Rickard Pettersson
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Earth Sciences; Program for Air, Water and Landscape Sciences; Physical Geography
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 25 25
- E-mail:
- rickard.pettersson@geo.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Geocentrum, Villavägen 16
752 36 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Villavägen 16
752 36 UPPSALA
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Biography
I am interested in the flow dynamics, stability and climatic response of glaciers and ice sheets. This has led to that my research involves studies of glacier mass balance, thermodynamics and the coupling between dynamical and hydrological processes on glaciers and ice sheets. I work mostly with collecting, processing and interpreting geophysical and remote sensing data and the assmilation of these data into glaciological models
Publications
Recent publications
- Impact of snow distribution modelling for runoff predictions (2023)
- The Subglacial Lake That Wasn't There (2023)
- Ground penetrating radar measurement of snow in Svalbard - past, present, future (SnowGPR) (2023)
- Spatial variability in winter mass balance on Storglaciären modelled with a terrain-based approach (2023)
- Radar attenuation demonstrates advective cooling in the Siple Coast ice streams (2022)
All publications
Articles
- Impact of snow distribution modelling for runoff predictions (2023)
- The Subglacial Lake That Wasn't There (2023)
- Spatial variability in winter mass balance on Storglaciären modelled with a terrain-based approach (2023)
- Radar attenuation demonstrates advective cooling in the Siple Coast ice streams (2022)
- Water content of firn at Lomonosovfonna, Svalbard, derived from subsurface temperature measurements (2021)
- Complementary approaches towards a universal model of glacier surges (2021)
- Accelerating future mass loss of Svalbard glaciers from a multi-model ensemble (2021)
- Improving the snowpack monitoring in the mountainous areas of Sweden from space (2021)
- Formation and evolution of an extensive blue ice moraine in central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica (2020)
- Thermal conductivity of firn at Lomonosovfonna, Svalbard, derived from subsurface temperature measurements (2019)
- Automatic detection of calving events from time-lapse imagery at Tunabreen, Svalbard (2019)
- A long-term dataset of climatic mass balance, snow conditions, and runoff in Svalbard (1957–2018) (2019)
- The Ice-Free Topography of Svalbard (2018)
- Decadal topographic change in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica (2018)
- Subglacial topography, ice thickness, and bathymetry of Kongsfjorden, northwestern Svalbard (2018)
- Subglacial permafrost evidencing re-advance of the Greenland Ice Sheet over frozen ground (2018)
- Tidewater Glacier Surges Initiated at the Terminus (2018)
- Effects of undercutting and sliding on calving (2018)
- Dynamic response of a High Arctic glacier to melt and runoff variations (2018)
- Application of a two-step approach for mapping ice thickness to various glacier types on Svalbard (2017)
- Seismic evidence for complex sedimentary control of Greenland Ice Sheet flow (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)
- Extraordinary runoff from the Greenland ice sheet in 2012 amplified by hypsometry and depleted firn retention (2016)
- A synthetic ice core approach to estimate ion relocation in anice field site experiencing periodical melt (2016)
- Modeling of subglacial hydrological development following rapid supraglacial lake drainage (2015)
- Spectral roughness and glacial erosion of a land-terminating section of the Greenland Ice Sheet (2015)
- Subglacial water drainage, storage, and piracy beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet (2015)
- Geophysical mapping of palsa peatland permafrost (2015)
- Nitrate stable isotopes and major ions in snow and ice samples from four Svalbard sites (2015)
- First Ice Core Records of NO3- Stable Isotopes from Lomonosovfonna, Svalbard (2015)
- Persistent flow acceleration within the interior of the Greenland ice sheet (2014)
- High-resolution ice thickness and bed topography of a land-terminating section of the Greenland Ice Sheet (2014)
- Assessment of heat sources on the control of fast flow of Vestfonna ice cap, Svalbard (2014)
- Inverse estimation of snow accumulation along a radar transect on Nordenskioldbreen, Svalbard (2014)
- Ice tectonic deformation during the rapid in situ drainage of a supraglacial lake on the Greenland Ice Sheet (2013)
- Decadal changes from a multi-temporal glacier inventory of Svalbard (2013)
- Assessment of heat sources on the control of fast flow of Vestfonna Ice Cap, Svalbard (2013)
- Geometrid outbreak waves travel across Europe (2013)
- An iterative inverse method to estimate basal topography and initialize ice flow models (2013)
- An iterative inverse method to estimate basal topography and initialize ice flow models (2013)
- Twenty years of cold surface layer thinning at Storglaciären, sub-Arctic Sweden, 1989-2009 (2012)
- Comparison of digital and manual methods of snow particle size estimation (2012)
- Sensitivity of basal conditions in an inverse model (2012)
- A wireless subglacial probe for deep ice applications (2012)
- Simulating melt, runoff and refreezing on Nordenskiöldbreen, Svalbard, using a coupled snow and energy balance model (2012)
- Changes of glacial front positions of Vestfonna (Nordaustlandet, Svalbard) (2011)
- Ice thickness and basal conditions of Vestfonna ice cap, eastern Svalbard (2011)
- Spatial distribution and change in the surface ice-velocity field of Vestfonna ice cap, Nordaustlandet, Svalbard, 1995-2010 using geodetic and satellite interferometry data (2011)
- Transient slip events from near-field seismic and geodetic data on a glacier fault, Whillans Ice Plain, West Antarctica (2011)
- Vertical distribution of water within the polythermal Storglaciären, Sweden (2010)
- Spatial variation of radar-derived basal conditions on Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica (2009)
- The evolution of surface flow stripes and stratigraphic folds within Kamb Ice Stream (2008)
- Assessing the possibility to couple the chemical signal in winter snow on Storglaciären to atmospheric climatology (2007)
- Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of a Long Mass Balance Record, Storglaciären, Sweden (2007)
- Spatial pattern and stability of the cold surface layer of Storglaciären, Sweden (2007)
- Investigating the ratio of basal drag and driving stress in relation to bedrock topography during a melt season on Storglaciären, Sweden, using force budget analysis (2003)
- Origin of englacial features in radio-echo sounding data from the Greenland Ice Sheet
- Modelled subglacial hydrology and basal sliding at Kronebreen, a tidewater glacier in Svalbard
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