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Dr Ines Otosaka

Lecturer

Department: Geography and Environmental Sciences

I am Lecturer in Physical Geography at Northumbria and Co-Director of Science of the . My research focuses on using satellite and airborne altimetry data over the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to detect and interpret changes in their elevation, volume, and mass and estimate their contribution to sea level rise.

Key Publications

Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020, Otosaka, I., Shepherd, A., Ivins, E., Schlegel, N., Amory, C., Van Den Broeke, M., Horwath, M., Joughin, I., King, M., Krinner, G., Nowicki, S., Payne, A., Rignot, E., Scambos, T., Simon, K., Smith, B., Sørensen, L., Velicogna, I., Whitehouse, P., Geruo, A., Agosta, C., Ahlstrøm, A., Blazquez, A., Colgan, W., Engdahl, M., Fettweis, X., Forsberg, R., Gallée, H., Gardner, A., Gilbert, L., Gourmelen, N., Groh, A., Gunter, B., Harig, C., Helm, V., Khan, S., Kittel, C., Konrad, H., Langen, P., Lecavalier, B., Liang, C., Loomis, B., McMillan, M., Melini, D., Mernild, S., Mottram, R., Mouginot, J., Nilsson, J., Noël, B., Pattle, M., Peltier, W., Pie, N., Roca, M., Sasgen, I., Save, H., Seo, K., Scheuchl, B., Schrama, E., Schröder, L., Simonsen, S., Slater, T., Spada, G., Sutterley, T., Vishwakarma, B., Van Wessem, J., Wiese, D., Van Der Wal, W., Wouters, B. 20 Apr 2023, In: Earth System Science Data
Heat stored in the Earth system 1960-2020: where does the energy go?, Von Schuckmann, K., Minière, A., Gues, F., Cuesta-Valero, F., Kirchengast, G., Adusumilli, S., Straneo, F., Ablain, M., Allan, R., Barker, P., Beltrami, H., Blazquez, A., Boyer, T., Cheng, L., Church, J., Desbruyeres, D., Dolman, H., Domingues, C., García-García, A., Giglio, D., Gilson, J., Gorfer, M., Haimberger, L., Hakuba, M., Hendricks, S., Hosoda, S., Johnson, G., Killick, R., King, B., Kolodziejczyk, N., Korosov, A., Krinner, G., Kuusela, M., Landerer, F., Langer, M., Lavergne, T., Lawrence, I., Li, Y., Lyman, J., Marti, F., Marzeion, B., Mayer, M., MacDougall, A., McDougall, T., Monselesan, D., Nitzbon, J., Otosaka, I., Peng, J., Purkey, S., Roemmich, D., Sato, K., Sato, K., Savita, A., Schweiger, A., Shepherd, A., Seneviratne, S., Simons, L., Slater, D., Slater, T., Steiner, A., Suga, T., Szekely, T., Thiery, W., Timmermans, M., Vanderkelen, I., Wjiffels, S., Wu, T., Zemp, M. 17 Apr 2023, In: Earth System Science Data
Global sea-level budget and ocean-mass budget, with a focus on advanced data products and uncertainty characterisation, Horwath, M., Gutknecht, B., Cazenave, A., Palanisamy, H., Marti, F., Marzeion, B., Paul, F., Le Bris, R., Hogg, A., Otosaka, I., Shepherd, A., Döll, P., Cáceres, D., Müller Schmied, H., Johannessen, J., Nilsen, J., Raj, R., Forsberg, R., Sandberg Sørensen, L., Barletta, V., Simonsen, S., Knudsen, P., Andersen, O., Ranndal, H., Rose, S., Merchant, C., Macintosh, C., Von Schuckmann, K., Novotny, K., Groh, A., Restano, M., Benveniste, J. 7 Feb 2022, In: Earth System Science Data
Surface Melting Drives Fluctuations in Airborne Radar Penetration in West Central Greenland, Otosaka, I., Shepherd, A., Casal, T., Coccia, A., Davidson, M., Di Bella, A., Fettweis, X., Forsberg, R., Helm, V., Hogg, A., Hvidegaard, S., Lemos, A., Macedo, K., Kuipers Munneke, P., Parrinello, T., Simonsen, S., Skourup, H., Sørensen, L. 16 Sep 2020, In: Geophysical Research Letters
Ice Sheet Elevation Change in West Antarctica From Ka-Band Satellite Radar Altimetry, Otosaka, I., Shepherd, A., McMillan, M. 28 Nov 2019, In: Geophysical Research Letters

Qualifications

PhD August 11 2021

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