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Andrew Mackintosh

Andrew Mackintosh

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
38
Citations
6019
World Ranking
8607
National Ranking
320

Overview

Andrew Mackintosh is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and focuses their research primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work extensively covers subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Oceanography.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Polar Research and Ecology

Mackintosh has contributed to numerous scientific publications, collaborating frequently with coauthors such as Felicity S. McCormack, Richard S. Jones, Brian Anderson, Shaun Eaves, and Kevin Norton. These partnerships are reflected in their publication record across several prominent venues.

Frequent publication venues for Andrew Mackintosh include:

  • The Cryosphere
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Journal of Glaciology

Among their recent papers are the following works:

  • "The Sensitivity of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to a Changing Climate: Past, Present, and Future" (2020), published in Reviews of Geophysics
  • "Anthropogenic warming forces extreme annual glacier mass loss" (2020), published in Nature Climate Change
  • "Stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet during the pre-industrial Holocene" (2022), published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by sea-ice feedbacks at the Antarctic Cold Reversal" (2020), published in Nature Geoscience
  • "Ocean-Driven and Topography-Controlled Nonlinear Glacier Retreat During the Holocene: Southwestern Ross Sea, Antarctica" (2021), published in Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Holocene glacier fluctuations

    Olga N. Solomina;Raymond S. Bradley;Dominic A. Hodgson;Susan Ivy-Ochs;Susan Ivy-Ochs

  • High-Frequency Holocene Glacier Fluctuations in New Zealand Differ from the Northern Signature

    Joerg M. Schaefer;George H. Denton;Michael Kaplan;Aaron Putnam

  • A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Michael J Bentley;Colm Ó Cofaigh;John B Anderson;Howard Conway

  • Polar Regions. Chapter 3, IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

    M. Meredith;M. Sommerkorn;S. Cassotta;C. Derksen

  • Retreat of the East Antarctic ice sheet during the last glacial termination

    Andrew Mackintosh;Nicholas Golledge;Eugene Domack;Robert Dunbar

  • Retreat history of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Andrew N. Mackintosh;Elie Verleyen;Philip E. O'Brien;Duanne A. White

  • Climate sensitivity of a high-precipitation glacier in New Zealand

    Brian Anderson;Andrew Mackintosh;Dorothea Stumm;Laurel George

  • Temperature change is the major driver of late-glacial and Holocene glacier fluctuations in New Zealand

    Brian Anderson;Andrew Mackintosh

  • Dynamics of the last glacial maximum Antarctic ice-sheet and its response to ocean forcing

    Nicholas R. Golledge;Christopher J. Fogwill;Andrew N. Mackintosh;Kevin M. Buckley

  • The Sensitivity of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to a Changing Climate: Past, Present, and Future

    T. L. Noble;E. J. Rohling;E. J. Rohling;A. R.A. Aitken;H. C. Bostock

  • Hazardous processes and events from glacier and permafrost areas: lessons from the Chilean and Argentinean Andes

    Pablo Iribarren Anacona;Andrew Mackintosh;Kevin Patrick Norton

  • Exposure ages from mountain dipsticks in Mac. Robertson Land, East Antarctica, indicate little change in ice-sheet thickness since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Andrew Mackintosh;Duanne White;David Fink;Damian B. Gore

  • Terrestrial and submarine evidence for the extent and timing of the Last Glacial Maximum and the onset of deglaciation on the maritime-Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

    Dominic A. Hodgson;Dominic A. Hodgson;Alastair G.C. Graham;Stephen J. Roberts;Michael J. Bentley

  • Last Glacial Maximum climate in New Zealand inferred from a modelled Southern Alps icefield

    Nicholas R. Golledge;Andrew N. Mackintosh;Brian M. Anderson;Kevin M. Buckley

  • A review of the Australian-New Zealand sector of the Southern Ocean over the last 30ka (Aus-INTIMATE project)

    Helen C. Bostock;Timothy T. Barrows;L Carter;Zanna Chase

  • Controls on mass balance sensitivity of maritime glaciers in the Southern Alps, New Zealand: The role of debris cover

    Brian Anderson;Andrew Mackintosh

  • Rapid Holocene thinning of an East Antarctic outlet glacier driven by marine ice sheet instability.

    R. S. Jones;A. N. Mackintosh;K. P. Norton;N. R. Golledge;N. R. Golledge

  • Regional cooling caused recent New Zealand glacier advances in a period of global warming.

    Andrew N. Mackintosh;Brian M. Anderson;Andrew M. Lorrey;James A. Renwick

  • Estimating Permafrost Distribution in the Maritime Southern Alps, New Zealand, Based on Climatic Conditions at Rock Glacier Sites

    Katrin Sattler;Brian Anderson;Andrew Mackintosh;Kevin Norton

  • A new coupled ice sheet/climate model: description and sensitivity to model physics under Eemian, Last Glacial Maximum, late Holocene and modern climate conditions

    J. G. Fyke;A. J. Weaver;D. Pollard;M. Eby

  • Reconstructing Climate from Glaciers

    Andrew N. Mackintosh;Brian M. Anderson;Raymond T. Pierrehumbert

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas R. Golledge
Nicholas R. Golledge Victoria University of Wellington
Joerg M. Schaefer
Joerg M. Schaefer Columbia University
Christopher J. Fogwill
Christopher J. Fogwill Cranfield University
Aaron E. Putnam
Aaron E. Putnam University of Maine
Helen C. Bostock
Helen C. Bostock University of Queensland
Robert M. McKay
Robert M. McKay Victoria University of Wellington
George H. Denton
George H. Denton University of Maine
Peter W. Kubik
Peter W. Kubik ETH Zurich
Dominic A. Hodgson
Dominic A. Hodgson British Antarctic Survey
James A. Renwick
James A. Renwick Victoria University of Wellington

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