OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Glaciology is 5. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
JOG volume 68 issue 267 Cover and Front matter	40
Siliceous subglacial deposits: archives of subglacial processes during the Last Glacial Maximum	33
Satellite-derived dry-snow line as an indicator of the local climate on the Antarctic Peninsula	31
Sixty years of ice form and flow at Camp Century, Greenland	29
Evolution of sub-ice-shelf channels reveals changes in ocean-driven melt in West Antarctica	27
Prefacing unexplored archives from Central Andean surface-to-bedrock ice cores through a multifaceted investigation of regional firn and ice core glaciochemistry	27
The vertical atmospheric structure of the partially glacierised Mittivakkat valley, southeast Greenland	25
On the nonlinear viscosity of the orthotropic bulk rheology	24
Using ground-based thermal imagery to estimate debris thickness over glacial ice: fieldwork considerations to improve the effectiveness	23
Dynamic models for impact-initiated stress waves through snow columns	21
What can radar-based measures of subglacial hydrology tell us about basal shear stress? A case study at Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica	19
The last years of Infiernos Glacier and its transition to a new paraglacial stage	19
Subglacial cavity collapses on Swiss glaciers: spatio-temporal distribution and mass loss contribution	19
Empirical glacier mass-balance models for South America	18
Radiometric analysis of digitized Z-scope records in archival radar sounding film	18
Density matters: ice compressibility and glacier mass estimation	18
Comparison of MODIS surface temperatures to in situ measurements on the Greenland Ice Sheet from 2014 to 2017	18
Automated prediction of wet-snow avalanche activity in the Swiss Alps	18
Millennial-scale migration of the frozen/melted basal boundary, western Greenland ice sheet	17
Challenges in modeling the energy balance and melt in the percolation zone of the Greenland ice sheet	16
A comparison between three-dimensional, transient, thermomechanically coupled first-order and Stokes ice flow models	16
Formation and persistence of glaciovolcanic voids explored with analytical and numerical models	16
Inferred basal friction and mass flux affected by crystal-orientation fabrics	15
Water blister geomorphology and subglacial drainage sediments: an example from the bed of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet in SW Finland	15
Modelling the influence of marine ice on the dynamics of an idealised ice shelf	14

An inventory of Norway's glaciers and ice-marginal lakes from 2018–19 Sentinel-2 data	14
Polar ice core organic matter signatures reveal past atmospheric carbon composition and spatial trends across ancient and modern timescales	14
Effects of calving and submarine melting on steady states and stability of buttressed marine ice sheets	14
Glacier-wide seasonal and annual geodetic mass balances from Pléiades stereo images: application to the Glacier d'Argentière, French Alps	13
Measurement of unsaturated meltwater percolation flux in seasonal snowpack using self-potential	13
Distribution and isotopic compositions of n-alkanes and n-alkenes in the cryoconites from the Tibetan Plateau glaciers	13
Revisiting mechanics of ice–skate friction: from experiments at a skating rink to a unified hypothesis	13
Observing glacier dynamics with low-cost, multi-GNSS positioning in Victoria Land, Antarctica	13
DASSO: a data assimilation system for the Southern Ocean that utilizes both sea-ice concentration and thickness observations	13
Modeling the impacts of climate change on mass balance and discharge of Eklutna Glacier, Alaska, 1985–2019	13
Direct measurement of optical properties of glacier ice using a photon-counting diffuse LiDAR	13
Drag forces at the ice-sheet bed and resistance of hard-rock obstacles: the physics of glacial ripping	13
Observations and simulations of new snow density in the drifting snow-dominated environment of Antarctica	12
Enigmatic surface rolls of the Ellesmere Ice Shelf	12
Controls on calving at a large Greenland tidewater glacier: stress regime, self-organised criticality and the crevasse-depth calving law	11
Classifying disequilibrium of small mountain glaciers from patterns of surface elevation change distributions	11
JOG volume 69 issue 273 Cover and Front matter	11
Modeling spatially distributed snow instability at a regional scale using Alpine3D	11
A comparison of contemporaneous airborne altimetry and ice-thickness measurements of Antarctic ice shelves	11
JOG volume 68 issue 271 Cover and Front matter	11
Characteristics of dynamic thickness change across diverse outlet glacier geometries and basal conditions	11
The stepwise decrease of 4+ year ice extent and its linked survivability since around 2007	10
Potential threats of glacial lake changes to the Sichuan-Tibet Railway	10
