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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
A comparison between Envisat and ICESat sea ice thickness in the Southern Ocean258
Ground-penetrating radar imaging reveals glacier's drainage network in 3D87
Quantifying the uncertainty in the Eurasian ice-sheet geometry at the Penultimate Glacial Maximum (Marine Isotope Stage 6)80
Comparing elevation and backscatter retrievals from CryoSat-2 and ICESat-2 over Arctic summer sea ice62
Ice-shelf freshwater triggers for the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf melt tipping point in a global ocean–sea-ice model59
A model framework for atmosphere–snow water vapor exchange and the associated isotope effects at Dome Argus, Antarctica – Part 1: The diurnal changes56
Partial melting in polycrystalline ice: pathways identified in 3D neutron tomographic images48
A seasonal algorithm of the snow-covered area fraction for mountainous terrain47
A lead-width distribution for Antarctic sea ice: a case study for the Weddell Sea with high-resolution Sentinel-2 images46
Variability in Antarctic surface climatology across regional climate models and reanalysis datasets42
Spectral induced polarization survey for the estimation of hydrogeological parameters in an active rock glacier42
Spatially heterogeneous effect of climate warming on the Arctic land ice41
Sea ice reduction in the Barents–Kara Sea enhances June precipitation in the Yangtze River basin38
Benchmarking of snow water equivalent (SWE) products based on outcomes of the SnowPEx+ Intercomparison Project36
Brief communication: Tritium concentration and age of firn accumulation in an ice cave of Mount Olympus (Greece)34
Seasonal land-ice-flow variability in the Antarctic Peninsula33
Automated mapping of the seasonal evolution of surface meltwater and its links to climate on the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica33
Responses of the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers to melt and sliding parameterizations32
Observing the evolution of summer melt on multiyear sea ice with ICESat-2 and Sentinel-232
The role of föhn winds in eastern Antarctic Peninsula rapid ice shelf collapse32
Improving climate model skill over High Mountain Asia by adapting snow cover parameterization to complex-topography areas31
Disentangling the drivers of future Antarctic ice loss with a historically calibrated ice-sheet model31
Extensive and anomalous grounding line retreat at Vanderford Glacier, Vincennes Bay, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica31
Mapping Antarctic crevasses and their evolution with deep learning applied to satellite radar imagery31
Impact of atmospheric forcing uncertainties on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice simulations in CMIP6 OMIP models30
Modelling surface temperature and radiation budget of snow-covered complex terrain30
Mechanisms and impacts of anomalous high-salinity shelf water formation in the Ross Sea30
European heat waves 2022: contribution to extreme glacier melt in Switzerland inferred from automated ablation readings29
Brief communication: Monitoring active layer dynamics using a lightweight nimble ground-penetrating radar system – a laboratory analogue test case29
Evaluating Greenland surface-mass-balance and firn-densification data using ICESat-2 altimetry28
Widespread increase in discharge from west Antarctic Peninsula glaciers since 201828
GLAcier Feature Tracking testkit (GLAFT): a statistically and physically based framework for evaluating glacier velocity products derived from optical satellite image feature tracking27
Multilayer observation and estimation of the snowpack cold content in a humid boreal coniferous forest of eastern Canada27
Impact of icebergs on the seasonal submarine melt of Sermeq Kujalleq26
A probabilistic framework for quantifying the role of anthropogenic climate change in marine-terminating glacier retreats26
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 excluded26
Arctic sea ice radar freeboard retrieval from the European Remote-Sensing Satellite (ERS-2) using altimetry: toward sea ice thickness observation from 1995 to 202126
Impact of the melt–albedo feedback on the future evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet with PISM-dEBM-simple26
