Dr Sainan Sun

VC Fellow

Department: Geography and Environmental Sciences

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Key Publications

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Short- and long-term variability of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, Hanna, E., Topál, D., Box, J., Buzzard, S., Christie, F., Hvidberg, C., Morlighem, M., De Santis, L., Silvano, A., Colleoni, F., Sasgen, I., Banwell, A., van den Broeke, M., DeConto, R., De Rydt, J., Goelzer, H., Gossart, A., Gudmundsson, G., Lindbäck, K., Miles, B., Mottram, R., Pattyn, F., Reese, R., Rignot, E., Srivastava, A., Sun, S., Toller, J., Tuckett, P., Ultee, L. 1 Mar 2024, In: Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Spatial and temporal variability of environmental proxies from the top 120 m of two ice cores in Dronning Maud Land (East Antarctica), Wauthy, S., Tison, J., Inoue, M., El Amri, S., Sun, S., Fripiat, F., Claeys, P., Pattyn, F. 5 Jan 2024, In: Earth System Science Data
Insights into the vulnerability of Antarctic glaciers from the ISMIP6 ice sheet model ensemble and associated uncertainty, Seroussi, H., Verjans, V., Nowicki, S., Payne, A., Goelzer, H., Lipscomb, W., Abe-Ouchi, A., Agosta, C., Albrecht, T., Asay-Davis, X., Barthel, A., Calov, R., Cullather, R., Dumas, C., Galton-Fenzi, B., Gladstone, R., Golledge, N., Gregory, J., Greve, R., Hattermann, T., Hoffman, M., Humbert, A., Huybrechts, P., Jourdain, N., Kleiner, T., Larour, E., Leguy, G., Lowry, D., Little, C., Morlighem, M., Pattyn, F., Pelle, T., Price, S., Quiquet, A., Reese, R., Schlegel, N., Shepherd, A., Simon, E., Smith, R., Straneo, F., Sun, S., Trusel, L., Van Breedam, J., Van Katwyk, P., van de Wal, R., Winkelmann, R., Zhao, C., Zhang, T., Zwinger, T. 7 Dec 2023, In: Cryosphere
The speedup of Pine Island Ice Shelf between 2017 and 2020: Revaluating the importance of ice damage, Sun, S., Gudmundsson, H. 9 Oct 2023, In: Journal of Glaciology
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

PGR Supervision

Richard Parsons Start Date: 01/08/2022

PGR Supervision

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

Qualifications

Science PhD June 01 2014
MA June 01 2012

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