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Johan Nilsson

Education

B.Sc.- Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden (2008)
M.Sc. - Engineering Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden (2011)
PhD – Cryosphere Monitoring from Satellites and Aircrafts, DTU Space, National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark (2015)

Research Interests

Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere
- Altimetry
- Imaging
- Gravity
- GPS
Ice Sheet and Glacier Mass Balance
Ice Dynamics
Sea Level Rise
Algorithm Development for Remote Sensing Applications

Projects

GRACE
GRACE, the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, provide measurements of the Earth’s gravity field, including the variability of ocean mass.

ISSM
ISSM (Ice and Sea-level System Model) is a state of the art ice flow modeling software developed at JPL in collaboration with University of California Irvine.

Professional Experience

Postdoctoral Scholar, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA (2015 - present)
PhD Stipendium – DTU Space, National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark (2011 - 2015)
Research Associate – Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University (Spring - 2011)
Test Design and Verification Engineer – Saab Group – Defense and Security (Summers - 2008, 2009)

Selected Publications

Nilsson, J., Vallelonga, P., Simonsen, S.B., Sørensen, L.S., Forsberg, R., Dahl Jensen, D., Hirabayashi, M., GotoAzuma, K., Hvidberg, C.S., Kjær, H.A. and Satow, K., 2015. Greenland 2012 melt event effects on CryoSat2 radar altimetry. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(10), pp.3919-3926.
Nilsson, J., Sandberg Sørensen, L., Barletta, V.R. and Forsberg, R., 2015. Mass changes in Arctic ice caps and glaciers: implications of regionalizing elevation changes. The Cryosphere, 9(1), pp.139-150.
Forsberg, R, Sørensen, LS, Fredenslund Levinsen, J and Nilsson, J 2013, Mass loss of Greenland from GRACE, IceSat and CryoSat. in Proceedings of the CryoSat Workshop. European Space Agency, ESA, Dresden.
Skourup, H, Einarsson, I, Forsberg, R, Haas, C, Helms, V, Hvidegaard, SM, Nilsson, J, Olesen, AV and Olesen, AK 2012, ESA CryoVEx 2012: Airborne field campaign with ASIRAS radar, EM induction sounder and laser scanner. DTU Space, Kgs. Lyngby. Technical Report, no. 2.

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