Isabella Velicogna

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Isabella Velicogna

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Isabella Velicogna's Degrees

PhD Earth System Science University of California, Irvine
Masters Physics University of Trieste
Bachelors Physics University of Trieste

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According to Wikipedia, Isabella Velicogna is a geoscientist known for her work using gravity measurements from space to study changes in the polar ice sheets and water storage on Earth. Education and career Velicogna has a B.S. and M.S. in physics and a Ph.D. from the University of Trieste, Italy. Following her Ph.D. she moved to the University of Colorado, Boulder where she worked from 1999 until 2007. Velicogna started an appointment at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2006. At the same time, she joined the faculty at the University of California, Irvine where she was appointed professor in 2016.

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Isabella Velicogna's Published Works

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Satellite-based estimates of groundwater depletion in India (2009) (2128)
A Reconciled Estimate of Ice-Sheet Mass Balance (2012) (1319)
Acceleration of the contribution of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to sea level rise (2011) (1098)
Partitioning Recent Greenland Mass Loss (2009) (760)
Time‐variable gravity from GRACE: First results (2004) (674)
Increasing rates of ice mass loss from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets revealed by GRACE (2009) (639)
Revisiting the Earth's sea‐level and energy budgets from 1961 to 2008 (2011) (577)
Measurements of Time-Variable Gravity Show Mass Loss in Antarctica (2006) (574)
Mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2017 (2018) (554)
Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 °C global warming could be dangerous (2016) (495)
Accuracy of GRACE mass estimates (2006) (431)
Global sea-level budget 1993–present (2018) (383)
Contributions of GRACE to understanding climate change (2019) (378)
Rapid submarine melting of the calving faces of West Greenland glaciers (2010) (377)
Acceleration of Greenland ice mass loss in spring 2004 (2006) (374)
A review of global ocean temperature observations: Implications for ocean heat content estimates and climate change (2013) (351)
Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2018 (2019) (315)
Regional acceleration in ice mass loss from Greenland and Antarctica using GRACE time‐variable gravity data (2014) (291)
State of the Climate in 2016 (2017) (225)
Timing and origin of recent regional ice-mass loss in Greenland (2012) (219)
Greenland mass balance from GRACE (2005) (203)
Spread of ice mass loss into northwest Greenland observed by GRACE and GPS (2010) (198)
State of the Climate in 2014 (2015) (185)
Time‐variable gravity observations of ice sheet mass balance: Precision and limitations of the GRACE satellite data (2013) (176)
Three-Dimensional Structures Self-Assembled from DNA Bricks (2012) (174)
On the recovery of effective elastic thickness using spectral methods: Examples from synthetic data and from the Fennoscandian Shield (2003) (118)
The Paris Climate Agreement and future sea-level rise from Antarctica (2021) (112)
Validation of GRACE based groundwater storage anomaly using in-situ groundwater level measurements in India (2016) (109)
Precipitation climatology over India: validation with observations and reanalysis datasets and spatial trends (2015) (109)
Groundwater rejuvenation in parts of India influenced by water-policy change implementation (2017) (108)
A Global Gridded Dataset of GRACE Drought Severity Index for 2002–14: Comparison with PDSI and SPEI and a Case Study of the Australia Millennium Drought (2017) (107)
Continuity of Ice Sheet Mass Loss in Greenland and Antarctica From the GRACE and GRACE Follow‐On Missions (2020) (106)
Historical and Projected Surface Temperature over India during the 20th and 21st century (2017) (98)
Mass loss of the Amundsen Sea Embayment of West Antarctica from four independent techniques (2014) (96)
Satellites provide the big picture (2015) (86)
Impact of self-attraction and loading on the annual cycle in sea level (2010) (80)
The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean Version 4.0 (2020) (77)
Ecological restoration impact on total terrestrial water storage (2020) (76)
Can surface pressure be used to remove atmospheric (2001) (76)