Step-change in supraglacial pond area on Tshojo Glacier, Bhutan, and potential downstream inundation patterns due to pond drainage events	10
Origin of englacial stratigraphy at three deep ice core sites of the Greenland Ice Sheet by synthetic radar modelling	10
Effect of high-pressure sintering on snow density evolution. Part I: experiments and results – CORRIGENDUM	10
JOG volume 68 issue 272 Cover and Front matter	10
Weak form Shallow Ice Approximation models with an improved time step restriction	10
Dynamics throughout a complete surge of Iceberg Glacier on western Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian High Arctic	10
Simulating the processes controlling ice-shelf rift paths using damage mechanics	9
Melting temperature changes during slip across subglacial cavities drive basal mass exchange	9
Glacier mass change on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, from 2000 to 2016	9
Amundsen Sea Embayment ice-sheet mass-loss predictions to 2050 calibrated using observations of velocity and elevation change	9
Tracking glacier surge evolution using interferometric SAR coherence—examples from Svalbard	9
Sub-kilometre scale distribution of snow depth on Arctic sea ice from Soviet drifting stations	9
Expansion of supraglacial lake area, volume and extent on the Greenland ice sheet from 1985 to 2023	9
Constraining ice slab thickness at the onset of visible surface runoff from the Greenland ice sheet	9
Snapshot and time-dependent inversions of basal sliding using automatic generation of adjoint code on graphics processing units	9
A new model of dry firn-densification constrained by continuous strain measurements near South Pole	9
Calving, ice flow, and thickness of outlet glaciers controlled by land-fast sea ice in Lützow-Holm Bay, East Antarctica	8
‘Stable’ and ‘unstable’ are not useful descriptions of marine ice sheets in the Earth's climate system	8
Area, volume and ELA changes of West Greenland local glaciers and ice caps from 1985–2020	8
JOG volume 69 issue 278 Cover and Back matter	8
Equilibrium line altitudes, accumulation areas and the vulnerability of glaciers in Alaska	8
Supraglacial lake evolution and its drivers in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica	8
Glacier fragmentation on the Southern Patagonian Icefield: a comprehensive analysis of the Upsala Glacier	8
Applying a distributed mass-balance model to identify uncertainties in glaciological mass balance on Brewster Glacier, New Zealand	8
Performance analysis of high-resolution ice-sheet simulations	8
Model insights into bed control on retreat of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica	8
A novel laser melting sampler for discrete, sub-centimeter depth-resolved analyses of stable water isotopes in ice cores	8

Development of a drone-based ground-penetrating radar system for efficient and safe 3D and 4D surveying of alpine glaciers	8
Observing tidal effects on the dynamics of the Ekström Ice Shelf with focus on quarterdiurnal and terdiurnal periods	8
Quantified mass loss of the Laohugou ice core and its precipitation signal during 1961–2005 at high elevation in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau	8
Deformation motion tracks sliding changes through summer, western Greenland	7
Helheim Glacier diurnal velocity fluctuations driven by surface melt forcing	7
Antarctic ice-shelf meltwater outflows in satellite radar imagery: ground-truthing and basal channel observations	7
Greenland ice-sheet wide glacier classification based on two distinct seasonal ice velocity behaviors	7
Large-ensemble climate simulations to assess changes in snow stability over northern Japan	7
Distribution and Morphometry of Large Supraglacial Channels on Five Antarctic Ice Shelves	7
Increasing rate of 21st century volume loss of the Patagonian Icefields measured from proglacial river discharge	7
Seasonal changes in submarine melting mechanisms controlling frontal ablation of Hansbreen, Svalbard	7
Progression of the surge in the Negribreen Glacier System from two years of ICESat-2 measurements	7
MODIS land surface temperature in East Antarctica: accuracy and its main affecting factors	7
Mechanics of densely packed snow across scales: A constitutive modeling strategy based on the 3D H-Model	7
Exploring canyons beneath Devon Ice Cap for sub-glacial drainage using radar and thermodynamic modeling	7
Retreat and Frontal Ablation Rates for Alaska’s Lake-Terminating Glaciers: Investigating Potential Physical Controls with Implications for Future Stability	7
Geothermal heat flux of Ridge B region in Antarctica inferred from basal dry–wet distribution	7
Surface meltwater drainage and ponding on Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, 1973–2019	7
Recent change in surface mass-balance trends of glaciers on James Ross Island, north-eastern Antarctic Peninsula	6
Near-surface seismic anisotropy in Antarctic glacial snow and ice revealed by high-frequency ambient noise	6
Inversion of a Stokes glacier flow model emulated by deep learning	6
