Fabien Maussion
Associate Professor
Bristol Glaciology Centre
School of Geographical Sciences
University of Bristol
University Road, Bristol BS8 1SS, UK
fabien.maussion@bristol.ac.uk
Personal website: fabienmaussion.info
ORCID: 0000-0002-3211-506X • GitHub: fmaussion •
Twitter: FabClimate
Last updated: January 2024. Blue font indicates clickable
links.
Professional career
- From July 2023
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Associate professor at the School of
Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
- 2021-2023
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Associate professor at the Department of Atmospheric
and Cryospheric Sciences (ACINN), University of Innsbruck
Habilitation obtained in 2021 with the title “Numerical modelling of global glacier change”.
The habilitation is the highest university degree in Germany and
Austria. It certifies the ability to be a full professor in these
countries.
- 2021
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3 months research stay as “invited professor” (funded) at Université
Grenoble Alpes & Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement
- 2015–2021
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Assistant professor at ACINN, University of Innsbruck
- 2014–2015
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Post-doc at ACINN, University of Innsbruck
- 2008–2014
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PhD then Post-doc at the Chair of Climatology, Technische Universität Berlin
- 2006–2007
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Interim year as engineering trainee – Space mechanics at C-S Group, Toulouse
Education
- 2008–2014
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Technische
Universität Berlin - Chair of Climatology – PhD thesis
PhD Thesis defended in February 2014 with the title
“A new atmospheric dataset for High Asia : development, validation and
applications in climatology and in glaciology” (highest honors).
Supervisor: Dieter Scherer.
- 2007–2008
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Technische Universität
Berlin – International exchange year and Master degree
- 2008
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Master degree at SUPAÉRO – Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de
l’Espace, Toulouse (aerospace engineering school)
Awards
Wilhelm-Lauer-Preis 2014 (Akademie der
Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz): Prize for an outstanding,
original PhD dissertation in the field of mountain geography.
Research projects
conducted as PI or Co-I
- 2021–2024
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PROVIDE – Paris Agreement Overshooting –
Reversibility, Climate Impacts and Adaptation Needs (H2020,
230k€). Co-I (total consortium 6M€).
- 2022–2024
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A future-ready Open Global Glacier Model (OGGM)
(DFG, 180k€, co-PI)
- 2023–2025
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HYdro power: iMpact on the ELecTricity sector in Austria
due to Climate Change in glaciated high alpine areas (HyMELT-CC)
(Austrian Climate Research Programme, 50k€). Co-I
(total consortium 300k€).
- 2021–2024
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UNCERTAIN – Certainties and uncertainties in the
future surface mass balance of mountain glaciers (ÖAW, 120k€, together with PhD
student Lilian Schuster)
- 2019–2023
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AgroClim -
Huaraz, “Water availability and water demand in the Peruvian Andes”
(ÖAW, PI, 443k€)
- 2022
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UNESCO, IACS and WGMS support for the Randolph Glacier Inventory (PI,
20k€)
- 2020–2022
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Scaling regional sea-level changes with climate
forcings (FWF, replacing previous PI Kristin Richter)
- 2018–2021
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Modelling glacier length changes in Alps on the base of
tree-ring based temperature reconstructions (Universtität Innsbruck,
120k€, Co-I)
- 2019–2020
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“Glaciers on the Cloud: OGGM-Edu” (PI, University of Innsbruck,
20k€)
- 2018–2019
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The Upper Grindelwald Glacier as indicator for Holocene
climate variability (Tiroler Wissenschaftsförderung - PI, TWF,
10k€)
Student supervision
PhD theses (current)
- Lilian Schuster (ACINN): Working on the uncertainty
of large scale surface mass-balance models (funded via UNCERTAIN grant)
- Patrick Schmitt (ACINN): Working on the global
glacier response under climate targets overshoot scenarios (funded
via PROVIDE
grant)
- Lorenz Hänchen (Institute of Ecology,
co-supervised): Working on the spatio-temporal variability in water
availability and demand in the Peruvian Andes (funded via AgroClim-Huaraz
grant)
- Niklas Richter (ACINN, co-supervised): Atmospheric
drivers of glacier change in High Mountain Asia (funded via internal grant)
PhD theses (completed)
- Julia Eis (Universität Bremen, co-supervised,
2020): Reconstructing glacier evolution using a flowline model (link)
- Beatriz Recinos (Universität Bremen, co-supervised,
2020): Ocean-glacier interaction on the large regional scale (link)
- Anouk Vlug (Universität Bremen, co-supervised,
2021): The influence of climate variability on the mass balance of
Canadian Arctic land-terminating glaciers, in simulations of the last
millennium (link)
Visiting PhD students
- Rodrigo Aguayo (Universidad de Concepción, Chile,
2022): working on glacier change and hydrology of Patagonia.
