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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Benchmarking of snow water equivalent (SWE) products based on outcomes of the SnowPEx+ Intercomparison Project227
Recovering and monitoring the thickness, density, and elastic properties of sea ice from seismic noise recorded in Svalbard89
The role of föhn winds in eastern Antarctic Peninsula rapid ice shelf collapse79
Propagating information from snow observations with CrocO ensemble data assimilation system: a 10-years case study over a snow depth observation network68
Brief communication: Tritium concentration and age of firn accumulation in an ice cave of Mount Olympus (Greece)59
Ice ridge density signatures in high-resolution SAR images57
Using Icepack to reproduce ice mass balance buoy observations in landfast ice: improvements from the mushy-layer thermodynamics52
In situ estimation of ice crystal properties at the South Pole using LED calibration data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory50
Improving climate model skill over High Mountain Asia by adapting snow cover parameterization to complex-topography areas50
Englacial architecture of Lambert Glacier, East Antarctica49
Indication of high basal melting at the EastGRIP drill site on the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream49
Multiscale variations in Arctic sea ice motion and links to atmospheric and oceanic conditions46
Measuring the state and temporal evolution of glaciers in Alaska and Yukon using synthetic-aperture-radar-derived (SAR-derived) 3D time series of glacier surface flow45
Spectral induced polarization survey for the estimation of hydrogeological parameters in an active rock glacier44
A seasonal algorithm of the snow-covered area fraction for mountainous terrain42
Brief communication: Weak control of snow avalanche deposit volumes by avalanche path morphology41
Brief communication: Evaluation of the snow cover detection in the Copernicus High Resolution Snow & Ice Monitoring Service39
Image classification of marine-terminating outlet glaciers in Greenland using deep learning methods38
The potential of synthetic aperture radar interferometry for assessing meltwater lake dynamics on Antarctic ice shelves37
TanDEM-X PolarDEM 90 m of Antarctica: generation and error characterization37
Creep and fracture of warm columnar freshwater ice36
A generalized stress correction scheme for the Maxwell elasto-brittle rheology: impact on the fracture angles and deformations36
Brief communication: Potential of satellite optical imagery to monitor glacier surface flow velocity variability in the tropical Andes35
Evidence of active subglacial lakes under a slowly moving coastal region of the Antarctic Ice Sheet35
Effects of Arctic sea-ice concentration on surface radiative fluxes in four atmospheric reanalyses34
European heat waves 2022: contribution to extreme glacier melt in Switzerland inferred from automated ablation readings32
Recent contrasting behaviour of mountain glaciers across the European High Arctic revealed by ArcticDEM data32
Automated mapping of the seasonal evolution of surface meltwater and its links to climate on the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica31
Improved snow property retrievals by solving for topography in the inversion of at-sensor radiance measurements31
Modelling point mass balance for the glaciers of the Central European Alps using machine learning techniques30
Mapping Antarctic crevasses and their evolution with deep learning applied to satellite radar imagery29
Seasonal to decadal dynamics of supraglacial lakes on debris-covered glaciers in the Khumbu region, Nepal29
Can changes in deformation regimes be inferred from crystallographic preferred orientations in polar ice?28
Modelling the mass budget and future evolution of Tunabreen, central Spitsbergen28
Long-term analysis of cryoseismic events and associated ground thermal stress in Adventdalen, Svalbard28
Dam type and lake location characterize ice-marginal lake area change in Alaska and NW Canada between 1984 and 201928
Melt probabilities and surface temperature trends on the Greenland ice sheet using a Gaussian mixture model28
Pressurised water flow in fractured permafrost rocks revealed by borehole temperature, electrical resistivity tomography, and piezometric pressure25
Broadband spectral induced polarization for the detection of Permafrost and an approach to ice content estimation – a case study from Yakutia, Russia25
Characterization of atmospheric methane release in the outer Mackenzie River delta from biogenic and thermogenic sources25
