Ward van Pelt
Associate professor
Recent work
We recently generated new glacier thickness and bed (not bad!) maps for Svalbard. See here for more details! 
Have a look at our recent study on ice thickness inversion in Scandinavia! 
Fieldwork
Pictures of our annual field campaigns to Svalbard can be found here.
Welcome
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Welcome to my website! I am a senior lecturer in physical geography at Uppsala University in Sweden. In my research I assess the impact of changing climate conditions on Arctic glaciers and seasonal snow packs. | |
News
06-Nov-2024 :: Publication in The Cryosphere
"New glacier thickness and bed topography maps for Svalbard" by Van Pelt and Frank is now accepted for publication in The Cryosphere. pre-print
20-Mar-2024 :: Publication in Journal of Glaciology
"Ice volume and thickness of all Scandinavian glaciers and ice caps" by Frank et al. is now published (first-view) in Journal of Glaciology. Link
06-Feb-2024 :: Publication in Frontiers in Earth Science
"An analysis of winter rain-on-snow climatology in Svalbard" by Vickers et al. is now published in Frontiers in Earth Science: Cryospheric Sciences. Link
04-Jan-2024 :: Publication of SIOS report
The report "An agenda for the future of snow research in Svalbard - a multidomain approach is now published by SIOS. Link