Dr. Michael James McCarthy
Fonction
collaborateur scientifique
Contact
+41 44 739 25 65
Institut fédéral de recherches sur la forêt, la neige et le paysage WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf
Site
Birmensdorf Bi LG D 01
Current projects
- EMERGE - Extreme droughts in mountain regions
- Measuring sublimation in a high-altitude glacierised catchment of the dry Andes
Research interests
- Glaciology
- Mountain hydrology
- Climate change
Selected publications
McCarthy, M., Meier, F., Fatichi, S., Stocker, B. D., Shaw, T. E., Miles, E., ... & Pellicciotti, F. (2022). Glacier contributions to river discharge during the current Chilean megadrought. Earth's Future, 10(10), e2022EF002852.
McCarthy, M., Miles, E., Kneib, M., Buri, P., Fugger, S., & Pellicciotti, F. (2022). Supraglacial debris thickness and supply rate in High-Mountain Asia. Communications Earth & Environment, 3(1), 269.
Miles, E., McCarthy, M., Dehecq, A., Kneib, M., Fugger, S., & Pellicciotti, F. (2021). Health and sustainability of glaciers in High Mountain Asia. Nature Communications, 12(1), 2868.
Jouberton, A., Shaw, T. E., Miles, E., McCarthy, M., Fugger, S., Ren, S., ... & Pellicciotti, F. (2022). Warming-induced monsoon precipitation phase change intensifies glacier mass loss in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(37), e2109796119.
Compagno, L., Huss, M., Miles, E. S., McCarthy, M., Zekollari, H., Dehecq, A., ... & Farinotti, D. (2022). Modelling supraglacial debris-cover evolution from the single-glacier to the regional scale: an application to High Mountain Asia. The Cryosphere, 16(5), 1697-1718.