The role of atmospheric conditions in the Antarctic sea ice extent summer minima25
Characteristics and rarity of the strong 1940s westerly wind event over the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica25
Sensitivity of modeled snow grain size retrievals to solar geometry, snow particle asphericity, and snowpack impurities25
Mapping the extent of giant Antarctic icebergs with deep learning25
Significant additional Antarctic warming in atmospheric bias-corrected ARPEGE projections with respect to control run25
Sources of low-frequency variability in observed Antarctic sea ice25
The radiative and geometric properties of melting first-year landfast sea ice in the Arctic24
Grain-size evolution controls the accumulation dependence of modelled firn thickness24
Kara and Barents sea ice thickness estimation based on CryoSat-2 radar altimeter and Sentinel-1 dual-polarized synthetic aperture radar24
A comparison of supraglacial meltwater features throughout contrasting melt seasons: southwest Greenland24
Suitability of the CICE sea ice model for seasonal prediction and positive impact of CryoSat-2 ice thickness initialization24
Development of a subglacial lake monitored with radio-echo sounding: case study from the eastern Skaftá cauldron in the Vatnajökull ice cap, Iceland23
Brief communication: Storstrømmen Glacier, northeastern Greenland, primed for end-of-decade surge23
Local-scale variability of seasonal mean and extreme values of in situ snow depth and snowfall measurements23
An unseasonal atmospheric river drives anomalous summer snow accumulation on glaciers of the subtropical Andes23
Distributed surface mass balance of an avalanche-fed glacier23
Glacier–permafrost relations in a high-mountain environment: 5 decades of kinematic monitoring at the Gruben site, Swiss Alps23
Filling and drainage of a subglacial lake beneath the Flade Isblink ice cap, northeast Greenland22
Radar sounding survey over Devon Ice Cap indicates the potential for a diverse hypersaline subglacial hydrological environment22
Climatology and surface impacts of atmospheric rivers on West Antarctica22
Temporal markers in a temperate ice core: insights from 3H and 137Cs profiles from the Adamello Glacier22
Mapping seasonal snow melting in Karakoram using SAR and topographic data22
Brief communication: Recent estimates of glacier mass loss for western North America from laser altimetry22
Lake volume and potential hazards of moraine-dammed glacial lakes – a case study of Bienong Co, southeastern Tibetan Plateau22
Reanalysis of the longest mass balance series in Himalaya using a nonlinear model: Chhota Shigri Glacier (India)22
Spaceborne thermal infrared observations of Arctic sea ice leads at 30 m resolution22
A quasi-one-dimensional ice mélange flow model based on continuum descriptions of granular materials21
Deep clustering in subglacial radar reflectance reveals subglacial lakes21
Automated snow cover detection on mountain glaciers using spaceborne imagery and machine learning21
Evaluation of the Snow Climate Change Initiative (Snow CCI) snow-covered area product within a mountain snow water equivalent reanalysis21
Snow cover prediction in the Italian central Apennines using weather forecast and land surface numerical models21
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 glaciers21
First observations of sea ice flexural–gravity waves with ground-based radar interferometry in Utqiaġvik, Alaska20
Satellite altimetry detection of ice-shelf-influenced fast ice20
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)20
Topology and spatial-pressure-distribution reconstruction of an englacial channel20
Sensitivity of the Ross Ice Shelf to environmental and glaciological controls20
Unlocking the potential of melting calorimetry: a field protocol for liquid water content measurement in snow20
Multi-decadal retreat of marine-terminating outlet glaciers in northwest and central-west Greenland20
Brief communication: Rapid  ∼  335  ×  106 m3 bed erosion after detachment of the Sedongpu Glacier (Tibet)19
An analysis of the interaction between surface and basal crevasses in ice shelves19
A framework for time-dependent ice sheet uncertainty quantification, applied to three West Antarctic ice streams19
Modeling of surface energy balance for Icelandic glaciers using remote-sensing albedo19
