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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
First evidence of microplastics in Antarctic snow175
GrSMBMIP: intercomparison of the modelled 1980–2012 surface mass balance over the Greenland Ice Sheet109
Observed snow depth trends in the European Alps: 1971 to 2019106
Review article: Earth's ice imbalance85
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 sheet76
What is the surface mass balance of Antarctica? An intercomparison of regional climate model estimates65
Sentinel-1 snow depth retrieval at sub-kilometer resolution over the European Alps62
The catastrophic thermokarst lake drainage events of 2018 in northwestern Alaska: fast-forward into the future58
MOSAiC drift expedition from October 2019 to July 2020: sea ice conditions from space and comparison with previous years51
Calving Front Machine (CALFIN): glacial termini dataset and automated deep learning extraction method for Greenland, 1972–201947
The 2020 glacial lake outburst flood at Jinwuco, Tibet: causes, impacts, and implications for hazard and risk assessment47
An inter-comparison of the mass budget of the Arctic sea ice in CMIP6 models46
Consequences of permafrost degradation for Arctic infrastructure – bridging the model gap between regional and engineering scales44
The tipping points and early warning indicators for Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica44
Review article: Global monitoring of snow water equivalent using high-frequency radar remote sensing43
A regionally resolved inventory of High Mountain Asia surge-type glaciers, derived from a multi-factor remote sensing approach42
The Antarctic sea ice cover from ICESat-2 and CryoSat-2: freeboard, snow depth, and ice thickness42
Rapid fragmentation of Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf41
The 32-year record-high surface melt in 2019/2020 on the northern George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula41
Inventory and changes of rock glacier creep speeds in Ile Alatau and Kungöy Ala-Too, northern Tien Shan, since the 1950s40
Spatially and temporally resolved ice loss in High Mountain Asia and the Gulf of Alaska observed by CryoSat-2 swath altimetry between 2010 and 201940
Thaw-driven mass wasting couples slopes with downstream systems, and effects propagate through Arctic drainage networks40
Ice content and interannual water storage changes of an active rock glacier in the dry Andes of Argentina39
Multi-scale snowdrift-permitting modelling of mountain snowpack39
Review article: Geothermal heat flow in Antarctica: current and future directions39
Contrasting surface velocities between lake- and land-terminating glaciers in the Himalayan region37
The firn meltwater Retention Model Intercomparison Project (RetMIP): evaluation of nine firn models at four weather station sites on the Greenland ice sheet37
Drivers of Pine Island Glacier speed-up between 1996 and 201637
Distribution and seasonal evolution of supraglacial lakes on Shackleton Ice Shelf, East Antarctica36
On the attribution of industrial-era glacier mass loss to anthropogenic climate change35
Brief communication: A roadmap towards credible projections of ice sheet contribution to sea level35
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 Plateau33
Debris cover and the thinning of Kennicott Glacier, Alaska: in situ measurements, automated ice cliff delineation and distributed melt estimates32
Eighteen-year record of circum-Antarctic landfast-sea-ice distribution allows detailed baseline characterisation and reveals trends and variability32
Snow Ensemble Uncertainty Project (SEUP): quantification of snow water equivalent uncertainty across North America via ensemble land surface modeling32
Surface melting over the Greenland ice sheet derived from enhanced resolution passive microwave brightness temperatures (1979–2019)31
A pilot study about microplastics and mesoplastics in an Antarctic glacier31
Snow depth mapping with unpiloted aerial system lidar observations: a case study in Durham, New Hampshire, United States31
Intercomparison of photogrammetric platforms for spatially continuous snow depth mapping31
Local-scale variability of snow density on Arctic sea ice30
Two decades of dynamic change and progressive destabilization on the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf30
Recent degradation of interior Alaska permafrost mapped with ground surveys, geophysics, deep drilling, and repeat airborne lidar28
