Alex Gardner

14.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
86 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Alex Gardner is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Gardner has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Atmospheric Science, 28 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Alex Gardner's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (72 papers), Climate change and permafrost (34 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (34 papers). Alex Gardner is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (72 papers), Climate change and permafrost (34 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (34 papers). Alex Gardner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Netherlands. Alex Gardner's co-authors include Martin Sharp, Geir Moholdt, Bert Wouters, M. R. van den Broeke, J. Graham Cogley, A. A. Arendt, Johan Nilsson, Frank Paul, Regine Hock and Tobias Bolch and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alex Gardner

82 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A Reconciled Estimate of Glacier Contributions to Sea Level Rise: 2003 to 2009

2013 980 citations Alex Gardner, Bert Wouters et al. Science profile →
The Randolph Glacier Inventory: a globally complete inventory of glaciers

2014 912 citations Alex Gardner, Martin Sharp et al. profile →
Pervasive ice sheet mass loss reflects competing ocean and atmosphere processes

2020 343 citations H. A. Fricker, Alex Gardner et al. Science profile →
Increased West Antarctic and unchanged East Antarctic ice discharge over the last 7 years

2018 331 citations Alex Gardner, T. A. Scambos et al. The cryosphere profile →
Twenty-first century glacier slowdown driven by mass loss in High Mountain Asia

2018 319 citations Amaury Dehecq, Alex Gardner et al. profile →
Return to rapid ice loss in Greenland and record loss in 2019 detected by the GRACE-FO satellites

2020 187 citations Ingo Sasgen, Bert Wouters et al. Communications Earth & Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alex Gardner United States	36	5.6k	1.5k	1.2k	919	774	86	6.8k
Frank Paul Switzerland	42	7.4k 1.3×	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	388 0.4×	1.6k 2.0×	102	8.2k
Georg Kaser Austria	40	6.8k 1.2×	936 0.6×	1.9k 1.6×	402 0.4×	783 1.0×	91	7.8k
Ian M. Howat United States	48	8.9k 1.6×	3.5k 2.3×	973 0.8×	610 0.7×	1.9k 2.5×	133	9.6k
Edward Hanna United Kingdom	50	7.5k 1.3×	1.1k 0.7×	3.7k 3.0×	1.1k 1.2×	612 0.8×	158	8.8k
Duncan J. Wingham United Kingdom	34	5.2k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	731 0.6×	1.0k 1.1×	887 1.1×	84	5.9k
Jason E. Box United States	60	10.9k 1.9×	2.1k 1.4×	3.5k 2.8×	1.3k 1.4×	1.5k 1.9×	184	12.3k
Jack Kohler Norway	46	5.4k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	542 0.4×	351 0.4×	1.2k 1.6×	141	6.2k
J. Oerlemans Netherlands	59	9.9k 1.8×	1.6k 1.0×	2.6k 2.1×	659 0.7×	1.1k 1.4×	257	10.6k
Alun Hubbard United Kingdom	49	6.6k 1.2×	1.7k 1.2×	665 0.5×	283 0.3×	1.7k 2.1×	161	7.4k
H. A. Fricker United States	54	8.4k 1.5×	4.3k 2.9×	996 0.8×	808 0.9×	2.3k 2.9×	133	9.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Alex Gardner

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alex Gardner

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gardner, Alex, Chad A. Greene, Joseph H. Kennedy, et al.. (2025). ITS_LIVE global glacier velocity data in near-real time. The cryosphere. 19(9). 3517–3533.

Greene, Chad A. & Alex Gardner. (2025). Seasonal dynamics of Earth’s glaciers and ice sheets. Science. 390(6776). 945–950.

