formation. Nature Climate Change. 6(4). 390–393. 178 indexed citations

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Charalampidis, Charalampos, Dirk van As, Jason E. Box, et al.. (2015). Changing surface–atmosphere energy exchange and refreezing capacity of the lower accumulation area, West Greenland. The cryosphere. 9(6). 2163–2181. 34 indexed citations

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Lea, James M., Douglas Mair, Faezeh M. Nick, et al.. (2014). Fluctuations of a Greenlandic tidewater glacier driven by changes in atmospheric forcing: observations and modelling of Kangiata Nunaata Sermia, 1859–present. The cryosphere. 8(6). 2031–2045. 27 indexed citations

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Fitzpatrick, A., Alun Hubbard, Jason E. Box, et al.. (2013). A decade of supraglacial lake volume estimates across a land-terminating margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet. 12 indexed citations

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Box, Jason E., Andreas P. Ahlstrøm, John Cappelen, et al.. (2009). Greenland [in "State of the Climate in 2008"]. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 4 indexed citations

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