William Colgan

6.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
101 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

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William Colgan is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, William Colgan has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 96 papers in Atmospheric Science, 38 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 33 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in William Colgan's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (90 papers), Climate change and permafrost (52 papers) and Winter Sports Injuries and Performance (38 papers). William Colgan is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (90 papers), Climate change and permafrost (52 papers) and Winter Sports Injuries and Performance (38 papers). William Colgan collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United States and Canada. William Colgan's co-authors include Jason E. Box, Robert S. Fausto, Dirk van As, Konrad Steffen, W. Abdalati, Harihar Rajaram, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Kenneth D. Mankoff, Andreas P. Ahlstrøm and Kristian K. Kjeldsen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

William Colgan

95 papers receiving 3.4k citations

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Key indicators of Arctic climate change: 1971–2017

2019 548 citations Jason E. Box, William Colgan et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Community Heat Flow Recommendations: Suitable Basal Boundary Conditions for Greenland and Antarctica in ISMIP7 2025 ·California Digital Library ·(unknown), William Colgan, (unknown), Jörg Ebbing, Anne Gravsholt Busck, (unknown), Hélène Seroussi, Felicity S. McCormack, (unknown), L. A. Stearns, (unknown)	0
2	Vertical Land Motion Due To Present‐Day Ice Loss From Greenland's and Canada's Peripheral Glaciers 2024 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·(unknown), Valentina R. Barletta, Javed Hassan, (unknown), William Colgan, Michael Bevis, Rebekka Steffen, Shfaqat Abbas Khan	5
3	Design and performance of the Hotrod melt-tip ice-drilling system 2023 ·Geoscientific instrumentation, methods and data systems ·William Colgan, (unknown), Pavel G. Тalalay, (unknown), (unknown), Joshua Elliott, Harihar Rajaram, Kenneth D. Mankoff, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Nanna B. Karlsson, (unknown), (unknown)	0
4	Sixty years of ice form and flow at Camp Century, Greenland 2022 ·Journal of Glaciology ·William Colgan, Jakob Jakobsen, Anne Solgaard, (unknown), Jakob Abermann, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, B. M. Csathó, Joseph A. MacGregor, Robert S. Fausto, Nanna B. Karlsson, (unknown), S. B. Andersen, J. G. Sonntag, Christine S. Hvidberg, Andreas P. Ahlstrøm	1
5	Sea-level rise in Denmark: paleo context, recent projections and policy implications 2022 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·William Colgan, Hans Jørgen Henriksen, Ole Bennike, (unknown), Marie Keiding, (unknown), Morten Graversgaard, Anne Gravsholt Busck, Mikkel Fruergaard, (unknown), John R. Hopper, Torben O. Sonnenborg, (unknown), Anders Anker Bjørk, Holger Steffen, Lev Tarasov, R. S. Nerem, Kristian K. Kjeldsen	3
6	Topographic Correction of Geothermal Heat Flux in Greenland and Antarctica 2021 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface ·William Colgan, Joseph A. MacGregor, Kenneth D. Mankoff, (unknown), Harihar Rajaram, Yasmina M. Martos, Mathieu Morlighem, M. A. Fahnestock, Kristian K. Kjeldsen	21
7	PROMICE automatic weather station data 2021 ·Robert S. Fausto, Dirk van As, Kenneth D. Mankoff, Baptiste Vandecrux, Michele Citterio, Andreas P. Ahlstrøm, S. B. Andersen, William Colgan, Nanna B. Karlsson, Kristian K. Kjeldsen, Niels J. Korsgaard, Signe Hillerup Larsen, Søren Beck Nielsen, (unknown), (unknown), Anne Solgaard, Jason E. Box	4
8	Greenland Ice Sheet solid ice discharge from 1986 through March 2020 2020 ·Earth system science data ·Kenneth D. Mankoff, Anne Solgaard, William Colgan, Andreas P. Ahlstrøm, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Robert S. Fausto	88