Increasing subsurface water storage in discontinuous permafrost areas of the Lena River basin, Eurasia, detected from GRACE (2012) (75)
Satellite observations of terrestrial water storage provide early warning information about drought and fire season severity in the Amazon (2013) (75)
Satellite Observations of Regional Drought Severity in the Continental United States Using GRACE-Based Terrestrial Water Storage Changes (2017) (70)
Global (50°S–50°N) distribution of water vapor observed by COSMIC GPS RO: Comparison with GPS radiosonde, NCEP, ERA-Interim, and JRA-25 reanalysis data sets (2011) (67)
Bathymetry data reveal glaciers vulnerable to ice‐ocean interaction in Uummannaq and Vaigat glacial fjords, west Greenland (2016) (67)
Rapid submarine ice melting in the grounding zones of ice shelves in West Antarctica (2016) (63)
Continuity of the Mass Loss of the World's Glaciers and Ice Caps From the GRACE and GRACE Follow‐On Missions (2020) (61)
Ocean forcing drives glacier retreat in Greenland (2021) (59)
Detection of Glacier Calving Margins with Convolutional Neural Networks: A Case Study (2018) (49)
Attribution of divergent northern vegetation growth responses to lengthening non-frozen seasons using satellite optical-NIR and microwave remote sensing (2014) (48)
A method for separating antarctic postglacial rebound and ice mass balance using future ICESat Geoscience Laser Altimeter System, Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, and GPS satellite data (2002) (43)
Postglacial rebound and Earth's viscosity structure from GRACE (2002) (42)
Short term mass variability in Greenland, from GRACE (2005) (40)
Assessment of CMIP6 Cloud Fraction and Comparison with Satellite Observations (2020) (39)
Understanding of Contemporary Regional Sea‐Level Change and the Implications for the Future (2020) (35)
Satellite-observed changes in vegetation sensitivities to surface soil moisture and total water storage variations since the 2011 Texas drought (2017) (35)
Detection of sea level fingerprints derived from GRACE gravity data (2017) (33)
Impact of changes in GRACE derived terrestrial water storage on vegetation growth in Eurasia (2015) (31)
What Might GRACE Contribute to Studies of Post Glacial Rebound? (2003) (29)
Calving Front Machine (CALFIN): glacial termini dataset and automated deep learning extraction method for Greenland, 1972–2019 (2020) (29)
Evaluating Greenland glacial isostatic adjustment corrections using GRACE, altimetry and surface mass balance data (2014) (28)
Atmospheric summer teleconnections and Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass variations: insights from MERRA-2 (2016) (27)
CROP-03 prole: a geophysical analysis of data and results (1998) (27)
Mass Loss of Totten and Moscow University Glaciers, East Antarctica, Using Regionally Optimized GRACE Mascons (2018) (25)
Global climatology of planetary boundary layer top obtained from multi-satellite GPS RO observations (2019) (23)
A Comparison of AMSR-E/Aqua Snow Products with in situ Observations and MODIS Snow Cover Products in the Mackenzie River Basin, Canada (2010) (22)
Title Time-variable gravity from GRACE : First results Permalink (2004) (20)
The amount and timing of precipitation control the magnitude, seasonality and sources ( 14 C) of ecosystem respiration in a polar semi-desert, northwestern Greenland (2014) (20)
Potential for Southern Hemisphere climate surprises (2015) (20)
Erratum: Revisiting the Earth's sea-level and energy budgets from 1961 to 2008 (Geophysical Research Letters (2013) 40 (4066) doi:10.1002/grl.50752) (2013) (20)
Multicomponent Satellite Assessment of Drought Severity in the Contiguous United States From 2002 to 2017 Using AMSR‐E and AMSR2 (2019) (18)
Automatic delineation of glacier grounding lines in differential interferometric synthetic-aperture radar data using deep learning (2021) (18)
Evaluating CMIP5 models using GPS radio occultation COSMIC temperature in UTLS region during 2006–2013: twenty-first century projection and trends (2016) (18)
Evaluation of Reconstructions of Snow/Ice Melt in Greenland by Regional Atmospheric Climate Models Using Laser Altimetry Data (2018) (16)
Soil Moisture Variability in India: Relationship of Land Surface-Atmosphere Fields Using Maximum Covariance Analysis (2019) (16)
Vertical and latitudinal variation of the intertropical convergence zone derived using GPS radio occultation measurements (2015) (15)
Below-surface water mediates the response of African forests to reduced rainfall (2020) (14)