- Li Fei 李斐 (Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research,
China, 2020-2021): working on ice volume estimates in High Mountain
Asia
24 completed master and bachelor theses. For a full
list, visit my personal website.
Contributions
to open source software and open data
- OGGM
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Open-source global glacier evolution modelling framework (oggm.org). In active
development since 2016, used by several research groups worldwide and in
more than 25 publications, 3 completed and 8 ongoing PhD projects.
Project leader.
- OGGM-Edu
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Educational platform about glaciers based on the OGGM model (edu.oggm.org).
Interactive applications, open-source graphics and computational
notebooks applicable for teaching at the university level and for
workshops. Project leader.
- xarray
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Array manipulation software (xarray.pydata.org) very commonly used in all fields
of geosciences. Core developer since 2015.
- salem
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Map visualization and WRF model analysis software based on xarray (salem.readthedocs.io). Main developer.
- HAR
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High Asia Refined analysis (HAR), openly accessible high-resolution climate
dataset for the Tibetan Plateau and adjacent regions, which has
facilitated an estimated several dozens of peer-reviewed publications.
Main developer.
- RGItools
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Suite of scripting tools and data accompanying the production process of
the Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI). Topography data (RGI-TOPO), data processing chain (RGI-scripts), and more. Project leader.
Administration and
leadership
- Member of the CLIC working group: Glacier Model Intercomparison Project (since
2018)
- Member of the IACS working group: Glacier ice thickness estimation (2014–2019)
- Scientific editor: Geoscientific Model Development (EGU Journal, since
2020)
- Session convener Observing and modelling glaciers at regional to global
scales (EGU2020-2022), Climate modeling in Mountain regions (IMC2019), Scientific Committee at IMC2022…
- Vice-president of the non-profit organisation OGGM e.V., promoting
science and research in the fields of climate and glaciology and
coordinating the development of OGGM.
- Organized 6 OGGM workshops (2016-2022) and the 2019 Alpine
Glaciology Meeting (Innsbruck).
- Organized a week-long training on glacier modelling in Lahore,
Pakistan (2023)
- Reviewer: J. Climate, J. Geophys. Res., Nature, Nature CC, J.
Hydrometeorol., J. Hydrol., The Cryosph., J. Glaciol., Hydrol. Earth
Syst. Sci., Earth Syst. Dynam., …
- Member of the International Glaciological Society, European Geosciences
Union, International Association of Cryospheric Sciences,
Météorologie et
Climat, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Meteorologie.
Teaching
For a full list of past classes and links to annual student
evaluations, visit my personal website.
List of publications
52 peer-reviewed publications, h-index 29 (google scholar May 2023)
Publications written by a student under my supervision are indicated
with (*), and my 10 most relevant publications are indicated with
(#)
Submitted / in review
- Aguayo, R., Maussion, F., Schuster, L., Schaefer, M., Caro, A.,
Schmitt, P., Mackay, J., Ultee, L., Leon-Muñoz, J., and Aguayo, M.:
Assessing the glacier projection uncertainties in the Patagonian Andes
(40–56° S) from a catchment perspective, EGUsphere preprint, 2023.
- Hanus, S., Schuster, L., Burek, P., Maussion, F., Wada, Y., and
Viviroli, D.: Coupling a large-scale glacier and hydrological model
(OGGM v1.5.3 and CWatM V1.08) – Towards an improved representation of
mountain water resources in global assessments, EGUsphere preprint, 2024.
