Publications

Submitted or In-Preparation Articles

Lilien, D.A., Ranganathan, M., Shapero, D.R., Effect of the flow-law exponent on ice-stream sensitivity to melt,

submitted.

Hoffman, A.O., Christianson, K., Karplus, M.S., Agnew, R.S., Pearce, E., Ranganathan, M., Anandakrishnan, S., Cortez, S.A., Beres, M., Bingham, R., Booth, A.D., Borthwick, L., Bodart, J.A., Broome, A.L., Cameron, E.F., Case, E., Clark, R.A., Hehlen, M.E., Holschuh, N., Hunt, M., Johnson, J., Manos, J., May, D.F., McKeague, J., Ockenden, H., Paden, J., Pearce, R.K., Pretorius, A., Seldon, Y., Shanly, S.E., Stevens, N.T., Summers, P.T., Taylor, L., Thompson, O., Willet, A., Young, T.J., Zeising, O., Geophysical surveys and instrument incubation program across a glacier grounding zone: Eastwind Glacier’s contribution to McMurdo ice shelf mass balance, submitted.

Published Articles

Ranganathan, M., Robel, A.A., (2025). Evolution of ice tensile strength with grain size: Implications for future mass loss from Pine Island Glacier, Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL117691, doi:10.1029/2025GL117691 [link]

Agnew, R.S., Pearce, E., Karplus, M., Ranganathan, M., Hoffman, A.O., Hunt, M., Pretorius, A., Shanly, S.E., Beres, M., Pradhan, K.K., Seldon, Y., Booth, A.D., Clark, R.A., Young, T.J., (2025). Active and passive seismic surveys over the grounding zone of Eastwind Glacier, Antarctica, Seismological Research Letters, doi:10.1785/0220250024 [link]

Ranganathan, M., (2025). Chapter: Ice Sheet Mechanics and Dynamics, Comprehensive Cryospheric Science and Environmental Change, Elsevier, in press.

Ranganathan, M., Robel, A., Huth, A., Duddu, R., (2025). Glacier damage evolution over ice flow timescales, The Cryosphere, 19, 1599-1619, doi:10.5194/tc-19-1599-2025 [link]

Sadai, S., Ranganathan, M., Nauels, A., Nicholls, Z., Merner, D., Dahl, K., Licker, R., Ekwurzel, B., (2025). Estimating the sea level rise responsibility of industrial carbon producers, Environmental Research Letters, 20 044012, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/adb59f [link]

Duffy, M.L., Barnes, L.Y., Wirz, C.D., Ranganathan, M., Freilich, M.A., Freese, L.M., Lalk, E., Wilcots, J., (2025). Factors influencing underrepresented geoscientists’ decisions to accept or decline faculty job offers in the US, Communications Earth & Environment, 6, 65, doi:10.1038/s43247-025-02052-3 [link]

Wells-Moran, S., Ranganathan, M., Minchew, B.M., (2025). Fracture criteria and tensile strength for natural glacier ice calibrated from remote sensing observations of Antarctic ice shelves, Journal of Glaciology, 71:e47, doi:10.1017/jog.2024.104 [link]

Ranganathan, M. & Minchew, B., (2024). A modified viscous flow law for natural glacier ice: Scaling from laboratories to ice sheets, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(23), doi:10.1073/pnas.2309788121 [link | media]

Robel, A., Ultee, E., Ranganathan, M., Nash, M., (2024). For Whom and by Whom is Glaciology? Journal of Glaciology, in press, doi:10.1017/jog.2024.29 [link]

Ranganathan, M., Barotta, J., Meyer, C., & Minchew, B., (2023). Meltwater generation in ice stream shear margins: case study in Antarctic ice streams, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 479(2273), 1-27, doi:10.1098/rspa.2022.0473 [link]

Ranganathan, M., Minchew, B., Meyer, C., & Pec, M., (2021). Recrystallization of ice enhances the creep and vulnerability to fracture of ice shelves, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 576:117219. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117219 [link]

Ranganathan, M., Lalk, E., Freese, E.M., Freilich, M.A., Wilcots, J., Duffy, M.L., Shivamoggi, R., (2021). Trends in the representation of women amongst geoscience faculty from 1999-2020: the long road towards gender parity, AGU Advances, 2(3). doi:10.1029/2021AV000436 [link | commentary | editor’s highlight | media]

Ranganathan, M., Minchew, B., Gudmundsson, G.H., & Meyer, C., (2021) A new approach to inferring basal drag and ice rheology in ice streams, with applications to West Antarctic Ice Streams. Journal of Glaciology, 67(262), 229-242. doi:10.1017/jog.2020.95 [link]

Tippett, M.K., Ranganathan, M., L’Heureux, M., Barnston, A.G., DelSole, T., (2017). Assessing probabilistic predictions of ENSO phase and intensity from the North American Multimodel Ensemble. Climate Dynamics., 53, 7497-7518, doi:10.1007/s00382-017-3721-y [link]

Barnston, T, Tippett, M.K., Ranganathan, M., L’Heureux, M., (2017). Deterministic skill of ENSO predictions from the North American Multimodel Ensemble. Climate Dynamics, 53, 7215-7234, doi:10.1007/s00382-017-3603-3 [link]