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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Comparing elevation and backscatter retrievals from CryoSat-2 and ICESat-2 over Arctic summer sea ice101
Spatially heterogeneous effect of climate warming on the Arctic land ice63
Impact of atmospheric forcing uncertainties on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice simulations in CMIP6 OMIP models61
Quantifying the uncertainty in the Eurasian ice-sheet geometry at the Penultimate Glacial Maximum (Marine Isotope Stage 6)55
Brief communication: Monitoring active layer dynamics using a lightweight nimble ground-penetrating radar system – a laboratory analogue test case55
A comparison between Envisat and ICESat sea ice thickness in the Southern Ocean53
Ice-shelf freshwater triggers for the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf melt tipping point in a global ocean–sea-ice model52
A model framework for atmosphere–snow water vapor exchange and the associated isotope effects at Dome Argus, Antarctica – Part 1: The diurnal changes50
Brief communication: Tritium concentration and age of firn accumulation in an ice cave of Mount Olympus (Greece)48
Partial melting in polycrystalline ice: pathways identified in 3D neutron tomographic images46
Modelling cold firn evolution at Colle Gnifetti, Swiss/Italian Alps43
Similarities between sea ice area variations and satellite-derived terrestrial biosphere and cryosphere parameters across the Arctic38
Changes in 1958–2019 Greenland surface mass balance are attributable to both greenhouse gases and anthropogenic aerosols36
Extensive and anomalous grounding line retreat at Vanderford Glacier, Vincennes Bay, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica34
Seasonal glacier motion variations and underlying hydro-mechanical processes at Glacier d'Argentière, French Alps34
Mechanisms and impacts of anomalous high-salinity shelf water formation in the Ross Sea33
Variability in Antarctic surface climatology across regional climate models and reanalysis datasets33
Age, thinning and spatial origin of the Beyond EPICA ice from a 2.5D ice flow model32
Ice motion across incised fjord landscapes32
The role of snowmelt, glacier melt and rainfall in streamflow dynamics on James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula32
Seasonal land-ice-flow variability in the Antarctic Peninsula31
Disentangling the drivers of future Antarctic ice loss with a historically calibrated ice-sheet model31
Improving climate model skill over High Mountain Asia by adapting snow cover parameterization to complex-topography areas31
Benchmarking of snow water equivalent (SWE) products based on outcomes of the SnowPEx+ Intercomparison Project31
Sea ice reduction in the Barents–Kara Sea enhances June precipitation in the Yangtze River basin31
Observing the evolution of summer melt on multiyear sea ice with ICESat-2 and Sentinel-230
Evolution of Maud Rise Polynya during the last 250 years – a multiproxy ice core reconstruction from coastal Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica30
Freshly calved icebergs from Sermeq Kujalleq in Kangia, Greenland: is their blue ice temperate?30
Spectral induced polarization survey for the estimation of hydrogeological parameters in an active rock glacier30
Mapping Antarctic crevasses and their evolution with deep learning applied to satellite radar imagery30
Investigating the drivers of wintertime Southern Ocean sea-ice leads using random forest algorithms30
Responses of the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers to melt and sliding parameterizations29
European heat waves 2022: contribution to extreme glacier melt in Switzerland inferred from automated ablation readings29
Evaluating Greenland surface-mass-balance and firn-densification data using ICESat-2 altimetry29
Learning to melt: Emulating Greenland surface melt from a polar RCM with machine learning29
An assessment of Antarctic sea-ice thickness in CMIP6 simulations with comparison to the satellite-based observations and reanalyses28
Grain-size evolution controls the accumulation dependence of modelled firn thickness28
Mapping the extent of giant Antarctic icebergs with deep learning28
Brief communication: Storstrømmen Glacier, northeastern Greenland, primed for end-of-decade surge27
Retrieval of atmospheric water vapor and temperature profiles over Antarctica from satellite microwave observations using an iterative approach27
Widespread increase in discharge from west Antarctic Peninsula glaciers since 201827
Greenland Monthly Accumulation Maps (1960–2022): A Statistical Semi-Empirical Bias-Adjustment Model27
ICESat-2 surface elevation assessment with kinematic GPS and static GNSS near the ice divide in Greenland27
Rapid regional assessment of rock glacier activity based on DInSAR wrapped-phase signal27
The radiative and geometric properties of melting first-year landfast sea ice in the Arctic27
Inferring the ice sheet sliding law from seismic observations: A Pine Island Glacier case study27
