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Earth Science

D-Index
42
Citations
12077
World Ranking
5125
National Ranking
1915

Best Publications

  • A Reconciled Estimate of Glacier Contributions to Sea Level Rise: 2003 to 2009

    Alex S. Gardner;Alex S. Gardner;Geir Moholdt;J. Graham Cogley;Bert Wouters;Bert Wouters

  • The Randolph Glacier inventory: a globally complete inventory of glaciers

    W Tad Pfeffer;Anthony A Arendt;Andrew Bliss;Tobias Bolch;Tobias Bolch

  • Sea-Level Rise by 2100

    John A. Church;Peter U. Clark;Anny Cazenave;Jonathan M. Gregory

  • Kinematic Constraints on Glacier Contributions to 21st-Century Sea-Level Rise

    W. T. Pfeffer;J. T. Harper;S. O'Neel

  • Recent contributions of glaciers and ice caps to sea level rise

    Thomas Jacob;John Wahr;W. Tad Pfeffer;W. Tad Pfeffer;Sean Swenson

  • Glaciers dominate eustatic sea-level rise in the 21st century.

    Mark F. Meier F. Meier;Mark B. Dyurgerov;Ursula K. Rick;Shad O'Neel

  • Retention of Greenland runoff by refreezing: Implications for projected future sea level change

    W. Tad Pfeffer;Mark F. Meier;Tissa H. Illangasekare

  • Greenland ice-sheet contribution to sea-level rise buffered by meltwater storage in firn

    J. Harper;N. Humphrey;W. Pfeffer;J. Brown

  • Thermal tracking of meltwater retention in Greenland's accumulation area

    Neil F. Humphrey;Joel T. Harper;W. Tad Pfeffer

  • A review of volume‐area scaling of glaciers

    David B. Bahr;David B. Bahr;W. Tad Pfeffer;Georg Kaser

  • A simple mechanism for irreversible tidewater glacier retreat

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  • Challenges to Understanding the Dynamic Response of Greenland's Marine Terminating Glaciers to Oceanic and Atmospheric Forcing

    Fiammetta Straneo;Patrick Heimbach;Olga Sergienko;Gordon Hamilton

  • Response time of glaciers as a function of size and mass balance: 1. Theory

    David B. Bahr;W. Tad Pfeffer;Christophe Sassolas;Mark F. Meier

  • Rock glacier dynamics and paleoclimatic implications

    S. K. Konrad;N. F. Humphrey;E. J. Steig;D. H. Clark

  • Evolving force balance at Columbia Glacier, Alaska, during its rapid retreat

    Shad O'Neel;W. Tad Pfeffer;Robert Krimmel;Mark Meier

  • Rapid expansion of Greenland's low-permeability ice slabs.

    M. MacFerrin;Horst Machguth;Horst Machguth;D. van As;C. Charalampidis

  • Seismic detection and analysis of icequakes at Columbia Glacier, Alaska

    Shad O'Neel;Hans P. Marshall;Daniel E. McNamara;William Tad Pfeffer

  • Using surface velocities to calculate ice thickness and bed topography: a case study at Columbia Glacier, Alaska, USA

    R.W. McNabb;R. Hock;Shad O'Neel;Lowell A. Rasmussen

  • A High‐End Estimate of Sea Level Rise for Practitioners

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  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel T. Harper
Joel T. Harper University of Montana
Neil F. Humphrey
Neil F. Humphrey University of Wyoming
Shad O'Neel
Shad O'Neel United States Geological Survey
Regine Hock
Regine Hock University of Alaska Fairbanks
Patrick D. Nunn
Patrick D. Nunn University of the Sunshine Coast
Mark A. Merrifield
Mark A. Merrifield University of California, San Diego
Peter U. Clark
Peter U. Clark Oregon State University
Jon Ove Hagen
Jon Ove Hagen University of Oslo
Antony J. Payne
Antony J. Payne University of Liverpool
Jonathan M. Gregory
Jonathan M. Gregory University of Reading

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