Published research articles
2024
Wille, J. D., Alexander, S. P., Amory, C., Baiman, R., Barthélemy, L., Bergstrom, D. M., … Trusel., L. D., et al. (2024). The extraordinary March 2022 East Antarctica “heat” wave. Part I: observations and meteorological drivers. Journal of Climate. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0175.1
Wille, J. D., Alexander, S. P., Amory, C., Baiman, R., Barthélemy, L., Bergstrom, D. M., … Trusel., L. D., et al. (2024). The extraordinary March 2022 East Antarctica “heat” wave. Part II: impacts on the Antarctic ice sheet. Journal of Climate. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0176.1
2023
Noël, B., van Wessem, J. M., Wouters, B., Trusel, L. D., Lhermitte, S., & van den Broeke., M.R. (2023). Higher Antarctic ice sheet accumulation and surface melt rates revealed at 2 km resolution. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43584-6
Seroussi, H., Verjans, V., Nowicki, S., Payne, A. J., Goelzer, H., Lipscomb, W. H., … Trusel., L. D., et al. (2023). Insights on the vulnerability of Antarctic glaciers from the ISMIP6 ice sheet model ensemble and associated uncertainty. The Cryosphere. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2023-109
Trusel, L. D., Kromer, J. D., & Datta, R. T. (2023). Atmospheric response to Antarctic sea-ice reductions drives ice sheet surface mass balance increases. Journal of Climate, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0056.1
Kromer, J. D., & Trusel, L. D. (2023). Identifying the Impacts of Sea Ice Variability on the Climate and Surface Mass Balance of West Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(18), e2023GL104436. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104436
See Penn State news feature: Melting ice falling snow: Sea ice declines enhance snowfall over West Antarctica
Datta, R. T., Herrington, A., Lenaerts, J. T. M., Schneider, D. P., Trusel, L., Yin, Z., & Dunmire, D. (2023). Evaluating the impact of enhanced horizontal resolution over the Antarctic domain using a variable-resolution Earth system model. The Cryosphere, 17(9), 3847–3866. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3847-2023
Datta, R. T., Baiman, R., Yin, Z., Wille, J. D., Dunmire, D., Maclennan, M. L., Trusel, L. D., & Bozkurt, D. (2023), Ice-sheet surface mass balance [in “State of the Climate in 2022”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 104(9), “c. Ice-sheet surface mass balance” S336–S339, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0077.1
2022
Trusel, L. D., Z. Pan, and M. Moussavi (2022), Repeated tidally induced hydrofracture of a supraglacial lake at the Amery Ice Shelf grounding zone, Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL095661
See NASA Landsat Science feature: Strong Tides, Vanishing Lakes May Prove Beneficial to Antarctic Ice Shelf
2021
Osman, M. B., Smith, B. E., Trusel, L. D., Das, S. B., McConnell, J. R., Chellman, N., Arienzo, M., Sodemann, H. (2021). Abrupt Common Era hydroclimate shifts drive west Greenland ice cap change. Nature Geoscience, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00818-w
Edwards, T. L., Nowicki, S., Marzeion, B., Hock, R., Goelzer, H., Seroussi, H., … Trusel, L.D., et al. (2021). Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise. Nature, 593(7857), 74–82. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03302-y
Payne, A. J., Nowicki, S., Abe Ouchi, A., Agosta, C., Alexander, P., Albrecht, T., … Trusel, L.D., et al. (2021). Future sea level change under CMIP5 and CMIP6 scenarios from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091741
2020
Halberstadt, A. R. W., C. J. Gleason, M. S. Moussavi, A. Pope, L. D. Trusel, and R. M. DeConto (2020), Antarctic Supraglacial Lake Identification Using Landsat-8 Image Classification. Remote Sensing, doi:10.3390/rs12081327
Jakobs, C. L., C.H. Reijmer, C. J. P. P. Smeets, L. D. Trusel, W. J. van de Berg, M. R. van den Broeke, and J. M. van Wessem (2020), A benchmark dataset of in-situ Antarctic surface melt rates and energy balance. Journal of Glaciology, doi:10.1017/jog.2020.6.
