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Richard C. A. Hindmarsh

Richard C. A. Hindmarsh

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Earth Science

D-Index
54
Citations
12596
World Ranking
2660
National Ranking
294

Overview

Richard C. A. Hindmarsh is affiliated with the British Antarctic Survey in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on atmospheric science and earth-surface processes. Their work also extends into related areas such as anthropology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and ecology.

The scientist's main topics of research include cryospheric studies and observations, geology and paleoclimatology research, climate change and permafrost, geological formations and processes, Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, winter sports injuries and performance, and polar research and ecology.

Over their career, Hindmarsh has published in multiple venues, reflecting a broad engagement with earth sciences and climate studies. Frequent publication outlets include Boreas, Earth System Science Data, Climate of the Past, the Journal of Quaternary Science, and Scientific Data.

Selected recent papers by Hindmarsh cover various aspects of glaciology, ice sheet dynamics, and Antarctic research:

  • Growth and retreat of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet, 31,000 to 15,000 years ago: the BRITICE-CHRONO reconstruction (2022, Boreas)
  • An 83,000-year-old ice core from Roosevelt Island, Ross Sea, Antarctica (2020, Climate of the Past)
  • Timing, pace and controls on ice sheet retreat: an introduction to the BRITICE-CHRONO transect reconstructions of the British-Irish Ice Sheet (2021, Journal of Quaternary Science)
  • Antarctic Bedmap data: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) sharing of 60 years of ice bed, surface, and thickness data (2023, Earth System Science Data)
  • Bedmap3 updated ice bed, surface and thickness gridded datasets for Antarctica (2025, Scientific Data)

Hindmarsh has collaborated with numerous researchers, often co-authoring papers with the following individuals:

  • H. Conway
  • Chris D. Clark
  • Derek Fabel
  • Colm Ó Cofaigh
  • Richard C. Chiverrell

Best Publications

  • Bedmap2: improved ice bed, surface and thickness datasets for Antarctica

    Peter Fretwell;Hamish D. Pritchard;David G. Vaughan;J. L. Bamber

  • Sediment deformation beneath glaciers: Rheology and geological consequences

    G. S. Boulton;R. C. A. Hindmarsh

  • Potential sea-level rise from Antarctic ice-sheet instability constrained by observations

    Catherine Ritz;Catherine Ritz;Tamsin L. Edwards;Tamsin L. Edwards;Gaël Durand;Gaël Durand;Anthony J. Payne

  • Recent Antarctic Peninsula warming relative to Holocene climate and ice-shelf history

    Robert Mulvaney;Nerilie Abram;Nerilie Abram;Richard C.A. Hindmarsh;Carol Arrowsmith

  • Benchmark experiments for higher-order and full-Stokes ice sheet models (ISMIP-HOM).

    F. Pattyn;L. Perichon;A. Aschwanden;B. Breuer

  • Formation of mega-scale glacial lineations observed beneath a West Antarctic ice stream

    Edward C. King;Richard C.A. Hindmarsh;C. R. Stokes

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

    Frank Pattyn;Laura Perichon;Gaël Durand;Lionel Favier

  • Thin-Film Flows with Wall Slip: An Asymptotic Analysis of Higher Order Glacier Flow Models

    Christian Schoof;Richard C. A. Hindmarsh

  • Getting around Antarctica: new high-resolution mappings of the grounded and freely-floating boundaries of the Antarctic ice sheet created for the International Polar Year

    Robert Bindschadler;Hyeungu Choi;Amy Wichlacz;Robert George Bingham

  • Results of the Marine Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project, MISMIP

    F. Pattyn;C. Schoof;L. Perichon;R. C. A. Hindmarsh

  • A numerical comparison of approximations to the Stokes equations used in ice sheet and glacier modeling

    R. C. A. Hindmarsh

  • Antarctic ice rises and rumples: Their properties and significance for ice-sheet dynamics and evolution

    Kenichi Matsuoka;Richard C. A. Hindmarsh;Geir Moholdt;Michael J. Bentley

  • Where to find 1.5 million yr old ice for the IPICS "Oldest-Ice" ice core

    H. Fischer;J. Severinghaus;E. Brook;E. Wolff;E. Wolff

  • On the reconstruction of palaeo-ice sheets: Recent advances and future challenges

    Chris R. Stokes;Lev Tarasov;Robin Blomdin;Robin Blomdin;Thomas M. Cronin

  • Coupling of ice-shelf melting and buttressing is a key process in ice-sheets dynamics

    O. Gagliardini;Geoffroy Durand;T. Zwinger;R. C. A. Hindmarsh

  • Styles of subglacial glaciotectonic deformation within the context of the anglian ice‐sheet

    Jane K. Hart;Richard C. A. Hindmarsh;Geoffrey S. Boulton

  • Widespread low rates of Antarctic glacial isostatic adjustment revealed by GPS observations

    Ian D. Thomas;Matt A. King;Michael J. Bentley;Pippa L. Whitehouse

  • Dynamical processes involved in the retreat of marine ice sheets

    Richard C.A. Hindmarsh;E. Le Meur

  • Growth and retreat of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet, 31 000 to 15 000 years ago: the BRITICE‐CHRONO reconstruction

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  • Drumlinization and drumlin-forming instabilities: viscous till mechanisms

    Richard C. A. Hindmarsh

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

    Frank Pattyn;Laura Perichon;Gaël Durand;Olivier Gagliardini

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward C. King
Edward C. King British Antarctic Survey
Hugh F. J. Corr
Hugh F. J. Corr British Antarctic Survey
Chris D. Clark
Chris D. Clark University of Sheffield
Martin J. Siegert
Martin J. Siegert University of Exeter
Olivier Gagliardini
Olivier Gagliardini Grenoble Alpes University
Frank Pattyn
Frank Pattyn Université Libre de Bruxelles
Thomas Zwinger
Thomas Zwinger CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland)
Neil Ross
Neil Ross Newcastle University
Howard Conway
Howard Conway University of Washington
Nancy A. N. Bertler
Nancy A. N. Bertler Victoria University of Wellington

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