Georg Heygster

8.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
127 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Georg Heygster is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Georg Heygster has authored 127 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 115 papers in Atmospheric Science, 30 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 16 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Georg Heygster's work include Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (90 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (83 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (59 papers). Georg Heygster is often cited by papers focused on Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (90 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (83 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (59 papers). Georg Heygster collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Denmark. Georg Heygster's co-authors include Lars Kaleschke, Gunnar Spreen, Rasmus Tonboe, Christian Melsheimer, Gang Hong, Leif Toudal Pedersen, Justus Notholt, Stefan Kern, K. Künzi and Jungang Miao and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Remote Sensing of Environment and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Georg Heygster

124 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Sea ice remote sensing using AMSR‐E 89‐GHz channels

2008 1.1k citations Gunnar Spreen, Lars Kaleschke et al. profile →
Version 2 of the EUMETSAT OSI SAF and ESA CCI sea-ice concentration climate data records

2019 247 citations Thomas Lavergne, Atle Macdonald Sørensen et al. The cryosphere profile →

Peers

Georg Heygster

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T. Markus United States

Jeffrey R. Key United States

Stein Sandven Russia

Benjamin Holt United States

Craig Donlon Netherlands

D. A. Rothrock United States

Ross N. Hoffman United States

William Perrie Canada

Mark R. Drinkwater United States

Axel Schweiger United States

T. Markus United States

Georg Heygster

5.5k ×1.4

AS

1.2k ×0.9

GPC

714 ×0.9

OCEAN

510 ×1.3

ECOLO

648 ×1.7

EE

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Countries citing papers authored by Georg Heygster

Since Specialization

Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Georg Heygster

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Georg Heygster

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Georg Heygster. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Georg Heygster based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Georg Heygster. Georg Heygster is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Zhao, Xi, et al.. (2025). A Stacking Approach for Arctic Sea Ice Lead Classification (SALC) via Sentinel-1 SAR Imagery. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–16.

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Chen, Zhuoqi, Jin Xie, Georg Heygster, et al.. (2023). A Simplified Coastline Inflection Method for Correcting Geolocation Errors in FengYun-3D Microwave Radiation Imager Images. Remote Sensing. 15(3). 813–813. 1 indexed citations

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Sandven, Stein, Gunnar Spreen, Georg Heygster, et al.. (2023). Sea Ice Remote Sensing—Recent Developments in Methods and Climate Data Sets. Surveys in Geophysics. 44(5). 1653–1689. 29 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhuoqi, Shaoyin Wang, Yufang Ye, et al.. (2021). Fingerprint of COVID-19 in Arctic sea ice changes. Science Bulletin. 66(20). 2050–2053. 3 indexed citations

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Spreen, Gunnar, et al.. (2020). Sea Ice and Atmospheric Parameter Retrieval From Satellite Microwave Radiometers: Synergy of AMSR2 and SMOS Compared With the CIMR Candidate Mission. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 125(3). 18 indexed citations

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Kilic, Lise, et al.. (2020). Ice Concentration Retrieval from the Analysis of Microwaves: A New Methodology Designed for the Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer. Remote Sensing. 12(7). 1060–1060. 15 indexed citations

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Heygster, Georg, et al.. (2020). Improved water vapour retrieval from AMSU-B and MHS in the Arctic. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 13(7). 3697–3715. 4 indexed citations

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Ye, Yufang, Mohammed Shokr, Signe Aaboe, et al.. (2019). Inter-comparison and evaluation of sea ice type concentration algorithms. 4 indexed citations

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Salameh, Edward, Frédéric Frappart, Rafaël Almar, et al.. (2019). Monitoring Beach Topography and Nearshore Bathymetry Using Spaceborne Remote Sensing: A Review. Remote Sensing. 11(19). 2212–2212. 119 indexed citations

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Lavergne, Thomas, Atle Macdonald Sørensen, Stefan Kern, et al.. (2019). Version 2 of the EUMETSAT OSI SAF and ESA CCI sea-ice concentration climate data records. The cryosphere. 13(1). 49–78. 247 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kilic, Lise, Rasmus Tonboe, Catherine Prigent, & Georg Heygster. (2019). Estimating the snow depth, the snow–ice interface temperature, and the effective temperature of Arctic sea ice using Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 and ice mass balance buoy data. The cryosphere. 13(4). 1283–1296. 37 indexed citations

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Korosov, Anton, Pierre Rampal, Leif Toudal Pedersen, et al.. (2018). A new tracking algorithm for sea ice age distribution estimation. The cryosphere. 12(6). 2073–2085. 24 indexed citations

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Knudsen, Erlend M., Bernd Heinold, Sandro Dahlke, et al.. (2018). Meteorological conditions during the ACLOUD/PASCAL field campaign near Svalbard in early summer 2017. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(24). 17995–18022. 45 indexed citations

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Knudsen, Erlend M., Bernd Heinold, Sandro Dahlke, et al.. (2018). Synoptic development during the ACLOUD/PASCAL field campaign near Svalbard in spring 2017. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 1 indexed citations

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Ivanova, Natalia, Leif Toudal Pedersen, Rasmus Tonboe, et al.. (2015). Inter-comparison and evaluation of sea ice algorithms: towards further identification of challenges and optimal approach using passive microwave observations. The cryosphere. 9(5). 1797–1817. 224 indexed citations

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Istomina, Larysa, Georg Heygster, Marcus Huntemann, et al.. (2015). Melt pond fraction and spectral sea ice albedo retrieval from MERIS data – Part 2: Case studies and trends of sea ice albedo and melt ponds in the Arctic for years 2002–2011. The cryosphere. 9(4). 1567–1578. 31 indexed citations

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Heygster, Georg, V. Alexandrov, Gorm Dybkjær, et al.. (2012). Remote sensing of sea ice: advances during the DAMOCLES project. The cryosphere. 6(6). 1411–1434. 14 indexed citations

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Kaleschke, Lars, Nina Maaß, Christian Haas, et al.. (2010). A sea-ice thickness retrieval model for 1.4 GHz radiometry and application to airborne measurements over low salinity sea-ice. The cryosphere. 4(4). 583–592. 67 indexed citations

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Vey, Sibylle, et al.. (2004). Comparison of Tropospheric Water Vapour over Antarctica Derived from AMSU-B Data, Ground-Based GPS Data and the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 82(1B). 259–267. 27 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Roland & Georg Heygster. (1997). Use of ocean wave imaging to detect the marginal ice zone in ERS-SAR images. 414. 959–962. 2 indexed citations

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