Publications in VIVO

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Scambos, Theodore A Sr Research Associate

Positions

Sr Research Associate, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)

Research Areas

Research

keywords

glaciers, ice sheets, sea ice, remote sensing

Publications

selected publications

conference proceeding
- Ice on earth: Change is in the air. ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 2011
- Validation of AVHRR and MODIS ice surface temperature products using in situ radiometers. Annals of Glaciology. 345-+. 2005
- Satellite monitoring of blue-ice extent near Byrd Glacier, Antarctica. Annals of Glaciology. 223-230. 2003
- Cryospheric applications of MISR data. 1219-1221. 2001
- An image-enhanced DEM of the Greenland ice sheet. Annals of Glaciology. 291-298. 2001
- Ice dolines on Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Annals of Glaciology. 283-290. 2001
- New surface features of the Antarctic ice sheet from radar and visible-NIR mapping. 2576-2579. 2000
- Detailed topography of Roosevelt Island and Siple Dome, West Antarctica. Annals of Glaciology. 61-67. 1997
- DEVELOPMENT OF ENHANCED ICE FLOW AT THE SOUTHERN MARGIN OF ICE STREAM-D, ANTARCTICA. Annals of Glaciology. 313-318. 1993
journal article
- Ultralow Surface Temperatures in East Antarctica From Satellite Thermal Infrared Mapping: The Coldest Places on Earth. Geophysical Research Letters. 6124-6133. 2018
- Antarctic ice shelf disintegration triggered by sea ice loss and ocean swell. Nature: New biology. 383-+. 2018
- Quantifying vulnerability of Antarctic ice shelves to hydrofracture using microwave scattering properties. Remote Sensing of Environment. 297-306. 2018
- Continent-wide estimates of Antarctic strain rates from Landsat 8-derived velocity grids. Journal of Glaciology. 321-332. 2018
- Validating the use of metre-scale multi-spectral satellite image data for identifying tropical forest tree species. Remote Sensing Reviews. 3723-3752. 2018
- The changing extent of the glaciers along the western Ross Sea, Antarctica. Geology. 927-930. 2017
- State of the Climate in 2016. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. S1-+. 2017
- Structural provinces of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Annals of Glaciology. 88-98. 2017
- State of the Climate in 2015. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. S1-S275. 2016
- Impacts of warm water on Antarctic ice shelf stability through basal channel formation. Nature Geoscience. 290-+. 2016
- Flow variability and ongoing margin shifts on Bindschadler and MacAyeal Ice Streams, West Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 283-293. 2016
- A decade of progress in observing and modelling Antarctic subglacial water systems. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 2016
- A SAR record of early 21st century change in Greenland. Journal of Glaciology. 62-71. 2016
- Estimating supraglacial lake depth in West Greenland using Landsat 8 and comparison with other multispectral methods. The Cryosphere. 15-27. 2016
- The modelled surface mass balance of the Antarctic Peninsula at 5.5km horizontal resolution. The Cryosphere. 271-285. 2016
- Extreme wind-ice interaction over Recovery Ice Stream, East Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters. 8064-8071. 2015
- STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2014. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. S1-S267. 2015
- Configuration of the Northern Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet at LGM based on a new synthesis of seabed imagery. The Cryosphere. 613-629. 2015
- Rapid bedrock uplift in the Antarctic Peninsula explained by viscoelastic response to recent ice unloading. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 32-41. 2014
- STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2013. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. S1-S257. 2014
- Landsat-8: Science and product vision for terrestrial global change research. Remote Sensing of Environment. 154-172. 2014
- A decade ofWest Antarctic subglacial lake interactions from combined ICESat and CryoSat-2altimetry. Geophysical Research Letters. 891-898. 2014
- Detailed ice loss pattern in the northern Antarctic Peninsula: widespread decline driven by ice front retreats. The Cryosphere. 2135-2145. 2014
- Mapping blue-ice areas in Antarctica using ETM plus and MODIS data. Annals of Glaciology. 129-137. 2014
- On the formation of blue ice on Byrd Glacier, Antarctica. Journal of Glaciology. 41-50. 2014
- Recent changes in the flow of the Ross Ice Shelf, West Antarctica. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 54-62. 2013
- State of the Climate in 2012. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. S1-S240. 2013
- Influence of persistent wind scour on the surface mass balance of Antarctica. Nature Geoscience. 367-371. 2013
- A camera and rnultisensor automated station design for polar physical and biological systems monitoring: AMIGOS. Journal of Glaciology. 303-314. 2013
- Variations in snow and firn chemistry along US ITASE traverses and the effect of surface glazing. The Cryosphere. 515-535. 2013
- A Reconciled Estimate of Ice-Sheet Mass Balance. Science. 1183-1189. 2012
- Ice velocity mapping of Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica by matching surface undulations measured by ICESat laser altimetry. Remote Sensing of Environment. 251-258. 2012
- Mass loss of Larsen B tributary glaciers (Antarctic Peninsula) unabated since 2002. Geophysical Research Letters. 2012
- STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2011 Special Supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Vol. 93, No. 7, July 2012. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. S1-S263. 2012
- Borehole temperatures reveal details of 20th century warming at Bruce Plateau, Antarctic Peninsula. The Cryosphere. 675-686. 2012
- Extent of low-accumulation 'wind glaze' areas on the East Antarctic plateau: implications for continental ice mass balance. Journal of Glaciology. 633-647. 2012