High-resolution 4D electrical resistivity tomography and below-ground point sensor monitoring of High Arctic deglaciated sediments capture zero-curtain effects, freeze–thaw transitions, and mid-winter25
Thinning and surface mass balance patterns of two neighbouring debris-covered glaciers in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau25
Climate warming shortens ice durations and alters freeze and break-up patterns in Swedish water bodies25
Review article: Melt-affected ice cores for polar research in a warming world25
The glaciers of the Dolomites: the last 40 years of melting25
Sea ice reduction in the Barents–Kara Sea enhances June precipitation in the Yangtze River basin24
Modelling GNSS-observed seasonal velocity changes of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, using the Ice-sheet and Sea-level System Model (ISSM)24
Amundsen Sea Embayment accumulation variability measured with global navigation satellite system interferometric reflectometry24
Strategies for regional modeling of surface mass balance at the Monte Sarmiento Massif, Tierra del Fuego24
Surface processes and drivers of the snow water stable isotopic composition at Dome C, East Antarctica – a multi-dataset and modelling analysis24
A lead-width distribution for Antarctic sea ice: a case study for the Weddell Sea with high-resolution Sentinel-2 images24
Sensitivity to forecast surface mass balance outweighs sensitivity to basal sliding descriptions for 21st century mass loss from three major Greenland outlet glaciers23
Employing automated electrical resistivity tomography for detecting short- and long-term changes in permafrost and active-layer dynamics in the maritime Antarctic23
Experimental and model-based investigation of the links between snow bidirectional reflectance and snow microstructure23
Machine learning of Antarctic firn density by combining radiometer and scatterometer remote-sensing data23
Mapping the aerodynamic roughness of the Greenland Ice Sheet surface using ICESat-2: evaluation over the K-transect23
Brief communication: Monitoring active layer dynamics using a lightweight nimble ground-penetrating radar system – a laboratory analogue test case22
Towards long-term records of rain-on-snow events across the Arctic from satellite data22
A random forest model to assess snow instability from simulated snow stratigraphy22
Analysis of microseismicity in sea ice with deep learning and Bayesian inference: application to high-resolution thickness monitoring22
Influence of fast ice on future ice shelf melting in the Totten Glacier area, East Antarctica22
Climatic control on seasonal variations in mountain glacier surface velocity22
Exploring the role of snow metamorphism on the isotopic composition of the surface snow at EastGRIP22
Seasonal and interannual variability of the landfast ice mass balance between 2009 and 2018 in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica22
Change in the potential snowfall phenology: past, present, and future in the Chinese Tianshan mountainous region, Central Asia21
Brief communication: Glacier mapping and change estimation using very high-resolution declassified Hexagon KH-9 panoramic stereo imagery (1971–1984)21
How do tradeoffs in satellite spatial and temporal resolution impact snow water equivalent reconstruction?21
Arctic sea ice data assimilation combining an ensemble Kalman filter with a novel Lagrangian sea ice model for the winter 2019–202021
Direct measurement of warm Atlantic Intermediate Water close to the grounding line of Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden (79° N) Glacier, northeast Greenland21
Rapid sea ice changes in the future Barents Sea21
Permafrost degradation at two monitored palsa mires in north-west Finland21
Impact of atmospheric forcing uncertainties on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice simulations in CMIP6 OMIP models20
The effect of partial dissolution on sea-ice chemical transport: a combined model–observational study using poly- and perfluoroalkylated substances (PFASs)20
Everest South Col Glacier did not thin during the period 1984–201720
Meltwater runoff and glacier mass balance in the high Arctic: 1991–2022 simulations for Svalbard20
Towards modelling of corrugation ridges at ice-sheet grounding lines20
Greenland and Canadian Arctic ice temperature profiles database19
New estimates of pan-Arctic sea ice–atmosphere neutral drag coefficients from ICESat-2 elevation data19
Spatially heterogeneous effect of climate warming on the Arctic land ice19
Brief communication: Identification of tundra topsoil frozen/thawed state from SMAP and GCOM-W1 radiometer measurements using the spectral gradient method19