Climate change and Northern Hemisphere lake and river ice phenology from 1931–200528
Environmental drivers of circum-Antarctic glacier and ice shelf front retreat over the last two decades28
Physics-based SNOWPACK model improves representation of near-surface Antarctic snow and firn density27
Mapping avalanches with satellites – evaluation of performance and completeness27
Large and irreversible future decline of the Greenland ice sheet27
Top-of-permafrost ground ice indicated by remotely sensed late-season subsidence27
Faster decline and higher variability in the sea ice thickness of the marginal Arctic seas when accounting for dynamic snow cover26
InSAR-based characterization of rock glacier movement in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA26
Quantification of the radiative impact of light-absorbing particles during two contrasted snow seasons at Col du Lautaret (2058 m a.s.l., French Alps)26
Tree canopy and snow depth relationships at fine scales with terrestrial laser scanning26
Glacier Image Velocimetry: an open-source toolbox for easy and rapid calculation of high-resolution glacier velocity fields26
Perspectives on future sea ice and navigability in the Arctic26
Weakening of the pinning point buttressing Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica26
Spectral characterization, radiative forcing and pigment content of coastal Antarctic snow algae: approaches to spectrally discriminate red and green communities and their impact on snowmelt25
Temperature and strain controls on ice deformation mechanisms: insights from the microstructures of samples deformed to progressively higher strains at −10, −20 and −30 °C25
Atmospheric extremes caused high oceanward sea surface slope triggering the biggest calving event in more than 50 years at the Amery Ice Shelf25
Inter-comparison of snow depth over Arctic sea ice from reanalysis reconstructions and satellite retrieval24
An empirical algorithm to map perennial firn aquifers and ice slabs within the Greenland Ice Sheet using satellite L-band microwave radiometry23
The Antarctic contribution to 21st-century sea-level rise predicted by the UK Earth System Model with an interactive ice sheet23
Assessment of ICESat-2 ice surface elevations over the Chinese Antarctic Research Expedition (CHINARE) route, East Antarctica, based on coordinated multi-sensor observations23
Interannual variability in Transpolar Drift summer sea ice thickness and potential impact of Atlantification23
The role of electrical conductivity in radar wave reflection from glacier beds23
Spatiotemporal distribution of seasonal snow water equivalent in High Mountain Asia from an 18-year Landsat–MODIS era snow reanalysis dataset23
Impact of dynamic snow density on GlobSnow snow water equivalent retrieval accuracy22
Image classification of marine-terminating outlet glaciers in Greenland using deep learning methods22
Annual and inter-annual variability and trends of albedo of Icelandic glaciers22
Landsat, MODIS, and VIIRS snow cover mapping algorithm performance as validated by airborne lidar datasets22
Review article: Existing and potential evidence for Holocene grounding line retreat and readvance in Antarctica22
Southern Ocean polynyas in CMIP6 models21
Sub-permafrost methane seepage from open-system pingos in Svalbard21
Incorporating InSAR kinematics into rock glacier inventories: insights from 11 regions worldwide21
Surface-based Ku- and Ka-band polarimetric radar for sea ice studies21
Estimating surface mass balance patterns from unoccupied aerial vehicle measurements in the ablation area of the Morteratsch–Pers glacier complex (Switzerland)21
Future surface mass balance and surface melt in the Amundsen sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet21
Full crystallographic orientation (<i>c</i> and <i>a</i> axes) of warm, coarse-grained ice in a shear-dominated setting: a case study, Storglaci21
Brief communication: New radar constraints support presence of ice older than 1.5 Myr at Little Dome C20
Brief communication: An approximately 50 Mm3 ice-rock avalanche on 22 March 2021 in the Sedongpu valley, southeastern Tibetan Plateau20
Using ICESat-2 and Operation IceBridge altimetry for supraglacial lake depth retrievals20
Effects of multi-scale heterogeneity on the simulated evolution of ice-rich permafrost lowlands under a warming climate20
On the statistical properties of sea-ice lead fraction and heat fluxes in the Arctic20
