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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
A comparison between Envisat and ICESat sea ice thickness in the Southern Ocean289
Quantifying the uncertainty in the Eurasian ice-sheet geometry at the Penultimate Glacial Maximum (Marine Isotope Stage 6)93
Comparing elevation and backscatter retrievals from CryoSat-2 and ICESat-2 over Arctic summer sea ice70
Modelling cold firn evolution at Colle Gnifetti, Swiss/Italian Alps59
Partial melting in polycrystalline ice: pathways identified in 3D neutron tomographic images54
Impact of atmospheric forcing uncertainties on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice simulations in CMIP6 OMIP models49
A model framework for atmosphere–snow water vapor exchange and the associated isotope effects at Dome Argus, Antarctica – Part 1: The diurnal changes48
Mapping Antarctic crevasses and their evolution with deep learning applied to satellite radar imagery42
Ice-shelf freshwater triggers for the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf melt tipping point in a global ocean–sea-ice model42
Disentangling the drivers of future Antarctic ice loss with a historically calibrated ice-sheet model42
Mechanisms and impacts of anomalous high-salinity shelf water formation in the Ross Sea38
Extensive and anomalous grounding line retreat at Vanderford Glacier, Vincennes Bay, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica36
Modelling surface temperature and radiation budget of snow-covered complex terrain36
Brief communication: Monitoring active layer dynamics using a lightweight nimble ground-penetrating radar system – a laboratory analogue test case35
Improving climate model skill over High Mountain Asia by adapting snow cover parameterization to complex-topography areas34
Automated mapping of the seasonal evolution of surface meltwater and its links to climate on the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica34
Variability in Antarctic surface climatology across regional climate models and reanalysis datasets34
European heat waves 2022: contribution to extreme glacier melt in Switzerland inferred from automated ablation readings33
Evaluating Greenland surface-mass-balance and firn-densification data using ICESat-2 altimetry33
Spatially heterogeneous effect of climate warming on the Arctic land ice33
Responses of the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers to melt and sliding parameterizations33
Benchmarking of snow water equivalent (SWE) products based on outcomes of the SnowPEx+ Intercomparison Project33
Spectral induced polarization survey for the estimation of hydrogeological parameters in an active rock glacier33
Brief communication: Tritium concentration and age of firn accumulation in an ice cave of Mount Olympus (Greece)32
Sea ice reduction in the Barents–Kara Sea enhances June precipitation in the Yangtze River basin32
Seasonal land-ice-flow variability in the Antarctic Peninsula30
The role of föhn winds in eastern Antarctic Peninsula rapid ice shelf collapse30
Observing the evolution of summer melt on multiyear sea ice with ICESat-2 and Sentinel-230
Suitability of the CICE sea ice model for seasonal prediction and positive impact of CryoSat-2 ice thickness initialization29
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 excluded28
Distributed surface mass balance of an avalanche-fed glacier28
Brief communication: Daily, gap-free snow cover information based on a combination of NPP VIIRS and MODIS data28
An unseasonal atmospheric river drives anomalous summer snow accumulation on glaciers of the subtropical Andes27
Temporal markers in a temperate ice core: insights from 3H and 137Cs profiles from the Adamello Glacier26
Brief communication: Storstrømmen Glacier, northeastern Greenland, primed for end-of-decade surge26
Kara and Barents sea ice thickness estimation based on CryoSat-2 radar altimeter and Sentinel-1 dual-polarized synthetic aperture radar26
Climatology and surface impacts of atmospheric rivers on West Antarctica26
Lake volume and potential hazards of moraine-dammed glacial lakes – a case study of Bienong Co, southeastern Tibetan Plateau25
The role of atmospheric conditions in the Antarctic sea ice extent summer minima25
Southern Ocean sea-ice leads: first insights into regional lead patterns, seasonality, and trends, 2003–202325
Spaceborne thermal infrared observations of Arctic sea ice leads at 30 m resolution25
Sources of low-frequency variability in observed Antarctic sea ice24
Filling and drainage of a subglacial lake beneath the Flade Isblink ice cap, northeast Greenland24
Impact of icebergs on the seasonal submarine melt of Sermeq Kujalleq24
Impact of the melt–albedo feedback on the future evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet with PISM-dEBM-simple24
The radiative and geometric properties of melting first-year landfast sea ice in the Arctic24
Widespread increase in discharge from west Antarctic Peninsula glaciers since 201823
Glacier–permafrost relations in a high-mountain environment: 5 decades of kinematic monitoring at the Gruben site, Swiss Alps23
