Prof. Jason Box
Prof. JASON BOX
Jason Box is Professor at The Geologic Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) and visiting scholar at Byrd Polar Research Center
- Greenland ice climatologist; list of publications, many publications are downloadable.
- 19 expeditions to Greenland since 1994, more than 1 year camping on the inland ice.
- Installed and maintained a network of more than 20 automatic weather stations on Greenland’s inland ice in expeditions spanning 1994-2008.
- University teaching 2003-2010 with emphasis on atmosphere-surface interactions, physical climatology at local to global scales, and environmental problems.State of the Climate
- Since 2003, Jason has led the Greenland entry for The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society’s annual State of the Climate reports.
- Since 2007, Jason has led composition of the Arctic Report Card, published annually since 2006 by The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [1].
- Jason was a contributing author to “Climate Change 2007″, the definitive report on the science of climate change by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC was co-awarded the 2007 the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore Extreme Ice Survey
Prof. Box was awarded a NASA grant to support the installation and maintenance of Greenland time lapse cameras. Jason is active in Greenland field work for the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS)and is using EIS photos from Greenland to measure glacier speed changes, putting precise numbers on glacier flow and studying glacier flow sensitivity to climate.
Prof. Box ice coring with Greenpeace in southeast Greenland at a location where a weather model predicts peak snowfall for the ice sheet.
While working on the inland ice sheet, Jason has camped for a time totalling more than 1 year.
Expeditions have involved traversing 100s of km by snow mobile, as in the Arctic Circle Traverse April-May 2010.
Most of the inland ice camps are accessed by helicopter and ski-equipped airplane.
Instrumenting glaciers flowing out from the inland ice sheet has involved using ships and sail boating
Publications – listed in order of appearance, grouped by year;
In Review
- Fitzpatrick, A. A. W., Hubbard, A. L., Box, J. E., Quincey, D. J., van As, D., Mikkelsen, A. P. B., Doyle, S. H., Dow, C. F., Hasholt, B., and Jones, G. A.: A decade of supraglacial lake volume estimates across a land-terminating margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet, The Cryosphere Discuss., 7, 1383-1414, doi:10.5194/tcd-7-1383-2013, 2013. open access
2013 (55-69)
- Rennermalm, A. K., Smith, L. C., Chu, V. W., Box, J. E., Forster, R. R., Van den Broeke, M. R., Van As, D., and Moustafa, S. E.: Evidence of meltwater retention within the Greenland ice sheet, The Cryosphere, 7, 1433-1445, doi:10.5194/tc-7-1433-2013, 2013. open access
- Kobashi, T., K. Goto-Azuma, J. E. Box, C. Gao, and T. Nakaegawa, Causes of Greenland temperature variability over the past 4000 years: Implications for Northern Hemispheric temperature change, Climate of the Past, accepted 4 Sept, 2013.
- Stroeve, J.C., J.E. Box, Z. Wang, C. Schaaf, A. Barrett, Re-evaluation of MODIS MCD43 Greenland albedo accuracy and trends, Remote Sensing of Environment, 138, 199–214
- Ahlstrøm, A. P., Andersen, S. B., Andersen, M. L., Machguth, H., Nick, F. M., Joughin, I., Reijmer, C. H., van de Wal, R. S. W., Merryman Boncori, J. P., Box, J. E., Citterio, M., van As, D., Fausto, R. S., and Hubbard, A.: Seasonal velocities of eight major marine-terminating outlet glaciers of the Greenland ice sheet from continuous in situ GPS instruments, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., 6, 27-57, doi:10.5194/essdd-6-27-2013, 2013.
- Van As, D., R. Fausto, W. Colgan, J.E. Box and the PROMICE team. 2013. Darkening of the Greenland ice sheet due to the melt-albedo feedback observed at PROMICE weather stations. Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin. 28: 69-72.
- Schlegel, N-J., E. Larour, H. Seroussi, M. Morlighem, and J. E. Box (2013), Decadal-scale sensitivity of Northeast Greenland ice flow to errors in surface mass balance using ISSM, J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surf., 118, doi:10.1002/jgrf.20062.
- Miège, C., R. R. Forster, J. E. Box, E. W. Burgess, J. R. McConnell, D. R. Pasteris, and V. B. Spikes (2013), Southeast Greenland high accumulation rates derived from firn cores and ground-penetrating radar, Annals of Glaciology, 54(63), 322–332, doi:10.3189/2013AoG63A358.
