Papers SS 2016

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Suggested papers

• Burke, E. E., & Roe, G. H. (2014). The absence of memory in the climatic forcing of glaciers. Climate Dynamics, 42(5-6), 1335–1346. (Fabien)

• Deconto, R. M., & Pollard, D. (2016). Contribution of Antarctica to past and future sea-level rise. Nature, 531(7596), 591–597. (Fabien)

• Hoinkes, H. C. (1968). Glacier variation and weather. Journal of Glaciology, 7(49), 3–19. (Fabien)

• Kerschner, H. (2000). Synoptic climatology of Eastern Alpine glacier behavior, 1966-1990. 26th International Conference on Alpine Meteorology, 11-15 September 2000, (dd), 1–12. (Georg)

• Farinotti, D., & Huss, M. (2013). An upper-bound estimate for the accuracy of glacier volume-area scaling. Cryosphere, 7(6), 1707–1720. (Fabien)

• Insel, N., Poulsen, C. J., & Ehlers, T. a. (2010). Influence of the Andes Mountains on South American moisture transport, convection, and precipitation. Climate Dynamics, 35, 1477–1492. (Georg)

• Mordret, A., Mikesell, T. D., Harig, C., Lipovsky, B. P., & Prieto, A. (2015). Monitoring South-West Greenland ’ s ice sheet melt with ambient seismic noise. Science Advances, (May), 1–11. (Markus)

• Mölg, T., & Kaser, G. (2011). A new approach to resolving climate-cryosphere relations: Downscaling climate dynamics to glacier-scale mass and energy balance without statistical scale linking. Journal of Geophysical Research, 116(D16), D16101. (Federico)

• Roe, G. H., Feldl, N., Armour, K. C., Hwang, Y.-T., & Frierson, D. M. W. (2015). The remote impacts of climate feedbacks on regional climate predictability. Nature Geoscience, 8(2), 135–139. (Fabien)

• Themeßl, M. J., Gobiet, A., & Heinrich, G. (2011). Empirical-statistical downscaling and error correction of regional climate models and its impact on the climate change signal. Climatic Change, 112(2), 449–468. (Fabien)

• Wilks, D. S. (2016). “The stippling shows statistically significant gridpoints”: How Research Results are Routinely Overstated and Over-interpreted, and What to Do About It. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, BAMS–D–15–00267.1. (Ben)

Past papers

2016-06-28 (All)

Farinotti, D., Pistocchi, A., & Huss, M. (2016). From dwindling ice to headwater lakes: could dams replace glaciers in the European Alps? Environmental Research Letters, 11(5), 054022.

2016-06-21 (Marlis)

Hofer, M., Nemec, J., Cullen, N. J. & Weber, M. (Submitted). Evaluating predictor strategies for regression-based downscaling with a focus on glacierized mountain environments. Submitted to J. Climate.

2016-05-07 (Anna)

Rowan, A. V., Egholm, D. L., Quincey, D. J., & Glasser, N. F. (2015). Modelling the feedbacks between mass balance, ice flow and debris transport to predict the response to climate change of debris-covered glaciers in the Himalaya. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 430, 427–438..

2016-05-31 (Eva)

Deconto, R. M., & Pollard, D. (2016). Contribution of Antarctica to past and future sea-level rise. Nature, 531(7596), 591–597.

2016-05-17 (Hannes)

Neukom, R., Rohrer, M., Calanca, P., Salzmann, N., Huggel, C., Acuña, D., Morales, M. S. (2015). Facing unprecedented drying of the Central Andes? Precipitation variability over the period AD 1000–2100. Environ. Res. Lett, 10(10), 84017–84017.

2016-05-10 (All)

Nuzzo, R. (2015). Fooling Ourselves. Nature, 526, 182–185. Knutti, R. (2010). The end of model democracy? Climatic Change, 102(3), 395–404.

2016-05-03 (Federico)

Huss, M., Sold, L., Hoelzle, M., Stokvis, M., Salzmann, N., Farinotti, D., & Zemp, M. (2013). Towards remote monitoring of sub-seasonal glacier mass balance. Annals of Glaciology, 54(63), 75–83.

2016-04-26 (Markus)

Pohl, S., Garvelmann, J., Wawerla, J., & Weiler, M. (2014). Potential of a low-cost sensor network to understand the spatial and temporal dynamics of a mountain snow cover. Water Resources Research, 50(3), 2533–2550.

2016-04-12 (Johannes)

Gutmann, E., Barstad, I., Clark, M., Arnold, J., & Rasmussen, R. (2016). The Intermediate Complexity Atmospheric Research Model (ICAR). Journal of Hydrometeorology, 17(3), 957–973.

2016-04-05 (Fabien)

Zekollari, H., & Huybrechts, P. (2015). On the climate–geometry imbalance, response time and volume–area scaling of an alpine glacier: insights from a 3-D flow model applied to Vadret da Morteratsch, Switzerland. Annals of Glaciology, 56(70), 51–62.