The stability of present-day Antarctic grounding lines – Part 1: No indication of marine ice sheet instability in the current geometry19
AutoTerm: an automated pipeline for glacier terminus extraction using machine learning and a “big data” repository of Greenland glacier termini19
Comparing elevation and backscatter retrievals from CryoSat-2 and ICESat-2 over Arctic summer sea ice19
Environmental spaces for palsas and peat plateaus are disappearing at a circumpolar scale19
Evaluating the impact of enhanced horizontal resolution over the Antarctic domain using a variable-resolution Earth system model19
Quantifying the uncertainty in the Eurasian ice-sheet geometry at the Penultimate Glacial Maximum (Marine Isotope Stage 6)19
Regularization and L-curves in ice sheet inverse models: a case study in the Filchner–Ronne catchment19
Extreme events of snow grain size increase in East Antarctica and their relationship with meteorological conditions18
Spatiotemporal snow water storage uncertainty in the midlatitude American Cordillera18
Multidecadal variability and predictability of Antarctic sea ice in the GFDL SPEAR_LO model18
Modeling seasonal-to-decadal ocean–cryosphere interactions along the Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica18
A model framework for atmosphere–snow water vapor exchange and the associated isotope effects at Dome Argus, Antarctica – Part 1: The diurnal changes18
First results of the polar regional climate model RACMO2.418
Brief communication: A technique for making in situ measurements at the ice–water boundary of small pieces of floating glacier ice18
Local analytical optimal nudging for assimilating AMSR2 sea ice concentration in a high-resolution pan-Arctic coupled ocean (HYCOM 2.2.98) and sea ice (CICE 5.1.2) model18
Disentangling the drivers of future Antarctic ice loss with a historically calibrated ice-sheet model18
Ice-shelf ocean boundary layer dynamics from large-eddy simulations18
The evolution of isolated cavities and hydraulic connection at the glacier bed – Part 2: A dynamic viscoelastic model18
Modeled variations in the inherent optical properties of summer Arctic ice and their effects on the radiation budget: a case based on ice cores from 2008 to 201618
Weakening of the pinning point buttressing Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica17
Convective heat transfer of spring meltwater accelerates active layer phase change in Tibet permafrost areas17
Long-period variability in ice-dammed glacier outburst floods due to evolving catchment geometry17
Brief communication: Accurate and autonomous snow water equivalent measurements using a cosmic ray sensor on a Himalayan glacier17
Application of a regularised Coulomb sliding law to Jakobshavn Isbræ, western Greenland17
Sensitivity of Antarctic surface climate to a new spectral snow albedo and radiative transfer scheme in RACMO2.3p317
Brief communication: Application of a muonic cosmic ray snow gauge to monitor the snow water equivalent on alpine glaciers17
Homogeneity assessment of Swiss snow depth series: comparison of break detection capabilities of (semi-)automatic homogenization methods17
The cryostratigraphy of thermo-erosion gullies in the Canadian High Arctic demonstrates the resilience of permafrost17
Use of multiple reference data sources to cross-validate gridded snow water equivalent products over North America17
Thermal structure of the Amery Ice Shelf from borehole observations and simulations17
Influences of changing sea ice and snow thicknesses on simulated Arctic winter heat fluxes17
A data exploration tool for averaging and accessing large data sets of snow stratigraphy profiles useful for avalanche forecasting16
The Antarctic contribution to 21st-century sea-level rise predicted by the UK Earth System Model with an interactive ice sheet16
Ultrasonic and seismic constraints on crystallographic preferred orientations of the Priestley Glacier shear margin, Antarctica16
Snow water equivalent change mapping from slope-correlated synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR) phase variations16
Molecular biomarkers in Batagay megaslump permafrost deposits reveal clear differences in organic matter preservation between glacial and interglacial periods16
On the evolution of an ice shelf melt channel at the base of Filchner Ice Shelf, from observations and viscoelastic modeling16
Inverting ice surface elevation and velocity for bed topography and slipperiness beneath Thwaites Glacier16
Three-dimensional discrete element simulations on pressure ridge formation16
Development of crystal orientation fabric in the Dome Fuji ice core in East Antarctica: implications for the deformation regime in ice sheets16
