Michalea King Glaciology · University of Washington, APL Polar Science Center

Peer-reviewed work

Publications

  1. 2026

    Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from the 1970s to 2023.

    Otosaka, I., and IMBIE Team including King, M. D. · Sci Data, 13, 1301.

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  2. 2026

    Nonlinear interactions between subglacial discharge and iceberg melt enhance biological productivity around Upernavik, a major West Greenland fjord system.

    Wood, M., Summers, P., Bertin, C., Carroll, D., Fenty, I., King, M. D., Willis, J. · In review for JGR Oceans.

  3. 2026

    Environmental controls on ice mélange breakup at deeply grounded glaciers.

    Abib, N., Sutherland, D., Amundson, J., King, M. D., and Joughin, I. · In review (revision) for Journal of Glaciology.

  4. 2026

    Sudden collapse of ice mélange under increasing submarine melt at tidewater glaciers.

    Summers, P., Robel, A., Jackson, R., King, M. D., Amundson, J., Burton, J. · Accepted, Nature Communications.

  5. 2026

    ICESat-2 land ice products resolve Greenland and Antarctic ice sheet height changes on seasonal to multiyear time scales.

    Smith, B. E., and NASA ICESat-2 Land Ice Science Team, including King, M. D. · Journal of Glaciology, 72, e63.

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  6. 2025

    Increased crevassing across accelerating Greenland Ice Sheet margins.

    Chudley, T., Howat, I., King, M. D., MacKie, E. · Nat. Geosci., 18, 148–153.

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  7. 2023

    Closing Greenland's mass balance: Frontal ablation for every Greenlandic glacier from 2000 to 2020.

    Kochtitzky, W., Copland, L., King, M. D., Hugonnet, R., Jiskoot, H., Morlighem, M., Millan, R., Khan, S. A., Noël, B. · Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL104095.

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  8. 2023

    Accelerating the renewable energy revolution to get back to the Holocene.

    Abbott, B., and 9 others including King, M. D. · Earth's Future, 11, e2023EF003639.

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  9. 2023

    Atlantic Water intrusion triggers rapid retreat and regime change at previously stable Greenland glacier.

    Chudley, T., Howat, I., King, M. D., Negrete, A. · Nat. Commun., 14, 2151, 1–10.

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  10. 2023

    Progress towards globally complete frontal ablation estimates of marine-terminating glaciers.

    Kochtitzky, W., et al. including King, M. D. · Annals of Glaciology, 1–10.

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  11. 2022

    Mass Balance of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets from 1992 to 2020.

    IMBIE Team including King, M. D. · Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 1597–1616.

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  12. 2022

    Greenland mass trends from airborne and satellite altimetry during 2011–2020.

    Khan, S. A., Bamber, J., Rignot, E., Helm, V., Aschwanden, A., Holland, D., van den Broeke, M., King, M. D., Noël, B., Truffer, M., Humbert, A., Vijay, S., Munneke, P. K. · JGR Earth Surface, 127, e2021JF006505.

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  13. 2021

    Post-publication careers: lockdown to limelight.

    King, M. D. · Commun. Earth Environ., 2, 180.

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  14. 2021

    Greenland ice sheet mass balance from 1840 through next week.

    Mankoff, K., and 15 others including King, M. D. · Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 5001–5025.

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  15. 2021

    Greenland ice-sheet wide classification of glaciers based on two distinct seasonal ice velocity behaviors.

    Vijay, S., King, M. D., Howat, I. M., Solgaard, A., Khan, S. A., Noël, B. · Journal of Glaciology, 1–8.

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  16. 2020

    Dynamic ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet driven by sustained glacier retreat.

    King, M. D., Howat, I. M., Candela, S. G., Jeong, S., Noh, M. J., Noël, B., van den Broeke, M. R., Wouters, B., and Negrete, A. · Nature Communications Earth & Environment, 1, 1.

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  17. 2020

    Return to rapid ice loss in Greenland and record loss in 2019 detected by the GRACE-FO satellites.

    Sasgen, I., Wouters, B., Gardner, A., King, M. D., Tedesco, M., Dahle, C., Landerer, F., Save, H., and Fettweis, X. · Nature Communications Earth & Environment, 1, 8.

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  18. 2020

    Early predictors of seasonal Arctic sea ice volume loss: The impact of spring and early-summer cloud radiative conditions.

    King, M. D., Veron, D. E., and Huntley, H. S. · Annals of Glaciology, 1–9.

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  19. 2020

    GrSMBMIP: Intercomparison of the modelled 1980–2012 surface mass balance over the Greenland Ice Sheet.

    Fettweis, X., and 40 others including King, M. D. · The Cryosphere.

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  20. 2019

    The surface albedo of the Greenland Ice Sheet between 1982 and 2015 from the CLARA-A2 dataset, and its relationship to the ice sheet's surface mass balance.

    Riihelä, A., King, M. D., Antilla, K. · The Cryosphere, 13, 2597–2614.

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  21. 2018

    Seasonal to decadal variability in ice discharge from the Greenland Ice Sheet.

    King, M. D., Howat, I. M., Jeong, S., Noh, M. J., Wouters, B., Noël, B., and van den Broeke, M. R. · The Cryosphere, 12, 3813–3825.

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  22. 2018

    Land ice freshwater budget of the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans. Part I: Data, methods and results.

    Bamber, J. L., Tedstone, A. J., King, M. D., Howat, I., Van den Broeke, M. · Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, 123, 1827–1837.

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