Publications

In preparation —

  • Michelle L. Maclennan, Andrew C. Winters, Christine A. Shields, Rudradutt Thaker, Léonard Barthelemy, Francis Codron, and Jonathan D. Wille. Rising atmospheric moisture escalates the future impact of atmospheric rivers in the Antarctic climate system. Submitted to Communications Earth & Environment.

  • Rudra Thaker, Stephen Vavrus, Christine Shields, Alice DuVivier, Michelle Maclennan, Marika Holland, and Laura Landrum. Arctic atmospheric rivers in a changing climate and the impacts on sea ice. In review at JGR Atmospheres.

  • Ella Gilbert, Denys Pishniak, José Abraham Torres, Andrew Orr, Michelle Maclennan, Nander Wever, and Kristiina Verro. Extreme precipitation associated with atmospheric rivers over West Antarctic ice shelves: insights from kilometre-scale regional climate modelling. In review at The Cryosphere.

  • Andrew O. Hoffman, Michelle Maclennan, Jan Lenaerts, Kristine M. Larson, and Knut Christianson. Amundsen Sea Embayment accumulation variability measured with GNSS-IR. Accepted for publication in The Cryosphere. doi: 10.5194/tc-2023-114

  • Jonathan Wille, Vincent Favier, Irina Gorodetskaya, Cécile Agosta, Rebecca Baiman, Jeb Barrett, Léonard Barthelemy, Burcu Boza, Deniz Bozkurt, Mathieu Casado, Anastasiia Chyhareva, Kyle Clem, Francis Codron, Rajashree Datta, Claudio Durán-Alarcón, Diana Francis, Andrew Hoffman, Marlen Kolbe, Svitlana Krakovska, Gabrielle Linscott, Michelle Maclennan, Kyle Mattingly, Ye Mu, Benjamin Pohl, Christophe Santos, Christine Shields, Emir Toker, Andrew Winters, Ziqi Yin, Xun Zou, Chen Zhang, and Zhenhai Zhang. Atmospheric rivers in Antarctica. Accepted for publication in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment.

First-authored, peer-reviewed publications —

  • Michelle L. Maclennan, Jan T. M. Lenaerts, Christine A. Shields, Andrew O. Hoffman, Nander Wever, Megan Thompson-Munson, Andrew C. Winters, Erin C. Pettit, Theodore A. Scambos, and Jonathan D. Wille (2023). Climatology and Surface Impacts of Atmospheric Rivers on West Antarctica. The Cryosphere. DOI: 10.5194/tc-2022-101

    • Highlight Paper

  • Michelle L. Maclennan, Jan T. M. Lenaerts*, Christine A. Shields, and Jonathan D. Wille (2022). Contribution of Atmospheric Rivers to Antarctic Precipitation. Geophysical Research Letters. DOI: 10.1029/2022GL100585

    • *co-first authors

  • Michelle L. Maclennan and Jan T. M. Lenaerts (2021). Large-Scale Atmospheric Drivers of Snowfall Over Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters. DOI: 10.1029/2021GL093644

Co-authored, peer-reviewed publications —

  • Naomi E. Ochwat, Ted A. Scambos, Alison F. Banwell, Robert S. Anderson, Michelle L. Maclennan, Ghislain Picard, Julia A. Shates, Sebastian Marinsek, Liliana Margonari, Martin Truffer, and Erin C. Pettit (2024). Triggers of the 2022 Larsen B multi-year landfast sea ice break-out and initial glacier response. The Cryosphere. DOI: 10.5194/tc-2023-88

  • Kyle Clem, Marilyn Raphael, …, Michelle Maclennan, et al. (2024). Antarctica and the Southern Ocean in “State of the Climate in 2023”. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0099.1

  • Jonathan D. Wille, …, Michelle Maclennan, et al. (2024). The extraordinary March 2022 East Antarctica “heat” wave. Part II: impacts on the Antarctic ice sheet. Journal of Climate, DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0176.1

  • Jonathan D. Wille, …, Michelle Maclennan, et al. (2024). The extraordinary March 2022 East Antarctica “heat” wave. Part I: observations and meteorological drivers. Journal of Climate, DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0175.1

  • Kyle Clem, Marilyn Raphael, …, Michelle Maclennan, et al. (2023). Antarctica and the Southern Ocean in “State of the Climate in 2022”. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0077.1

  • Christine A. Shields, Jonathan D. Wille, Allison B. Marquardt Collow, Michelle Maclennan, and Irina V. Gorodetskaya (2022). Evaluating Uncertainty and Modes of Variability for Antarctic Atmospheric Rivers. Geophysical Research Letters. DOI: 10.1029/2022GL099577

  • Kyle Clem, Marilyn Raphael, …, Michelle Maclennan, et al. (2022). Antarctica and the Southern Ocean in “State of the Climate in 2021”. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0078.1

  • Karen E. Alley, Christian T. Wild, Adrian Luckman, Ted A. Scambos, Martin Truffer, Erin C. Pettit, Atsuhiro Muto, Bruce Wallin, Marin Klinger, Tyler Sutterley, Sarah F. Child, Cyrus Hulen, Jan T. M. Lenaerts, Michelle Maclennan, Eric Keenan, and Devon Dunmire (2021). Two decades of dynamic change and progressive destabilization on the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf. The Cryosphere. DOI: 10.5194/tc-15-5187-2021 

  • Sharon Stammerjohn, Theodore Scambos, …, Michelle Maclennan, et al (2021). Antarctica and the Southern Ocean in “State of the Climate in 2020”. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0081.1

  • Theodore Scambos, Sharon Stammerjohn, …, Michelle Maclennan, et al (2020). Antarctica and the Southern Ocean in “State of the Climate in 2019”. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0090.1

  • Natalie M. Freeman, Nicole S. Lovenduski, David R. Munro, Kristen M. Krumhardt, Keith Lindsay, Matthew C. Long, and Michelle Maclennan (2017) The variable and changing South Ocean Silicate Front: Insights from the CESM Large Ensemble. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. DOI: 10.1029/2017GB005816