OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Cryosphere is 33. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
First evidence of microplastics in Antarctic snow	175
GrSMBMIP: intercomparison of the modelled 1980–2012 surface mass balance over the Greenland Ice Sheet	109
Observed snow depth trends in the European Alps: 1971 to 2019	106
Review article: Earth's ice imbalance	85
Sudden large-volume detachments of low-angle mountain glaciers – more frequent than thought?	78
Diverging future surface mass balance between the Antarctic ice shelves and grounded ice sheet	76
What is the surface mass balance of Antarctica? An intercomparison of regional climate model estimates	65
Sentinel-1 snow depth retrieval at sub-kilometer resolution over the European Alps	62
The catastrophic thermokarst lake drainage events of 2018 in northwestern Alaska: fast-forward into the future	58
MOSAiC drift expedition from October 2019 to July 2020: sea ice conditions from space and comparison with previous years	51
The 2020 glacial lake outburst flood at Jinwuco, Tibet: causes, impacts, and implications for hazard and risk assessment	47
Calving Front Machine (CALFIN): glacial termini dataset and automated deep learning extraction method for Greenland, 1972–2019	47
An inter-comparison of the mass budget of the Arctic sea ice in CMIP6 models	46
The tipping points and early warning indicators for Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica	44
Consequences of permafrost degradation for Arctic infrastructure – bridging the model gap between regional and engineering scales	44
Review article: Global monitoring of snow water equivalent using high-frequency radar remote sensing	43
The Antarctic sea ice cover from ICESat-2 and CryoSat-2: freeboard, snow depth, and ice thickness	42
A regionally resolved inventory of High Mountain Asia surge-type glaciers, derived from a multi-factor remote sensing approach	42
Rapid fragmentation of Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf	41
The 32-year record-high surface melt in 2019/2020 on the northern George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula	41
Spatially and temporally resolved ice loss in High Mountain Asia and the Gulf of Alaska observed by CryoSat-2 swath altimetry between 2010 and 2019	40
Thaw-driven mass wasting couples slopes with downstream systems, and effects propagate through Arctic drainage networks	40
Inventory and changes of rock glacier creep speeds in Ile Alatau and Kungöy Ala-Too, northern Tien Shan, since the 1950s	40
Multi-scale snowdrift-permitting modelling of mountain snowpack	39
Review article: Geothermal heat flow in Antarctica: current and future directions	39

Ice content and interannual water storage changes of an active rock glacier in the dry Andes of Argentina	39
The firn meltwater Retention Model Intercomparison Project (RetMIP): evaluation of nine firn models at four weather station sites on the Greenland ice sheet	37
Drivers of Pine Island Glacier speed-up between 1996 and 2016	37
Contrasting surface velocities between lake- and land-terminating glaciers in the Himalayan region	37
Distribution and seasonal evolution of supraglacial lakes on Shackleton Ice Shelf, East Antarctica	36
On the attribution of industrial-era glacier mass loss to anthropogenic climate change	35
Brief communication: A roadmap towards credible projections of ice sheet contribution to sea level	35
Invited perspective: What lies beneath a changing Arctic?	34
Towards ice-thickness inversion: an evaluation of global digital elevation models (DEMs) in the glacierized Tibetan Plateau	33