Eric Morrow

Data Analytics | Mathematical Modeling | Spatial Statistics

Publications

Kopp, R.E., Kemp, A.C., Bittermann, K., Horton, B.P., Donnelly, J.P., Gehrels, W.R., Hay, C.C., Mitrovica, J.X., Morrow, E.D., and Rahmstorf, S., (2016): Temperature-driven global sea-level variability in the Common Era, doi:10.1073/pnas.1517056113

 

Mitrovica, J.X., Hay, C.C., Morrow, E., Kopp, R.E., Dumberry, M., and Stanley, S.,  (2015): Reconciling past changes in Earth's rotation with 20th century global sea-level rise: Resolving Munk's enigma, Science Advances, 1 (11), doi:10.1126/sciadv.1500679

 

Hay, C. C., Morrow, E., Kopp, R. E., and Mitrovica, J. X., (2015): Probabilistic reanalysis of twentieth-century sea-level rise, Nature, doi:10.1038/nature14093

 

Morrow, E., Mitrovica, J.X., Sterenborg, M.G. and Harig, C., (2013): A test of recent inferences of net polar ice mass balance based on long-wavelength gravity, J. Clim., 26 (17), pp. 6535-6540, doi:10.1175/jcli-d-13-00078.1

 

Lee, J.-E., Frankenberg, C., van der Tol, C., Berry, J., Guanter, L., Boyce, C., Fisher, J., Morrow, E., Worden, J., Asefi, S., Badgley, G. and Saatchi, S., (2013): Forest productivity and water stress in Amazonia: observations from GOSAT chlorophyll fluorescence, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 280 (1761), doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.0171

 

Sterenborg, M.G., Morrow, E., and Mitrovica, J.X., (2013): Bias in GRACE estimates of ice mass change due to accompanying sea-level change, J. Geod., 87, pp. 387-392, doi:10.1007/s00190-012-0608-x

 

Morrow, E., Mitrovica, J.X., Forte, A.M., Glisovic, P., and Huybers, P., (2012): An enigma in estimates of the Earth’s dynamic ellipticity, Geophys. J. Int., 191, pp. 1129-1134, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05703.x

 

Hay, C.C., Morrow, E., Kopp, R.E. and Mitrovica, J.X., (2012): Estimating the sources of global sea level rise with data assimilation techniques, PNAS, doi:10.1073/pnas.1117683109

 

Chan, N.H., Mitrovica, J.X., Matsuyama, I., Latychev, K., Creveling, J., Stanley, S., and Morrow, E. (2011): The rotational stability of a convecting Earth: the Earth’s figure and TPW over the last 100 Myr, Geophys. J. Int., pp. 773-782, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05174.x

 

Mitrovica, J.X., Gomez, N., Morrow, E., Hay, C., Latychev, K., and Tamisiea, M., (2011): On the robustness of predictions of sea level fingerprints, Geophys. J. Int., 187, pp. 729-742, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05090.x

 

Morrow, E., Mitrovica, J.X., and Fotopoulos, G., (2011): Water storage, net precipitation and evapotranspiration in the Mackenzie River Basin from October 2002 to September 2008 inferred from GRACE satellite gravity data, J. Hydromet., 12 (3), pp. 467-473, doi: 10.1175/2010JHM1278.1

 

Selected Press

Seas are now rising faster than they have in 2,800 years, scientists say (Feb 22, 2016; Washington Post)

Sea-level rise in 20th century was fastest in 3,000 years, Rutgers-led study finds (Feb 22, 2016; Rutgers Today)

Seas are rising at fastest rate in last 28 centuries (Feb 22, 2016; NY Times)

Melting glaciers, rising sea level slow down Earth's rotation (Dec 11, 2015; CBC News)

New research may solve puzzle in sea level's rise (Jan 14, 2015; NY Times)

Rate of sea-level rise 'steeper' (Jan 14, 2015; BBC News)

Higher water mark (Jan 17, 2015; The Economist)

 

Presentations

Morrow, E., Hay, C.C., Kopp, R.E., and Mitrovica, J.X. (2012), Fingerprint-based estimates of polar ice sheet mass change: The application of a Kalman smoother to identify ice melt contributions to 20th century sea level change, Abstract OS31C-1754; presented at the 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 3-7 Dec.

 

Sterenborg, M.G., Morrow, E., and Mitrovica, J.X. (2012), Bias in GRACE estimates of ice mass change due to accompanying sea-level change, Abstract G43C-08; presented at the 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 3-7 Dec.

 

Hay, C.C., Mitrovica, J.X., Morrow, E., and Gomez, N (2012), The fingerprinting of global sea level change, presented at the IPY 2012 Conference, Montreal, PQ, 22-27 Apr.

 

Hay, C.C., Morrow, E., Kopp, R.E., and Mitrovica, J.X. (2012), Sea level fingerprinting of polar ice mass variations: A new formalism for estimating the sources of global sea level change, presented at the Ocean Sciences Meeting, AGU, Salt Lake City, Utah, 20-24 Feb.

 

Morrow, E., Mitrovica, J.X., Forte, A.M., Glisovic, P., and Huybers, P., (2011),  Estimates of dynamic ellipticity from stratigraphic paleoclimate records: A geophysical paradox?, Abstract PP21C-1802; presented at the 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 5-9 Dec.

 

Hay, C., Morrow, E., Kopp, R.E., and Mitrovica, J.X., (2011), Detecting the sea-level fingerprint of polar ice mass changes: Testing a new method for estimating the sources of global sea level change, Abstract G21B-0814; presented at the 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 5-9 Dec.

 

Chan, N., Mitrovica, J.X., Matsuyama, I., Creveling, J.R., Latychev, K., Stanley, S., and Morrow, E., (2011), The rotational stability of a convecting Earth: New theory and applications to paleomagnetically-inferred TPW over the past 100 Myr, Abstract GP11A-1030; presented at the 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 5-9 Dec.

 

Mitrovica, J.X., Raymo, M.E., Morrow, E., and Hay, C., (2011), Ice age sea level change: Lessons from studies of the mid-Pliocene climate optimum, the last glacial maximum and the 20th century, Abstract GC548B-01; presented at the 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 5-9 Dec.

 

White, N.J., Church, J.A., Mitrovica, J.X., Cogley, J.G., Gomez, N.A., and Morrow, E., (2009), Estimates of ice sheet and glacier mass losses and their contributions to sea level from a fingerprinting analysis, Eos Trans. AGU, 90 (52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract G51C-04.

 

Gomez, N., Mitrovica, J.X., Morrow, E., Tamisiea, M.E., Clark, P.U., Cogley, G., Church, J.A. and White, N.J. (2009), The sensitivity of sea-level fingerprints to the geometry of ice sheet mass balance, Eos Trans. AGU, 90 (52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract G53C-0682.

 

Morrow, E.D., Mitrovica, J.X., and Fotopoulos, G., (2008), Evapotranspiration in the Mackenzie River Basin determined from GRACE and auxiliary hydrological datasets, Eos Trans. AGU, 89 (53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H11E-0815.

 

Peterson, E., Morrow, E., Fotopoulos, G., Shum, C.K., Zee, R.E., Arkani-Hamed, J., and Spencer, H., (2008), A comparison between high-low and low-low satellite-to-satellite tracking methods in lunar gravimetry, presented at 37th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Montreal, PQ, 13-20 Jul.

 

Morrow, E., (2001), Low thrust trajectory design for CRAFTI, presented at the 15th annual Small Satellite Conference, Logan, Utah, 13-16 Aug.