Michèle Koppes

6.2k citations

43 papers · 2.3k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 22

Impact in

Atmospheric Science top 1%
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Climate change and permafrost
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law top 1%
- Landslides and related hazards

Papers in

Atmospheric Science 37
- Cryospheric studies and observations 35
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research 22
- Climate change and permafrost 16
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics 6
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 10
- Landslides and related hazards 9

Co-authors: Eric Rignot David R. Montgomery B. Hallet I. Velicogna Y. Xu Dimitris Menemenlis Katherine V. Boldt Julia S. Wellner
Journals: The cryosphere (4 papers)Nature Geoscience (3 papers)Annals of Glaciology (3 papers)Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (2 papers)Nature Reviews Earth & Environment (2 papers)
Partner nations: Canada United States United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Michèle Koppes

42 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Warming-driven erosion and sediment transport in cold regions 2022 · 130 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
2022 Nature Geoscience

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1	The competing controls of glaciers, precipitation, and vegetation on high-mountain fluvial sediment yields Science Advances ·Dongfeng Li, Ting Zhang, Desmond E. Walling, Stuart N. Lane, Bodo Bookhagen, Xie Jie, Irina Overeem, James P. M. Syvitski, Albert J. Kettner, Edward Park, Michèle Koppes, Rafael Schmitt, Weiling Sun, Jinren Ni, Todd A. Ehlers	2024	14
2	In situ ¹⁰ Be modeling and terrain analysis constrain subglacial quarrying and abrasion rates at Sermeq Kujalleq (Jakobshavn Isbræ), Greenland The cryosphere ·David Benhamou, Jason P. Briner, Nicolás E. Young, BinghamC. Raymond, Michèle Koppes, Joerg M. Schaefer, Kristin Poinar, Elizabeth K. Thomas	2023	1
3	Rapid fluvial remobilization of sediments deposited by the 2021 Chamoli disaster, Indian Himalaya Geology ·Matthew Westoby, Stuart Dunning, Jonathan L. Carrivick, Tom Coulthard, Kalachand Sain, Amit Kumar, Étienne Berthier, Umesh K. Haritashya, David Shean, Mohd Farooq Azam, 紀子山本, Michèle Koppes, Victoria Ilyasova, Dan H. Shugar	2023	7
4	Warming-driven erosion and sediment transport in cold regions Nature Reviews Earth & Environment ·Ting Zhang, Dongfeng Li, Amy E. East, Desmond E. Walling, Stuart N. Lane, Irina Overeem, Achim A. Beylich, Michèle Koppes, Xixi Lu Hit paper breakdown →	2022	130
5	High Mountain Asia hydropower systems threatened by climate-driven landscape instability Nature Geoscience ·Dongfeng Li, Xixi Lu, Desmond E. Walling, Ting Zhang, Jakob Steiner, Robert Wasson, Stephan Harrison, Santosh Nepal, Yong Nie, Walter W. Immerzeel, Dan H. Shugar, Michèle Koppes, Stuart N. Lane, Zhenzhong Zeng, Xiaofei Sun, Alexandr Yegorov, Tobias Bolch Hit paper breakdown →	2022	160
6	The impact of glaciers on mountain erosion Nature Reviews Earth & Environment ·Frédéric Herman, Jamie A Mercurio, Ian Delaney, Günther Prasicek, Michèle Koppes	2021	81
7	A comparison of glacial and paraglacial denudation responses to rapid glacial retreat Annals of Glaciology ·Farajollah Mohammadi Yaghoobi, Michèle Koppes	2019	20
8	Ablation from calving and surface melt at lake-terminating Bridge Glacier, British Columbia, 1984–2013 The cryosphere ·JhengYu-Du, Michèle Koppes, R. D. Moore	2016	24
9	Observed latitudinal variations in erosion as a function of glacier dynamics Nature ·Michèle Koppes, B. Hallet, Eric Rignot, J. Mouginot, Julia S. Wellner, Katherine V. Boldt	2015	145
10	Ice–ocean interaction and calving front morphology at two west Greenland tidewater outlet glaciers The cryosphere ·Nolwenn Chauché, Alun Hubbard, Jean‐Claude Gascard, Jason E. Box, Richard Bates, Michèle Koppes, Andrew Sole, Poul Christoffersen, Henry Patton	2014	93
11	Ocean properties, ice–ocean interactions, and calving front morphology at two major west Greenland glaciers Nolwenn Chauché, Alun Hubbard, Jean‐Claude Gascard, Jason E. Box, Richard Bates, Michèle Koppes, Andrew Sole, Henry Patton	2013	2
12	Modern rates of glacial sediment accumulation along a 15° S-N transect in fjords from the Antarctic Peninsula to southern Chile Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface ·Katherine V. Boldt, Charles A. Nittrouer, B. Hallet, Michèle Koppes, MA Costa, Julia S. Wellner, John B. Anderson	2013	35
13	Climate-driven Variability of Glacier Erosion and its Impact on Mountain Evolution AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Michèle Koppes	2012	1
14	Little Ice Age advance and retreat of Glaciar Jorge Montt, Chilean Patagonia Climate of the past ·Andrés Rivera, Michèle Koppes, Claudio Bravo, Juan Carlos Aravena	2012	45
15	Characteristics of ocean waters reaching Greenland's glaciers Annals of Glaciology ·Fiammetta Straneo, David A. Sutherland, David M. Holland, 光郎小瀧, G. S. Hamilton, H. L. Johnson, Eric Rignot, Y. Xu, Michèle Koppes	2012	202
16	Little ice age advance and retreat of Glaciar Jorge Montt, Chilean Patagonia, recorded in maps, air photographs and dendrochronology Andrés Rivera, Michèle Koppes, Claudio Bravo, Juan Carlos Aravena	2011	3
17	Deriving mass balance and calving variations from reanalysis data and sparse observations, Glaciar San Rafael, northern Patagonia, 1950–2005 The cryosphere ·Michèle Koppes, H. Conway, L. A. Rasmussen, JhengYu-Du	2011	24
18	Glacier erosional response to transient climate AGUFM ·Michèle Koppes, B. Hallet	2010	1
19	Rapid submarine melting of the calving faces of West Greenland glaciers Nature Geoscience ·Eric Rignot, Michèle Koppes, I. Velicogna	2010	309
20	Glacial Erosion Rates in the St. Elias Mountains, Southern Alaska: Magnitudes, Spatial Variation and Relation to Tectonics. AGUFM ·B. Hallet, Zygmunt Seręga, Michèle Koppes	2002	1

About Michèle Koppes

Michèle Koppes is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Environmental Chemistry, Earth-Surface Processes and Ecological Modeling, having authored 43 papers that have together received 2.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Cryospheric studies and observations (35 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (22 papers), Climate change and permafrost (16 papers), Landslides and related hazards (9 papers), Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (6 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (5 papers), Winter Sports Injuries and Performance (5 papers) and Polar Research and Ecology (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atmospheric Science (2.0k citations), Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (488 citations), Earth-Surface Processes (262 citations), Environmental Chemistry (162 citations) and Soil Science (142 citations). Michèle Koppes has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Eric Rignot, David R. Montgomery, B. Hallet, I. Velicogna, Y. Xu, Dimitris Menemenlis, Katherine V. Boldt, Julia S. Wellner, J. M. Jaeger and Ting Zhang. Their work appears in journals such as The cryosphere, Nature Geoscience, Annals of Glaciology, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms and Nature Reviews Earth & Environment.

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