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Dr Sainan Sun

VC Fellow

Department: Geography and Environmental Sciences

Sainan Sun

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  • A high‐end estimate of sea‐level rise for practitioners, van de Wal, R., Nicholls, R., Behar, D., McInnes, K., Stammer, D., Lowe, J., Church, J., DeConto, R., Fettweis, X., Goelzer, H., Haasnoot, M., Haigh, I., Hinkel, J., Horton, B., James, T., Jenkins, A., LeCozannet, G., Levermann, A., Lipscomb, W., Marzeion, B., Pattyn, F., Payne, T., Pfeffer, T., Price, S., Seroussi, H., Sun, S., Veatch, W., White, K. Nov 2022, In: Earth's Future
  • Subglacial hydrology modulates basal sliding response of the Antarctic ice sheet to climate forcing, Kazmierczak, E., Sun, S., Coulon, V., Pattyn, F. 27 Oct 2022, In: The Cryosphere
  • Antarctic ice sheet response to upper-bound scenarios, Sun, S., Pattyn, F. 4 Mar 2021, EGU General Assembly 2021
  • Contrasting Response of West and East Antarctic Ice Sheets to Glacial Isostatic Adjustment, Coulon, V., Bulthuis, K., Whitehouse, P., Sun, S., Haubner, K., Zipf, L., Pattyn, F. 18 Jul 2021, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
  • Future Sea Level Change Under Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 and Phase 6 Scenarios From the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets, Payne, A., Nowicki, S., Abe-Ouchi, A., Agosta, C., Alexander, P., Albrecht, T., Asay-Davis, X., Aschwanden, A., Barthel, A., Bracegirdle, T., Calov, R., Chambers, C., Choi, Y., Cullather, R., Cuzzone, J., Dumas, C., Edwards, T., Felikson, D., Fettweis, X., Galton-Fenzi, B., Goelzer, H., Gladstone, R., Golledge, N., Gregory, J., Greve, R., Hattermann, T., Hoffman, M., Humbert, A., Huybrechts, P., Jourdain, N., Kleiner, T., Munneke, P., Larour, E., Le clec'h, S., Lee, V., Leguy, G., Lipscomb, W., Little, C., Lowry, D., Morlighem, M., Nias, I., Pattyn, F., Pelle, T., Price, S., Quiquet, A., Reese, R., Rückamp, M., Schlegel, N., Seroussi, H., Shepherd, A., Simon, E., Slater, D., Smith, R., Straneo, F., Sun, S., Tarasov, L., Trusel, L., Van Breedam, J., van de Wal, R., van den Broeke, M., Winkelmann, R., Zhao, C., Zhang, T., Zwinger, T. 28 Aug 2021, In: Geophysical Research Letters
  • Ice sheet response to sub-shelf melt rates in coupled and uncoupled peri-Antarctic ice-sheet model simulations, Zipf, L., Pelletier, C., Haubner, K., Sun, S., Pattyn, F. 28 Apr 2021, EGU General Assembly 2021
  • Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise, Edwards, T., Nowicki, S., Marzeion, B., Hock, R., Goelzer, H., Seroussi, H., Jourdain, N., Slater, D., Turner, F., Smith, C., McKenna, C., Simon, E., Abe-Ouchi, A., Gregory, J., Larour, E., Lipscomb, W., Payne, A., Shepherd, A., Agosta, C., Alexander, P., Albrecht, T., Anderson, B., Asay-Davis, X., Aschwanden, A., Barthel, A., Bliss, A., Calov, R., Chambers, C., Champollion, N., Choi, Y., Cullather, R., Cuzzone, J., Dumas, C., Felikson, D., Fettweis, X., Fujita, K., Galton-Fenzi, B., Gladstone, R., Golledge, N., Greve, R., Hattermann, T., Hoffman, M., Humbert, A., Huss, M., Huybrechts, P., Immerzeel, W., Kleiner, T., Kraaijenbrink, P., Le clec’h, S., Lee, V., Leguy, G., Little, C., Lowry, D., Malles, J., Martin, D., Maussion, F., Morlighem, M., O’Neill, J., Nias, I., Pattyn, F., Pelle, T., Price, S., Quiquet, A., Radić, V., Reese, R., Rounce, D., Rückamp, M., Sakai, A., Shafer, C., Schlegel, N., Shannon, S., Smith, R., Straneo, F., Sun, S., Tarasov, L., Trusel, L., Van Breedam, J., van de Wal, R., van den Broeke, M., Winkelmann, R., Zekollari, H., Zhao, C., Zhang, T., Zwinger, T. 6 May 2021, In: Nature
  • Antarctic ice sheet response to sudden and sustained ice-shelf collapse (ABUMIP), Sun, S., Pattyn, F., Simon, E., Albrecht, T., Cornford, S., Calov, R., Dumas, C., Gillet-Chaulet, F., Goelzer, H., Golledge, N., Greve, R., Hoffman, M., Humbert, A., Kazmierczak, E., Kleiner, T., Leguy, G., Lipscomb, W., Martin, D., Morlighem, M., Nowicki, S., Pollard, D., Price, S., Quiquet, A., Seroussi, H., Schlemm, T., Sutter, J., Van De Wal, R., Winkelmann, R., Zhang, T. Dec 2020, In: Journal of Glaciology
  • Damage accelerates ice shelf instability and mass loss in Amundsen Sea Embayment, Lhermitte, S., Sun, S., Shuman, C., Wouters, B., Pattyn, F., Wuite, J., Berthier, E., Nagler, T. 6 Oct 2020, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Impact of coastal East Antarctic ice rises on surface mass balance: insights from observations and modeling, Kausch, T., Lhermitte, S., Lenaerts, J., Wever, N., Inoue, M., Pattyn, F., Sun, S., Wauthy, S., Tison, J., van de Berg, W. 9 Oct 2020, In: The Cryosphere

Richard Parsons Start Date: 01/08/2022

Richard Parsons Glacier Calving: Observations and Modelling Start Date: 01/01/2022

  • Science PhD June 01 2014
  • MA June 01 2012

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