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  1. Impact of the climate change on hydrodynamic seabed stressors

    Article • September 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicholas Heavens

  2. Mars thermal inertia and surface temperatures by the Mars Climate Sounder

    Article • Icarus, September 2024, Elsevier

    Nicholas Heavens

  3. Monitoring the Martian Weather with Areostationary SmallSats

    Article • May 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Nicholas Heavens

  4. Seasonal variability of gravity wave activity in Mars's lower atmosphere from MGS–TES nadir observations

    Article • Icarus, January 2024, Elsevier

    Nicholas Heavens

  5. Response: commentary: detecting upland glaciation in Earth’s pre-Pleistocene record

    Article • Frontiers in Earth Science, July 2023, Frontiers

    Nicholas Heavens

  6. A Multiannual Record of Convective Instability in Mars’s Middle Atmosphere from the Mars Climate Sounder

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, June 2023, American Astronomical Society

    Nicholas Heavens

  7. Atmospheric CO2 Depletion Near the Surface in the Martian Polar Regions

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, June 2023, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  8. Martian Gravity Waves Observed by the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) during Northern Summer

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, February 2023, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  9. Dust and loess as archives and agents of climate and climate change in the late Paleozoic Earth system

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 2023, Geological Society

    Nicholas Heavens

  10. Epitomic Data for Community Land Model Standalone Simulations for Prognostic Analyses of Tropical Mountain Glaciation and Lake Temperature in Pre-Industrial, Last Glacial Maximum, and Extreme Glacial Climates

    Article • November 2022, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Nicholas Heavens

  11. The Horizontal Wavelength Spectrum of Gravity Wave Activity in Mars’s Lower Atmosphere: The Perspective from MGS–TES Nadir Observations

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, October 2022, American Astronomical Society

    Nicholas Heavens

  12. Detecting upland glaciation in Earth’s pre-Pleistocene record

    Article • Frontiers in Earth Science, August 2022, Frontiers

    Nicholas Heavens

  13. Earth-like thermal and dynamical coupling processes in the Martian climate system

    Article • Earth-Science Reviews, June 2022, Elsevier

    Nicholas Heavens

  14. Mars Climate Sounder Observations of Gravity-wave Activity throughout Mars’s Lower Atmosphere

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, March 2022, American Astronomical Society

    Nicholas Heavens

  15. MOSAIC: A Satellite Constellation to Enable Groundbreaking Mars Climate System Science and Prepare for Human Exploration

    Article • The Planetary Science Journal, October 2021, American Astronomical Society

    Nicholas Heavens

  16. Downscaling CESM2 in CLM5 to Hindcast Preindustrial Equilibrium Line Altitudes for Tropical Mountain Glaciers

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, September 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  17. Large Eddy Simulations of the Dusty Martian Convective Boundary Layer With MarsWRF

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, September 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  18. Martian water loss to space enhanced by regional dust storms

    Article • Nature Astronomy, August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicholas Heavens

  19. A Paradigm Shift in Mars Meteorology: Towards Monitoring and Forecasting with Areostationary SmallSats

    Article • July 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Nicholas Heavens

  20. Downscaling CESM2 in CLM5 to Hindcast Pre-Industrial Equilibrium Line Altitudes for Tropical Mountain Glaciers

    Article • July 2021, Wiley

    Nicholas Heavens

  21. Mars perihelion cloud trails as revealed by MARCI: Mesoscale topographically focused updrafts and gravity wave forcing of high altitude clouds

    Article • Icarus, July 2021, Elsevier

    Nicholas Heavens

  22. Downscaling CESM2 in CLM5 to Hindcast Pre-Industrial Equilibrium Line Altitudes for Tropical Mountain Glaciers

    Article • April 2021, Wiley

    Nicholas Heavens

  23. Downscaling CESM2 in CLM5 to Hindcast Pre-Industrial Equilibrium Line Altitude for Tropical Mountains

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Nicholas Heavens

  24. Large Eddy Simulations of the Dusty Martian Convective Boundary Layer with MarsWRF

    Article • December 2020, Wiley

    Nicholas Heavens

  25. Report on ICDP Deep Dust workshops: probing continental climate of the late Paleozoic icehouse–greenhouse transition and beyond

