Douglas R. MacAyeal, Professor, Department of the Geophysical Sciences and the College

Recent Publications
(Selected publications are available for download on Professor MacAyeal's personal website.)

E. Rignot, D.G. Vaughan, M. Schmeltz, T.K. Dupont and D.R. MacAyeal. 2001. Acceleration of glaciers in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, (Ann. Glaciol, 33, in press).

M. Schmeltz, E. Rignot and D.R. MacAyeal. 2001. Tidal flexure along ice-sheets margins: Comparison of InSAR with an elastic plate model, (Ann. Glaciol, 34, in press).

Cutler, P. M., D. M. Mickelson, P. M. Colgan, D. R. MacAyeal and B. Parizek, 2001. Influence of the Great Lakes on the Dynamics of the Laurentide Ice Sheet: Numerical Experiments. (Geology, 29, 1039-1042).

Schmeltz, M., E. Rignot, and D. R. MacAyeal, 2001. Ephemeral grounding as a signal of ice-shelf change. (Journal of Glaciology, 47(156), 71-77).

Joughin, I., M. Fahnestock, D. R. MacAyeal, J. L. Bamber, and P. Gogineni, 2001. Observation And Analysis Of Ice Flow In The Largest Greenland Ice Stream. (Journal of Geophysical Research, in press).

Lazzara M.A., K.C. Jezek, T.A. Scambos, D.R. MacAyeal, and C.J. van der Veen, 1999. On the Calving of Icebergs from the Ross Ice Shelf. (Polar Geography, 23(3), 201-212).

Rignot, E., L. Padman, D. R. MacAyeal and M. Schmeltz, in press. Observation of ocean tides below the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica, using SAR interferometry: Comparison with tide model predictions. (Journal of Geophysical Research, in press).

Hulbe, C. L. and D. R. MacAyeal, in press. A new numerical model of coupled inland ice sheet, ice stream and ice shelf flow and its application to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. (Journal of Geophysical Research, 104 (B11), 349-366).

Cutler, P. M., D. R. MacAyeal, D. M. Mickelson, B. R. Parizek and P. M. Colgan, 2000. A numerical investigation of ice lobe/permafrost interaction around the southern Laurentide Ice Sheet. (J. Glaciol., 46 (153), 3111-325).

MacAyeal, D. R. , E. Rignot and C. L. Hulbe. 1998. Ice-shelf dynamics near the front of Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica, revealed by SAR interferometry: model/interferogram comparison. (J. Glaciol, 44, 419-428.)

Rignot, E. and D. R. MacAyeal, 1998. Ice-shelf dynamics near the front of Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica, revealed by SAR interferometry. (J. Glaciol., 44, 405-418.)

Hulbe, C. L., E. Rignot and D. R. MacAyeal, 1998. Comparison of ice-shelf creep flow simulations with ice-front motion of Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica, detected by SAR interferometry. (Annals of Glaciology, 27, 182-186).

Licciardi, J. M., P. U. Clark, J. W. Jenson and D. R. MacAyeal, 1997. Deglaciation of a soft-bedded Laurentide Ice Sheet. (Quaternary Science Reviews)

Rommelaere, V. and D. R. MacAyeal, 1997. Large-scale rheology of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, computed by a control method. (Annals of Glaciology, 24, - ).

MacAyeal, D. R., V. Rommelaere, P. Huybrechts, C. L. Hulbe, J. Determann, and C. Ritz, 1996. An Ice-Shelf Model Test Based on the Ross Ice Shelf. (Annals of Glaciology, bf 23, 46-51).

Clark, P. U., J. M. Licciardi, D. R. MacAyeal, and J. W. Jenson, 1996. Numerical reconstruction of a soft-bedded Laurentide Ice Sheet during the last glacial maximum. (Geology, 23, 679-682).

Jenson, J. W., D. R. MacAyeal, P. U. Clark, C. Ho and J. C. Vela, 1996. Numerical modeling of subglacial sediment deformation: Implications for the behavior of the Lake Michigan Lobe, Laurentide Ice Sheet. (Journal of Geophysical Research, 101, 8717-8728).

Huybrechts, P., T. Payne, and 14 others, 1996. The EISMINT benchmarks for testing ice-sheet models. (Annals of Glaciology, 23, 1-12.)

Greve, R. and D. R. MacAyeal, 1996. Dynamic/thermodynamic simulations of Laurentide ice-sheet instability. (Annals of Glaciology, 23, 328-335).

Jenson, J. W., P. U. Clark, D. R. MacAyeal, C. L. Ho and J. C. Vela, 1995. Numerical modelling of advective transport of saturated deforming sediment beneath the Lake Michigan Lobe, Laurentide Ice Sheet. (Geomorphology, 14, 157-166.)

MacAyeal, D.R., R.A. Bindschadler and T.A. Scambos (1995) Basal friction of ice stream E, West Antarctica. Journal Glaciol., 41, 247-262.

MacAyeal, D.R. (1993) Binge/Purge oscillations of the Laurentide Ice Sheet as a cause of the North Atlantic's Heinrich events. Paleoceanography, 8, 775-784.

MacAyeal, D.R. (1993) A tutorial on the use of Control methods in ice-sheet modelling. Journal of Glaciology, 39, 91-98.