- Hall, D.K., J.C. Comiso, N.E. DiGirolamo, C.A. Shuman, J.E. Box, L.S. Koenig, Variability in the Surface Temperature and Melt Extent of the Greenland Ice Sheet from MODIS, Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1002/grl.50240
- Vernon, C. L., Bamber, J. L., Box, J. E., van den Broeke, M. R., Fettweis, X., Hanna, E., and Huybrechts, P.: Surface mass balance model intercomparison for the Greenland ice sheet, The Cryosphere, 7, 599-614, doi:10.5194/tc-7-599-2013, 2013. open access.
- Box, Jason E., William Colgan, 2013: Greenland ice sheet mass balance reconstruction. Part III: Marine ice loss and total mass balance (1840–2010). J. Climate, 26, 6990–7002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00546.1
- Box, J. E., Greenland ice sheet mass balance reconstruction. Part II: Surface mass balance (1840-2010), J. Climate,Vol. 26, No. 18. 6974-6989, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00518.1
- Box, J.E., N. Cressie, D.H. Bromwich, J. Jung, Michiel van den Broeke, J.H. van Angelen, R.R. Forster, C. Miège, E. Mosley-Thompson, B. Vinther, J.R. McConnell, Greenland ice sheet mass balance reconstruction. Part I: net snow accumulation (1600-2009). J. Climate, 26, 3919–3934. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00373.1
- Tedesco, M., Fettweis, X., Mote, T., Wahr, J., Alexander, P., Box, J. E., and Wouters, B.: Evidence and analysis of 2012 Greenland records from spaceborne observations, a regional climate model and reanalysis data, The Cryosphere, 7, 615-630, doi:10.5194/tc-7-615-2013, 2013. open access.
- Kobashi, T., Shindell, D. T., Kodera, K., Box, J. E., Nakaegawa, T., and Kawamura, K.: On the origin of multidecadal to centennial Greenland temperature anomalies over the past 800 yr, Clim. Past, 9, 583-596, doi:10.5194/cp-9-583-2013, 2013. open access.
- Doyle, S. H., Hubbard, A. L., Dow, C. F., Jones, G. A., Fitzpatrick, A., Gusmeroli, A., Kulessa, B., Lindback, K., Pettersson, R., and Box, J. E.: Ice tectonic deformation during the rapid in situ drainage of a supraglacial lake on the Greenland Ice Sheet, The Cryosphere, 7, 129-140, doi:10.5194/tc-7-129-2013, 2013. open access
2012
- Gregory, J.M. N.J. White, J.A. Church, M.F.P. Bierkens, J.E. Box, M.R. van den Broeke, J.G. Cogley, X. Fettweis, E. Hanna, P. Huybrechts, L.F. Konikow, P.W. Leclercq, B. Marzeion, J.Oerlemans, M.E. Tamisiea, Y. Wada, L.M. Wake, R.S.W. van de Wal, Twentieth-century global-mean sea-level rise: is the whole greater than the sum of the parts? J. Climate, 26, 4476–4499.
- doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00319.1
- Bevis, M., J. Wahr. S.A. Khan, F.Bo Madsen, A. Brown, M. Willis, E. Kendrick, P. Knudsenc, J.E. Box, T. van Dam, D.J. Caccamise II, B. Johns, T. Nylen, R. Abbott, S. White, J. Miner, R. Forsberg, H. Zhou, J. Wang, T. Wilson, D. Bromwich, and O. Francisf, Bedrock displacements in Greenland manifest ice mass variations, climate cycles and climate change, Proceedings to the National Academy of Sciences, July 11, 2012, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1204664109
- Box, J. E., X. Fettweis, J.C. Stroeve, M. Tedesco, D.K. Hall, and K. Steffen: Greenland ice sheet albedo feedback: thermodynamics and atmospheric drivers, The Cryosphere, 6, 821-839, doi:10.5194/tc-6-821-2012, 2012. open access
- Bjørk, A.A., K.H. Kjær, N.J. Korsgaard, S.A. Khan, K.K. Kjeldsen, C.S. Andresen, J.E. Box, N.K. Larsen, S. Funder, An aerial view of 80 years of climate-related glacier fluctuations in southeast Greenland, Nature Geoscience (2012) doi:10.1038/ngeo1481 link
- Walter, J.I., J.E. Box, S. Tulaczyk, E.E. Brodsky, I.M. Howat, Y. Ahn, and A. Brown, Oceanic mechanical forcing of a marine-terminating Greenland glacier, Annals of Glaciology, 53(60), 181-192, 2012. .pdf
- Rennermalm, A. K., Smith, L. C., Chu, V. W., Forster, R. R., Box, J. E., and Hagedorn, B.: Proglacial river stage, discharge, and temperature datasets from the Akuliarusiarsuup Kuua River northern tributary, Southwest Greenland, 2008–2011, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 4, 1-12, doi:10.5194/essd-4-1-2012, 2012.
