Publications

1st author

Millan, R., Jager, E., Mouginot, J. et al. Rapid disintegration and weakening of ice shelves in North Greenland. Nat Commun 14, 6914 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42198-2

Millan, R., Mouginot, J., Derkacheva, A., Rignot, E., Milillo, P., Ciraci, E., Dini, L., and Bjørk, A.: Ongoing grounding line retreat and fracturing initiated at the Petermann Glacier ice shelf, Greenland, after 2016, The Cryosphere, 16, 3021–3031, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3021-2022, 2022.

Millan, R., Mouginot, J., Rabatel, A. et al. Ice velocity and thickness of the world’s glaciers. Nat. Geosci. 15, 124–129 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00885-z

Millan, R., St-Laurent, P., Rignot, E., Morlighem, M., Mouginot, J., Scheuchl, B. (2020), Constraining an ocean model under Getz Ice Shelf, Antarctica using a gravity-derived sub-ice shelf bathymetry, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12121935.

Millan, R., Rignot, E., Rivera, A., Martineau, V., Mouginot, J., Zamora, R., et al. (2019a). Ice Thickness and Bed Elevation of the Northern and Southern Patagonian Icefields. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(12), 6626–6635. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082485

Millan, R., Mouginot, J., Rabatel, A., Jeong, S., Cusicanqui, D., Derkacheva, A., Chekki, M. (2019b). Mapping Surface Flow Velocity of Glaciers at Regional Scale Using a Multiple Sensors Approach. Remote Sensing, 11(21), 2498. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11212498

Millan, R., Rignot, E., Mouginot, J., Wood, M., Bjørk, A.A., Morlighem, M. (2018). Vulnerability of Southeast Greenland Glaciers to Warm Atlantic Water From Operation IceBridge and Ocean Melting Greenland Data. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(6), 2688–2696. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL076561

Millan, R., Rignot, E., Bernier, V., Morlighem, M., Dutrieux, P. (2017b). Bathymetry of the Amundsen Sea Embayment sector of West Antarctica from Operation IceBridge gravity and other data. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(3), 1360–1368. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL072071

Millan, R., Mouginot, J., Rignot, E. (2017a). Mass budget of the glaciers and ice caps of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Canada, from 1991 to 2015. Environmental Research Letters, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa5b04

Co-author

Dømgaard, M., Schomacker, A., Isaksson, E., Millan, R. et al. Early aerial expedition photos reveal 85 years of glacier growth and stability in East Antarctica. Nat Commun 15, 4466 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48886-x

Norris, S., Gosse, J., Millan, R., Mouginot, J., Rabatel, A., Morlighem, M., et al (2024), Quantifying the drivers of global glacial erosion rates, Nat Geosc. (accepted).

Jager, E., Gillet-Chaulet, F., Mouginot, J., Millan, R. Validating ensemble historical simulations of Upernavik Isstrøm (1985-2019) using observations of surface velocity and elevation, Journal of Glaciology. 2024, 1-18, doi:10.1017/jog.2024.10

Fürst, J.J., Farías-Barahona, D., Blindow, N., Casassa, G., Gacitúa, G, Kopes, M., Lodolo, E, Millan, R., et al. The foundations of the Patagonian icefields. Commun Earth Environ 5, 142 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01193-7

Cook, S. J., Jouvet, G., Millan, R., Rabatel, A et al. (2023), Committed ice loss in the European Alps until 2050 using a deep-learning-aided 3D ice-flow model with data assimilation, Geophys, Res. Lett., 50, e2023GL105029. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105029

Rabatel, A., Ducasse, E., Ramseyer V., Millan, R., et al, State and Fate of Glaciers in the Val Veny (Mont-Blanc Range, Italy): Contribution of Optical Satellite Products, Journal of Alpine Research, 111-2, https://doi.org/10.4000/rga.11619.

Rabatel, A.; Ducasse, E.; Millan, R.; Mouginot, J. Satellite- Derived Annual Glacier Surface Flow Velocity Products for the European Alps, 2015–2021. Data 2023, 8, https://doi.org/10.57745/XHQ7TL

Khan, S.A., Choi, Y., Morlighem, M. et al. Extensive inland thinning and speed-up of Northeast Greenland Ice Stream. Nature 611, 727–732 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05301-z

Dorschel, B., Hehemann, L., Viquerat, S. et al. The International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean Version 2. Sci Data 9, 275 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01366-7

Charrier, L., Yan, Y., Trouvé, E., Koeniguer, E., Mouginot, J. and Millan, R., "Fusion of Multitemporal Multisensor Velocities Using Temporal Closure of Fractions of Displacements," in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 19, pp. 1-5, 2022, Art no. 2001805, doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2022.3227413.

