Waleed Abdalati

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Waleed Abdalati is affiliated with the following schools: University of Colorado Boulder, Syracuse University, University of Colorado

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Waleed Abdalati

Earth Sciences

#165

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#352

Historical Rank

#71

USA Rank

Geography

#78

World Rank

#152

Historical Rank

#22

USA Rank

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According to Wikipedia, Waleed Abdalati held the position of NASA Chief Scientist from 3 January 2011 through December 2012. Abdalati was named to this position on 13 December 2010 by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. Abdalati previously served NASA as Head of Cryospheric Sciences at Goddard Space Flight Center between January 2004 and June 2008.

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Waleed Abdalati's Published Works

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Surface Melt-Induced Acceleration of Greenland Ice-Sheet Flow (2002) (941)
Large fluctuations in speed on Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbræ glacier (2004) (522)
The Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2): Science requirements, concept, and implementation (2017) (484)
Recent Greenland Ice Mass Loss by Drainage System from Satellite Gravity Observations (2006) (424)
Greenland Ice Sheet: Increased coastal thinning (2004) (383)
The ICESat-2 Laser Altimetry Mission (2010) (312)
High Geothermal Heat Flow, Basal Melt, and the Origin of Rapid Ice Flow in Central Greenland (2001) (283)
Snowmelt on the Greenland Ice Sheet as Derived from Passive Microwave Satellite Data (1997) (231)
Greenland Ice Sheet melt extent: 1979–1999 (2001) (200)
Aircraft laser altimetry measurement of elevation changes of the greenland ice sheet: technique and accuracy assessment (2002) (185)
Investigation of surface melting and dynamic thinning on Jakobshavn Isbrae, Greenland (2003) (183)
End of the Little Ice Age in the Alps forced by industrial black carbon (2013) (160)
Passive microwave‐derived snow melt regions on the Greenland Ice Sheet (1995) (154)
Glacier crevasses: Observations, models, and mass balance implications (2016) (122)
Elevation changes of ice caps in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (2004) (115)
A decadal investigation of supraglacial lakes in West Greenland using a fully automatic detection and tracking algorithm (2012) (115)
An increase in crevasse extent, West Greenland: Hydrologic implications (2011) (84)
Evaluation of cryo‐hydrologic warming as an explanation for increased ice velocities in the wet snow zone, Sermeq Avannarleq, West Greenland (2013) (79)
Glaciological advances made with interferometric synthetic aperture radar (2010) (78)
Rapid expansion of Greenland’s low-permeability ice slabs (2019) (77)
Climate sensitivity studies of the Greenland ice sheet using satellite AVHRR, SMMR, SSM/I and in situ data (1993) (74)
Substantial thinning of a major east Greenland outlet glacier (2000) (73)
Validation of high-resolution GRACE mascon estimates of glacier mass changes in the St Elias Mountains, Alaska, USA, using aircraft laser altimetry (2008) (69)
Internal layer tracing and age‐depth‐accumulation relationships for the northern Greenland ice sheet (2001) (69)
Persistent surface snowmelt over Antarctica (1987–2006) from 19.35 GHz brightness temperatures (2007) (62)
Basal crevasses on the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica: Implications for meltwater ponding and hydrofracture (2012) (62)
The annual glaciohydrology cycle in the ablation zone of the Greenland ice sheet: Part 1. Hydrology model (2011) (61)
Comparison of brightness temperatures from SSMI instruments on the DMSP F8 and FII satellites for Antarctica and the Greenland ice sheet (1995) (59)
Long melt seasons on ice shelves of the Antarctic Peninsula: an analysis using satellite-based microwave emission measurements (2002) (58)
Analysis of a GRACE global mascon solution for Gulf of Alaska glaciers (2013) (55)
Outlet Glacier and Margin Elevation Changes: Near Coastal Thinning of the Greenland Ice Sheet (2013) (48)
Calculation of Ice Velocities in the Jakobshavn Isbrae Area Using Airborne Laser Altimetry (1999) (48)
Derivation and Validation of Supraglacial Lake Volumes on the Greenland Ice Sheet from High-Resolution Satellite Imagery (2016) (47)
