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Overview

Alex S. Gardner is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States and has an extensive publication record within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Medicine. Their research primarily focuses on atmospheric science and pulmonary and respiratory medicine, with significant contributions to global and planetary change, ecology, and oceanography as well.

The scientist's work frequently addresses topics related to cryospheric studies and observations, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, climate change and permafrost, polar research and ecology, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and geophysics and gravity measurements.

Gardner has published in several scientific venues, with notable frequency in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), The Cryosphere, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Earth System Science Data, and Nature.

Recent published papers include:

  • Pervasive ice sheet mass loss reflects competing ocean and atmosphere processes, 2020, Science
  • Return to rapid ice loss in Greenland and record loss in 2019 detected by the GRACE-FO satellites, 2020, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020, 2023, Earth System Science Data
  • Understanding of Contemporary Regional Sea-Level Change and the Implications for the Future, 2020, Reviews of Geophysics
  • Antarctic calving loss rivals ice-shelf thinning, 2022, Nature

The scientist frequently collaborates with others, with the most common coauthors being Nicole-Jeanne Schlegel, Yang Lei, Hélène Seroussi, Chad A. Greene, and P. S. Agram.

Best Publications

  • A Reconciled Estimate of Glacier Contributions to Sea Level Rise: 2003 to 2009

    Alex S. Gardner;Alex S. Gardner;Geir Moholdt;J. Graham Cogley;Bert Wouters;Bert Wouters

  • The Randolph Glacier inventory: a globally complete inventory of glaciers

    W Tad Pfeffer;Anthony A Arendt;Andrew Bliss;Tobias Bolch;Tobias Bolch

  • The Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2): Science requirements, concept, and implementation

    Thorsten Markus;Tom Neumann;Anthony Martino;Waleed Abdalati

  • Mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet from 1992 to 2017.

    Andrew Shepherd;Erik Ivins;Eric Rignot;Ben Smith

  • Contributions of GRACE to understanding climate change.

    Byron D. Tapley;Michael M. Watkins;Frank Flechtner;Christoph Reigber

  • Pervasive ice sheet mass loss reflects competing ocean and atmosphere processes.

    Ben Smith;Helen A. Fricker;Alex S. Gardner;Brooke Medley

  • Increased West Antarctic and unchanged East Antarctic ice discharge over the last 7 years

    Alex S. Gardner;Geir Moholdt;Ted Scambos;Mark Fahnstock

  • A review of snow and ice albedo and the development of a new physically based broadband albedo parameterization

    Alex S. Gardner;Martin J. Sharp

  • Global sea-level budget 1993 - present

    Anny Cazenave;Benoit Meyssignac;Michael Ablain

  • Twenty-first century glacier slowdown driven by mass loss in High Mountain Asia

    Amaury Dehecq;Amaury Dehecq;Amaury Dehecq;Noel Gourmelen;Noel Gourmelen;Alex S. Gardner;Fanny Brun;Fanny Brun

  • Sharply increased mass loss from glaciers and ice caps in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

    Alex S. Gardner;Alex S. Gardner;Geir Moholdt;Geir Moholdt;Bert Wouters;Gabriel J. Wolken

  • Return to rapid ice loss in Greenland and record loss in 2019 detected by the GRACE-FO satellites

    Ingo Sasgen;Bert Wouters;Bert Wouters;Alex S. Gardner;Michalea D. King

  • Rapid large-area mapping of ice flow using Landsat 8

    Mark Fahnestock;Ted Scambos;Twila Moon;Twila Moon;Alex Gardner

  • A decade of sea level rise slowed by climate-driven hydrology.

    J. T. Reager;A. S. Gardner;J. S. Famiglietti;J. S. Famiglietti;D. N. Wiese

  • Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020

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  • The climate data toolbox for MATLAB

    Chad A. Greene;Chad A. Greene;Kaustubh Thirumalai;Kelly A. Kearney;Kelly A. Kearney;José Miguel Delgado

  • Land ice height-retrieval algorithm for NASA's ICESat-2 photon-counting laser altimeter

    Benjamin Smith;Helen A. Fricker;Nicholas Holschuh;Alex S. Gardner

  • Global glacier mass loss during the GRACE satellite mission (2002-2016)

    Bert Wouters;Bert Wouters;Alex S. Gardner;Geir Moholdt

  • Near-Surface Temperature Lapse Rates over Arctic Glaciers and Their Implications for Temperature Downscaling

    Alex S. Gardner;Martin J. Sharp;Roy M. Koerner;Claude Labine

  • Understanding of Contemporary Regional Sea-Level Change and the Implications for the Future

    Benjamin D. Hamlington;Alex S. Gardner;Erik Ivins;Jan T.M. Lenaerts

  • A new albedo parameterization for use in climate models over the Antarctic ice sheet

    P. Kuipers Munneke;M. R. van den Broeke;J. T. M. Lenaerts;M. G. Flanner

  • Interruption of two decades of Jakobshavn Isbrae acceleration and thinning as regional ocean cools

    Ala Khazendar;Ian G. Fenty;Dustin Carroll;Alex Gardner

  • Randolph Glacier Inventory [v3.2]: A Dataset of Global Glacier Outlines. Global Land Ice Measurements from Space

    Arendt;T. Bolch;J.G. Cogley

Frequent Co-Authors

Bert Wouters
Bert Wouters Utrecht University
Martin Sharp
Martin Sharp University of Alberta
Stefan R. M. Ligtenberg
Stefan R. M. Ligtenberg Utrecht University
Ted A. Scambos
Ted A. Scambos University of Colorado Boulder
Regine Hock
Regine Hock University of Alaska Fairbanks
Helen A. Fricker
Helen A. Fricker University of California, San Diego
Michiel R. van den Broeke
Michiel R. van den Broeke Utrecht University
Ali Behrangi
Ali Behrangi University of Arizona
Etienne Berthier
Etienne Berthier Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales
Mark Flanner
Mark Flanner University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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