The sensitivity of landfast sea ice to atmospheric forcing in single-column model simulations: a case study at Zhongshan Station, Antarctica16
Variability in Antarctic surface climatology across regional climate models and reanalysis datasets16
Weekly to monthly terminus variability of Greenland's marine-terminating outlet glaciers15
A generalized photon-tracking approach to simulate spectral snow albedo and transmittance using X-ray microtomography and geometric optics15
Assessing bare-ice albedo simulated by MAR over the Greenland ice sheet (2000–2021) and implications for meltwater production estimates15
Causes and evolution of winter polynyas north of Greenland15
Spatio-temporal reconstruction of winter glacier mass balance in the Alps, Scandinavia, Central Asia and western Canada (1981–2019) using climate reanalyses and machine learning15
Snow mechanical property variability at the slope scale – implication for snow mechanical modelling15
Impacts of snow assimilation on seasonal snow and meteorological forecasts for the Tibetan Plateau15
Drainage and refill of an Antarctic Peninsula subglacial lake reveal an active subglacial hydrological network15
Wave-triggered breakup in the marginal ice zone generates lognormal floe size distributions: a simulation study15
The surface energy balance during foehn events at Joyce Glacier, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica15
Recent warming trends of the Greenland ice sheet documented by historical firn and ice temperature observations and machine learning15
Assimilation of satellite swaths versus daily means of sea ice concentration in a regional coupled ocean–sea ice model15
Seasonal land-ice-flow variability in the Antarctic Peninsula15
Observed mechanism for sustained glacier retreat and acceleration in response to ocean warming around Greenland15
Antarctic contribution to future sea level from ice shelf basal melt as constrained by ice discharge observations15
Wind conditions for snow cornice formation in a wind tunnel15
Partial melting in polycrystalline ice: pathways identified in 3D neutron tomographic images15
Towards the systematic reconnaissance of seismic signals from glaciers and ice sheets – Part 1: Event detection for cryoseismology14
Thermal legacy of a large paleolake in Taylor Valley, East Antarctica, as evidenced by an airborne electromagnetic survey14
Reanalyzing the spatial representativeness of snow depth at automated monitoring stations using airborne lidar data14
The potential of in situ cosmogenic 14CO in ice cores as a proxy for galactic cosmic ray flux variations14
The Antarctic Coastal Current in the Bellingshausen Sea14
Ice-shelf freshwater triggers for the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf melt tipping point in a global ocean–sea-ice model14
Comment on “Exceptionally high heat flux needed to sustain the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream” by Smith-Johnsen et al. (2020)14
Geothermal heat source estimations through ice flow modelling at Mýrdalsjökull, Iceland14
Ice plate deformation and cracking revealed by an in situ-distributed acoustic sensing array14
A large-scale high-resolution numerical model for sea-ice fragmentation dynamics14
Ground-penetrating radar imaging reveals glacier's drainage network in 3D14
Two-dimensional numerical simulations of mixing under ice keels14
Biases in ice sheet models from missing noise-induced drift14
New insights into the drainage of inundated ice-wedge polygons using fundamental hydrologic principles14
A 3D glacier dynamics–line plume model to estimate the frontal ablation of Hansbreen, Svalbard14
Brief communication: Thwaites Glacier cavity evolution14
Geometric amplification and suppression of ice-shelf basal melt in West Antarctica14
Subgridding high-resolution numerical weather forecast in the Canadian Selkirk mountain range for local snow modeling in a remote sensing perspective14
Research into mechanical modeling based on characteristics of the fracture mechanics of ice cutting for scientific drilling in polar regions14
Responses of the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers to melt and sliding parameterizations14
Upstream flow effects revealed in the EastGRIP ice core using Monte Carlo inversion of a two-dimensional ice-flow model14
The distribution and evolution of supraglacial lakes on 79° N Glacier (north-eastern Greenland) and interannual climatic controls14
The retrieval of snow properties from SLSTR Sentinel-3 – Part 1: Method description and sensitivity study14
The effect of landfast sea ice buttressing on ice dynamic speedup in the Larsen B embayment, Antarctica14