Moussavi, M., A. Pope, A. R. W. Halberstadt, L. D. Trusel, L. Cioffi, and W. Abdalati (2020), Antarctic Supraglacial Lake Detection Using Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 Imagery: Towards Continental Generation of Lake Volumes. Remote Sensing, doi:10.3390/rs12010134.
Nowicki S., H. Goelzer, H. Seroussi, A. J. Payne, W. H. Lipscomb, A. Abe-Ouchi, C. Agosta, P. Alexander, X. S. Asay-Davis, A. Barthel, T. J. Bracegirdle, R. Cullather, D. Felikson, X. Fettweis, J. M. Gregory, T. Hattermann, N. C. Jourdain, P. Kuipers Munneke, E. Larour, C. M. Little, M. Morlighem, I. Nias, A. Shepherd, E. Simon, D. Slater, R. S. Smith, F. Straneo, L. D. Trusel, M. R van den Broeke, and R. van de Wal (2020), Experimental protocol for sea level projections from ISMIP6 stand-alone ice sheet models. The Cryosphere, doi:10.5194/tc-14-2331-2020.
Seroussi H., S. Nowicki, A. J. Payne, H. Goelzer, W. H. Lipscomb, A. Abe-Ouchi, C. Agosta, T. Albrecht, X. Asay-Davis, A. Barthel, R. Calov, R. Cullather, C. Dumas, B. K. Galton-Fenzi, R. Gladstone, N. R. Golledge, J. M. Gregory, R. Greve, T. Hattermann, M. J. Hoffman, A. Humbert, P. Huybrechts, N. C. Jourdain, T. Kleiner, E. Larour, G. R. Leguy, D. P. Lowry, C. M. Little, M. Morlighem, F. Pattyn, T. Pelle, S. F. Price, A. Quiquet, R. Reese, N. Schlegel, A. Shepherd, E. Simon, R. S. Smith, F. Straneo, S. Sun, L. D. Trusel, J. Van Breedam, R. S. W. Van De Wal, R. Winkelmann, C. Zhao, T. Zhang, and T. Zwinger (2020), ISMIP6 Antarctica: a multi-model ensemble of the Antarctic ice sheet evolution over the 21st century. The Cryosphere, doi:10.5194/tc-14-3033-2020.
2019
Osman, M. E., S. B. Das, L. D. Trusel, M. J. Evans, H. Fischer, M. M. Grieman, S. Kipfstuhl, J. R. McConnell, and E. S. Saltzman (2019), Industrial-era decline in subarctic Atlantic productivity. Nature, doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1181-8.
Golledge, N. R., E. D. Keller, N. Gomez, K. A. Naughten, J. Bernales, L. D. Trusel, and T. L. Edwards (2019), Global environmental consequences of twenty-first-century ice-sheet melt. Nature, doi:10.1038/s41586-019-0889-9.
2018
Trusel, L. D., S. B. Das, M. B. Osman, M. J. Evans, B. E. Smith, X. Fettweis, J. R. McConnell, B. P. Y. Noël, and M. R. van den Broeke (2018), Nonlinear rise in Greenland runoff in response to post-industrial Arctic warming, Nature, doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0752-4.
Bell, R. E., A. F. Banwell, L. D. Trusel, and J. Kingslake (2018), Antarctic Surface Hydrology and Impacts on Ice Sheet Mass Balance, Nature Climate Change, doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0326-3.
Pattyn, F., C. Ritz, E. Hanna, X. Asay-Davis, R. DeConto, G. Durand, L. Favier, X. Fettweis, H. Goelzer, N. R. Golledge, P. Kuipers Munneke, J. T. M. Lenaerts, S. Nowicki, A. J. Payne, A. Robinson, H. Seroussi, L. D. Trusel, and M. R. van den Broeke (2018), The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets under 1.5 °C global warming, Nature Climate Change, doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0305-8.
