Cryosphere

Papers
(The TQCC of Cryosphere is 9. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
The role of föhn winds in eastern Antarctic Peninsula rapid ice shelf collapse314
Automated mapping of the seasonal evolution of surface meltwater and its links to climate on the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica101
Variability in Antarctic surface climatology across regional climate models and reanalysis datasets76
Impact of atmospheric forcing uncertainties on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice simulations in CMIP6 OMIP models68
Improving climate model skill over High Mountain Asia by adapting snow cover parameterization to complex-topography areas55
Brief communication: Tritium concentration and age of firn accumulation in an ice cave of Mount Olympus (Greece)54
Responses of the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers to melt and sliding parameterizations54
Quantifying the uncertainty in the Eurasian ice-sheet geometry at the Penultimate Glacial Maximum (Marine Isotope Stage 6)51
Mapping Antarctic crevasses and their evolution with deep learning applied to satellite radar imagery44
Spatially heterogeneous effect of climate warming on the Arctic land ice44
The role of snowmelt, glacier melt and rainfall in streamflow dynamics on James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula41
Partial melting in polycrystalline ice: pathways identified in 3D neutron tomographic images40
Benchmarking of snow water equivalent (SWE) products based on outcomes of the SnowPEx+ Intercomparison Project40
Similarities between sea ice area variations and satellite-derived terrestrial biosphere and cryosphere parameters across the Arctic38
Age, thinning and spatial origin of the Beyond EPICA ice from a 2.5D ice flow model38
Observing the evolution of summer melt on multiyear sea ice with ICESat-2 and Sentinel-238
Comparing elevation and backscatter retrievals from CryoSat-2 and ICESat-2 over Arctic summer sea ice37
A model framework for atmosphere–snow water vapor exchange and the associated isotope effects at Dome Argus, Antarctica – Part 1: The diurnal changes36
A comparison between Envisat and ICESat sea ice thickness in the Southern Ocean36
Ice-shelf freshwater triggers for the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf melt tipping point in a global ocean–sea-ice model36
Mechanisms and impacts of anomalous high-salinity shelf water formation in the Ross Sea36
Modelling cold firn evolution at Colle Gnifetti, Swiss/Italian Alps34
Extensive and anomalous grounding line retreat at Vanderford Glacier, Vincennes Bay, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica34
Spectral induced polarization survey for the estimation of hydrogeological parameters in an active rock glacier33
Seasonal land-ice-flow variability in the Antarctic Peninsula32
Disentangling the drivers of future Antarctic ice loss with a historically calibrated ice-sheet model32
Brief communication: Monitoring active layer dynamics using a lightweight nimble ground-penetrating radar system – a laboratory analogue test case30
Modelling surface temperature and radiation budget of snow-covered complex terrain30
Sea ice reduction in the Barents–Kara Sea enhances June precipitation in the Yangtze River basin30
European heat waves 2022: contribution to extreme glacier melt in Switzerland inferred from automated ablation readings29
Multilayer observation and estimation of the snowpack cold content in a humid boreal coniferous forest of eastern Canada28
Evaluating Greenland surface-mass-balance and firn-densification data using ICESat-2 altimetry28
Sources of low-frequency variability in observed Antarctic sea ice27
An unseasonal atmospheric river drives anomalous summer snow accumulation on glaciers of the subtropical Andes27
A comparison of supraglacial meltwater features throughout contrasting melt seasons: southwest Greenland27
Brief communication: Storstrømmen Glacier, northeastern Greenland, primed for end-of-decade surge27
Brief communication: Daily, gap-free snow cover information based on a combination of NPP VIIRS and MODIS data26
Filling and drainage of a subglacial lake beneath the Flade Isblink ice cap, northeast Greenland26
Characteristics and rarity of the strong 1940s westerly wind event over the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica26
Climatology and surface impacts of atmospheric rivers on West Antarctica26
Rapid regional assessment of rock glacier activity based on DInSAR wrapped-phase signal26