    Article • Scientific Drilling, December 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Nicholas Heavens

  26. Atmospheric dust flux in northeastern Gondwana during the peak of the late Paleozoic ice age

    Article • Geological Society of America Bulletin, October 2020, Geological Society of America

    Nicholas Heavens

  27. Atmospheric Escape Processes and Planetary Atmospheric Evolution

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics, July 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  28. Asymmetries in Snowfall, Emissivity, and Albedo of Mars' Seasonal Polar Caps: Mars Climate Sounder Observations

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, May 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  29. InSight searches high to see below

    Article • Nature Geoscience, February 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicholas Heavens

  30. A multiannual record of gravity wave activity in Mars’s lower atmosphere from on-planet observations by the Mars Climate Sounder

    Article • Icarus, January 2020, Elsevier

    Nicholas Heavens

  31. Atmospheric dust stimulated marine primary productivity during Earth’s penultimate icehouse

    Article • Geology, December 2019, Geological Society of America

    Nicholas Heavens

  32. MCS Observations of the Initiation and Development of Large Regional Dust Events on Mars

    Article • December 2019, Wiley

    Nicholas Heavens

  33. Dusty Deep Convection in the Mars Year 34 Planet‐Encircling Dust Event

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, November 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  34. Dust-Powered Thunderstorm-Like Towers In Martian Dust Storms

    Article • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, November 2019, American Meteorological Society

    Nicholas Heavens

  35. Warm-water carbonates in proximity to Gondwanan ice–sheets: A record from the Upper Paleozoic of Iran

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, October 2019, Elsevier

    Nicholas Heavens

  36. Mars Climate Sounder observation of Mars’ 2018 global dust storm

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, September 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  37. Rapid expansion and evolution of a regional dust storm in the Acidalia Corridor during the initial growth phase of the Martian global dust storm of 2018

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, September 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  38. High-altitude water ice cloud formation on Mars controlled by interplanetary dust particles

    Article • Nature Geoscience, June 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicholas Heavens

  39. Explosive volcanism as a key driver of the late Paleozoic ice age

    Article • Geology, May 2019, Geological Society of America

    Nicholas Heavens

  40. Hydrogen escape from Mars enhanced by deep convection in dust storms

    Article • Nature Astronomy, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicholas Heavens

  41. The reflectivity of Mars at 1064 nm: Derivation from Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter data and application to climatology and meteorology

    Article • Icarus, June 2017, Elsevier

    Nicholas Heavens

  42. Of kangaroo rats and gypsum gravel: Probing the extremes of aeolian transport in the present and the past

    Article • Geology, April 2017, Geological Society of America

    Nicholas Heavens

  43. Textured Dust Storm Activity in Northeast Amazonis–Southwest Arcadia, Mars: Phenomenology and Dynamical Interpretation

    Article • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, April 2017, American Meteorological Society

    Nicholas Heavens

  44. Discovery of a widespread low-latitude diurnal CO2frost cycle on Mars

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, July 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  45. Coal-derived rates of atmospheric dust deposition during the Permian

    Article • Gondwana Research, March 2016, Elsevier

    Nicholas Heavens

  46. Extreme eolian delivery of reactive iron to late Paleozoic icehouse seas

    Article • Geology, November 2015, Geological Society of America

    Nicholas Heavens

  47. A solar escalator on Mars: Self-lifting of dust layers by radiative heating

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, September 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  48. Twelve thousand years of dust: the Holocene global dust cycle constrained by natural archives

    Article • Climate of the Past, June 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Nicholas Heavens

  49. Extreme detached dust layers near Martian volcanoes: Evidence for dust transport by mesoscale circulations forced by high topography