Assessment of neutrons from secondary cosmic rays at mountain altitudes – Geant4 simulations of environmental parameters including soil moisture and snow cover19
Review article: Feature tracing in radio-echo sounding products of terrestrial ice sheets and planetary bodies19
Giant ice rings in southern Baikal: multi-satellite data help to study ice cover dynamics and eddies under ice19
Ice fabrics in two-dimensional flows: beyond pure and simple shear19
A regionally resolved inventory of High Mountain Asia surge-type glaciers, derived from a multi-factor remote sensing approach19
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
Estimating degree-day factors of snow based on energy flux components18
Controls of outbursts of moraine-dammed lakes in the greater Himalayan region18
Arctic glacier snowline altitudes rise 150 m over the last 4 decades18
Development and fluctuation of crystal orientation fabric in the deep sections of the Dome Fuji ice core, Antarctica: impacts of dust particles and migration recrystallization18
Polarimetric radar reveals the spatial distribution of ice fabric at domes and divides in East Antarctica18
Contribution of warm and moist atmospheric flow to a record minimum July sea ice extent of the Arctic in 202018
Brief communication: The Glacier Loss Day as an indicator of a record-breaking negative glacier mass balance in 202218
Land- to lake-terminating transition triggers dynamic thinning of a Bhutanese glacier18
Brief communication: New perspectives on the skill of modelled sea ice trends in light of recent Antarctic sea ice loss18
Using deep learning and multi-source remote sensing images to map landlocked lakes in Antarctica17
MMSeaIce: a collection of techniques for improving sea ice mapping with a multi-task model17
Reconstructing dynamics of the Baltic Ice Stream Complex during deglaciation of the Last Scandinavian Ice Sheet17
Reversal of ocean gyres near ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea caused by the interaction of sea ice and wind17
SNICAR-ADv4: a physically based radiative transfer model to represent the spectral albedo of glacier ice17
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 core17
Evaporative controls on Antarctic precipitation: an ECHAM6 model study using innovative water tracer diagnostics17
Analyzing the sensitivity of a blowing snow model (SnowPappus) to precipitation forcing, blowing snow, and spatial resolution17
Quantifying the effects of background concentrations of crude oil pollution on sea ice albedo17
Estimating the uncertainty of sea-ice area and sea-ice extent from satellite retrievals17
Assimilating CryoSat-2 freeboard to improve Arctic sea ice thickness estimates16
Feasibility of retrieving Arctic sea ice thickness from the Chinese HY-2B Ku-band radar altimeter16
Impact of atmospheric rivers on Arctic sea ice variations16
Semi-automated tracking of iceberg B43 using Sentinel-1 SAR images via Google Earth Engine16
Modelling the evolution of Arctic multiyear sea ice over 2000–201816
Spectral induced polarization imaging to investigate an ice-rich mountain permafrost site in Switzerland16
Subglacial discharge effects on basal melting of a rotating, idealized ice shelf16
Inland migration of near-surface crevasses in the Amundsen Sea Sector, West Antarctica16
Improved monitoring of subglacial lake activity in Greenland16
Wave erosion, frontal bending, and calving at Ross Ice Shelf16
Modelling snowpack on ice surfaces with the ORCHIDEE land surface model: application to the Greenland ice sheet16
Data-driven surrogate modeling of high-resolution sea-ice thickness in the Arctic16
Multi-decadal analysis of past winter temperature, precipitation and snow cover data in the European Alps from reanalyses, climate models and observational datasets16
Accumulation of legacy fallout radionuclides in cryoconite on Isfallsglaciären (Arctic Sweden) and their downstream spatial distribution16
Characterizing tundra snow sub-pixel variability to improve brightness temperature estimation in satellite SWE retrievals16
Modeling the Greenland englacial stratigraphy16
Penetration of interferometric radar signals in Antarctic snow16
Constraining regional glacier reconstructions using past ice thickness of deglaciating areas – a case study in the European Alps16
An empirical algorithm to map perennial firn aquifers and ice slabs within the Greenland Ice Sheet using satellite L-band microwave radiometry16