Temporal markers in a temperate ice core: insights from 3 H and 137 Cs profiles from the Adamello 27
A prototype passive microwave retrieval algorithm for tundra snow density27
Sensitivity of modeled snow grain size retrievals to solar geometry, snow particle asphericity, and snowpack impurities27
Characterizing sea ice melt pond fraction and geometry in relation to surface morphology27
The role of atmospheric conditions in the Antarctic sea ice extent summer minima26
Warm proglacial lake temperatures and thermal undercutting enhance rapid retreat of an Arctic glacier26
Quantification of capillary rise dynamics in snow using neutron radiography26
Characteristics and rarity of the strong 1940s westerly wind event over the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica26
Impact of icebergs on the seasonal submarine melt of Sermeq Kujalleq26
Brief communication: Recent estimates of glacier mass loss for western North America from laser altimetry25
Competing processes determine the long-term impact of basal friction parameterizations for Antarctic mass loss25
Sources of low-frequency variability in observed Antarctic sea ice25
Suitability of the CICE sea ice model for seasonal prediction and positive impact of CryoSat-2 ice thickness initialization25
Spaceborne thermal infrared observations of Arctic sea ice leads at 30 m resolution25
An unseasonal atmospheric river drives anomalous summer snow accumulation on glaciers of the subtropical Andes25
A comparison of supraglacial meltwater features throughout contrasting melt seasons: southwest Greenland24
Brief communication: Daily, gap-free snow cover information based on a combination of NPP VIIRS and MODIS data24
GLAcier Feature Tracking testkit (GLAFT): a statistically and physically based framework for evaluating glacier velocity products derived from optical satellite image feature tracking24
Distributed surface mass balance of an avalanche-fed glacier24
Southern Ocean sea-ice leads: first insights into regional lead patterns, seasonality, and trends, 2003–202323
Permafrost sensitivity to soil hydro-thermodynamics in historical and scenario simulations with the MPI-ESM23
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 excluded23
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
Assimilation of radar freeboard and snow altimetry observations in the Arctic and Antarctic with a coupled ocean/sea ice modelling system23
An analysis of the interaction between surface and basal crevasses in ice shelves23
Lake volume and potential hazards of moraine-dammed glacial lakes – a case study of Bienong Co, southeastern Tibetan Plateau23
Climatology and surface impacts of atmospheric rivers on West Antarctica23
Brief communication: Two-year MRR observations at Great Wall Station, Antarctic Peninsula region23
First observations of sea ice flexural–gravity waves with ground-based radar interferometry in Utqiaġvik, Alaska22
Glacier surge activity over Svalbard from 1992 to 2025 interpreted using heritage satellite radar missions and Sentinel-122
A quasi-one-dimensional ice mélange flow model based on continuum descriptions of granular materials22
A framework for time-dependent ice sheet uncertainty quantification, applied to three West Antarctic ice streams22
Arctic glacier snowline altitudes rise 150 m over the last 4 decades22
Topology and spatial-pressure-distribution reconstruction of an englacial channel22
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 glaciers21
Unlocking the potential of melting calorimetry: a field protocol for liquid water content measurement in snow21
Brief communication: New perspectives on the skill of modelled sea ice trends in light of recent Antarctic sea ice loss21
Mapping seasonal snow melting in Karakoram using SAR and topographic data21
Ice shelf calving due to shear stresses: observing the response of Brunt Ice Shelf and Halloween Crack to iceberg calving using ICESat-2 laser altimetry, satellite imagery, and ice flow models20
Sensitivity of the Ross Ice Shelf to environmental and glaciological controls20
Ice fabrics in two-dimensional flows: beyond pure and simple shear20
Seasonality in terminus ablation rates for the glaciers in Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat)20
Development and fluctuation of crystal orientation fabric in the deep sections of the Dome Fuji ice core, Antarctica: impacts of dust particles and migration recrystallization20
Deep clustering in subglacial radar reflectance reveals subglacial lakes20
Simple analytical–statistical models (ASMs) for mean annual permafrost table temperature and active-layer thickness estimates20
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)19
Influence of snow spatial variability on cosmic ray neutron snow water equivalent (SWE): case study in a northern prairie19
Evaluation of the Snow Climate Change Initiative (Snow CCI) snow-covered area product within a mountain snow water equivalent reanalysis19
Automatic detection of Arctic polynyas using hybrid supervised-unsupervised deep learning19