Peer-reviewed
- Bolibar, J., Sapienza, F., Maussion, F., Lguensat,
R., Wouters, B., and Pérez, F. (2023). Universal differential
equations for glacier ice flow modelling. Geoscientific Model
Development, 16(22), 6671–6687. doi:10.5194/gmd-16-6671-2023.
- Klein, C., Potter, E. R., Zauner, C., Gurgiser, W., Cruz
Encarnación, R., Cochachín Rapre, A., and Maussion, F.:
Farmers’ first rain: investigating dry season rainfall
characteristics in the Peruvian Andes, Environmental Research
Communications, 5(7), 071004, doi:10.1088/2515-7620/ace516.
- *Schuster, L., Rounce, D., Maussion,
F.: Glacier projections sensitivity to temperature-index
model choices and calibration strategies, Ann. Glaciol., 1 - 16,
doi:10.1017/aog.2023.57.
- *Malles, J., Maussion, F., Ultee,
L., Kochtitzky, W., Copland, L. and Marzeion, B.: Exploring the
impact of a frontal ablation parameterization on projected 21st-century
mass change for Northern Hemisphere glaciers, J. Glaciol., 1–16,
doi:10.1017/jog.2023.19, 2023.
- Recinos, B., Maussion, F. and Marzeion, B.:
Advances in data availability to constrain and evaluate frontal
ablation of ice-dynamical models of Greenland’s tidewater peripheral
glaciers, Ann. Glaciol., 1–7, doi:10.1017/aog.2023.11, 2023.
- # Rounce, D. R., Hock, R., Maussion,
F., Hugonnet, R., Kochtitzky, W., Huss, M., Berthier, E.,
Brinkerhoff, D., Compagno, L., Copland, L., Farinotti, D., Menounos, B.
and McNabb, R. W.: Global glacier change in the 21st century: Every
increase in temperature matters, Science (80)., 379(6627), 78–83,
doi:10.1126/science.abo1324, 2023.
- Hock, R., Maussion, F., Marzeion, B. and Nowicki,
S.: What is the global glacier ice volume outside the ice
sheets?, J. Glaciol., 69(273), 204–210, doi:10.1017/jog.2023.1, 2023.
- Klein, C., Hänchen, L., Potter, E. R., Junquas, C., Harris, B. L.
and Maussion, F.: Untangling the importance of
dynamic and thermodynamic drivers for wet and dry spells across the
Tropical Andes, Environ. Res. Lett., 18(3), 034002, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/acb72b, 2023.
- Windnagel, A., Hock, R., Maussion, F., Paul, F.,
Rastner, P., Raup, B. and Zemp, M.: Which glaciers are the largest
in the world?, J. Glaciol., 69(274), 301–310, doi:10.1017/jog.2022.61, 2023.
- Gangadharan, N., Goosse, H., Parkes, D., Goelzer, H.,
Maussion, F. and Marzeion, B.: Process-based
estimate of global-mean sea-level changes in the Common Era, Earth
Syst. Dyn., 13(4), 1417–1435, doi:10.5194/esd-13-1417-2022, 2022.
- *Li, F., Maussion, F., Wu, G.,
Chen, W., Yu, Z., Li, Y. and Liu, G.: Influence of glacier
inventories on ice thickness estimates and future glacier change
projections in the Tian Shan range, Central Asia, J. Glaciol.,
1–15, doi:10.1017/jog.2022.60, 2022.
- *Hänchen, L., Klein, C., Maussion,
F., Gurgiser, W., Calanca, P. and Wohlfahrt, G.: Widespread
greening suggests increased dry-season plant water availability in the
Rio Santa valley, Peruvian Andes, Earth Syst. Dyn., 13(1), 595–611,
doi:10.5194/esd-13-595-2022, 2022.
- # Furian, W., Maussion, F. and
Schneider, C.: Projected 21st-Century Glacial Lake Evolution in High
Mountain Asia, Front. Earth Sci., 10, doi:10.3389/feart.2022.821798, 2022.
- Azam, M. F., Kargel, J. S., Shea, J. M., Nepal, S., Haritashya, U.
K., Srivastava, S., Maussion, F., Qazi, N., Chevallier,
P., Dimri, A. P., Kulkarni, A. V, Cogley, J. G. and Bahuguna, I.:
Glaciohydrology of the Himalaya-Karakoram, Science (80-. ).,
373(6557), eabf3668, doi:10.1126/science.abf3668, 2021.