Arctic sea ice radar freeboard retrieval from the European Remote-Sensing Satellite (ERS-2) using altimetry: toward sea ice thickness observation from 1995 to 202123
Brief communication: Recent estimates of glacier mass loss for western North America from laser altimetry23
Grain-size evolution controls the accumulation dependence of modelled firn thickness23
A comparison of supraglacial meltwater features throughout contrasting melt seasons: southwest Greenland23
A probabilistic framework for quantifying the role of anthropogenic climate change in marine-terminating glacier retreats23
Characteristics and rarity of the strong 1940s westerly wind event over the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica22
GLAcier Feature Tracking testkit (GLAFT): a statistically and physically based framework for evaluating glacier velocity products derived from optical satellite image feature tracking22
Mapping seasonal snow melting in Karakoram using SAR and topographic data22
Retrieval of atmospheric water vapor and temperature profiles over Antarctica from satellite microwave observations using an iterative approach22
Multilayer observation and estimation of the snowpack cold content in a humid boreal coniferous forest of eastern Canada22
Mapping the extent of giant Antarctic icebergs with deep learning22
Reanalysis of the longest mass balance series in Himalaya using a nonlinear model: Chhota Shigri Glacier (India)22
Radar sounding survey over Devon Ice Cap indicates the potential for a diverse hypersaline subglacial hydrological environment22
Sensitivity of modeled snow grain size retrievals to solar geometry, snow particle asphericity, and snowpack impurities22
Evaluation of the Snow Climate Change Initiative (Snow CCI) snow-covered area product within a mountain snow water equivalent reanalysis22
Ice fabrics in two-dimensional flows: beyond pure and simple shear21
First observations of sea ice flexural–gravity waves with ground-based radar interferometry in Utqiaġvik, Alaska21
Estimating degree-day factors of snow based on energy flux components21
Modeling of surface energy balance for Icelandic glaciers using remote-sensing albedo21
SNICAR-ADv4: a physically based radiative transfer model to represent the spectral albedo of glacier ice21
ITS_LIVE global glacier velocity data in near-real time21
Automated snow cover detection on mountain glaciers using spaceborne imagery and machine learning21
An analysis of the interaction between surface and basal crevasses in ice shelves21
Brief communication: New perspectives on the skill of modelled sea ice trends in light of recent Antarctic sea ice loss21
A framework for time-dependent ice sheet uncertainty quantification, applied to three West Antarctic ice streams20
Contribution of warm and moist atmospheric flow to a record minimum July sea ice extent of the Arctic in 202019
Development and fluctuation of crystal orientation fabric in the deep sections of the Dome Fuji ice core, Antarctica: impacts of dust particles and migration recrystallization19
Multi-decadal retreat of marine-terminating outlet glaciers in northwest and central-west Greenland19
MMSeaIce: a collection of techniques for improving sea ice mapping with a multi-task model19
Sensitivity of the Ross Ice Shelf to environmental and glaciological controls19
Unlocking the potential of melting calorimetry: a field protocol for liquid water content measurement in snow19
Deep clustering in subglacial radar reflectance reveals subglacial lakes19
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
Topology and spatial-pressure-distribution reconstruction of an englacial channel19
Seasonality in terminus ablation rates for the glaciers in Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat)18
Review article: Feature tracing in radio-echo sounding products of terrestrial ice sheets and planetary bodies18
Land- to lake-terminating transition triggers dynamic thinning of a Bhutanese glacier18
Brief communication: Rapid  ∼  335  ×  106 m3 bed erosion after detachment of the Sedongpu Glacier (Tibet)18
A quasi-one-dimensional ice mélange flow model based on continuum descriptions of granular materials18
Influence of snow spatial variability on cosmic ray neutron snow water equivalent (SWE): case study in a northern prairie18
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)18
Assessment of neutrons from secondary cosmic rays at mountain altitudes – Geant4 simulations of environmental parameters including soil moisture and snow cover18
A regionally resolved inventory of High Mountain Asia surge-type glaciers, derived from a multi-factor remote sensing approach17
Inland migration of near-surface crevasses in the Amundsen Sea Sector, West Antarctica17
Estimating the uncertainty of sea-ice area and sea-ice extent from satellite retrievals17
Assimilating CryoSat-2 freeboard to improve Arctic sea ice thickness estimates17
Feasibility of retrieving Arctic sea ice thickness from the Chinese HY-2B Ku-band radar altimeter17
Snow cover prediction in the Italian central Apennines using weather forecast and land surface numerical models17
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)17
Quantifying the effects of background concentrations of crude oil pollution on sea ice albedo17
