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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
A comparison between Envisat and ICESat sea ice thickness in the Southern Ocean237
The retrieval of snow properties from SLSTR Sentinel-3 – Part 1: Method description and sensitivity study82
Ground-penetrating radar imaging reveals glacier's drainage network in 3D77
Spectral induced polarization survey for the estimation of hydrogeological parameters in an active rock glacier63
Benchmarking of snow water equivalent (SWE) products based on outcomes of the SnowPEx+ Intercomparison Project59
Quantifying the uncertainty in the Eurasian ice-sheet geometry at the Penultimate Glacial Maximum (Marine Isotope Stage 6)56
Comparing elevation and backscatter retrievals from CryoSat-2 and ICESat-2 over Arctic summer sea ice54
Ice-shelf freshwater triggers for the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf melt tipping point in a global ocean–sea-ice model53
A model framework for atmosphere–snow water vapor exchange and the associated isotope effects at Dome Argus, Antarctica – Part 1: The diurnal changes48
Partial melting in polycrystalline ice: pathways identified in 3D neutron tomographic images47
Brief communication: Tritium concentration and age of firn accumulation in an ice cave of Mount Olympus (Greece)45
A seasonal algorithm of the snow-covered area fraction for mountainous terrain43
A lead-width distribution for Antarctic sea ice: a case study for the Weddell Sea with high-resolution Sentinel-2 images40
Sea ice reduction in the Barents–Kara Sea enhances June precipitation in the Yangtze River basin39
Seasonal land-ice-flow variability in the Antarctic Peninsula38
Responses of the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers to melt and sliding parameterizations38
Spatially heterogeneous effect of climate warming on the Arctic land ice36
Variability in Antarctic surface climatology across regional climate models and reanalysis datasets34
The role of föhn winds in eastern Antarctic Peninsula rapid ice shelf collapse34
Observing the evolution of summer melt on multiyear sea ice with ICESat-2 and Sentinel-232
Improving climate model skill over High Mountain Asia by adapting snow cover parameterization to complex-topography areas31
Modelling surface temperature and radiation budget of snow-covered complex terrain31
Brief communication: Monitoring active layer dynamics using a lightweight nimble ground-penetrating radar system – a laboratory analogue test case31
Mapping Antarctic crevasses and their evolution with deep learning applied to satellite radar imagery30
Extensive and anomalous grounding line retreat at Vanderford Glacier, Vincennes Bay, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica29
Evaluating Greenland surface-mass-balance and firn-densification data using ICESat-2 altimetry29
Impact of atmospheric forcing uncertainties on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice simulations in CMIP6 OMIP models28
Disentangling the drivers of future Antarctic ice loss with a historically calibrated ice-sheet model28
European heat waves 2022: contribution to extreme glacier melt in Switzerland inferred from automated ablation readings28
Automated mapping of the seasonal evolution of surface meltwater and its links to climate on the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica28
Widespread increase in discharge from west Antarctic Peninsula glaciers since 201827
Impact of the melt–albedo feedback on the future evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet with PISM-dEBM-simple27
Temporal markers in a temperate ice core: insights from 3H and 137Cs profiles from the Adamello Glacier27
Firn changes at Colle Gnifetti revealed with a high-resolution process-based physical model approach27
Brief communication: Recent estimates of glacier mass loss for western North America from laser altimetry26
Climatology and surface impacts of atmospheric rivers on West Antarctica26
GLAcier Feature Tracking testkit (GLAFT): a statistically and physically based framework for evaluating glacier velocity products derived from optical satellite image feature tracking26
Multilayer observation and estimation of the snowpack cold content in a humid boreal coniferous forest of eastern Canada26
A probabilistic framework for quantifying the role of anthropogenic climate change in marine-terminating glacier retreats26
Development of a subglacial lake monitored with radio-echo sounding: case study from the eastern Skaftá cauldron in the Vatnajökull ice cap, Iceland25
Impact of icebergs on the seasonal submarine melt of Sermeq Kujalleq25
Lake volume and potential hazards of moraine-dammed glacial lakes – a case study of Bienong Co, southeastern Tibetan Plateau25
Characteristics and rarity of the strong 1940s westerly wind event over the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica25
Sources of low-frequency variability in observed Antarctic sea ice24
The role of atmospheric conditions in the Antarctic sea ice extent summer minima24
