Ellen Mosley‐Thompson
Earth and Planetary Sciences · The Ohio State University
Publications
255
Citations
17,130
Est. group size
~11
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
46
Publishing since 1981
Ellen Mosley-Thompson studies Earth's climate history by analyzing ice cores drilled from glaciers and ice caps in tropical and polar mountain regions, such as the Tibetan Plateau, the Andes, and Antarctica. Her work reconstructs past temperature, precipitation, dust, and even ancient microbial and viral communities preserved in ice, helping scientists understand how climate has changed over thousands of years and how it may change in the future. This research combines fieldwork on remote glaciers with laboratory chemical and biological analysis of ice samples.
Publication output has fluctuated over the last decade, peaking around 2019 and 2023, with a decline in the most recent years (2024-2026).
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Vertical conveyor driving the integration of moisture transported by the westerlies to the Asian water towers’ atmospheric water cycle
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2026
- Climate simulations and ice core data highlight the Holocene conundrum over tropical mountains
Communications Earth & Environment · 2025
- Model Sensitivity to Insolation Forcing and Uncertainties in Holocene Temperature Simulations
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology · 2025
- Icy Secrets Preserved in Earth’s Glaciers
Climate Change · 2025
- Tropical mountain ice core  : A Goldilocks indicator for global temperature change
2024
- Genomas antigos de vírus preservados em geleiras revelam uma história de mudanças climáticas
2024
- Ancient viral genomes preserved in glaciers reveal the history of Earth’s climate – and how viruses adapt to climate change
2024
- Dust Geochemical Records from a Tibetan Ice Cap: A Paleo-Environmental Messenger
2024
- Glacier-preserved Tibetan Plateau viral community probably linked to warm–cold climate variations
Nature Geoscience · 2024
- Ice core evidence for an orbital-scale climate transition on the Northwest Tibetan Plateau
Quaternary Science Reviews · 2023
- Tropical mountain ice core δ <sup>18</sup> O: A Goldilocks indicator for global temperature change
Science Advances · 2023
- The new Kr-86 excess ice core proxy for synoptic activity: West Antarctic storminess possibly linked to Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) movement through the last deglaciation
Climate of the past · 2023
- Unique Collections of <sup>14</sup>C‐Dated Vegetation Reveal Mid‐Holocene Fluctuations of the Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru
Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface · 2023
- Unique Collection of Recently Exposed 14C Dated Tropical Wetland Vegetation Documents Quelccaya Ice Cap Margin Mid-Holocene Fluctuations
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2023
- Unique Collection of 14C Dated Vegetation Reveal Mid-Holocene Fluctuations of the Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2023
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- AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts×4
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences×3
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)×3
- Tal Y. Shutkin
Earth and Planetary Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Forrest Schoessow
Earth and Planetary Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Émilie Beaudon
Earth and Planetary Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Daniel E. Lawson
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Bryan G. Mark
Earth and Planetary Sciences · The Ohio State University
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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