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Fabien Gillet-Chaulet

Fabien Gillet-Chaulet

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Earth Science

D-Index
38
Citations
6038
World Ranking
6436
National Ranking
489

Overview

Fabien Gillet-Chaulet is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work focuses primarily on cryospheric studies, atmospheric science, and global and planetary change, with significant attention to ice dynamics and climate interactions.

The scientist has published numerous papers on topics related to the cryosphere, ice sheet dynamics, and environmental gas dynamics, addressing significant challenges such as ice shelf collapse and basal melt-water production. Among their recent publications are:

  • "Antarctic ice sheet response to sudden and sustained ice-shelf collapse (ABUMIP)" (2020), Journal of Glaciology
  • "A first constraint on basal melt-water production of the Greenland ice sheet" (2021), Nature Communications
  • "Data Reduction Using Statistical and Regression Approaches for Ice Velocity Derived by Landsat-8, Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2" (2020), Remote Sensing
  • "Results from the Ice Thickness Models Intercomparison eXperiment Phase 2 (ITMIX2)" (2021), Frontiers in Earth Science
  • "The stability of present-day Antarctic grounding lines - Part 2: Onset of irreversible retreat of Amundsen Sea glaciers under current climate on centennial timescales cannot be excluded" (2023), The Cryosphere

The scientist frequently publishes in venues including Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), The Cryosphere, Journal of Glaciology, Nature Communications, and Frontiers in Earth Science.

Fabien Gillet-Chaulet collaborates regularly with a number of coauthors, most notably:

  • Ralf Greve
  • Thomas Zwinger
  • Ricarda Winkelmann
  • John C. Moore
  • Chao Yue

Their primary fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, their work engages specifically with subfields and topics listed as:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Environmental Chemistry

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Best Publications

  • Retreat of Pine Island Glacier controlled by marine ice-sheet instability

    L Favier;L Favier;G Durand;G Durand;Stephen Cornford;GH Gudmundsson;GH Gudmundsson

  • The safety band of Antarctic ice shelves

    Johannes Jakob Fürst;Johannes Jakob Fürst;Gaël Durand;Gaël Durand;Fabien Gillet-Chaulet;Fabien Gillet-Chaulet;Laure Tavard;Laure Tavard

  • Capabilities and performance of Elmer/Ice, a new-generation ice sheet model

    O. Gagliardini;O. Gagliardini;T. Zwinger;F. Gillet-Chaulet;G. Durand

  • Greenland ice sheet contribution to sea-level rise from a new-generation ice-sheet model

    Fabien Gillet-Chaulet;Olivier Gagliardini;Olivier Gagliardini;Hakime Seddik;Maëlle Nodet

  • How accurate are estimates of glacier ice thickness? Results from ITMIX, the Ice Thickness Models Intercomparison eXperiment

    Daniel Farinotti;Daniel Farinotti;Douglas J. Brinkerhoff;Garry K.C. Clarke;Johannes J. Fürst

  • Antarctic ice sheet response to sudden and sustained ice-shelf collapse (ABUMIP)

    Sainan Sun;Frank Pattyn;Erika G. Simon;Torsten Albrecht

  • Enhancement factors for grounded ice and ice shelves inferred from an anisotropic ice-flow model

    Ying Ma;Olivier Gagliardini;Catherine Ritz;Fabien Gillet-Chaulet

  • Sensitivity of grounding line dynamics to the choice of the friction law

    Julien Brondex;Olivier Gagliardini;Fabien Gillet-Chaulet;Gaël Durand

  • Assessment of sub-shelf melting parameterisations using the ocean–ice-sheet coupled model NEMO(v3.6)–Elmer/Ice(v8.3)

    Lionel Favier;Nicolas C. Jourdain;Adrian Jenkins;Nacho Merino

  • Design and results of the ice sheet model initialisation experiments initMIP-Greenland: an ISMIP6 intercomparison

    Heiko Goelzer;Heiko Goelzer;Sophie Nowicki;Tamsin Edwards;Tamsin Edwards;Matthew Beckley

  • initMIP-Antarctica: an ice sheet model initialization experiment of ISMIP6

    Helene Seroussi;Sophie Nowicki;Erika Simon;Ayako Abe-Ouchi

  • Simulations of the Greenland ice sheet 100 years into the future with the full Stokes model Elmer/Ice

    Hakime Seddik;Ralf Greve;Thomas Zwinger;Fabien Gillet-Chaulet

  • Enhanced basal lubrication and the contribution of the Greenland ice sheet to future sea-level rise

    Sarah R. Shannon;Antony J. Payne;Ian D. Bartholomew;Michiel R. van den Broeke

  • Assimilation of surface velocities acquired between 1996 and 2010 to constrain the form of the basal friction law under Pine Island Glacier

    F. Gillet-Chaulet;G. Durand;O. Gagliardini;C. Mosbeux

  • Fabric along the NEEM ice core, Greenland, and its comparison with GRIP and NGRIP ice cores

    M. Montagnat;M. Montagnat;N. Azuma;D. Dahl-Jensen;Jan Eichler;Jan Eichler

  • Effect of uncertainty in surface mass balance-elevation feedback on projections of the future sea level contribution of the Greenland ice sheet

    Tamsin L Edwards;Xavier Fettweis;Olivier Gagliardini;Olivier Gagliardini;Fabien Gillet-Chaulet

  • Flow-induced anisotropy in polar ice and related ice-sheet flow modelling

    Fabien Gillet-Chaulet;Olivier Gagliardini;Jacques Meyssonnier;Thomas Zwinger

  • Multiscale modeling of ice deformation behavior

    Maurine Montagnat;O. Castelnau;P. D. Bons;S.H. Faria

  • Sensitivity of centennial mass loss projections of the Amundsen basin to the friction law

    Julien Brondex;Fabien Gillet-Chaulet;Olivier Gagliardini

  • In‐situquantification of ice rheology and direct measurement of the Raymond Effect at Summit, Greenland using a phase‐sensitive radar

    Fabien Gillet-Chaulet;Fabien Gillet-Chaulet;Richard C. A. Hindmarsh;Hugh F. J. Corr;Edward C. King

  • Change in ice rheology during climate variations – implications for ice flow modelling and dating of the EPICA Dome C core

    Geoffroy Durand;F. Gillet-Chaulet;A. Svensson;O. Gagliardini

  • initMIP-Antarctica: An ice sheet model initialization experiment of ISMIP6

    H. L. Seroussi;S. Nowicki;E. Simon;A. Abe-Ouchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Olivier Gagliardini
Olivier Gagliardini Grenoble Alpes University
Gaël Durand
Gaël Durand Grenoble Alpes University
Thomas Zwinger
Thomas Zwinger CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland)
Catherine Ritz
Catherine Ritz Grenoble Alpes University
Jeremie Mouginot
Jeremie Mouginot Grenoble Alpes University
Heiko Goelzer
Heiko Goelzer Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Philippe Huybrechts
Philippe Huybrechts Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Ralf Greve
Ralf Greve Hokkaido University
Frédéric Parrenin
Frédéric Parrenin Grenoble Alpes University
Xavier Fettweis
Xavier Fettweis University of Liège

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