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Overview

Sarah B. Das is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Atmospheric Science among other subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Geophysics, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Landslides and related hazards

Sarah B. Das has contributed to multiple scientific publications, often collaborating with frequent co-authors such as M. D. Behn, Laura A. Stevens, Ching-Yao Lai, Matthew Osman, and Joseph R. McConnell.

Common venues for their published research include:

  • The Cryosphere
  • Earth's Future
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Geoscience

Some recent papers by Sarah B. Das include:

  • North Atlantic jet stream projections in the context of the past 1,250 years, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Surface emergence of glacial plumes determined by fjord stratification, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • Hydraulic transmissivity inferred from ice-sheet relaxation following Greenland supraglacial lake drainages, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Abrupt Common Era hydroclimate shifts drive west Greenland ice cap change, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • Through an Ice Sheet, Darkly, 2022, Earth's Future

Best Publications

  • Fracture Propagation to the Base of the Greenland Ice Sheet During Supraglacial Lake Drainage

    Sarah B. Das;Ian Joughin;Mark D. Behn;Ian M. Howat;Ian M. Howat

  • Seasonal Speedup Along the Western Flank of the Greenland Ice Sheet

    Ian Joughin;Sarah B. Das;Matt A. King;Ben E. Smith

  • Multi-model mean nitrogen and sulfur deposition from the Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project (ACCMIP): evaluation of historical and projected future changes

    J.-F. Lamarque;F. Dentener;Joseph R. McConnell;C.-U. Ro

  • Greenland meltwater as a significant and potentially bioavailable source of iron to the ocean

    Maya P. Bhatia;Maya P. Bhatia;Elizabeth B. Kujawinski;Sarah B. Das;Crystaline F. Breier

  • Divergent trajectories of Antarctic surface melt under two twenty-first-century climate scenarios

    Luke D. Trusel;Luke D. Trusel;Karen E. Frey;Sarah B. Das;Kristopher B. Karnauskas

  • How Much, How Fast?: A Science Review and Outlook for Research on the Instability of Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier in the 21st Century

    Ted A. Scambos;Robin E. Bell;Richard B. Alley;S. Anandakrishnan

  • Insights from Antarctica on volcanic forcing during the Common Era

    Michael Sigl;Joseph R. McConnell;Joseph R. McConnell;Matthew Toohey;Mark Curran

  • Molecular characterization of dissolved organic matter associated with the Greenland ice sheet

    Maya P. Bhatia;Sarah B. Das;Krista Longnecker;Matthew A. Charette

  • Nonlinear rise in Greenland runoff in response to post-industrial Arctic warming

    Luke D. Trusel;Luke D. Trusel;Sarah B. Das;Matthew B. Osman;Matthew J. Evans

  • Satellite‐based estimates of Antarctic surface meltwater fluxes

    Luke D. Trusel;Karen E. Frey;Sarah B. Das;Peter Kuipers Munneke

  • Organic carbon export from the Greenland ice sheet

    Maya P. Bhatia;Sarah B. Das;L i Xu;Matthew A. Charette

  • Constraints on the lake volume required for hydro-fracture through ice sheets.

    Michael J. Krawczynski;Mark D. Behn;Sarah B. Das;Ian Joughin

  • Constraining the recent mass balance of Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers, West Antarctica, with airborne observations of snow accumulation

    B. Medley;I. Joughin;B. E. Smith;S. B. Das

  • Antarctic surface melting dynamics: Enhanced perspectives from radar scatterometer data

    Luke D. Trusel;Karen E. Frey;Sarah B. Das

  • Greenland supraglacial lake drainages triggered by hydrologically induced basal slip

    Laura A. Stevens;Laura A. Stevens;Mark D. Behn;Jeffrey J. McGuire;Sarah B. Das

  • Limits to future expansion of surface-melt-enhanced ice flow into the interior of western Greenland

    Kristin Poinar;Ian Joughin;Sarah B. Das;Mark D. Behn

  • Airborne‐radar and ice‐core observations of annual snow accumulation over Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica confirm the spatiotemporal variability of global and regional atmospheric models

    B. Medley;I. Joughin;S. B. Das;E. J. Steig

  • Structure and dynamics of a subglacial discharge plume in a Greenlandic fjord

    Kenneth D. Mankoff;Fiammetta Straneo;Claudia Cenedese;Sarah B. Das

  • Antarctic-wide array of high-resolution ice core records reveals pervasive lead pollution began in 1889 and persists today

    Joseph R. McConnell;Olivia J. Maselli;Michael Sigl;Paul Vallelonga

  • Elevation change of the Greenland Ice Sheet due to surface mass balance and firn processes, 1960–2014

    P. Kuipers Munneke;P. Kuipers Munneke;S. R. M. Ligtenberg;B. P. Y. Noël;I. M. Howat

  • Continued deceleration of Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica

    Ian Joughin;R. A. Bindschadler;Matt A. King;Donald E. Voigt

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph R. McConnell
Joseph R. McConnell Desert Research Institute
Ian Joughin
Ian Joughin University of Washington
Mark D. Behn
Mark D. Behn Boston College
Karen E. Frey
Karen E. Frey Clark University
Ben Smith
Ben Smith University of Washington
Matt A. King
Matt A. King University of Tasmania
Richard B. Alley
Richard B. Alley Pennsylvania State University
Eric J. Steig
Eric J. Steig University of Washington
Hanumant Singh
Hanumant Singh Northeastern University
Fiammetta Straneo
Fiammetta Straneo University of California, San Diego

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