My main scientific expertise is associated with the use of stable water isotopes to understand the physical processes of the atmospheric hydrological cycle and how the climate is imprinted in the isotopic fingerprint.

ResearcherID: F-9927-2013

ORCID: 0000-0002-7202-5907

2024

• Alexandra M. Zuhr; Sonja Wahl; Hans Christian Steen-Larsen et al. (2024). Spatial and temporal stable water isotope data from the upper snowpack at the EastGRIP camp site, NE Greenland, sampled in summer 2018. (external link)
• Michel Stephen Town; Hans Christian Steen-Larsen; Sonja Wahl et al. (2024). Post-depositional modification on seasonal-to-interannual timescales alters the deuterium-excess signals in summer snow layers in Greenland. (external link)
• A.W. Bellagamba; M. Berkelhammer; Y. Hamed et al. (2024). Isotopic Fractionation during Sublimation of Low Porosity Ice. (external link)
• Laura Jasmin Dietrich; Hans Christian Steen-Larsen; Sonja Wahl et al. (2024). On the importance of the humidity flux for the surface mass balance in the accumulation zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet. (external link)
• Sonja Wahl; Laura Dietrich; Benjamin Walter et al. (2024). Post-depositional modification of the snow isotopic composition and the implication for paleoclimate reconstructions from ice core water isotope records. (external link)
• Sonja Wahl; Benjamin Walter; Hans Christian Steen-Larsen et al. (2024). Using stable water isotopes to improve our understanding of snow processes across scales. (external link)
• Hans Christian Steen-Larsen; Daniele Zannoni (2024). A versatile water vapor generation module for vapor isotope calibration and liquid isotope measurements. (external link)
• Qinggang Gao; Louise C. Sime; Alison J. McLaren et al. (2024). Evaporative controls on Antarctic precipitation: an ECHAM6 model study using innovative water tracer diagnostics. (external link)

2020

• Sonja Wahl; Hans Christian Steen-Larsen; Alexandra Zuhr et al. (2020). A novel method for directly obtaining the water vapor isotope surface flux for evaluating snow-atmosphere exchange processes. (external link)
• C. Leroy‐Dos Santos; V. Masson-Delmotte; M. Casado et al. (2020). A 4.5 Year‐Long Record of Svalbard Water Vapor Isotopic Composition Documents Winter Air Mass Origin. (external link)
• Jean-Louis Bonne; Hanno Meyer; Melanie Behrens et al. (2020). Moisture origin as a driver of temporal variabilities of the water vapour isotopic composition in the Lena River delta, Siberia. (external link)
• Iris Thurnherr; Anna V. Kozachek; Pascal Graf et al. (2020). Meridional and vertical variations of the water vapour isotopic composition in the marine boundary layer over the Atlantic and Southern Ocean. (external link)

2023

• Andrew Walter Seidl; Harald Sodemann; Hans Christian Steen-Larsen (2023). A modular field system for near-surface, vertical profiling of the atmospheric composition in harsh environments using cavity ring-down spectroscopy. (external link)
• Alexandra M. Zuhr; Sonja Wahl; Hans Christian Steen-Larsen et al. (2023). A Snapshot on the Buildup of the Stable Water Isotopic Signal in the Upper Snowpack at EastGRIP on the Greenland Ice Sheet. (external link)
• Sonja Wahl; Laura Dietrich; Mathieu Casado et al. (2023). C33E-1443 What can we learn from d-excess in polar snow?. (external link)
• Geir Huse; Thierry Baussant; Meike Becker et al. (2023). The One Ocean Expedition: Science and Sailing for the Ocean We Want. (external link)
• NRK NRK; Hans Christian Steen-Larsen (2023). 2. På tykk is - med drager over Grønland. (external link)
• Vestlandsrevyen NRK; Hans Christian Steen-Larsen (2023). Distriktsnyheter Vestlandsrevyen - Kronprinsen besøker Bjerknes senteret. (external link)
• Laura Jasmin Dietrich; Hans Christian Steen-Larsen; Sonja Wahl et al. (2023). On the importance of the humidity flux for the surface mass balance in the accumulation zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet. (external link)
• Hans Christian Steen-Larsen; Daniele Zannoni (2023). A Versatile Water Vapor Generation Module for Vapor Isotope Calibration and Liquid Isotope Measurements. (external link)
• Romilly Harris Stuart; Anne-Katrine Faber; Sonja Wahl et al. (2023). Exploring the role of snow metamorphism on the isotopic composition of the surface snow at EastGRIP. (external link)
• Laura Jasmin Dietrich; Hans Christian Steen-Larsen; Sonja Wahl et al. (2023). Snow-Atmosphere Humidity Exchange at the Ice Sheet Surface Alters Annual Mean Climate Signals in Ice Core Records. (external link)

