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Sarah L. Greenwood

Sarah L. Greenwood

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Earth Science

D-Index
31
Citations
3971
World Ranking
8924
National Ranking
82

Overview

Sarah L. Greenwood is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and focuses primarily on research within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Anthropology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. The research addresses an array of scientific topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Geological Formations and Processes, Landslides and Related Hazards, Winter Sports Injuries and Performance, and Climate Change and Permafrost.

Greenwood has contributed to several research papers with notable publication venues including Quaternary Science Reviews, Boreas, Science Advances, Geophysical Research Letters, and Annals of Glaciology.

  • Exceptions to bed-controlled ice sheet flow and retreat from glaciated continental margins worldwide (2021, Science Advances)
  • Topographic Controls on Channelized Meltwater in the Subglacial Environment (2021, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • Ice-dammed lakes and deglaciation history of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet in central Jämtland, Sweden (2023, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • Advances in understanding subglacial meltwater drainage from past ice sheets (2022, Annals of Glaciology)
  • A 725-year integrated offshore terrestrial varve chronology for southeastern Sweden suggests rapid ice retreat ~15 ka BP (2020, Boreas)

The scientist frequently collaborates with peers across various projects. Their primary co-authors include Anna L.C. Hughes, Monica Winsborrow, Carl Regnéll, Richard Gyllencreutz, and Rachael S. Avery. These collaborations are reflected in co-authorship counts ranging from five to fifteen joint publications.

Publication activity reveals a concentration in certain journals, with multiple articles appearing in Quaternary Science Reviews and Boreas, among others. The diversity in venues illustrates a range of interests particularly related to glaciology, paleoclimatology, and Earth surface processes.

Best Publications

  • Pattern and timing of retreat of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet

    Chris D. Clark;Anna L.C. Hughes;Sarah L. Greenwood;Colm Jordan

  • A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Michael J Bentley;Colm Ó Cofaigh;John B Anderson;Howard Conway

  • Size and shape characteristics of drumlins, derived from a large sample, and associated scaling laws

    Chris D. Clark;Anna L.C. Hughes;Anna L.C. Hughes;Sarah L. Greenwood;Matteo Spagnolo

  • Ross Sea paleo-ice sheet drainage and deglacial history during and since the LGM

    John B. Anderson;Howard Conway;Philip J. Bart;Alexandra E. Witus

  • BRITICE Glacial Map, version 2: a map and GIS database of glacial landforms of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet

    Chris D. Clark;Jeremy C. Ely;Sarah L. Greenwood;Anna L. C. Hughes

  • Reconstructing the last Irish Ice Sheet 2: a geomorphologically-driven model of ice sheet growth, retreat and dynamics

    Sarah L. Greenwood;Chris D. Clark

  • Past ice-sheet behaviour: retreat scenarios and changing controls in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

    Anna Ruth W. Halberstadt;Lauren M. Simkins;Sarah L. Greenwood;John B. Anderson

  • Formalising an inversion methodology for reconstructing ice-sheet retreat patterns from meltwater channels: application to the British Ice Sheet

    Sarah L. Greenwood;Chris D. Clark;Anna L. C. Hughes

  • Reconstructing the last Irish Ice Sheet 1 : changing flow geometries and ice flow dynamics deciphered from the glacial landform record

    Sarah L. Greenwood;Chris D. Clark

  • Do subglacial bedforms comprise a size and shape continuum

    Jeremy C. Ely;Chris D. Clark;Matteo Spagnolo;Chris R. Stokes

  • Rapid Holocene thinning of an East Antarctic outlet glacier driven by marine ice sheet instability.

    R. S. Jones;A. N. Mackintosh;K. P. Norton;N. R. Golledge;N. R. Golledge

  • Theoretical, contemporary observational and palaeo-perspectives on ice sheet hydrology: Processes and products

    Sarah L. Greenwood;Caroline C. Clason;Christian Helanow;Martin Margold;Martin Margold

  • Anatomy of a meltwater drainage system beneath the ancestral East Antarctic ice sheet

    Lauren M. Simkins;John B. Anderson;Sarah L. Greenwood;Helge M. Gonnermann

  • Subglacial bedforms of the Irish Ice Sheet

    Sarah L. Greenwood;Chris D. Clark

  • Ice-flow switching and East/West Antarctic Ice Sheet roles in glaciation of the western Ross Sea

    Sarah L. Greenwood;Richard Gyllencreutz;Martin Jakobsson;John B. Anderson

  • The Bothnian Sea ice stream: early Holocene retreat dynamics of the south‐central Fennoscandian Ice Sheet

    Sarah L. Greenwood;Caroline C. Clason;Caroline C. Clason;Johan Nyberg;Martin Jakobsson

  • Seabed corrugations beneath an Antarctic ice shelf revealed by autonomous underwater vehicle survey: Origin and implications for the history of Pine Island Glacier

    Alastair G. C. Graham;Alastair G. C. Graham;Pierre Dutrieux;David G. Vaughan;Frank O. Nitsche

  • Holocene reconfiguration and readvance of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

    Sarah L. Greenwood;Lauren M. Simkins;Lauren M. Simkins;Anna Ruth W. Halberstadt;Anna Ruth W. Halberstadt;Lindsay O. Prothro

  • Bathymetric properties of the Baltic Sea

    Martin Jakobsson;Christian Stranne;Matt O'Regan;Sarah L. Greenwood

  • Dating constraints on the last British-Irish Ice Sheet: a map and database

    Anna L.C. Hughes;Sarah L. Greenwood;Chris D. Clark

  • Potentials and problems of building detailed dust records using peat archives : An example from Store Mosse (the "Great Bog"), Sweden

    Malin E. Kylander;Antonio Martínez-Cortizas;Richard Bindler;Sarah L. Greenwood

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris D. Clark
Chris D. Clark University of Sheffield
Martin Jakobsson
Martin Jakobsson Stockholm University
John B. Anderson
John B. Anderson Rice University
Matt O'Regan
Matt O'Regan Stockholm University
Chris R. Stokes
Chris R. Stokes Durham University
Matteo Spagnolo
Matteo Spagnolo University of Aberdeen
Svante Björck
Svante Björck Lund University
Barbara Wohlfarth
Barbara Wohlfarth Stockholm University
Carl-Magnus Mörth
Carl-Magnus Mörth Stockholm University
Per Holmlund
Per Holmlund Stockholm University

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