Historical occurrence of Antarctic icebergs within mercantile shipping routes and the exceptional events of the 1890s	6
Lake ice deformation on Khovsgol Lake from Sentinel data before, during and after the 2021 Mw 6.7 earthquake in Turt, Mongolia	6
Hydrologic modeling of a perennial firn aquifer in southeast Greenland	6
Thin ice, deep snow and surface flooding in Kotzebue Sound: landfast ice mass balance during two anomalously warm winters and implications for marine mammals and subsistence hunting	6
Microstructures in a shear margin: Jarvis Glacier, Alaska	6
Observed meltwater-induced flexure and fracture at a doline on George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctica	6
Bayesian parameter estimation in glacier mass-balance modelling using observations with distinct temporal resolutions and uncertainties	6
JOG volume 68 issue 270 Cover and Front matter	6
Ice volume and thickness of all Scandinavian glaciers and ice caps	6
Inferring time-dependent calving dynamics at Helheim Glacier	6
A shallow approximation for ice streams sliding over strong beds	6
In situ, broadband measurement of the radio frequency attenuation length at Summit Station, Greenland	6
GNSS reflectometry from low-cost sensors for continuous in situ contemporaneous glacier mass balance and flux divergence	6
Application of a simple model for ice growth to the Lake St. Moritz, Switzerland	6
Beyond glacier-wide mass balances: parsing seasonal elevation change into spatially resolved patterns of accumulation and ablation at Wolverine Glacier, Alaska	6
Positive degree-day sums in the Alps: a direct link between glacier melt and international climate policy	6
Detection of crevassed areas with minimum geometric information: Vernagtferner case study	6
Basal debris of the NEEM ice core, Greenland: a window into sub-ice-sheet geology, basal ice processes and ice-sheet oscillations	6
The sensitivity of parameterization schemes in thermodynamic modeling of the landfast sea ice in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica	6
JOG volume 69 issue 275 Cover and Front matter	6
JOG volume 68 issue 271 Cover and Back matter	6
Validity of the wave stationarity assumption on estimates of wave attenuation in sea ice: toward a method for wave–ice attenuation observations at global scales	6
Estimating Marine Ice Thickness Beneath the Amery Ice Shelf from Airborne Radio-Echo Sounding	6
Improved processing methods for eddy covariance measurements in calculating sensible heat fluxes at glacier surfaces	5
FirnLearn: A Neural-Network-based approach to Firn Density Modeling in Antarctica	5
Improvements on the discretisation of boundary conditions to the momentum balance for glacial ice	5
Glacier speed-up as a possible precursor to volcanic eruptions at Mount Veniaminof, Alaska	5
Morphological diversity of microalgae and Cyanobacteria of cryoconite holes in Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica	5
Modelled frontal ablation and velocities at Kronebreen, Svalbard, are sensitive to the choice of submarine melt rate scenario	5
JOG volume 67 issue 266 Cover and Front matter	5
Numerical modelling of dense snow avalanches with a well-balanced scheme based on the 2D shallow water equations	5
JOG volume 67 issue 265 Cover and Back matter	5
Glaciological and climatological drivers of heterogeneous glacier mass loss in the Tanggula Shan (Central-Eastern Tibetan Plateau), since the 1960s	5
Structural evolution during a surge in the Paulabreen glacier system, Svalbard	5
Constraints on subglacial melt fluxes from observations of active subglacial lake recharge	5
Snow effects on brash ice and level ice growth	5
For whom and by whom is glaciology?	5
Light absorption and albedo reduction by pigmented microalgae on snow and ice	5
Theoretical and experimental study on cutting temperature in the presence of drilling fluid during ice-core drilling	5
Development of a sea-ice tank system for measuring microwave properties of sea ice	5
A unified model for transient subglacial water pressure and basal sliding	5
Review of the design considerations for the laboratory growth of sea ice	5
JOG volume 67 issue 263 Cover and Front matter	5
Recent change in surface mass-balance trends of glaciers on James Ross Island, north-eastern Antarctic Peninsula – CORRIGENDUM	5
Reconstructing subglacial lake activity with an altimetry-based inverse method	5
Surface energy and mass balance of Mera Glacier (Nepal, Central Himalaya) and their sensitivity to temperature and precipitation	5
Persistent mass loss of Triangular Glacier, James Ross Island, north-eastern Antarctic Peninsula	5
Projected sea-level contributions from tidewater glaciers are highly sensitive to chosen bedrock topography: a case study at Hansbreen, Svalbard	5
Book review: A. Fowler and F. Ng (Eds.), 2020. Glaciers and Ice Sheets in the Climate System: The Karthaus Summer School Lecture Notes.	5
Monitoring the physical processes driving the mass loss of Tapado Glacier, Dry Andes of Chile	5