Daniel N. Goldberg

Publications in cryosphere research affiliated to University of Edinburgh:

Recinos, B., D. Goldberg, N. Gourmelen & J. R. Maddison (2025, September 16) Mapping ice-stream sensitivity in the Amundsen sector to uncertainty in ice-velocity observations. Geophysical Research Letters, 52 (17), e2025GL117666. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL117666.

Gourmelen, N., L. Jakob, P. R. Holland, P. Dutrieux, D. Goldberg, S. Bevan, A. Luckman & G. Malczyk (2025, March 06) The influence of subglacial lake discharge on Thwaites Glacier ice-shelf melting and grounding-line retreat. Nature Communications, 16, 2272. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57417-1.

McCormack, F. S., S. Cook, D. N. Goldberg, Y. Nakayama, H. Seroussi, I. Nias, L. An, D. Slater & T. Hattermann (2024, October 22) The case for a Framework for UnderStanding Ice-Ocean iNteractions (FUSION) in the Antarctic-Southern Ocean system. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 12 (1), 00036. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2024.00036.

Twelves, A. G., D. N. Goldberg, P. R. Holland, S. F. Henley, M. R. Mazloff & D. C. Jones (2024, September) Chlorophyll production in the Amundsen Sea boosts heat flux to atmosphere and weakens heat flux to ice shelves. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129 (9), e2024JC021121. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JC021121.

Morlighem, M., D. Goldberg, J. M. Barnes, J. N. Bassis, D. I. Benn, A. J. Crawford, G. H. Gudmundsson & H. Seroussi (2024, August 21) The West Antarctic Ice Sheet may not be vulnerable to marine ice-cliff instability during the 21st century. Science Advances, 10 (34), eado7794. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ado7794

Bett, D. T., A. T. Bradley, C. R. Williams, P. R. Holland, R. J. Arthern & D. N. Goldberg (2024, June 03) Coupled ice-ocean interactions during future retreat of West Antarctic ice streams in the Amundsen Sea sector. The Cryosphere, 18 (6), 2653-2675. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-2653-2024.

Wearing, M. G., C. F. Dow, D. N. Goldberg, N. Gourmelen, A. E. Hogg & L. Jakob (2024, April) Characterizing subglacial hydrology within the Amery Ice Shelf catchment using numerical modeling and satellite altimetry. Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, 129 (4), e2023JF007421. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JF007421.

Malczyk, G., N. Gourmelen, M. Werder, M. Wearing & D. Goldberg (2023, December) Constraints on subglacial melt fluxes from observations of active subglacial-lake recharge. Journal of Glaciology, 69 (278), 1900-1914. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2023.70.

Ockenden, H., R. G. Bingham, A. Curtis & D. Goldberg (2023, December) Ice-flow perturbation analysis: A method to estimate ice-sheet bed topography and conditions from surface datasets. Journal of Glaciology, 69 (278), 1677-1686. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2023.50.

Recinos, B., D. Goldberg, J. R. Maddison & J. Todd (2023, October 06) A framework for time-dependent ice-sheet uncertainty quantification, applied to three West Antarctic ice streams. The Cryosphere, 17 (10), 4241-4266. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4241-2023.

Goldberg, D. N., A. G. Twelves, P. R. Holland & M. G. Wearing (2023, October) The non-local impacts of Antarctic subglacial runoff. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128 (10), e2023JC019823. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC019823.

Bisset, R. R., P. W. Nienow, D. N. Goldberg, O. Wigmore, R. A. Loayza-Muro, J. L. Wadham, M. L. Macdonald & R. G. Bingham (2023, August) Using thermal UAV imagery to model distributed debris thicknesses and sub-debris melt rates on debris-covered glaciers. Journal of Glaciology, 69 (276), 981-996. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2022.116.

Gudmundsson, G. H., J. M. Barnes, D. N. Goldberg & M. Morlighem (2023, June 16) Limited impact of Thwaites Ice Shelf on future ice loss from Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, 50 (11), e2023GL102880. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL102880.

Morlighem, M. & D. Goldberg (2023, June) Data assimilation in glaciology. Chapter 6 in Ismail-Zadeh, A., F. Castelli, D. Jones & S. Sanchez, Eds. Applications of Data Assimilation and Inverse Problems in the Earth Sciences, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 93-111. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009180412.007.

Das, I., M. Morlighem, J. Barnes, G. H. Gudmundsson, D. Goldberg & T. D. dos Santos (2023, May 26) In the quest of a parametric relation between ice-sheet- model-inferred Weertman’s sliding-law parameter and airborne-radar-derived basal reflectivity underneath Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, 50 (10), e2022GL098910. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098910.