- Edwards, T. L., Nowicki, S., Marzeion, B., Hock, R., Goelzer, H.,
Seroussi, H., Jourdain, N. C., Slater, D. A., Turner, F. E., Smith, C.
J., McKenna, C. M., Simon, E., Abe-Ouchi, A., Gregory, J. M., Larour,
E., Lipscomb, W. H., Payne, A. J., Shepherd, A., Agosta, C., Alexander,
P., Albrecht, T., Anderson, B., Asay-Davis, X., Aschwanden, A., Barthel,
A., Bliss, A., Calov, R., Chambers, C., Champollion, N., Choi, Y.,
Cullather, R., Cuzzone, J., Dumas, C., Felikson, D., Fettweis, X.,
Fujita, K., Galton-Fenzi, B. K., Gladstone, R., Golledge, N. R., Greve,
R., Hattermann, T., Hoffman, M. J., Humbert, A., Huss, M., Huybrechts,
P., Immerzeel, W., Kleiner, T., Kraaijenbrink, P., Le clec’h, S., Lee,
V., Leguy, G. R., Little, C. M., Lowry, D. P., Malles, J.-H., Martin, D.
F., Maussion, F., Morlighem, M., O’Neill, J. F., Nias,
I., Pattyn, F., Pelle, T., Price, S. F., Quiquet, A., Radić, V., Reese,
R., Rounce, D. R., Rückamp, M., Sakai, A., Shafer, C., Schlegel, N.-J.,
Shannon, S., Smith, R. S., Straneo, F., Sun, S., Tarasov, L., Trusel, L.
D., Van Breedam, J., van de Wal, R., van den Broeke, M., Winkelmann, R.,
Zekollari, H., Zhao, C., Zhang, T. and Zwinger, T.: Projected land
ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise, Nature,
593(7857), 74–82, doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03302-y, 2021.
- *Eis, J., van der Laan, L., Maussion,
F. and Marzeion, B.: Reconstruction of Past Glacier Changes
with an Ice-Flow Glacier Model: Proof of Concept and Validation,
Front. Earth Sci., 9(March), 1–16, doi:10.3389/feart.2021.595755, 2021.
- Rounce, D. R., Hock, R., McNabb, R. W., Millan, R., Sommer, C.,
Braun, M. H., Malz, P., Maussion, F., Mouginot, J.,
Seehaus, T. C. and Shean, D. E.: Distributed global debris thickness
estimates reveal debris significantly impacts glacier mass balance,
Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2020GL091311, 2021.
- # *Recinos, B., Maussion,
F., Noël, B., Möller, M. and Marzeion, B.: Calibration of a
frontal ablation parameterisation applied to Greenland’s peripheral
calving glaciers, J. Glaciol., 1–13, doi:10.1017/jog.2021.63, 2021.
- *Schuster, L., Maussion, F.,
Langhamer, L. and Moseley, G. E.: Lagrangian detection of
precipitation moisture sources for an arid region in northeast
Greenland: relations to the North Atlantic Oscillation, sea ice cover,
and temporal trends from 1979 to 2017, Weather Clim. Dyn., 2(1),
1–17, doi:10.5194/wcd-2-1-2021, 2021.
- Marzeion, B., Hock, R., Anderson, B., Bliss, A., Champollion, N.,
Fujita, K., Huss, M., Immerzeel, W., Kraaijenbrink, P., Malles, J.,
Maussion, F., Radić, V., Rounce, D. R., Sakai, A.,
Shannon, S., Wal, R. and Zekollari, H.: Partitioning the Uncertainty
of Ensemble Projections of Global Glacier Mass Change, Earth’s
Futur., 8(7), doi:10.1029/2019ef001470, 2020.
- Pelto, B. M., Maussion, F., Menounos, B., Radić, V.
and Zeuner, M.: Bias-corrected estimates of glacier thickness in the
Columbia River Basin, Canada, J. Glaciol., 1–13, doi:10.1017/jog.2020.75, 2020.
