List of works by Kurt H. Kjær

100 ancient genomes show repeated population turnovers in Neolithic Denmark

scientific article published on 10 January 2024

A 10,000-year record of Arctic Ocean sea-ice variability--view from the beach.

scientific article

A 100-year record of changes in water renewal rate in Sermilik fjord and its influence on calving of Helheim glacier, southeast Greenland

scholarly article by Camilla S Andresen published in August 2014

A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

A 2000-year record of ocean influence on Jakobshavn Isbræ calving activity, based on marine sediment cores

scientific article

A Late Paleocene age for Greenland’s Hiawatha impact structure

2022 scholarly article by Gavin G. Kenny et al.

A Possible Second Large Subglacial Impact Crater in Northwest Greenland

article by Joseph A. MacGregor et al published 11 February 2019 in Geophysical Research Letters

A Younger Dryas re-advance of local glaciers in north Greenland

scholarly article by Nicolaj K. Larsen et al published September 2016 in Quaternary Science Reviews

A comparative study of ancient environmental DNA to pollen and macrofossils from lake sediments reveals taxonomic overlap and additional plant taxa

article

A large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland

scientific article published on 14 November 2018

A reconstruction of warm-water inflow to Upernavik Isstrøm since 1925 CE and its relation to glacier retreat

scientific article

Aerial photographs reveal late-20th-century dynamic ice loss in northwestern Greenland

scientific article

Age and extent of the Scandinavian ice sheet in northwest Russia

scholarly article

An aerial view of 80 years of climate-related glacier fluctuations in southeast Greenland

scholarly article by Anders Anker Bjørk et al published 27 May 2012 in Nature Geoscience

Architecture and sedimentation of outwash fans in front of the Mýrdalsjökull ice cap, Iceland

scientific article

Brief oxygenation events in locally anoxic oceans during the Cambrian solves the animal breathing paradox

scientific article published on 12 August 2019

Centennial response of Greenland's three largest outlet glaciers

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

Changes in Greenland’s peripheral glaciers linked to the North Atlantic Oscillation

Climate variability and glacial processes in eastern Iceland during the past 700 years based on varved lake sediments

scientific article

Climatic control of the surge periodicity of an Icelandic outlet glacier

scholarly article

Constraints on the Late Saalian to early Middle Weichselian ice sheet of Eurasia from field data and rebound modelling

article

Cosmogenic 10 Be exposure age dating across Early to Late Weichselian ice-marginal zones in northwestern Russia

scientific article

Cosmogenic nuclide inheritance in Little Ice Age moraines - A case study from Greenland

scientific article

Crustal uplift due to ice mass variability on Upernavik Isstrøm, west Greenland

article

DNA evidence of bowhead whale exploitation by Greenlandic Paleo-Inuit 4,000 years ago

scientific article

De-icing progression of ice-cored moraines in a humid, subpolar climate, Kötlujökull, Iceland

scholarly article

Dead-Ice Environments: A Landsystems Model for a Debris-Charged, Stagnant Lowland Glacier Margin, Kötlujökull

scholarly article

Depositional environments and sea-level changes deduced from Middle Weichselian tidally influenced sediments, Arkhangelsk region, northwestern Russia

scientific article

Digital elevation model and orthophotographs of Greenland based on aerial photographs from 1978-1987

scientific article published on 10 May 2016

Distinguishing between tills from Valdaian ice sheets in the Arkhangelsk region, Northwest Russia

scientific article

Does clast size influence fabric strength?

scientific article published in September 1998

Early Holocene collapse of marine-based ice in northwest Greenland triggered by atmospheric warming

scientific article

Early Weichselian palaeoenvironments reconstructed from a mega-scale thrust-fault complex, Kanin Peninsula, northwestern Russia

scientific article

Early human dispersals within the Americas

scientific article published in Science

Early to middle Holocene valley glaciations on northernmost Greenland

scholarly article

Estimating Ice Discharge at Greenland's Three Largest Outlet Glaciers Using Local Bedrock Uplift

scholarly article

Eurasian ice-sheet interaction in northwestern Russia throughout the late Quaternary

scientific article

Evaluating ice‐rafted debris as a proxy for glacier calving in Upernavik Isfjord, NW Greenland

scientific article

Fabric Pattern in a Basal Till Succession and Its Significance for Reconstructing Subglacial Processes: Discussion

Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet

scientific article (publication date: 6 February 2014)

Foreword to the special issue: Arctic Palaeoclimate and Its Extremes (APEX)

scientific article published in 2008

Formation of submarginal and proglacial end moraines: implications of ice-flow mechanism during the 1963-64 surge of Brúarjökull, Iceland

scientific article

From push moraine to single-crested dump moraine during a sustained glacier advance

scientific article

Geodetic measurements reveal similarities between post-Last Glacial Maximum and present-day mass loss from the Greenland ice sheet

scientific article

Glacial and submarine processes on the shelf margin of the Disko Bay Trough Mouth Fan

scientific article

Glacial geological studies of surge-type glaciers in Iceland — Research status and future challenges

scholarly article

Glacial survival of boreal trees in northern Scandinavia

scientific article published in March 2012

Glacier dynamics at Helheim and Kangerdlugssuaq glaciers, southeast Greenland, since the Little Ice Age

article

Glacier dynamics at Helheim and Kangerdlugssuaq glaciers, southeast Greenland, since the Little Ice Age

scientific article

Glacier dynamics over the last quarter of a century at Jakobshavn Isbræ

scholarly article

Greenland ice sheet mass balance: a review

scientific article published on 26 March 2015

High-Arctic climate conditions for the last 7000 years inferred from multi-proxy analysis of the Bliss Lake record, North Greenland

article

Holocene history of the Helheim Glacier, southeast Greenland

scholarly article by A.A. Bjørk et al published August 2018 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Holocene ice margin variations of the Greenland Ice Sheet and local glaciers around Sermilik Fjord, southeast Greenland

scientific article

Holocene ice marginal fluctuations of the Qassimiut lobe in South Greenland.

scientific article

Ice-cored drumlins at the surge-type glacier Brúarjökull, Iceland: a transitional-state landform

scientific article

Ice-flow patterns and dispersal of erratics at the southwestern margin of the last Scandinavian Ice Sheet: signature of palaeo-ice streams

scientific article

Impact of multiple glacier surges—a geomorphological map from Brúarjökull, East Iceland

scholarly article by Kurt H. Kjær et al published January 2008 in Journal of Maps

Improved ice loss estimate of the northwestern Greenland ice sheet

article

Inland thinning on the Greenland ice sheet controlled by outlet glacier geometry

scholarly article by Denis Felikson et al published 17 April 2017 in Nature Geoscience

Instantaneous end moraine and sediment wedge formation during the 1890 glacier surge of Brúarjökull, Iceland

scholarly article

Islands in the ice: detecting past vegetation on Greenlandic nunataks using historical records and sedimentary ancient DNA meta-barcoding

scientific article

Lake Sedimentary DNA Research on Past Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity: Overview and Recommendations

scientific article published on 14 February 2021

Lake sediment multi-taxon DNA from North Greenland records early post-glacial appearance of vascular plants and accurately tracks environmental changes

scholarly article

Late Pleistocene glacial and lake history of northwestern Russia

scientific article

Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics

scientific article

Late Quaternary glaciation history of northernmost Greenland – Evidence of shelf-based ice

scholarly article

Late Quaternary in northwestern Russia - Introduction

scientific article

MIS 3 mammoth remains from Sweden—implications for faunal history, palaeoclimate and glaciation chronology

scientific article

Meta-barcoding of 'dirt' DNA from soil reflects vertebrate biodiversity

scientific article

Mezen Bay-a key area for understanding Weichselian glaciations in northern Russia

scientific article

Mode of subglacial transport deduced from till properties, Mýrdalsjökull, Iceland

scholarly article

Modelled glacier dynamics over the last quarter of a century at Jakobshavn Isbræ

article

Molecular- and pollen-based vegetation analysis in lake sediments from central Scandinavia

scientific article

Multi-phased deglaciation of south and southeast Greenland controlled by climate and topographic setting

scientific article

Multibeam bathymetry and CTD measurements in two fjord systems in southeastern Greenland

scholarly article by Kristian K. Jeldsen et al published 18 August 2017 in Earth system science data

