Vishnu Nandan
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Publications outside Cristin
Mallett, RDC, Nandan, V. , Macfarlane, A, R., Campbell, K., & Stroeve, JC (2024). Snow on sea ice , Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, Elsevier.
Saha, M., Stroeve, J., Isleifson, D., Yackel, J., Nandan, V. , Landy, JC, & Lam, HM (2025). Snow depth estimation on leadless land fast ice using Cryo2Ice satellite observations . The Cryosphere, 19(1), 325-346.
Newman, T., Stroeve, J., Nandan, V ., Willatt, R., Mead, J., Mallett, R., ... & Tonboe, R. (2024). A Practical Approach to FMCW Radar Deconvolution in the Sea Ice Domain . IEEE Access, 12, 174901–174933.
Mallett, R.D.C., Nandan, V. , Stroeve, J., Willatt, R., Saha, M., Yackel, J., Veysière, G., & Wilkinson, J. (2024). Dye tracing of upward brine migration in snow , Annals of Glaciology, 1-14.
Willatt, R., Stroeve, JC, Nandan, V ., Newman, T., Mallett, R., Hendricks, S., ... & Oggier, M. (2023). Retrieval of Snow Depth on Arctic Sea Ice From Surface‐Based, Polarimetric, Dual‐Frequency Radar Altimetry . Geophysical Research Letters, 50(20), e2023GL104461.
Nandan, V. , Willatt, R., Mallett, R., Stroeve, J., Geldsetzer, T., Scharien, R., Tonboe, R., Landy, J., Clemens-Sewall, D., Jutila, A., Wagner, DN, Krampe, K., Huntemann, M., Yackel, J., Mahmud, M., Jensen, D., Hendricks, S., Spreen, G., Macfarlane, A., Schneebeli, M., Mead, J., Ricker, R., Gallagher, M., Duguay, C., Raphael, I., Polashenski, C., Tsamados, M., Matero, I., and Hoppman, M. (2023). Wind Transport of Snow Impacts Ka- and Ku-band Radar Signatures on Arctic Sea Ice , The Cryosphere, 17, 2221-2229.
Stroeve, J., Nandan, V ., Willatt, R., Dadic, R., Rostosky, P., Gallagher, M., ... & Schneebeli, M. (2022). Rain on snow (ROS) understudied in sea ice remote sensing: a multi-sensor analysis of ROS during MOSAiC (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) . The Cryosphere, 16(10), 4223-4250.
Mallett, R., Stroeve, J., Tsamados, M., Willatt, R., Newman, T., Nandan, V. , . . . Perovich, D. (2022). Sub-kilometre scale distribution of snow depth on Arctic sea ice from Soviet drifting stations . Journal of Glaciology, 1-13.
Nicolaus, M., Perovich, DK, Spreen, G., Granskog, MA, von Albedyll, L., Angelopoulos, M., ... Nandan, V ….., & Wendisch, M. (2022). Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Snow and sea ice . Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 10(1), 000046.
Tonboe, RT, Nandan, V ., Mäkynen, M., Pedersen, LT, Kern, S., Lavergne, T., ... & Huntemann, M. (2021). Simulated Geophysical Noise in Sea Ice Concentration Estimates of Open Water and Snow-Covered Sea Ice . IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 15, 1309-1326.
Rösel, A., Farrell, SL, Nandan, V ., Richter-Menge, J., Spreen, G., Divine, DV, Steer, A., Gallet, J.-C., and Gerland, S (2021). Implications of surface flooding on airborne estimates of snow depth on sea ice, The Cryosphere, 15, 2819–2833.
Mallett, RD, Stroeve, JC, Tsamados, M., Landy, JC, Willatt, R., Nandan, V ., & Liston, GE (2021). Faster decline and higher variability in the sea ice thickness of the marginal Arctic seas when accounting for dynamic snow cover . The Cryosphere, 15(5), 2429-2450.
Stroeve, J., Nandan, V ., Willatt, R., Tonboe, R., Hendricks, S., Ricker, R., ... & Tsamados, M. (2020). Surface-based Ku-and Ka-band polarimetric radar for sea ice studies . The Cryosphere, 14(12), 4405-4426.
Nandan, V ., Scharien, RK, Geldsetzer, T., Kwok, R., Yackel, JJ, Mahmud, MS, ... & Stroeve, J. (2020). Snow Property Controls on Modeled Ku-Band Altimeter Estimates of First-Year Sea Ice Thickness: Case Studies From the Canadian and Norwegian Arctic . IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 13, 1082-1096.
Munoz-Martin, JF, Perez, A., Camps, A., Ribó, S., Cardellach, E., Stroeve, J., Nandan, V ., ... & Pastena, M. (2020). Snow and Ice Thickness Retrievals Using GNSS-R: Preliminary Results of the MOSAiC Experiment . Remote Sensing, 12(24), 4038.
MacFerrin, M. (2019). The next generation of polar researchers agree on three priorities . Nature, 570(7759). List of signatories including Nandan, V . in https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-019-01718-1/16760358.
Research interests
My collaborative research focuses on remote sensing of the cryosphere with particular focus on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice and Himalayan glaciers. I use surface- to satellite-scale radar remote sensing data and tools towards accurate retrievals of snow depth, sea ice thicknessn and thermodynamic timings, and impact of snow and permafrost on glacier calving and GLOFs.
Teaching
FYS3023: Applied Remote Sensing (Autumn 2026)
Member of research group / centre
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Associate Professor, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, 2026 - Present
Research Assistant Professor, Amrita University, India, 2024-26
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Calgary, Canada and H20 Geomatics Inc, Canada, 2021-24
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Manitoba, Canada, 2019-23
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Victoria, Canada, 2018-19
Ph.D. (Physical Geography), University of Calgary, Canada, 2014-18
Research Associate, Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany, 2012-13
M.Sc. (Earth Observation Sciences), ITC, The Netherlands, 2010-12