Ward van Pelt
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Earth Sciences; Program for Air, Water and Landscape Sciences; Physical Geography
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 71 80
- E-mail:
- ward.van.pelt@geo.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Geocentrum, Villavägen 16
752 36 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Villavägen 16
752 36 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
My research focuses on assessing the impact of changing climate conditions in the Arctic on glaciers and seasonal snow packs.
Please visit my personal website for more details:
http://www.wardvanpelt.com/
Keywords
- glaciers
- snow
Publications
Selection of publications
- Historical glacier change on Svalbard predicts doubling of mass loss by 2100 (2022)
- Complementary approaches towards a universal model of glacier surges (2021)
- Accelerating future mass loss of Svalbard glaciers from a multi-model ensemble (2021)
- Low elevation of Svalbard glaciers drives high mass loss variability (2020)
- A long-term dataset of climatic mass balance, snow conditions, and runoff in Svalbard (1957–2018) (2019)
- Dynamic response of a High Arctic glacier to melt and runoff variations (2018)
Recent publications
- Ice volume and thickness of all Scandinavian glaciers and ice caps (2024)
- An analysis of winter rain-on-snow climatology in Svalbard (2024)
- Reconciling ice dynamics and bed topography with a versatile and fast ice thickness inversion (2023)
- Ground penetrating radar measurement of snow in Svalbard - past, present, future (2023)
- Spatial variability in winter mass balance on Storglaciären modelled with a terrain-based approach (2023)
All publications
Articles
- Ice volume and thickness of all Scandinavian glaciers and ice caps (2024)
- An analysis of winter rain-on-snow climatology in Svalbard (2024)
- Reconciling ice dynamics and bed topography with a versatile and fast ice thickness inversion (2023)
- Spatial variability in winter mass balance on Storglaciären modelled with a terrain-based approach (2023)
- Historical glacier change on Svalbard predicts doubling of mass loss by 2100 (2022)
- Seasonal glacier and snow loading in Svalbard recovered from geodetic observations (2022)
- Long-term firn and mass balance modelling for Abramov Glacier in the data-scarce Pamir Alay (2022)
- Direct photogrammetry with multispectral imagery for UAV-based snow depth estimation (2022)
- Feeding at the front line (2021)
- Results from the Ice Thickness Models Intercomparison eXperiment Phase 2 (ITMIX2) (2021)
- Water content of firn at Lomonosovfonna, Svalbard, derived from subsurface temperature measurements (2021)
- Firn changes at Colle Gnifetti revealed with a high-resolution process-based physical model approach (2021)
- Complementary approaches towards a universal model of glacier surges (2021)
- Accelerating future mass loss of Svalbard glaciers from a multi-model ensemble (2021)
- A compilation of snow cover datasets for Svalbard (2021)
- Elemental and water-insoluble organic carbon in Svalbard snow (2021)
- Low elevation of Svalbard glaciers drives high mass loss variability (2020)
- Reconciling Svalbard Glacier Mass Balance (2020)
- The firn meltwater Retention Model Intercomparison Project (RetMIP) (2020)
- Closing the mass budget of a tidewater glacier (2019)
- Characterization of seasonal glacial seismicity from a single-station on-ice record at Holtedahlfonna, Svalbard (2019)
- Thermal conductivity of firn at Lomonosovfonna, Svalbard, derived from subsurface temperature measurements (2019)
- Comparison of snow accumulation events on two High Arctic glaciers to model-derived and observed precipitation (2019)
- A long-term dataset of climatic mass balance, snow conditions, and runoff in Svalbard (1957–2018) (2019)
- Simulating climatic mass balance, seasonal snow development and associated freshwater runoff in the Kongsfjord basin, Svalbard (1980–2016) (2018)
- Effects of undercutting and sliding on calving (2018)
- Dynamic response of a High Arctic glacier to melt and runoff variations (2018)
- Using SAR data time-series for regional glacier mapping (2018)
- How accurate are estimates of glacier ice thickness? Results from ITMIX, the Ice Thickness Models Intercomparison eXperiment (2017)
- Rapidly changing subglacial hydrological pathways at a tidewater glacier revealed through simultaneous observations of water pressure, supraglacial lakes, meltwater plumes and surface velocities (2017)
- A plot-scale study of firn stratigraphy at Lomonosovfonna, Svalbard, using ice cores, borehole video and GPR surveys in 2012–14 (2017)
- Parameterizing deep water percolation improves subsurface temperature simulations by a multilayer firn model (2017)
- Basal dynamics of Kronebreen, a fast-flowing tidewater glacier in Svalbard (2017)
- Multi-decadal climate and seasonal snow conditions in Svalbard (2016)
- The changing impact of snow conditions and refreezing on the mass balance of an idealized Svalbard glacier (2016)
- A synthetic ice core approach to estimate ion relocation in anice field site experiencing periodical melt (2016)
- Mass-conserving subglacial hydrology in the Parallel Ice Sheet Model version 0.6 (2015)
- Dynamic perennial firn aquifer on an Arctic glacier (2015)
- A model study of Abrahamsenbreen, a surging glacier in northern Spitsbergen (2015)
- Modelling the long-term mass balance and firn evolution of glaciers around Kongsfjorden, Svalbard (2015)
- Inverse estimation of snow accumulation along a radar transect on Nordenskioldbreen, Svalbard (2014)
- An iterative inverse method to estimate basal topography and initialize ice flow models (2013)
- Numerical simulations of cyclic behaviour in the Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM) (2012)
- Simulating melt, runoff and refreezing on Nordenskiöldbreen, Svalbard, using a coupled snow and energy balance model (2012)
Books
Chapters
- Ground penetrating radar measurement of snow in Svalbard - past, present, future (2023)
- Svalbard snow and sea-ice cover (2021)
- Satellite and modelling based snow season time series for Svalbard: Inter-comparisons and assessment of accuracy (SATMODSNOW) (2021)
- New data, new techniques and new challenges for updating the state of Svalbard glaciers (SvalGlac) (2020)
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