Brief communication: Rapid acceleration of the Brunt Ice Shelf after calving of iceberg A-8116
Snowmelt characterization from optical and synthetic-aperture radar observations in the La Joie Basin, British Columbia16
Modelling glacier mass balance and climate sensitivity in the context of sparse observations: application to Saskatchewan Glacier, western Canada15
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
A cold laboratory hyperspectral imaging system to map grain size and ice layer distributions in firn cores15
Resolving glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) in response to modern and future ice loss at marine grounding lines in West Antarctica15
Flexural and compressive strength of the landfast sea ice in the Prydz Bay, East Antarctic15
Predicting ocean-induced ice-shelf melt rates using deep learning15
A study of sea ice topography in the Weddell and Ross seas using dual-polarimetric TanDEM-X imagery15
Detection of ice core particles via deep neural networks15
Bathymetry-constrained impact of relative sea-level change on basal melting in Antarctica15
Dual-frequency radar observations of snowmelt processes on Antarctic perennial sea ice by CFOSCAT and ASCAT15
Slowdown of Shirase Glacier, East Antarctica, caused by strengthening alongshore winds15
Monitoring Arctic thin ice: a comparison between CryoSat-2 SAR altimetry data and MODIS thermal-infrared imagery14
Brief communication: Detection of glacier surge activity using cloud computing of Sentinel-1 radar data14
Strong increase in thawing of subsea permafrost in the 22nd century caused by anthropogenic climate change14
Simulating ice segregation and thaw consolidation in permafrost environments with the CryoGrid community model14
What is the surface mass balance of Antarctica? An intercomparison of regional climate model estimates14
Two-way coupling between ice flow and channelized subglacial drainage enhances modeled marine-ice-sheet retreat14
In situ 10Be modeling and terrain analysis constrain subglacial quarrying and abrasion rates at Sermeq Kujalleq (Jakobshavn Isbræ), Greenland14
Unravelling the sources of uncertainty in glacier runoff projections in the Patagonian Andes (40–56° S)14
Assessing the seasonal evolution of snow depth spatial variability and scaling in complex mountain terrain14
Sublimation measurements of tundra and taiga snowpack in Alaska14
Brief communication: Sea-level projections, adaptation planning, and actionable science14
Automated ArcticDEM iceberg detection tool: insights into area and volume distributions, and their potential application to satellite imagery and modelling of glacier–iceberg–ocean systems14
The contribution of Humboldt Glacier, northern Greenland, to sea-level rise through 2100 constrained by recent observations of speedup and retreat14
Quantifying frost-weathering-induced damage in alpine rocks14
Assessment of the impact of dam reservoirs on river ice cover – an example from the Carpathians (central Europe)14
Viscoelastic mechanics of tidally induced lake drainage in the grounding zone14
Review article: Retrogressive thaw slump characteristics and terminology14
Greenland's firn responds more to warming than to cooling14
Impact of boundary conditions on the modeled thermal regime of the Antarctic ice sheet14
Fine-scale variability in iceberg velocity fields and implications for an ice-associated pinniped13
El Niño enhances snow-line rise and ice loss on the Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru13
Exploring ice sheet model sensitivity to ocean thermal forcing and basal sliding using the Community Ice Sheet Model (CISM)13
Simulating the Holocene deglaciation across a marine-terminating portion of southwestern Greenland in response to marine and atmospheric forcings13
Mapping and characterization of avalanches on mountain glaciers with Sentinel-1 satellite imagery13
Snow stratigraphy observations from Operation IceBridge surveys in Alaska using S and C band airborne ultra-wideband FMCW (frequency-modulated continuous wave) radar13
Subglacial hydrology modulates basal sliding response of the Antarctic ice sheet to climate forcing13
Observing glacier elevation changes from spaceborne optical and radar sensors – an inter-comparison experiment using ASTER and TanDEM-X data13