Long-term trends observed in the middle atmosphere temperatures using ground based LIDARs and satellite borne measurements (2014) (13)
Mass Balance of Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russian High Arctic, Using Time-Variable Gravity from GRACE and Altimetry Data from ICESat and CryoSat-2 (2018) (13)
Planetary waves in the upper stratosphere and lower mesosphere during 2009 Arctic major stratospheric warming (2012) (13)
Regional groundwater storage changes in the Indian subcontinent: The role of anthropogenic activities (2014) (13)
Sudden stratospheric warmings observed in the last decade by satellite measurements. (2015) (11)
Long-term variation of dust episodes over the United Arab Emirates (2019) (10)
Evaluation of Regional Climate Models Using Regionally Optimized GRACE Mascons in the Amery and Getz Ice Shelves Basins, Antarctica (2019) (9)
Observing Mass Transport to Understand Global Change and and to benefit Society : Science and User Needs - An international multi-disciplinary initiative for IUGG (2015) (8)
Bathymetry of Southeast Greenland From Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) Data (2019) (8)
The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean Version 4.0 (2020) (7)
Two-day wave observations over the middle and high latitudes in the NH and SH using COSMIC GPSRO measurements (2015) (7)
Improved Estimates of Geocenter Variability from Time-Variable Gravity and Ocean Model Outputs (2019) (7)
Satellite detection of varying seasonal water supply restrictions on grassland productivity in the Missouri basin, USA (2020) (7)
2 ° C Global Warming is Dangerous (2016) (6)
Supporting Online Material for Partitioning Recent Greenland Mass Loss (2009) (5)
Mass budget of the glaciers and ice caps of the Queen Elizabeth Islands , Canada , from 1991 to 2015 (2017) (5)
Global distribution of pauses observed with satellite measurements (2013) (4)
Greenland Ice sheet [in "State of the Climate in 2015"] (2016) (4)
Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms: Evidence from Paleoclimate Data, Climate Modeling, and Modern Observations Implies that 2°C Global Warming Above the Preindustrial Level Would Be Dangerous (2020) (4)
Title Acceleration of the contribution of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to sea level rise Permalink (2011) (4)
Estimating changes of temperatures and precipitation extremes in India using the Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) distribution (2018) (4)
Charting ice-sheet contributions to global sea-level rise (2016) (4)
Self‐Consistent Ice Mass Balance and Regional Sea Level From Time‐Variable Gravity (2020) (3)
Potential Problems With the use of Gravimeter Data for GRACE Cal/Val (2001) (3)
Synergistic Satellite Assessment of Global Vegetation Health in Relation to ENSO‐Induced Droughts and Pluvials (2021) (3)
Title Spread of ice mass loss into northwest Greenland observed by GRACE and GPS Permalink (2010) (3)
Applications of Satellite Altimetry to Study the Antarctic Ice Sheet (2017) (3)
Increasing subsurface water storage in discontinuous permafrost areas of the Lena River basin, detected from (2012) (2)
Methods for determining topography in data sparse regions of East Antarctica (2007) (2)
Mass balance and acceleration of the Greenland ice sheet (2012) (2)
Grand Challenges of Hydrologic Modeling for Food-Energy-Water Nexus Security in High Mountain Asia (2021) (2)
Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020 (2023) (2)
The amount and timing of precipitation control the magnitude , seasonality and sources ( 14 C ) of ecosystem respiration in a polar semi-desert , NW Greenland (2014) (2)
Anthropogenic influence on the changing risk of heat waves over India (2022) (2)
Calving Front Machine (CALFIN): Automated Calving Front Dataset and Deep Learning Methodology for East/West Greenland, 1972-2019 (2020) (2)
Influence of Asian Summer Monsoon Anticyclone on the Trace gases and Aerosols over Indian region (2019) (2)
Monitoring Global Freshwater Resources with GRACE (2011) (1)
Improved regional sea-level estimates from Ice Sheets, Glaciers and land water storage using GRACE time series and other data (2015) (1)
Mass Loss of Glaciers and Ice Caps From GRACE During 2002-2015 (2015) (1)
Towards resolving recent Greenland mass loss (Invited) (2009) (1)
Greenland and Antarctic mass balance from GRACE (2008) (1)
Gravity, Geoid, Isostasy and Moho Depth in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. (1997) (1)