Surface nuclear magnetic resonance for studying an englacial channel on Rhonegletscher (Switzerland): possibilities and limitations in a high-noise environment19
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)19
Automated snow cover detection on mountain glaciers using spaceborne imagery and machine learning19
MMSeaIce: a collection of techniques for improving sea ice mapping with a multi-task model19
Estimating degree-day factors of snow based on energy flux components19
Review article: Feature tracing in radio-echo sounding products of terrestrial ice sheets and planetary bodies18
Snow cover prediction in the Italian central Apennines using weather forecast and land surface numerical models18
Assimilating CryoSat-2 freeboard to improve Arctic sea ice thickness estimates18
Modelling snowpack on ice surfaces with the ORCHIDEE land surface model: application to the Greenland ice sheet18
Improved monitoring of subglacial lake activity in Greenland18
Insights into microphysical and optical properties of typical mineral dust within urban snowpack via wet and dry deposition in Changchun, northeastern China18
Constraining regional glacier reconstructions using past ice thickness of deglaciating areas – a case study in the European Alps18
Modeling of surface energy balance for Icelandic glaciers using remote-sensing albedo18
Reanalysis of the longest mass balance series in Himalaya using a nonlinear model: Chhota Shigri Glacier (India)18
Seasonal and interannual variability in freshwater sources for Greenland's fjords18
Data-driven surrogate modeling of high-resolution sea-ice thickness in the Arctic18
Snowmelt characterization from optical and synthetic-aperture radar observations in the La Joie Basin, British Columbia18
Brief communication: The Glacier Loss Day as an indicator of a record-breaking negative glacier mass balance in 202218
Brief communication: Rapid  ∼  335  ×  10 6  m 3 bed erosion after detachment of the Sedongpu Glac18
ITS_LIVE global glacier velocity data in near-real time18
Evaporative controls on Antarctic precipitation: an ECHAM6 model study using innovative water tracer diagnostics18
Wave erosion, frontal bending, and calving at Ross Ice Shelf18
Brief communication: Tropical glaciers on Puncak Jaya (Irian Jaya/West Papua, Indonesia) close to extinction18
Will landscape responses reduce glacier sensitivity to climate change in High Mountain Asia?17
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
Reconstructing dynamics of the Baltic Ice Stream Complex during deglaciation of the Last Scandinavian Ice Sheet17
Stochastic modelling of thermokarst lakes: size distributions and dynamic regimes17
A thinner-than-present West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the southern Weddell Sea Embayment during the Holocene17
Improved permafrost modelling in mountain environments by including air convection in a hydrological model17
Impact of atmospheric rivers on Arctic sea ice variations17
Southwest Greenland supraglacial lake bathymetry derived from ICESat-2 and spectral stratification of satellite imagery17
Sensitivity of iceberg drift and deterioration simulations to input data from different ocean, sea ice and atmosphere models in the Barents Sea17
Feasibility of retrieving Arctic sea ice thickness from the Chinese HY-2B Ku-band radar altimeter17
Sea ice albedo bounded data assimilation and its impact on modeling: a regional approach17
Using deep learning and multi-source remote sensing images to map landlocked lakes in Antarctica17
Leveraging snow probe data, lidar, and machine learning for snow depth estimation in complex-terrain environments16
Analyzing the sensitivity of a blowing snow model (SnowPappus) to precipitation forcing, blowing snow, and spatial resolution16
Quantifying the effects of background concentrations of crude oil pollution on sea ice albedo16
Multi-decadal analysis of past winter temperature, precipitation and snow cover data in the European Alps from reanalyses, climate models and observational datasets16
Impact of boundary conditions on the modeled thermal regime of the Antarctic ice sheet16
Slowdown of Shirase Glacier, East Antarctica, caused by strengthening alongshore winds16
Modelling the evolution of Arctic multiyear sea ice over 2000–201816
Brief communication: Rapid acceleration of the Brunt Ice Shelf after calving of iceberg A-8116
Assessing uncertainties in modeling the climate of the Siberian frozen soils by contrasting CMIP6 and LS3MIP16
A cold laboratory hyperspectral imaging system to map grain size and ice layer distributions in firn cores16
Dual-frequency radar observations of snowmelt processes on Antarctic perennial sea ice by CFOSCAT and ASCAT16
Inland migration of near-surface crevasses in the Amundsen Sea Sector, West Antarctica16
Estimating the uncertainty of sea-ice area and sea-ice extent from satellite retrievals16
On the sensitivity of sea ice deformation statistics to plastic damage16