Mýrdalsjökull's Forefields Under the Microscope. The Micromorphology of Meltout and Subglacial Tills

scholarly article

New insights on Arctic Quaternary climate variability from palaeo-records and numerical modelling

article

Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating of glacial sediments from Arctic Russia - depositional bleaching and methodological aspects

scientific article

Organic carbon from the Hiawatha impact crater, North-West Greenland

poster #1381 from the 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2019

Origin and de-icing of multiple generations of ice-cored moraines at Brúarjökull, Iceland

scientific article

Parasitic infections and resource economy of Danish Iron Age settlement through ancient DNA sequencing.

scientific article published on 20 June 2018

Pattern Recognition on X-ray Fluorescence Records from Copenhagen Lake Sediments Using Principal Component Analysis

article

Pleistocene organic matter modified by the Hiawatha impact, northwest Greenland

scientific article

Population genomics of post-glacial western Eurasia

scientific article published on 10 January 2024

Postglacial viability and colonization in North America's ice-free corridor.

scientific article

Promises and perils of sand exploitation in Greenland

scholarly article

Quantification of dead-ice melting in ice-cored moraines at the high-Arctic glacier Holmströmbreen, Svalbard

scientific article

RETRACTED: Origin and transformation of organic carbon from the Hiawatha meteorite crater, North-West Greenland: a preliminary study

retracted paper

Rapid early Holocene ice retreat in West Greenland

scholarly article by Nicolaj K. Larsen et al published May 2014 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Rapid response of Helheim Glacier in Greenland to climate variability over the past century

article

Recalibrating Equus evolution using the genome sequence of an early Middle Pleistocene horse

scientific article

Recurring dynamically induced thinning during 1985 to 2010 on Upernavik Isstrøm, West Greenland

scholarly article by Shfaqat Abbas Khan et al published 14 February 2013 in Journal of geophysical research. Earth surface

Response to Comment on "Glacial Survival of Boreal Trees in Northern Scandinavia"

scientific article published in Science

Restricted impact of Holocene climate variations on the southern Greenland Ice Sheet

scholarly article by Nicolaj K. Larsen et al published October 2011 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Sea Surface Temperature Variability on the SE-Greenland Shelf (1796–2013 CE) and Its Influence on Thrym Glacier in Nørre Skjoldungesund

scholarly article

Simulating ice thickness and velocity evolution of Upernavik Isstrøm 1849–2012 by forcing prescribed terminus positions in ISSM

scholarly article

Simulating ice thickness and velocity evolution of Upernavik Isstrøm 1849–2012 by forcing prescribed terminus positions in ISSM

preprint

Spatial and temporal distribution of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet since AD 1900.

scientific article

Spatial distribution of erosion and deposition during a glacier surge: Brúarjökull, Iceland

scholarly article by Niels Jakup Korsgaard et al published December 2015 in Geomorphology

Subglacial Environments, Sediments and Landforms at the Margins of Mýrdalsjökull

scholarly article

Subglacial decoupling at the sediment/bedrock interface: a new mechanism for rapid flowing ice

scientific article

Supplementary material to "Glacier dynamics over the last quarter of a century at Jakobshavn Isbræ"

scientific article

Sustained mass loss of the northeast Greenland ice sheet triggered by regional warming

article

Terminus-driven retreat of a major southwest Greenland tidewater glacier during the early 19th century: insights from glacier reconstructions and numerical modelling

scholarly article by James M. Lea et al published 2014 in Journal of Glaciology

The Greenland Ice Sheet During the Past 300,000 Years: A Review

article

The Mýrdalsjökull Ice Cap, Iceland: Glacial Processes, Sediments and Landforms on an Active Volcano: An Introduction

scientific article

The final phase of dead-ice moraine development: processes and sediment architecture, Kotlujokull, Iceland

article

The first independent chronology for Middle and Late Weichselian sediments from southern Sweden and the Island of Bornholm

scientific article

The last Scandinavian Ice Sheet in northwestern Russia: ice flow patterns and decay dynamics

scholarly article

The response of the southern Greenland ice sheet to the Holocene thermal maximum

article

Twentieth-century warming revives the world's northernmost lake

article

Under pressure: clastic dykes in glacial settings

scholarly article

What causes till thickness to change over distance? Answers from Mýrdalsjökull, Iceland

scientific article published in July 2003

Younger Dryas ice margin retreat in Greenland: new evidence from southwestern Greenland

scientific article

Younger Dryas ice-margin retreat in Greenland, new evidence from Southwest Greenland

preprint