Reconstructing dynamics of the Baltic Ice Stream Complex during deglaciation of the Last Scandinavian Ice Sheet17
Impact of atmospheric rivers on Arctic sea ice variations17
Arctic glacier snowline altitudes rise 150 m over the last 4 decades17
Polarimetric radar reveals the spatial distribution of ice fabric at domes and divides in East Antarctica17
Reversal of ocean gyres near ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea caused by the interaction of sea ice and wind17
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 core17
Wave erosion, frontal bending, and calving at Ross Ice Shelf17
Brief communication: Rapid acceleration of the Brunt Ice Shelf after calving of iceberg A-8117
Brief communication: The Glacier Loss Day as an indicator of a record-breaking negative glacier mass balance in 202217
Modelling snowpack on ice surfaces with the ORCHIDEE land surface model: application to the Greenland ice sheet16
Semi-automated tracking of iceberg B43 using Sentinel-1 SAR images via Google Earth Engine16
Multi-decadal analysis of past winter temperature, precipitation and snow cover data in the European Alps from reanalyses, climate models and observational datasets16
Snowmelt characterization from optical and synthetic-aperture radar observations in the La Joie Basin, British Columbia16
Improved monitoring of subglacial lake activity in Greenland16
Accumulation of legacy fallout radionuclides in cryoconite on Isfallsglaciären (Arctic Sweden) and their downstream spatial distribution16
Constraining regional glacier reconstructions using past ice thickness of deglaciating areas – a case study in the European Alps16
An empirical algorithm to map perennial firn aquifers and ice slabs within the Greenland Ice Sheet using satellite L-band microwave radiometry16
Analyzing the sensitivity of a blowing snow model (SnowPappus) to precipitation forcing, blowing snow, and spatial resolution16
Leveraging snow probe data, lidar, and machine learning for snow depth estimation in complex-terrain environments16
Characterizing tundra snow sub-pixel variability to improve brightness temperature estimation in satellite SWE retrievals16
Data-driven surrogate modeling of high-resolution sea-ice thickness in the Arctic16
Modelling the evolution of Arctic multiyear sea ice over 2000–201816
Seasonal and interannual variability in freshwater sources for Greenland's fjords16
Using deep learning and multi-source remote sensing images to map landlocked lakes in Antarctica16
Insights into microphysical and optical properties of typical mineral dust within urban snowpack via wet and dry deposition in Changchun, northeastern China16
Improved permafrost modelling in mountain environments by including air convection in a hydrological model16
Will landscape responses reduce glacier sensitivity to climate change in High Mountain Asia?15
A cold laboratory hyperspectral imaging system to map grain size and ice layer distributions in firn cores15
Detection of ice core particles via deep neural networks15
Assessing the seasonal evolution of snow depth spatial variability and scaling in complex mountain terrain15
Evaporative controls on Antarctic precipitation: an ECHAM6 model study using innovative water tracer diagnostics15
Dual-frequency radar observations of snowmelt processes on Antarctic perennial sea ice by CFOSCAT and ASCAT15
On the sensitivity of sea ice deformation statistics to plastic damage15
Modelling glacier mass balance and climate sensitivity in the context of sparse observations: application to Saskatchewan Glacier, western Canada15
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 system15
Spectral induced polarization imaging to investigate an ice-rich mountain permafrost site in Switzerland15
Slowdown of Shirase Glacier, East Antarctica, caused by strengthening alongshore winds15
Bathymetry-constrained impact of relative sea-level change on basal melting in Antarctica15
Simulating ice segregation and thaw consolidation in permafrost environments with the CryoGrid community model15
Sublimation measurements of tundra and taiga snowpack in Alaska14
Unravelling the sources of uncertainty in glacier runoff projections in the Patagonian Andes (40–56° S)14
A study of sea ice topography in the Weddell and Ross seas using dual-polarimetric TanDEM-X imagery14
Quantifying frost-weathering-induced damage in alpine rocks14
Monitoring Arctic thin ice: a comparison between CryoSat-2 SAR altimetry data and MODIS thermal-infrared imagery14
Review article: Retrogressive thaw slump characteristics and terminology14
Impact of boundary conditions on the modeled thermal regime of the Antarctic ice sheet14
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
The contribution of Humboldt Glacier, northern Greenland, to sea-level rise through 2100 constrained by recent observations of speedup and retreat14
Assessment of the impact of dam reservoirs on river ice cover – an example from the Carpathians (central Europe)14
Two-way coupling between ice flow and channelized subglacial drainage enhances modeled marine-ice-sheet retreat14
Viscoelastic mechanics of tidally induced lake drainage in the grounding zone14