2021

• Patrick Chazette; Cyrille Flamant; Harald Sodemann et al. (2021). Experimental investigation of the stable water isotope distribution in an Alpine lake environment (L-WAIVE). (external link)
• Kevin S. Rozmiarek; Bruce H. Vaughn; Tyler R. Jones et al. (2021). An unmanned aerial vehicle sampling platform for atmospheric water vapor isotopes in polar environments. (external link)
• Di Dai; Jing Gao; Hans Christian Steen-Larsen et al. (2021). Continuous monitoring of the isotopic composition of surface water vapor at Lhasa, southern Tibetan Plateau. (external link)
• Sonja Wahl; Hans Christian Steen-Larsen; Joachim Reuder et al. (2021). Quantifying the Stable Water Isotopologue Exchange Between the Snow Surface and Lower Atmosphere by Direct Flux Measurements. (external link)
• Abigail G. Hughes; Sonja Wahl; Tyler R. Jones et al. (2021). The role of sublimation as a driver of climate signals in the water isotope content of surface snow: Laboratory and field experimental results. (external link)
• Sonja Wahl; Alexandra Zuhr; Maria Hörhold et al. (2021). The Effect of Surface Sublimation on the Snow Isotope Signal. (external link)
• Alexandra M. Zuhr; Thomas Münch; Hans Christian Steen-Larsen et al. (2021). Local-scale deposition of surface snow on the Greenland ice sheet. (external link)
• Claude Hillaire-Marcel; Sang-Tae Kim; Amaelle Landais et al. (2021). A stable isotope toolbox for water and inorganic carbon cycle studies. (external link)

2025

• Ines Ollivier; Hans Christian Steen-Larsen (2025). Surface processes and drivers of the snow water stable isotopic composition at Dome C, East Antarctica – a multi-dataset and modelling analysis. (external link)
• Hans Christian Steen-Larsen; Sonja Wahl (2025). SNOWISO – what did we learn at EastGRIP, and where do we go from here?. (external link)
• Kevin S. Rozmiarek; Laura Jasmin Dietrich; Bruce H. Vaughn et al. (2025). Atmosphere to Surface Profiles of Water-Vapor Isotopes and Meteorological Conditions Over the Northeast Greenland Ice Sheet. (external link)
• Ida Haven; Hans Christian Steen-Larsen; Laura Jasmin Dietrich et al. (2025). On the accuracy of the measured and modelled surface latent and sensible heat flux in the interior of the Greenland Ice Sheet. (external link)
• Sabine Eckhardt; Hans Christian Steen-Larsen; Vilde Aardahl Aas (2025). Langt nede i isen finnes det luft som er flere hundre tusen år gammel. (external link)

2019

• Andrew Hoffman; Hans Christian Steen-Larsen; Knut Christianson et al. (2019). A low-cost autonomous rover for polar science. (external link)
• M.V. Madsen; Hans Christian Steen-Larsen; M. Hörhold et al. (2019). Evidence of Isotopic Fractionation During VaporExchange Between the Atmosphere and theSnow Surface in Greenland. (external link)
• Jean-Louis Bonne; Melanie K. Behrens; Hanno Meyer et al. (2019). Resolving the controls of water vapour isotopes in the Atlantic sector. (external link)
• Hera GudlaugsdOttir; Jesper Sjolte; Árny Erla Sveinbjörnsdóttir et al. (2019). North Atlantic weather regimes in δ18O of winter precipitation: isotopic fingerprint of the response in the atmospheric circulation after volcanic eruptions. (external link)
• Zhongwang Wei; Xuhui Lee; Franziska Aemisegger et al. (2019). A global database of water vapor isotopes measured with high temporal resolution infrared laser spectroscopy. (external link)
• Daniele Zannoni; Hans Christian Steen-Larsen; Barbara Stenni et al. (2019). Synoptic to mesoscale processes affecting the water vapor isotopic daily cycle over a coastal lagoon. (external link)
• Hongxi Pang; Shugui Hou; Amaelle Landais et al. (2019). Influence of summer sublimation on δD, δ18O, and δ17O in precipitation, East Antarctica, and implications for climate reconstruction from ice cores. (external link)
• Daniele Zannoni; Hans Christian Steen-Larsen; Giancarlo Rampazzo et al. (2019). The atmospheric water cycle of a coastal lagoon: An isotope study of the interactions between water vapor, precipitation and surface waters. (external link)
• Alexander Kokhanovsky; Maxim Lamare; Olaf Danne et al. (2019). Retrieval of snow properties from the Sentinel-3 Ocean and Land Colour Instrument. (external link)

