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Luke Trusel

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ljt5282@psu.edu
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302 Walker Buidling
University Park, PA 16802

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IEE Research Themes
Climate and Natural Systems
Water Sustainability
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Titles and Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Geography

Luke Trusel is an Earth system geographer whose research focuses on understanding the impacts of climate variability and change on the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. Motivated by the potentially profound consequences of cryospheric change, Dr. Trusel’s work seeks to better understand how the ice sheets are responding, and will continue to respond, to ongoing climate change.

His work focuses on assessing ice sheet surface mass balance and hydrological processes and seeking to advance the understanding of high-latitude environments as coupled ice-ocean-atmosphere systems. This research takes an interdisciplinary approach while combining remotely sensed observations, ice core-derived climate records, and output from regional and global climate models. These efforts are aimed at generating distinct, yet complementary perspectives into spatially-extensive processes today, but with a critical temporal perspective bridging the past and the future. His recent research demonstrates that Greenland ice sheet melting has accelerated in response to Industrial-era warming, reaching intensities that are unprecedented for centuries or millennia, and that atmospheric warming over this century may threaten the viability of Antarctica’s fringing ice shelves.

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Ice Sheet
Antarctic Region
Antarctic Ice Sheet
Land Ice
Antarctica
Surface Mass Balance
Sea Level
Atmospherics
Surface Melting
Ice Shelves
21st Century
Ice-sheet Models
Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6)
Greenland
Meltwater
East Antarctica
Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6
Mass Loss
Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS)
Ice Core

Recent Publications

Arctic accessibility: recent trend in observed ship tracks and validation of arctic transport accessibility model

Hu, W., Cervone, G., Trusel, L. & Yu, M., 2024, In: Annals of GIS. 30, 4, p. 455-474 20 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet Over the Next Three Centuries From an ISMIP6 Model Ensemble

Seroussi, H., Pelle, T., Lipscomb, W. H., Abe-Ouchi, A., Albrecht, T., Alvarez-Solas, J., Asay-Davis, X., Barre, J. B., Berends, C. J., Bernales, J., Blasco, J., Caillet, J., Chandler, D. M., Coulon, V., Cullather, R., Dumas, C., Galton-Fenzi, B. K., Garbe, J., Gillet-Chaulet, F. & Gladstone, R. & 33 others, Goelzer, H., Golledge, N., Greve, R., Gudmundsson, G. H., Han, H. K., Hillebrand, T. R., Hoffman, M. J., Huybrechts, P., Jourdain, N. C., Klose, A. K., Langebroek, P. M., Leguy, G. R., Lowry, D. P., Mathiot, P., Montoya, M., Morlighem, M., Nowicki, S., Pattyn, F., Payne, A. J., Quiquet, A., Reese, R., Robinson, A., Saraste, L., Simon, E. G., Sun, S., Twarog, J. P., Trusel, L. D., Urruty, B., Van Breedam, J., van de Wal, R. S. W., Wang, Y., Zhao, C. & Zwinger, T., Sep 2024, In: Earth's Future. 12, 9, e2024EF004561.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Slushy surface of Antarctic ice shelves

Trusel, L. D., Jul 2024, In: Nature Geoscience. 17, 7, p. 588-589 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

Multi-decadal collapse of East Antarctica’s Conger–Glenzer Ice Shelf

Walker, C. C., Millstein, J. D., Miles, B. W. J., Cook, S., Fraser, A. D., Colliander, A., Misra, S., Trusel, L. D., Adusumilli, S., Roberts, C. & Fricker, H. A., Dec 2024, In: Nature Geoscience. 17, 12, p. 1240-1248 9 p., 2011JC007301.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

The Extraordinary March 2022 East Antarctica “Heat” Wave. Part I: Observations and Meteorological Drivers

Wille, J. D., Alexander, S. P., Amory, C., Baiman, R., Barthélemy, L., Bergstrom, D. M., Berne, A., Binder, H., Blanchet, J., Bozkurt, D., Bracegirdle, T. J., Casado, M., Choi, T., Clem, K. R., Codron, F., Datta, R., Di Battista, S., Favier, V., Francis, D. & Fraser, A. D. & 34 others, Fourré, E., Garreaud, R. D., Genthon, C., Gorodetskaya, I. V., González-Herrero, S., Heinrich, V. J., Hubert, G., Joos, H., Kim, S. J., King, J. C., Kittel, C., Landais, A., Lazzara, M., Leonard, G. H., Lieser, J. L., Maclennan, M., Mikolajczyk, D., Neff, P., Ollivier, I., Picard, G., Pohl, B., Ralph, F. M., Rowe, P., Schlosser, E., Shields, C. A., Smith, I. J., Sprenger, M., Trusel, L., Udy, D., Vance, T., Vignon, É., Walker, C., Wever, N. & Zou, X., Feb 10 2024, In: Journal of Climate. 37, 3, p. 757-778 22 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

