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Increased crevassing across accelerating Greenland Ice Sheet margins (2025)
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Chudley, T. R., Howat, I. M., King, M. D., & MacKie, E. J. (2025). Increased crevassing across accelerating Greenland Ice Sheet margins. Nature Geoscience, 18, 148–153. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01636-6

Surface crevassing on the Greenland Ice Sheet is a large source of uncertainty in processes controlling mass loss due to a lack of comprehensive observations of their location and evolution through time. Here we use high-resolution digital elevation... Read More about Increased crevassing across accelerating Greenland Ice Sheet margins.

pDEMtools: conveniently search, download, and process ArcticDEM and REMA products (2024)
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Chudley, T. R., & Howat, I. M. (2024). pDEMtools: conveniently search, download, and process ArcticDEM and REMA products. The Journal of Open Source Software, 9(102), Article 7149. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07149

pdemtools is a Python package designed for accessing, processing, and handling high-resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) of the polar regions from the ArcticDEM and Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA) projects. Tools are provided to... Read More about pDEMtools: conveniently search, download, and process ArcticDEM and REMA products.

Big enough to matter: on the frequency and chronology of giant handaxes in the British Lower Palaeolithic (2024)
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Dale, L., Rawlinson, A., Knowles, P., Foulds, F., Ashton, N., Bridgland, D., & White, M. (2024). Big enough to matter: on the frequency and chronology of giant handaxes in the British Lower Palaeolithic. Antiquity, 98(398), 305-322. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.30

Hypertrophic ‘giant’ handaxes are a rare component of Acheulean assemblages, yet have been central to debates relating to the social, cognitive and cultural ‘meaning’ of these enigmatic tools. The authors examine giant handaxes from the perspective o... Read More about Big enough to matter: on the frequency and chronology of giant handaxes in the British Lower Palaeolithic.

Predicting turbidity current activity offshore from meltwater-fed river deltas (2023)
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Bailey, L. P., Clare, M. A., Pope, E. L., Haigh, I. D., Cartigny, M. J., Talling, P. J., Lintern, D. G., Hage, S., & Heijnen, M. (2023). Predicting turbidity current activity offshore from meltwater-fed river deltas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 604, Article 117977. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117977

Quantification of the controls on turbidity current recurrence is required to better constrain land to sea fluxes of sediment, carbon and pollutants, and design resilient infrastructure that is vulnerable to such flows. This is particularly important... Read More about Predicting turbidity current activity offshore from meltwater-fed river deltas.

Climate Evolution Through the Onset and Intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation (2023)
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McClymont, E., Ho, S.-L., Ford, H., Bailey, I., Berke, M., Bolton, C., De Schepper, S., Grant, G., Groeneveld, J., Inglis, G., Karas, C., Patterson, M., Swann, G., Thirumalai, K., White, S., Alonso-Garcia, M., Anand, P., Hoogakker, B., Littler, K., Petrick, B., …Tangunan, D. (2023). Climate Evolution Through the Onset and Intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation. Reviews of Geophysics, 61(3), Article e2022RG000793. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022rg000793

The Pliocene Epoch (~5.3-2.6 million years ago, Ma) was characterized by a warmer than present climate with smaller Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, and offers an example of a climate system in long-term equilibrium with current or predicted near-futu... Read More about Climate Evolution Through the Onset and Intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation.

Buoyancy forcing: A key driver for northern North Atlantic SST variability across multiple time scales (2023)
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Risebrobakken, B., Jensen, M. F., Langehaug, H. R., Eldevik, T., Britt Sandø, A., Li, C., Born, A., McClymont, E., Salzmann, U., & De Schepper, S. (2023). Buoyancy forcing: A key driver for northern North Atlantic SST variability across multiple time scales. Climate of the Past, 19(5), 1101–1123. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1101-2023

Analyses of observational data (from year 1870 AD) show that sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies along the pathway of Atlantic Water transport in the North Atlantic, the Norwegian Sea and the Iceland Sea are spatially coherent at multidecadal tim... Read More about Buoyancy forcing: A key driver for northern North Atlantic SST variability across multiple time scales.

