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Roger J. Braithwaite is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to Environmental Science. Braithwaite's work spans several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Geophysics, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's research topics include cryospheric studies and observations, climate change and permafrost, climate variability and models, geology and paleoclimatology research, landslides and related hazards, tree-ring climate responses, and plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

Recent publications by Braithwaite include the following:

  • Regional Geography of Glacier Mass Balance Variability Over Seven Decades 1946-2015, 2020, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Positive degree-day sums in the Alps: a direct link between glacier melt and international climate policy, 2022, Journal of Glaciology

Other recent papers related to Braithwaite's field of research, authored by collaborators or contemporaries, include:

  • Atmospheric circulation over Europe during the Younger Dryas, 2020, Science Advances
  • Climate of the Marrakech High Atlas, Morocco: Temperature lapse rates and precipitation gradient from piedmont to summits, 2022, Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research
  • Late Pleistocene glaciers to present-day snowpatches: a review and research recommendations for the Marrakech High Atlas, 2020, Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews

Frequent collaborators in Braithwaite's research include:

  • Philip D. Hughes
  • Benjamin A. Bell
  • William J. Fletcher
  • Henk L. Cornelissen
  • Ali Rhoujjati

Their work has been published across various scientific journals, such as:

  • Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Journal of Glaciology
  • Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews
  • Annals of Glaciology

Best Publications

  • Glossary of glacier mass balance and related terms

    J.G. Cogley;A.A. Arendt;A. Bauder;R.J. Braithwaite

  • Positive degree-day factors for ablation on the Greenland ice sheet studied by energy-balance modelling

    Roger J. Braithwaite

  • Low sea level rise projections from mountain glaciers and icecaps under global warming

    Sarah C. B. Raper;Sarah C. B. Raper;Roger J. Braithwaite

  • Sensitivity of mass balance of five Swiss glaciers to temperature changes assessed by tuning a degree-day model

    Roger J. Braithwaite;Yu Zhang

  • Calculation of Glacier Ablation from Air Temperature, West Greenland

    Roger J. Braithwaite;Ole B. Olesen

  • Estimating equilibrium-line altitude (ELA) from glacier inventory data

    R. J. Braithwaite;S. C. B. Raper

  • Calculation of degree-days for glacier-climate research

    R J. Braithwaite

  • Glacier mass balance: The first 50 years of international monitoring

    Roger J. Braithwaite

  • On Glacier Energy-Balance, Ablation, and Air-Temperature

    Roger J. Braithwaite

  • Temperature and precipitation climate at the equilibrium-line altitude of glaciers expressed by the degree-day factor for melting snow

    Roger J. Braithwaite

  • Glacier volume response time and its links to climate and topography based on a conceptual model of glacier hypsometry

    Sarah C. B. Raper;Roger J. Braithwaite

  • Glacier atlas of India

    Roger J. Braithwaite

  • A simple energy-balance model to calculate ice ablation at the margin of the Greenland ice sheet

    Roger J. Braithwaite;Ole Β. Olesen

  • Can the Mass Balance of a Glacier be Estimated from its Equilibrium-Line Altitude?

    Roger J. Braithwaite

  • Modelling changes in glacier mass balance that may occur as a result of climate changes

    Roger J. Braithwaite;Y. U. Zhang

  • Temperature sensitivity of the mass balance of mountain glaciers and ice caps as a climatological characteristic

    R. J. Braithwaite;Y. Zhang;S. C. B. Raper

  • Atmospheric circulation over Europe during the Younger Dryas

    Brice R. Rea;Ramón Pellitero;Matteo Spagnolo;Philip Hughes

  • Variations of near-surface firn density in the lower accumulation area of the Greenland ice sheet, Pâkitsoq, West Greenland

    Roger J. Braithwaite;Martin Laternser;W. Tad Pfeffer

  • Glaciological conditions in seven contrasting regions estimated with the degree-day model

    Roger J. Braithwaite;Sarah C. B. Raper

  • A snow density dataset for improving surface boundary conditions in Greenland ice sheet firn modeling

    Robert S. Fausto;Jason E. Box;Baptiste Robert Marcel Vandecrux;Dirk van As

  • The potential for sea level rise: new estimates from glacier and ice cap area and volume distributions

    Sarah C. B. Raper;Roger J. Braithwaite

  • Aerodynamic stability and turbulent sensible-heat flux over a melting ice surface, the Greenland ice sheet

    Roger J. Braithwaite

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarah C. B. Raper
Sarah C. B. Raper Manchester Metropolitan University
Philip Hughes
Philip Hughes University of Manchester
Robert S. Fausto
Robert S. Fausto Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Matteo Spagnolo
Matteo Spagnolo University of Aberdeen
Brice R. Rea
Brice R. Rea University of Aberdeen
Jason E. Box
Jason E. Box Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Dirk van As
Dirk van As Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Jostein Bakke
Jostein Bakke University of Bergen
Horst Machguth
Horst Machguth University of Fribourg
Susan Ivy-Ochs
Susan Ivy-Ochs ETH Zurich

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