OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Glaciology is 6. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Dynamic models for impact-initiated stress waves through snow columns	52
Subglacial cavity collapses on Swiss glaciers: Spatiotemporal distribution and mass loss contribution	40
The last years of Infiernos Glacier and its transition to a new paraglacial stage	32
Using ground-based thermal imagery to estimate debris thickness over glacial ice: fieldwork considerations to improve the effectiveness	31
Pressure sintering effect on the uniaxial compressive strength of reconstituted and compacted Antarctic snow	26
Fracture criteria and tensile strength for natural glacier ice calibrated from remote sensing observations of Antarctic ice shelves – ERRATUM	24
Prefacing unexplored archives from Central Andean surface-to-bedrock ice cores through a multifaceted investigation of regional firn and ice core glaciochemistry	23
The vertical atmospheric structure of the partially glacierised Mittivakkat valley, southeast Greenland	22
Evolution of sub-ice-shelf channels reveals changes in ocean-driven melt in West Antarctica	21
Sixty years of ice form and flow at Camp Century, Greenland	21
What can radar-based measures of subglacial hydrology tell us about basal shear stress? A case study at Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica	20
³⁹ Ar dating of cave ice combined with pollen, cryogenic calcite and radiocarbon analyses reveals late Little Ice Age origin (Leupa Ice Cave, Julian Alps)	20
Comparison of MODIS surface temperatures to in situ measurements on the Greenland Ice Sheet from 2014 to 2017	19
Water blister geomorphology and subglacial drainage sediments: an example from the bed of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet in SW Finland	18
Automated prediction of wet-snow avalanche activity in the Swiss Alps	18
The impact of supraglacial ice cliff and pond formation on debris-free, tropical glacier mass loss	17
Probing the firn refractive index profile using antenna response	17
Characterizing the marginal ice zone in the Greenland Sea through seasonal floe-scale sea ice observations	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
Characteristics of dynamic thickness change across diverse outlet glacier geometries and basal conditions	16
Challenges in modeling the energy balance and melt in the percolation zone of the Greenland ice sheet	16
Iceberg-induced snowdrift formation on Antarctic landfast sea ice: effects of wind and iceberg size	15
Drag forces at the ice-sheet bed and resistance of hard-rock obstacles: the physics of glacial ripping	15
Observations and simulations of new snow density in the drifting snow-dominated environment of Antarctica	15

Flexural behavior of porous isotropic ice under three-point bending tests	15
A comparison of contemporaneous airborne altimetry and ice-thickness measurements of Antarctic ice shelves	15
Distribution and isotopic compositions of n-alkanes and n-alkenes in the cryoconites from the Tibetan Plateau glaciers	15
Surface energy and mass balance variations near the equilibrium line altitude on Qaanaaq Ice Cap, northwestern Greenland, 2012–2022	14
Glacier-wide seasonal and annual geodetic mass balances from Pléiades stereo images: application to the Glacier d'Argentière, French Alps	14
JOG volume 68 issue 271 Cover and Front matter	13
JOG volume 69 issue 273 Cover and Front matter	13
Weak form shallow ice approximation models with an improved time-step restriction	13
Modelling the influence of marine ice on the dynamics of an idealised ice shelf	13
JOG volume 68 issue 272 Cover and Front matter	13
Observing glacier dynamics with low-cost, multi-GNSS positioning in Victoria Land, Antarctica	13
Constraining ice slab thickness at the onset of visible surface runoff from the Greenland ice sheet	13
Amundsen Sea Embayment ice-sheet mass-loss predictions to 2050 calibrated using observations of velocity and elevation change	12
Simulating seasonal evolution of subglacial hydrology at a surging glacier in the Karakoram	12
Three-dimensional multitrack electrical conductivity method for interpretation of complex ice core stratigraphy	12
Simulating the processes controlling ice-shelf rift paths using damage mechanics	12
