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Rignot, Eric J. |
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University of California, Irvine |
| Primary Field
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Geophysics |
| Secondary Field
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Engineering Sciences |
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Rignot has provided unprecedented insights to the ongoing changes of the great ice sheets through vigorous, novel application of remote-sensing techniques, and is driving understanding and prediction by helping develop the next generation of full-stress ice flow models. His comprehensive syntheses inform policy. |
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Research Interests
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Eric Rignot's research interests is to understand the interaction between ice and climate, to determine how the ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland will respond to climate change in the coming century and affect regional to global sea level rise. He is a glaciologist, electrical engineer, climate change scientist, interested in glacier dynamics, ice-ocean interaction, radar remote sensing, ocean/sea ice/ice sheet numerical modeling, interferometry, and radio echo sounding. He has worked the first comprehensive estimates of the mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets with partitioning between surface mass balance and ice dynamics processes and acceleration. His work revealed rapid and potentially irreversible grounding line retreat of West Antarctica glaciers in the Amundsen Sea sector and the critical importance of ice-ocean interactions in controlling the evolution of ice shelves and ice front calving margins. He has conducted geophysical surveys using airborne and shipborne platforms in Greenland, Antarctica and Patagonia and has developed the use of remote sensing satellite techniques over glaciers from NASA and international space agencies. He has been involved with media outlets and policymakers to inform about changes in the polar regions brought on by climate warming. |
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