Predicting ocean-induced ice-shelf melt rates using deep learning14
Resolving glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) in response to modern and future ice loss at marine grounding lines in West Antarctica14
In situ 10Be modeling and terrain analysis constrain subglacial quarrying and abrasion rates at Sermeq Kujalleq (Jakobshavn Isbræ), Greenland14
Flexural and compressive strength of the landfast sea ice in the Prydz Bay, East Antarctic14
Subglacial discharge effects on basal melting of a rotating, idealized ice shelf14
Snow stratigraphy observations from Operation IceBridge surveys in Alaska using S and C band airborne ultra-wideband FMCW (frequency-modulated continuous wave) radar13
A collection of wet beam models for wave–ice interaction13
The evolution of Arctic permafrost over the last 3 centuries from ensemble simulations with the CryoGridLite permafrost model13
Fifty years of firn evolution on Grigoriev ice cap, Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan13
Surging of a Hudson Strait-scale ice stream: subglacial hydrology matters but the process details mostly do not13
Exploring ice sheet model sensitivity to ocean thermal forcing and basal sliding using the Community Ice Sheet Model (CISM)13
Seasonality and scenario dependence of rapid Arctic sea ice loss events in CMIP6 simulations13
Feedback mechanisms controlling Antarctic glacial-cycle dynamics simulated with a coupled ice sheet–solid Earth model13
Layered seawater intrusion and melt under grounded ice13
Fine-scale variability in iceberg velocity fields and implications for an ice-associated pinniped13
Signature of the stratosphere–troposphere coupling on recent record-breaking Antarctic sea-ice anomalies13
Seasonal snow–atmosphere modeling: let's do it13
Brief communication: Sea-level projections, adaptation planning, and actionable science13
Twenty-first century global glacier evolution under CMIP6 scenarios and the role of glacier-specific observations13
Extensive palaeo-surfaces beneath the Evans–Rutford region of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet control modern and past ice flow13
Arctic sea ice anomalies during the MOSAiC winter 2019/2013
Temporal variation of bacterial community and nutrients in Tibetan glacier snowpack13
Snow water equivalent retrieval over Idaho – Part 2: Using L-band UAVSAR repeat-pass interferometry13
Geometric controls of tidewater glacier dynamics13
Widespread slowdown in thinning rates of West Antarctic ice shelves12
Subglacial hydrology modulates basal sliding response of the Antarctic ice sheet to climate forcing12
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
Geothermal heat source estimations through ice flow modelling at Mýrdalsjökull, Iceland12
Evidence of active subglacial lakes under a slowly moving coastal region of the Antarctic Ice Sheet12
Investigating seasonal and multi-decadal water/ice storage changes in the Murtèl rock glacier using time-lapse gravimetry12
Assessment of Arctic seasonal snow cover rates of change12
The collapse of the Cordilleran–Laurentide ice saddle and early opening of the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada, constrained by 10Be exposure dating12
Using Icepack to reproduce ice mass balance buoy observations in landfast ice: improvements from the mushy-layer thermodynamics12
Control of the temperature signal in Antarctic proxies by snowfall dynamics12
Brief communication: A framework to classify glaciers for water resource evaluation and management in the Southern Andes12
The AutoICE Challenge12
El Niño enhances snow-line rise and ice loss on the Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru12
Automated ArcticDEM iceberg detection tool: insights into area and volume distributions, and their potential application to satellite imagery and modelling of glacier–iceberg–ocean systems12
Modelling GNSS-observed seasonal velocity changes of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, using the Ice-sheet and Sea-level System Model (ISSM)12
Brief communication: Identification of tundra topsoil frozen/thawed state from SMAP and GCOM-W1 radiometer measurements using the spectral gradient method12
A generalized stress correction scheme for the Maxwell elasto-brittle rheology: impact on the fracture angles and deformations12
Development of crystal orientation fabric in the Dome Fuji ice core in East Antarctica: implications for the deformation regime in ice sheets12
Assessing volumetric change distributions and scaling relations of retrogressive thaw slumps across the Arctic12
Greenland's firn responds more to warming than to cooling12
Simulating the Holocene deglaciation across a marine-terminating portion of southwestern Greenland in response to marine and atmospheric forcings12
Contrasted geomorphological and limnological properties of thermokarst lakes formed in buried glacier ice and ice-wedge polygon terrain12
Summer sea ice floe perimeter density in the Arctic: high-resolution optical satellite imagery and model evaluation12
Incorporating InSAR kinematics into rock glacier inventories: insights from 11 regions worldwide12