Effect of high-pressure sintering on snow density evolution. Part I: experiments and results – CORRIGENDUM	12
The stepwise decrease of 4+ year ice extent and its linked survivability since around 2007	12
Potential threats of glacial lake changes to the Sichuan-Tibet Railway	12
Area, volume and ELA changes of West Greenland local glaciers and ice caps from 1985–2020	12
Dynamics throughout a complete surge of Iceberg Glacier on western Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian High Arctic	12
Step-change in supraglacial pond area on Tshojo Glacier, Bhutan, and potential downstream inundation patterns due to pond drainage events	12
Controls on calving at a large Greenland tidewater glacier: stress regime, self-organised criticality and the crevasse-depth calving law	12
Snapshot and time-dependent inversions of basal sliding using automatic generation of adjoint code on graphics processing units	12
Tracking glacier surge evolution using interferometric SAR coherence—examples from Svalbard	12
Glacier mass change on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, from 2000 to 2016	11
Subtle height change reveals melt water movement around and under glacial ice, an example from northern Ellesmere Island, Canada	11
Development of a drone-based ground-penetrating radar system for efficient and safe 3D and 4D surveying of alpine glaciers	11
Subtemperate sliding reduces periodicity of ice stream temporal variability in a simple model	11
Expansion of supraglacial lake area, volume and extent on the Greenland ice sheet from 1985 to 2023	11
Supraglacial lake evolution and its drivers in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica	11
A new model of dry firn-densification constrained by continuous strain measurements near South Pole	11
Frontal variations and surface area changes of Swedish glaciers during 2017–2023	11
‘Stable’ and ‘unstable’ are not useful descriptions of marine ice sheets in the Earth's climate system	10
Acoustic activity indicates submarine melt at tidewater glaciers	10
JOG volume 69 issue 278 Cover and Back matter	10
Calving, ice flow, and thickness of outlet glaciers controlled by land-fast sea ice in Lützow-Holm Bay, East Antarctica	10
Equilibrium line altitudes, accumulation areas and the vulnerability of glaciers in Alaska	10
Quantified mass loss of the Laohugou ice core and its precipitation signal during 1961–2005 at high elevation in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau	10
Model insights into bed control on retreat of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica	10
A novel laser melting sampler for discrete, sub-centimeter depth-resolved analyses of stable water isotopes in ice cores	10
Glacier fragmentation on the Southern Patagonian Icefield: a comprehensive analysis of the Upsala Glacier	10
Mechanics of densely packed snow across scales: A constitutive modelling strategy based on the 3-D H-model	9
Observing tidal effects on the dynamics of the Ekström Ice Shelf with focus on quarterdiurnal and terdiurnal periods	9
Exploring canyons beneath Devon Ice Cap for sub-glacial drainage using radar and thermodynamic modeling	9
Antarctic ice-shelf meltwater outflows in satellite radar imagery: ground-truthing and basal channel observations	9
Increasing rate of 21st century volume loss of the Patagonian Icefields measured from proglacial river discharge	9
MODIS land surface temperature in East Antarctica: accuracy and its main affecting factors	9
Progression of the surge in the Negribreen Glacier System from two years of ICESat-2 measurements	9
Distribution and morphometry of large supraglacial channels on five Antarctic ice shelves	9

Applying a distributed mass-balance model to identify uncertainties in glaciological mass balance on Brewster Glacier, New Zealand	9
Seasonal changes in submarine melting mechanisms controlling frontal ablation of Hansbreen, Svalbard	9
Beyond glacier-wide mass balances: parsing seasonal elevation change into spatially resolved patterns of accumulation and ablation at Wolverine Glacier, Alaska	8
Detection of crevassed areas with minimum geometric information: Vernagtferner case study	8
JOG volume 68 issue 270 Cover and Front matter	8
Ice volume and thickness of all Scandinavian glaciers and ice caps	8