- # Zemp, M., Huss, M., Thibert, E., Eckert, N.,
McNabb, R., Huber, J., Barandun, M., Machguth, H., Nussbaumer, S. U.,
Gärtner-Roer, I., Thomson, L., Paul, F., Maussion, F.,
Kutuzov, S. and Cogley, J. G.: Global glacier mass changes and their
contributions to sea-level rise from 1961 to 2016, Nature,
568(7752), 382–386, doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1071-0, 2019.
- *Recinos, B., Maussion, F.,
Rothenpieler, T. and Marzeion, B.: Impact of frontal ablation on the
ice thickness estimation of marine-terminating glaciers in Alaska,
Cryosph., 13(10), 2657–2672, doi:10.5194/tc-13-2657-2019, 2019.
- # Maussion, F., Butenko, A.,
Champollion, N., Dusch, M., Eis, J., Fourteau, K., Gregor, P., Jarosch,
A. H., Landmann, J., Oesterle, F., Recinos, B., Rothenpieler, T., Vlug,
A., Wild, C. T. and Marzeion, B.: The Open Global Glacier Model
(OGGM) v1.1, Geosci. Model Dev., 12(3), 909–931, doi:10.5194/gmd-12-909-2019, 2019.
- Horak, J., Hofer, M., Maussion, F., Gutmann, E.,
Gohm, A. and Rotach, M. W.: Assessing the added value of the
Intermediate Complexity Atmospheric Research (ICAR) model for
precipitation in complex topography, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.,
23(6), 2715–2734, doi:10.5194/hess-23-2715-2019, 2019.
- *Eis, J., Maussion, F. and
Marzeion, B.: Initialization of a global glacier model based on
present-day glacier geometry and past climate information: an ensemble
approach, Cryosph., 13(12), 3317–3335, doi:10.5194/tc-13-3317-2019, 2019.
- *Zolles, T., Maussion, F., Galos,
S. P., Gurgiser, W. and Nicholson, L.: Robust uncertainty assessment
of the spatio-temporal transferability of glacier mass and energy
balance models, Cryosph., 13(2), 469–489, doi:10.5194/tc-13-469-2019, 2019.
- # Farinotti, D., Huss, M., Fürst, J. J., Landmann,
J., Machguth, H., Maussion, F. and Pandit, A.: A
consensus estimate for the ice thickness distribution of all glaciers on
Earth, Nat. Geosci., 12(3), 168–173, doi:10.1038/s41561-019-0300-3, 2019.
- Strasser, U., Marke, T., Braun, L., Escher-Vetter, H., Juen, I.,
Kuhn, M., Maussion, F., Mayer, C., Nicholson, L.,
Niedertscheider, K., Sailer, R., Stötter, J., Weber, M. and Kaser, G.:
The Rofental: a high Alpine research basin ( 1890–3770 m a.s.l.) in
the Ötztal Alps (Austria) with over 150 years of hydrometeorological and
glaciological observations, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10(1), 151–171,
doi:10.5194/essd-10-151-2018, 2018.
- Goosse, H., Barriat, P.-Y., Dalaiden, Q., Klein, F., Marzeion, B.,
Maussion, F., Pelucchi, P. and Vlug, A.: Testing
the consistency between changes in simulated climate and Alpine glacier
length over the past millennium, Clim. Past, 14(8), 1119–1133,
doi:10.5194/cp-14-1119-2018, 2018.
- # Marzeion, B., Kaser, G., Maussion,
F. and Champollion, N.: Limited influence of climate change
mitigation on short-term glacier mass loss, Nat. Clim. Chang., 8,
doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0093-1, 2018.
- Mölg, T., Maussion, F., Collier, E., Chiang, J. C.
H. and Scherer, D.: Prominent mid-latitude circulation signature in
High Asia’s surface climate during monsoon, J. Geophys. Res.
Atmos., 1–11, doi:10.1002/2017JD027414, 2017.
- Galos, S. P., Klug, C., Maussion, F., Covi, F.,
Nicholson, L., Rieg, L., Gurgiser, W., Mölg, T. and Kaser, G.:
Reanalysis of a 10-year record (2004–2013) of seasonal mass balances
at Langenferner/Vedretta Lunga, Ortler Alps, Italy, Cryosph.,
11(3), 1417–1439, doi:10.5194/tc-11-1417-2017, 2017.