- Chu,V.W., L.C. Smith, A.K. Rennermalm, R.R. Forster, and J.E. Box, Hydrologic controls on coastal suspended sediment plumes around the Greenland ice sheet, The Cryosphere, 6, 1-19, 2012 abstract, article
- Kargel, J. S., Ahlstrøm, A. P., Alley, R. B., Bamber, J. L., Benham, T. J., Box, J. E., Chen, C., Christoffersen, P., Citterio, M., Cogley, J. G., Jiskoot, H., Leonard, G. J., Morin, P., Scambos, T., Sheldon, T., and Willis, I.: Brief communication Greenland’s shrinking ice cover: “fast times” but not that fast, The Cryosphere, 6, 533-537, doi:10.5194/tc-6-533-2012, 2012. open access
2011
- Kobashi, T., K. Kawamura, J. P. Severinghaus, J.?M. Barnola, T. Nakaegawa, B. M. Vinther, S. J. Johnsen, and J. E. Box (2011), High variability of Greenland surface temperature over the past 4000 years estimated from trapped air in an ice core, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L21501, doi:10.1029/2011GL049444.
- Box, J.E., A. Ahlstrøm, J. Cappelen, X. Fettweis, D. Decker, T. Mote, D. van As, R.S.W. van de Wal, B. Vinther, and J. Wahr, Greenland [in "State of the Climate in 2010"]. ulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 92 (6), S161-171. Greenland section PDF [See http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2011/20110628_stateoftheclimate_2010.html for the full reports from this and past years]
- Tedesco, M., X. Fettweis, M. R. van den Broeke, R. S. W. van de Wal, C. J. P. P. Smeets, W. J. van de Berg, M. C. Serreze, and J. E. Box (2011), Record Summer Melt in Greenland in 2010, Eos Trans. AGU, 92(15), doi:10.1029/2011EO150002. abstract
- Falkner K.K., A.M. Münchow, J.E. Box, T. Wohlleben, H.L. Johnson, P. Gudmandsen, R. Samelson1, L. Copland, K. Steffen, E. Rignot and A. K. Higgins, (2011), Context for the Recent Massive Petermann Glacier Calving Event, Eos Trans. AGU, 92(14), doi:10.1029/2011EO140001.
- Box, J.E. and D.T. Decker, 2011: Greenland marine-terminating glacier area changes: 2000–2010, Annals of Glaciology, 52(59) 91-98. .PDF
- Tedesco, M., X. Fettweis, M.R. van den Broeke, R.S.W. van de Wal , C.J.P.P. Smeets, W.J. van de Berg, M.C. Serreze and, J. E. Box, The role of albedo and accumulation in the 2010 melting record in Greenland, 2011: Environ. Res. Lett. 6 014005, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/1/014005. abstract.
2010
- Box, J.E., I. Bhattacharya, J. Cappelen, D. Decker, X. Fettweis, K. Jezek, T. Mote, M. Tedesco, 2010: Greenland [in "State of the Climate in 2009"]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 91 (6), S79-S82. Greenland section PDF [See http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/bams-state-of-the-climate/ for the full reports from this and past years]
- Ettema, J., van den Broeke, M. R., van Meijgaard, E., van de Berg, W. J., Box, J. E., and K. Steffen, 2010: Climate of the Greenland ice sheet using a high-resolution climate model – Part 1: Evaluation, The Cryosphere Discuss., 4, 561-602, doi:10.5194/tcd-4-561-2010, 2010. link
- Porinchu, D. F., S. Reinemann, B.M. Mark, J.E. Box, and N. Rolland, 2010: Application of a midge-based inference model for air temperature reveals evidence of late-20th century warming in sub-alpine lakes in the central Great Basin, United States. Quaternary International, 215(1-2), 15-26. abstract
- Howat, I.M., J.E. Box, Y. Ahn, A. Herrington and E.M. McFadden, 2010, Seasonal variablity in the dynamics of marine-terminating outlet glaciers in Greenland, Journal of Glaciology, 56, 198, 601-613. abstract
- Ahn, Y. and J.E. Box, 2010: Glacier velocities from time lapse photos: technique development and first results from the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) in Greenland, J. Glaciol., 56(198), 723-734. PDF
- Burgess, E. W., R. R. Forster, J. E. Box, E. Mosley?Thompson, D. H. Bromwich, R. C. Bales, and L. C. Smith (2010), A spatially calibrated model of annual accumulation rate on the Greenland Ice Sheet (1958–2007), J. Geophys. Res., 115, F02004, doi:10.1029/2009JF001293. abstract PDF
2009