Southern Ocean sea-ice leads: first insights into regional lead patterns, seasonality, and trends, 2003–202326
Kara and Barents sea ice thickness estimation based on CryoSat-2 radar altimeter and Sentinel-1 dual-polarized synthetic aperture radar26
A probabilistic framework for quantifying the role of anthropogenic climate change in marine-terminating glacier retreats25
Impact of the melt–albedo feedback on the future evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet with PISM-dEBM-simple25
Radar sounding survey over Devon Ice Cap indicates the potential for a diverse hypersaline subglacial hydrological environment25
Grain-size evolution controls the accumulation dependence of modelled firn thickness25
Impact of icebergs on the seasonal submarine melt of Sermeq Kujalleq25
Mapping the extent of giant Antarctic icebergs with deep learning24
The stability of present-day Antarctic grounding lines – Part 2: Onset of irreversible retreat of Amundsen Sea glaciers under current climate on centennial timescales cannot be excluded24
Arctic sea ice radar freeboard retrieval from the European Remote-Sensing Satellite (ERS-2) using altimetry: toward sea ice thickness observation from 1995 to 202124
A prototype passive microwave retrieval algorithm for tundra snow density24
Spaceborne thermal infrared observations of Arctic sea ice leads at 30 m resolution24
GLAcier Feature Tracking testkit (GLAFT): a statistically and physically based framework for evaluating glacier velocity products derived from optical satellite image feature tracking24
Sensitivity of modeled snow grain size retrievals to solar geometry, snow particle asphericity, and snowpack impurities24
Retrieval of atmospheric water vapor and temperature profiles over Antarctica from satellite microwave observations using an iterative approach23
Suitability of the CICE sea ice model for seasonal prediction and positive impact of CryoSat-2 ice thickness initialization23
The radiative and geometric properties of melting first-year landfast sea ice in the Arctic23
Lake volume and potential hazards of moraine-dammed glacial lakes – a case study of Bienong Co, southeastern Tibetan Plateau23
Temporal markers in a temperate ice core: insights from 3 H and 137 Cs profiles from the Adamello 23
Glacier–permafrost relations in a high-mountain environment: 5 decades of kinematic monitoring at the Gruben site, Swiss Alps22
Warm proglacial lake temperatures and thermal undercutting enhance rapid retreat of an Arctic glacier22
Distributed surface mass balance of an avalanche-fed glacier22
Brief communication: Recent estimates of glacier mass loss for western North America from laser altimetry22
Quantification of capillary rise dynamics in snow using neutron radiography22
Influence of snow spatial variability on cosmic ray neutron snow water equivalent (SWE): case study in a northern prairie22
Widespread increase in discharge from west Antarctic Peninsula glaciers since 201822
Permafrost sensitivity to soil hydro-thermodynamics in historical and scenario simulations with the MPI-ESM22
The role of atmospheric conditions in the Antarctic sea ice extent summer minima22
ITS_LIVE global glacier velocity data in near-real time21
Automated snow cover detection on mountain glaciers using spaceborne imagery and machine learning21
Brief communication: Rapid  ∼  335  ×  10 6  m 3 bed erosion after detachment of the Sedongpu Glac21
A regionally resolved inventory of High Mountain Asia surge-type glaciers, derived from a multi-factor remote sensing approach21
Surface nuclear magnetic resonance for studying an englacial channel on Rhonegletscher (Switzerland): possibilities and limitations in a high-noise environment21
Estimating degree-day factors of snow based on energy flux components21
Automatic detection of Arctic polynyas using hybrid supervised-unsupervised deep learning21
A framework for time-dependent ice sheet uncertainty quantification, applied to three West Antarctic ice streams20
Brief communication: The Glacier Loss Day as an indicator of a record-breaking negative glacier mass balance in 202220
Topology and spatial-pressure-distribution reconstruction of an englacial channel20
Multi-decadal retreat of marine-terminating outlet glaciers in northwest and central-west Greenland20
MMSeaIce: a collection of techniques for improving sea ice mapping with a multi-task model20
Sensitivity of the Ross Ice Shelf to environmental and glaciological controls20
Ice fabrics in two-dimensional flows: beyond pure and simple shear20