Hugonnet, R.; Millan, R.; Mouginot, J.; Rabatel, A.; Berthier, É. Un atlas mondial pour caractériser la réponse des glaciers au changement climatique. La Météorologie, 120, 37-45, 2023. 10.37053/lameteorologie-2023-0015

Mouginot, J., Rabatel, A., Ducasse, E. and Millan, R., "Optimization of cross-correlation algorithm for annual mapping of alpine glacier flow velocities; application to Sentinel-2," in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2022.3223259.

Nanni, U., Scherler, D., Ayoub, F., Millan, R., Herman, F., and Avouac, J.-P.: Climatic control on seasonal variations of glacier surface velocity, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-1035, 2022.

Kochtitzky, W., Copland, L., Van Wychen, W.,.., Millan, R., ..., The unquantified mass loss of Northern Hemisphere marine-terminating glaciers from 2000–2020. Nat Commun 13, 5835 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33231-x

Racoviteanu A., Glasser N., Robson B., Millan R., Harrison S., Kayastha R., Kayastha R., Surface evolution and associated morphological changes on glaciers in the Manaslu region of Nepal from satellite imagery and UAV data (1970 -2019), Frontiers in Earth Sciences, doi:10.3389/feart.2021.767317

Rounce, D. R., Hock, R., McNabb, R. W., Millan, R., Sommer, C., Braun, M. H., et al. (2021). Distributed global debris thickness estimates reveal debris significantly impacts glacier mass balance. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL091311. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091311

Kane, E., Rignot, E., Mouginot, J., Li, Xi, Millan, R., Fahnestock, M. (2020), Impact of calving dynamics and ocean regime on Kangilernata Sermia, Greenland, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088524.

Wood, M., Rignot, E., An, A., Bjørk, A., van den Broeke, M., Cai, C., Fenty, I., Kane, E., Menemenlis, D., Millan, R., Morlighem, M., Mouginot, J., Noël, Scheuchl, B., Velicogna, I., Willis, J. and Zhang, H., (2020), Ocean thermal forcing drives the retreat of marine-terminating glaciers in Greenland for the time period 1992-2017. [accepted in Science advances]

Jordan, T., Porter, D., Tinto, K., Millan, R., Muto, A., Hogan, K., et al. (2020), New gravity derived bathymetry for the Thwaites, Crosson and Dotson ice shelves revealing two ice shelf populations, The Cryosphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2869-2020, 2020.

Hippert-Ferrer, A., Yajing, Y., Bolon, P., Millan, R., (2020), Spatio temporal filling of missing data in remotely sensed displacement measurement time series, IEEE GRSL, doi:10.1109/LGRS.2020.3015149

Derkacheva, A., Mouginot, J., Millan, R., Maier, N., Gillet-Chaulet, F. (2020), Data reduction using statistical and regression approaches for ice velocity derived by Landsat-8, Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2, Remote Sens. 2020, 12(12), 1935; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12121935.

Jakobsson, M., Mayer, L.A., Bringensparr, C. [...], Millan, R. et al. The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean Version 4.0. Sci Data 7, 176 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0520-9

Morlighem, M., Rignot, E., … Millan, R., et al. (2019). Deep glacial troughs and stabilizing ridges unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet. Nature Geoscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0510-8

Mouginot, J., Rignot, E., Bjørk, A. A., Van Den Broeke, M., Millan, R., Morlighem, M., et al. (2019). Forty-six years of Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance from 1972 to 2018. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201904242. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1904242116

An, Lu, Rignot, E., Millan, R., Tinto, K., Willis, J. (2019). Bathymetry of Northwest Greenland Using “Ocean Melting Greenland” (OMG) High-Resolution Airborne Gravity and Other Data. Remote Sensing, 11(2), 131. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11020131

Batchelor, C. L., Dowdeswell, J. A., Rignot, E., Millan, R. (2019). Submarine Moraines in Southeast Greenland Fjords Reveal Contrasting Outlet‐Glacier Behavior since the Last Glacial Maximum. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(6), 3279–3286. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082556