The retrieval of snow properties from SLSTR Sentinel-3 – Part 2: Results and validation24
Mapping the extent of giant Antarctic icebergs with deep learning24
Grain-size evolution controls the accumulation dependence of modelled firn thickness23
Significant additional Antarctic warming in atmospheric bias-corrected ARPEGE projections with respect to control run23
Glacier–permafrost relations in a high-mountain environment: 5 decades of kinematic monitoring at the Gruben site, Swiss Alps23
Sensitivity of modeled snow grain size retrievals to solar geometry, snow particle asphericity, and snowpack impurities23
Suitability of the CICE sea ice model for seasonal prediction and positive impact of CryoSat-2 ice thickness initialization23
Filling and drainage of a subglacial lake beneath the Flade Isblink ice cap, northeast Greenland23
Radar sounding survey over Devon Ice Cap indicates the potential for a diverse hypersaline subglacial hydrological environment23
A comparison of supraglacial meltwater features throughout contrasting melt seasons: southwest Greenland22
Distributed surface mass balance of an avalanche-fed glacier22
The flexural strength of bonded ice22
The radiative and geometric properties of melting first-year landfast sea ice in the Arctic22
Brief communication: Storstrømmen Glacier, northeastern Greenland, primed for end-of-decade surge22
Arctic sea ice radar freeboard retrieval from the European Remote-Sensing Satellite (ERS-2) using altimetry: toward sea ice thickness observation from 1995 to 202122
Kara and Barents sea ice thickness estimation based on CryoSat-2 radar altimeter and Sentinel-1 dual-polarized synthetic aperture radar22
Local-scale variability of seasonal mean and extreme values of in situ snow depth and snowfall measurements22
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)21
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 excluded21
A framework for time-dependent ice sheet uncertainty quantification, applied to three West Antarctic ice streams21
Spaceborne thermal infrared observations of Arctic sea ice leads at 30 m resolution21
Reanalysis of the longest mass balance series in Himalaya using a nonlinear model: Chhota Shigri Glacier (India)21
An unseasonal atmospheric river drives anomalous summer snow accumulation on glaciers of the subtropical Andes21
Ice fabrics in two-dimensional flows: beyond pure and simple shear20
Controls of outbursts of moraine-dammed lakes in the greater Himalayan region20
Estimating degree-day factors of snow based on energy flux components20
Deep clustering in subglacial radar reflectance reveals subglacial lakes20
Mapping seasonal snow melting in Karakoram using SAR and topographic data20
Automated snow cover detection on mountain glaciers using spaceborne imagery and machine learning20
Satellite altimetry detection of ice-shelf-influenced fast ice19
First observations of sea ice flexural–gravity waves with ground-based radar interferometry in Utqiaġvik, Alaska19
Giant ice rings in southern Baikal: multi-satellite data help to study ice cover dynamics and eddies under ice19
Snow cover prediction in the Italian central Apennines using weather forecast and land surface numerical models19
Multi-decadal retreat of marine-terminating outlet glaciers in northwest and central-west Greenland19
Unlocking the potential of melting calorimetry: a field protocol for liquid water content measurement in snow19
Twentieth century global glacier mass change: an ensemble-based model reconstruction19
A quasi-one-dimensional ice mélange flow model based on continuum descriptions of granular materials19
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
Sensitivity of the Ross Ice Shelf to environmental and glaciological controls19
Sea ice thickness from air-coupled flexural waves19
Brief communication: An empirical relation between center frequency and measured thickness for radar sounding of temperate glaciers19
Topology and spatial-pressure-distribution reconstruction of an englacial channel19
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)19
An analysis of the interaction between surface and basal crevasses in ice shelves18
Brief communication: Rapid  ∼  335  ×  106 m3 bed erosion after detachment of the Sedongpu Glacier (Tibet)18
Modeling of surface energy balance for Icelandic glaciers using remote-sensing albedo18
Assessment of neutrons from secondary cosmic rays at mountain altitudes – Geant4 simulations of environmental parameters including soil moisture and snow cover18
Arctic glacier snowline altitudes rise 150 m over the last 4 decades18
Land- to lake-terminating transition triggers dynamic thinning of a Bhutanese glacier17
Polarimetric radar reveals the spatial distribution of ice fabric at domes and divides in East Antarctica17
Brief communication: The Glacier Loss Day as an indicator of a record-breaking negative glacier mass balance in 202217
A regionally resolved inventory of High Mountain Asia surge-type glaciers, derived from a multi-factor remote sensing approach17
MMSeaIce: a collection of techniques for improving sea ice mapping with a multi-task model17