On the relationship between δO2∕N2 variability and ice sheet surface conditions in Antarctica13
Multiscale modeling of heat and mass transfer in dry snow: influence of the condensation coefficient and comparison with experiments13
Quantifying the influence of snow over sea ice morphology on L-band passive microwave satellite observations in the Southern Ocean13
Mapping seasonal glacier melt across the Hindu Kush Himalaya with time series synthetic aperture radar (SAR)13
Modelling surface temperature and radiation budget of snow-covered complex terrain13
Automated detection and analysis of surface calving waves with a terrestrial radar interferometer at the front of Eqip Sermia, Greenland13
Spectral induced polarization imaging to monitor seasonal and annual dynamics of frozen ground at a mountain permafrost site in the Italian Alps13
High-resolution topography of the Antarctic Peninsula combining the TanDEM-X DEM and Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA) mosaic13
Effect of snowfall on changes in relative seismic velocity measured by ambient noise correlation13
Surface temperatures and their influence on the permafrost thermal regime in high-Arctic rock walls on Svalbard13
Cross-platform classification of level and deformed sea ice considering per-class incident angle dependency of backscatter intensity13
Wind-induced seismic noise at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station13
Thermal infrared shadow-hiding in GOES-R ABI imagery: snow and forest temperature observations from the SnowEx 2020 Grand Mesa field campaign13
AWI-ICENet1: a convolutional neural network retracker for ice altimetry13
Brief communication: Increased glacier mass loss in the Russian High Arctic (2010–2017)13
Change in Antarctic ice shelf area from 2009 to 201913
Reversible ice sheet thinning in the Amundsen Sea Embayment during the Late Holocene13
Assessing the potential for ice flow piracy between the Totten and Vanderford glaciers, East Antarctica13
Energetics of surface melt in West Antarctica12
Observing the evolution of summer melt on multiyear sea ice with ICESat-2 and Sentinel-212
Empirical correction of systematic orthorectification error in Sentinel-2 velocity fields for Greenlandic outlet glaciers12
Physical and mechanical properties of winter first-year ice in the Antarctic marginal ice zone along the Good Hope Line12
Sudden large-volume detachments of low-angle mountain glaciers – more frequent than thought?12
An improved sea ice detection algorithm using MODIS: application as a new European sea ice extent indicator12
Responses of dissolved organic carbon to freeze–thaw cycles associated with the changes in microbial activity and soil structure12
A new state-dependent parameterization for the free drift of sea ice12
GNSS signal-based snow water equivalent determination for different snowpack conditions along a steep elevation gradient12
A comparison between Envisat and ICESat sea ice thickness in the Southern Ocean12
Evaluation of snow cover properties in ERA5 and ERA5-Land with several satellite-based datasets in the Northern Hemisphere in spring 1982–201812
Hydrological response of Andean catchments to recent glacier mass loss12
Spectral characteristics of seismic ambient vibrations reveal changes in the subglacial environment of Glacier de la Plaine Morte, Switzerland12
Impact of the sampling procedure on the specific surface area of snow measurements with the IceCube12
An evaluation of Antarctic sea-ice thickness from the Global Ice-Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System based on in situ and satellite observations12
Evaluating Greenland surface-mass-balance and firn-densification data using ICESat-2 altimetry12
Recent observations of superimposed ice and snow ice on sea ice in the northwestern Weddell Sea12
Contrasting surface velocities between lake- and land-terminating glaciers in the Himalayan region12
InSAR-derived seasonal subsidence reflects spatial soil moisture patterns in Arctic lowland permafrost regions12
Spaceborne infrared imagery for early detection of Weddell Polynya opening12
Estimation of stream water components and residence time in a permafrost catchment in the central Tibetan Plateau using long-term water stable isotopic data12
Extensive and anomalous grounding line retreat at Vanderford Glacier, Vincennes Bay, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica12
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 excluded11
Characteristics and rarity of the strong 1940s westerly wind event over the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica11