A quasi-one-dimensional ice mélange flow model based on continuum descriptions of granular materials19
Reanalysis of the longest mass balance series in Himalaya using a nonlinear model: Chhota Shigri Glacier (India)19
Review article: Feature tracing in radio-echo sounding products of terrestrial ice sheets and planetary bodies19
Contribution of warm and moist atmospheric flow to a record minimum July sea ice extent of the Arctic in 202019
Brief communication: On the potential of seismic polarity reversal to identify a thin low-velocity layer above a high-velocity layer in ice-rich rock glaciers19
Development and fluctuation of crystal orientation fabric in the deep sections of the Dome Fuji ice core, Antarctica: impacts of dust particles and migration recrystallization19
Land- to lake-terminating transition triggers dynamic thinning of a Bhutanese glacier19
Arctic glacier snowline altitudes rise 150 m over the last 4 decades19
Mapping seasonal snow melting in Karakoram using SAR and topographic data19
Ice shelf calving due to shear stresses: observing the response of Brunt Ice Shelf and Halloween Crack to iceberg calving using ICESat-2 laser altimetry, satellite imagery, and ice flow models19
Polarimetric radar reveals the spatial distribution of ice fabric at domes and divides in East Antarctica19
Impact of atmospheric rivers on Arctic sea ice variations18
SNICAR-ADv4: a physically based radiative transfer model to represent the spectral albedo of glacier ice18
Evaluation of the Snow Climate Change Initiative (Snow CCI) snow-covered area product within a mountain snow water equivalent reanalysis18
An 11-year record of wintertime snow-surface energy balance and sublimation at 4863 m a.s.l. on the Chhota Shigri Glacier moraine (western Himalaya, India)18
An analysis of the interaction between surface and basal crevasses in ice shelves18
Snow cover prediction in the Italian central Apennines using weather forecast and land surface numerical models18
Seasonality in terminus ablation rates for the glaciers in Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat)18
Estimating the uncertainty of sea-ice area and sea-ice extent from satellite retrievals18
First observations of sea ice flexural–gravity waves with ground-based radar interferometry in Utqiaġvik, Alaska18
Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry measurements for high-resolution chemical ice core analyses with a first application to an ice core from Skytrain Ice Rise (Antarctica)18
Unlocking the potential of melting calorimetry: a field protocol for liquid water content measurement in snow18
Modeling of surface energy balance for Icelandic glaciers using remote-sensing albedo18
Data-driven surrogate modeling of high-resolution sea-ice thickness in the Arctic18
Deep clustering in subglacial radar reflectance reveals subglacial lakes18
Brief communication: New perspectives on the skill of modelled sea ice trends in light of recent Antarctic sea ice loss18
Reconstructing dynamics of the Baltic Ice Stream Complex during deglaciation of the Last Scandinavian Ice Sheet17
Brief communication: Rapid acceleration of the Brunt Ice Shelf after calving of iceberg A-8117
Inland migration of near-surface crevasses in the Amundsen Sea Sector, West Antarctica17
Modelling snowpack on ice surfaces with the ORCHIDEE land surface model: application to the Greenland ice sheet17
Feasibility of retrieving Arctic sea ice thickness from the Chinese HY-2B Ku-band radar altimeter17
Sensitivity of iceberg drift and deterioration simulations to input data from different ocean, sea ice and atmosphere models in the Barents Sea17
Spectral induced polarization imaging to investigate an ice-rich mountain permafrost site in Switzerland16
Novel approach to estimate the water isotope diffusion length in deep ice cores with an application to Marine Isotope Stage 19 in the Dome C ice core16
Evaporative controls on Antarctic precipitation: an ECHAM6 model study using innovative water tracer diagnostics16
Leveraging snow probe data, lidar, and machine learning for snow depth estimation in complex-terrain environments16
Wave erosion, frontal bending, and calving at Ross Ice Shelf16
Snowmelt characterization from optical and synthetic-aperture radar observations in the La Joie Basin, British Columbia16
Using deep learning and multi-source remote sensing images to map landlocked lakes in Antarctica16
Improved permafrost modelling in mountain environments by including air convection in a hydrological model16