Schild. K. M., C. E. Renshaw, D. I. Benn, A. Luckman, R. L. Hawley, P. How, L. D. Trusel, F. R. Cottier, A. Pramanik, and N. R. J. Hulton (2018), Glacier Calving Rates due to Subglacial Discharge, Fjord Circulation, and Free Convection, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, doi:10.1029/2017JF004520.
van Wessem, J. M., W. J. van de Berg, B. P. Y. Noël, E. van Meijgaard, G. Birnbaum, C. L. Jacobs, K. Krüger, J. T. M. Lenaerts, S. Lhermitte, S. R. M. Ligtenberg, B. Medley, C. H. Reijmer, K. van Tricht, L. D. Trusel, L. H. van Ulft, B. Wouters, J. Wuite, and M. R. van den Broeke (2018). Modelling the climate and surface mass balance of polar ice sheets using RACMO2 - Part 2: Antarctica (1979-2016), The Cryosphere, 12 (4), 1479-1498. doi:10.5194/tc-12-1479-2018.
2017
Lenaerts, J. T. M., S. R. M. Ligtenberg, B. Medley, W. J. van de Berg, H. Konrad, J. P. Nicolas, J. M. van Wessem, L. D. Trusel, R. Mulvaney, R. J. Tuckwell, A. E. Hogg, E. R. Thomas (2017), Climate and surface mass balance of coastal West Antarctica resolved by regional climate modelling, Annals of Glaciology, doi:10.1017/aog.2017.42.
Scambos, T. A., R. E. Bell, R. B. Alley, S. Anandakrishnan, D. H. Bromwich, K. Brunt, K. Christianson, T. Creyts, S. Das, R. DeConto, P. Dutrieux, H. A. Fricker, D. Holland, J. MacGregor, B. Medley, J. P. Nicolas, D. Pollard, M. R. Siegfried, A. M. Smith, E. J. Steig, L. D. Trusel, D. G. Vaughan, and P. Yager (2017), How much, how fast?: A science review and outlook for research on the instability of Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier in the 21st century, Global and Planetary Change, 53, 16-34, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.04.008.
2015
Article on Antarctic ice shelf melt evolution featured as lead cover story in December 2015 issue of Nature Geoscience.
Trusel, L. D., K. E. Frey, S. B. Das, K. B. Karnauskas, P. Kuipers Munneke, E. van Meijgaard, and M. R. van den Broeke (2015), Divergent trajectories of Antarctic surface melt under two twenty-first century climate scenarios, Nature Geoscience, 8, (12), 927–932 doi:10.1038/ngeo2563.
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Polashenski, C., D. K. Perovich, K. E., Frey, L. W. Cooper, C. I. Logvinova, R. Dadic, B. Light., H. P. Kelly, L. D. Trusel, and M. Webster (2015), Physical and Morphological Properties of Sea Ice in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas during the 2010 and 2011 NASA ICESCAPE Missions, Deep-Sea Research II, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.04.006.
2013
Trusel, L. D. , K. E. Frey, S. B. Das, P. Kuipers Munneke, and M. R. van den Broeke (2013), Satellite-based estimates of Antarctic surface meltwater fluxes, Geophysical Research Letters, 40, doi:10.1002/2013GL058138.
Abram, N. J., R. Mulvaney, E. W. Wolff, J. Triest, S. Kipfstuhl, L. D. Trusel , F. Vimeux, L. Fleet, and C. Arrowsmith (2013), Acceleration of snow melt in an Antarctic Peninsula ice core during the twentieth century, Nature Geoscience, 6, (5), 404–411, doi:10.1038/ngeo1787.
2012
Trusel, L. D. , K. E. Frey, and S. B. Das (2012), Antarctic surface melting dynamics: Enhanced perspectives from radar scatterometer data, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 117, F02023, doi:10.1029/2011JF002126.
Cochrane, G. R., L. D. Trusel, J. Harney, and L. Etherington (2012), Habitats and Benthos of an Evolving Fjord, Glacier Bay, Alaska, in Seafloor Geomorphology as Benthic Habitat, pp. 299–308, Elsevier, London. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-385140-6.00018-9.
2010
Trusel, L. D., G. R. Cochrane, L. L. Etherington, R. D. Powell, and L. A. Mayer (2010), Marine benthic habitat mapping of Muir Inlet, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3122, U.S. Geological Survey, Washington D.C.
Trusel, L. D., R. D. Powell, R. M. Cumpston, and J. Brigham-Grette (2010), Modern glacimarine processes and potential future behaviour of Kronebreen and Kongsvegen polythermal tidewater glaciers, Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 344(1), 89–102, doi:10.1144/SP344.9.
