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Dr Ines Otosaka

Assistant Professor

School: Geography and Natural Sciences

I work in the NERC Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM). 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.

Ines Otosaka
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  • Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from the 1970s to 2023, Otosaka, I., Shepherd, A., Amory, C., Horwath, M., Ivins, E., King, M., Nowicki, S., Payne, A., Rignot, E., Sandberg Sørensen, L., Schlegel, N., Simon, K., Smith, B., Sutterley, T., van den Broeke, M., Velicogna, I., A, G., Agosta, C., Ditmar, P., Döhne, T., Engdahl, M., Fettweis, X., Forsberg, R., Gardner, A., Gilbert, L., Goelzer, H., Gourmelen, N., Groh, A., Hansen, N., Harig, C., Helm, V., Khan, S., Kittel, C., Langen, P., Larsen, M., Loomis, B., McMillan, M., Medley, B., Melini, D., Mottram, R., Muir, A., Nilsson, J., Noël, B., Pattle, M., Aparici, M., Sasgen, I., Save, H., Scheuchl, B., Schrama, E., Schröder, L., Seo, K., Simonsen, S., Slater, T., Spada, G., Vishwakarma, B., Wever, N., Wiese, D., Wouters, B. 16 Sep 2026, In: Scientific data
  • A Regional Intercomparison of Ice Sheet Mass Balance Estimates of the Northwest Greenland Ice Sheet, Otosaka, I., Shepherd, A., Groh, A., Döhne, T., Fettweis, X., Noël, B. 1 Oct 2026, In: Journal of Geophysical Research F: Earth Surface
  • 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
  • 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
PhD August 11 2021

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