CLIMATOLOGY AND COMPARISON STUDY OF STRATOSPHERE AND LOWER MESOSPHERE TEMPERATURES USING SATELLITE AND REANALYSIS DATA SETS. (2013) (1)
Status And Update On Time-Variable Gravity Observations Of Ice Sheet Mass Balance With GRACE: Precision And Limitations (2010) (1)
Snow Accumulation, Ice Discharge and Mass Balance in Greenland and Antarctica from GRACE (2004) (1)
The Global Water Cycle 2003-2008: Implications for Long-Period Sea Level Change (2009) (1)
Assimilation of GRACE derived terrestrial water storage into a hydrological land surface model (2003) (1)
Investigation of Kelvin wave periods during Hai-Tang typhoon using Empirical Mode Decomposition (2017) (1)
Precipitation variability over India during the 20th and 21st centuries: investigating natural and anthropogenic drivers (2022) (1)
High Arctic Glaciers and Ice Caps Ice Mass Change from GRACE, Regional Climate Model Output and Altimetry. (2016) (0)
Understanding the time-lag effect of terrestrial ecosystem response to drought: a regional case study of the 2000s Millennium Drought in Australia (2016) (0)
Acceleration of ice sheet mass losses from GRACE: trends and uncertainties (2013) (0)
Geodesy and the problem of the ice sheet (2003) (0)
Characterizing Seasonal Drought, Water Supply Pattern and Their Impact on Vegetation Growth Using Satellite Soil Moisture Data, GRACE Water Storage and Precipitation Observations (2016) (0)
Water Control on Vegetation Growth Pattern in Eurasia from GRACE (2014) (0)
Update on GRACE/GRACE-FO continuity in mass loss of the glaciers and big ice sheets. (2020) (0)
Separating GIA and Water Mass Redistribution Combining satellite and in situ Measurements:Preliminary Results From GRACE. (2004) (0)
Continuity of measurements of time-variable gravity across the GRACE and GRACE-FO missions over Greenland, Antarctica and the world's glaciers and ice caps. (2019) (0)
Structure and physical properties of the tectosphere in the metastable Europe (1999) (0)
Multicomponent Satellite Assessment of Global Drought Severity from 2002 to 2019 Using AMSR-E and AMSR2 (2019) (0)
Global spaceborne assessment of the relationship between terrestrial water storage and evaporative demand (2014) (0)
Hydrologic Applications of GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage Data (Invited) (2009) (0)
GRACE Applied to Terrestrial Hydrology (2007) (0)
Surface mass balance model evaluation from satellite and airborne lidar mapping (2016) (0)
Water Supply Constraint on Grassland Productivity at Different Seasonal Timing (2018) (0)
Groundwater rejuvenation in parts of India influenced by water-policy change implementation (2017) (0)
Mass balance of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago using a combination of remote sensing and climate modeling techniques. (2014) (0)
Satellite Measurements of Time Variable Gravity: What Can They Tell Us About the Earth? (2001) (0)
Satellite Detection and Attribution of Divergent Northern Vegetation Growth Responses to Lengthening Non-Frozen Seasons (Invited) (2013) (0)
Weighting climate change from space (Vening Meinesz Medal Lecture) (2017) (0)
Bathymetry along the periphery of the Greenland Ice Sheet using “Oceans Melting Greenland” (OMG) data (2019) (0)
Intensification of hydrological process in permafrost regions and correlation with ecological processes from multi-sensor satellite observations and in-situ measurements (2010) (0)
Regional Sea Level Variations from GRACE, InSAR and a Regional Atmospheric Climate Model Output Products (2014) (0)
Correlations between Eurasia terrestrial water cycle and boreal drought derived from multi-sensor satellite observations and in-situ data (2009) (0)
Automatic Delineation of Grounding Lines from Differential InSAR along the Getz Ice Shelf, Antarctica, using a Machine Learning Algorithm (2021) (0)
Geodesy and the problem of ice sheets (2004) (0)
Title Atmospheric summer teleconnections and Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass variations : insights from MERRA-2 Permalink (2016) (0)
Improved estimates of Antarctica seasonal and inter-annual ice mass variability from GRACE (2009) (0)
Title Time-variable gravity observations of ice sheet mass balance : Precision and limitations of the GRACE satellite data Permalink (2013) (0)
Evolution and characterization of drought events from GRACE and other satellite and observation. (2015) (0)
Historical and Projected Surface Temperature over India during the 20th and 21st century (2017) (0)