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

Mouginot, J., Bjørk, A. A., Millan, R., Scheuchl, B., Rignot, E. (2018). Insights on the Surge Behavior of Storstrømmen and L. Bistrup Bræ, Northeast Greenland, Over the Last Century. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(20). https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079052

An, L., Rignot, E., Mouginot, J., Millan, R. (2018). A Century of Stability of Avannarleq and Kujalleq Glaciers, West Greenland, Explained Using High‐Resolution Airborne Gravity and Other Data. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(7), 3156–3163. https://doi.org/10.1002/2018GL077204

Wood, M., Rignot, E., Fenty, I., Menemenlis, D., Millan, R., Morlighem, M., et al. (2018). Ocean‐Induced Melt Triggers Glacier Retreat in Northwest Greenland. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(16), 8334–8342. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL078024

An, L., Rignot, E., Elieff, S., Morlighem, M., Millan, R., Mouginot, J., et al. (2017). Bed elevation of Jakobshavn Isbrae, West Greenland, from high-resolution airborne gravity and other data. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(8), 3728–3736. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL073245

Mouginot, J., Rignot, E., Scheuchl, B., Millan, R. (2017). Comprehensive Annual Ice Sheet Velocity Mapping Using Landsat-8, Sentinel-1, and RADARSAT-2 Data. Remote Sensing, 9(4), 364. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9040364

Dehecq, A., Millan, R., Berthier, E., Gourmelen, N., Trouve, E., Vionnet, V. (2016). Elevation Changes Inferred From TanDEM-X Data Over the Mont-Blanc Area: Impact of the X-Band Interferometric Bias. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 9(8), 3870–3882. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2581482

Scheuchl, B., Mouginot, J., Milillo, P., Millan, R., Kane, E., Wood, M, Martineau, V, Rignot, E. (2018). Use of TanDEM-X data and products in glaciology, EUSAR 2018; 12th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, Aachen, Germany, pp. 1-4.

Millan, R., Dehecq, A., Trouve, E., Gourmelen, N., Berthier, E. (2015). Elevation changes and X-band ice and snow penetration inferred from TanDEM-X data of the Mont-Blanc area (pp. 1–4). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/Multi-Temp.2015.7245753

Oral presentations at international conferences

Millan, R., Mouginot, Rabatel, A., Morlighem M.; Global mapping of surface flow velocity and re-evaluation of the volume of the world's glaciers (session Highlight) (2021). European Geophysical Union, Vienne, Austria.

Millan, R., Rignot, E., Mouginot, J., Wood, M., Morlighem, M., Rivera, A., Dutrieux, P., St Laurent, P.; Recent Contribution of Airborne Gravity Data to the Modern Observation of The Cryosphere (Invited) (2019). American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, USA.

Millan, R., Mouginot, J., Rabatel, A., Jeong, S., Cusicanqui, D., Derkacheva, A., Chekki, M., Global mapping of surface flow velocity for mountain glaciers using multi-sensor satellite data (2019). American Geophysical Union, San Fransisco, USA.

Millan, R., Rignot, E., Mouginot, J., Wood, M., Morlighem, Impovement in bathymetry mapping in Southeast Greenland using NASA's OMG and OIB data (2018). NASA's Ocean Melting Greenland Meeting, San Diego, USA.

Millan, R., Rignot, E., Mouginot, Bjørk, A. A., J., Wood, M., Morlighem, Vulnerability of SouthEast Greenland glaciers to Atlantic warm water using Operation Icebridge and Ocean Melting Greenland data (2017). American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, USA.

Millan, R., Rignot, E., Mouginot, Bjørk, A. A., J., Wood, M., Morlighem, Retreat of Southeast Greenland glaciers from Operation Icebridge and Ocean Melting Greenland Data (2017), NASA's Ocean Melting Greenland 2017 Meeting, Irvine, USA

Millan, R., Rignot, E., Mouginot, Bjørk, A. A., J., Wood, M., Morlighem, Bathymetry of Southeast Greenland glaciers from Operation Icebridge and Ocean Melting Greenland Data (2017), NASA's Operation Icebridge Meeting, Irvine, USA.

Millan, R., Rignot, E., Mouginot, J., Mass budget of the glaciers and ice caps of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Canada, from 1991 to 2015 (2015). American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, USA.