Nakayama, Y., T. Hirata, D. Goldberg & C. A. Greene (2022, November 28) What determines the shape of a Pine-IsIand-like ice shelf? Geophysical Research Letters, 49 (22), e2022GL101272. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101272.

Ockenden, H., R. G. Bingham, A. Curtis & D. Goldberg (2022, September 29) Inverting ice-surface elevation and velocity for bed topography and slipperiness beneath Thwaites Glacier. The Cryosphere, 16 (9), 3867-3887. https://doi:10.5194/tc-16-3867-2022.

Goldberg, D. N. & P. R. Holland (2022, May) The relative impacts of initialization and climate forcing in coupled ice sheet-ocean modeling: Application to Pope, Smith, and Kohler Glaciers. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 127 (5), e2021JF006570. https://doi:10.1029/2021jf006570.

Robinson, A., D. Goldberg & W. H. Lipscomb (2022, February) A comparison of the performance of depth-integrated ice-dynamics solvers. The Cryosphere, 16 (2), 689–709. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2021-239.

Morlighem, M., D. Goldberg, T. D. dos Santos, J. Lee & M. Sagebaum (2021, December 16) Mapping the sensitivity of the Amundsen Sea Embayment to changes in external forcings using automatic differentiation. Geophysical Research Letters, 48 (23), e2021GL095440. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL095440.

Leger, T. P. M., A. S. Hein, D. Goldberg, I. Schimmelpfennig, M. S. Van Wyk de Vries, R. G. Bingham & ASTER Team (2021, November 09) Northeastern Patagonian glacier advances (43°S) reflect northward migration of the southern westerlies towards the end of the last glaciation. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, 751987. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.751987.

Dos Santos, T. D., J. M. Barnes, D. N. Goldberg, G. H. Guðmundsson & M. Morlighem (2021, October 28) Drivers of change of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, between 1995 and 2015. Geophysical Research Letters, 48 (20), e2021GL093102. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL093102.

Koziol, C. P., J. A. Todd, D. N. Goldberg & J. R. Maddison (2021, September 24) fenics_ice 1.0: A framework for quantifying initialization uncertainty for time-dependent ice-sheet models. Geoscientific Model Development, 14 (9), 5843-5861. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-5843-2021.

Barnes, J. M., T. D. dos Santos, D. Goldberg, G. H. Guðmundsson, M. Morlighem & J. De Rydt (2021, April 23) The transferability of adjoint inversion products between different ice-flow models. The Cryosphere, 15 (4), 1975-2000. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-1975-2021.

Twelves, A. G., D. N. Goldberg, S. F. Henley, M. R. Mazloff & D. C. Jones (2021, February) Self-shading and meltwater spreading control the transition from light to iron limitation in an Antarctic coastal polynya. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126 (2), e2020JC016636. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020jc016636.

Malczyk, G., N. Gourmelen, D. Goldberg, J. Wuite & T. Nagler (2020, December 16) Repeat subglacial lake drainage and filling beneath Thwaites Glacier. Geophysical Research Letters, 47 (23), e2020GL089658. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl089658.

Goldberg, D. N., T. A. Smith, S. H. K. Narayanan, P. Heimbach & M. Morlighem (2020, November) Bathymetric influences on Antarctic ice-shelf melt rates. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125 (11), e2020JC016370. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020jc016370.

Cornford, S. L., H. Seroussi, X. S. Asay-Davis, G. H. Guðmundsson, R. Arthern, C. Borstad, J. Christmann, T. D. dos Santos, J. Feldmann, D. Goldberg, M. J. Hoffman, A. Humbert, T. Kleiner, G. Leguy, W. H. Lipscomb, N. Merino, G. Durand, M. Morlighem, D. Pollard, M. Rückamp, C. R. Williams & H. J. Yu (2020, July 21) Results of the third Marine Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project (MISMIP plus ). The Cryosphere, 14 (7), 2283-2301. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2283-2020.

Bisset, R. R., A. Dehecq, D. N. Goldberg, M. Huss, R. G. Bingham & N. Gourmelen (2020, May 14) Reversed surface-mass-balance gradients on Himalayan debris-covered glaciers inferred from remote sensing. Remote Sensing, 12 (10), 1563. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12101563.

Goldberg, D. N., N. Gourmelen, S. Kimura, R. Millan & K. Snow (2019, January 16) How accurately should we model ice-shelf melt rates? Geophysical Research Letters, 46 (1), 189-199. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018gl080383.

