Publications

You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile, and most are avavailable for download here (if the link is broken, please let me know)

Book Chapters

Morlighem, M. and D N Goldberg. Data Assimilation in Glaciology. in Ismail-Zadeh, A (editor) Applications of Data Assimilation and Inverse Problems in the Earth Sciences. IUGG Special Publication Series - Edited monograph. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Peer Reviewed

Barnes, J. M., Gudmundsson, G. H., Goldberg, D. N., and Sun, S. (2026). Modelling the sensitivity of ice loss to calving front retreat rates in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica. The Cryosphere, 20, 777–790, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-777-2026.

Ockenden, H., Bingham, R. G., Goldberg, D., Curtis, A., & Morlighem, M. (2026). Complex mesoscale landscapes beneath antarctica mapped from space. Science, 391(6782), 314–319.

Pritchard, H. D., King, E. C., Goodger, D. J., Boyle, D., Goldberg, D. N., Recinos, B., Orr, A., & Regmi, D. (2026). Towards bedmap himalayas: A new airborne glacier thickness survey in khumbu himal, nepal. Earth System Science Data, 18(1), 199–217. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-199-2026

Wadham, J. L., Lamarche-Gagnon, G., Arndt, S., Bagshaw, E., Garcia-Yao, S., Goldberg, D., Hawkings, J. R., Hendry, K., Hilton, R., Hugelius, G., et al (2025). An ice sheet-to-ocean analysis of carbon stores and fluxes in earth’s polar regions. Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

Schmitt, P., Maussion, F., Goldberg, D., & Gregor, P. (2025). AGILE v0. 1: The open global glacier data assimilation framework. Geoscientific Model Development.

Recinos, B., Goldberg, D., Gourmelen, N., & Maddison, J. R. (2025). Mapping ice stream sensitivity in the amundsen sector to uncertainty in ice velocity observations. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(17). https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL117666

Gourmelen, N., Jakob, L., Holland, P. R., Dutrieux, P., Goldberg, D., Bevan, S., Luckman, A., & Malczyk, G. (2025). The influence of subglacial lake discharge on thwaites glacier ice-shelf melting and grounding-line retreat. Nature Communications, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57417-1

Morlighem, M., Goldberg, D., Barnes, J. M., Bassis, J. N., Benn, D. I., Crawford, A. J., Gudmundsson, G. H., & Seroussi, H. (2024). The west antarctic ice sheet may not be vulnerable to marine ice cliff instability during the 21st century. Science Advances, 10(34). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ado7794

Bett, D. T., Bradley, A. T., Williams, C. R., Holland, P. R., Arthern, R. J., & Goldberg, D. N. (2024). Coupled ice-ocean interactions during future retreat of west antarctic ice streams in the amundsen sea sector. Cryosphere, 18(6), 2653–2675. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-2653-2024

McCormack, F. S., Cook, S., Goldberg, D. N., Nakayama, Y., Seroussi, H., Nias, I., An, L., Slater, D., & Hattermann, T. (2024). The case for a framework for UnderStanding ice-ocean iNteractions (FUSION) in the antarctic-southern ocean system. Elementa, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2024.00036

Twelves, A. G., Goldberg, D. N., Holland, P. R., Henley, S. F., Mazloff, M. R., & Jones, D. C. (2024). Chlorophyll production in the amundsen sea boosts heat flux to atmosphere and weakens heat flux to ice shelves. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129(9). https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JC021121

Wearing, M. G., Dow, C. F., Goldberg, D. N., Gourmelen, N., Hogg, A. E., & Jakob, L. (2024). Characterizing subglacial hydrology within the amery ice shelf catchment using numerical modeling and satellite altimetry. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 129(4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JF007421

Das, I., Morlighem, M., Barnes, J., Gudmundsson, G. H., Goldberg, D., & Dias dos Santos, T. (2023). In the quest of a parametric relation between ice sheet model inferred weertman’s sliding-law parameter and airborne radar-derived basal reflectivity underneath thwaites glacier, antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(10). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098910

Goldberg, D. N., Twelves, A. G., Holland, P. R., & Wearing, M. G. (2023). The non-local impacts of antarctic subglacial runoff. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128(10). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC019823

Gudmundsson, G. H., Barnes, J. M., Goldberg, D. N., & Morlighem, M. (2023). Limited impact of thwaites ice shelf on future ice loss from antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(11). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL102880