In situ 10 Be modeling and terrain analysis constrain subglacial quarrying and abrasion rates at Sermeq Kujalleq (Jakobshavn Isbræ), Greenland16
Viscoelastic mechanics of tidally induced lake drainage in the grounding zone15
Assessment of the impact of dam reservoirs on river ice cover – an example from the Carpathians (central Europe)15
A study of sea ice topography in the Weddell and Ross seas using dual-polarimetric TanDEM-X imagery15
Quantifying frost-weathering-induced damage in alpine rocks15
Monitoring Arctic thin ice: a comparison between CryoSat-2 SAR altimetry data and MODIS thermal-infrared imagery15
Modeling the impacts of climate trends and lake formation on the retreat of a tropical Andean glacier (1962–2020)15
Predicting ocean-induced ice-shelf melt rates using deep learning15
Sublimation measurements of tundra and taiga snowpack in Alaska15
Local-scale variability in snow chemistry drives distinct microbial communities in Alpine seasonal snowpack15
Simulating ice segregation and thaw consolidation in permafrost environments with the CryoGrid community model15
Subglacial discharge effects on basal melting of a rotating, idealized ice shelf15
Multi-frequency altimetry snow depth estimates over heterogeneous snow-covered Antarctic summer sea ice – Part 1: C∕S-, Ku-, and Ka-band airborne observations15
Detection of ice core particles via deep neural networks15
Uncertainty of the satellite-retrieved sea-ice area record and its trend15
Modelling glacier mass balance and climate sensitivity in the context of sparse observations: application to Saskatchewan Glacier, western Canada15
The contribution of Humboldt Glacier, northern Greenland, to sea-level rise through 2100 constrained by recent observations of speedup and retreat15
Sea ice concentration estimates from ICESat-2 linear ice fraction – Part 1: Multi-sensor comparison of sea ice concentration products14
Extensive palaeo-surfaces beneath the Evans–Rutford region of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet control modern and past ice flow14
Assessing the seasonal evolution of snow depth spatial variability and scaling in complex mountain terrain14
Signature of the stratosphere–troposphere coupling on recent record-breaking Antarctic sea-ice anomalies14
Exploring ice sheet model sensitivity to ocean thermal forcing and basal sliding using the Community Ice Sheet Model (CISM)14
Feedback mechanisms controlling Antarctic glacial-cycle dynamics simulated with a coupled ice sheet–solid Earth model14
El Niño enhances snow-line rise and ice loss on the Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru14
Two-way coupling between ice flow and channelized subglacial drainage enhances modeled marine-ice-sheet retreat14
Review article: Retrogressive thaw slump characteristics and terminology14
Subglacial hydrology regulates oscillations in marine ice streams14
Surging of a Hudson Strait-scale ice stream: subglacial hydrology matters but the process details mostly do not14
Sentinel-1 detection of ice slabs on the Greenland Ice Sheet14
Fifty years of firn evolution on Grigoriev ice cap, Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan14
Air clathrate hydrates in the EDML ice core, Antarctica14
Bathymetry-constrained impact of relative sea-level change on basal melting in Antarctica14
Fine-scale variability in iceberg velocity fields and implications for an ice-associated pinniped14
Unravelling the sources of uncertainty in glacier runoff projections in the Patagonian Andes (40–56° S)14
Greenland's firn responds more to warming than to cooling14
A collection of wet beam models for wave–ice interaction14
Mass changes of the Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet and peripheral glaciers, 2007–202113
Direct measurement of warm Atlantic Intermediate Water close to the grounding line of Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden (79° N) Glacier, northeast Greenland13
Subglacial hydrology modulates basal sliding response of the Antarctic ice sheet to climate forcing13
The evolution of Arctic permafrost over the last 3 centuries from ensemble simulations with the CryoGridLite permafrost model13
Seasonal snow–atmosphere modeling: let's do it13
The collapse of the Cordilleran–Laurentide ice saddle and early opening of the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada, constrained by 10 Be 13
Estimating the thermodynamic contribution of post-industrial warming to recent Greenland ice sheet surface mass loss13
Ensemble numerical simulation of permafrost thermal regimes over the Tibetan Plateau using the Flexible Permafrost Model: 1950–202313
Summer sea ice floe perimeter density in the Arctic: high-resolution optical satellite imagery and model evaluation13
Automated ArcticDEM iceberg detection tool: insights into area and volume distributions, and their potential application to satellite imagery and modelling of glacier–iceberg–ocean systems13
Projecting the response of Greenland's peripheral glaciers to future climate change: glacier losses, sea level impact, freshwater contributions, and peak water timing13