SNICAR-ADv4: a physically based radiative transfer model to represent the spectral albedo of glacier ice17
Contribution of warm and moist atmospheric flow to a record minimum July sea ice extent of the Arctic in 202017
Brief communication: New perspectives on the skill of modelled sea ice trends in light of recent Antarctic sea ice loss17
Analyzing the sensitivity of a blowing snow model (SnowPappus) to precipitation forcing, blowing snow, and spatial resolution16
Reconstructing dynamics of the Baltic Ice Stream Complex during deglaciation of the Last Scandinavian Ice Sheet16
Quantifying the effects of background concentrations of crude oil pollution on sea ice albedo16
Mechanics and dynamics of pinning points on the Shirase Coast, West Antarctica16
Using deep learning and multi-source remote sensing images to map landlocked lakes in Antarctica16
Inland migration of near-surface crevasses in the Amundsen Sea Sector, West Antarctica16
Penetration of interferometric radar signals in Antarctic snow16
Snowmelt characterization from optical and synthetic-aperture radar observations in the La Joie Basin, British Columbia16
Dynamic crack propagation in weak snowpack layers: insights from high-resolution, high-speed photography16
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
Impact of atmospheric rivers on Arctic sea ice variations16
Data-driven surrogate modeling of high-resolution sea-ice thickness in the Arctic16
Reversal of ocean gyres near ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea caused by the interaction of sea ice and wind16
A Bayesian approach towards daily pan-Arctic sea ice freeboard estimates from combined CryoSat-2 and Sentinel-3 satellite observations16
Improved monitoring of subglacial lake activity in Greenland16
Evaporative controls on Antarctic precipitation: an ECHAM6 model study using innovative water tracer diagnostics16
Estimating the uncertainty of sea-ice area and sea-ice extent from satellite retrievals16
Modeling the Greenland englacial stratigraphy16
Brief communication: Rapid acceleration of the Brunt Ice Shelf after calving of iceberg A-8116
Spectral induced polarization imaging to investigate an ice-rich mountain permafrost site in Switzerland16
Wave erosion, frontal bending, and calving at Ross Ice Shelf16
Estimation of degree of sea ice ridging in the Bay of Bothnia based on geolocated photon heights from ICESat-216
Dual-frequency radar observations of snowmelt processes on Antarctic perennial sea ice by CFOSCAT and ASCAT15
Multi-decadal analysis of past winter temperature, precipitation and snow cover data in the European Alps from reanalyses, climate models and observational datasets15
Assimilating CryoSat-2 freeboard to improve Arctic sea ice thickness estimates15
An empirical algorithm to map perennial firn aquifers and ice slabs within the Greenland Ice Sheet using satellite L-band microwave radiometry15
Accumulation of legacy fallout radionuclides in cryoconite on Isfallsglaciären (Arctic Sweden) and their downstream spatial distribution15
Flexural and compressive strength of the landfast sea ice in the Prydz Bay, East Antarctic15
Implications of surface flooding on airborne estimates of snow depth on sea ice15
Modelling the evolution of Arctic multiyear sea ice over 2000–201815
Modelling snowpack on ice surfaces with the ORCHIDEE land surface model: application to the Greenland ice sheet15
Constraining regional glacier reconstructions using past ice thickness of deglaciating areas – a case study in the European Alps15
Semi-automated tracking of iceberg B43 using Sentinel-1 SAR images via Google Earth Engine15
Predicting ocean-induced ice-shelf melt rates using deep learning15
Simulating ice segregation and thaw consolidation in permafrost environments with the CryoGrid community model15
Characterizing tundra snow sub-pixel variability to improve brightness temperature estimation in satellite SWE retrievals15
Interannual variability in Transpolar Drift summer sea ice thickness and potential impact of Atlantification15
Feasibility of retrieving Arctic sea ice thickness from the Chinese HY-2B Ku-band radar altimeter15
Subglacial discharge effects on basal melting of a rotating, idealized ice shelf15
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 system14
On the sensitivity of sea ice deformation statistics to plastic damage14
Estimating instantaneous sea-ice dynamics from space using the bi-static radar measurements of Earth Explorer 10 candidate Harmony14
Impact of boundary conditions on the modeled thermal regime of the Antarctic ice sheet14
Assessment of the impact of dam reservoirs on river ice cover – an example from the Carpathians (central Europe)14
Monitoring Arctic thin ice: a comparison between CryoSat-2 SAR altimetry data and MODIS thermal-infrared imagery14
Detection of ice core particles via deep neural networks14
Sensitivity of the Greenland surface mass and energy balance to uncertainties in key model parameters14
Bathymetry-constrained impact of relative sea-level change on basal melting in Antarctica14
