Rickard Pettersson
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 25 25
- E-mail:
- rickard.pettersson@geo.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Geocentrum, Villavägen 16
752 36 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Villavägen 16
752 36 UPPSALA
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
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Long-term development of a perennial firn aquifer on the Lomonosovfonna ice cap, Svalbard
Part of The Cryosphere, p. 1513-1525, 2025
- DOI for Long-term development of a perennial firn aquifer on the Lomonosovfonna ice cap, Svalbard
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Ground penetrating radar measurement of snow in Svalbard - past, present, future (SnowGPR)
Part of SESS report 2022 - The State of Environmental Science in Svalbard - an annual report, Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS), 2023
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Impact of snow distribution modelling for runoff predictions
Part of Nordic Hydrology, p. 633-647, 2023
- DOI for Impact of snow distribution modelling for runoff predictions
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Part of Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 2023
- DOI for The Subglacial Lake That Wasn't There: Improved Interpretation From Seismic Data Reveals a Sediment Bedform at Isunnguata Sermia
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Spatial variability in winter mass balance on Storglaciären modelled with a terrain-based approach
Part of Journal of Glaciology, p. 749-761, 2023
- DOI for Spatial variability in winter mass balance on Storglaciären modelled with a terrain-based approach
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All publications
Articles in journal
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Long-term development of a perennial firn aquifer on the Lomonosovfonna ice cap, Svalbard
Part of The Cryosphere, p. 1513-1525, 2025
- DOI for Long-term development of a perennial firn aquifer on the Lomonosovfonna ice cap, Svalbard
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Impact of snow distribution modelling for runoff predictions
Part of Nordic Hydrology, p. 633-647, 2023
- DOI for Impact of snow distribution modelling for runoff predictions
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Part of Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 2023
- DOI for The Subglacial Lake That Wasn't There: Improved Interpretation From Seismic Data Reveals a Sediment Bedform at Isunnguata Sermia
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Spatial variability in winter mass balance on Storglaciären modelled with a terrain-based approach
Part of Journal of Glaciology, p. 749-761, 2023
- DOI for Spatial variability in winter mass balance on Storglaciären modelled with a terrain-based approach
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Radar attenuation demonstrates advective cooling in the Siple Coast ice streams
Part of Journal of Glaciology, p. 566-576, 2022
- DOI for Radar attenuation demonstrates advective cooling in the Siple Coast ice streams
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Part of Environmental Research Letters, 2021
- DOI for Improving the snowpack monitoring in the mountainous areas of Sweden from space: a machine learning approach
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Accelerating future mass loss of Svalbard glaciers from a multi-model ensemble
Part of Journal of Glaciology, p. 485-499, 2021
- DOI for Accelerating future mass loss of Svalbard glaciers from a multi-model ensemble
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Water content of firn at Lomonosovfonna, Svalbard, derived from subsurface temperature measurements
Part of Journal of Glaciology, p. 921-932, 2021
- DOI for Water content of firn at Lomonosovfonna, Svalbard, derived from subsurface temperature measurements
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Part of Journal of Glaciology, p. 49-60, 2020
- DOI for Formation and evolution of an extensive blue ice moraine in central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica
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Automatic detection of calving events from time-lapse imagery at Tunabreen, Svalbard
Part of Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems, p. 113-127, 2019
- DOI for Automatic detection of calving events from time-lapse imagery at Tunabreen, Svalbard
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A long-term dataset of climatic mass balance, snow conditions, and runoff in Svalbard (1957–2018)
Part of The Cryosphere, p. 2259-2280, 2019
- DOI for A long-term dataset of climatic mass balance, snow conditions, and runoff in Svalbard (1957–2018)
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Part of The Cryosphere, p. 1843-1859, 2019
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Dynamic response of a High Arctic glacier to melt and runoff variations
Part of Geophysical Research Letters, p. 4917-4926, 2018
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The Ice-Free Topography of Svalbard
Part of Geophysical Research Letters, p. 11760-11769, 2018
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Part of Geomorphology, p. 80-97, 2018
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Subglacial permafrost evidencing re-advance of the Greenland Ice Sheet over frozen ground
Part of Quaternary Science Reviews, p. 174-187, 2018
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Subglacial topography, ice thickness, and bathymetry of Kongsfjorden, northwestern Svalbard
Part of Earth System Science Data, p. 1769-1781, 2018
- DOI for Subglacial topography, ice thickness, and bathymetry of Kongsfjorden, northwestern Svalbard
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Tidewater Glacier Surges Initiated at the Terminus
Part of Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, p. 1035-1051, 2018
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Effects of undercutting and sliding on calving: a global approach applied to Kronebreen, Svalbard
Part of The Cryosphere, p. 609-625, 2018
- DOI for Effects of undercutting and sliding on calving: a global approach applied to Kronebreen, Svalbard
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Part of Journal of Glaciology, p. 67-78, 2017
- DOI for A plot-scale study of firn stratigraphy at Lomonosovfonna, Svalbard, using ice cores, borehole video and GPR surveys in 2012–14
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Seismic evidence for complex sedimentary control of Greenland Ice Sheet flow
Part of Science Advances, 2017
- DOI for Seismic evidence for complex sedimentary control of Greenland Ice Sheet flow
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Part of Frontiers in Earth Science, 2017
- DOI for Parameterizing deep water percolation improves subsurface temperature simulations by a multilayer firn model
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Part of Journal of Glaciology, p. 1012-1024, 2017
