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  • Zemp, M., Huss, M., Thibert, E., Eckert, N., McNabb, R., Huber, J., Barandun, M, Machguth, H., Nussbaumer, S., Gärtner-Roer, I., Thomson, L., Paul, R., Maussion, R., Kutuzov, S., and Cogley, G. (2019). Global glacier mass balances and their contributions to sea-level rise from 1961 to 2016. Nature, 568, 382–386. 

  • Box, J., Colgan, W., Wouters, B., Burgess, D., S, O., Thomson, L., & Mernild, S. (2018). Global sea-level contribution from Arctic land ice: 1971–2017. Environmental Research Letters, 13(12). 

  • Sharp, M., Wouters, B., Wolken, G., Andreassen, L., Burgess, D., Copland, L., Kohler, J., O’Neel, S., Pelto, M., Thomson, L. and Thorsteinsson, T. (2018) Glaciers and ice caps outside Greenland. In: Blunden, J. and Arndt, D.S. (eds.). State of the Climate in 2017. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society¸ 99(8), Si-S332. doi:10.1175/2018BAMSStateoftheClimate.1

  • Copland, L., White, A., Crawford, A., Mueller, D., Van Wychen, W., Thomson, L., & Vincent, W. F. (2018). Glaciers, Ice Shelves and Ice Islands. In T. Bell & T. M. Brown (Eds.), From Science to Policy in the Eastern Canadian Arctic: An Integrated Regional Impact Study (IRIS) of Climate Change and Modernization (pp. 95–177). ArcticNet, Quebec City.

  • Thomson, L. and Copland, L. (2017) Changing contribution of short-term velocity events to annual velocities following a multi-decadal slowdown at White Glacier. Annals of Glaciology, 58(75pt2), 145-154. doi: 10.1017/aog.2017.46

  • Wolken, G., Sharp, M, Andreassen, L., Burgess, D., Copland, L., Kohler, J., O’Neel, S., Pelto, M., Thomson, L. and Wouters, B. (2017) Glaciers and ice caps outside Greenland. In: Blunden, J. and Arndt, D.S. (eds.). State of the Climate in 2016. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society¸ 98(8), S140-S143. doi:10.1175/2017BAMSStateoftheClimate.1

  • Thomson, L. and Copland, L. (2017) Multi-decadal reduction in glacier velocities and mechanisms driving deceleration at polythermal White Glacier, Arctic Canada. Journal of Glaciology, 63(239), p.450-463. doi:10.1017/jog.2017.3

  • Thomson, L., Zemp, M., Copland, L., Cogley, G., and Ecclestone, M. (2016) Reconciling geodetic and glaciological mass budgets: White Glacier, Axel Heiberg Island, NU. Journal of Glaciology, 63(237), p. 55-66. doi:10.1017/jog.2016.112

  • Wolken, G., Sharp, M., Andreassen, L., Arendt, A., Burgess, D., Cogley, J.G., Copland, L., Kohler, J., O’Neel, S., Pelto, M., Thomson, L. and Wouters, B. (2016) Glaciers and ice caps outside Greenland. In: Blunden, J. and Arndt, D.S. (eds.). State of the Climate in 2015. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society¸ 97(8), S142-S144, doi:10.1175/2016BAMSStateoftheClimate.1

  • Thomson L. and Copland, L. (2016) White Glacier 2014, Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut; Mapped using Structure from Motion methods. Journal of Maps, 12(5), 1063-1071. doi: 10.1080:17445647.2015.1124057

2015 and earlier

  • Sharp, M., Wolken, G., Burgess, D., Cogley, J.G., Copland, L., Thomson, L., Arendt, A., Wouters, B., Kohler, J., Andreassen, L., O’Neel, S. and Pelto, M. (2015) Glaciers and ice caps outside Greenland [in “State of the Climate in 2014”]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 96(7), p. 135-137. doi:10.1175/2015BAMSStateoftheClimate.1

  • Thomson L., Osinski G. R., and Pollard W. H. (2013) Application of the Brewster angle of incidence to quantify the dielectric properties and physical nature of ground ice formations below the penetration limit of ground-penetrating radar. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 99, p. 12-17. doi:10.1016/j.jappgeo.2013.08.015

  • Thomson L., Osinski G. R., and Pollard W. H. (2012) The dielectric permittivity of terrestrial ground ice formations: Considerations for planetary exploration using ground-penetrating radar. Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, E09003. doi:10.1029/2012JE004053

  • Thomson L., Osinski G. R., and Ommanney C. S. L. (2011) Glacier change on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada. Journal of Glaciology, 57(206), p. 1079-1086. doi:10.3189/002214311798843287