Planning for a Changing Mountain Hydroclimate: Using Large Ensembles to Assess Future Risks (Invited Presentation) (2020) (0)
Evaluating the High Asia Reanalysis (HAR) using Gauge-based and Satellite Precipitation Data over High Mountain Asia (2017) (0)
Regional Atmospheric Climate Model Evaluation in Getz and Amery Ice Shelf Basins Using GRACE (2019) (0)
Evaluation of the Impact of Land Water Supply on the Distribution of Plant Productivity (2019) (0)
Ice Sheets and Land Water Mass Contribution to Sea Level Fingerprint from GRACE, InSAR, and Regional Climate Model Output (2013) (0)
GRACE/GRACE-FO observed terrestrial water storage influencing global grassland growth (2020) (0)
Impact of ecological restoration in mainland China on the terrestrial water budget using GRACE/GRACE-FO and other data. (2020) (0)
Glacial Isostatic Adjustment and the GRACE Satellite Gravity Mission (2006) (0)
Improved estimate of accelerated Antarctica ice mass loses from GRACE, Altimetry and surface mass balance from regional climate model output (2016) (0)
Recent Greenland Thinning from Operation IceBridge ATM and LVIS Data (2015) (0)
Antarctic surface elevation and slope from multi-mission lidar mapping (2017) (0)
Ice mass variation in Greenland and Antarctica from GRACE (2005) (0)
Summer Climate Responses to Atmospheric Teleconnections and Greenland Ice Mass Variations in the Last Four Decades from the MERRA-2 Reanalysis (2015) (0)
Evaluation of postglacial rebound models combining GRACE, InSAR, regional atmospheric climate modeling and radar altimetry data (2011) (0)
A group intercomparison of GRACE Antarctic and Greenland ice loss estimates, as part of the Ice Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (IMBIE) (2012) (0)
Improved GIA correction yields larger Antarctic mass loss. (2014) (0)
Analysis of Snow Variability Over High Mountain Asia and Other Major High Mountain Ranges (2018) (0)
Calibration and Validation of the New Gravity Missions (2001) (0)
Hydrological Impact on Glacier Melt Over Asian Basins (2016) (0)
Regional sea level variability from ice sheets, glaciers and land hydrology (2014) (0)
Temperature and water control on vegetation productivity in Eurasia (2012) (0)
Improved regional sea-level estimates from present day mass fluxes from Ice Sheets, Glaciers and land water using GRACE (2016) (0)
Sea Level Rise and Superstorms : Evidence from Paleoclimate Data , Climate 1 Modeling , and Modern Observations Implies that 2 ° C Global Warming Above the 2 Preindustrial Level Would Be Dangerous 3 4 (2016) (0)
Policy-driven revegetation is depleting terrestrial water storage in Mu Us Sandland and its surrounding areas of China's Loess Plateau (2019) (0)
On the Impact of Sea Level Fingerprints on the Estimation of the Meridional Geostrophic Transport in the Atlantic Basin (2017) (0)
Reducing Uncertainties in Greenland Surface Mass Balance Using IceBridge and ICESat Altimetry, GRACE Data and Regional Atmospheric Climate Model Outputs (2015) (0)
Post-glacial Rebound and Ice Mass Balance In Antarctica From Icesat/glas,grace and Gps (2002) (0)
Sea Level Rise and Superstorms : Evidence from Paleoclimate Data , Climate 1 Modeling , and Modern Observations that 2 ° C Global Warming Could Be Dangerous 2 3 (2016) (0)
Global (50 1 S–50 1 N) distribution of water vapor observed by COSMIC GPS RO: Comparison with GPS radiosonde, NCEP, ERA-Interim, and JRA-25 reanalysis data sets Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (2011) (0)
Eurasia terrestrial water storage changes and boreal drought from multi-sensor satellite observations, in-situ data (2008) (0)
Contribution of High Mountain Asia glacier changes to river basin hydrology from GRACE and model output products. (2018) (0)
Above-linear increase in Greenland and Antarctica ice mass loss from GRACE and other data (2009) (0)
Impact of Ice Sheets, Glaciers, and Land Hydrology on Sea Level from Geodetic Observations and Global Observing Systems II (2015) (0)
Trends in ice sheet mass balance, 1992 to 2017 (2017) (0)
A case study of mesospheric planetary waves observed over a three-radar network using empirical mode decomposition (2018) (0)
Regionally Optimized GRACE Processing and Inter-comparison on the Antarctic Ice Sheet (2017) (0)
Revised mass budget of hot spots in Greenland and Antarctica using IceBridge and other data (2011) (0)
Recent Changes in Ices Mass Balance of the Amundsen Sea Sector (2014) (0)

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