William Colgan

Researcher Next ID · RN-038162

Researcher · Earth and Planetary Sciences

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

Copenhagen, Norway

Accepting doctoral researchersFunding unknown

Works count: 915
Citation count: 7,058
H-index: 48
i10-index: 87

Research interests

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Environmental Science

Medicine

Cryospheric studies and observations

Climate change and permafrost

Winter Sports Injuries and Performance

Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

Landslides and related hazards

Publications

Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023
Nature · 2025 · 10.1038/s41586-024-08545-z
Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020
Earth system science data · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-1597-2023
Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed sea-level rise
Nature Climate Change · 2022 · 10.1038/s41558-022-01441-2
Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE) automatic weather station data
Earth system science data · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3819-2021
Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE) automatic weather station data
Earth system science data · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3819-2021
Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE) automatic weather station data
Earth system science data · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3819-2021
Greenland liquid water discharge from 1958 through 2019
Earth system science data · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2811-2020
Greenland Ice Sheet solid ice discharge from 1986 through March 2020
Earth system science data · 2020 · 10.5194/essd-12-1367-2020
Key indicators of Arctic climate change: 1971–2017
Environmental Research Letters · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aafc1b
Glacier crevasses: Observations, models, and mass balance implications
Reviews of Geophysics · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1002/2015rg000504
Greenland meltwater storage in firn limited by near-surface ice formation
Nature Climate Change · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2899
A synthesis of the basal thermal state of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface · 2016 · 10.1002/2015jf003803
Spatial and temporal distribution of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet since AD 1900
Nature · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16183
A decadal investigation of supraglacial lakes in West Greenland using a fully automatic detection and tracking algorithm
Remote Sensing of Environment · 2012 · 10.1016/j.rse.2012.03.020

Current projects

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