Application of a simple model for ice growth to the Lake St. Moritz, Switzerland	8
Recent change in surface mass-balance trends of glaciers on James Ross Island, north-eastern Antarctic Peninsula	8
Inversion of a Stokes glacier flow model emulated by deep learning	8
Large-ensemble climate simulations to assess changes in snow stability over northern Japan	8
Observed meltwater-induced flexure and fracture at a doline on George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctica	8
Definition, formation and rupture mechanisms of water pockets in alpine glaciers: Insights from an updated inventory for the Swiss Alps	8
Historical occurrence of Antarctic icebergs within mercantile shipping routes and the exceptional events of the 1890s	8
Near-surface seismic anisotropy in Antarctic glacial snow and ice revealed by high-frequency ambient noise	8
Polarimetric multi-offset radio-echo sounding with a radio frequency-over-fiber ApRES system	8
Estimating marine ice thickness beneath the Amery Ice Shelf from airborne radio-echo sounding	8
Geothermal heat flux of Ridge B region in Antarctica inferred from basal dry–wet distribution	8
Performance analysis of high-resolution ice-sheet simulations	8
Retreat and frontal ablation rates for Alaska’s lake-terminating glaciers: Investigating potential physical controls with implications for future stability	8
Bayesian parameter estimation in glacier mass-balance modelling using observations with distinct temporal resolutions and uncertainties	8
Basal debris of the NEEM ice core, Greenland: a window into sub-ice-sheet geology, basal ice processes and ice-sheet oscillations	7
Slushflows: Large discrepancy between reported and actual incidents	7
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	7
JOG volume 68 issue 271 Cover and Back matter	7
For whom and by whom is glaciology?	7
Bayesian data assimilation on an Arctic glacier: learning from large ensemble twin experiments	7
GNSS reflectometry from low-cost sensors for continuous in situ contemporaneous glacier mass balance and flux divergence	7
Updating Norway’s glacial lake extents in 2023–2024 using Sentinel-1 & Sentinel-2 data and machine learning	7
Characterizing submarine ice roughness at icebergs from a temperate tidewater glacier	7
Snow effects on brash ice and level ice growth	7
In a sea of crumbling icebergs	7
A shallow approximation for ice streams sliding over strong beds	7
Hydrologic modeling of a perennial firn aquifer in southeast Greenland	7
Inferring time-dependent calving dynamics at Helheim Glacier	7
JOG volume 69 issue 275 Cover and Front matter	7
Improvements on the discretisation of boundary conditions to the momentum balance for glacial ice	7
FirnLearn: A neural network-based approach to firn density modeling in Antarctica	7
Morphological diversity of microalgae and Cyanobacteria of cryoconite holes in Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica	6
Reconstructing subglacial lake activity with an altimetry-based inverse method	6
Recent change in surface mass-balance trends of glaciers on James Ross Island, north-eastern Antarctic Peninsula – CORRIGENDUM	6
Persistent mass loss of Triangular Glacier, James Ross Island, north-eastern Antarctic Peninsula	6
Numerical modelling of dense snow avalanches with a well-balanced scheme based on the 2D shallow water equations	6
Global detection of glacier surges from surface velocities, elevation change and SAR backscatter data between 2000 and 2024: a test of surge mechanism theories	6
Structural evolution during a surge in the Paulabreen glacier system, Svalbard	6
Resolving radiostratigraphy with squinted synthetic aperture radar focusing	6
Viscoelastic analysis of stress waves through cohesive snow in layered and 2D configurations	6
Light absorption and albedo reduction by pigmented microalgae on snow and ice	6
Rheological control of crystal fabrics on Antarctic ice shelves	6
Constraints on subglacial melt fluxes from observations of active subglacial lake recharge	6
Glaciological and climatological drivers of heterogeneous glacier mass loss in the Tanggula Shan (Central-Eastern Tibetan Plateau), since the 1960s	6
Surface energy and mass balance of Mera Glacier (Nepal, Central Himalaya) and their sensitivity to temperature and precipitation	6