Arctic sea ice anomalies during the MOSAiC winter 2019/2013
Summer sea ice floe perimeter density in the Arctic: high-resolution optical satellite imagery and model evaluation13
A topographically controlled tipping point for complete Greenland ice sheet melt13
Layered seawater intrusion and melt under grounded ice13
Twenty-first century global glacier evolution under CMIP6 scenarios and the role of glacier-specific observations13
Fifty years of firn evolution on Grigoriev ice cap, Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan13
Brief communication: Identification of tundra topsoil frozen/thawed state from SMAP and GCOM-W1 radiometer measurements using the spectral gradient method12
Inverting ice surface elevation and velocity for bed topography and slipperiness beneath Thwaites Glacier12
Seasonal snow–atmosphere modeling: let's do it12
Temporal variation of bacterial community and nutrients in Tibetan glacier snowpack12
Geometric controls of tidewater glacier dynamics12
A collection of wet beam models for wave–ice interaction12
Control of the temperature signal in Antarctic proxies by snowfall dynamics12
Snow water equivalent retrieval over Idaho – Part 2: Using L-band UAVSAR repeat-pass interferometry12
Brief communication: A framework to classify glaciers for water resource evaluation and management in the Southern Andes12
Empirical correction of systematic orthorectification error in Sentinel-2 velocity fields for Greenlandic outlet glaciers12
Incorporating InSAR kinematics into rock glacier inventories: insights from 11 regions worldwide12
Sensitivity of Antarctic surface climate to a new spectral snow albedo and radiative transfer scheme in RACMO2.3p312
Thermal infrared shadow-hiding in GOES-R ABI imagery: snow and forest temperature observations from the SnowEx 2020 Grand Mesa field campaign12
Modelling GNSS-observed seasonal velocity changes of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, using the Ice-sheet and Sea-level System Model (ISSM)12
Influence of fast ice on future ice shelf melting in the Totten Glacier area, East Antarctica12
Widespread slowdown in thinning rates of West Antarctic ice shelves12
Sentinel-1 detection of ice slabs on the Greenland Ice Sheet12
Extensive palaeo-surfaces beneath the Evans–Rutford region of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet control modern and past ice flow12
Assessment of Arctic seasonal snow cover rates of change12
Contrasted geomorphological and limnological properties of thermokarst lakes formed in buried glacier ice and ice-wedge polygon terrain12
The collapse of the Cordilleran–Laurentide ice saddle and early opening of the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada, constrained by 10Be exposure dating12
Drainage and refill of an Antarctic Peninsula subglacial lake reveal an active subglacial hydrological network12
Ice plate deformation and cracking revealed by an in situ-distributed acoustic sensing array12
A generalized stress correction scheme for the Maxwell elasto-brittle rheology: impact on the fracture angles and deformations12
Wave-triggered breakup in the marginal ice zone generates lognormal floe size distributions: a simulation study12
Towards long-term records of rain-on-snow events across the Arctic from satellite data12
Glacial ring forms on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada12
On the evolution of an ice shelf melt channel at the base of Filchner Ice Shelf, from observations and viscoelastic modeling12
The evolution of Arctic permafrost over the last 3 centuries from ensemble simulations with the CryoGridLite permafrost model12
Assessing volumetric change distributions and scaling relations of retrogressive thaw slumps across the Arctic12
The AutoICE Challenge12
Surging of a Hudson Strait-scale ice stream: subglacial hydrology matters but the process details mostly do not12
Feedback mechanisms controlling Antarctic glacial-cycle dynamics simulated with a coupled ice sheet–solid Earth model12
Signature of the stratosphere–troposphere coupling on recent record-breaking Antarctic sea-ice anomalies12
First results of the polar regional climate model RACMO2.412
Recent observations of superimposed ice and snow ice on sea ice in the northwestern Weddell Sea12
Wind conditions for snow cornice formation in a wind tunnel12
Everest South Col Glacier did not thin during the period 1984–201712
