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Patrick Wagnon is a researcher affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France. Their scholarly work focuses on earth and planetary sciences, with a primary emphasis on atmospheric science within this broader field. Wagnon's research portfolio includes extensive studies related to cryospheric studies and observations, climate change and permafrost, and climate variability and models.

Their recent publications include the following:

  • Reanalysing the 2007-19 glaciological mass-balance series of Mera Glacier, Nepal, Central Himalaya, 2020, Journal of Glaciology
  • Understanding monsoon controls on the energy and mass balance of glaciers in the Central and Eastern Himalaya, 2022, The Cryosphere
  • Precipitation Characteristics and Moisture Source Regions on Mt. Everest in the Khumbu, Nepal, 2020, One Earth
  • Evaluation of ERA5-Land and HARv2 Reanalysis Data at High Elevation in the Upper Dudh Koshi Basin (Everest Region, Nepal), 2022, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
  • Seasonally stable temperature gradients through supraglacial debris in the Everest region of Nepal, Central Himalaya, 2020, Journal of Glaciology

Wagnon frequently collaborates with a set of co-authors including:

  • Fanny Brun
  • Arbindra Khadka
  • Dibas Shrestha
  • L. Baker Perry
  • Tom Matthews

Their work is published primarily in these venues:

  • The Cryosphere
  • Journal of Glaciology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Weather
  • Quaternary Science Reviews

Within the scope of earth and planetary sciences, Wagnon's subfields of study encompass atmospheric science, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, global and planetary change, management, monitoring, policy and law, and social psychology. Their main research topics cover cryospheric studies and observations, climate change and permafrost, winter sports injuries and performance, climate variability and models, landslides and related hazards, arctic and antarctic ice dynamics, and meteorological phenomena and simulations.

Best Publications

  • Climate change and tropical Andean glaciers: Past, present and future

    Mathias Vuille;Mathias Vuille;Bernard Francou;Patrick Wagnon;Irmgard Juen

  • Current state of glaciers in the tropical Andes: a multi-century perspective on glacier evolution and climate change

    A. Rabatel;Bernard Francou;A. Soruco;J. Gomez

  • Remote sensing estimates of glacier mass balances in the Himachal Pradesh (Western Himalaya, India)

    Etienne Berthier;Yves Arnaud;Rajesh Kumar;Sarfaraz Ahmad

  • A spatially resolved estimate of High Mountain Asia glacier mass balances from 2000 to 2016

    Fanny Brun;Etienne Berthier;Patrick Wagnon;Andreas Kääb

  • 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

  • Tropical climate change recorded by a glacier in the central Andes during the last decades of the twentieth century: Chacaltaya, Bolivia, 16°S

    Bernard Francou;Mathias Vuille;Patrick Wagnon;Javier Mendoza

  • Review of the status and mass changes of Himalayan-Karakoram glaciers

    Mohd Farooq Azam;Patrick Wagnon;Etienne Berthier;Christian Vincent

  • Four years of mass balance on Chhota Shigri Glacier, Himachal Pradesh, India, a new benchmark glacier in the western Himalaya

    Patrick Wagnon;Anurag Linda;Yves Arnaud;Rajesh Kumar

  • OZCAR: The French Network of Critical Zone Observatories

    J. Gaillardet;I. Braud;F. Hankard;S. Anquetin

  • Annual cycle of energy balance of Zongo Glacier, Cordillera Real, Bolivia

    Patrick Wagnon;Pierre Ribstein;Bernard Francou;Bernard Pouyaud

  • From balance to imbalance: a shift in the dynamic behaviour of Chhota Shigri glacier, western Himalaya, India

    Mohd Farooq Azam;Patrick Wagnon;Alagappan Ramanathan;Christian Vincent

  • Glacier topography and elevation changes derived from Pléiades sub-meter stereo images

    E. Berthier;C. Vincent;E. Magnússon;Á. Þ. Gunnlaugsson

  • Heterogeneous Influence of Glacier Morphology on the Mass Balance Variability in High Mountain Asia

    F. Brun;P. Wagnon;E. Berthier;V. Jomelli

  • One-year measurements of surface heat budget on the ablation zone of Antizana Glacier 15, Ecuadorian Andes

    Vincent Favier;Patrick Wagnon;Jean-Philippe Chazarin;Luis Maisincho

  • Seasonal and annual mass balances of Mera and Pokalde glaciers (Nepal Himalaya) since 2007

    Patrick Wagnon;Patrick Wagnon;C. Vincent;Yves Arnaud;E. Berthier

  • Processes governing the mass balance of Chhota Shigri Glacier (Western Himalaya, India) assessed by point-scale surface energy balance measurements

    M. F. Azam;M. F. Azam;P. Wagnon;P. Wagnon;C. Vincent;Al. Ramanathan

  • Anomalous heat and mass budget of Glaciar Zongo, Bolivia, during the 1997/98 El Niño year

    P. Wagnon;P. Ribstein;B. Francou;J. E. Sicart

  • Reconstruction of the annual mass balance of Chhota Shigri glacier, Western Himalaya, India, since 1969

    Mohammed Farooq Azam;Patrick Wagnon;Christian Vincent;Alagappan Ramanathan

  • Energy balance and runoff seasonality of a Bolivian glacier

    Patrick Wagnon;Pierre Ribstein;Georg Kaser;Philippe Berton

  • Modelling glacier change in the Everest region, Nepal Himalaya

    Jm Shea;W. W. Immerzeel;W. W. Immerzeel;P Wagnon;P Wagnon;Christian Vincent

  • Glaciers of the outer and inner tropics: A different behaviour but a common response to climatic forcing

    Vincent Favier;Patrick Wagnon;Pierre Ribstein

  • Balanced conditions or slight mass gain of glaciers in the Lahaul and Spiti region (northern India, Himalaya) during the nineties preceded recent mass loss

    C. Vincent;Al. Ramanathan;P. Wagnon;P. Wagnon;D. P. Dobhal

  • Atmospheric controls of the heat balance of Zongo Glacier (16°S, Bolivia)

    Jean Emmanuel Sicart;Patrick Wagnon;Pierre Ribstein

  • Reduced melt on debris-covered glaciers: investigations from Changri Nup Glacier, Nepal

    Christian Vincent;Patrick Wagnon;Joseph M. Shea;Walter W. Immerzeel;Walter W. Immerzeel

  • Loss of volatile acid species from upper firn layers at Vostok, Antarctica

    P. Wagnon;R. J. Delmas;M. Legrand

Frequent Co-Authors

Etienne Berthier
Etienne Berthier Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales
Yves Arnaud
Yves Arnaud Grenoble Alpes University
Vincent Favier
Vincent Favier Grenoble Alpes University
Joseph M. Shea
Joseph M. Shea University of Northern British Columbia
Walter W. Immerzeel
Walter W. Immerzeel Utrecht University
Antoine Rabatel
Antoine Rabatel Grenoble Alpes University
Vincent Jomelli
Vincent Jomelli Aix-Marseille University
Delphine Six
Delphine Six Grenoble Alpes University
Al. Ramanathan
Al. Ramanathan Jawaharlal Nehru University
Mathias Vuille
Mathias Vuille University at Albany, State University of New York

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