2022

• Hongxi Pang; Peng Zhang; Shuangye Wu et al. (2022). The Dominant Role of Brewer-Dobson Circulation on ¹⁷O-Excess Variations in Snow Pits at Dome A, Antarctica. (external link)
• Antoine Grisart; Mathieu Casado; Vasileios Gkinis et al. (2022). Sub-millennial climate variability from high-resolution water isotopes in the EPICA Dome C ice core. (external link)
• Baptiste Vandecrux; Jason E. Box; Adrien Wehrlé et al. (2022). The Determination of the Snow Optical Grain Diameter and Snowmelt Area on the Greenland Ice Sheet Using Spaceborne Optical Observations. (external link)
• Daniele Zannoni; Hans Christian Steen-Larsen; A.J. Peters et al. (2022). Non-Equilibrium Fractionation Factors for D/H and ¹⁸O/¹⁶O During Oceanic Evaporation in the North-West Atlantic Region. (external link)
• Andreas F. Prein; Nikolina Ban; Tinghai Ou et al. (2022). Towards ensemble-based kilometer-scale climate simulations over the third pole region. (external link)
• Sonja Wahl; Hans Christian Steen-Larsen; A.G. Hughes et al. (2022). Atmosphere-Snow Exchange Explains Surface Snow Isotope Variability. (external link)

2018

• Hans Christian Steen-Larsen; Maria Hörhold; Martin Madsen et al. (2018). A Comprehensive Study of the Drivers of Surface Snow Isotopes in Greenland. (external link)
• Hans Christian Steen-Larsen; Sonja Wahl; Maria Hörhold et al. (2018). Revisiting how Water Isotopes in Ice Cores Record the Climate Signal. (external link)
• Marion Benetti; Jean-Lionel Lacour; Árny Erla Sveinbjörnsdóttir et al. (2018). A Framework to Study Mixing Processes in the Marine Boundary Layer Using Water Vapor Isotope Measurements. (external link)
• H Gudlaugsdottir; Hans Christian Steen-Larsen; J Sjolte et al. (2018). The influence of volcanic eruptions on weather regimes over the North Atlantic simulated by ECHAM5/MPI-OM ensemble runs from 800 to 2000 CE. (external link)
• Minjie Zheng; Jesper Sjolte; Florian Adolphi et al. (2018). Climate information preserved in seasonal water isotope at NEEM: Relationships with temperature, circulation and sea ice. (external link)

2026

• Ida Haven; Hans Christian Steen-Larsen; Laura Jasmin Dietrich et al. (2026). On the accuracy of the measured and modelled surface latent and sensible heat flux in the interior of the Greenland Ice Sheet. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

2017

Ebner, P., Steen-Larsen, H. C., (and 3 co-authors): Experimental observation of transient δ¹⁸O interaction between snow and advective airflow under various temperature gradient conditions, (Vol. 11, 1733-1743, 2017, The Cryosphere)

Steen-Larsen, H. C., C. Risi, (and 3 co-authors): Evaluating the skills of isotope-enabled General Circulation Models against in-situ atmospheric water vapor isotope observations, (Vol. 121, 2017, Journal of Geophysical Research) 

Benetti, M.^‡, H. C. Steen-Larsen^‡, (and 18 co-authors): Stable isotopes in the atmospheric marine boundary layer water vapour over the Atlantic Ocean, 2012-2015, (3:160128, 2017, Nature Scientific Data) ^‡Both authors contributed equally to the manuscript.

