Outputs (146)

Timing of Little Ice Age maxima and subsequent glacier retreat in northern Troms and western Finnmark, northern Norway (2020)
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Leigh, J., Stokes, C., Evans, D., Carr, R., & Andreassen, L. (2020). Timing of Little Ice Age maxima and subsequent glacier retreat in northern Troms and western Finnmark, northern Norway. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 52(1), 281-311. https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2020.1765520

Glaciers are important indicators of climate change, and recent observations worldwide document increasing rates of mountain glacier recession. Here we present approximately 200 years of change in mountain glacier extent in northern Troms and western... Read More about Timing of Little Ice Age maxima and subsequent glacier retreat in northern Troms and western Finnmark, northern Norway.

Recent understanding of Antarctic supraglacial lakes using satellite remote sensing (2020)
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Arthur, J., Stokes, C., Jamieson, S., Carr, J., & Leeson, A. (2020). Recent understanding of Antarctic supraglacial lakes using satellite remote sensing. Progress in Physical Geography, 44(6), 837-869. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309133320916114

Supraglacial lakes (SGLs) are now known to be widespread in Antarctica, where they represent an important component of ice sheet mass balance. This paper reviews how recent progress in satellite remote sensing has substantially advanced our understan... Read More about Recent understanding of Antarctic supraglacial lakes using satellite remote sensing.

Intermittent structural weakening and acceleration of the Thwaites Glacier Tongue between 2000 and 2018 (2020)
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Miles, B., Stokes, C., Jenkins, A., Jordan, J., Jamieson, S., & Gudmundsson, G. (2020). Intermittent structural weakening and acceleration of the Thwaites Glacier Tongue between 2000 and 2018. Journal of Glaciology, 66(257), 485-495. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2020.20

Evolving conditions at the terminus of Thwaites Glacier will be important in determining the rate of its future sea-level contribution over the coming decades. Here, we use remote-sensing observations to investigate recent changes (2000–2018) in the... Read More about Intermittent structural weakening and acceleration of the Thwaites Glacier Tongue between 2000 and 2018.

An updated radiocarbon-based ice margin chronology for the last deglaciation of the North American Ice Sheet Complex (2020)
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Dalton, A., Margold, M., Stokes, C., Tarasov, L., Dyke, A., Adams, R., …Wright Jr, H. (2020). An updated radiocarbon-based ice margin chronology for the last deglaciation of the North American Ice Sheet Complex. Quaternary Science Reviews, 234, Article 106223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106223

The North American Ice Sheet Complex (NAISC; consisting of the Laurentide, Cordilleran and Innuitian ice sheets) was the largest ice mass to repeatedly grow and decay in the Northern Hemisphere during the Quaternary. Understanding its pattern of retr... Read More about An updated radiocarbon-based ice margin chronology for the last deglaciation of the North American Ice Sheet Complex.

The deglaciation of the Americas during the Last Glacial Termination (2020)
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Palacios, D., Stokes, C. R., Phillips, F. M., Clague, J. J., Alcalá-Reygosa, J., Andres, N., …Ward, D. J. (2020). The deglaciation of the Americas during the Last Glacial Termination. Earth-Science Reviews, 203, Article 103113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103113

This paper reviews current understanding of deglaciation in North, Central and South America from the Last Glacial Maximum to the beginning of the Holocene. Together with paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic data, we compare and contrast the pace of d... Read More about The deglaciation of the Americas during the Last Glacial Termination.

Identifying and mapping very small (<0.5 km2) mountain glaciers on coarse to high-resolution imagery (2019)
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Leigh, J., Stokes, C., Carr, J., Evans, I., Andreassen, L., & Evans, D. (2019). Identifying and mapping very small (

Small mountain glaciers are an important part of the cryosphere and tend to respond rapidly to climate warming. Historically, mapping very small glaciers (generally considered to be

Widespread distribution of supraglacial lakes around the margin of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (2019)
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Stokes, C., Sanderson, J., Miles, B., Jamieson, S., & Leeson, A. (2019). Widespread distribution of supraglacial lakes around the margin of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Scientific Reports, 9, Article 13823. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50343-5

Supraglacial lakes are important to ice sheet mass balance because their development and drainage has been linked to changes in ice flow velocity and ice shelf disintegration. However, little is known about their distribution on the world’s largest i... Read More about Widespread distribution of supraglacial lakes around the margin of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

The configuration of Northern Hemisphere ice sheets through the Quaternary (2019)
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Batchelor, C., Margold, M., Krapp, M., Murton, D., Dalton, A., Gibbard, P., …Manica, A. (2019). The configuration of Northern Hemisphere ice sheets through the Quaternary. Nature Communications, 10, Article 3713. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11601-2

Our understanding of how global climatic changes are translated into ice-sheet fluctuations and sea-level change is currently limited by a lack of knowledge of the configuration of ice sheets prior to the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Here, we compile... Read More about The configuration of Northern Hemisphere ice sheets through the Quaternary.

Recent progress on combining geomorphological and geochronological data with ice 1 sheet modelling, demonstrated using the last British-Irish Ice Sheet (2019)
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Ely, J., Clark, C., Hindmarsh, R., Hughes, A., Greenwood, S., Bradley, S., …Small, D. (2021). Recent progress on combining geomorphological and geochronological data with ice 1 sheet modelling, demonstrated using the last British-Irish Ice Sheet. Journal of Quaternary Science, 36(5), 946-960. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3098

Palaeo‐ice sheets are important analogues for understanding contemporary ice sheets, offering a record of ice sheet behaviour that spans millennia. There are two main approaches to reconstructing palaeo‐ice sheets. Empirical reconstructions use the a... Read More about Recent progress on combining geomorphological and geochronological data with ice 1 sheet modelling, demonstrated using the last British-Irish Ice Sheet.

Spatially Variable Glacier Changes in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal, 2000 to 2016 (2019)
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Lovell, A. M., Carr, J. R., & Stokes, C. R. (2019). Spatially Variable Glacier Changes in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal, 2000 to 2016. Remote Sensing, 11(12), Article 1452. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11121452

Himalayan glaciers have shrunk rapidly in recent decades, but the spatial pattern of ice loss is highly variable and appears to be modulated by factors relating to individual glacier characteristics. This hinders our ability to predict their future e... Read More about Spatially Variable Glacier Changes in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal, 2000 to 2016.