Dehecq, A., N. Gourmelen, A. S. Gardner, F. Brun, D. Goldberg, P. W. Nienow, E. Berthier, C. Vincent, P. Wagnon & E. Trouvé (2019, January) Twenty-first century glacier slowdown driven by mass loss in High Mountain Asia. Nature Geoscience, 12 (1), 22-27. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0271-9.

Goldberg, D. N., K. Snow, P. Holland, J. R. Jordan, J. M. Campin, P. Heimbach, R. Arthern & A. Jenkins (2018, May) Representing grounding-line migration in synchronous coupling between a marine ice sheet model and a z-coordinate ocean model. Ocean Modelling, 125, 45-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2018.03.005.

Jordan, J. R., P. R. Holland, D. Goldberg, K. Snow, R. Arthern, J. M. Campin, P. Heimbach & A. Jenkins (2018, February) Ocean-forced ice-shelf thinning in a synchronously coupled ice-ocean model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123 (2), 864-882. http://doi.org/10.1002/2017jc013251.

Snow, K., D. N. Goldberg, P. R. Holland, J. R. Jordan, R. J. Arthern & A. Jenkins (2017, December 16) The response of ice sheets to climate variability. Geophysical Research Letters, 44 (23), 11878-11885. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gl075745.

Gourmelen, N., D. N. Goldberg, K. Snow, S. F. Henley, R. G. Bingham, S. Kimura, A. E. Hogg, A. Shepherd, J. Mouginot, J. T. M. Lenaerts, S. R. M. Ligtenberg & W. J. van de Berg (2017, October 16) Channelized melting drives thinning under a rapidly melting Antarctic ice shelf. Geophysical Research Letters, 44 (19), 9796-9804. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gl074929.

Slater, D. A., P. W. Nienow, D. N. Goldberg, T. R. Cowton & A. J. Sole (2017, March 16) A model for tidewater glacier undercutting by submarine melting. Geophysical Research Letters, 44 (5), 2360-2368. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016gl072374.

Slater, D. A., D. N. Goldberg, P. W. Nienow & T. R. Cowton (2016, June 01) Scalings for submarine melting at tidewater glaciers from buoyant plume theory. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 46 (6), 1839-1855. https://doi.org/10

Goldberg, D. N., S. H. K. Narayanan, L. Hascoet & J. Utke (2016, May 20) An optimized treatment for algorithmic differentiation of an important glaciological fixed-point problem. Geoscientific Model Development, 9 (5), 1891-1904. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-1891-2016.

Goldberg, D. N., P. Heimbach, I. Joughin & B. Smith (2015, December 21) Committed retreat of Smith, Pope, and Kohler glaciers over the next 30 years inferred by transient model calibration. The Cryosphere, 9 (6), 2429-2446. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-2429-2015.

Matsuoka, K., R. C. A. Hindmarsh, G. Moholdt, M. J. Bentley, H. D. Pritchard, J. Brown, H. Conway, R. Drews, G. Durand, D. Goldberg, T. Hattermann, J. Kingslake, J. T. M. Lenaerts, C. Martín, R. Mulvaney, K. W. Nicholls, F. Pattyn, N. Ross, T. Scambos & P. L. Whitehouse (2015, November) Antarctic ice rises and rumples: Their properties and significance for ice-sheet dynamics and evolution. Earth-Science Reviews, 150, 724-745. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.09.004.

Tedstone, A. J., P. W. Nienow, N. Gourmelen, A. Dehecq, D. Goldberg & E. Hanna (2015, October 29) Decadal slowdown of a land-terminating sector of the Greenland Ice Sheet despite warming. Nature, 526 (7575), 692-695. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature15722.

Slater, D. A., P. W. Nienow, T. R. Cowton, D. N. Goldberg & A. J. Sole (2015, April 28) Effect of near-terminus subglacial hydrology on tidewater-glacier submarine melt rates. Geophysical Research Letters, 42 (8), 2861-2868. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014gl062494.

Cowton, T., D. Slater, A. Sole, D. Goldberg & P. Nienow (2015, February) Modeling the impact of glacial runoff on fjord circulation and submarine melt rate using a new subgrid-scale parameterization for glacial plumes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 120 (2), 796-812. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014jc010324.

Goldberg, D. N., C. Schoof & O. V. Sergienko (2014, July) Stick-slip motion of an Antarctic ice stream: The effects of viscoelasticity. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 119 (7), 1564-1580. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014jf003132.