- Farinotti, D., Brinkerhoff, D. J., Clarke, G. K. C., Fürst, J. J.,
Frey, H., Gantayat, P., Gillet-Chaulet, F., Girard, C., Huss, M.,
Leclercq, P. W., Linsbauer, A., Machguth, H., Martin, C.,
Maussion, F., Morlighem, M., Mosbeux, C., Pandit, A.,
Portmann, A., Rabatel, A., Ramsankaran, R., Reerink, T. J., Sanchez, O.,
Stentoft, P. A., Singh Kumari, S., van Pelt, W. J. J., Anderson, B.,
Benham, T., Binder, D., Dowdeswell, J. A., Fischer, A., Helfricht, K.,
Kutuzov, S., Lavrentiev, I., McNabb, R., Gudmundsson, G. H., Li, H. and
Andreassen, L. M.: How accurate are estimates of glacier ice
thickness? Results from ITMIX, the Ice Thickness Models Intercomparison
eXperiment, Cryosph., 11(2), 949–970, doi:10.5194/tc-11-949-2017, 2017.
- Spiess, M., Schneider, C. and Maussion, F.:
MODIS-derived interannual variability of the equilibrium line
altitude across the Tibetan Plateau, Ann. Glaciol., 57(71),
140–154, doi:10.3189/2016AoG71A014, 2016.
- Otto, M., Höpfner, C., Curio, J., Maussion, F. and
Scherer, D.: Assessing vegetation response to precipitation in
northwest Morocco during the last decade: an application of MODIS NDVI
and high resolution reanalysis data, Theor. Appl. Climatol.,
123(1–2), 23–41, doi:10.1007/s00704-014-1344-3, 2016.
- Biskop, S., Maussion, F., Krause, P. and Fink, M.:
Differences in the water-balance components of four lakes in the
southern-central Tibetan Plateau, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci, 20,
209–225, doi:10.5194/hess-20-209-2016, 2016.
- Zhu, M., Yao, T., Yang, W., Maussion, F., Huintjes,
E. and Li, S.: Energy- and mass-balance comparison between Zhadang
and Parlung No. 4 glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau, J. Glaciol.,
61(227), 595–607, doi:10.3189/2015JoG14J206, 2015.
- Spiess, M., Maussion, F., Möller, M., Scherer, D.
and Schneider, C.: Modis derived equilibrium line altitude estimates
for purogangri ice cap, tibetan plateau, and their relation to climatic
predictors (2001–2012), Geogr. Ann. Ser. A, Phys. Geogr., 97(3),
599–614, doi:10.1111/geoa.12102, 2015.
- Huintjes, E., Sauter, T., Schröter, B., Maussion,
F., Yang, W., Kropáček, J., Buchroithner, M., Scherer, D.,
Kang, S. and Schneider, C.: Evaluation of a Coupled Snow and Energy
Balance Model for Zhadang Glacier, Tibetan Plateau, Using
Glaciological Measurements and Time-Lapse Photography, Arctic, Antarct.
Alp. Res., 47(3), 573–590, doi:10.1657/AAAR0014-073, 2015.
- Curio, J., Maussion, F. and Scherer, D.: A
12-year high-resolution climatology of atmospheric water transport over
the Tibetan Plateau, Earth Syst. Dyn., 6(1), 109–124, doi:10.5194/esd-6-109-2015, 2015.
- Collier, E., Maussion, F., Nicholson, L. I., Mölg,
T., Immerzeel, W. W. and Bush, a. B. G.: Impact of debris cover on
glacier ablation and atmosphere–glacier feedbacks in the Karakoram,
Cryosph., 9(4), 1617–1632, doi:10.5194/tc-9-1617-2015, 2015.
- # Maussion, F., Gurgiser, W.,
Großhauser, M., Kaser, G. and Marzeion, B.: ENSO influence on
surface energy and mass balance at Shallap Glacier, Cordillera Blanca,
Peru, Cryosph., 9(4), 1663–1683, doi:[10.5194/tc-9-1663-2015,
2015.