A study of sea ice topography in the Weddell and Ross seas using dual-polarimetric TanDEM-X imagery14
In situ 10Be modeling and terrain analysis constrain subglacial quarrying and abrasion rates at Sermeq Kujalleq (Jakobshavn Isbræ), Greenland14
Sublimation measurements of tundra and taiga snowpack in Alaska14
Quantifying frost-weathering-induced damage in alpine rocks14
Slowdown of Shirase Glacier, East Antarctica, caused by strengthening alongshore winds14
A cold laboratory hyperspectral imaging system to map grain size and ice layer distributions in firn cores14
The contribution of Humboldt Glacier, northern Greenland, to sea-level rise through 2100 constrained by recent observations of speedup and retreat14
Strong increase in thawing of subsea permafrost in the 22nd century caused by anthropogenic climate change14
Brief communication: Detection of glacier surge activity using cloud computing of Sentinel-1 radar data14
Modelling glacier mass balance and climate sensitivity in the context of sparse observations: application to Saskatchewan Glacier, western Canada14
What is the surface mass balance of Antarctica? An intercomparison of regional climate model estimates13
Greenland's firn responds more to warming than to cooling13
Surging of a Hudson Strait-scale ice stream: subglacial hydrology matters but the process details mostly do not13
Brief communication: Sea-level projections, adaptation planning, and actionable science13
Exploring ice sheet model sensitivity to ocean thermal forcing and basal sliding using the Community Ice Sheet Model (CISM)13
The AutoICE Challenge13
Assessment of Arctic seasonal snow cover rates of change13
Unravelling the sources of uncertainty in glacier runoff projections in the Patagonian Andes (40–56° S)13
Thaw-driven mass wasting couples slopes with downstream systems, and effects propagate through Arctic drainage networks13
Summer sea ice floe perimeter density in the Arctic: high-resolution optical satellite imagery and model evaluation13
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
Assessing the seasonal evolution of snow depth spatial variability and scaling in complex mountain terrain13
The collapse of the Cordilleran–Laurentide ice saddle and early opening of the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada, constrained by 10Be exposure dating13
Subglacial hydrology modulates basal sliding response of the Antarctic ice sheet to climate forcing13
Two-way coupling between ice flow and channelized subglacial drainage enhances modeled marine-ice-sheet retreat13
Resolving glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) in response to modern and future ice loss at marine grounding lines in West Antarctica13
Geometric controls of tidewater glacier dynamics13
Temporal variation of bacterial community and nutrients in Tibetan glacier snowpack13
Signature of the stratosphere–troposphere coupling on recent record-breaking Antarctic sea-ice anomalies13
Review article: Retrogressive thaw slump characteristics and terminology13
Seasonal snow–atmosphere modeling: let's do it13
Control of the temperature signal in Antarctic proxies by snowfall dynamics13
Extensive palaeo-surfaces beneath the Evans–Rutford region of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet control modern and past ice flow12
El Niño enhances snow-line rise and ice loss on the Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru12
A pilot study about microplastics and mesoplastics in an Antarctic glacier12
Assessing volumetric change distributions and scaling relations of retrogressive thaw slumps across the Arctic12
Drainage and refill of an Antarctic Peninsula subglacial lake reveal an active subglacial hydrological network12
Geothermal heat source estimations through ice flow modelling at Mýrdalsjökull, Iceland12
A collection of wet beam models for wave–ice interaction12
Empirical correction of systematic orthorectification error in Sentinel-2 velocity fields for Greenlandic outlet glaciers12
Observing glacier elevation changes from spaceborne optical and radar sensors – an inter-comparison experiment using ASTER and TanDEM-X data12
Snow stratigraphy observations from Operation IceBridge surveys in Alaska using S and C band airborne ultra-wideband FMCW (frequency-modulated continuous wave) radar12
The evolution of Arctic permafrost over the last 3 centuries from ensemble simulations with the CryoGridLite permafrost model12
Simulating the Holocene deglaciation across a marine-terminating portion of southwestern Greenland in response to marine and atmospheric forcings12
Incorporating InSAR kinematics into rock glacier inventories: insights from 11 regions worldwide12
Fifty years of firn evolution on Grigoriev ice cap, Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan12
A new state-dependent parameterization for the free drift of sea ice12
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
Twenty-first century global glacier evolution under CMIP6 scenarios and the role of glacier-specific observations12