Brief communication: Detection of glacier surge activity using cloud computing of Sentinel-1 radar data20
Simulations of firn processes over the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets: 1980–202120
The distribution and evolution of supraglacial lakes on 79° N Glacier (north-eastern Greenland) and interannual climatic controls20
Experimental evidence for a universal threshold characterizing wave-induced sea ice break-up19
Strong acceleration of glacier area loss in the Greater Caucasus between 2000 and 202019
Dam type and lake location characterize ice-marginal lake area change in Alaska and NW Canada between 1984 and 201919
Trends and spatial variation in rain-on-snow events over the Arctic Ocean during the early melt season19
Snowfall and snow accumulation during the MOSAiC winter and spring seasons19
Contrasting regional variability of buried meltwater extent over 2 years across the Greenland Ice Sheet19
Elevation-dependent trends in extreme snowfall in the French Alps from 1959 to 201919
Understanding monsoon controls on the energy and mass balance of glaciers in the Central and Eastern Himalaya19
Advances in altimetric snow depth estimates using bi-frequency SARAL and CryoSat-2 Ka–Ku measurements19
Did Holocene climate changes drive West Antarctic grounding line retreat and readvance?19
Snow cover duration trends observed at sites and predicted by multiple models19
Observing traveling waves in glaciers with remote sensing: new flexible time series methods and application to Sermeq Kujalleq (Jakobshavn Isbræ), Greenland19
Basal traction mainly dictated by hard-bed physics over grounded regions of Greenland18
Estimating fractional snow cover from passive microwave brightness temperature data using MODIS snow cover product over North America18
Mapping seasonal glacier melt across the Hindu Kush Himalaya with time series synthetic aperture radar (SAR)18
Evidence of elevation-dependent warming from the Chinese Tian Shan18
The cryostratigraphy of the Yedoma cliff of Sobo-Sise Island (Lena delta) reveals permafrost dynamics in the central Laptev Sea coastal region during the last 52 kyr18
TanDEM-X PolarDEM 90 m of Antarctica: generation and error characterization18
Persistent, extensive channelized drainage modeled beneath Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica18
Meltwater sources and sinks for multiyear Arctic sea ice in summer18
ISMIP6-based projections of ocean-forced Antarctic Ice Sheet evolution using the Community Ice Sheet Model18
Penetration of interferometric radar signals in Antarctic snow17
Geothermal heat flux from measured temperature profiles in deep ice boreholes in Antarctica17
Wave dispersion and dissipation in landfast ice: comparison of observations against models17
An exploratory modelling study of perennial firn aquifers in the Antarctic Peninsula for the period 1979–201617
Deciphering the evolution of the Bleis Marscha rock glacier (Val d'Err, eastern Switzerland) with cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating, aerial image correlation, and finite element modeling17
Snow conditions in northern Europe: the dynamics of interannual variability versus projected long-term change17
A distributed temperature profiling system for vertically and laterally dense acquisition of soil and snow temperature17
Glacier and rock glacier changes since the 1950s in the La Laguna catchment, Chile17
Investigating the internal structure of the Antarctic ice sheet: the utility of isochrones for spatiotemporal ice-sheet model calibration17
Geodetic point surface mass balances: a new approach to determine point surface mass balances on glaciers from remote sensing measurements17
Inferring the basal sliding coefficient field for the Stokes ice sheet model under rheological uncertainty17
River ice phenology and thickness from satellite altimetry: potential for ice bridge road operation and climate studies17
The role of sublimation as a driver of climate signals in the water isotope content of surface snow: laboratory and field experimental results17
An assessment of basal melt parameterisations for Antarctic ice shelves17
The case of a southern European glacier which survived Roman and medieval warm periods but is disappearing under recent warming17
Record summer rains in 2019 led to massive loss of surface and cave ice in SE Europe17
