Professor Jonathan Bamber

Biography

Jonathan Bamber is a professor in physical geography. He graduated from Bristol University with a degree in Physics in 1983 and went on to complete a Ph.D at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, in glaciology and remote sensing. He then spent eight years in the Department of Space and Climate Physics, University College London before returning to Bristol in 1996. His main areas of interest are in applications of remote sensing data in the polar regions. More specifically, he has been working on the use of remote sensing data to elucidate the morphology and dynamics of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. More recently he has begun work on cryosphere-climate interactions and feedbacks through a combined modelling and observational approach.

He is also involved in remote sensing research in the department and has interests in the use of remote sensing data for a variety of other applications such as the generation of digital elevation models and in oceanography

Memberships

Organisations

School of Geographical Sciences

Research groups

• Bristol Glaciology Centre

Teaching

• Academic teaching staff

Links

• Linkedin
• Google Scholar citations
• Bristol Glaciology Centre
• The Cryosphere Journal

Selected publications

• Broeke, Mvd, Bamber, JL, Ettema, J, Rignot, E, Hurkmans, RTWL, Schrama, E, Berg, WJvd, Meijgaard, Ev, Velicogna, I & Wouters, B 2009, ‘Partitioning Recent Greenland Mass Loss’. Science, vol 326., pp. 984-986

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Recent publications

• Bamber, JL & Aspinall, W 2013, ‘An expert judgement assessment of future sea level rise from the ice sheets’. Nature Climate Change, vol 3.
• Wright, AP, Young, DA, Roberts, JL, Schroeder, DM, Bamber, JL, Dowdeswell, JA, Young, NW, Brocq, AML, Warner, RC, Payne, AJ, Blankenship, DD, Ommen, TDv & Siegert, MJ 2012, ‘Evidence of a hydrological connection between the ice divide and ice sheet margin in the Aurora Subglacial Basin, East Antarctica’. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, vol 117., pp. -
• Day, J, Bamber, JL, Valdes, PJ & Kohler, J 2012, ‘The impact of a seasonally ice free Arctic Ocean on the temperature, precipitation and surface mass balance of Svalbard’. The Cryosphere, vol 6., pp. 35-50
• Bamber, J, Jannke, E, Jan, L, Eric, R & den, BMv 2012, ‘Recent large increases in freshwater fluxes from Greenland into the North Atlantic’. Geophysical Research Letters, vol 39.
• Sasgen, I, Broeke, Mvd, Bamber, JL, Rignot, E, Sorensen, LS, Wouters, B, Martinec, Z, Velicogna, I & Simonsen, SB 2012, ‘Timing and origin of recent regional ice-mass loss in Greenland’. Earth and planetary science letters, vol 333., pp. 293-303
• Fitzgerald, PW, Bamber, JL, Ridley, JK & Rougier, JC 2012, ‘Exploration of parametric uncertainty in a surface mass balance model applied to the Greenland ice sheet’. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, vol 117., pp. -
• Kargel, JS, Ahlstrom, AP, Alley, RB, Bamber, JL, Benham, TJ, Box, JE, Chen, C, Christoffersen, P, Citterio, M, Cogley, JG, Jiskoot, H, Leonard, GJ, Morin, P, Scambos, T, Sheldon, T & Willis, I 2012, ‘Greenland's shrinking ice cover: "fast times" but not that fast’. The Cryosphere, vol 6., pp. 533-537
• Hall, AC, Schumann, GJ-, Bamber, JL, Bates, PD & Trigg, MA 2012, ‘Geodetic corrections to Amazon River water level gauges using ICESat altimetry’. Water Resources Research, vol 48., pp. -
• Hurkmans, RTWL, Bamber, JL, Sorensen, LS, Joughin, IR, Davis, CH & Krabill, WB 2012, ‘Spatiotemporal interpolation of elevation changes derived from satellite altimetry for Jakobshavn Isbrae, Greenland’. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, vol 117., pp. -

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Courses

Professor Bamber currently teaches 1 courses: