Publications

Peer Review Publications

1. Ohenhen L. O., Shirzaei M., Ojha, C., Sherpa S.F., Nicholls R.  (2024). Disappearing Cities in US Coasts. Nature 627, 108–115, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07038-3.

2. Sherpa, S. F., Shirzaei, M., & Ojha, C. (2023). Disruptive Role of Vertical Land Motion in Future Assessments of Climate Change-Driven Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Hazards in the Chesapeake Bay, Journal of Geophysical Research, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB025993.

3. Sherpa, S.F., & Shirzaei, M., (2022). Earth-observing Radar Satellite Data for Semi-Real Time Flood Exposure Analysis. Case Study of Iran 2019 Flood, Journal of Flood Risk Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12770.

4. Shirzaei, M. Khoshmanesh M., Ojha C., Werth S., Kerner H., Carlson G., Sherpa S.F., Zhai G., Lee J. (2021) Persistent Impact of Compound Climate Extremes on Crop Loss in U.S. Midwest, Weather and Climate Extremes. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2021.100392.

5. Sherpa, S. F., Shirzaei, M., Ojha, C.  Werth, S. and Hostache, R.  (2020) “Probabilistic Mapping of August 2018 Flood of Kerala, India, Using Space-Borne Synthetic Aperture Radar," in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 13, pp. 896-913. doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2020.2970337.

6. Sherpa, S. F., Shrestha, M., Eakin, H., & Boone, C. G. (2019). Cryospheric hazards and risk perceptions in the Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) National Park and Buffer Zone, Nepal. Natural Hazards, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-018-3560-0

7. Sherpa, S. F., Wagnon, P., Brun, F., Bertheir, E., Vincent, C., Lejeune, Y., Arnaud Y., Kayastha, R.B., Sinisalo, A. (2017). Contrasted surface mass balances of debris-free glaciers observed between the southern and the inner parts of the Everest region (2007–15). Journal of Glaciology, 1-15. doi:10.1017/jog.2017.30. 

8. Vincent, C., Wagnon, P., Shea, J. M., Immerzeel, W. W., Kraaijenbrink, P., Shrestha, D., Soruco, A., Arnaud, Y., Brun, F., Berthier, E., and Sherpa, S. F. (2016). Reduced melt on debris-covered glaciers: investigations from Changri Nup Glacier, Nepal. The Cryosphere, 10, 1845-1858, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1845-2016.

Manuscript Under Review and in Prep. 

9. Sherpa, S.F., & Werth, S. (Submitted.) Association between Changes in Glacier Mass and Climate Seasonality Revealed from GRACE/FO in High Mountain Asia.

10. Sherpa, S.F., & Shirzaei, M. (Submitted). Global Climate Change and Local Land Subsidence Accelerating 21st-Century Relative Sea Level. 

11. Sherpa, S.F., Gleason C. Smith L.C. et al. (In Prep.) Characterization of Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) data using fast sampling and science orbit.

Conference Abstracts #Talk 

1. 1. #Sherpa, S.F. (2021). Sea-Level Rise and Flooding Hazard Assessment in the Chesapeake Bay of the United States: Analysis of Subsidence and Sea-Level Rise Scenarios using Radar Remote Sensing. In American Geophysical (AGU) conference, Application of Equitable Solutions to Future Sea Level Rise Session. December 13, New Orleans, USA.

   2. Sherpa, S. F. (2021, April). An Unsupervised Probabilistic Method for Large Scale Flood Mapping: Exploring Archive of Sentinel-1A/B Satellites over India. In 2021 GIS and Remote Sensing Research Symposium. Virginia Tech. (Won 2nd prize) Sherpa_2021 

   3. Sherpa, S.F., & Shirzaei, M., (2020). Earth-observing Radar Satellite Data for Semi-Real Time Flood Exposure Analysis. Case Study of Iran 2019 Flood. In American Geophysical (AGU) Virtual Conference, December 12, 2020.

   4. #Sherpa, S.F., & Werth, S. et al., (2019). Climate Sensitivity of the Glacier Mass Budget of High Mountain Asia Based on Satellite Gravimetry. In AGU Conference, High Mountain Asia’s Cryosphere Research to Address Climate, Hydrology, Geodynamics, and Hazards session. December 12, 2019, San Francisco, USA.

   5. #Sherpa, S.F., & Myint S.. (2018). Space-Time Analysis of Variation of Snow and Ice in Nepal, Himalaya from 2001-2016. In International Glaciological Society: International Symposium on Timescales, Processes, and Glacier Dynamics held in Buffalo, New York, USA.

   6. Sherpa, S.F., Ojha, C., Shirzaei, M., &Werth, S. (2018) Probabilistic Mapping of August 2018 Flood of Kerala, India Using Space-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar. Poster presented at American Geophysical (AGU) Conference, December 12, 2018, Walter E Washington Convention Center - Hall A-C (Poster Hall), Washington, D.C.

   7. #Sherpa, S. F. (2018). Empirical Analysis on Perception of Climate Change Risks in the Mt. Everest Region, Nepal. Poster presented at the Spring 2018 Institute for Social Science Research Graduate Poster Competition, April 25, 2018, Memorial Hall, Tempe, AZ. (Won 2nd prize) sherpa_s18.pdf

   8. Sherpa, S. F. & M. Shrestha. (2017). Understanding Social and Natural Coupling System in the case of Vulnerability to Glacial Hazards in Everest region, Nepal. Himalayan Studies Conference, Glacier Lake Outburst Flood Risks & Hazards session, University of Colorado Boulder. 

   9. Sherpa, S. F. & M. Shrestha. (2017). Climate Change and Vulnerability to Glacial Lake Outburst Floods: Developing a Community-based Risk Reduction Approach in the Mt. Everest Region, Nepal. Poster: 28, Capacity Development and Utilizing Climate Services in the Climate Prediction Application Workshop, May 2-4 Fairbanks, Alaska.

   10. Sherpa, S. F. 2017. Vulnerability and Resilience to Glacial Hazards in the Mt. Everest region, Nepal. Poster presented at the Spring 2017 Institute for Social Science Research Graduate Poster Competition, April 25, 2017, Memorial Hall, Tempe, AZ. (Won 3rd prize) s17_sherpa_sonam.pdf

   11. Sherpa, S. F. and M. Shrestha. 2017. Glacial lake outburst flood risks in the Everest region, Nepal: Analyzing the governance and institutional factors of mitigation options. Poster presented at the 19th Annual Central-Arizona Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, 13 January 2017, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ.

   12. #Sherpa, S. F., Wagnon, P., Brun, F., Bertheir, E., Vincent, C., Lejeune, Y., Arnaud Y., Kayastha, R.B., Sinisalo, A. (2017). Contrasted surface mass balances of debris-free glaciers observed between the southern and the inner parts of the Everest region since 2007. AGU, San Francisco 2016. High Mountain Asia's Cryosphere: System Dynamics and Hazard session.

   13. Sherpa, S. F. & R.B. Kayatha.2015. Comparison of seasonal and annual mass balances of 3 glaciers in the Everest region since 2007. Poster presented at National Symposium on Hydrology and Meteorology-2015, organized by Society of Hydrology and Meteorology (SOHAM), Nepal.