- Box, J.E., L.-S. Bai, R. Benson, I. Bhattacharya, D.H. Bromwich, J. Cappelen, D. Decker, N. DiGirolamo, X. Fettweis, D. Hall, E. Hanna, T. Mote, M. Tedesco, R. van de Wal, and M. van den Broeke, 2009: Greenland [in "State of the Climate in 2008"]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90,8, S1–S196, DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-90-8-StateoftheClimate, Published: AUG 2009 Greenland section PDF [See http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/bams-state-of-the-climate/ for the full reports from this and past years]
- Box, J.E., L. Yang, D.H. Browmich, L-S. Bai, 2009: Greenland ice sheet surface air temperature variability: 1840-2007, J. Climate, 22(14), 4029-4049, doi:10.1175/2009jcli2816.1.PDF
- Chu, V.W, L.C. Smith, A.K. Rennermalm, R.R. Forster, J.E. Box, Niels Reeh, 2009: sediment plume response to surface melting and supraglacial lake drainages on the Greenland Ice Sheet, Journal of Glaciology, 55(194), 1072-1082. PDF
- Ettema, J., M. R. van den Broeke, E. van Meijgaard, W. J. van de Berg, J. L. Bamber, J. E. Box, and R. C. Bales, 2009: Higher surface mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet revealed by high-resolution climate modeling, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L12501, doi:10.1029/2009GL038110 abstract
- Reinemann, S.A., D.F. Porinchu, A.M. Bloom, B.G. Mark, and J.E. Box, 2009: A multi-proxy paleolimnological reconstruction of the Holocene climate conditions in the Great Basin, United States, Quaternary Research, 72, 347-358 abstract
- Wake, L.M, P. Huybrechts, J.E. Box, E. Hanna, I. Janssens, and G.A. Milne, 2009: Surface mass-balance changes of the Greenland ice sheet since 1866, Annals of Glaciology, 50, 178-284. PDF
2008
- Box, J.E., J. Cappelen, D.H. Bromwich, Le-Sheng Bai, T.L. Mote, B.A. Veenhuis, N. Mikkelsen, A. Weidick, 2008: Greenland, in “Levinson, D.H., and J.H. Lawrimore eds., 2008: State of the Climate in 2007. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 89, 7, S1-S179.” Published: July 2008 Greenland section PDF [See http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/bams-state-of-the-climate/ for the full reports from this and past years]
- Rignot, E., J.E. Box, E. Burgess, and E. Hanna, 2008: Mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet from 1958 to 2007, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L20502, doi:10.1029/2008GL035417. PDF.
- Hall, D.K. J.E. Box, K. Casey, S.J. Hook, C.A. Shuman, K. Steffen, 2008: Comparison of satellite-derived and in-situ observations of ice and snow surface temperatures over Greenland, Remote Sensing of Environment, 112(10), 3739–3749, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.05.007 PDF
2007
- Achberger C., J.E. Box, D. Chen, Climate in the Nordic Region [in “State of the Climate in 2006"]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 88, 929–932. Nordic section PDF[See http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/bams-state-of-the-climate/ for the full reports from this and past years]
- Box, J.E. and K. Ski, Remote sounding of Greenland supraglacial melt lakes: implications to sub-glacial hydraulics, 2007: Journal of Glaciology, 181, 257 – 265, 2007. PDF
2006
- Box J.E. and A.E. Cohen, 2006: Upper-air temperatures around Greenland: 1964–2005, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L12706, doi:10.1029/2006GL025723 PDF
- Box, J.E., D.H. Bromwich, B.A. Veenhuis, L-S Bai, J.C. Stroeve, J.C. Rogers, K. Steffen, T. Haran, S-H Wang, 2006: Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance variability (1988-2004) from calibrated Polar MM5 output, Journal of Climate, Vol. 19(12), 2783–2800. PDF
- Box, J.E. 2006: Greenland, in “State of the Climate 2005”, K. A. Shein, Ed., Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 87, Issue 6, Pages: S1-102, Published: June 2006Greenland section PDF [See http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/bams-state-of-the-climate/ for the full reports from this and past years]
- Box, J.E. 2006: Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance variability: 1991-2003, Annals of Glaciology, 42, 42A142. PDF
- Hanna, E., T. Jónsson, and J.E. Box. Recent changes in Icelandic climate, Weather, UK Royal Meteorological Society, Vol. 61, No.1, pp. 3-9. PDF
- Herzfeld, U.C., J.E. Box, K. Steffen, H. Mayer, N.Caine, and M. Losleben, 2006: A case study on the influence of snow and ice surface roughness on melt energy, Zeitschrift für Gletscherkunde und Glazialgeologie, 39, 1-42.
