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Overview

Joel T. Harper is affiliated with the University of Montana in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular emphasis on Environmental Science. The subfields of their work include Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Environmental Engineering, and Ecological Modeling.

The main topics explored by Harper cover a range of areas within cryospheric and environmental studies. These topics include:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing

The scientist's most frequent publication venues consist of:

  • The Cryosphere
  • Journal of Glaciology
  • Annals of Glaciology
  • Global Change Biology
  • Global and Planetary Change

Joel T. Harper has co-authored numerous papers working with several recurring collaborators, including:

  • N. F. Humphrey
  • Toby Meierbachtol
  • J. Saito
  • Jens-Öve Näslund
  • Andreas Colliander

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Harper include:

  • "Cold Season Rain Event Has Impact on Greenland's Firn Layer Comparable to Entire Summer Melt Season," 2023, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Greenland and Canadian Arctic ice temperature profiles database," 2023, The Cryosphere
  • "Key rules of life and the fading cryosphere: Impacts in alpine lakes and streams," 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "Physical limits to meltwater penetration in firn," 2021, Journal of Glaciology
  • "Parsing complex terrain controls on mountain glacier response to climate forcing," 2020, Global and Planetary Change

Best Publications

  • Kinematic Constraints on Glacier Contributions to 21st-Century Sea-Level Rise

    W. T. Pfeffer;J. T. Harper;S. O'Neel

  • Greenland ice-sheet contribution to sea-level rise buffered by meltwater storage in firn

    J. Harper;N. Humphrey;W. Pfeffer;J. Brown

  • Thermal tracking of meltwater retention in Greenland's accumulation area

    Neil F. Humphrey;Joel T. Harper;W. Tad Pfeffer

  • Basal Drainage System Response to Increasing Surface Melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet

    T. Meierbachtol;J. Harper;N. Humphrey

  • Amplified melt and flow of the Greenland ice sheet driven by late-summer cyclonic rainfall

    Samuel H. Doyle;Alun Hubbard;Roderik S. W. van de Wal;Jason E. Box;Jason E. Box

  • Complex Dielectric Permittivity Measurements from Ground-Penetrating Radar Data to Estimate Snow Liquid Water Content in the Pendular Regime

    John H. Bradford;Joel T. Harper;Joel Brown

  • Snow stratigraphy over a uniform depositional surface: spatial variability and measurement tools

    Joel T Harper;John H Bradford

  • Elevation change of the Greenland Ice Sheet due to surface mass balance and firn processes, 1960–2014

    P. Kuipers Munneke;P. Kuipers Munneke;S. R. M. Ligtenberg;B. P. Y. Noël;I. M. Howat

  • Continuous Profiles of Electromagnetic Wave Velocity and Water Content in Glaciers: An Example from Bench Glacier, Alaska, USA

    John H. Bradford;Joshua Nichols;T. Dylan Mikesell;Joel T. Harper

  • Temperature distribution and thermal anomalies along a flowline of the Greenland ice sheet

    Joel A. Harrington;Neil F. Humphrey;Joel T. Harper

  • Two modes of accelerated glacier sliding related to water

    Joel T. Harper;Neil F. Humphrey;W. Tad Pfeffer;Brian Lazar

  • Borehole video analysis of a temperate glacier' englacial and subglacial structure: Implications for glacier flow models

    Joel T. Harper;Neil F. Humphrey

  • Channel avulsions and related processes, and large-scale sedimentation patterns since 1875, Rio Grande, San Luis Valley, Colorado

    Lawrence S. Jones;Joel T. Harper

  • Glacier Terminus Fluctuations on Mount Baker, Washington, U.S.A., 1940- 1990, and Climatic Variations

    Joel T. Harper

  • Monitoring Glacier Surface Seismicity in Time and Space Using Rayleigh Waves

    T. D. Mikesell;T. D. Mikesell;K. Van Wijk;Matthew M. Haney;Matthew M. Haney;J.H. Bradford

  • Vertical extension of the subglacial drainage system into basal crevasses

    Joel T. Harper;John H. Bradford;Neil F. Humphrey;Toby W. Meierbachtol

  • High altitude Himalayan climate inferred from glacial ice flux

    Joel T. Harper;Neil F. Humphrey

  • Wave field migration as a tool for estimating spatially continuous radar velocity and water content in glaciers

    John H. Bradford;Joel T. Harper

  • Evolution of subglacial water pressure along a glacier’s length

    Joel T. Harper;Neil F. Humphrey;W. Tad Pfeffer;Tyler Fudge

  • Significance of trends toward earlier snowmelt runoff, Columbia and Missouri Basin headwaters, western United States

    Johnnie N. Moore;Joel T. Harper;Mark C. Greenwood

  • Key rules of life and the fading cryosphere: Impacts in alpine lakes and streams

    James J. Elser;Chenxi Wu;Angélica L. González;Daniel H. Shain

Frequent Co-Authors

Neil F. Humphrey
Neil F. Humphrey University of Wyoming
W. T. Pfeffer
W. T. Pfeffer University of Colorado Boulder
Johnnie N. Moore
Johnnie N. Moore University of Montana
Jason E. Box
Jason E. Box Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Ellen Mosley-Thompson
Ellen Mosley-Thompson The Ohio State University
Ian M. Howat
Ian M. Howat The Ohio State University
Stefan R. M. Ligtenberg
Stefan R. M. Ligtenberg Utrecht University
Sarah B. Das
Sarah B. Das Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Konrad Steffen
Konrad Steffen Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Marco P. Maneta
Marco P. Maneta University of Montana

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