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Ralf Greve is affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan and has contributed extensively to Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and related subfields.

Their research emphasizes key topics including:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Geological Studies and Exploration

Ralf Greve has published regularly in several scientific venues. These frequent publication forums include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Glaciology
  • The Cryosphere
  • Annals of Glaciology
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics

The scientist's recent papers showcase their engagement with ice sheet dynamics, sea-level rise projections, and Antarctic studies. Notable recent publications 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
  • Antarctic ice sheet response to sudden and sustained ice-shelf collapse (ABUMIP), 2020, Journal of Glaciology
  • Projecting Antarctica's contribution to future sea level rise from basal ice shelf melt using linear response functions of 16 ice sheet models (LARMIP-2), 2020, Earth System Dynamics

The scientist has worked extensively with a range of collaborators. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Christopher Chambers
  • Ayako Abe-Ouchi
  • Frank Pattyn
  • SICOPOLIS Authors
  • Thomas Zwinger

Best Publications

  • Dynamics of Ice Sheets and Glaciers

    Ralf Greve;Heinz Blatter

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

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

  • 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

  • Capabilities and performance of Elmer/Ice, a new-generation ice sheet model

    O. Gagliardini;O. Gagliardini;T. Zwinger;F. Gillet-Chaulet;G. Durand

  • Application of a polythermal three-dimensional ice sheet model to the Greenland Ice Sheet : Response to steady-state and transient climate scenarios

    Ralf Greve

  • 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

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

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

  • Results from the EISMINT model intercomparison : the effects of thermomechanical coupling

    A. J. Payne;Philippe Huybrechts;A. Abe-Ouchi;R. Calov

  • A continuum-mechanical formulation for shallow polythermal ice sheets

    Ralf Greve

  • State dependence of climatic instability over the past 720,000 years from Antarctic ice cores and climate modeling

    Kenji Kawamura;Ayako Abe-Ouchi;Hideaki Motoyama;Yutaka Ageta

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

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  • Relation of measured basal temperatures and the spatial distribution of the geothermal heat flux for the Greenland ice sheet

    Ralf Greve

  • Large-scale instabilities of the Laurentide ice sheet simulated in a fully coupled climate-system model

    Reinhard Calov;Andrey Ganopolski;Vladimir Petoukhov;Martin Claussen

  • Transient simulation of the last glacial inception. Part I: glacial inception as a bifurcation in the climate system

    Reinhard Calov;Andrey Ganopolski;Martin Claussen;Vladimir Petoukhov

  • Projecting Antarctica's contribution to future sea level rise from basal ice shelf melt using linear response functions of 16 ice sheet models (LARMIP-2)

    Anders Levermann;Anders Levermann;Anders Levermann;Ricarda Winkelmann;Ricarda Winkelmann;Torsten Albrecht;Heiko Goelzer;Heiko Goelzer

  • Insights into spatial sensitivities of ice mass response to environmental change from the SeaRISE ice sheet modeling project I: Antarctica

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

  • A semi-analytical solution for the positive degree-day model with stochastic temperature variations

    Reinhard Calov;Ralf Greve

  • A full Stokes-flow thermo-mechanical model for firn and ice applied to the Gorshkov crater glacier, Kamchatka

    Thomas Zwinger;Ralf Greve;Olivier Gagliardini;Takayuki Shiraiwa

  • initMIP-Antarctica: an ice sheet model initialization experiment of ISMIP6

    Helene Seroussi;Sophie Nowicki;Erika Simon;Ayako Abe-Ouchi

  • Simulations of the Greenland ice sheet 100 years into the future with the full Stokes model Elmer/Ice

    Hakime Seddik;Ralf Greve;Thomas Zwinger;Fabien Gillet-Chaulet

  • Future Sea Level Change Under Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 and Phase 6 Scenarios From the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets

    Antony J. Payne;Sophie Nowicki;Sophie Nowicki;Ayako Abe‐Ouchi;Cecile Agosta

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

    Heiko Goelzer

Frequent Co-Authors

Ayako Abe-Ouchi
Ayako Abe-Ouchi University of Tokyo
Angelika Humbert
Angelika Humbert Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Heiko Goelzer
Heiko Goelzer Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Thomas Zwinger
Thomas Zwinger CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland)
Heinz Blatter
Heinz Blatter ETH Zurich
Sophie Nowicki
Sophie Nowicki University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Ricarda Winkelmann
Ricarda Winkelmann University of Potsdam
Mathieu Morlighem
Mathieu Morlighem Dartmouth College
Philippe Huybrechts
Philippe Huybrechts Vrije Universiteit Brussel
William H. Lipscomb
William H. Lipscomb National Center for Atmospheric Research

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