9	Key indicators of Arctic climate change: 1971–2017 breakdown → 2019 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Jason E. Box, William Colgan, Torben R. Christensen, Niels Martin Schmidt, Magnus Lund, Frans‐Jan W. Parmentier, Ross Brown, Uma S. Bhatt, E. S. Euskirchen, V. E. Romanovsky, John E. Walsh, James E. Overland, Muyin Wang, Robert W. Corell, Walter N. Meier, Bert Wouters, Sebastian H. Mernild, Johanna Mård, Janet Pawlak, (unknown)	548
10	Greenland Ice Sheet solid ice discharge from 1986 through 2017 2019 ·Earth system science data ·Kenneth D. Mankoff, William Colgan, Anne Solgaard, Nanna B. Karlsson, Andreas P. Ahlstrøm, Dirk van As, Jason E. Box, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Kristian K. Kjeldsen, J. Mouginot, Robert S. Fausto	49
11	Greenland ice sheet – snowline elevations at the end of the melt seasons from 2000 to 2017 2018 ·Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU) ·Robert S. Fausto, S. B. Andersen, Andreas P. Ahlstrøm, Dirk van As, Jason E. Box, Daniel Binder, Michele Citterio, William Colgan, (unknown), (unknown), Nanna B. Karlsson, Kenneth D. Mankoff, (unknown), Anne Solgaard, Baptiste Vandecrux	1
12	Drivers of Firn Density on the Greenland Ice Sheet Revealed by Weather Station Observations and Modeling 2018 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface ·Baptiste Vandecrux, Robert S. Fausto, Peter L. Langen, Dirk van As, Michael MacFerrin, William Colgan, Thomas Ingeman‐Nielsen, Konrad Steffen, (unknown), (unknown), Jason E. Box	21
13	Application of PROMICE Q‐Transect in Situ Accumulation and Ablation Measurements (2000–2017) to Constrain Mass Balance at the Southern Tip of the Greenland Ice Sheet 2018 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface ·(unknown), Jason E. Box, Robert S. Fausto, William Colgan, Peter L. Langen, Ruth Mottram, Jan Wuite, Brice Noël, M. R. van den Broeke, Dirk van As	18
14	Quantifying supraglacial meltwater pathways in the Paakitsoq region, West Greenland 2017 ·Journal of Glaciology ·(unknown), Neil Arnold, Allen Pope, William Colgan	35
15	Changes in Greenland’s peripheral glaciers linked to the North Atlantic Oscillation 2017 ·Nature Climate Change ·Anders Anker Bjørk, (unknown), (unknown), Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Jason E. Box, Kristian K. Kjeldsen, Nicolaj K. Larsen, Niels J. Korsgaard, John Cappelen, William Colgan, Horst Machguth, Camilla S. Andresen, Yannick Peings, Kurt H. Kjær	52
16	Greenland meltwater storage in firn limited by near-surface ice formation 2016 ·Nature Climate Change ·Horst Machguth, Michael MacFerrin, Dirk van As, Jason E. Box, Charalampos Charalampidis, William Colgan, Robert S. Fausto, Harro A. J. Meijer, Ellen Mosley‐Thompson, Roderik S. W. van de Wal	178
17	Changing surface–atmosphere energy exchange and refreezing capacity of the lower accumulation area, West Greenland 2015 ·The cryosphere ·Charalampos Charalampidis, Dirk van As, Jason E. Box, M. R. van den Broeke, William Colgan, Samuel Doyle, Alun Hubbard, Michael MacFerrin, Horst Machguth, C. J. P. P. Smeets	34
18	Changing surface–atmosphere energy exchange and refreezing capacity of the lower accumulation area, west Greenland 2015 ·Charalampos Charalampidis, Dirk van As, Jason E. Box, M. R. van den Broeke, William Colgan, Michael MacFerrin, Horst Machguth, (unknown)	1
19	The annual glaciohydrology cycle in the ablation zone of the Greenland ice sheet: Part 2. Observed and modeled ice flow 2012 ·Journal of Glaciology ·William Colgan, Harihar Rajaram, Robert S. Anderson, Konrad Steffen, H. Jay Zwally, Thomas Phillips, W. Abdalati	27
20	Similarities in basal sliding between Greenland and Alpine Glaciers 2009 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·William Colgan, Thomas Phillips, Robert S. Anderson, H. Jay Zwally, W. Abdalati, Harihar Rajaram, Konrad Steffen	1

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