2016

Galewsky, J., H. C. Steen-Larsen, (and 4 co-authors): Stable isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen in atmospheric water vapor and applications to the hydrological cycle, (Vol. 54, 2016, Reviews of Geophysics)

Ritter, F., H. C. Steen-Larsen, (and 8 co-authors): Isotopic exchange on the diurnal scale between near-surface snow and lower atmospheric water vapor at Kohnen station, East Antarctica, (Vol. 10, 1647-1663, 2016, The Cryosphere) (F. Ritter is former master student of H. C. Steen-Larsen) 

Berkelhammer, M., H. C. Steen-Larsen, (and 4 co-authors): Radiation and atmospheric circulation controls on carbonyl sulfide concentrations in the marine boundary layer, (Vol. 121, 13113-13128, 2016, Journal of Geophysical Research)

Kurita, N., (and 6 co-authors incl. H. C. Steen-Larsen): Identification of Air Masses Responsible for Warm Events on the East Antarctic Coast (Vol. 12, 307-313, 2016, Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere)

Berkelhammer, M., D. Noone, H. C. Steen-Larsen, (and 6 co-authors): Surface-atmosphere decoupling limits accumulation over Greenland, (Vol. 2. (4), e1501704–e1501704, 2016, Science Advances)

Schaller, C., (and 5 co-authors incl. H. C. Steen-Larsen): A representative density profile of the North Greenland snowpack, (Vol. 10, 1991-2002, 2016, The Cryosphere)

Casado, M., (and 12 co-authors incl. H. C. Steen-Larsen): Continuous measurements of isotopic composition of water vapour on the East Antarctic Plateau, (Vol. 16, 8521-8538, 2016, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics) 

Kurita, N., (and 6 co-authors incl. H. C. Steen-Larsen): Influence of large-scale atmospheric circulation on marine air intrusion toward the East Antarctic coast, (Vol. 43, 9298–9305, 2016, Geophysical Research Letters) 

2015

Steen-Larsen, H. C., A. E. Sveinbjörnsdottir, Th. Jonsson, F. Ritter, J.-L. Bonne (and 5 co-authors): Moisture sources and synoptic to seasonal variability in the North Atlantic water vapor isotopic composition (2015, 10.1002/2015JD023234, Journal of Geophysical Research) 

Bailey, A., D. Noone, M. Berkelhammer, H. C. Steen-Larsen, P. Sato: The stability and calibration of water vapor isotope ratio measurements during long-term deployments, (Vol. 8, 4521-4538, 2015, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques) 

Masson-Delmotte, V.^‡, H. C. Steen-Larsen ^‡, (and 20 co-authors): Recent changes in North West Greenland climate documented by NEEM shallow ice core data and simulations, and implications for past temperature reconstructions, (Vol. 9, 1481-1504, 2015, The Cryosphere)  ^‡Both authors contributed equally to the manuscript.

Bonne, J.-L., H.C. Steen-Larsen, C.Risi, M. Werner, H. Sodemann (and 10 co-authors): The summer 2012 Greenland heat wave: in situ and remote sensing observations of water vapour isotopic composition during an atmospheric river event, (Vol. 120,  7, 2014JD022602, 2015, Journal of Geophysical Research)

Pang, H., H. Shugui, A. Landais, V. Masson-Delmotte, F. Prie, H. C. Steen-Larsen, (and 7 co-authors): Spatial distribution of 17O-excess in surface snow along a traverse from Zhongshan station to Dome A, Antarctica. (Vol. 414, 126-133, 2015, Earth and Planetary Science Letters) 

2014

Steen-Larsen, H. C., V. Masson-Delmotte, M. Hirabayashi, R. Winkler, K. Satow, F. Prie, (and 13 co-authors): What controls the isotopic composition of Greenland surface snow? (Vol. 10, 377-392, 2014, Climate of the Past) 

Steen-Larsen, H. C., A. Sveinbjornsdottir, A. Peters, V. Masson-Delmotte, M. P. Guishard, G. Hsiao, J. Jouzel, D. Noone, J. K. Warren, and J. W. C. White: Climatic controls on water vapor deuterium excess in the marine boundary layer of the North Atlantic based on 500 days of in situ measurements. (Vol. 14, 2363-2401, 2014, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions) 