Recinos, B., Goldberg, D., Maddison, J. R., & Todd, J. (2023). A framework for time-dependent ice sheet uncertainty quantification, applied to three west antarctic ice streams. Cryosphere, 17(10), 4241–4266. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4241-2023

Malczyk, G., Gourmelen, N., Werder, M., Wearing, M., & Goldberg, D. (2023). Constraints on subglacial melt fluxes from observations of active subglacial lake recharge. Journal of Glaciology, 69(278), 1900–1914. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2023.70

Bisset, R. R., Nienow, P. W., Goldberg, D. N., Wigmore, O., Loayza-Muro, R. A., Wadham, J. L., MacDonald, M. L., & Bingham, R. G. (2023). Using thermal UAV imagery to model distributed debris thicknesses and sub-debris melt rates on debris-covered glaciers. Journal of Glaciology, 69(276), 981–996. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2022.116

Ockenden, H., Bingham, R. G., Curtis, A., & Goldberg, D. (2023). Ice-flow perturbation analysis: A method to estimate ice-sheet bed topography and conditions from surface datasets. Journal of Glaciology, 69(278), 1677–1686. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2023.50

Robinson, A., Goldberg, D., & Lipscomb, W. H. (2022). A comparison of the stability and performance of depth-integrated ice-dynamics solvers. Cryosphere, 16(2), 689–709. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-689-2022

Nakayama, Y., Hirata, T., Goldberg, D., & Greene, C. A. (2022). What determines the shape of a pine-island-like ice shelf? Geophysical Research Letters, 49(22). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101272

Goldberg, D. N., & Holland, P. R. (2022). The relative impacts of initialization and climate forcing in coupled ice sheet-ocean modeling: Application to pope, smith, and kohler glaciers. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 127(5). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JF006570

Ockenden, H., Bingham, R. G., Curtis, A., & Goldberg, D. (2022). Inverting ice surface elevation and velocity for bed topography and slipperiness beneath thwaites glacier. Cryosphere, 16(9), 3867–3887. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3867-2022

Morlighem, M., Goldberg, D., Dias dos Santos, T., Lee, J., & Sagebaum, M. (2021). Mapping the sensitivity of the amundsen sea embayment to changes in external forcings using automatic differentiation. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(23). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL095440

Twelves, A. G., Goldberg, D. N., Henley, S. F., Mazloff, M. R., & Jones, D. C. (2021). Self-shading and meltwater spreading control the transition from light to iron limitation in an antarctic coastal polynya. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126(2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JC016636

Leger, T. P. M., Hein, A. S., Goldberg, D., Schimmelpfennig, I., Van Wyk de Vries, M. S., & Bingham, R. G. (2021). Northeastern patagonian glacier advances (43°s) reflect northward migration of the southern westerlies towards the end of the last glaciation. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.751987

Koziol, C. P., Todd, J. A., Goldberg, D. N., & Maddison, J. R. (2021). Fenics_ice 1.0: A framework for quantifying initialization uncertainty for time-dependent ice sheet models. Geoscientific Model Development, 14(9), 5843–5861. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-5843-2021

Santos, T. D. dos, Barnes, J. M., Goldberg, D. N., Gudmundsson, G. H., & Morlighem, M. (2021). Drivers of change of thwaites glacier, west antarctica, between 1995 and 2015. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(20). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL093102

Barnes, J. M., Dias Dos Santos, T., Goldberg, D., Hilmar Gudmundsson, G., Morlighem, M., & De Rydt, J. (2021). The transferability of adjoint inversion products between different ice flow models. Cryosphere, 15(4), 1975–2000. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-1975-2021

Malczyk, G., Gourmelen, N., Goldberg, D., Wuite, J., & Nagler, T. (2020). Repeat subglacial lake drainage and filling beneath thwaites glacier. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(23). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089658

Bisset, R. R., Dehecq, A., Goldberg, D. N., Huss, M., Bingham, R. G., & Gourmelen, N. (2020). Reversed surface-mass-balance gradients on himalayan debris-covered glaciers inferred from remote sensing. Remote Sensing, 12(10). https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12101563

Goldberg, D. N., Smith, T. A., Narayanan, S. H. K., Heimbach, P., & Morlighem, M. (2020). Bathymetric influences on antarctic ice-shelf melt rates. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125(11). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JC016370