Reversal of ocean gyres near ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea caused by the interaction of sea ice and wind16
Insights into microphysical and optical properties of typical mineral dust within urban snowpack via wet and dry deposition in Changchun, northeastern China16
Analyzing the sensitivity of a blowing snow model (SnowPappus) to precipitation forcing, blowing snow, and spatial resolution16
Improved monitoring of subglacial lake activity in Greenland16
Will landscape responses reduce glacier sensitivity to climate change in High Mountain Asia?16
Quantifying the effects of background concentrations of crude oil pollution on sea ice albedo16
Viscoelastic mechanics of tidally induced lake drainage in the grounding zone15
Predicting ocean-induced ice-shelf melt rates using deep learning15
Assessment of the impact of dam reservoirs on river ice cover – an example from the Carpathians (central Europe)15
Multi-decadal analysis of past winter temperature, precipitation and snow cover data in the European Alps from reanalyses, climate models and observational datasets15
An empirical algorithm to map perennial firn aquifers and ice slabs within the Greenland Ice Sheet using satellite L-band microwave radiometry15
Characterizing tundra snow sub-pixel variability to improve brightness temperature estimation in satellite SWE retrievals15
Subglacial discharge effects on basal melting of a rotating, idealized ice shelf15
Sublimation measurements of tundra and taiga snowpack in Alaska15
Impact of boundary conditions on the modeled thermal regime of the Antarctic ice sheet15
Generating large-scale sea ice motion from Sentinel-1 and the RADARSAT Constellation Mission using the Environment and Climate Change Canada automated sea ice tracking system15
On the sensitivity of sea ice deformation statistics to plastic damage15
Monitoring Arctic thin ice: a comparison between CryoSat-2 SAR altimetry data and MODIS thermal-infrared imagery15
Constraining regional glacier reconstructions using past ice thickness of deglaciating areas – a case study in the European Alps15
Seasonal and interannual variability in freshwater sources for Greenland's fjords15
Detection of ice core particles via deep neural networks15
Dual-frequency radar observations of snowmelt processes on Antarctic perennial sea ice by CFOSCAT and ASCAT15
Simulating ice segregation and thaw consolidation in permafrost environments with the CryoGrid community model15
Modelling glacier mass balance and climate sensitivity in the context of sparse observations: application to Saskatchewan Glacier, western Canada15
Strong increase in thawing of subsea permafrost in the 22nd century caused by anthropogenic climate change15
A study of sea ice topography in the Weddell and Ross seas using dual-polarimetric TanDEM-X imagery15
Assimilating CryoSat-2 freeboard to improve Arctic sea ice thickness estimates15
Modelling the evolution of Arctic multiyear sea ice over 2000–201815
In situ 10 Be modeling and terrain analysis constrain subglacial quarrying and abrasion rates at Sermeq Kujalleq (Jakobshavn Isbræ), Greenland15
A cold laboratory hyperspectral imaging system to map grain size and ice layer distributions in firn cores15
Bathymetry-constrained impact of relative sea-level change on basal melting in Antarctica15
Slowdown of Shirase Glacier, East Antarctica, caused by strengthening alongshore winds15
The evolution of Arctic permafrost over the last 3 centuries from ensemble simulations with the CryoGridLite permafrost model14
A topographically controlled tipping point for complete Greenland ice sheet melt14
Surging of a Hudson Strait-scale ice stream: subglacial hydrology matters but the process details mostly do not14
Summer sea ice floe perimeter density in the Arctic: high-resolution optical satellite imagery and model evaluation14
Resolving glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) in response to modern and future ice loss at marine grounding lines in West Antarctica14
Review article: Retrogressive thaw slump characteristics and terminology14
Snow stratigraphy observations from Operation IceBridge surveys in Alaska using S and C band airborne ultra-wideband FMCW (frequency-modulated continuous wave) radar14
Snow water equivalent retrieval over Idaho – Part 2: Using L-band UAVSAR repeat-pass interferometry14
Fine-scale variability in iceberg velocity fields and implications for an ice-associated pinniped14
Air clathrate hydrates in the EDML ice core, Antarctica14