The Extraordinary March 2022 East Antarctica “Heat” Wave. Part II: Impacts on the Antarctic Ice Sheet

Wille, J. D., Alexander, S. P., Amory, C., Baiman, R., Barthélemy, L., Bergstrom, D. M., Berne, A., Binder, H., Blanchet, J., Bozkurt, D., Bracegirdle, T. J., Casado, M., Choi, T., Clem, K. R., Codron, F., Datta, R., Di Battista, S., Favier, V., Francis, D. & Fraser, A. D. & 34 others, Fourré, E., Garreaud, R. D., Genthon, C., Gorodetskaya, I. V., González-Herrero, S., Heinrich, V. J., Hubert, G., Joos, H., Kim, S. J., King, J. C., Kittel, C., Landais, A., Lazzara, M., Leonard, G. H., Lieser, J. L., Maclennan, M., Mikolajczyk, D., Neff, P., Ollivier, I., Picard, G., Pohl, B., Ralph, F. M., Rowe, P., Schlosser, E., Shields, C. A., Smith, I. J., Sprenger, M., Trusel, L., Udy, D., Vance, T., Vignon, É., Walker, C., Wever, N. & Zou, X., Feb 10 2024, In: Journal of Climate. 37, 3, p. 779-799 21 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

State of the climate in 2022

Blunden, J., Adusumilli, S., Agyakwah, W., Abida, A., Ades, M., Adler, R., Alfaro, E. J., Allan, R. P., Allgood, A., Alves, L. M., Amador, J. A., Anderson, J., Andrade, B., Anneville, O., Aono, Y., Arguez, A., Arosio, C., Atkinson, C., Augustine, J. A. & Avalos, G. & 559 others, Azorin-Molina, C., Backensto, S. A., Bader, S., Baez, J., Baiman, R., Ballinger, T. J., Banwell, A. F., Bardin, M. Y., Barichivich, J., Barnes, J. E., Barreira, S., Beadling, R. L., Beck, H. E., Becker, E. J., Bekele, E., Bellido, G. M., Bellouin, N., Benedetti, A., Benestad, R., Berne, C., Berner, L. T., Bernhard, G. H., Bhatt, U. S., Bhuiyan, A. E., Bigalke, S., Biló, T., Bissolli, P., Bjerke Jarle, W., Blagrave, K., Blake, E. S., Blenkinsop, S., Bochníček, O., Bock, O., Bodin, X., Bosilovich, M., Boucher, O., Bozkurt, D., Brettschneider, B., Bringas, F. G., Bringas, F., Buechler, D., Buehler, S. A., Bukunt, B., Calderón, B., Camargo, S. J., Campbell, J., Campos, D., Carrea, L., Carter, B. R., Cetinić, I., Chambers, D. P., Chan, D., Chandler, E., Chang, K. L., Chen, H., Chen, L., Cheng, L., Cheng, V. Y. S., Chomiak, L., Christiansen, H. H., Christy, J. R., Chung, E. S., Ciasto, L. M., Clarke, L., Clem, K. R., Clingan, S., Coelho, C. A. S., Cohen, J. L., Coldewey-Egbers, M., Colwell, S., Cooper, O. R., Cornes, R. C., Correa, K., Costa, F., Covey, C., Coy, L., Créatux, J. F., Crhova, L., Crimmins, T., Cronin, M. F., Cropper, T., Crotwell, M., Culpepper, J., Cunha, A. P., Cusicanqui, D., Datta, R. T., Davis, S. M., De Bock, V., de Jeu, R. A. M., De Laat, J., Decharme, B., Degenstein, D., Delaloye, R., Demircan, M., Derksen, C., Deus, R., Dhurmea, K. R., Diamond, H. J., Dirkse, S., Divine, D., Dokulil, M. T., Donat, M. G., Dong, S., Dorigo, W. A., Drost Jensen, C., Druckenmiller, M. L., Drumond, P., du Plessis, M., Dugan, H. A., Dulamsuren, D., Dunmire, D., Dunn, R. J. H., Durre, I., Dutton, G., Duveiller, G., Ekici, M., Elias