The characteristics and preservation potential of Hurricane Irma's overwash deposit in southern Florida, USA (2023)
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Joyse, K. M., Khan, N. S., Moyer, R. P., Radabaugh, K. R., Hong, I., Chappel, A. R., Walker, J. S., Sanders, C. J., Engelhart, S. E., Kopp, R. E., & Horton, B. P. (2023). The characteristics and preservation potential of Hurricane Irma's overwash deposit in southern Florida, USA. Marine Geology, 461, Article 107077. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2023.107077

Overwash deposits from tropical cyclone-induced storm surges are commonly used as modern analogues for paleo-storm studies. However, the evolution of these deposits between their time of deposition and their incorporation into the geologic record is... Read More about The characteristics and preservation potential of Hurricane Irma's overwash deposit in southern Florida, USA.

On the varied impact of the Storegga tsunami in northwest Scotland (2023)
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Woodroffe, S. A., Hill, J., Bustamante‐Fernandez, E., Lloyd, J. M., Luff, J., Richards, S., & Shennan, I. (online). On the varied impact of the Storegga tsunami in northwest Scotland. Journal of Quaternary Science, 38(8), 1219-1232. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3539

In this paper we evaluate new data and those from previous studies in northwest Scotland and perform a modelling study to test the hypothesis that the Storegga tsunami (submarine slope failure off the continental shelf of Central Norway dated to 8120... Read More about On the varied impact of the Storegga tsunami in northwest Scotland.

Channel migration in the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau and its implication for fluvial response to the interaction between rapid tectonic activity, climatic fluctuation and human influence (2023)
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Pan, B., Li, X., Hu, Z., Bridgland, D., Mo, Q., Dong, Z., Li, M., Yang, Y., Westaway, R., Dong, G., Zhang, S., & Zhong, M. (2023). Channel migration in the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau and its implication for fluvial response to the interaction between rapid tectonic activity, climatic fluctuation and human influence. Quaternary Science Reviews, 310, Article 108126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108126

Direct measurement of warm Atlantic Intermediate Water close to the grounding line of Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden (79° N) Glacier, northeast Greenland (2023)
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Bentley, M. J., Smith, J. A., Jamieson, S. S., Lindeman, M. R., Rea, B. R., Humbert, A., Lane, T. P., Darvill, C. M., Lloyd, J. M., Straneo, F., Helm, V., & Roberts, D. H. (2023). Direct measurement of warm Atlantic Intermediate Water close to the grounding line of Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden (79° N) Glacier, northeast Greenland. The Cryosphere, 17(5), 1821-1837. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-1821-2023

The Northeast Greenland Ice Stream has recently seen significant change to its floating margins and has been identified as vulnerable to future climate warming. Inflow of warm Atlantic Intermediate Water (AIW) from the continental shelf has been obse... Read More about Direct measurement of warm Atlantic Intermediate Water close to the grounding line of Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden (79° N) Glacier, northeast Greenland.

Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020 (2023)
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Otosaka, I. N., Shepherd, A., Ivins, E. R., Schlegel, N.-J., Amory, C., van den Broeke, M. R., Horwath, M., Joughin, I., King, M. D., Krinner, G., Nowicki, S., Payne, A. J., Rignot, E., Scambos, T., Simon, K. M., Smith, B. E., Sørensen, L. S., Velicogna, I., Whitehouse, P. L., A, G., …Wouters, B. (2023). Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020. Earth System Science Data, 15(4), https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-1597-2023

Tracking sediment delivery to central Baffin Bay during the past 40 kyrs: Insights from a multiproxy approach and new age model (2023)
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Ownsworth, E., Selby, D., Lloyd, J., Knutz, P., Szidat, S., Andrews, J., & Ó Cofaigh, C. (2023). Tracking sediment delivery to central Baffin Bay during the past 40 kyrs: Insights from a multiproxy approach and new age model. Quaternary Science Reviews, 308, Article 108082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108082

Reconstructing former ice sheet history and glaciogenic sediment fluxes surrounding Baffin Bay during and since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) is a major scientific challenge. Here, a new multi-proxy analysis of sediments from a central Baffin Bay (B... Read More about Tracking sediment delivery to central Baffin Bay during the past 40 kyrs: Insights from a multiproxy approach and new age model.