Bastrikov, V., H. C. Steen-Larsen, K. Gribanov, O. Cattani, V. Masson-Delmotte, J. Jouzel, V. Zakharov: Continuous measurements of atmospheric water vapor isotopes in Western Siberia (Kourovka, Russia) (7, 1763-1776,2014, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques) 

Bonne, J.-L., V. Masson-Delmotte, O. Cattani, M. Delmotte, C. Risi, H. Sodemann, H. C. Steen-Larsen: The isotopic composition of water vapor and precipitation in Ivittuut, Southern Greenland (13, 30521-30574, 2014, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics) 

Benetti, M., G. Reverdin, C. Pierre, L. Merlivat, C. Risi, H. C. Steen-Larsen, F. Vimeux: Deuterium excess in marine water vapor – dependency on relative humidity and surface wind speed during evaporation (119, 584-593, 2014, Journal of Geophysical Research) 

2013

Steen-Larsen, H. C., S. J. Johnsen, V. Masson-Delmotte, B. Stenni, C. Risi, H. Sodemann, (and 17 co-authors): Continuous monitoring of summer surface water vapour isotopic composition above the Greenland Ice Sheet (Vol. 13, 4815-4828, 2013, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics) 

Ellehøj, M., H. C. Steen-Larsen, S. J. Johnsen, M. B. Madsen: Ice equilibrium fractionation factor of hydrogen and oxygen isotopes: Experimental investigations and implications for stable water isotope studies, Rapid communications in Mass Spectrometry (27, 2149-2158, 2013, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry) 

NEEM Community Members (incl. H. C. Steen-Larsen), Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core, (Vol. 493, 489-494, 2013, Nature) 

Berggren, A.-M., A. Aldahan, G. Possnert, M. Hansson, H. C. Steen-Larsen, A. S. Storm, C.-M. Mörth, A. Murad, Variability of 10Be and δ18O in snow pits from Greenland and a surface traverse from Antarctica, (Vol. 294, 568-572, 2013, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics B) 

2012

Landais, A., H. C. Steen-Larsen, M. Guillevic, V. Masson-Delmotte, B. Vinther, R. Winkler: Triple Isotopic composition of oxygen in surface snow and water vapor at NEEM (Greenland). (Vol 77, p. 304-316, 2012, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta) 

Rhodes, R. H., N. A. N. Bertler, J. A. Baker, H. C. Steen-Larsen, S. B. Sneed, U. Morgenstern, and S. J. Johnsen: Little Ice Age climate and oceanic conditions of the Ross Sea, Antarctica from a coastal ice core record, (Vol. 8, 1223-1238, 2012, Climate of the Past) 

2011

Steen-Larsen, H. C., V Masson-Delmotte, J. Sjolte, S. J. Johnsen, B. M. Vinther, (and 19 co-authors): Understanding the climatic signal in the water stable isotope records from the NEEM shallow firn/ice cores in North-West Greenland (Vol.116, D06108, 2011, Journal of Geophysical Research) 

Simonsen, S. B., S. J. Johnsen, T. J. Popp, B. Vinther, V. Gkinis, H. C. Steen-Larsen: Past surface temperatures at the NorthGRIP drill site from the difference in firn diffusion of water isotopes (Vol 7, p. 921-942, 2011, Climate of the Past) 

2010 or earlier

Steen-Larsen, H. C., E. D. Waddington, and M. R. Koutnik:  Formulating an inverse problem to infer the accumulation-rate pattern from deep internal layering in an ice sheet using a Monte Carlo Approach, (p. 318-332, Vol 56 (196), 2010, Journal of Glaciology) 

Pol, K., V. Masson-Delmotte, S. J. Johnsen, J. Jouzel, O. Cattani, G. Durand, S. Falourd, B. Minster, F. Parrenin, C. Ritz, H. C. Steen-Larsen, B. Stenni: New MIS 19 EPICA Dome C high resolution deuterium data: hints for a problematic preservation of climate variability in the "oldest ice". (Vol 298, p. 95-103, 2010, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)

Steen-Larsen, H. C. and Dahl-Jensen, D.:  Modeling binge-purge oscillations for the Laurentide Ice Sheet using a plastic ice sheet, (p. 177-182, Vol 48, 2008, Annals of Glaciology) 

European Research Council Starting Grant: SNOWISO