Chereque, A., ElKharrim, M., Epstein, H. E., Espinoza, J. C., Estilow, T. W., Estrella, N., Fauchereau, N., Fausto, R. S., Feely, R. A., Fenimore, C., Fereday, D., Fettweis, X., Fioletov, V. E., Flemming, J., Fogarty, C., Fogt, R. L., Forbes, B. C., Foster, M. J., Franz, B. A., Freeman, N. M., Fricker, H. A., Frith, S. M., Froidevaux, L., Frost, G. V., Fuhrman, S., Füllekrug, M., Ganter, C., Gao, M., Gardner, A. S., Garforth, J., Garg, J., Gerland, S., Gibbes, B., Gille, S. T., Gilson, J., Gleason, K., Gobron, N., Goetz, S. J., Goldenberg, S. B., Goni, G., Goodman, S., Goto, A., Grooß, J. U., Gruber, A., Gu, G., Guard, C. P., Hagos, S., Hahn, S., Haimberger, L., Hall, B. D., Hamlington, B. D., Hanna, E., Hanssen-Bauer, I., Harnos, D. S., Harris, I., He, Q., Heim, R. R., Hellström, S., Hemming, D. L., Hendricks, S., Hicks, J., Hidalgo, H. G., Hirschi, M., Ho, S. P., Hobbs, W., Holmes, R. M., Holzworth, R., Hrbáček, F., Hu, G., Hu, Z. Z., Huang, B., Huang, H., Hurst, D. F., Ialongo, I., Inness, A., Isaksen, K., Ishii, M., Jadra, G., Jevrejeva, S., John, V. O., Johns, W., Johnsen, B., Johnson, B., Johnson, G. C., Jones, P. D., Jones, T., Josey, S. A., Jumaux, G., Junod, R., Kääb, A., Kabidi, K., Kaiser, J. W., Kaler, R. S. A., Kaleschke, L., Kaufmann, V., Kazemi, A. F., Keller, L. M., Kellerer-Pirklbauer, A., Kendon, M., Kennedy, J., Kent, E. C., Kerr, K., Khan, V., Khiem, M. V., Kidd, R., Kim, M. J., Kim, S. J., Kipling, Z., Klotzbach, P. J., Knaff, J. A., Koppa, A., Korshunova, N. N., Kraemer, B. M., Kramarova, N. A., Kruger, A. C., Kruger, A., Kumar, A., L’Heureux, M., La Fuente, S., Laas, A., Labe, Z. M., Lader, R., Lakatos, M., Lakkala, K., Lam, H. P., Lan, X., Landschützer, P., Landsea, C. W., Lang, T., Lankhorst, M., Lantz, K. O., Lara, M. J., Lavado-Casimiro, W., Lavers, D. A., Lazzara, M. A., Leblanc, T., Lee, T. C., Leibensperger, E. M., Lennard, C., Leuliette, E., Leung, K. H. Y., Lieser, J. L., Likso, T., Lin, I. I., Lindsey, J., Liu, Y., Locarnini, R., Loeb, N. G., Loomis, B. D., Lorrey, A. M., Loyola, D., Lu, R., Lumpkin, R., Luo, J. J., Luojus, K., Lyman, J. M., Maberly, S. C., Macander, M. J., MacFerrin, M., MacGilchrist, G. A., MacLennan, M. L., Madelon, R., Magee, A. D., Magnin, F., Mamen, J., Mankoff, K. D., Manney, G. L., Marcinonienė, I., Marengo, J. A., Marjan, M., Martínez, A. E., Massom, R. A., Matsuzaki, S. I., May, L., Mayer, M., Mazloff, M. R., McAfee, S. A., McBride, C., McCabe, M. F., McClelland, J. W., McPhaden, M. J., McVicar, T. R., Mears, C. A., Meier, W. N., Mekonnen, A., Menzel, A., Merchant, C. J., Merrifield, M. A., Meyer, M. F., Meyers, T., Mikolajczyk, D. E., Miller, J. B., Miralles, D. G., Misevicius, N., Mishonov, A., Mitchum, G. T., Moat, B. I., Moesinger, L., Moise, A., Molina-Carpio, J., Monet, G., Montzka, S. A., Moon, T. A., Moore, G. W. K., Mora, N., Morán, J., Morehen, C., Morice, C., Mostafa, A. E., Mote, T. L., Mrekaj, I., Mudryk, L., Mühle, J., Müller, R., Nance, D., Nash, E. R., Nerem, R. S., Newman, P. A., Nicolas, J. P., Nieto, J. J., Noetzli, J., Noll, B., Norton, T., Nyland, K. E., O’Keefe, J., Ochwat, N., Oikawa, Y., Okunaka, Y., Osborn, T. J., Overland, J. E., Park, T., Parrington, M., Parrish, J. K., Pasch, R. J., Pascual Ramírez, R., Pellet, C., Pelto, M. S., Perčec