Cornford, S. L., Seroussi, H., Asay-Davis, X. S., Hilmar Gudmundsson, G., Arthern, R., Borstad, C., Christmann, J., DIas Dos Santos, T., Feldmann, J., Goldberg, D., Hoffman, M. J., Humbert, A., Kleiner, T., Leguy, G., Lipscomb, W. H., Merino, N., Durand, G., Morlighem, M., Pollard, D., … Yu, H. (2020). Results of the third marine ice sheet model intercomparison project (MISMIP+). Cryosphere, 14(7), 2283–2301. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2283-2020

Panciroli, E., Funston, G. F., Holwerda, F., Maidment, S. C. R., Foffa, D., Larkin, N., Challands, T., Depolo, P. E., Goldberg, D., Humpage, M., Ross, D., Wilkinson, M., & Brusatte, S. L. (2020). First dinosaur from the isle of eigg (valtos sandstone formation, middle jurassic), scotland. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 111(3), 157–172. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755691020000080

Dehecq, A., Gourmelen, N., Gardner, A. S., Brun, F., Goldberg, D., Nienow, P. W., Berthier, E., Vincent, C., Wagnon, P., & Trouvé, E. (2019). Twenty-first century glacier slowdown driven by mass loss in high mountain asia. Nature Geoscience, 12(1), 22–27. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0271-9

Goldberg, D. N., Gourmelen, N., Kimura, S., Millan, R., & Snow, K. (2019). How accurately should we model ice shelf melt rates? Geophysical Research Letters, 46(1), 189–199. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL080383

Maddison, J. R., Goldberg, D. N., & Goddard, B. D. (2019). Automated calculation of higher order partial differential equation constrained derivative information. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 41(5), C417–C445. https://doi.org/10.1137/18M1209465

Jordan, J. R., Holland, P. R., Goldberg, D., Snow, K., Arthern, R., Campin, J.-M., Heimbach, P., & Jenkins, A. (2018). Ocean-forced ice-shelf thinning in a synchronously coupled ice-ocean model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123(2), 864–882. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JC013251

Goldberg, D. N., Snow, K., Holland, P., Jordan, J. R., Campin, J.-M., Heimbach, P., Arthern, R., & Jenkins, A. (2018). Representing grounding line migration in synchronous coupling between a marine ice sheet model and a z-coordinate ocean model. Ocean Modelling, 125, 45–60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2018.03.005

Slater, D. A., Nienow, P. W., Goldberg, D. N., Cowton, T. R., & Sole, A. J. (2017). A model for tidewater glacier undercutting by submarine melting. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(5), 2360–2368. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL072374

Snow, K., Goldberg, D. N., Holland, P. R., Jordan, J. R., Arthern, R. J., & Jenkins, A. (2017). The response of ice sheets to climate variability. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(23), 11, 878–811,

1. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL075745

Gourmelen, N., Goldberg, D. N., Snow, K., Henley, S. F., Bingham, R. G., Kimura, S., Hogg, A. E., Shepherd, A., Mouginot, J., Lenaerts, J. T. M., Ligtenberg, S. R. M., & Berg, W. J. van de. (2017). Channelized melting drives thinning under a rapidly melting antarctic ice shelf. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(19), 9796–9804. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL074929

Goldberg, D. N., Narayanan, S. H. K., Hascoet, L., & Utke, J. (2016). An optimized treatment for algorithmic differentiation of an important glaciological fixed-point problem. Geoscientific Model Development, 9(5), 1891–1904. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-1891-2016

Slater, D. A., Goldberg, D. N., Nienow, P. W., & Cowton, T. R. (2016). Scalings for submarine melting at tidewater glaciers from buoyant plume theory. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 46(6), 1839–1855. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-15-0132.1

Goldberg, D. N., Heimbach, P., Joughin, I., & Smith, B. (2015). Committed retreat of smith, pope, and kohler glaciers over the next 30 years inferred by transient model calibration. Cryosphere, 9(6), 2429–2446. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-2429-2015

Cowton, T., Slater, D., Sole, A., Goldberg, D., & Nienow, P. (2015). Modeling the impact of glacial runoff on fjord circulation and submarine melt rate using a new subgrid-scale parameterization for glacial plumes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 120(2), 796–812. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JC010324

Slater, D. A., Nienow, P. W., Cowton, T. R., Goldberg, D. N., & Sole, A. J. (2015). Effect of near-terminus subglacial hydrology on tidewater glacier submarine melt rates. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(8), 2861–2868. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL062494