Distributed summer air temperatures across mountain glaciers in the south-east Tibetan Plateau: temperature sensitivity and comparison with existing glacier datasets17
Formation of ribbed bedforms below shear margins and lobes of palaeo-ice streams16
Effect of small-scale snow surface roughness on snow albedo and reflectance16
Insights into a remote cryosphere: a multi-method approach to assess permafrost occurrence at the Qugaqie basin, western Nyainqêntanglha Range, Tibetan Plateau16
Diverging responses of high-latitude CO<sub>2</sub> and CH<sub>4</sub> emissions in idealized climate change scenarios16
Refining the sea surface identification approach for determining freeboards in the ICESat-2 sea ice products16
Mapping liquid water content in snow at the millimeter scale: an intercomparison of mixed-phase optical property models using hyperspectral imaging and in situ measurements16
Anthropogenic and internal drivers of wind changes over the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica, during the 20th and 21st centuries16
Spatio-temporal flow variations driving heat exchange processes at a mountain glacier16
Measurements and modeling of snow albedo at Alerce Glacier, Argentina: effects of volcanic ash, snow grain size, and cloudiness16
Convolutional neural network and long short-term memory models for ice-jam predictions16
Linking sea ice deformation to ice thickness redistribution using high-resolution satellite and airborne observations16
Wave–sea-ice interactions in a brittle rheological framework16
An X-ray micro-tomographic study of the pore space, permeability and percolation threshold of young sea ice15
Soil infiltration characteristics and pore distribution under freezing–thawing conditions15
Impact of lateral groundwater flow on hydrothermal conditions of the active layer in a high-Arctic hillslope setting15
A new automatic approach for extracting glacier centerlines based on Euclidean allocation15
Brief communication: Reduction in the future Greenland ice sheet surface melt with the help of solar geoengineering15
The effect of changing sea ice on wave climate trends along Alaska's central Beaufort Sea coast15
Rain on snow (ROS) understudied in sea ice remote sensing: a multi-sensor analysis of ROS during MOSAiC (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate)15
Seasonal land-ice-flow variability in the Antarctic Peninsula15
The instantaneous impact of calving and thinning on the Larsen C Ice Shelf15
Recent acceleration of Denman Glacier (1972–2017), East Antarctica, driven by grounding line retreat and changes in ice tongue configuration15
The transferability of adjoint inversion products between different ice flow models15
DeepBedMap: a deep neural network for resolving the bed topography of Antarctica15
Modelling steady states and the transient response of debris-covered glaciers15
TermPicks: a century of Greenland glacier terminus data for use in scientific and machine learning applications14
Towards accurate quantification of ice content in permafrost of the Central Andes – Part 1: Geophysics-based estimates from three different regions14
Long-term surface energy balance of the western Greenland Ice Sheet and the role of large-scale circulation variability14
Early spring subglacial discharge plumes fuel under-ice primary production at a Svalbard tidewater glacier14
Evaluation of Northern Hemisphere snow water equivalent in CMIP6 models during 1982–201414
Evaluation of a new snow albedo scheme for the Greenland ice sheet in the Regional Atmospheric Climate Model (RACMO2)14
New insights into radiative transfer within sea ice derived from autonomous optical propagation measurements14
Accumulation of legacy fallout radionuclides in cryoconite on Isfallsglaciären (Arctic Sweden) and their downstream spatial distribution14
Downscaled surface mass balance in Antarctica: impacts of subsurface processes and large-scale atmospheric circulation14
Seasonal changes in sea ice kinematics and deformation in the Pacific sector of the Arctic Ocean in 2018/1914
Impact of the melt–albedo feedback on the future evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet with PISM-dEBM-simple14
Presentation and evaluation of the Arctic sea ice forecasting system neXtSIM-F14
Convective heat transfer of spring meltwater accelerates active layer phase change in Tibet permafrost areas14
Ground-penetrating radar imaging reveals glacier's drainage network in 3D14