Tadić, M., Perovich, D. K., Petersen, G. N., Petersen, K., Petropavlovskikh, I., Petty, A., Pezza, A. B., Pezzi, L. P., Phillips, C., Phoenix, G. K., Pierson, D., Pinto, I., Pires, V., Pitts, M., Po-Chedley, S., Pogliotti, P., Poinar, K., Polvani, L., Preimesberger, W., Price, C., Pulkkanen, M., Purkey, S. G., Qiu, B., Quisbert, K., Quispe, W. R., Rajeevan, M., Ramos, A. M., Randel, W. J., Rantanen, M., Raphael, M. N., Reagan, J., Recalde, C., Reid, P., Rémy, S., Reyes Kohler, A. J., Ricciardulli, L., Richardson, A. D., Ricker, R., Robinson, D. A., Robjhon, M., Rocha, W., Rodell, M., Rodriguez Guisado, E., Rodriguez-Fernandez, N., Romanovsky, V. E., Ronchail, J., Rosencrans, M., Rosenlof, K. H., Rösner, B., Rösner, H., Rozanov, A., Rozkošný, J., Rubek, F., Rusanovskaya, O. O., Rutishauser, T., Sabeerali, C. T., Salinas, R., Sánchez-Lugo, A., Santee, M. L., Santini, M., Sato, K., Sawaengphokhai, P., Sayouri, A., Scambos, T., Schenzinger, V., Schimanke, S., Schlegel, R. W., Schmid, C., Schmid, M., Schneider, U., Schreck, C. J., Schultz, C., Segele, Z. T., Sensoy, S., Serbin, S. P., Serreze, M. C., Setiawan, A. M., Sezaki, F., Sharma, S., Sharp, J. D., Sheffield, G., Shi, J. R., Shi, L., Shiklomanov, A. I., Shiklomanov, N. I., Shimaraeva, S. V., Shukla, R., Siegel, D. A., Silow, E. A., Sima, F., Simmons, A. J., Smeed, D. A., Smith, A., Smith, S. L., Soden, B. J., Sofieva, V., Souza, E., Sparks, T. H., Spence-Hemmings, J., Spencer, R. G. M., Spillane, S., Sreejith, O. P., Srivastava, A. K., Stackhouse, P. W., Stammerjohn, S., Stauffer, R., Steinbrecht, W., Steiner, A. K., Stella, J. L., Stephenson, T. S., Stradiotti, P., Strahan, S. E., Streletskiy, D. A., Surendran, D. E., Suslova, A., Svendby, T., Sweet, W., Takahashi, K., Takemura, K., Tank, S. E., Taylor, M. A., Tedesco, M., Thackeray, S. J., Thiaw, W. M., Thibert, E., Thoman, R. L., Thompson, A. F., Thompson, P. R., Tian-Kunze, X., Timmermans, M. L., Timofeyev, M. A., Tobin, S., Tømmervik, H., Tourpali, K., Trescilo, L., Tretiakov, M., Trewin, B. C., Triñanes, J. A., Trotman, A., Truchelut, R. E., Trusel, L. D., Tye, M. R., van Der, A. R., van der Schalie, R., van der Schrier, G., Van Meerbeeck, C. J., van Vliet, A. J. H., Vazife, A., Verburg, P., Vernier, J. P., Vimont, I. J., Virts, K., Vivero, S., Volkov, D. L., Vömel, H., Vose, R. S., Walker, D. A., Walsh, J. E., Wang, B., Wang, H., Wang, M., Wang, R. H. J., Wang, X., Wanninkhof, R., Warnock, T., Weber, M., Webster, M., Wehrlé, A., Wen, C., Westberry, T. K., Widlansky, M. J., Wiese, D. N., Wild, J. D., Wille, J. D., Willems, A., Willett, K. M., Williams, E., Willis, J., Wong, T., Wood, K. M., Woolway, R. I., Xie, P. P., Yang, D., Yin, X., Yin, Z., Zeng, Z., Zhang, H. M., Zhang, L., Zhang, P., Zhao, L., Zhou, X., Zhu, Z., Ziemke, J. R., Ziese, M., Zolkos, S., Zotta, R. M., Zou, C. Z., Allen, J., Camper, A. V., Haley, B. O., Hammer, G., Love-Brotak, S. E., Ohlmann, L., Noguchi, L., Riddle, D. B. & Veasey, S. W., Sep 2023, In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 104, 9, p. 1-516 516 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

