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Mathieu Morlighem

Mathieu Morlighem

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Earth Science

D-Index
73
Citations
22304
World Ranking
783
National Ranking
373

Overview

Mathieu Morlighem is affiliated with Dartmouth College in the United States and focuses research efforts primarily within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their extensive work concentrates on Atmospheric Science, which encompasses a significant portion of their publications. Additional subfields they have contributed to include Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Chemistry.

The core topics of Morlighem's research relate largely to cryospheric studies and observations, with substantial attention given to Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics. Other research interests include Winter Sports Injuries and Performance, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Climate Change and Permafrost, Landslides and Related Hazards, and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

They have published in several notable scientific venues, including:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • The Cryosphere
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Journal of Glaciology

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Morlighem include:

  • Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise, 2021, Nature
  • ISMIP6 Antarctica: a multi-model ensemble of the Antarctic ice sheet evolution over the 21st century, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • The future sea-level contribution of the Greenland ice sheet: a multi-model ensemble study of ISMIP6, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • Ice velocity and thickness of the world's glaciers, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • The uncertain future of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, 2020, Science

Throughout their career, Morlighem has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Hélène Seroussi, Angelika Humbert, Sophie Nowicki, Heiko Goelzer, and Thomas Kleiner. These collaborations indicate an active engagement with teams working on glaciological and Earth system science challenges.

Best Publications

  • Four decades of Antarctic Ice Sheet mass balance from 1979-2017.

    Eric Rignot;Eric Rignot;Jérémie Mouginot;Jérémie Mouginot;Bernd Scheuchl;Michiel van den Broeke

  • Widespread, rapid grounding line retreat of Pine Island, Thwaites, Smith, and Kohler glaciers, West Antarctica, from 1992 to 2011

    E. Rignot;E. Rignot;J. Mouginot;M. Morlighem;H. Seroussi

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

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

  • BedMachine v3: Complete Bed Topography and Ocean Bathymetry Mapping of Greenland From Multibeam Echo Sounding Combined With Mass Conservation.

    M. Morlighem;C. N. Williams;C. N. Williams;E. Rignot;E. Rignot;L. An

  • Forty-six years of Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance from 1972 to 2018

    Jérémie Mouginot;Jérémie Mouginot;Eric Rignot;Eric Rignot;Anders A. Bjørk;Anders A. Bjørk;Michiel van den Broeke

  • Continental scale, high order, high spatial resolution, ice sheet modeling using the Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM)

    E. Larour;H. Seroussi;H. Seroussi;M. Morlighem;M. Morlighem;E. Rignot;E. Rignot

  • Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise

    Tamsin L Edwards;Sophie Nowicki;Sophie Nowicki;Ben Marzeion;Regine Hock;Regine Hock

  • Ice velocity and thickness of the world’s glaciers

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  • ISMIP6 Antarctica: a multi-model ensemble of the Antarctic ice sheet evolution over the 21st century

    Hélène Seroussi;Sophie Nowicki;Antony J. Payne;Heiko Goelzer;Heiko Goelzer

  • Spatial patterns of basal drag inferred using control methods from a full-Stokes and simpler models for Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica

    M. Morlighem;M. Morlighem;E. Rignot;E. Rignot;H. Seroussi;H. Seroussi;E. Larour

  • Improved representation of East Antarctic surface mass balance in a regional atmospheric climate model

    J. M. Van Wessem;C. H. Reijmer;M. Morlighem;J. Mouginot

  • Grounding-line migration in plan-view marine ice-sheet models: results of the ice2sea MISMIP3d intercomparison

    Frank Pattyn;Laura Perichon;Gaël Durand;Lionel Favier

  • The future sea-level contribution of the Greenland ice sheet: a multi-model ensemble study of ISMIP6

    Heiko Goelzer;Heiko Goelzer;Heiko Goelzer;Sophie Nowicki;Anthony Payne;Eric Larour

  • Ice-sheet model sensitivities to environmental forcing and their use in projecting future sea level (the SeaRISE project)

    Robert A. Bindschadler;Sophie Nowicki;Ayako Abe-OUCHI;Andy Aschwanden

  • Deeply incised submarine glacial valleys beneath the Greenland ice sheet

    M. Morlighem;E. Rignot;E. Rignot;J. Mouginot;H. Seroussi

  • The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean Version 4.0.

    Martin Jakobsson;Larry A. Mayer;Caroline Bringensparr;Carlos F. Castro

  • Continued retreat of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, controlled by bed topography and ocean circulation

    H. Seroussi;Y. Nakayama;E. Larour;D. Menemenlis

  • The uncertain future of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.

    Frank Pattyn;Mathieu Morlighem

  • 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

  • A mass conservation approach for mapping glacier ice thickness

    M. Morlighem;M. Morlighem;E. Rignot;E. Rignot;H. Seroussi;H. Seroussi;E. Larour

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

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

  • Fast retreat of Zachariæ Isstrøm, northeast Greenland

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Rignot
Eric Rignot University of California, Irvine
Helene Seroussi
Helene Seroussi Dartmouth College
Eric Larour
Eric Larour California Institute of Technology
Jeremie Mouginot
Jeremie Mouginot Grenoble Alpes University
Angelika Humbert
Angelika Humbert Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Sophie Nowicki
Sophie Nowicki University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Heiko Goelzer
Heiko Goelzer Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
John Paden
John Paden University of Kansas
Jonathan M. Gregory
Jonathan M. Gregory University of Reading
William H. Lipscomb
William H. Lipscomb National Center for Atmospheric Research

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