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Overview

Ian Willis is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant emphasis on Atmospheric Science. Additionally, they have contributions in Medicine, particularly within Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics covered by their work include:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Participatory Visual Research Methods

Ian Willis has contributed to several publication venues, with the highest number of papers appearing in the Journal of Glaciology, where they have published eight articles. Other frequent venues include The Cryosphere with three publications, Frontiers in Earth Science with two, and one publication each in Geophysical Research Letters and Nature Geoscience.

Their recent papers demonstrate a strong focus on glaciology and cryospheric research. Notable recent works include:

  • "Observations of Buried Lake Drainage on the Antarctic Ice Sheet" (2020), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Lateral meltwater transfer across an Antarctic ice shelf" (2020), published in The Cryosphere
  • "Supervised classification of slush and ponded water on Antarctic ice shelves using Landsat 8 imagery" (2021), published in Journal of Glaciology
  • "Over-winter persistence of supraglacial lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet: results and insights from a new model" (2020), published in Journal of Glaciology
  • "Seasonal land-ice-flow variability in the Antarctic Peninsula" (2022), published in The Cryosphere

Frequent collaborators in their work include Alison F. Banwell, Rebecca Dell, Neil Arnold, Hamish D. Pritchard, and Karla Boxall. Among these, Alison F. Banwell has coauthored eleven papers with Ian Willis, while Rebecca Dell appears as a coauthor in seven publications.

Best Publications

  • Seasonal changes in the morphology of the subglacial drainage system, Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland

    Peter Nienow;Martin Sharp;Ian Willis

  • Geochemical weathering at the bed of Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland - a new model

    M. Tranter;M. J. Sharp;H. R. Lamb;G. H. Brown

  • Borehole water-level variations and the structure of the subglacial hydrological system of Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Valais, Switzerland

    B. P. Hubbard;M. J. Sharp;I. C. Willis;M. K. Nielsen

  • Measurement and parameterization of albedo variations at Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland

    Ben W. Brock;Ian C. Willis;Martin J. Sharp

  • Measurement and parameterization of aerodynamic roughness length variations at Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland

    Ben W. Brock;Ian C. Willis;Martin J. Sharp

  • A distributed surface energy-balance model for a small valley glacier. I. Development and testing for Haut Glacier d’ Arolla, Valais, Switzerland

    N.S. Arnold;I.C. Willis;M.J. Sharp;K.S. Richards

  • Intra-annual variations in glacier motion: a review:

    Ian C. Willis

  • Geometry, bed topography and drainage system structure of the Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland

    Martin Sharp;Keith Richards;Ian Willis;Neil Arnold

  • Influence of subglacial drainage system evolution on glacier surface motion: Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland

    Douglas Mair;Douglas Mair;Peter Nienow;Martin J. Sharp;Trudy Wohlleben

  • Changes in geometry and subglacial drainage of Midre Lovénbreen, Svalbard, determined from digital elevation models

    David Rippin;Ian Willis;Neil Arnold;Andrew Hodson

  • Effect of snowpack removal on energy balance, melt and runoff in a small supraglacial catchment

    Ian C. Willis;Neil S. Arnold;Ben W. Brock

  • Refined energy-balance modelling of a supraglacial pond, Langtang Khola, Nepal

    Evan S. Miles;Francesca Pellicciotti;Ian C. Willis;Jakob F. Steiner

  • Ice dynamic response to two modes of surface lake drainage on the Greenland ice sheet

    Marco Tedesco;Ian C Willis;Matthew J Hoffman;Alison F Banwell

  • AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO MODELLING HYDROLOGY AND WATER QUALITY IN GLACIERIZED CATCHMENTS

    Keith Richards;Martin Sharp;Neil Arnold;Angela Gurnell

  • Seasonal reorganization of subglacial drainage inferred from measurements in boreholes

    Shulamit Gordon;Martin Sharp;Bryn Hubbard;Chris Smart

  • Initial results from a distributed, physically based model of glacier hydrology

    Neil Arnold;Keith Richards;Ian Willis;Martin Sharp

  • Hydrological controls on patterns of surface, internal and basal motion during three "spring events": Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland

    Douglas Mair;Ian Willis;Urs H. Fischer;Bryn Hubbard

  • Spatial Patterns of Glacier Motion During a High Velocity Event: Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland

    Douglas Watson Fraser Mair;P. Nienow;I. Willis;M. Sharp

  • Modelling seasonal and spatial variations in the surface energy balance of Haut Glacier d’Arolla, Switzerland

    Ben W. Brock;Ian C. Willis;Martin J. Sharp;Neil S. Arnold

  • Modeling supraglacial water routing and lake filling on the Greenland Ice Sheet

    Alison F. Banwell;Neil S. Arnold;Ian C. Willis;Marco Tedesco

  • Toward Monitoring Surface and Subsurface Lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet Using Sentinel-1 SAR and Landsat-8 OLI Imagery

    Katie E. Miles;Katie E. Miles;Ian C. Willis;Corinne L. Benedek;Andrew G. Williamson

Frequent Co-Authors

Neil S. Arnold
Neil S. Arnold University of Cambridge
Martin Sharp
Martin Sharp University of Alberta
Peter Nienow
Peter Nienow University of Edinburgh
Bryn Hubbard
Bryn Hubbard Aberystwyth University
Evan S. Miles
Evan S. Miles Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Marco Tedesco
Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Hamish D. Pritchard
Hamish D. Pritchard British Antarctic Survey
Douglas Mair
Douglas Mair University of Liverpool
Francesca Pellicciotti
Francesca Pellicciotti Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Douglas R. MacAyeal
Douglas R. MacAyeal University of Chicago

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