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John Paden is affiliated with the University of Kansas in the United States and has a research profile primarily situated within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans various subfields including Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Environmental Chemistry, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad range of Cryospheric studies and observations, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Climate change and permafrost, Landslides and related hazards, Winter Sports Injuries and Performance, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

John Paden has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • The Scientific Legacy of NASA's Operation IceBridge, 2021, Reviews of Geophysics
  • Five decades of radioglaciology, 2020, Annals of Glaciology
  • Linking postglacial landscapes to glacier dynamics using swath radar at Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica, 2020, Geology
  • Heterogeneous melting near the Thwaites Glacier grounding line, 2023, Nature
  • New gravity-derived bathymetry for the Thwaites, Crosson, and Dotson ice shelves revealing two ice shelf populations, 2020, The Cryosphere

Frequently publishing in several scientific venues, their work appears notably in:

  • Annals of Glaciology
  • The Cryosphere
  • Earth system science data
  • Journal of Glaciology
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

John Paden has collaborated extensively with several researchers, including Olaf Eisen, Daniela Jansen, Steven Franke, Daniel Steinhage, and Tobias Binder.

Best Publications

  • A reconciled estimate of ice-sheet mass balance

    Andrew Shepherd;Erik R. Ivins;A. Geruo;Valentina R. Barletta

  • Deep glacial troughs and stabilizing ridges unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet

    M. Morlighem;Eric Rignot;Tobias Binder;Donald Blankenship

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

    D. Dahl-Jensen;M. R. Albert;A. Aldahan;N. Azuma

  • A new bed elevation dataset for Greenland

    J. L. Bamber;J. A. Griggs;R. T. W. L. Hurkmans;J. A. Dowdeswell

  • Extensive liquid meltwater storage in firn within the Greenland ice sheet

    Richard R. Forster;Jason E. Box;Jason E. Box;Michiel R. van den Broeke;Clement Miege

  • Advanced Multifrequency Radar Instrumentation for Polar Research

    Fernando Rodriguez-Morales;Sivaprasad Gogineni;Carlton J. Leuschen;John D. Paden

  • Fast retreat of Zachariæ Isstrøm, northeast Greenland

    J. Mouginot;E. Rignot;E. Rignot;B. Scheuchl;I. Fenty

  • Radiostratigraphy and age structure of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

    Joseph A. MacGregor;Mark A. Fahnestock;Ginny A. Catania;John D. Paden

  • A synthesis of the basal thermal state of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

    Joseph A. MacGregor;Joseph A. MacGregor;Mark A. Fahnestock;Ginny A. Catania;Andy Aschwanden

  • Radar attenuation and temperature within the Greenland Ice Sheet

    Joseph A. MacGregor;Jilu Li;John D. Paden;Ginny A. Catania

  • The Scientific Legacy of NASA’s Operation IceBridge

    Joseph A. MacGregor;Linette N. Boisvert;Brooke Medley;Alek A. Petty;Alek A. Petty

  • An Ultra-Wideband, Microwave Radar for Measuring Snow Thickness on Sea Ice and Mapping Near-Surface Internal Layers in Polar Firn

    Ben Panzer;Daniel Gomez-Garcia;Carl Leuschen;John Paden

  • Spatial extent and temporal variability of Greenland firn aquifers detected by ground and airborne radars

    Clément Miège;Richard R. Forster;Ludovic Brucker;Ludovic Brucker;Lora S. Koenig

  • Five decades of radioglaciology

    Dustin M. Schroeder;Robert G. Bingham;Donald D. Blankenship;Knut Christianson

  • Heterogeneous melting near the Thwaites Glacier grounding line

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  • Ice-sheet bed 3-D tomography

    John Paden;Torry Akins;David Dunson;Chris Allen

  • 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

  • Deformation, warming and softening of Greenland’s ice by refreezing meltwater

    Robin E. Bell;Kirsteen Tinto;Indrani Das;Michael Wolovick

  • High-Altitude Radar Measurements of Ice Thickness Over the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets as a Part of Operation IceBridge

    Jilu Li;J. Paden;C. Leuschen;F. Rodriguez-Morales

  • Oceanic and atmospheric forcing of Larsen C Ice-Shelf thinning

    P. R. Holland;A. Brisbourne;H. F. J. Corr;Daniel Mcgrath;Daniel Mcgrath

  • Linking postglacial landscapes to glacier dynamics using swath radar at Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica

    N. Holschuh;N. Holschuh;K. Christianson;J. Paden;R.B. Alley

  • Supplementary Materials for A Reconciled Estimate of Ice-Sheet Mass Balance

    Andrew Shepherd;Erik R. Ivins;Geruo A;Valentina R. Barletta

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core (SCI)

    D Dahl-Jensen;M R Albert;A Aldahan;N Azuma

Frequent Co-Authors

Sivaprasad Gogineni
Sivaprasad Gogineni University of Alabama
Olaf Eisen
Olaf Eisen University of Bremen
Geoffrey C. Fox
Geoffrey C. Fox University of Virginia
Eric Rignot
Eric Rignot University of California, Irvine
David J. Crandall
David J. Crandall Indiana University
Mathieu Morlighem
Mathieu Morlighem Dartmouth College
Dustin M. Schroeder
Dustin M. Schroeder Stanford University
Veit Helm
Veit Helm Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen University of Copenhagen
Jeremie Mouginot
Jeremie Mouginot Grenoble Alpes University

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