Ward van Pelt

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Physical geography 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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My research investigates the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, along with mountain glaciers in the Arctic and High Mountain Asia. It centres on two main areas: (1) inferring glacier basal conditions and ice thickness to spin up ice-flow models, and (2) modelling mass balance and firn processes to improve our understanding of how glaciers and ice sheets respond to a changing climate.

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Keywords

  • glaciers
  • snow
  • modelling
  • mass balance
  • ice dynamics
  • ice thickness
  • inverse methods

Research

Projects (as PI):

  • Estimating Greenland´s present and future ice thickness using inverse modeling and high-resolution satellite data :: Swedish National Space Agency, main applicant, 2025-2029.
  • Global glacier thickness and volume estimation :: Swedish Research Council, main applicant, 2021-2025.

Projects (as co-PI):

  • Digital twin of Earth system for cryosphere, land surface and related interactions :: EU Horizon Europe (Infrastructure), co-applicant (PI: J. Kontkanen), 2025-2029.
  • Svalbard Cryosphere Digital Twin (SvalCryo-DT) :: European Space Agency (ESA), co-applicant (PI: W. Harcourt), 2025-2026.
  • Remote sensing of mining impacts in the Arctic :: Swedish National Space Agency, co-applicant (PI: C. Zdanowicz), 2024-2028.
  • Losing their Cool: are high-elevation heat exchanges warming Himalayan glaciers? :: NERC (UK), co-applicant (PI: D. Quincey), 2024-2027.
Ward van Pelt

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