Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Patrick M Alexander

(NASA POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW)

 patrick.m.alexander@nasa.gov

 212.678.5632

Org Code: 611

NASA/GISS
Mail Code: 611
New York, NY 10025

Employer: TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Brief Bio


I am a cryospheric scientist and modeler focused on interactions between ice and climate. I incorporate remote sensing and in situ measurements with global climate models (e.g. NASA GISS GCM) and regional climate models (e.g. MAR RCM) and ice dynamics models (e.g. ISSM) to study ice-climate interactions, particularly interactions between climate and polar ice sheets, with the goal of understanding the future impact of climate change on sea level rise.

Positions/Employment


Associate Research Scientist

Columbia University - Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory

July 2020 - Present


Postdoctoral Research Scientist

Columbia University - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

July 2017 - July 2020


Postdoctoral Fellow

NASA - Goddard Institute for Space Studies

July 2015 - July 2017


Research Assistant

City College of New York - City College of New York

October 2010 - July 2015


Adjunct Lecturer

City College of New York - City College of New York

October 2010 - July 2015


Research Assistant

Columbia University - Columbia University

July 2009 - July 2010

Publications


Refereed

Goelzer, H., S. Nowicki, A. Payne, et al. E. Larour, H. Seroussi, W. H. Lipscomb, J. Gregory, A. Abe-Ouchi, A. Shepherd, E. Simon, C. Agosta, P. Alexander, A. Aschwanden, A. Barthel, R. Calov, C. Chambers, Y. Choi, J. Cuzzone, C. Dumas, T. Edwards, D. Felikson, X. Fettweis, N. R. Golledge, R. Greve, A. Humbert, P. Huybrechts, S. Le clec'h, V. Lee, G. Leguy, C. Little, D. P. Lowry, M. Morlighem, I. Nias, A. Quiquet, M. Rückamp, N.-J. Schlegel, D. Slater, R. Smith, F. Straneo, L. Tarasov, R. van de Wal, and M. van den Broeke. 2020. The future sea-level contribution of the Greenland ice sheet: a multi-model ensemble study of ISMIP6 The Cryosphere [10.5194/tc-14-3071-2020]

Nowicki, S., A. J. Payne, H. Goelzer, et al. H. Seroussi, W. H. Lipscomb, A. Abe-Ouchi, C. Agosta, P. Alexander, X. S. Asay-Davis, A. Barthel, T. J. Bracegirdle, R. Cullather, D. Felikson, X. Fettweis, J. Gregory, T. Hatterman, N. C. Jourdain, P. Kuipers Munneke, E. Larour, C. M. Little, M. Morlinghem, I. Nias, A. Shepherd, E. Simon, D. Slater, R. Smith, F. Straneo, L. D. Trusel, M. R. van den Broeke, and R. van de Wal. 2020. Experimental protocol for sealevel projections from ISMIP6 stand-alone ice sheet models The Cryosphere 13 2331–2368 [10.5194/tc-14-2331-2020]

Nusbaumer, J., P. M. Alexander, A. N. LeGrande, and M. Tedesco. 2019. Spatial Shift of Greenland Moisture Sources Related to Enhanced Arctic Warming Geophysical Research Letters 2019GL084633 [10.1029/2019gl084633]

Alexander, P. M., A. N. LeGrande, E. Fischer, et al. M. Tedesco, X. Fettweis, M. Kelley, S. M. Nowicki, and G. A. Schmidt. 2019. Simulated Greenland Surface Mass Balance in the GISS ModelE2 GCM: Role of the Ice Sheet Surface Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 124 (3): 750-765 [10.1029/2018jf004772]

Koenig, L. S., A. Ivanoff, P. M. Alexander, et al. J. A. MacGregor, X. Fettweis, B. Panzer, J. D. Paden, R. R. Forster, I. Das, J. McConnell, M. Tedesco, C. Leuschen, and P. Gogineni. 2016. Annual Greenland accumulation rates (2009–2012) from airborne Snow Radar The Cryosphere 10 1739–1752 [10.5194/tcd-9-6697-2015]

Alexander, P. M., M. Tedesco, N.-J. Schlegel, et al. S. Luthcke, X. Fettweis, and E. Larour. 2016. Greenland Ice Sheet seasonal and spatial mass variability from model simulations and GRACE (2003-2012) The Cryosphere 10 1259-1277 [10.5194/tc-10-1259-2016]

Tedesco, M., S. Doherty, X. Fettweis, et al. P. Alexander, J. Jeyaratnam, and J. Stroeve. 2016. The darkening of the Greenland ice sheet: trends, drivers, and projections (1981–2100) The Cryosphere 10 (2): 477-496 [10.5194/tc-10-477-2016]