Sentinel-1 detection of ice slabs on the Greenland Ice Sheet12
Contrasted geomorphological and limnological properties of thermokarst lakes formed in buried glacier ice and ice-wedge polygon terrain12
Arctic sea ice anomalies during the MOSAiC winter 2019/2012
Mapping and characterization of avalanches on mountain glaciers with Sentinel-1 satellite imagery12
Layered seawater intrusion and melt under grounded ice12
Snow water equivalent retrieval over Idaho – Part 2: Using L-band UAVSAR repeat-pass interferometry12
Influence of fast ice on future ice shelf melting in the Totten Glacier area, East Antarctica12
Wind conditions for snow cornice formation in a wind tunnel12
Brief communication: A framework to classify glaciers for water resource evaluation and management in the Southern Andes12
Feedback mechanisms controlling Antarctic glacial-cycle dynamics simulated with a coupled ice sheet–solid Earth model12
A topographically controlled tipping point for complete Greenland ice sheet melt12
Widespread slowdown in thinning rates of West Antarctic ice shelves12
Inverting ice surface elevation and velocity for bed topography and slipperiness beneath Thwaites Glacier11
Spatiotemporal snow water storage uncertainty in the midlatitude American Cordillera11
Greenland and Canadian Arctic ice temperature profiles database11
Ice plate deformation and cracking revealed by an in situ-distributed acoustic sensing array11
Characterization of non-Gaussianity in the snow distributions of various landscapes11
Assessing the key concerns in snow storage: a case study for China11
A computationally efficient statistically downscaled 100 m resolution Greenland product from the regional climate model MAR11
Direct measurement of warm Atlantic Intermediate Water close to the grounding line of Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden (79° N) Glacier, northeast Greenland11
Towards long-term records of rain-on-snow events across the Arctic from satellite data11
Brief communication: Increased glacier mass loss in the Russian High Arctic (2010–2017)11
Thermal infrared shadow-hiding in GOES-R ABI imagery: snow and forest temperature observations from the SnowEx 2020 Grand Mesa field campaign11
Wave-triggered breakup in the marginal ice zone generates lognormal floe size distributions: a simulation study11
Sensitivity of Antarctic surface climate to a new spectral snow albedo and radiative transfer scheme in RACMO2.3p311
Energetics of surface melt in West Antarctica11
Updated Arctic melt pond fraction dataset and trends 2002–2023 using ENVISAT and Sentinel-3 remote sensing data11
A probabilistic seabed–ice keel interaction model11
Grain growth of natural and synthetic ice at 0 °C11
Geometric amplification and suppression of ice-shelf basal melt in West Antarctica11
Out-of-the-box calving-front detection method using deep learning11
Cross-platform classification of level and deformed sea ice considering per-class incident angle dependency of backscatter intensity11
Glacial ring forms on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada11
On the evolution of an ice shelf melt channel at the base of Filchner Ice Shelf, from observations and viscoelastic modeling11
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
Everest South Col Glacier did not thin during the period 1984–201711
Characterization of in situ cosmogenic 14CO production, retention and loss in firn and shallow ice at Summit, Greenland11
Improving model-satellite comparisons of sea ice melt onset with a satellite simulator11
Thwaites Glacier thins and retreats fastest where ice-shelf channels intersect its grounding zone11
Brief communication: Identification of tundra topsoil frozen/thawed state from SMAP and GCOM-W1 radiometer measurements using the spectral gradient method11
A generalized stress correction scheme for the Maxwell elasto-brittle rheology: impact on the fracture angles and deformations11
Using Icepack to reproduce ice mass balance buoy observations in landfast ice: improvements from the mushy-layer thermodynamics11
Molecular biomarkers in Batagay megaslump permafrost deposits reveal clear differences in organic matter preservation between glacial and interglacial periods11
Modelling GNSS-observed seasonal velocity changes of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, using the Ice-sheet and Sea-level System Model (ISSM)11
Ice floe segmentation and floe size distribution in airborne and high-resolution optical satellite images: towards an automated labelling deep learning approach10
Ice roughness estimation via remotely piloted aircraft and photogrammetry10
Seasonal evolution of the sea ice floe size distribution in the Beaufort Sea from 2 decades of MODIS data10
Melt sensitivity of irreversible retreat of Pine Island Glacier10
Strong acceleration of glacier area loss in the Greater Caucasus between 2000 and 202010
Channelized, distributed, and disconnected: spatial structure and temporal evolution of the subglacial drainage under a valley glacier in the Yukon10
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