Evaluating the impact of enhanced horizontal resolution over the Antarctic domain using a variable-resolution Earth system model

Datta, R. T., Herrington, A., Lenaerts, J. T. M., Schneider, D. P., Trusel, L., Yin, Z. & Dunmire, D., Sep 6 2023, In: Cryosphere. 17, 9, p. 3847-3866 20 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Identifying the Impacts of Sea Ice Variability on the Climate and Surface Mass Balance of West Antarctica

Kromer, J. D. & Trusel, L. D., Sep 28 2023, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 50, 18, e2023GL104436.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Higher Antarctic ice sheet accumulation and surface melt rates revealed at 2 km resolution

Noël, B., van Wessem, J. M., Wouters, B., Trusel, L., Lhermitte, S. & van den Broeke, M. R., Dec 2023, In: Nature communications. 14, 1, 7949.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Insights into the vulnerability of Antarctic glaciers from the ISMIP6 ice sheet model ensemble and associated uncertainty

Seroussi, H., Verjans, V., Nowicki, S., Payne, A. J., Goelzer, H., Lipscomb, W. H., Abe-Ouchi, A., Agosta, C., Albrecht, T., Asay-Davis, X., Barthel, A., Calov, R., Cullather, R., Dumas, C., Galton-Fenzi, B. K., Gladstone, R., Golledge, N. R., Gregory, J. M., Greve, R. & Hattermann, T. & 29 others, Hoffman, M. J., Humbert, A., Huybrechts, P., Jourdain, N. C., Kleiner, T., Larour, E., Leguy, G. R., Lowry, D. P., Little, C. M., Morlighem, M., Pattyn, F., Pelle, T., Price, S. F., Quiquet, A., Reese, R., Schlegel, N. J., Shepherd, A., Simon, E., Smith, R. S., Straneo, F., Sun, S., Trusel, L. D., Van Breedam, J., Van Katwyk, P., van de Wal, R. S. W., Winkelmann, R., Zhao, C., Zhang, T. & Zwinger, T., Dec 7 2023, In: Cryosphere. 17, 12, p. 5197-5217 21 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Atmospheric Response to Antarctic Sea-Ice Reductions Drives Ice Sheet Surface Mass Balance Increases

Trusel, L. D., Kromer, J. D. & Datta, R. T., Oct 1 2023, In: Journal of Climate. 36, 19, p. 6879-6896 18 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Repeated Tidally Induced Hydrofracture of a Supraglacial Lake at the Amery Ice Shelf Grounding Zone

Trusel, L. D., Pan, Z. & Moussavi, M., Apr 16 2022, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 49, 7, e2021GL095661.

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Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise

Edwards, T. L., Nowicki, S., Marzeion, B., Hock, R., Goelzer, H., Seroussi, H., Jourdain, N. C., Slater, D. A., Turner, F. E., Smith, C. J., McKenna, C. M., Simon, E., Abe-Ouchi, A., Gregory, J. M., Larour, E., Lipscomb, W. H., Payne, A. J., Shepherd, A., Agosta, C. & Alexander, P. & 64 others, Albrecht, T., Anderson, B., Asay-Davis, X., Aschwanden, A., Barthel, A., Bliss, A., Calov, R., Chambers, C., Champollion, N., Choi, Y., Cullather, R., Cuzzone, J., Dumas, C., Felikson, D., Fettweis, X., Fujita, K., Galton-Fenzi, B. K., Gladstone, R., Golledge, N. R., Greve, R., Hattermann, T., Hoffman, M. J., Humbert, A., Huss, M., Huybrechts, P., Immerzeel, W., Kleiner, T., Kraaijenbrink, P., Le clec’h, S., Lee, V., Leguy, G. R., Little, C. M., Lowry, D. P., Malles, J. H., Martin, D. F., Maussion, F., Morlighem, M., O’Neill, J. F., Nias, I., Pattyn, F., Pelle, T., Price, S. F., Quiquet, A., Radić, V., Reese, R., Rounce, D. R., Rückamp, M., Sakai, A., Shafer, C., Schlegel, N. J., Shannon, S., Smith, R. S., Straneo, F., Sun, S., Tarasov, L., Trusel, L. D., Van Breedam, J., van de Wal, R., van den Broeke, M., Winkelmann, R., Zekollari, H., Zhao, C., Zhang, T. & Zwinger, T., May 6 2021, In: Nature. 593, 7857, p. 74-82 9 p.

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Abrupt Common Era hydroclimate shifts drive west Greenland ice cap change

Osman, M. B., Smith, B. E., Trusel, L. D., Das, S. B., McConnell, J. R., Chellman, N., Arienzo, M. & Sodemann, H., Oct 2021, In: Nature Geoscience. 14, 10, p. 756-761 6 p.

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