Towards a swath-to-swath sea-ice drift product for the Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer mission14
Lasting impact of winds on Arctic sea ice through the ocean's memory14
Detecting seasonal ice dynamics in satellite images14
The role of vadose zone physics in the ecohydrological response of a Tibetan meadow to freeze–thaw cycles14
Multi-decadal (1953–2017) rock glacier kinematics analysed by high-resolution topographic data in the upper Kaunertal, Austria14
Numerical modelling of permafrost spring discharge and open-system pingo formation induced by basal permafrost aggradation14
Measuring the state and temporal evolution of glaciers in Alaska and Yukon using synthetic-aperture-radar-derived (SAR-derived) 3D time series of glacier surface flow14
The influence of föhn winds on annual and seasonal surface melt on the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica14
Layered seawater intrusion and melt under grounded ice13
The role of föhn winds in eastern Antarctic Peninsula rapid ice shelf collapse13
Microstructure, micro-inclusions, and mineralogy along the EGRIP ice core – Part 1: Localisation of inclusions and deformation patterns13
Winter drainage of surface lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet from Sentinel-1 SAR imagery13
The Holocene dynamics of Ryder Glacier and ice tongue in north Greenland13
The role of grain size evolution in the rheology of ice: implications for reconciling laboratory creep data and the Glen flow law13
Contrasting geophysical signatures of a relict and an intact Andean rock glacier13
The Antarctic Coastal Current in the Bellingshausen Sea13
Brief communication: New evidence further constraining Tibetan ice core chronologies to the Holocene13
Representative surface snow density on the East Antarctic Plateau13
A method for solving heat transfer with phase change in ice or soil that allows for large time steps while guaranteeing energy conservation13
Proglacial icings as records of winter hydrological processes13
Gulf of Alaska ice-marginal lake area change over the Landsat record and potential physical controls13
Snow depth time series retrieval by time-lapse photography: Finnish and Italian case studies13
Local-scale deposition of surface snow on the Greenland ice sheet13
Response of downstream lakes to Aru glacier collapses on the western Tibetan Plateau13
European heat waves 2022: contribution to extreme glacier melt in Switzerland inferred from automated ablation readings13
Assessing volumetric change distributions and scaling relations of retrogressive thaw slumps across the Arctic13
Radiocarbon dating of alpine ice cores with the dissolved organic carbon (DOC) fraction13
Brief communication: Improving ERA5-Land soil temperature in permafrost regions using an optimized multi-layer snow scheme13
Brief communication: Heterogenous thinning and subglacial lake activity on Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica13
Contribution of ground ice melting to the expansion of Selin Co (lake) on the Tibetan Plateau13
Altimetric observation of wave attenuation through the Antarctic marginal ice zone using ICESat-213
Deriving Arctic 2 m air temperatures over snow and ice from satellite surface temperature measurements13
Upstream flow effects revealed in the EastGRIP ice core using Monte Carlo inversion of a two-dimensional ice-flow model13
Flexural and compressive strength of the landfast sea ice in the Prydz Bay, East Antarctic12
An indicator of sea ice variability for the Antarctic marginal ice zone12
Simulating optical top-of-atmosphere radiance satellite images over snow-covered rugged terrain12
Arctic sea ice sensitivity to lateral melting representation in a coupled climate model12
Controls of outbursts of moraine-dammed lakes in the greater Himalayan region12
Interfacial supercooling and the precipitation of hydrohalite in frozen NaCl solutions as seen by X-ray absorption spectroscopy12
Evaluation of sea-ice thickness from four reanalyses in the Antarctic Weddell Sea12
Analyzing glacier retreat and mass balances using aerial and UAV photogrammetry in the Ötztal Alps, Austria12
Satellite passive microwave sea-ice concentration data set intercomparison using Landsat data12
Recent changes in pan-Antarctic region surface snowmelt detected by AMSR-E and AMSR212
Characterizing the sea-ice floe size distribution in the Canada Basin from high-resolution optical satellite imagery12
GBaTSv2: a revised synthesis of the likely basal thermal state of the Greenland Ice Sheet12
