• Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, E., Webster, M., Boisvert, L., Parker, C., & C. Horvat (in press), Record low SLP Arctic cyclone of January 2022: characteristics, impacts, and predictability, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos.
  • Parker, C., Mooney, P., Webster, M., & L. Boisvert (in press), The influence of climate change on Arctic cyclones: recent and future, Nat. Comms.
  • Webster, M., & S.G. Warren (2022), Regional geoengineering using tiny glass bubbles would accelerate the loss of Arctic sea ice, Earth’s Future, 10, e2022EF002815, doi:10.1029/2022EF002815
  • Light, B., Smith, M.M., Perovich, D.K., Webster, M., Holland, M., Linhardt, F., Raphael, I.A., Clemens-Sewall, D., MacFarlane, A., Anhaus, P., & D. Bailey (2022), Arctic sea ice albedo: spectral composition, spatial heterogeneity, and temporal evolution observed during the MOSAiC drift, Elementa: Sci. of the Anthro., 10(1) doi:10.1525/elementa.2021.000103.
  • Smith, M.M., Albedyll, L.v., Raphael, I., Lange, B., Matero, I., Salganik, E., Webster, M., Granskog, M.A., Fong, A., Lei, R., & B. Light (2022), Quantifying false bottoms and under-ice meltwater layers beneath Arctic summer sea ice with fine-scale observations, Elementa: Sci. of the Anthro. 10(1) doi:10.1525/elementa.2021.000116.
  • Huang, Y., Taylor, P.C., Rose, F.G., Rutan, D.A., Shupe, M.A., Webster M., & M. Smith (2022), Towards a more realistic representation of surface albedo in NASA CERES satellite products: a comparison with the MOSAiC field campaign, Elementa: Sci. of the Anthro., 10, doi:10.1525/elementa.2022.00013.
  • Webster, M., Holland, M., Wright, N.C., Hendricks, S., Hutter, N., Itkin, P., Light, B., Linhardt, F., Perovich, D.K., Raphael, I.A., Smith, M.M., Albedyll, L.v., & J. Zhang (2022), Spatiotemporal evolution of melt ponds on Arctic sea ice: MOSAiC observations and model results, Elementa: Sci. of the Anthro. 10, doi:10.1525/elementa.2021.000072.
  • Albedyll, L.v., Hendricks, S., Grodofzig, R., Krumpen, T., Arndt, S., Belter, H.J., Birnbaum, G., Cheng, B., Hoppmann, M., Hutchings, J., Itkin, P., Lei, R., Nicolaus, M., Ricker, R., Rohde, J., Suhrhoff, M., Timofeeva, A., Watkins, D., Webster, M., & C. Haas (2022), Thermodynamic and dynamic contributions to seasonal Arctic sea ice thickness distributions from airborne observations, Elementa: Sci. of the Anthro. 10, doi:10.1525/elementa.2021.00074.
  • Webster, M., Rigor, I., & N. Wright (2022), Observing Arctic sea ice, Oceanography. 35, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2022.115.
  • Kay, J.E., DeRepentigny, P., Holland, M.M., Bailey, D.A., DuVivier, A.K., Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, E., Deser, C., Jahn, A., Singh, H.A., Smith, M.M., Webster, M., Edwards, J., Lee, S., Rodgers, K., & N.A. Rosenbloom (2022), Less surface sea ice melt in the CESM2 improves Arctic sea ice simulation with minimal non-polar climate impacts, J. of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14, doi:10.1029/2021MS002679.
  • Nicolaus, M., et al. (2022), Overview of the MOSAiC expedition – snow and sea ice, Elementa: Sci. of the Anthro. 10, doi:10.1525/elementa.2021.000046.
  • Holland, M.M., Clemens-Sewall, D., Landrum, D., Light, B., Perovich, D., Polashenski, C., Smith, M., & M. Webster (2021), The influence of snow on sea ice as assessed from simulations of CESM2, The Cryosphere, doi:10.5194/tc-2021-174.
  • Perovich, D., Smith, M., Light B., & M. Webster (2021), Meltwater sources and sinks for multiyear Arctic sea ice in summer, The Cryosphere. doi:10.5194/tc-2021-114.
  • Belter, J., Krumpen, T., von Albedyll, L., Alekseeva, T., Frolov, S., Hendricks, S., Herber, A., Polyakov, I., Raphael, I., Ricker, R., Serovetnikov, S., Webster, M., & C. Haas (2021), Interannual variability in Transpolar Drift summer sea ice thickness and potential impact of Atlantification, The Cryosphere. doi:10.5194/tc-15-2575-2021.
