Michael McCarthy

BAS Honorary Researcher

Michael McCarthy

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Michael McCarthy

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My primary research interest is improving the representation of supraglacial (i.e. glacier-surface) debris in glacier models. This interest developed during my PhD, which focussed on testing and developing field- and remote sensing-based methods of quantifying supraglacial debris thickness, which is a key control on glacier surface ice-melt rates, and therefore on mass balance, dynamics and geometry. I am currently working at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), and at BAS as an Honorary Researcher, where I am applying my PhD work at a larger scale, and where I am developing a new model for predicting ice-melt below a debris layer, which will improve our ability to predict long-term surface melt from debris-covered glaciers.

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2022

McCarthy, M. ORCIDORCID record for M. McCarthy, Miles, E., Kneib, M., Buri, P., Fugger, S., Pellicciotti, F.. (2022) Supraglacial debris thickness and supply rate in High-Mountain Asia. Communications Earth & Environment, 3 (). 11 pp. 10.1038/s43247-022-00588-2

McCarthy, Michael ORCIDORCID record for Michael McCarthy, Meier, Fabienne, Fatichi, Simone, Stocker, Benjamin D., Shaw, Thomas E., Miles, Evan, Dussaillant, Inés, Pellicciotti, Francesca. (2022) Glacier contributions to river discharge during the current Chilean megadrought. Earth's Future, 10 (). 15 pp. 10.1029/2022EF002852

Jouberton, Achille, Shaw, Thomas E., Miles, Evan, McCarthy, Michael ORCIDORCID record for Michael McCarthy, Fugger, Stefan, Ren, Shaoting, Dehecq, Amaury, Yang, Wei, Pellicciotti, Francesca. (2022) Warming-induced monsoon precipitation phase change intensifies glacier mass loss in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (). pp. 10.1073/pnas.2109796119

Fugger, Stefan, Fyffe, Catriona L., Fatichi, Simone, Miles, Evan, McCarthy, Michael ORCIDORCID record for Michael McCarthy, Shaw, Thomas E., Ding, Baohong, Yang, Wei, Wagnon, Patrick, Immerzeel, Walter, Liu, Qiao, Pellicciotti, Francesca. (2022) Understanding monsoon controls on the energy and mass balance of glaciers in the Central and Eastern Himalaya. The Cryosphere, 16 (). pp. 10.5194/tc-16-1631-2022

2021

Miles, Evan, McCarthy, Michael ORCIDORCID record for Michael McCarthy, Dehecq, Amaury, Kneib, Marin, Fugger, Stefan, Pellicciotti, Francesca. (2021) Health and sustainability of glaciers in High Mountain Asia. Nature Communications, 12 (). 10 pp. 10.1038/s41467-021-23073-4

Ren, S., Miles, E.S., Jia, L., Menenti, M., Kneib, M., Buri, P., McCarthy, Michael ORCIDORCID record for Michael McCarthy, Shaw, T.E., Yang, W., Pellicciotti, F.. (2021) Anisotropy parameterization development and evaluation for glacier surface albedo retrieval from satellite observations.. Remote Sensing, 13 (). 28 pp. 10.3390/rs13091714

2020

Pritchard, H.D. ORCIDORCID record for H.D. Pritchard, King, E.C. ORCIDORCID record for E.C. King, Goodger, D.J., McCarthy, M. ORCIDORCID record for M. McCarthy, Mayer, C., Kayastha, R.. (2020) Towards Bedmap Himalayas: development of an airborne ice-sounding radar for glacier thickness surveys in High-Mountain Asia. Annals of Glaciology, 61 (). 11 pp. 10.1017/aog.2020.29

2019

McCarthy, Michael James ORCIDORCID record for Michael James McCarthy. (2019) Quantifying supraglacial debris thickness at local to regional scales. Scott Polar Research Institute and British Antarctic Survey, PhD thesis

2018

Nicholson, Lindsey I., McCarthy, Michael ORCIDORCID record for Michael McCarthy, Pritchard, Hamish D. ORCIDORCID record for Hamish D. Pritchard, Willis, Ian. (2018) Supraglacial debris thickness variability: impact on ablation and relation to terrain properties. The Cryosphere, 12 (). pp. 10.5194/tc-12-3719-2018

Rounce, David R., King, Owen, McCarthy, Michael ORCIDORCID record for Michael McCarthy, Shean, David E., Salerno, Franco. (2018) Quantifying Debris Thickness of Debris-Covered Glaciers in the Everest Region of Nepal Through Inversion of a Subdebris Melt Model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 123 (). pp. 10.1029/2017JF004395

2017

McCarthy, Michael ORCIDORCID record for Michael McCarthy, Pritchard, Hamish ORCIDORCID record for Hamish Pritchard, Willis, Ian, King, Edward ORCIDORCID record for Edward King. (2017) Ground-penetrating radar measurements of debris thickness on Lirung Glacier, Nepal. Journal of Glaciology, 63 (). pp. 10.1017/jog.2017.18