Dr Tom Cowton

Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 464026

Email

Tom.Cowton@st-andrews.ac.uk

Research areas

Dr Cowton's research focusses on the mechanisms controlling the response of glaciers, and in the particular the Greenland Ice Sheet, to climate change. Through a combination of field, modelling and remote sensing techniques, he has published research on themes including ice sheet hydrology, tidewater glacier processes and the physical oceanography of fjord systems.

PhD supervision

• Oliver Hall
• Ben Davison

Selected publications

• Impact of warming shelf waters on ice mélange and terminus retreat at a large SE Greenland glacier

  Bevan, S., Luckman, A., Benn, D. I., Cowton, T. & Todd, J., 5 Sep 2019, In : The Cryosphere. 13, p. 2303-2315 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Sensitivity of tidewater glaciers to submarine melting governed by plume locations

  Cowton, T., Todd, J. A. & Benn, D. I., 19 Nov 2019, In : Geophysical Research Letters. 46, 20, p. 11219-11227 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• The influence of hydrology on the dynamics of land-terminating sectors of the Greenland Ice Sheet

  Davison, B., Sole, A., Livingstone, S., Cowton, T. & Nienow, P., 21 Feb 2019, In : Frontiers in Earth Sciences. 7, 24 p., 10.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Review article

• Linear response of east Greenland?s tidewater glaciers to ocean/atmosphere warming

  Cowton, T., Sole, A., Nienow, P., Slater, D. A. & Christoffersen, P., 31 Jul 2018, In : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115, 31, p. 7907-7912

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• A model for tidewater glacier undercutting by submarine melting

  Slater, D. A., Nienow, P. W., Goldberg, D. N., Cowton, T. R. & Sole, A. J., 16 Mar 2017, In : Geophysical Research Letters. 44, 5, p. 2360-2368 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Glacier calving in Greenland

  Benn, D. I., Cowton, T., Todd, J. & Luckman, A., Dec 2017, In : Current Climate Change Reports. 3, 4, p. 282-290

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Review article

• Recent advances in our understanding of the role of meltwater in the Greenland ice sheet system

  Nienow, P. W., Sole, A. J., Slater, D. A. & Cowton, T. R., Dec 2017, In : Current Climate Change Reports. 3, 4, p. 330-344

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Review article

• Spatially distributed runoff at the grounding line of a large Greenlandic tidewater glacier inferred from plume modelling

  Slater, D. A., Nienow, P., Sole, A., Cowton, T., Mottram, R., Langen, P. & Mair, D., Apr 2017, In : Journal of Glaciology. 63, 238, p. 309-323 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Utility of ²²²Rn as a passive tracer of subglacial distributed system drainage

  Linhoff, B. S., Charette, M. A., Nienow, P. W., Wadham, J. L., Tedstone, A. J. & Cowton, T., 15 Mar 2017, In : Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 462, p. 180-188 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Controls on the transport of oceanic heat to Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier, East Greenland

  Cowton, T., Sole, A., Nienow, P., Slater, D., Wilton, D. & Hanna, E., Dec 2016, In : Journal of Glaciology. 62, 236, p. 1167-1180 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

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