Louise Steffensen Schmidt

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Visiting address Sem Sælands vei 1 Geologibygningen 0371 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1047 Blindern 0316 Oslo

Academic interests

  • Glacier mass balance
  • Glacier dynamics
  • Climate modeling

Teaching

Background

  • 2019 – present: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Geosciences, University of Oslo
  • 2015 – 2019: PhD in Geophysics, University of Iceland/Háskóli Íslands
  • 2012 – 2014: MSc in Physics, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
  • 2009 – 2012: BSc in Physics, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Tags: Glaciology, Cryosphere, Climate change

Publications

  • Spolaor, Andrea; Scoto, Federico; Larose, Catherine; Barbaro, Elena; Burgay, Francois & Björkman, Mats Peter [Show all 22 contributors for this article] (2024). Climate change is rapidly deteriorating the climatic signal in Svalbard glaciers. The Cryosphere. ISSN 1994-0416. 18(1), p. 307–320. doi: 10.5194/tc-18-307-2024.
  • Dürig, Tobias; Schmidt, Louise Steffensen & Dioguardi, Fabio (2023). Optimizing mass eruption rate estimates by combining simple plume models. Frontiers in Earth Science. ISSN 2296-6463. 11. doi: 10.3389/feart.2023.1250686. Full text in Research Archive
  • Schmidt, Louise Steffensen; Schuler, Thomas; Thomas, Erin E. & Westermann, Sebastian (2023). Meltwater runoff and glacier mass balance in the high Arctic: 1991-2022 simulations for Svalbard. The Cryosphere. ISSN 1994-0416. 17(7), p. 2941–2963. doi: 10.5194/tc-17-2941-2023. Full text in Research Archive
  • Westermann, Sebastian; Ingeman-Nielsen, Thomas; Scheer, Johanna; Aalstad, Kristoffer; Aga, Juditha & Chaudhary, Nitin [Show all 24 contributors for this article] (2023). The CryoGrid community model (version 1.0) - a multi-physics toolbox for climate-driven simulations in the terrestrial cryosphere. Geoscientific Model Development. ISSN 1991-959X. 16(9), p. 2607–2647. doi: 10.5194/gmd-16-2607-2023. Full text in Research Archive
  • Dürig, Tobias; Gudmundsson, Magnus T.; Dioguardi, Fabio & Schmidt, Louise Steffensen (2023). Quantifying the Effect of Wind on Volcanic Plumes: Implications for Plume Modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Atmospheres. ISSN 2169-897X. 128(2). doi: 10.1029/2022JD037781.
  • Dürig, Tobias; Gudmundsson, Magnús T.; Ágústsdóttir, Thorbjörg; Högnadóttir, Thórdís & Schmidt, Louise Steffensen (2022). The effect of wind and plume height reconstruction methods on the accuracy of simple plume models — a second look at the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption. Bulletin of Volcanology. ISSN 0258-8900. 84. doi: 10.1007/s00445-022-01541-z.
  • Yue, Chao; Schmidt, Louise Steffensen; Zhao, Liyun; Wolovick, Michae & Moore, John C. (2021). Vatnajökull Mass Loss Under Solar Geoengineering Due to the North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Earth's Future. ISSN 2328-4277. 9(9). doi: 10.1029/2021EF002052.
  • Dürig, Tobias; Schmidt, Louise Steffensen; White, James D.L. & Bowman, M. H. (2020). DendroScan: an open source tool to conduct comparative statistical tests and dendrogrammatic analyses on particle morphometry. Scientific Reports. ISSN 2045-2322. 10. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-78698-0. Full text in Research Archive
  • Adalgeirsdottir, Gudfinna; Magnusson, Eyjólfur; Pálsson, Finnur; Thorsteinsson, Thorsteinn; Belart, Joaquin M. C. & Johannesson, Tomas [Show all 14 contributors for this article] (2020). Glacier changes in Iceland from ~1890 to 2019. Frontiers in Earth Sciences. ISSN 1863-4621. 8, p. 1–15. doi: 10.3389/feart.2020.523646. Full text in Research Archive
  • Dürig, Tobias; White, James D.L.; Murch, AP; Zimanowski, Bernd; Buttner, R & Mele, D. [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2020). Deep-sea eruptions boosted by induced fuel–coolant explosions. Nature Geoscience. ISSN 1752-0894. 13, p. 498–503. doi: 10.1038/s41561-020-0603-4. Full text in Research Archive
  • Schmidt, Louise Steffensen; Adalgeirsdottir, Gudfinna; Pálsson, Finnur; Langen, Peter L.; Guđmundsson, Sverrir & Björnsson, Helgi (2020). Dynamic simulations of Vatnajökull ice cap from 1980 to 2300. Journal of Glaciology. ISSN 0022-1430. 66(255). doi: 10.1017/jog.2019.90.
  • Schmidt, Louise Steffensen; Hvidberg, Christine; Kim, Jungrack & Karlsson, Nanna B (2019). Non-linear flow modelling of a Martian Lobate Debris Apron. Journal of Glaciology. ISSN 0022-1430. 65(254), p. 889–899. doi: 10.1017/jog.2019.54.
  • Schmidt, Louise Steffensen; Langen, Peter L.; Adalgeirsdottir, Gudfinna; Pálsson, Finnur; Guðmundsson, Sverrir & Gunnarsson, Andri (2018). Sensitivity of glacier runoff to winter snow thickness investigated for Vatnajökull ice cap, Iceland, using numerical models and observations. Atmosphere. ISSN 2073-4433. 9(11). doi: 10.3390/atmos9110450.
  • Gascoin, Simon; Guðmundsson, Sverrir; Adalgeirsdottir, Gudfinna; Pálsson, Finnur; Schmidt, Louise Steffensen & Berthier, Etienne [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2017). Evaluation of MODIS albedo product over ice caps in Iceland and impact of volcanic eruptions on their albedo. Remote Sensing. ISSN 2072-4292. 5(9). doi: 10.3390/rs9050399.
  • Schmidt, Louise Steffensen; Aðalgeirsdóttir, Guðfinna; Guðmundsson, Sverrir; Langen, Peter L.; Pálsson, Finnur & Mottram, Ruth [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2017). The importance of accurate glacier albedo for estimates of surface mass balance on Vatnajökull. The Cryosphere. ISSN 1994-0416. 11(4), p. 1665–1684. doi: 10.5194/tc-11-1665-2017.
  • Karlsson, Nanna B.; Schmidt, Louise Steffensen & Hvidberg, Christine (2015). Volume of Martian midlatitude glaciers from radar observations and ice flow modeling. Geophysical Research Letters. ISSN 0094-8276. 42(8), p. 2627–2633. doi: 10.1002/2015GL063219.

