Publications

Work on the Snow on Ice grant has generated the following publications:

Anderson, J. T. H., Young, N. E., Balter-Kennedy, A., Prince, K. K., Walcott-George, C. K., Graham, B. L., Charton, J., Briner, J. P., and Schaefer, J. M., 2025. East Greenland Ice Sheet retreat history from Scoresby Sund and Storstrømmen Glacier during the last deglaciation, Clim. Past, 21, 2263–2281, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2263-2025, 2025.

Allan, E., de Vernal, A., Seidenkrantz, M.-S., Briner, J.P., Hillaire-Marcel, C., Pearce, C., Meire, L., Roy, H., Mathiasen, A.M., Nielsen, M.T., Plesner, J.L., Perner, K., 2021. Insolation vs. meltwater control of productivity and sea surface conditions off SW Greenland during the Holocene. Boreas. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12514

Badgeley, J.A., Steig, E.J., Hakim, G.J., Fudge, T.J., 2020. Greenland temperature and precipitation over the last 20,000 years using data assimilation. Climate of the Past Discussions 1–35. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2019-164

Briner, J.P., Cuzzone, J.K., Badgeley, J.A., Young, N.E., Steig, E.J., Morlighem, M., Schlegel, N.-J., Hakim, G.J., Schaefer, J., Johnson, J.V., Lesnek, A.J., Thomas, E.K., Allan, E.,  Bennike, O., Cluett, A.A   Csatho, B., de Vernal, A., Downs, J., Larour, E., Nowicki, S., 2020. Greenland Ice Sheet mass loss rate will exceed Holocene values this century. Nature 586,70–74. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2742-6

Cluett, A.A., Thomas, E.K., 2020. Resolving combined influences of inflow and evaporation on western Greenland lake water isotopes to inform paleoclimate inferences. J Paleolimnol 63, 251–268. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-020-00114-4

Cluett, A. A., & Thomas, E. K., 2021. Summer warmth of the past six interglacials on Greenland. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(20), e2022916118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2022916118

Cluett, A. A., Thomas, E. K., Evans, S. M., & Keys, P. W., 2021. Seasonal Variations in Moisture Origin Explain Spatial Contrast in Precipitation Isotope Seasonality on Coastal Western Greenland. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126(11), e2020JD033543. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD033543

Cluett, A. A., Thomas, E. K., McKay, N. P., Cowling, O. C., Castañeda, I. S., & Morrill, C., 2023. Lake dynamics modulate the air temperature variability recorded by sedimentary aquatic biomarkers: A Holocene case study from western Greenland. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 128(7), e2022JG007106. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JG007106

Corcoran, M. C., Thomas, E. K., & Morrill, C., 2021. Using a Paired Chironomid δ18O and Aquatic Leaf Wax δ2H Approach to Reconstruct Seasonality on Western Greenland During the Holocene. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36(4), e2020PA004169. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020PA004169

Cuzzone, J.K., Morlighem, M., Larour, E., Schlegel, N., Seroussi, H., 2018. Implementation of higher-order vertical finite elements in ISSM v4.13 for improved ice sheet flow modeling over paleoclimate timescales. Geoscientific Model Development 11, 1683–1694. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-1683-2018

Cuzzone, J.K., Schlegel, N.-J., Morlighem, M., Larour, E., Briner, J.P., Seroussi, H., Caron, L., 2019. The impact of model resolution on the simulated Holocene retreat of the southwestern Greenland ice sheet using the Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM). The Cryosphere 13, 879–893. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-879-2019

Downs, J., Johnson, J., Briner, J., Young, N., Lesnek, A., Cuzzone, J., 2020. Western Greenland ice sheet retreat history reveals elevated precipitation during the Holocene thermal maximum. The Cryosphere 14, 1121–1137. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1121-2020

Downs, J.Z., Johnson, J.V., Harper, J.T., Meierbachtol, T., Werder, M.A., 2018. Dynamic Hydraulic Conductivity Reconciles Mismatch Between Modeled and Observed Winter Subglacial Water Pressure. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 123, 818–836. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JF004522

Goelzer, H., Nowicki, S., Payne, A., Larour, E., Seroussi, H., Lipscomb, W.H., Gregory, J., Abe-Ouchi, A., Shepherd, A., Simon, E., Agosta, C., Alexander, P., Aschwanden, A., Barthel, A., Calov, R., Chambers, C., Choi, Y., Cuzzone, J., Dumas, C., Edwards, T., Felikson, D., Fettweis, X., Golledge, N.R., Greve, R., Humbert, A., Huybrechts, P., Clec’h, S.L., Lee, V., Leguy, G., Little, C., Lowry, D.P., Morlighem, M., Nias, I., Quiquet, A., Rückamp, M., Schlegel, N.-J., Slater, D., Smith, R., Straneo, F., Tarasov, L., Wal, R. van de, Broeke, M. van den, 2020. The future sea-level contribution of the Greenland ice sheet: a multi-model ensemble study of ISMIP6. The Cryosphere Discussions 1–43. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2019-319

Lesnek, A.J., Briner, J.P., Young, N.E., Cuzzone, J.K., 2020. Maximum Southwest Greenland Ice Sheet Recession in the Early Holocene. Geophysical Research Letters 47, e2019GL083164. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083164

Morlighem, M., Wood, M., Seroussi, H., Choi, Y., Rignot, E., 2019. Modeling the response of northwest Greenland to enhanced ocean thermal forcing and subglacial discharge. The Cryosphere 13, 723–734. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-723-2019

Prince KK, Briner JP. A new relative sea-level curve from Inglefield Land, northwest Greenland. Quaternary Research. Published online 2025:1-11. doi:10.1017/qua.2025.10049

Slater, D.A., Felikson, D., Straneo, F., Goelzer, H., Little, C.M., Morlighem, M., Fettweis, X., Nowicki, S., 2020. Twenty-first century ocean forcing of the Greenland ice sheet for modelling of sea level contribution. The Cryosphere 14, 985–1008. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-985-2020

Thomas, E.K., Hollister, K.V., Cluett, A.A., Corcoran, M.C., 2020. Reconstructing Arctic Precipitation Seasonality Using Aquatic Leaf Wax δ2H in Lakes With Contrasting Residence Times. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 35, e2020PA003886. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020PA003886

Turrin, M., Allan, E., Stock, J., Zaima, L., 2020. It Takes a ‘Superhero’ to Uncover the Climate Secrets in Fossilized Arctic Ocean Dinocysts. Current: The Journal of Marine Education 34, 22–28. https://doi.org/10.5334/cjme.46

Young, N.E., Briner, J.P., Miller, G.H., Lesnek, A.J., Crump, S.E., Thomas, E.K., Pendleton, S.L., Cuzzone, J., Lamp, J., Zimmerman, S., Caffee, M., Schaefer, J.M., 2020. Deglaciation of the Greenland and Laurentide ice sheets interrupted by glacier advance during abrupt coolings. Quaternary Science Reviews 229, 106091. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106091

Young, N.E., Lesnek, A.J.  Cuzzone, J.K., Briner, J.P., Badgeley, J.A.,Balter-Kennedy, A., Graham, B.L., Cluett, A., Lamp, J.L., Schwartz, R., Tuna, T., Bard, E., Caffee, M.W., Zimmerman, S.R.H., and Schaefer, J.M. (2021). Cosmogenic isotope measurements from recently deglaciated bedrock as a new tool to decipher changes in Greenland Ice Sheet size. Climate of the Past, v. 17, p. 419–450. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-419-2021