- # Mölg, T., Maussion, F. and
Scherer, D.: Mid-latitude westerlies as a driver of glacier variability
in monsoonal High Asia, Nat. Clim. Chang., 4(1), 68–73, doi:10.1038/nclimate2055, 2014.
- # Maussion, F., Scherer, D., Mölg,
T., Collier, E., Curio, J. and Finkelnburg, R.: Precipitation
Seasonality and Variability over the Tibetan Plateau as Resolved by the
High Asia Reanalysis, J. Clim., 27(5), 1910–1927, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00282.1, 2014.
- Dietze, E., Maussion, F., Ahlborn, M., Diekmann,
B., Hartmann, K., Henkel, K., Kasper, T., Lockot, G., Opitz, S. and
Haberzettl, T.: Sediment transport processes across the Tibetan
Plateau inferred from robust grain-size end members in lake
sediments, Clim. Past, 10(1), 91–106, doi:10.5194/cp-10-91-2014, 2014.
- Collier, E., Nicholson, L. I., Brock, B. W., Maussion,
F., Essery, R. and Bush, a. B. G.: Representing moisture
fluxes and phase changes in glacier debris cover using a reservoir
approach, Cryosph., 8(4), 1429–1444, doi:10.5194/tc-8-1429-2014, 2014.
- Kropacek, J., Maussion, F., Chen, F., Hoerz, S.,
Hochschild, V. and Kropáček, J.: Analysis of ice phenology of lakes
on the Tibetan Plateau from MODIS data, Cryosph., 7(1), 287–301,
doi:10.5194/tc-7-287-2013, 2013.
- Collier, E., Mölg, T., Maussion, F., Scherer, D.,
Mayer, C. and Bush, a. B. G.: High-resolution interactive modelling
of the mountain glacier–atmosphere interface: an application over the
Karakoram, Cryosph., 7(3), 779–795, doi:10.5194/tc-7-779-2013, 2013.
- Mölg, T., Maussion, F., Yang, W. and Scherer, D.:
The footprint of Asian monsoon dynamics in the mass and energy
balance of a Tibetan glacier, Cryosph., 6(6), 1445–1461, doi:10.5194/tc-6-1445-2012, 2012.
- Maussion, F., Scherer, D., Finkelnburg, R.,
Richters, J., Yang, W. and Yao, T.: WRF simulation of a
precipitation event over the Tibetan Plateau, China – an assessment
using remote sensing and ground observations, Hydrol. Earth Syst.
Sci., 15(6), 1795–1817, doi:10.5194/hess-15-1795-2011, 2011.
- Bolch, T., Yao, T., Kang, S., Buchroithner, M. F., Scherer, D.,
Maussion, F., Huintjes, E. and Schneider, C.: A
glacier inventory for the western Nyainqentanglha Range and the Nam Co
Basin, Tibet, and glacier changes 1976-2009, Cryosph., 4(3),
419–433, doi:10.5194/tc-4-419-2010, 2010.
Field work
- 2009–2013: 7 one-month long campaigns to Zhadang Glacier (Tibet), 4
as expedition leader.
- 2012: Austfonna, Svalbard (3 weeks)
- 2014–2022: regular participation to mass-balance monitoring of
alpine glaciers
- 2019, 2023: Huaraz, Peru (2 weeks), as expedition leader.
Invited presentations
(selection)
- 2021 (AGU New Orleans): Building software documentation for
community engagement: lessons learned with OGGM.
- 2020 (IARPC Collaborations): OGGM - A modern, modular and
extensible framework for large scale glacier modeling
- 2020 (Austrian Society for Snow and Avalanches): What
open-source can do for you, and what you can do for
open-source.
- 2019 (IUGG Montreal): Glaciology on the Cloud - Research and
Education in your Web Browser.
- 2016 (Universität Zürich): Towards an Open Global Glacier Model
including ice dynamics.
- 2014 (AGU San Francisco): Using Mesoscale Atmospheric Models for
Glacio-Hydrological Studies at the Catchment Scale: Examples from High
Asia and Perspectives for Future Applications.
Press (selection)
Other
- Languages: French (first language), German (second
language), English (full professional proficiency), Spanish (good).
- Interests: music (drums and piano), outdoors,
photography.