Applicability of an automatic surface detection approach to micro-pulse photon-counting lidar altimetry data: implications for canopy height retrieval from future ICESat-2 data (2014) (44)
Modeling moulin distribution on Sermeq Avannarleq glacier using ASTER and WorldView imagery and fuzzy set theory (2011) (43)
Monte Carlo ice flow modeling projects a new stable configuration for Columbia Glacier, Alaska, c. 2020 (2012) (42)
Recommendations for the collection and synthesis of Antarctic Ice Sheet mass balance data (2004) (40)
Antarctic Supraglacial Lake Detection Using Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 Imagery: Towards Continental Generation of Lake Volumes (2020) (39)
The apparent effects of the Mt. Pinatubo Eruption on the Greenland Ice Sheet melt extent (1997) (39)
The annual glaciohydrology cycle in the ablation zone of the Greenland ice sheet: Part 2. Observed and modeled ice flow (2012) (35)
Accumulation and hoar effects on microwave emission in the Greenland ice-sheet dry-snow zones (1998) (34)
The structure and effect of suture zones in the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica (2014) (30)
Deformation, Ecosystem Structure, and Dynamics of Ice (DESDynI) (2008) (25)
Large Fluctuations in Speed on Jakobshavn Isbrae, Greenland (2003) (23)
Environment, Global Climate Change, and Cardiopulmonary Health (2016) (23)
Considering thermal‐viscous collapse of the Greenland ice sheet (2015) (20)
Hybrid inventory, gravimetry and altimetry (HIGA) mass balance product for Greenland and the Canadian Arctic (2014) (20)
Airborne laser altimetry mapping of the Greenland ice sheet: application to mass balance assessment (2002) (20)
Observing Systems Needed to Address Sea‐Level Rise and Variability (2010) (19)
Modeling of ice flow and internal layers along a flowline through Swiss Camp, West Greenland (2013) (15)
Faceted crystal formation in the northeast Greenland low-accumulation region (1999) (15)
Hybrid glacier Inventory , Gravimetry and Altimetry ( HIGA ) mass balance product for Greenland and the Canadian Arctic (2015) (12)
The Arctic in the Anthropocene: Emerging research questions (2014) (11)
Analysis of gps data collected on the Greenland ice sheet (2001) (6)
Remote sensing of melting snow and ice (2014) (6)
The Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) Summary Mission Timeline and Performance Relative to Pre-Launch Mission Success Criteria (2012) (6)
Ending a Sea of Confusion: Insights and Opportunities in Sea-Level Change Communication (2020) (5)
The Greenland Firn Compaction Verification and Reconnaissance (FirnCover) Dataset, 2013–2019 (2021) (5)
Program for Arctic Regional Climate Assessment (Parca) (2013) (5)
Recent changes in high‐latitude glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets (2006) (4)
High-Resolution Spatiotemporal Trend Analysis of Precipitation Using Satellite-Based Products over the United Arab Emirates (2021) (4)
Constraining GRACE-derived cryosphere-attributed signal to irregularly shaped ice-covered areas (2013) (4)
2006 Visualization Challenge Winners (2006) (3)
Similarities in basal sliding between Greenland and Alpine Glaciers (2009) (3)
Preface [to special section on Mass Balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PARCA)] (2001) (2)
APPLICATION OF AIRCRAFT LASER ALTIMETRY TO GLACIER AND ICE CAP MASS BALANCE STUDIES (2004) (2)
A decade of changing surface energy balance components over a large water region (2016) (1)
The ICESat-2 Laser AltimetryMission Planned to launch in 2015 , ICEsat-2 will measure changes in polar ice coverage and estimate changes in the Earth ’ s biomass by measuring vegetation canopy height (2010) (1)
More than Skin Deep: Sea Surface Temperature as a Means of Inferring Atlantic Water Variability on the Southeast Greenland Continental Shelf Near Helheim Glacier (2020) (1)
Changes in ice geometry and supraglacial hydrology, Sermeq Avannarleq ablation zone, West Greenland (2010) (1)
How fast is sea level rising? (2022) (0)
Modeling the future ice discharge of a small tidewater glacier, West Greenland (2010) (0)
20,000 leagues under the sea: a journey to the future of observing the deep oceans (2003) (0)
Program for Arctic Regional Assessment (PARCA). Greenland Science and Planning Meeting, January 14-15, 2003, Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, Ohio (2003) (0)
Relationship Between ELA and SAR Backscatter Parameters for Selected Transects of the Greenland Ice Sheet (2008) (0)
Determining Greenland Ice Sheet Accumulation Rates from Radar Remote Sensing (2001) (0)
Earth from Space: The Power of Perspective (2016) (0)
Machine and Deep Learning Identification of Crevasses on the Periphery of the Greenland Ice Sheet from ICESat Waveform Altimetry Data (2019) (0)
Programme of Sessions (2005) (0)
Mass Balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet: What Has Really Been Happening? (2006) (0)
Steffen K, Abdalati W and Stroeve J (1993) Climate sensitivity studies of the Greenland ice sheet using satellite AVHRR, SMMR SSM/I and in situ data. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics 51(3–4): 239–258. DOI:10.1007/bf01030497 (2021) (0)
ICESat-1 Derived Greenland Crevasse Distribution (2018) (0)
Interpreting Aircraft-Derived Ice Sheet Elevation Change Using Climate Station Data (1999) (0)
Update on the Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Extent: 1979-1999 (2000) (0)
Shape-from-shading using Landsat 8 and airborne laser altimetry over ice sheets: toward new regional DEMs of Greenland and Antarctica (2015) (0)
Satellite and Model Analysis of the Atmospheric Moisture Budget in High Latitudes (2001) (0)
Massive Perched Ice Layers in the Shallow Firn of Greenland's Lower Accumulation Area Inhibit Percolation and Enhance Runoff (2014) (0)
The Sea Level Rise Challenge (2010) (0)
Where Does Arctic Research and SEARCH Go Next (2018) (0)
ICESat-2: A View Forward (Invited) (2010) (0)
Only skin deep? Linking sea surface temperatures with glacier discharge and deep fjord temperature change (2018) (0)
Updating the results of glacier contribution to the sea level change (2005) (0)
Firn strain rate observations compared with firn-model predictions in Greenland (2019) (0)
Millennial scale ice dynamics and the spatial partition of Greenland mass change (Invited) (2013) (0)
Assessment of Climate Variability of the Greenland Ice Sheet: Integration of In Situ and Satellite Data (1994) (0)
Combining ASTER Thermal Data and Spatial-Based Insolation Model for Identification of Geothermal Active Areas (2016) (0)
Alongshore winds force warm Atlantic Water toward Helheim Glacier in southeast Greenland (2021) (0)
The Power of the Crowd: An Up Close and Personal Perspective on Planet Earth. (2015) (0)
Ice Shelves and Landfast Ice on the Antarctic Perimeter: Revised Scope of Work (2002) (0)
CLIMATE CHANGE ON EARTH AND THE TERRESTRIAL PLANETS 8:15 a.m. Boulderado Ballroom Comparisons of the greenhouse effect, upper atmospheres, and climate evolution of the Earth and terrestrial planets (2012) (0)
NASA's Ice Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat): Providing New Insights into the Changing Cryosphere (2006) (0)
Velocity Estimates of Fast-Moving Outlet Glaciers on the Greenland Ice Sheet (1998) (0)
The ICESat-2 Mission: Laser altimetry of ice, clouds and land elevation (2009) (0)
Validation of supraglacial bathymetry models developed for optical sensors using high-resolution stereo-imagery: Implications for meltwater storage assessments across the ablation region of the Greenland ice sheet. (2014) (0)
GLA17: A New ICESat-1 Derived Surface Roughness Product for the Greenland Ice Sheet (2016) (0)
Evaluation of shifts in snow metamorphism patterns by joint analysis of RadarSat-1 and ICESat-1 data (2009) (0)
CLIMATE CHANGE ON EARTH AND THE TERRESTRIAL PLANETS 8:15 a.m. Boulderado Ballroom Comparisons of the greenhouse effect, upper atmospheres, and climate evolution of the Earth and terrestrial planets (2012) (0)
Responding to Climate Change at the Poles: Findings from the National Research Council's Reports on Climate Intervention (2015) (0)
Evolution of fast ice thickness from Cryosat-2 radar altimetry data, a case study in Scar Inlet, Antarctica (2017) (0)
Exploring the Cryosphere from the Air and Space: The Power of Perspective (2018) (0)
Recent Changes in Arctic Glaciers, Ice Caps, and the Greenland Ice Sheet: Cold Facts About Warm Ice (2005) (0)
Relative Magnitude and Timing of Mass Change Mechanisms on the Greenland Ice Sheet from GRACE and Surface Mass Balance Models (2009) (0)
Modelling Greenland Outlet Glaciers (2001) (0)
Realizing the Value of Citizen Science Data. (2015) (0)
Impact of Global Climate Change on Pulmonary Health: Susceptible and Vulnerable Populations. (2023) (0)
Implications of Changing Firn Structure on Firn Compaction Rates Due to Increased Interannual Melt in SW Greenland's Percolation Zone (2012) (0)
Ocean, ice, and climate: the slow dance of a complex system (2001) (0)

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