Updated Arctic melt pond fraction dataset and trends 2002–2023 using ENVISAT and Sentinel-3 remote sensing data11
Brief communication: Increased glacier mass loss in the Russian High Arctic (2010–2017)11
Using Icepack to reproduce ice mass balance buoy observations in landfast ice: improvements from the mushy-layer thermodynamics11
Greenland and Canadian Arctic ice temperature profiles database11
A new state-dependent parameterization for the free drift of sea ice11
Improving model-satellite comparisons of sea ice melt onset with a satellite simulator11
A probabilistic seabed–ice keel interaction model11
Thwaites Glacier thins and retreats fastest where ice-shelf channels intersect its grounding zone11
Predictability of Arctic sea ice drift in coupled climate models11
Characterization of in situ cosmogenic 14CO production, retention and loss in firn and shallow ice at Summit, Greenland11
Geometric amplification and suppression of ice-shelf basal melt in West Antarctica11
Development of crystal orientation fabric in the Dome Fuji ice core in East Antarctica: implications for the deformation regime in ice sheets11
Evidence of active subglacial lakes under a slowly moving coastal region of the Antarctic Ice Sheet11
Assessing the key concerns in snow storage: a case study for China11
Sea ice melt pond bathymetry reconstructed from aerial photographs using photogrammetry: a new method applied to MOSAiC data11
Progress of the RADIX (Rapid Access Drilling and Ice eXtraction) fast-access drilling system11
Satellite data reveal details of glacial isostatic adjustment in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica11
Evaluation of six geothermal heat flux maps for the Antarctic Lambert–Amery glacial system11
Probabilistic spatiotemporal seasonal sea ice presence forecasting using sequence-to-sequence learning and ERA5 data in the Hudson Bay region11
Geothermal heat source estimations through ice flow modelling at Mýrdalsjökull, Iceland11
Molecular biomarkers in Batagay megaslump permafrost deposits reveal clear differences in organic matter preservation between glacial and interglacial periods11
Spatiotemporal snow water storage uncertainty in the midlatitude American Cordillera11
Cross-platform classification of level and deformed sea ice considering per-class incident angle dependency of backscatter intensity11
Direct measurement of warm Atlantic Intermediate Water close to the grounding line of Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden (79° N) Glacier, northeast Greenland11
Characterization of non-Gaussianity in the snow distributions of various landscapes11
Out-of-the-box calving-front detection method using deep learning11
Long-term development of a perennial firn aquifer on the Lomonosovfonna ice cap, Svalbard11
GBaTSv2: a revised synthesis of the likely basal thermal state of the Greenland Ice Sheet10
Improved estimation of the bulk ice crystal fabric asymmetry from polarimetric phase co-registration10
Basal melt of the southern Filchner Ice Shelf, Antarctica10
Antarctic snow-covered sea ice topography derivation from TanDEM-X using polarimetric SAR interferometry10
Spatial characterization of near-surface structure and meltwater runoff conditions across the Devon Ice Cap from dual-frequency radar reflectivity10
Globally consistent estimates of high-resolution Antarctic ice mass balance and spatially resolved glacial isostatic adjustment10
Using specularity content to evaluate eight geothermal heat flow maps of Totten Glacier10
Formation of glacier tables caused by differential ice melting: field observation and modelling10
Passive microwave remote-sensing-based high-resolution snow depth mapping for Western Himalayan zones using multifactor modeling approach10
Insights into the vulnerability of Antarctic glaciers from the ISMIP6 ice sheet model ensemble and associated uncertainty10
Channelized, distributed, and disconnected: spatial structure and temporal evolution of the subglacial drainage under a valley glacier in the Yukon10
Mapping liquid water content in snow at the millimeter scale: an intercomparison of mixed-phase optical property models using hyperspectral imaging and in situ measurements10
Lake ice break-up in Greenland: timing and spatiotemporal variability10
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