Tedstone, A. J., Nienow, P. W., Gourmelen, N., Dehecq, A., Goldberg, D., & Hanna, E. (2015). Decadal slowdown of a land-terminating sector of the greenland ice sheet despite warming. Nature, 526(7575), 692–695. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature15722

Matsuoka, K., Hindmarsh, R. C. A., Moholdt, G., Bentley, M. J., Pritchard, H. D., Brown, J., Conway, H., Drews, R., Durand, G., Goldberg, D., Hattermann, T., Kingslake, J., Lenaerts, J. T. M., Martín, C., Mulvaney, R., Nicholls, K. W., Pattyn, F., Ross, N., Scambos, T., & Whitehouse, P. L. (2015). Antarctic ice rises and rumples: Their properties and significance for ice-sheet dynamics and evolution. Earth-Science Reviews, 150, 724–745. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.09.004

Goldberg, D. N., Schoof, C., & Sergienko, O. V. (2014). Stick-slip motion of an antarctic ice stream: The effects of viscoelasticity. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 119(7), 1564–1580. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JF003132

Goldberg, D. N., & Heimbach, P. (2013). Parameter and state estimation with a time-dependent adjoint marine ice sheet model. Cryosphere, 7(6), 1659–1678. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-1659-2013

Sergienko, O. V., Goldberg, D. N., & Little, C. M. (2013). Alternative ice shelf equilibria determined by ocean environment. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 118(2), 970–981. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgrf.20054

Pattyn, F., Perichon, L., Durand, G., Favier, L., Gagliardini, O., Hindmarsh, R. C. A., Zwinger, T., Albrecht, T., Cornford, S., Docquier, D., Fürst, J. J., Goldberg, D., Gudmundsson, G. H., Humbert, A., Hütten, M., Huybrechts, P., Jouvet, G., Kleiner, T., Larour, E., … Wilkens, N. (2013). Grounding-line migration in plan-view marine ice-sheet models: Results of the ice2sea MISMIP3d intercomparison. Journal of Glaciology, 59(215), 410–422. https://doi.org/10.3189/2013JoG12J129

Little, C. M., Goldberg, D., Gnanadesikan, A., & Oppenheimer, M. (2012). On the coupled response to ice-shelf basal melting. Journal of Glaciology, 58(208), 203–215. https://doi.org/10.3189/2012JoG11J037

Morison, J., & Goldberg, D. (2012). A brief study of the force balance between a small iceberg, the ocean, sea ice, and atmosphere in the weddell sea. Cold Regions Science and Technology, 76-77, 69–76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coldregions.2011.10.014

Goldberg, D. N., Little, C. M., Sergienko, O. V., Gnanadesikan, A., Hallberg, R., & Oppenheimer, M. (2012). Investigation of land ice-ocean interaction with a fully coupled ice-ocean model: 2. Sensitivity to external forcings. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 117(2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JF002247

Pattyn, F., Schoof, C., Perichon, L., Hindmarsh, R. C. A., Bueler, E., De Fleurian, B., Durand, G., Gagliardini, O., Gladstone, R., Goldberg, D., Gudmundsson, G. H., Huybrechts, P., Lee, V., Nick, F. M., Payne, A. J., Pollard, D., Rybak, O., Saito, F., & Vieli, A. (2012). Results of the marine ice sheet model intercomparison project, MISMIP. Cryosphere, 6(3), 573–588. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-6-573-2012

Goldberg, D. N., & Sergienko, O. V. (2011). Data assimilation using a hybrid ice flow model. Cryosphere, 5(2), 315–327. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-5-315-2011

Goldberg, D. N. (2011). A variationally derived, depth-integrated approximation to a higher-order glaciological flow model. Journal of Glaciology, 57(201), 157–170. https://doi.org/10.3189/002214311795306763

Goldberg, D., Holland, D. M., & Schoof, C. (2009). Grounding line movement and ice shelf buttressing in marine ice sheets. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 114(4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JF001227

Non Peer Reviewed

Goldberg, D N. Ice Shelf Buttressing. In: International Encyclopedia of Geography : Wiley

Pringle, G. C., Jones, D. C., Goswami, S., Narayanan, S. H. K., & Goldberg, D. (2016). Providing the ARCHER community with adjoint modelling tools for high-performance oceanographic and cryospheric computation.