Professor Chris Stokes' Outputs (7)

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 <0.5 km2) using satellite imagery has often been subjective due to t...

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., Stokes, C., Murton, J., & 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., Gasson, E., Gregoire, L., Gandy, N., Stokes, C., & 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.

Controls on the formation of turbidity current channels associated with marine-terminating glaciers and ice sheets (2019)
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Pope, E. L., Normandeau, A., Ó Cofaigh, C., Stokes, C. R., & Talling, P. J. (2019). Controls on the formation of turbidity current channels associated with marine-terminating glaciers and ice sheets. Marine Geology, 415, Article 105951. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2019.05.010

Submarine channels, and the sediment density flows which form them, act as conduits for the transport of sediment, macro-nutrients, fresher water and organic matter from the coast to the deep sea. These systems are therefore significant pathways for... Read More about Controls on the formation of turbidity current channels associated with marine-terminating glaciers and ice sheets.

Atmospheric forcing of rapid marine-terminating glacier retreat in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (2019)
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Cook, A., Copland, L., Noel, B., Stokes, C., Bentley, M., Sharp, M., …van den Broeke, M. (2019). Atmospheric forcing of rapid marine-terminating glacier retreat in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Science Advances, 5(3), Article eaau8507. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau8507

The Canadian Arctic Archipelago contains >300 glaciers that terminate in the ocean, but little is known about changes in their frontal positions in response to recent changes in the ocean-climate system. Here, we examine changes in glacier frontal po... Read More about Atmospheric forcing of rapid marine-terminating glacier retreat in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.