Wave-triggered breakup in the marginal ice zone generates lognormal floe size distributions: a simulation study12
Thermal infrared shadow-hiding in GOES-R ABI imagery: snow and forest temperature observations from the SnowEx 2020 Grand Mesa field campaign12
Ice plate deformation and cracking revealed by an in situ-distributed acoustic sensing array12
Finely resolved along-track wave attenuation estimates in the Antarctic marginal ice zone from ICESat-212
Inverting ice surface elevation and velocity for bed topography and slipperiness beneath Thwaites Glacier12
Mapping and characterization of avalanches on mountain glaciers with Sentinel-1 satellite imagery12
Observing glacier elevation changes from spaceborne optical and radar sensors – an inter-comparison experiment using ASTER and TanDEM-X data12
Empirical correction of systematic orthorectification error in Sentinel-2 velocity fields for Greenlandic outlet glaciers12
A topographically controlled tipping point for complete Greenland ice sheet melt12
Sentinel-1 detection of ice slabs on the Greenland Ice Sheet12
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
Geometric amplification and suppression of ice-shelf basal melt in West Antarctica11
On the evolution of an ice shelf melt channel at the base of Filchner Ice Shelf, from observations and viscoelastic modeling11
Characterization of in situ cosmogenic 14CO production, retention and loss in firn and shallow ice at Summit, Greenland11
Predictability of Arctic sea ice drift in coupled climate models11
Everest South Col Glacier did not thin during the period 1984–201711
Sensitivity of Antarctic surface climate to a new spectral snow albedo and radiative transfer scheme in RACMO2.3p311
A new state-dependent parameterization for the free drift of sea ice11
Direct measurement of warm Atlantic Intermediate Water close to the grounding line of Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden (79° N) Glacier, northeast Greenland11
First results of the polar regional climate model RACMO2.411
A probabilistic seabed–ice keel interaction model11
Loss of accumulation zone exposes dark ice and drives increased ablation at Weißseespitze, Austria11
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
Spatiotemporal snow water storage uncertainty in the midlatitude American Cordillera11
Drainage and refill of an Antarctic Peninsula subglacial lake reveal an active subglacial hydrological network11
Molecular biomarkers in Batagay megaslump permafrost deposits reveal clear differences in organic matter preservation between glacial and interglacial periods11
Probabilistic spatiotemporal seasonal sea ice presence forecasting using sequence-to-sequence learning and ERA5 data in the Hudson Bay region11
Improving model-satellite comparisons of sea ice melt onset with a satellite simulator11
Greenland and Canadian Arctic ice temperature profiles database11
Sea ice melt pond bathymetry reconstructed from aerial photographs using photogrammetry: a new method applied to MOSAiC data10
Progress of the RADIX (Rapid Access Drilling and Ice eXtraction) fast-access drilling system10
Improved estimation of the bulk ice crystal fabric asymmetry from polarimetric phase co-registration10
Spatial characterization of near-surface structure and meltwater runoff conditions across the Devon Ice Cap from dual-frequency radar reflectivity10
Globally consistent estimates of high-resolution Antarctic ice mass balance and spatially resolved glacial isostatic adjustment10
Glacier and rock glacier changes since the 1950s in the La Laguna catchment, Chile10
Lake ice break-up in Greenland: timing and spatiotemporal variability10
Out-of-the-box calving-front detection method using deep learning10
Satellite data reveal details of glacial isostatic adjustment in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica10
A computationally efficient statistically downscaled 100 m resolution Greenland product from the regional climate model MAR10
Reconstruction of mass balance and firn stratigraphy during the 1996–2011 warm period at high altitude on Mount Ortles, Eastern Alps: a comparison of modelled and ice core results10
Land–atmosphere interactions in sub-polar and alpine climates in the CORDEX Flagship Pilot Study Land Use and Climate Across Scales (LUCAS) models – Part 2: The role of changing vegetation10
Evaluation of snow depth retrievals from ICESat-2 using airborne laser-scanning data10
Evaluation of six geothermal heat flux maps for the Antarctic Lambert–Amery glacial system10
Long-term development of a perennial firn aquifer on the Lomonosovfonna ice cap, Svalbard10
Using specularity content to evaluate eight geothermal heat flow maps of Totten Glacier10
Formation of glacier tables caused by differential ice melting: field observation and modelling10
Melt sensitivity of irreversible retreat of Pine Island Glacier10
Variability in sea ice carbonate chemistry: a case study comparing the importance of ikaite precipitation, bottom-ice algae, and currents across an invisible polynya10
Updated Arctic melt pond fraction dataset and trends 2002–2023 using ENVISAT and Sentinel-3 remote sensing data10
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