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, May 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  50. A model-based evaluation of tropical climate in Pangaea during the late Palaeozoic icehouse

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, May 2015, Elsevier

    Nicholas Heavens

  51. Temperatures and aerosol opacities of the Mars atmosphere at aphelion: Validation and inter-comparison of limb sounding profiles from MRO/MCS and MGS/TES

    Article • Icarus, May 2015, Elsevier

    Nicholas Heavens

  52. Seasonal and diurnal variability of detached dust layers in the tropical Martian atmosphere

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, August 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  53. Improved dust representation in the Community Atmosphere Model

    Article • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, July 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  54. Convective instabilities during Mars Climate Sounder’s limb staring mode were overestimated

    Article • Icarus, July 2014, Elsevier

    Nicholas Heavens

  55. The role of snowfall in forming the seasonal ice caps of Mars: Models and constraints from the Mars Climate Sounder

    Article • Icarus, March 2014, Elsevier

    Nicholas Heavens

  56. Upland Glaciation in Tropical Pangaea: Geologic Evidence and Implications for Late Paleozoic Climate Modeling

    Article • The Journal of Geology, March 2014, University of Chicago Press

    Nicholas Heavens

  57. Abrupt and high-magnitude changes in atmospheric circulation recorded in the Permian Maroon Formation, tropical Pangaea

    Article • Geological Society of America Bulletin, February 2014, Geological Society of America

    Nicholas Heavens

  58. Correction to “Extensive MRO CRISM observations of 1.27 µm O2airglow in Mars polar night and their comparison to MRO MCS temperature profiles and LMD GCM simulations”

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, May 2013, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  59. Extensive MRO CRISM observations of 1.27μm O2airglow in Mars polar night and their comparison to MRO MCS temperature profiles and LMD GCM simulations

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, August 2012, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  60. Carbon dioxide snow clouds on Mars: South polar winter observations by the Mars Climate Sounder

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, August 2012, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  61. A paleogeographic approach to aerosol prescription in simulations of deep time climate

    Article • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, April 2012, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  62. Aerosol Impacts on Climate and Biogeochemistry

    Article • Annual Review of Environment and Resources, November 2011, Annual Reviews

    Nicholas Heavens

  63. Sunshine on a Cloudy Forecast

    Article • Science, September 2011, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Nicholas Heavens

  64. The vertical distribution of dust in the Martian atmosphere during northern spring and summer: Observations by the Mars Climate Sounder and analysis of zonal average vertical dust profiles

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, April 2011, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  65. Structure and dynamics of the Martian lower and middle atmosphere as observed by the Mars Climate Sounder: 2. Implications of the thermal structure and aerosol distributions for the mean meridional circulation

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 2011, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  66. Vertical distribution of dust in the Martian atmosphere during northern spring and summer: High-altitude tropical dust maximum at northern summer solstice

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 2011, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  67. Structure and dynamics of the Martian lower and middle atmosphere as observed by the Mars Climate Sounder: Seasonal variations in zonal mean temperature, dust, and water ice aerosols

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, December 2010, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  68. Water ice clouds over the Martian tropics during northern summer

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, September 2010, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  69. Convective instability in the martian middle atmosphere

    Article • Icarus, August 2010, Elsevier

    Nicholas Heavens

  70. Thermal tides in the Martian middle atmosphere as seen by the Mars Climate Sounder

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, March 2009, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  71. Intense polar temperature inversion in the middle atmosphere on Mars

    Article • Nature Geoscience, October 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicholas Heavens

  72. Two aerodynamic roughness maps derived from Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) data and their effects on boundary layer properties in a Mars general circulation model (GCM)

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, February 2008, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  73. Climatological evaporation seasonality in the northern Red Sea

    Article • Paleoceanography, October 2007, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicholas Heavens

  74. Mind over Magma. By Davis A.  Young. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. 686 pages, 58 figures. $69.95 cloth.

    Article • The Journal of Geology, March 2005, University of Chicago Press

    Nicholas Heavens