- DOI for Basal dynamics of Kronebreen, a fast-flowing tidewater glacier in Svalbard: non-local spatio-temporal response to water input
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Application of a two-step approach for mapping ice thickness to various glacier types on Svalbard
Part of The Cryosphere, p. 2003-2032, 2017
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Part of The Cryosphere, p. 1147-1159, 2016
- DOI for Extraordinary runoff from the Greenland ice sheet in 2012 amplified by hypsometry and depleted firn retention
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Part of The Cryosphere, p. 961-976, 2016
- DOI for A synthetic ice core approach to estimate ion relocation in anice field site experiencing periodical melt: a case study onLomonosovfonna, Svalbard
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First Ice Core Records of NO3- Stable Isotopes from Lomonosovfonna, Svalbard
Part of Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, p. 313-330, 2015
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Subglacial water drainage, storage, and piracy beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet
Part of Geophysical Research Letters, p. 7606-7614, 2015
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Modeling of subglacial hydrological development following rapid supraglacial lake drainage
Part of Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, p. 1127-1147, 2015
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Geophysical mapping of palsa peatland permafrost
Part of The Cryosphere, p. 465-478, 2015
- DOI for Geophysical mapping of palsa peatland permafrost
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Spectral roughness and glacial erosion of a land-terminating section of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Part of Geomorphology, p. 149-159, 2015
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Persistent flow acceleration within the interior of the Greenland ice sheet
Part of Geophysical Research Letters, p. 899-905, 2014
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Inverse estimation of snow accumulation along a radar transect on Nordenskioldbreen, Svalbard
Part of Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, p. 816-835, 2014
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Part of Earth System Science Data, p. 331-338, 2014
- DOI for High-resolution ice thickness and bed topography of a land-terminating section of the Greenland Ice Sheet
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Assessment of heat sources on the control of fast flow of Vestfonna ice cap, Svalbard
Part of The Cryosphere, p. 1951-1973, 2014
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Decadal changes from a multi-temporal glacier inventory of Svalbard
Part of The Cryosphere, p. 1603-1621, 2013
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Part of The Cryosphere, p. 129-140, 2013
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Assessment of heat sources on the control of fast flow of Vestfonna Ice Cap, Svalbard
Part of The Cryosphere Discussions, p. 5097-5145, 2013
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An iterative inverse method to estimate basal topography and initialize ice flow models
Part of The Cryosphere, p. 987-1006, 2013
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Geometrid outbreak waves travel across Europe
Part of Journal of Animal Ecology, p. 84-95, 2013
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An iterative inverse method to estimate basal topography and initialize ice flow models
Part of The Cryosphere, p. 987-1006, 2013
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Sensitivity of basal conditions in an inverse model: Vestfonna ice cap, Nordaustlandet/Svalbard
Part of The Cryosphere, p. 771-783, 2012
- DOI for Sensitivity of basal conditions in an inverse model: Vestfonna ice cap, Nordaustlandet/Svalbard
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A wireless subglacial probe for deep ice applications
Part of Journal of Glaciology, p. 841-848, 2012
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Comparison of digital and manual methods of snow particle size estimation
Part of Hydrology Research, p. 192-202, 2012
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Part of The Cryosphere, p. 641-659, 2012
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Twenty years of cold surface layer thinning at Storglaciären, sub-Arctic Sweden, 1989-2009
Part of Journal of Glaciology, p. 3-10, 2012
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Part of Journal of Geophysical Research, 2011
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Changes of glacial front positions of Vestfonna (Nordaustlandet, Svalbard)
Part of Geografiska Annaler. Series A, Physical Geography, p. 301-310, 2011
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Ice thickness and basal conditions of Vestfonna ice cap, eastern Svalbard
Part of Geografiska Annaler. Series A, Physical Geography, p. 311-322, 2011
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Part of Geografiska Annaler. Series A, Physical Geography, p. 323-335, 2011
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Vertical distribution of water within the polythermal Storglaciären, Sweden
Part of Journal of Geophysical Research, 2010
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Spatial variation of radar-derived basal conditions on Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica
Part of Annals of Glaciology, p. 10-16, 2009
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Part of Journal of Glaciology, p. 421-427, 2008
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Spatial pattern and stability of the cold surface layer of Storglaciären, Sweden
Part of Journal of Glaciology, p. 99-109, 2007
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Part of Annals of Glaciology, p. 335-341, 2007
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Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of a Long Mass Balance Record, Storglaciären, Sweden
Part of Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine research, p. 432-437, 2007
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Part of Annals of Glaciology, p. 263-268, 2003
Articles, review/survey
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Complementary approaches towards a universal model of glacier surges
Part of Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021
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Nitrate stable isotopes and major ions in snow and ice samples from four Svalbard sites
Part of Polar Research, 2015
- DOI for Nitrate stable isotopes and major ions in snow and ice samples from four Svalbard sites
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Chapters in book
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Ground penetrating radar measurement of snow in Svalbard - past, present, future (SnowGPR)
Part of SESS report 2022 - The State of Environmental Science in Svalbard - an annual report, Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS), 2023