Ice-ocean interactions at the Northeast Greenland Ice stream (NEGIS) over the past 11,000 years (2023)
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Lloyd, J., Ribeiro, S., Weckström, K., Callard, L., Ó Cofaigh, C., Leng, M., Gulliver, P., & Roberts, D. (2023). Ice-ocean interactions at the Northeast Greenland Ice stream (NEGIS) over the past 11,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews, 308, Article 108068. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108068

Recent observations have identified increased mass loss from Greenland marine-terminating outlet glaciers (MTOG) with implications for global sea-level rise and wider ocean circulation. The flow of Atlantic-sourced waters to the Greenland margin is t... Read More about Ice-ocean interactions at the Northeast Greenland Ice stream (NEGIS) over the past 11,000 years.

Stata tip 151: Puzzling out some logical operators (2023)
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Cox, N. J. (2023). Stata tip 151: Puzzling out some logical operators. The Stata Journal, 23(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1536867x231162009

The logical operators & (“and”) and | (“or”) can sometimes be tricky in statistical software such as Stata. They are extremely useful, so you need to understand thoroughly how they work. Any trickiness arises mostly in translating from ordinary langu... Read More about Stata tip 151: Puzzling out some logical operators.

Increased warm water intrusions could cause mass loss in East Antarctica during the next 200 years (2023)
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Jordan, J. R., Miles, B., Gudmundsson, G., Jamieson, S., Jenkins, A., & Stokes, C. (2023). Increased warm water intrusions could cause mass loss in East Antarctica during the next 200 years. Nature Communications, 14(1), Article 1825. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37553-2

The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) is currently surrounded by relatively cool water, but climatic shifts have the potential to increase basal melting via intrusions of warm modified Circumpolar Deep Water (mCDW) onto the continental shelf. Here we u... Read More about Increased warm water intrusions could cause mass loss in East Antarctica during the next 200 years.

Active temperate glacial landsystem evolution in association with outwash head/depositional overdeepenings (2023)
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Evans, D. J., Ewertowski, M. W., Tomczyk, A., & Chandler, B. M. (2023). Active temperate glacial landsystem evolution in association with outwash head/depositional overdeepenings. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 48(8), 1573-1598. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5569

The response of temperate glaciers to rapid climate warming is reflected in the geomorphology (landsystem) resulting from snout recession. This paper develops a locally diverse process-form model of active temperate glaciers through mapping and quant... Read More about Active temperate glacial landsystem evolution in association with outwash head/depositional overdeepenings.

Holocene history of the 79° N ice shelf reconstructed from epishelf lake and uplifted glaciomarine sediments (2023)
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Smith, J. A., Callard, L., Bentley, M. J., Jamieson, S. S., Sánchez-Montes, M. L., Lane, T. P., Lloyd, J. M., McClymont, E. L., Darvill, C. M., Rea, B. R., O'Cofaigh, C., Gulliver, P., Ehrmann, W., Jones, R. S., & Roberts, D. H. (2023). Holocene history of the 79° N ice shelf reconstructed from epishelf lake and uplifted glaciomarine sediments. The Cryosphere, 17(3), https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-1247-2023

Nioghalvfjerdsbrae, or 79◦ N Glacier, is the largest marine-terminating glacier draining the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS). In recent years, its ∼ 70 km long fringing ice shelf (hereafter referred to as the 79◦ N ice shelf) has thinned, and... Read More about Holocene history of the 79° N ice shelf reconstructed from epishelf lake and uplifted glaciomarine sediments.

Relative sea level response to mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediment loading along the Great Barrier Reef margin (2023)
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Lin, Y., Whitehouse, P. L., Hibbert, F. D., Woodroffe, S. A., Hinestrosa, G., & Webster, J. M. (2023). Relative sea level response to mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediment loading along the Great Barrier Reef margin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 607, Article 118066. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118066

The continental shelf along northeastern Australia is the world’s largest mixed carbonate-siliciclastic passive margin and the location of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). Following sea-level transgression during the last deglaciation, extensive sedimen... Read More about Relative sea level response to mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediment loading along the Great Barrier Reef margin.