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Overview

Noel Gourmelen is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a particular focus on Atmospheric Science. Their research spans a broad spectrum within cryospheric studies and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Their recent publications demonstrate engagement with critical topics in glaciology and ice sheet mass balance. Notable papers include:

  • Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020 (2023, Earth system science data)
  • Review article: Earth's ice imbalance (2021, The Cryosphere)
  • Evolution of Supraglacial Lakes on the Larsen B Ice Shelf in the Decades Before it Collapsed (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023 (2025, Nature)
  • Repeat Subglacial Lake Drainage and Filling Beneath Thwaites Glacier (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)

The following frequent co-authors are associated with Gourmelen's work:

  • Livia Jakob
  • Andrew Shepherd
  • Peter Nienow
  • Paul Tepes
  • Anna E. Hogg

The venues where Gourmelen has most frequently published include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Cryosphere
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Remote Sensing
  • Nature Communications

Research topics extensively covered by Gourmelen are:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking

Subfields relevant to their publications include Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Ecology, and Social Psychology.

Best Publications

  • Twenty-first century glacier slowdown driven by mass loss in High Mountain Asia

    Amaury Dehecq;Amaury Dehecq;Amaury Dehecq;Noel Gourmelen;Noel Gourmelen;Alex S. Gardner;Fanny Brun;Fanny Brun

  • The glaciers climate change initiative: Methods for creating glacier area, elevation change and velocity products

    Frank Paul;Tobias Bolch;Andreas Kääb;Thomas Nagler

  • Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020

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  • Deriving large-scale glacier velocities from a complete satellite archive: Application to the Pamir–Karakoram–Himalaya

    Amaury Dehecq;Noel Gourmelen;Emmanuel Trouve

  • Decadal slowdown of a land-terminating sector of the Greenland Ice Sheet despite warming

    Andrew J. Tedstone;Peter W. Nienow;Noel Gourmelen;Amaury Dehecq;Amaury Dehecq

  • A four-dimensional viscoelastic deformation model for Long Valley Caldera, California, between 1995 and 2000

    Andrew V. Newman;Timothy H. Dixon;Noel Gourmelen

  • Review Article: Earth's ice imbalance

    Thomas Slater;Isobel R. Lawrence;Inès N. Otosaka;Andrew Shepherd

  • Elevation Changes Inferred From TanDEM-X Data Over the Mont-Blanc Area: Impact of the X-Band Interferometric Bias

    Amaury Dehecq;Romain Millan;Etienne Berthier;Noel Gourmelen

  • Ice velocity determined using conventional and multiple-aperture InSAR

    Noel Gourmelen;S.W. Kim;Andrew Shepherd;J.W. Park;J.W. Park

  • InSAR observations of 2007 Tanzania rifting episode reveal mixed fault and dyke extension in an immature continental rift

    Juliet Biggs;Falk Amelung;Noel Gourmelen;Timothy H. Dixon

  • Sustained retreat of the Pine Island Glacier

    J. W. Park;J. W. Park;Noel Gourmelen;Andrew Shepherd;S. W. Kim

  • Postseismic Mantle Relaxation in the Central Nevada Seismic Belt

    Noel Gourmelen;Falk Amelung

  • Mining-related ground deformation in Crescent Valley, Nevada: Implications for sparse GPS networks

    Noel Gourmelen;Falk Amelung;Francesco Casu;Mariarosaria Manzo

  • Connected subglacial lake drainage beneath Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica

    Benjamin E. Smith;Noel Gourmelen;Noel Gourmelen;Alexander Huth;Ian Joughin

  • CryoSat-2 swath interferometric altimetry for mapping ice elevation and elevation change

    Noel Gourmelen;Noel Gourmelen;MariaJose Escorihuela;Andrew Shepherd;Luca Foresta

  • Channelized Melting Drives Thinning Under a Rapidly Melting Antarctic Ice Shelf

    Noel Gourmelen;Noel Gourmelen;Dan N. Goldberg;Kate Snow;Sian F. Henley

  • Increased ice flow in Western Palmer Land linked to ocean melting

    Anna E. Hogg;Andrew Shepherd;Stephen L. Cornford;Stephen L. Cornford;Kate H. Briggs

  • How Accurately Should We Model Ice Shelf Melt Rates

    Daniel Goldberg;Noel Gourmelen;S. Kimura;R. Millan

  • Assessing uncertainty in the dynamical ice response to ocean warming in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica

    Isabel J. Nias;Isabel J. Nias;Isabel J. Nias;Stephen L. Cornford;Tamsin L. Edwards;Noel Gourmelen

  • Interferometric synthetic aperture radar–GPS integration: Interseismic strain accumulation across the Hunter Mountain fault in the eastern California shear zone

    Noel Gourmelen;Noel Gourmelen;Falk Amelung;Riccardo Lanari

  • Heterogeneous and rapid ice loss over the Patagonian Ice Fields revealed by CryoSat-2 swath radar altimetry

    Luca Foresta;Noel Gourmelen;Noel Gourmelen;Flora Weissgerber;Peter Nienow

  • Evolution of Supraglacial Lakes on the Larsen B Ice Shelf in the Decades Before it Collapsed

    A. A. Leeson;E. Forster;A. Rice;N. Gourmelen

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Shepherd
Andrew Shepherd University of Leeds
Peter Nienow
Peter Nienow University of Edinburgh
Falk Amelung
Falk Amelung University of Miami
Timothy H. Dixon
Timothy H. Dixon University of South Florida
Andrew Sole
Andrew Sole University of Sheffield
Ian Joughin
Ian Joughin University of Washington
Jeremie Mouginot
Jeremie Mouginot Grenoble Alpes University
Adrian Luckman
Adrian Luckman Swansea University
Etienne Berthier
Etienne Berthier Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales
Simon F. B. Tett
Simon F. B. Tett University of Edinburgh

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