Menounos, Brian, Alex Gardner, Caitlyn Florentine, & Andrew G. Fountain. (2024). Brief communication: Recent estimates of glacier mass loss for western North America from laser altimetry. The cryosphere. 18(2). 889–894. 4 indexed citations

Paolo, Fernando, Alex Gardner, Chad A. Greene, et al.. (2023). Widespread slowdown in thinning rates of West Antarctic ice shelves. The cryosphere. 17(8). 3409–3433. 20 indexed citations

Gardner, Alex, Nicole‐Jeanne Schlegel, & Eric Larour. (2023). Glacier Energy and Mass Balance (GEMB): a model of firn processes for cryosphere research. Geoscientific model development. 16(8). 2277–2302. 5 indexed citations

Choi, Youngmin, Hélène Seroussi, Mathieu Morlighem, Nicole‐Jeanne Schlegel, & Alex Gardner. (2023). Impact of time-dependent data assimilation on ice flow model initialization and projections: a case study of Kjer Glacier, Greenland. The cryosphere. 17(12). 5499–5517. 5 indexed citations

Gardner, Alex, Chad A. Greene, Joseph H. Kennedy, et al.. (2023). ITS_LIVE: A Cloud-Native Approach to Monitoring Glaciers From Space. Computing in Science & Engineering. 25(6). 49–56. 1 indexed citations

Choi, Youngmin, Hélène Seroussi, Alex Gardner, & Nicole‐Jeanne Schlegel. (2022). Uncovering Basal Friction in Northwest Greenland Using an Ice Flow Model and Observations of the Past Decade. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 127(10). 9 indexed citations

Whicker, Chloe A., M. Flanner, Cheng Dang, et al.. (2022). SNICAR-ADv4: a physically based radiative transfer model to represent the spectral albedo of glacier ice. The cryosphere. 16(4). 1197–1220. 23 indexed citations

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Greene, Chad A., Alex Gardner, Nicole‐Jeanne Schlegel, & Alexander Fraser. (2022). Antarctic calving loss rivals ice-shelf thinning. Nature. 609(7929). 948–953. 84 indexed citations

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Whicker, Chloe A., M. Flanner, Cheng Dang, et al.. (2021). SNICAR-ADv4: A physically based radiative transfer model to represent the spectral albedo of glacier ice. 4 indexed citations

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Flanner, M., et al.. (2020). Using ICESat-2 and Operation IceBridge altimetry for supraglacial lake depth retrievals. The cryosphere. 14(11). 4253–4263. 27 indexed citations

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Flanner, M., et al.. (2020). Using ICESat-2 and Operation IceBridge altimetry for supraglacial lake depth retrievals. 3 indexed citations

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Sasgen, Ingo, Bert Wouters, Alex Gardner, et al.. (2020). Return to rapid ice loss in Greenland and record loss in 2019 detected by the GRACE-FO satellites. Communications Earth & Environment. 1(1). 187 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pierre, Kyra A. St., Vincent L. St. Louis, Sherry L. Schiff, et al.. (2019). Proglacial freshwaters are significant and previously unrecognized sinks of atmospheric CO ₂. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(36). 17690–17695. 53 indexed citations

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Greene, Chad A., Kaustubh Thirumalai, Kelly Kearney, et al.. (2019). The Climate Data Toolbox for MATLAB. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 20(7). 3774–3781. 188 indexed citations

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Pierre, Kyra A. St., Vincent L. St. Louis, Igor Lehnherr, et al.. (2019). Contemporary limnology of the rapidly changing glacierized watershed of the world’s largest High Arctic lake. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 4447–4447. 29 indexed citations

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Pierre, Kyra A. St., Vincent L. St. Louis, Igor Lehnherr, et al.. (2018). Drivers of Mercury Cycling in the Rapidly Changing Glacierized Watershed of the High Arctic’s Largest Lake by Volume (Lake Hazen, Nunavut, Canada). Environmental Science & Technology. 53(3). 1175–1185. 43 indexed citations

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Cook, Joseph M., Andy Hodson, Alex Gardner, et al.. (2017). Quantifying bioalbedo: a new physically based model and discussion of empirical methods for characterising biological influence on ice and snow albedo. The cryosphere. 11(6). 2611–2632. 69 indexed citations

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Gardner, Alex, et al.. (2015). ICESat2 subsurface-scattering biases estimated based on the 2015 SIMPL/AVRIS campaign. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015. 4 indexed citations

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