Experimental and model-based investigation of the links between snow bidirectional reflectance and snow microstructure12
Seasonal evolution of Antarctic supraglacial lakes in 2015–2021 and links to environmental controls12
Rapid and accurate polarimetric radar measurements of ice crystal fabric orientation at the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide ice core site12
Heterogeneous CO<sub>2</sub> and CH<sub>4</sub> content of glacial meltwater from the Greenland Ice Sheet and implications for subglacial carbon12
Multi-decadal analysis of past winter temperature, precipitation and snow cover data in the European Alps from reanalyses, climate models and observational datasets12
Challenges in predicting Greenland supraglacial lake drainages at the regional scale12
Spectral attenuation coefficients from measurements of light transmission in bare ice on the Greenland Ice Sheet12
Climate warming shortens ice durations and alters freeze and break-up patterns in Swedish water bodies12
Pervasive diffusion of climate signals recorded in ice-vein ionic impurities11
Significant mass loss in the accumulation area of the Adamello glacier indicated by the chronology of a 46 m ice core11
Variability in Antarctic surface climatology across regional climate models and reanalysis datasets11
Brief communication: Evaluation of the snow cover detection in the Copernicus High Resolution Snow & Ice Monitoring Service11
The diurnal Energy Balance Model (dEBM): a convenient surface mass balance solution for ice sheets in Earth system modeling11
Brief communication: A continuous formulation of microwave scattering from fresh snow to bubbly ice from first principles11
Evaluation of snow extent time series derived from Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer global area coverage data (1982–2018) in the Hindu Kush Himalayas11
A comparison of the stability and performance of depth-integrated ice-dynamics solvers11
Surface composition of debris-covered glaciers across the Himalaya using linear spectral unmixing of Landsat 8 OLI imagery11
Nunataks as barriers to ice flow: implications for palaeo ice sheet reconstructions11
Behavior of saline ice under cyclic flexural loading11
High-resolution inventory to capture glacier disintegration in the Austrian Silvretta11
Energetics of surface melt in West Antarctica11
Fractionation of O<sub>2</sub>∕N<sub>2</sub> and Ar∕N<sub>2</sub> in the Antarctic ice sheet during bubble formation11
Lateral thermokarst patterns in permafrost peat plateaus in northern Norway11
Subglacial carbonate deposits as a potential proxy for a glacier's former presence11
Acoustic velocity measurements for detecting the crystal orientation fabrics of a temperate ice core11
Sentinel-1 time series for mapping snow cover depletion and timing of snowmelt in Arctic periglacial environments: case study from Zackenberg and Kobbefjord, Greenland11
Downhole distributed acoustic seismic profiling at Skytrain Ice Rise, West Antarctica11
Modelling supraglacial debris-cover evolution from the single-glacier to the regional scale: an application to High Mountain Asia11
Recent changes in pan-Arctic sea ice, lake ice, and snow-on/off timing11
Influences of changing sea ice and snow thicknesses on simulated Arctic winter heat fluxes11
Mapping the aerodynamic roughness of the Greenland Ice Sheet surface using ICESat-2: evaluation over the K-transect11
Subglacial hydrology modulates basal sliding response of the Antarctic ice sheet to climate forcing11
Accelerated mobilization of organic carbon from retrogressive thaw slumps on the northern Taymyr Peninsula11
Slowdown of Shirase Glacier, East Antarctica, caused by strengthening alongshore winds11
Resolving glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) in response to modern and future ice loss at marine grounding lines in West Antarctica11
Sea ice drift and arch evolution in the Robeson Channel using the daily coverage of Sentinel-1 SAR data for the 2016–2017 freezing season11
Mid-Holocene thinning of David Glacier, Antarctica: chronology and controls11
Recovering and monitoring the thickness, density, and elastic properties of sea ice from seismic noise recorded in Svalbard10
Thinning leads to calving-style changes at Bowdoin Glacier, Greenland10
Change in Antarctic ice shelf area from 2009 to 201910
Rapid sea ice changes in the future Barents Sea10
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