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Overview

Anders A. Bjørk is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and specializes primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans a wide range of subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Geology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including Cryospheric studies and observations, Climate change and permafrost, Winter Sports Injuries and Performance, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Landslides and related hazards, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

Key recent publications authored or co-authored by Bjørk include:

  • Evaluation of the Apple iPhone 12 Pro LiDAR for an Application in Geosciences (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Ocean forcing drives glacier retreat in Greenland (2021, Science Advances)
  • Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics (2021, Nature)
  • Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise (2022, Nature Climate Change)
  • Glacier response to the Little Ice Age during the Neoglacial cooling in Greenland (2022, Earth-Science Reviews)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Bjørk include Kristian K. Kjeldsen, Kurt H. Kjær, Nicolaj K. Larsen, J. Mouginot, and Romain Millan. These collaborators have worked with Bjørk on multiple research projects contributing to the scientist's broad publication record.

Bjørk's publications are often featured in reputable venues such as Nature Communications, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature, Geophysical Research Letters, and The Cryosphere. These journals reflect the focus areas and interdisciplinary nature of Bjørk's research.

Best Publications

  • Forty-six years of Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance from 1972 to 2018

    Jérémie Mouginot;Jérémie Mouginot;Eric Rignot;Eric Rignot;Anders A. Bjørk;Anders A. Bjørk;Michiel van den Broeke

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

    Shfaqat A. Khan;Kurt H. Kjær;Michael Bevis;Jonathan L. Bamber

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

    Kristian Kjellerup Kjeldsen;Niels J. Korsgaard;Anders A Bjørk;Shfaqat Abbas Khan

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

    Anders A. Bjørk;Kurt H. Kjær;Niels J. Korsgaard;Shfaqat Abbas Khan

  • Ocean forcing drives glacier retreat in Greenland.

    Michael Wood;Michael Wood;Eric Rignot;Eric Rignot;Ian Fenty;Lu An

  • Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics

    Yucheng Wang;Yucheng Wang;Mikkel Winther Pedersen;Inger Greve Alsos;Bianca De Sanctis

  • Greenland ice sheet mass balance: a review

    Shfaqat Abbas Khan;Andy Aschwanden;Anders A. Bjørk;John Wahr

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

    Shfaqat Abbas Khan;Ingo Sasgen;Michael Bevis;Tonie van Dam

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

    Camilla S. Andresen;Fiammetta Straneo;Mads Hvid Ribergaard;Anders A. Bjørk

  • Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise

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

    Niels J. Korsgaard;Christopher Nuth;Shfaqat Abbas Khan;Kristian K. Kjeldsen

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

    Nicolaj K. Larsen;Kurt H. Kjær;Benoit Lecavalier;Anders A. Bjørk

  • Aerial photographs reveal late–20th-century dynamic ice loss in northwestern greenland

    Kurt H. Kjær;Shfaqat A Khan;Niels J Korsgaard;John Wahr

  • Greenland surface mass-balance observations from the ice-sheet ablation area and local glaciers

    Horst Machguth;Henrik H. Thomsen;Anker Weidick;Andreas P. Ahlstrøm

  • A large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland

    Kurt H. Kjær;Nicolaj K. Larsen;Nicolaj K. Larsen;Tobias Binder;Anders A. Bjørk;Anders A. Bjørk;Anders A. Bjørk

  • Delta progradation in Greenland driven by increasing glacial mass loss

    Mette Bendixen;Lars Lønsmann Iversen;Anders Anker Bjørk;Anders Anker Bjørk;Anders Anker Bjørk;Bo Elberling

  • Glacier response to the Little Ice Age during the Neoglacial cooling in Greenland

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  • Instability of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream over the last 45,000 years.

    Nicolaj K. Larsen;Nicolaj K. Larsen;Laura B. Levy;Anders E. Carlson;Christo Buizert

  • Resolving Seasonal Ice Velocity of 45 Greenlandic Glaciers With Very High Temporal Details

    Saurabh Vijay;Shfaqat Abbas Khan;Anders Kusk;Anne M. Solgaard

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

    A A Bjørk;A A Bjørk;A A Bjørk;S Aagaard;A Lütt;S A Khan

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

    S. A. Khan;K. K. Kjeldsen;K. H. Kjær;S. Bevan

  • Promises and perils of sand exploitation in Greenland

    Mette Bendixen;Irina Overeem;Minik T. Rosing;Anders Anker Bjørk

  • Delta progradation in Greenland driven by increasing glacial mass loss

    M. Bendixen;I. Lars Lonsmann;A. A. Bjork;B. Elberling

Frequent Co-Authors

Kristian K. Kjeldsen
Kristian K. Kjeldsen Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Kurt H. Kjær
Kurt H. Kjær University of Copenhagen
Shfaqat Abbas Khan
Shfaqat Abbas Khan Technical University of Denmark
Nicolaj K. Larsen
Nicolaj K. Larsen University of Copenhagen
Jeremie Mouginot
Jeremie Mouginot Grenoble Alpes University
Svend Funder
Svend Funder University of Copenhagen
Eric Rignot
Eric Rignot University of California, Irvine
Jesper V. Olsen
Jesper V. Olsen University of Copenhagen
John Wahr
John Wahr University of Colorado Boulder
Jonathan L. Bamber
Jonathan L. Bamber University of Bristol

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