Douglas Brinkerhoff

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 941 citations indexed

About

Douglas Brinkerhoff is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Douglas Brinkerhoff has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 941 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Atmospheric Science, 11 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 8 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Douglas Brinkerhoff's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (23 papers), Landslides and related hazards (11 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (11 papers). Douglas Brinkerhoff is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (23 papers), Landslides and related hazards (11 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (11 papers). Douglas Brinkerhoff collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Canada. Douglas Brinkerhoff's co-authors include Andy Aschwanden, Martin Truffer, Regine Hock, Jesse V. Johnson, David R. Rounce, M. A. Fahnestock, Ruth Mottram, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, C. Khroulev and Daniel Farinotti and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Douglas Brinkerhoff

29 papers receiving 928 citations

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What are hit papers?

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.

Global glacier change in the 21st century: Every increase in temperature matters

2023 284 citations David R. Rounce, Regine Hock et al. Science profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Douglas Brinkerhoff United States	14	781	210	192	160	74	31	941
Romain Hugonnet France	13	796 1.0×	199 0.9×	186 1.0×	173 1.1×	109 1.5×	22	1.0k
Laura Thomson Canada	9	762 1.0×	190 0.9×	114 0.6×	118 0.7×	43 0.6×	16	910
Owen King United Kingdom	18	1.2k 1.5×	337 1.6×	291 1.5×	134 0.8×	59 0.8×	40	1.3k
Thorsten Seehaus Germany	17	859 1.1×	294 1.4×	206 1.1×	97 0.6×	52 0.7×	43	987
Ward van Pelt Sweden	20	1.1k 1.4×	293 1.4×	283 1.5×	126 0.8×	27 0.4×	45	1.3k
Nicole‐Jeanne Schlegel United States	18	696 0.9×	199 0.9×	158 0.8×	292 1.8×	47 0.6×	45	976
Denis Samyn Belgium	16	663 0.8×	134 0.6×	133 0.7×	104 0.7×	85 1.1×	40	793
Mauri Pelto United States	21	1.0k 1.3×	247 1.2×	173 0.9×	169 1.1×	143 1.9×	59	1.1k
Martina Barandun Switzerland	11	971 1.2×	252 1.2×	153 0.8×	153 1.0×	137 1.9×	27	1.1k
Georg Veh Germany	12	717 0.9×	136 0.6×	318 1.7×	207 1.3×	80 1.1×	25	845

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Douglas Brinkerhoff

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Truffer, Martin, et al.. (2025). A century of flow and surge history of Sít’ Tlein (Malaspina Glacier), Southeast Alaska. Journal of Glaciology. 71.

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Brinkerhoff, Douglas, J. W. Holt, Christopher F. Larsen, et al.. (2025). The demise of the world's largest piedmont glacier: a probabilistic forecast. The cryosphere. 19(6). 2321–2353. 1 indexed citations

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Ketchum, David, Zachary Hoylman, Douglas Brinkerhoff, et al.. (2024). Irrigation response to drought in the Western United States, 1987–2021. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 60(2). 603–619. 2 indexed citations

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Flowers, Gwenn E., et al.. (2023). Exploiting high-slip flow regimes to improve inference of glacier bed topography. Journal of Glaciology. 69(275). 658–664. 1 indexed citations

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Rounce, David R., Regine Hock, Fabien Maussion, et al.. (2023). Global glacier change in the 21st century: Every increase in temperature matters. Science. 379(6627). 78–83. 284 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brinkerhoff, Douglas. (2023). Compatible Finite Elements for Glacier Modeling. Computing in Science & Engineering. 25(3). 18–28. 2 indexed citations

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Holt, J. W., et al.. (2023). Comprehensive Radar Mapping of Malaspina Glacier (Sít' Tlein), Alaska—The World's Largest Piedmont Glacier—Reveals Potential for Instability. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 128(3). 6 indexed citations

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Ketchum, David, Zachary Hoylman, Justin Huntington, Douglas Brinkerhoff, & Kelsey Jencso. (2023). Irrigation intensification impacts sustainability of streamflow in the Western United States. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 27 indexed citations

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Aschwanden, Andy & Douglas Brinkerhoff. (2022). Calibrated Mass Loss Predictions for the Greenland Ice Sheet. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(19). 21 indexed citations

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Gardner, W. Payton, et al.. (2022). Quantifying subsurface parameter and transport uncertainty using surrogate modelling and environmental tracers. Hydrological Processes. 36(11). 7 indexed citations

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Morlighem, Mathieu, et al.. (2022). A new vertically integrated MOno-Layer Higher-Order (MOLHO) ice flow model. The cryosphere. 16(1). 179–195. 11 indexed citations

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Aschwanden, Andy, T. C. Bartholomaus, Douglas Brinkerhoff, & Martin Truffer. (2021). Brief communication: A roadmap towards credible projections of ice sheet contribution to sea-level. 5 indexed citations

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Aschwanden, Andy, T. C. Bartholomaus, Douglas Brinkerhoff, & Martin Truffer. (2021). Brief communication: A roadmap towards credible projections of ice sheet contribution to sea level. The cryosphere. 15(12). 5705–5715. 52 indexed citations

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Rounce, David R., et al.. (2020). Quantifying parameter uncertainty in a large-scale glacier evolution model using Bayesian inference: application to High Mountain Asia. Journal of Glaciology. 66(256). 175–187. 48 indexed citations

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Aschwanden, Andy, M. A. Fahnestock, Martin Truffer, et al.. (2017). Contribution of the Greenland Ice Sheet to Sea-Level over the Next Millennium. Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU). 2017.

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Brinkerhoff, Douglas & Jesse V. Johnson. (2015). A stabilized finite element method for calculating balance velocities in ice sheets. Geoscientific model development. 8(5). 1275–1283. 8 indexed citations

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Brinkerhoff, Douglas & Jesse V. Johnson. (2013). Data assimilation and prognostic whole ice sheet modelling with the variationally derived, higher order, open source, and fully parallel ice sheet model VarGlaS. The cryosphere. 7(4). 1161–1184. 33 indexed citations

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Johnson, Jesse V. & Douglas Brinkerhoff. (2013). Application of physics-based interpolation to cryospheric data (Invited). AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2013. 1 indexed citations

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Johnson, Jesse V., et al.. (2012). Estimation and Propagation of Errors in Ice Sheet Bed Elevation Measurements. AGUFM. 2012. 1 indexed citations

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Wilcox, Andrew C., Douglas Brinkerhoff, & Cleo Woelfle‐Erskine. (2008). Initial Geomorphic Responses to Removal of Milltown Dam, Clark Fork River, Montana, USA. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 2 indexed citations

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