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Poul Christoffersen is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with notable contributions to subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Geophysics, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Winter sports injuries and performance
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Seismic waves and analysis
  • Geology and paleoclimatology research

Christoffersen has published extensively in several venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Journal of Glaciology
  • The Cryosphere
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Science Advances

Notable publications include:

  • "Distributed Acoustic Sensing of Seismic Properties in a Borehole Drilled on a Fast-Flowing Greenlandic Outlet Glacier" (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • "A fully-coupled 3D model of a large Greenlandic outlet glacier with evolving subglacial hydrology, frontal plume melting and calving" (2021, Journal of Glaciology)
  • "Coupled modelling of subglacial hydrology and calving-front melting at Store Glacier, West Greenland" (2020, The Cryosphere)
  • "Controls on Water Storage and Drainage in Crevasses on the Greenland Ice Sheet" (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface)
  • "Thermodynamics of a fast-moving Greenlandic outlet glacier revealed by fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing" (2021, Science Advances)

Frequent co-authors in Christoffersen's publications include Bryn Hubbard, Robert Law, Samuel Doyle, Thomas R. Chudley, and Samuel Cook. These collaborations have contributed across multiple research topics and reflect ongoing partnerships within their areas of study.

Best Publications

  • UAV photogrammetry and structure from motion to assess calving dynamics at Store Glacier, a large outlet draining the Greenland ice sheet

    J. C. Ryan;A. L. Hubbard;J. E. Box;J. Todd

  • Calving on tidewater glaciers amplified by submarine frontal melting

    Martin O'Leary;Martin O'Leary;Poul Christoffersen

  • Ocean forcing of the Greenland Ice Sheet: Calving fronts and patterns of retreat identified by automatic satellite monitoring of eastern outlet glaciers

    Anthony Seale;Poul Christoffersen;Ruth I. Mugford;Ruth I. Mugford;Martin O'Leary

  • 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

  • Response of subglacial sediments to basal freeze-on 1. Theory and comparison to observations from beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

    Poul Christoffersen;Slawek Tulaczyk

  • Ice–ocean interaction and calving front morphology at two west Greenland tidewater outlet glaciers

    N. Chauché;A. Hubbard;Jean-Claude Gascard;J. E. Box;J. E. Box

  • Warming of waters in an East Greenland fjord prior to glacier retreat: mechanisms and connection to large-scale atmospheric conditions

    P. Christoffersen;R. I. Mugford;R. I. Mugford;K. J. Heywood;I. Joughin

  • Are seasonal calving dynamics forced by buttressing from ice mélange or undercutting by melting? Outcomes from full-Stokes simulations of Store Glacier, West Greenland

    Joe Todd;Poul Christoffersen

  • Basal melting of Ross Ice Shelf from solar heat absorption in an ice-front polynya

    Craig L. Stewart;Craig L. Stewart;Poul Christoffersen;Keith W. Nicholls;Michael J. M. Williams

  • A Full-Stokes 3-D Calving Model Applied to a Large Greenlandic Glacier

    Joe Todd;Joe Todd;Poul Christoffersen;Thomas Zwinger;Peter Råback

  • Greenland subglacial lakes detected by radar

    Steven J. Palmer;Julian A. Dowdeswell;Poul Christoffersen;Duncan A. Young

  • Significant groundwater contribution to Antarctic ice streams hydrologic budget

    Poul Christoffersen;Marion Bougamont;Sasha P. Carter;Helen A. Fricker

  • Physical Conditions of Fast Glacier Flow: 1. Measurements From Boreholes Drilled to the Bed of Store Glacier, West Greenland

    Samuel H. Doyle;Bryn Hubbard;Poul Christoffersen;Tun J. Young;Tun J. Young

  • Signature of palaeo‐ice‐stream stagnation: till consolidation induced by basal freeze‐on

    Poul Christoffersen;Slawek Tulaczyk

  • High-accuracy UAV photogrammetry of ice sheet dynamics with no ground control

    Thomas R. Chudley;Poul Christoffersen;Samuel H. Doyle;Antonio Abellan

  • Sensitive response of the Greenland Ice Sheet to surface melt drainage over a soft bed

    M. Bougamont;Poul Christoffersen;Alun Hubbard;Andrew Alexander William Fitzpatrick

  • Basal ice sequences in Antarctic ice stream: Exposure of past hydrologic conditions and a principal mode of sediment transfer

    Poul Christoffersen;Slawek Tulaczyk;Alberto Behar

  • Distributed Acoustic Sensing of Seismic Properties in a Borehole Drilled on a Fast-Flowing Greenlandic Outlet Glacier

    Adam D Booth;Poul Christoffersen;Charlotte Schoonman;Andy Clarke

  • Basal processes beneath an Arctic glacier and their geomorphic imprint after a surge, Elisebreen, Svalbard

    Poul Christoffersen;Jan A. Piotrowski;Nicolaj Krog Larsen

  • Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products

    Michael J. Hambrey;Poul Christoffersen;Neil F. Glasser;Bryn Hubbard

  • Dynamic patterns of ice stream flow in a 3‐D higher‐order ice sheet model with plastic bed and simplified hydrology

    M. Bougamont;S.F. Price;S.F. Price;P. Christoffersen;AJ Payne

  • Linear response of east Greenland’s tidewater glaciers to ocean/atmosphere warming

    Tom Cowton;Tom Cowton;Andrew Sole;Peter Nienow;Donald Alexander Slater

  • Supraglacial lake drainage at a fast-flowing Greenlandic outlet glacier.

    Thomas R. Chudley;Poul Christoffersen;Samuel H. Doyle;Marion Bougamont

  • Basal topographic controls on rapid retreat of Humboldt Glacier, northern Greenland.

    J.R. Carr;A. Vieli;C.R. Stokes;S.S.R. Jamieson

Frequent Co-Authors

Bryn Hubbard
Bryn Hubbard Aberystwyth University
Alun Hubbard
Alun Hubbard University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Slawek Tulaczyk
Slawek Tulaczyk University of California, Santa Cruz
Jason E. Box
Jason E. Box Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Julian A. Dowdeswell
Julian A. Dowdeswell University of Cambridge
Keith W. Nicholls
Keith W. Nicholls Natural Environment Research Council
John C. Moore
John C. Moore Beijing Normal University
Andrew Sole
Andrew Sole University of Sheffield
Dustin M. Schroeder
Dustin M. Schroeder Stanford University
Veijo A. Pohjola
Veijo A. Pohjola Uppsala University

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