- Variability in the mass flux of the Ross ice streams, West Antarctica, over the last millennium. Journal of Glaciology. 741-752. 2012
- Recent surface temperature trends in the interior of East Antarctica from borehole firn temperature measurements and geophysical inverse methods. Geophysical Research Letters. 2011
- 2001-2009 elevation and mass losses in the Larsen A and B embayments, Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Glaciology. 737-754. 2011
- From ice-shelf tributary to tidewater glacier: continued rapid recession, acceleration and thinning of Rohss Glacier following the 1995 collapse of the Prince Gustav Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Glaciology. 397-406. 2011
- The triggering of subglacial lake drainage during rapid glacier drawdown: Crane Glacier, Antarctic Peninsula. Annals of Glaciology. 74-82. 2011
- Ice sheet change detection by satellite image differencing. Remote Sensing of Environment. 1353-1362. 2010
- Deep air convection in the firn at a zero-accumulation site, central Antarctica. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 359-367. 2010
- Twentieth-century Changes in the Thickness and Extent of Arapaho Glacier, Front Range, Colorado. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research. 198-209. 2010
- Mapping the grounding zone of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, using ICESat laser altimetry. Annals of Glaciology. 71-79. 2010
- Mapping the grounding zone of the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica using InSAR, MODIS and ICESat. Antarctic Science. 515-532. 2009
- Surface structure and stability of the Larsen C ice shelf, Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Glaciology. 400-410. 2009
- Rates of southeast Greenland ice volume loss from combined ICESat and ASTER observations. Geophysical Research Letters. 2008
- Patterns of glacier response to disintegration of the Larsen B ice shelf, Antarctic Peninsula. Global and Planetary Change. 1-8. 2008
- West Antarctic Peninsula sea ice in 2005: Extreme ice compaction and ice edge retreat due to strong anomaly with respect to climate. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 2008
- A structural glaciological analysis of the 2002 Larsen B ice-shelf collapse. Journal of Glaciology. 3-16. 2008
- Synchronous retreat and acceleration of southeast Greenland outlet glaciers 2000-06: ice dynamics and coupling to climate. Journal of Glaciology. 646-660. 2008
- MODIS-based Mosaic of Antarctica (MOA) data sets: Continent-wide surface morphology and snow grain size. Remote Sensing of Environment. 242-257. 2007
- Arctic sea ice decline: Faster than forecast. Geophysical Research Letters. 2007
- Rapid changes in ice discharge from Greenland outlet glaciers. Science. 1559-1561. 2007
- Sequential stagnation of Kamb Ice Stream, West AntarcticaL. Geophysical Research Letters. 2006
- Evidence for floatation or near floatation in the mouth of Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica, prior to stagnation. Journal of Geophysical Research. 2006
- Topography of streaklines on an antarctic ice shelf from photoclinometry applied to a single advanced land imager (ALI) image. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 736-742. 2005
- Surface morphology and internal layer stratigraphy in the downstream end of Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica. Journal of Glaciology. 423-431. 2005
- Glacier acceleration and thinning after ice shelf collapse in the Larsen B embayment, Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters. 2004
- A record minimum arctic sea ice extent and area in 2002. Geophysical Research Letters. 2003
- Ground-based and satellite-derived measurements of surface albedo on the North slope of Alaska. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 77-91. 2003
- Catastrophic ice-shelf break-up by an ice-shelf-fragment-capsize mechanism. Journal of Glaciology. 22-36. 2003
- Switch of flow direction in an Antarctic ice stream. Nature: New biology. 465-467. 2002
- Surface roughness characterizations of sea ice and ice sheets: Case studies with MISR data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 1605-1615. 2002
- Ice-stream-related patterns of ice flow in the interior of northeast Greenland. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 34035-34045. 2001
- Snow megadune fields on the East Antarctic Plateau: extreme atmosphere-ice interaction. Geophysical Research Letters. 3719-3722. 2000
- A millennium of variable ice flow recorded by the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Journal of Glaciology. 652-664. 2000
- Changes in the margin of Ice Stream C, Antarctica. Journal of Glaciology. 102-110. 2000
- The link between climate warming and break-up of ice shelves in the Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Glaciology. 516-530. 2000
- Improving AVHRR resolution through data cumulation for mapping polar ice sheets. Remote Sensing of Environment. 56-66. 1999
- Influence of subglacial geology on the onset of a West Antarctic ice stream from aerogeophysical observations. Nature: New biology. 58-62. 1998
- Improving digital elevation models over ice sheets using AVHRR-based photoclinometry. Journal of Glaciology. 97-103. 1998
- Changes in the configuration of ice stream flow from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth. 5499-5504. 1996
- BASAL FRICTION OF ICE-STREAM-E, WEST ANTARCTICA. Journal of Glaciology. 247-262. 1995
- Satellite-image-derived velocity field of an antarctic ice stream.. Science. 242-246. 1991
- AN OUTGASSING RELEASE FACTOR FOR NONRADIOGENIC VOLATILES ON MARS. Journal of Geophysical Research. 14779-14787. 1990
- THE CENTER POND PLUTON - THE RESTITE OF THE STORY (PHASE-SEPARATION AND MELT EVOLUTION IN GRANITOID GENESIS) - REPLY. American Journal of Science. 284-287. 1988
- CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE REFINEMENT OF HIGH SANIDINE FROM THE UPPER MANTLE. American Mineralogist. 973-978. 1987
- THE CENTER POND PLUTON - THE RESTITE OF THE STORY (PHASE-SEPARATION AND MELT EVOLUTION IN GRANITOID GENESIS). American Journal of Science. 241-280. 1986

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