Widespread slowdown in thinning rates of West Antarctic ice shelves14
Unravelling the sources of uncertainty in glacier runoff projections in the Patagonian Andes (40–56° S)14
Flexural and compressive strength of the landfast sea ice in the Prydz Bay, East Antarctic14
Modeling the impacts of climate trends and lake formation on the retreat of a tropical Andean glacier (1962–2020)14
Quantifying frost-weathering-induced damage in alpine rocks14
Seasonal snow–atmosphere modeling: let's do it14
Arctic sea ice anomalies during the MOSAiC winter 2019/2014
Extensive palaeo-surfaces beneath the Evans–Rutford region of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet control modern and past ice flow14
Multi-frequency altimetry snow depth estimates over heterogeneous snow-covered Antarctic summer sea ice – Part 1: C∕S-, Ku-, and Ka-band airborne observations14
The contribution of Humboldt Glacier, northern Greenland, to sea-level rise through 2100 constrained by recent observations of speedup and retreat14
Assessing the seasonal evolution of snow depth spatial variability and scaling in complex mountain terrain14
Fifty years of firn evolution on Grigoriev ice cap, Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan13
Control of the temperature signal in Antarctic proxies by snowfall dynamics13
Observing glacier elevation changes from spaceborne optical and radar sensors – an inter-comparison experiment using ASTER and TanDEM-X data13
Layered seawater intrusion and melt under grounded ice13
Automated ArcticDEM iceberg detection tool: insights into area and volume distributions, and their potential application to satellite imagery and modelling of glacier–iceberg–ocean systems13
Twenty-first century global glacier evolution under CMIP6 scenarios and the role of glacier-specific observations13
Seasonality and scenario dependence of rapid Arctic sea ice loss events in CMIP6 simulations13
Two-way coupling between ice flow and channelized subglacial drainage enhances modeled marine-ice-sheet retreat13
Feedback mechanisms controlling Antarctic glacial-cycle dynamics simulated with a coupled ice sheet–solid Earth model13
Temporal variation of bacterial community and nutrients in Tibetan glacier snowpack13
Sea ice concentration estimates from ICESat-2 linear ice fraction – Part 1: Multi-sensor comparison of sea ice concentration products13
Subglacial hydrology modulates basal sliding response of the Antarctic ice sheet to climate forcing13
Simulating the Holocene deglaciation across a marine-terminating portion of southwestern Greenland in response to marine and atmospheric forcings13
Brief communication: Sea-level projections, adaptation planning, and actionable science13
The collapse of the Cordilleran–Laurentide ice saddle and early opening of the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada, constrained by 10 Be 13
Greenland's firn responds more to warming than to cooling13
Exploring ice sheet model sensitivity to ocean thermal forcing and basal sliding using the Community Ice Sheet Model (CISM)13
Contrasted geomorphological and limnological properties of thermokarst lakes formed in buried glacier ice and ice-wedge polygon terrain13
Assessment of Arctic seasonal snow cover rates of change13
Empirical correction of systematic orthorectification error in Sentinel-2 velocity fields for Greenlandic outlet glaciers12
Using Icepack to reproduce ice mass balance buoy observations in landfast ice: improvements from the mushy-layer thermodynamics12
Investigating seasonal and multi-decadal water/ice storage changes in the Murtèl rock glacier using time-lapse gravimetry12
Signature of the stratosphere–troposphere coupling on recent record-breaking Antarctic sea-ice anomalies12
Incorporating InSAR kinematics into rock glacier inventories: insights from 11 regions worldwide12
The AutoICE Challenge12
Impact of non-normal flow rule on linear kinematic features in pan-Arctic ice-ocean simulations12
Thermal infrared shadow-hiding in GOES-R ABI imagery: snow and forest temperature observations from the SnowEx 2020 Grand Mesa field campaign12
Brief communication: Identification of tundra topsoil frozen/thawed state from SMAP and GCOM-W1 radiometer measurements using the spectral gradient method12
Drainage and refill of an Antarctic Peninsula subglacial lake reveal an active subglacial hydrological network12
Development of crystal orientation fabric in the Dome Fuji ice core in East Antarctica: implications for the deformation regime in ice sheets12