Spatial characteristics of frazil streaks in the Terra Nova Bay Polynya from high-resolution visible satellite imagery11
Cast shadows reveal changes in glacier surface elevation11
The effects of assimilating a sub-grid-scale sea ice thickness distribution in a new Arctic sea ice data assimilation system11
Eighteen-year record of circum-Antarctic landfast-sea-ice distribution allows detailed baseline characterisation and reveals trends and variability11
Five decades of Abramov glacier dynamics reconstructed with multi-sensor optical remote sensing11
Brief communication: Mountain permafrost acts as an aquitard during an infiltration experiment monitored with electrical resistivity tomography time-lapse measurements11
Recent changes in pan-Arctic sea ice, lake ice, and snow-on/off timing11
Grain growth of natural and synthetic ice at 0 °C11
Effects of extreme melt events on ice flow and sea level rise of the Greenland Ice Sheet11
Late Holocene glacier and climate fluctuations in the Mackenzie and Selwyn mountain ranges, northwestern Canada11
Out-of-the-box calving-front detection method using deep learning11
Mass changes of the northern Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet derived from repeat bi-static synthetic aperture radar acquisitions for the period 2013–201711
Spring-water temperature suggests widespread occurrence of Alpine permafrost in pseudo-relict rock glaciers11
Heterogeneous grain growth and vertical mass transfer within a snow layer under a temperature gradient11
Sources of uncertainty in Greenland surface mass balance in the 21st century11
New glacier thickness and bed topography maps for Svalbard11
Climatology and surface impacts of atmospheric rivers on West Antarctica11
A comparison of supraglacial meltwater features throughout contrasting melt seasons: southwest Greenland11
Spaceborne thermal infrared observations of Arctic sea ice leads at 30 m resolution11
Impact of shallow sills on circulation regimes and submarine melting in glacial fjords11
Seismic attenuation in Antarctic firn11
Mapping the extent of giant Antarctic icebergs with deep learning11
Monitoring glacier calving using underwater sound11
Annual evolution of the ice–ocean interaction beneath landfast ice in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica11
Brief communication: Comparison of the performance of thermistors and digital temperature sensors in a mountain permafrost borehole11
Pan-Arctic sea ice concentration from SAR and passive microwave11
Projection of snowfall extremes in the French Alps as a function of elevation and global warming level11
Mapping surface hoar from near-infrared texture in a laboratory11
Arctic sea ice radar freeboard retrieval from the European Remote-Sensing Satellite (ERS-2) using altimetry: toward sea ice thickness observation from 1995 to 202111
Evaluation of snow depth retrievals from ICESat-2 using airborne laser-scanning data11
Deformation lines in Arctic sea ice: intersection angle distribution and mechanical properties11
Temporospatial variability of snow's thermal conductivity on Arctic sea ice11
The evolution of future Antarctic surface melt using PISM-dEBM-simple11
Estimating surface mass balance patterns from unoccupied aerial vehicle measurements in the ablation area of the Morteratsch–Pers glacier complex (Switzerland)10
Statistical emulation of a perturbed basal melt ensemble of an ice sheet model to better quantify Antarctic sea level rise uncertainties10
Quantifying the potential future contribution to global mean sea level from the Filchner–Ronne basin, Antarctica10
The radiative and geometric properties of melting first-year landfast sea ice in the Arctic10
Calving front monitoring at a subseasonal resolution: a deep learning application for Greenland glaciers10
Evaluating L-band InSAR snow water equivalent retrievals with repeat ground-penetrating radar and terrestrial lidar surveys in northern Colorado10
Which global reanalysis dataset has better representativeness in snow cover on the Tibetan Plateau?10
Measuring prairie snow water equivalent with combined UAV-borne gamma spectrometry and lidar10
Mapping geodetically inferred Antarctic ice surface height changes into thickness changes: a sensitivity study10
Significant additional Antarctic warming in atmospheric bias-corrected ARPEGE projections with respect to control run10
Misidentified subglacial lake beneath the Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic: a new interpretation from seismic and electromagnetic data10
Increasing numerical stability of mountain valley glacier simulations: implementation and testing of free-surface stabilization in Elmer/Ice10
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