Richard Alley

Selected Publications:
Alley, R.B., H.J. Horgan, I. Joughin, K.M. Cuffey, T.K. Dupont, B.R. Parizek, S. Anandakrishnan and J. Bassis. A simple law for ice-shelf calving. Science 322, 1344-1344 (2008).

Applegate, P.J., T.V. Lowell and R.B. Alley. Comment on ‘‘Absence of cooling in New Zealand and the adjacent ocean during the Younger Dryas chronozone’’. Science, 320, 746d, DOI:10.1126/science.1152098 (2008).

Das, S.B., and R.B. Alley, Rise in frequency of surface melting at Siple Dome through the Holocene: Evidence for increasing marine influence on the climate of West Antarctica,Journal of Geophysical Research 113, D02112, doi:10.1029/2007JD008790 (2008).

Horgan, H.J., S. Anandakrishnan, R.B. Alley, L.E. Peters, G.P. Tsoflias, D.E. Voigt, and J.P. Winberry, Complex fabric development revealed by englacial seismic reflectivity: Jakobshavn Isbrae, Greenland, Geophysical Research Letters 35, L10501, doi:10.1029/2008GL033712 (2008).

Joughin, I., I. Howat, R.B. Alley, G. Ekstrom, M. Fahnestock, T. Moon, M. Nettles, M. Truffer, and V.C. Tsai, Ice-front variation and tidewater behavior on Helheim and Kangerdlugssuaq Glaciers, Greenland, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, F01004, doi:10.1029/2007JF000837 (2008).

Joughin, I., M. Howat, M. Fahnestock, B. Smith, W. Krabill, R.B. Alley, H. Stern and M. Truffer, Continued evolution of Jakobshavn Isbrae following its rapid speedup. Journal of Geophysical Research 113, F04006, doi:10.1029/2008JF001023 (2008).

Kelly, M.A., T.V. Lowell, B.L. Hall, J.M. Schaefer, R.C. Finkel, B.M. Goehring, R.B. Alley and G.H. Denton, A Be-10 chronology of lateglacial and Holocene mountain glaciation in the Scoresby Sund region, east Greenland: implications for seasonality during lateglacial time. Quaternary Science Reviews, 53, 216-223 (2008).

McGwire, K.C., G.M. Hargreaves, R.B. Alley, T.J. Popp, D.B. Reusch, M.K. Spencer and K.C. Taylor, An integrated system for optical imaging of ice cores. Cold Regions Science and Technology 53, 216-223 (2008).

McGwire, K.C., J.R. McConnell, R.B. Alley, J.R. Banta, G.M. Hargreaves and K.C. Taylor, Dating annual layers of a shallow Antarctic ice core with an optical scanner. Journal of Glaciology 54(188), 831-838 (2008).

Rathbun, A.P., C. Marone, R.B. Alley, and S. Anandakrishnan, Laboratory study of the frictional rheology of sheared till, Journal of Geophysical Research 113, F02020, doi:10.1029/2007JF000815 (2008).

Walker, R. T., T. K. Dupont, B. R. Parizek, and R. B. Alley (2008), Effects of asal-melting distribution on the retreat of ice-shelf grounding lines, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L17503, doi:10.1029/2008GL034947 (2008).

Winberry, J.P., S. Anandakrishnan, R.B. Alley, R.A. Bindschadler and M.A. King, Basal mechanics of ice streams: Insights from the stick-slip motion of Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research 114, F01016, DOI:10.1029/2008JF001035 (in press).

Vacco, D.A., R.B. Alley, D. Pollard, Modeling dependence of moraine deposition on climate history: The effect of seasonality. Quaternary Science Reviews (in press; available online 12 November 2008).

Solomon, S., R. Alley, J. Gregory, P. Lemke and M. Manning. A closer look at the IPCC 5 Report, Science 310, 409-410, doi: 10.1126/science.319.5862.409c (2008).

Alley, R.B., M. Fahnestock and I. Joughin. Climate Change: Understanding glacier flow in changing times (Perspective). Science 322, 1061-1062 (2008).

Severinghaus, J.P. and R.B. Alley, New data on abrupt climate changes, Science, Letters, http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/321/5889/680, (2008).

Column on climate change, Centre Daily Times, Jul. 10. Manuscripts submitted. (1) Vacco, D.A., R.B. Alley and D. Pollard. Numerical modeling of valley glacier stagnation: To ward a new paleoclimatic indicator. Quaternary Research.

Alley, R.B. Paleoclimatic insights into future climate challenges. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London , Series A 361(1810), 1831-1849 (2003), 10.1098/rsta.2003.1254.