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William Colgan is affiliated with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland in Denmark. Their research focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with significant contributions in the subfields of Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their main topics of work include:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Colgan has an extensive publication record, with frequent contributions to several scientific journals. The primary venues for their research publications include:

  • Earth system science data
  • Journal of Glaciology
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • The Cryosphere

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by William Colgan are:

  • Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020 (2023) published in Earth system science data
  • Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE) automatic weather station data (2021) published in Earth system science data
  • Greenland Ice Sheet solid ice discharge from 1986 through March 2020 (2020) published in Earth system science data
  • Greenland liquid water discharge from 1958 through 2019 (2020) published in Earth system science data
  • Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise (2022) published in Nature Climate Change

William Colgan has collaborated frequently with a number of other researchers. The most frequent co-authors include:

  • Shfaqat Abbas Khan
  • Kenneth D. Mankoff
  • Robert S. Fausto
  • Nanna B. Karlsson
  • Kristian K. Kjeldsen

Best Publications

  • Key indicators of Arctic climate change : 1971–2017

    Jason E. Box;William T. Colgan;Torben Røjle Christensen;Torben Røjle Christensen;Niels Martin Schmidt

  • Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020

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  • Spatial and temporal distribution of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet since AD 1900

    Kristian Kjellerup Kjeldsen;Niels J. Korsgaard;Anders A Bjørk;Shfaqat Abbas Khan

  • Greenland meltwater storage in firn limited by near-surface ice formation

    Horst Machguth;Horst Machguth;Mike MacFerrin;Dirk van As;Jason E. Box

  • Glacier crevasses: Observations, models, and mass balance implications

    William Colgan;William Colgan;Harihar Rajaram;Waleed Abdalati;Cheryl McCutchan

  • Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE) automatic weather station data

    Robert S. Fausto;Dirk van As;Kenneth D. Mankoff;Baptiste Vandecrux

  • A synthesis of the basal thermal state of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

    Joseph A. MacGregor;Joseph A. MacGregor;Mark A. Fahnestock;Ginny A. Catania;Andy Aschwanden

  • A decadal investigation of supraglacial lakes in West Greenland using a fully automatic detection and tracking algorithm

    Yu-Li Liang;William Colgan;Qin Lv;Konrad Steffen;Konrad Steffen

  • Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise

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  • Greenland Ice Sheet solid ice discharge from 1986 through March 2020

    Kenneth D. Mankoff;Anne Solgaard;William Colgan;Andreas P. Ahlstrøm

  • Greenland liquid water discharge from 1958 through 2019

    Kenneth D. Mankoff;Brice Noël;Xavier Fettweis;Andreas P. Ahlstrøm

  • An increase in crevasse extent, West Greenland: Hydrologic implications

    William Colgan;Konrad Steffen;W. Scott McLamb;Waleed Abdalati

  • Recent warming at Summit, Greenland: Global context and implications

    Daniel McGrath;William Colgan;William Colgan;Nicolas Bayou;Atsuhiro Muto

  • 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

  • Greenland surface mass-balance observations from the ice-sheet ablation area and local glaciers

    Horst Machguth;Henrik H. Thomsen;Anker Weidick;Andreas P. Ahlstrøm

  • Basin-scale partitioning of Greenland ice sheet mass balance components (2007–2011)

    M.L. Andersen;Lars Stenseng;Henriette Skourup;W. Colgan

  • Assessing the summer water budget of a moulin basin in the Sermeq Avannarleq ablation region, Greenland ice sheet

    Daniel McGrath;William Colgan;Konrad Steffen;Phillip Lauffenburger

  • The implication of nonradiative energy fluxes dominating Greenland ice sheet exceptional ablation area surface melt in 2012

    Robert S. Fausto;Dirk van As;Jason E. Box;William Colgan

  • Global sea-level contribution from Arctic land ice: 1971 to 2017

    Jason Eric Box;William T Colgan;Bert Wouters;David O Burgess

  • Firn data compilation reveals widespread decrease of firn air content in western Greenland

    Baptiste Robert Marcel Vandecrux;Baptiste Robert Marcel Vandecrux;Michael MacFerrin;Horst Machguth;Horst Machguth;William T. Colgan

  • Greenland Ice Sheet Mass Balance Reconstruction. Part III: Marine Ice Loss and Total Mass Balance (1840–2010)

    Jason E. Box;William Colgan

  • Evaluation of cryo-hydrologic warming as an explanation for increased ice velocities in the wet snow zone, Sermeq Avannarleq, West Greenland

    Thomas Phillips;Thomas Phillips;Harihar Rajaram;William Colgan;William Colgan;Konrad Steffen;Konrad Steffen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason E. Box
Jason E. Box Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Robert S. Fausto
Robert S. Fausto Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Dirk van As
Dirk van As Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Konrad Steffen
Konrad Steffen Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Horst Machguth
Horst Machguth University of Fribourg
Andreas P. Ahlstrøm
Andreas P. Ahlstrøm Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Kristian K. Kjeldsen
Kristian K. Kjeldsen Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Waleed Abdalati
Waleed Abdalati University of Colorado Boulder
Harihar Rajaram
Harihar Rajaram Johns Hopkins University
Xavier Fettweis
Xavier Fettweis University of Liège

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