- Stroeve, J.C., Box, J.E., Haran, T., 2006: Evaluation of the MODIS (MOD10A1) daily snow albedo product over the Greenland ice sheet, Remote Sensing of Environment, 105(2), 155-171
2005
- Box, J.E. 2005: Greenland, in “State of the Climate 2004”, D.H. Levinson Ed., Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 86, Issue 6, Pages: S1-S86, Published: June 2005Greenland section PDF [See http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/bams-state-of-the-climate/ for the full reports from this and past years]
- Liang S., J. Stroeve, J.E. Box, 2005: Mapping daily snow/ice shortwave broadband albedo from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): The improved direct retrieval algorithm and validation with Greenland in situ measurement, J. Geophys. Res., 110, D10109, doi:10.1029/2004JD005493.
- Stroeve, J, J.E. Box, A. Nolin, S. Liang, C. Schaaf, F. Gao, 2005: Accuracy assessment of the MODIS 16-day albedo product for snow: comparisons with Greenland in situ measurements, Remote Sensing of the Environment, 94(1), 46-60.
2004
- Box, J.E., D. H. Bromwich, L-S Bai, 2004: Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance for 1991-2000: application of Polar MM5 mesoscale model and in-situ data, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 109, No. D16, D16105, 10.1029/2003JD004451. PDF
- Hanna, E., T. Jonssen, and J.E. Box, 2004: Analysis of Long Term Icelandic Observational Records, Int. J. Climatol., 24: 1193–1210. PDF
- Chylek, P., J.E. Box, and G. Lesins, 2004: Global warming and the Greenland ice sheet, Climatic Change 63: 201-221.
2003
- Box, J.E. and A. Rinke, 2003: Evaluation of Greenland ice sheet surface climate in the HIRHAM regional climate model, J. Climate, 16(9), 1302-1319. PDF
2002
- Box, J.E., 2002: Survey of Greenland instrumental temperature records: 1873-2001, International Journal of Climatology, 22, 1829-1847. PDF
2001
- Box, J.E. and K. Steffen, 2001: Sublimation estimates for the Greenland ice sheet using automated weather station observations, Journal of Geophysical Research, 106(D24), 33965-33982. PDF
- Bromwich D., J. Cassano, T. Klein, G. Heinemann, K. Hines, K. Steffen, and J. E. Box, 2001: Mesoscale modeling of katabatic winds over Greenland with the Polar MM5, Mon. Wea. Rev., 129(9), 2290-2309.
- Cassano, J., J.E. Box, D. Bromwich, L. Li, and K. Steffen, 2001: Verification of polar MM5 simulations of Greenland’s atmospheric circulation, J. Geophys. Res.,106(D24), 33867-33890.
- Shuman, C. A., K. Steffen, J.E. Box, and C. R. Stearns, 2001: A dozen years of temperature observations at the summit: central Greenland automatic weather stations 1987-1999, J. Appl. Meteorol., 40(4), 741-752.
- Steffen, K. and J.E. Box, 2001: Surface climatology of the Greenland ice sheet: Greenland Climate Network 1995-1999, J. Geophys. Res., 106(D24), 33951-33964. PDF
- Stroeve, J., J.E. Box, J. Maslanik, J. Key, C. Fowler, 2001: Intercomparison between in situ and AVHRR Polar Pathfinder-derived surface albedo over Greenland, Rem. Sens. Envt., 75(3), 360-374.
1998
- Serreze, M. C., J. R. Key, J.E. Box, J. A. Maslanik, and K. Steffen, 1998: A new monthly climatology of global radiation for the Arctic and comparisons with NCEP-NCAR reanalysis and ISCCP-C2 Fields, J. Climate: 11(2), pp. 121-136.
1993
- Serreze, M. C., J.E. Box, R. G. Barry, 1993: Characteristics of Arctic synoptic activity, J. Meteorol. Atmos. Phys., Vol. 51, pp. 147-164.