Brief communication: A framework to classify glaciers for water resource evaluation and management in the Southern Andes12
Subglacial hydrology regulates oscillations in marine ice streams12
Geometric controls of tidewater glacier dynamics12
Future changes in Antarctic near-surface winds: regional variability and key drivers under a high-emission scenario12
On the evolution of an ice shelf melt channel at the base of Filchner Ice Shelf, from observations and viscoelastic modeling12
Temporal and vertical changes in snow microbial communities during the melting season below canopy in Northern Japan12
Modelling GNSS-observed seasonal velocity changes of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, using the Ice-sheet and Sea-level System Model (ISSM)12
Spatiotemporal snow water storage uncertainty in the midlatitude American Cordillera12
Ice plate deformation and cracking revealed by an in situ-distributed acoustic sensing array12
A collection of wet beam models for wave–ice interaction12
Mapping and characterization of avalanches on mountain glaciers with Sentinel-1 satellite imagery12
Assessing volumetric change distributions and scaling relations of retrogressive thaw slumps across the Arctic12
Sentinel-1 detection of ice slabs on the Greenland Ice Sheet12
El Niño enhances snow-line rise and ice loss on the Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru12
Greenland and Canadian Arctic ice temperature profiles database12
Wind conditions for snow cornice formation in a wind tunnel12
Geometric amplification and suppression of ice-shelf basal melt in West Antarctica12
Updated Arctic melt pond fraction dataset and trends 2002–2023 using ENVISAT and Sentinel-3 remote sensing data11
Evaluation of snow depth retrievals from ICESat-2 using airborne laser-scanning data11
Sensitivity of Antarctic surface climate to a new spectral snow albedo and radiative transfer scheme in RACMO2.3p311
A generalized stress correction scheme for the Maxwell elasto-brittle rheology: impact on the fracture angles and deformations11
Molecular biomarkers in Batagay megaslump permafrost deposits reveal clear differences in organic matter preservation between glacial and interglacial periods11
Everest South Col Glacier did not thin during the period 1984–201711
Influence of fast ice on future ice shelf melting in the Totten Glacier area, East Antarctica11
Glacial ring forms on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada11
Towards long-term records of rain-on-snow events across the Arctic from satellite data11
Long-term development of a perennial firn aquifer on the Lomonosovfonna ice cap, Svalbard11
Loss of accumulation zone exposes dark ice and drives increased ablation at Weißseespitze, Austria11
A probabilistic seabed–ice keel interaction model11
Brief communication: Increased glacier mass loss in the Russian High Arctic (2010–2017)11
Inverting ice surface elevation and velocity for bed topography and slipperiness beneath Thwaites Glacier11
Finely resolved along-track wave attenuation estimates in the Antarctic marginal ice zone from ICESat-211
Evidence of active subglacial lakes under a slowly moving coastal region of the Antarctic Ice Sheet11
Wave-triggered breakup in the marginal ice zone generates lognormal floe size distributions: a simulation study11
A computationally efficient statistically downscaled 100 m resolution Greenland product from the regional climate model MAR11
Brief communication: Mountain permafrost acts as an aquitard during an infiltration experiment monitored with electrical resistivity tomography time-lapse measurements11
Direct measurement of warm Atlantic Intermediate Water close to the grounding line of Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden (79° N) Glacier, northeast Greenland11
Cross-platform classification of level and deformed sea ice considering per-class incident angle dependency of backscatter intensity11
A new state-dependent parameterization for the free drift of sea ice11
First results of the polar regional climate model RACMO2.411
Geothermal heat source estimations through ice flow modelling at Mýrdalsjökull, Iceland11
Co-registration and residual correction of digital elevation models: a comparative study11
Probabilistic spatiotemporal seasonal sea ice presence forecasting using sequence-to-sequence learning and ERA5 data in the Hudson Bay region10
Meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet and its water isotope distribution in Dickson Fjord, East Greenland10
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