  • Webster, M., DuVivier, A.K., Holland, M.M. & D.A. Bailey (2021), Snow on Arctic sea ice in a warming climate as simulated in CESM, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans. 125, doi: 10.1029/2020JC016308.
  • Boisvert, L., Webster, M., Petty, A., Markus, T., Cullather, R., & D. Bromwich (2020), Intercomparison of precipitation estimates over the Southern Ocean from atmospheric reanalyses, J. Clim., doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0044.1 
  • Kwok, R., Cunningham, G., Kacimi, S., Webster, M., Kurtz, N., & A. Petty (2020), Decay of the snow cover over Arctic sea ice from ICESat-2 acquisitions during summer melt in 2019, Geophys. Res. Lett. doi:10.1029/2020GL088209.
  • Kwok, R., Kacimi, S., Webster, M., Markus, T., Kurtz, N., & A. Petty (2020), Snow depth and sea ice thickness from ICESat-2 and CryoSat-2 freeboards: A first examination, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans. doi:10.1029/2019JC016008.
  • DuVivier, A., DeRepentigny, P., Holland, M., Webster, M., Kay, J., & D. Perovich (2020), Going with the floe: tracking CESM Large Ensemble sea ice in the Arctic provides context for ship-based observations, The Cryosphere, doi:10.5194/tc-14-1259-2020.
  • Webster, M., Parker, C., Boisvert, L., & R. Kwok (2019), The role of cyclones in snow accumulation on Arctic sea ice, Nat. Comms. 10, 5285, doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13299-8.
  • Zhang, J., Schweiger, A., Webster, M., Light, B., Steele, M., Ashjian, C., Campbell, R., & Y. Spitz (2018), Melt pond conditions on declining Arctic sea ice over 1979–2016: Model development, validation, and results, J. Geophys. Res., Oceans., 123 (11), doi:10.1029/2018JC014298.
  • Petty, A., Webster, M., Boisvert, L., & T. Markus (2018), The NASA Eulerian Snow on Sea Ice Model (NESOSIM) v1.0: initial model development and analysis, Geosci. Model Dev. 11, 4577-4602.
  • Webster, M., Gerland, S., Holland, M., Hunke, E., Kwok, R., Lecomte, O., Massom, R., Perovich, D., & M. Sturm (2018) Snow in the changing sea-ice systems, Nat. Clim. Change, 8, doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0286-7.
  • Boisvert, L., Webster, M., Petty, A., Markus, T., Bromwich, D., & R. Cullather (2018), Intercomparison of precipitation estimates over the Arctic Ocean and its peripheral seas from reanalyses, J. Clim., 31(20), 8441–8462, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0125.1.
  • Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, E., Webster, M., Farrell, S. L., & C. Bitz (2018), Reconstruction of snow on Arctic sea ice, J. Geophys. Res., 123 (5): 3588-3602, doi:10.1002/2017jcc013364. 
  • Contributing author of the Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA) assessment, Ch. 6.2: “Changes in sea ice thermodynamics, age and dynamic processes” (2017).
  • Kwok, R., Kurtz, N. T., Brucker, L., Ivanoff, A., Newman, T., Farrell, S. L., King, J., Howell, S., Webster, M., Paden, J., Leuschen, C., MacGregor, J.A., Richter-Menge, J., Harbeck, J., & M. Tschudi (2017). Intercomparison of snow depth retrievals over Arctic sea ice from radar data acquired by Operation IceBridge. The Cryosphere, 11(6), 2571–2593. doi:10.5194/tc-11-2571-2017.
  • Light, B., Perovich, D.K., Webster, M., Polashenski, C.M., & R. Dadic (2015), Optical properties of melting first-year Arctic sea ice, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, doi:10.1029/2015JC011163.
  • Webster, M., Rigor, I.G., Perovich, D.K., Richter-Menge, J.A., Polashenski, C.M., & B. Light (2015), Seasonal evolution of melt ponds on Arctic sea ice, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, doi:10.1029/2015JC011030.
  • Polashenski, C.M., Perovich, D.K., Frey, K.E., Cooper, L.W., Logvinova, C.I., Dadic, R., Light, B., Kelly, H.P., Trusel, L.D., & M. Webster (2015), Physical and morphological properties of sea ice in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas during the 2010 and 2011 NASA ICESCAPE missions, Deep Sea Res. Part II: Topical Studies in Ocean., doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.04.006.
  • Webster, M., Rigor, I.G., Nghiem, S.V., Kurtz, N.T., Farrell, S.L., Perovich, D.K., & M. Sturm (2014), Interdecadal changes in snow depth on Arctic sea ice, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 119, 5395–5406, doi:10.1002/2014JC009985.

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