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  • Alexander, Andreas; Piermattei, Livia; Assmy, Philipp Kurt Wolf; Popp, Andrea; Valiente, Nicolás & Tallentire, Guy [Show all 19 contributors for this article] (2023). The impact of subglacial drainage system evolution and glacier lake outburst on Arctic fjord macronutrient dynamics: Kongsfjorden, Svalbard.
  • Schmidt, Louise Steffensen; Schuler, Thomas Vikhamar & Westermann, Sebastian (2023). Towards an interdisciplinary information platform displaying the state of the cryosphere on Svalbard.
  • Lundesgaard, Øyvind; Moholdt, Geir; Maton, Joséphine; Sutherland, D.A. & Schmidt, Louise Steffensen (2022). Autumn Inflow of Atlantic Water Drives Seasonal Retreat of Glacier Fronts on the Northern Barents Sea Margin of Svalbard.
  • Schmidt, Louise Steffensen; Schuler, Thomas; Westermann, Sebastian & Thomas, Erin E. (2022). Climatic mass balance simulations of glaciers in the Russian Arctic (Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land), 1991-2021.
  • Schmidt, Louise Steffensen; Thomas, Erin E.; Westermann, Sebastian & Schuler, Thomas (2022). Climatic mass balance simulations of glaciers in the Russian Arctic (Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land), 1991-2021.
  • Schmidt, Louise Steffensen; Schuler, Thomas Vikhamar; Thomas, Erin E. & Westermann, Sebastian (2021). Simulations of mass balance and runoff from Svalbard, 1998-present.
  • Schmidt, Louise Steffensen; Schuler, Thomas Vikhamar & Westermann, Sebastian (2021). Freshwater runoff to the Barents sea region, 1998-present.
  • Schmidt, Louise Steffensen & Schuler, Thomas Vikhamar (2021). Freshwater runoff from glaciers and seasonal snow to the Barents sea region, 1998-present .
  • Schmidt, Louise Steffensen & Schuler, Thomas Vikhamar (2021). Freshwater runoff from glaciers and seasonal snow to the Barents sea region.
  • Schmidt, Louise Steffensen (2021). Glaciers and climate change.
  • Schmidt, Louise Steffensen (2020). Freshwater runoff from glaciers to the Barent sea region.
  • Schmidt, Louise Steffensen (2020). Variability in glacier meltwater runoff to the Barents Sea.
  • Tjoflot, Gunn Kristin & Schmidt, Louise Steffensen (2020). Runoff of meltwater from land-based glaciers to the Barents Sea. [Internet]. https://arvenetternansen.com/.
  • Schmidt, Louise Steffensen (2022). CryoGrid simulations of Svalbard mass balance, refreezing and runoff, 1991-2022. Norwegian Meteorological Institute.

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