OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Cryosphere is 29. 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
A comparison between Envisat and ICESat sea ice thickness in the Southern Ocean	233
Automated mapping of the seasonal evolution of surface meltwater and its links to climate on the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica	79
The retrieval of snow properties from SLSTR Sentinel-3 – Part 1: Method description and sensitivity study	75
Ground-penetrating radar imaging reveals glacier's drainage network in 3D	61
Spectral induced polarization survey for the estimation of hydrogeological parameters in an active rock glacier	59
Improving climate model skill over High Mountain Asia by adapting snow cover parameterization to complex-topography areas	52
Benchmarking of snow water equivalent (SWE) products based on outcomes of the SnowPEx+ Intercomparison Project	52
Comparing elevation and backscatter retrievals from CryoSat-2 and ICESat-2 over Arctic summer sea ice	51
Quantifying the uncertainty in the Eurasian ice-sheet geometry at the Penultimate Glacial Maximum (Marine Isotope Stage 6)	51
Ice-shelf freshwater triggers for the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf melt tipping point in a global ocean–sea-ice model	47
A model framework for atmosphere–snow water vapor exchange and the associated isotope effects at Dome Argus, Antarctica – Part 1: The diurnal changes	46
Impact of atmospheric forcing uncertainties on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice simulations in CMIP6 OMIP models	44
Brief communication: Monitoring active layer dynamics using a lightweight nimble ground-penetrating radar system – a laboratory analogue test case	43
Partial melting in polycrystalline ice: pathways identified in 3D neutron tomographic images	41
Brief communication: Tritium concentration and age of firn accumulation in an ice cave of Mount Olympus (Greece)	39
A lead-width distribution for Antarctic sea ice: a case study for the Weddell Sea with high-resolution Sentinel-2 images	37
A seasonal algorithm of the snow-covered area fraction for mountainous terrain	37
Sea ice reduction in the Barents–Kara Sea enhances June precipitation in the Yangtze River basin	36
Responses of the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers to melt and sliding parameterizations	35
Seasonal land-ice-flow variability in the Antarctic Peninsula	34
Spatially heterogeneous effect of climate warming on the Arctic land ice	33
Extensive and anomalous grounding line retreat at Vanderford Glacier, Vincennes Bay, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica	33
Observing the evolution of summer melt on multiyear sea ice with ICESat-2 and Sentinel-2	31
European heat waves 2022: contribution to extreme glacier melt in Switzerland inferred from automated ablation readings	31
Variability in Antarctic surface climatology across regional climate models and reanalysis datasets	31

The role of föhn winds in eastern Antarctic Peninsula rapid ice shelf collapse	30
Evaluating Greenland surface-mass-balance and firn-densification data using ICESat-2 altimetry	29
Mapping Antarctic crevasses and their evolution with deep learning applied to satellite radar imagery	29
Disentangling the drivers of future Antarctic ice loss with a historically calibrated ice-sheet model	29