Using Icepack to reproduce ice mass balance buoy observations in landfast ice: improvements from the mushy-layer thermodynamics13
Observing glacier elevation changes from spaceborne optical and radar sensors – an inter-comparison experiment using ASTER and TanDEM-X data13
The AutoICE Challenge13
Snow water equivalent retrieval over Idaho – Part 2: Using L-band UAVSAR repeat-pass interferometry13
Snow stratigraphy observations from Operation IceBridge surveys in Alaska using S and C band airborne ultra-wideband FMCW (frequency-modulated continuous wave) radar13
Mapping and characterization of avalanches on mountain glaciers with Sentinel-1 satellite imagery13
Forest disturbances and their impact on ground surface temperatures in permafrost-underlain forest in central Mongolia13
Quantifying degradation of the Imja Lake moraine dam with fused InSAR and SAR feature tracking time series13
A unified framework for large-scale fabric evolution models and anisotropic rheologies13
Analysis of long-term dynamic changes of subglacial lakes in the Recovery Ice Stream, Antarctica13
Wind conditions for snow cornice formation in a wind tunnel13
Brief communication: Sea-level projections, adaptation planning, and actionable science13
Influence of fast ice on future ice shelf melting in the Totten Glacier area, East Antarctica13
Widespread slowdown in thinning rates of West Antarctic ice shelves13
Twenty-first century global glacier evolution under CMIP6 scenarios and the role of glacier-specific observations13
A topographically controlled tipping point for complete Greenland ice sheet melt13
Seasonality and scenario dependence of rapid Arctic sea ice loss events in CMIP6 simulations13
Control of the temperature signal in Antarctic proxies by snowfall dynamics13
Assessment of Arctic seasonal snow cover rates of change13
Active-passive microwave scattering in the Antarctica wind-glazed region: an analog for icy moons of Saturn13
Ice plate deformation and cracking revealed by an in situ-distributed acoustic sensing array12
Modelling GNSS-observed seasonal velocity changes of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, using the Ice-sheet and Sea-level System Model (ISSM)12
Investigating seasonal and multi-decadal water/ice storage changes in the Murtèl rock glacier using time-lapse gravimetry12
Finely resolved along-track wave attenuation estimates in the Antarctic marginal ice zone from ICESat-212
Spatiotemporal snow water storage uncertainty in the midlatitude American Cordillera12
Geometric amplification and suppression of ice-shelf basal melt in West Antarctica12
Evidence of active subglacial lakes under a slowly moving coastal region of the Antarctic Ice Sheet12
Future changes in Antarctic near-surface winds: regional variability and key drivers under a high-emission scenario12
Geothermal heat source estimations through ice flow modelling at Mýrdalsjökull, Iceland12
Glacial ring forms on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada12
On the evolution of an ice shelf melt channel at the base of Filchner Ice Shelf, from observations and viscoelastic modeling12
Wave-triggered breakup in the marginal ice zone generates lognormal floe size distributions: a simulation study12
First results of the polar regional climate model RACMO2.412
Drainage and refill of an Antarctic Peninsula subglacial lake reveal an active subglacial hydrological network12
Brief communication: Identification of tundra topsoil frozen/thawed state from SMAP and GCOM-W1 radiometer measurements using the spectral gradient method12
Towards long-term records of rain-on-snow events across the Arctic from satellite data12
Impact of non-normal flow rule on linear kinematic features in pan-Arctic ice-ocean simulations12
Greenland and Canadian Arctic ice temperature profiles database12
Brief communication: Bed mapping of southern Greenland outlet glaciers using helicopter-borne ground penetrating radar (AIRETH)12
Everest South Col Glacier did not thin during the period 1984–201712
Thermal infrared shadow-hiding in GOES-R ABI imagery: snow and forest temperature observations from the SnowEx 2020 Grand Mesa field campaign12
Arctic regional changes revealed by clustering of sea-ice observations12
Basal unit radar characteristics at the southern flank of Dome A, East Antarctica11
Channelized, distributed, and disconnected: spatial structure and temporal evolution of the subglacial drainage under a valley glacier in the Yukon11
A computationally efficient statistically downscaled 100 m resolution Greenland product from the regional climate model MAR11
Thwaites Glacier thins and retreats fastest where ice-shelf channels intersect its grounding zone11
Assessing the key concerns in snow storage: a case study for China11
Annual evolution of the ice–ocean interaction beneath landfast ice in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica11
Lake ice break-up in Greenland: timing and spatiotemporal variability11
Tower-based C-band radar measurements of an alpine snowpack11
Ice floe segmentation and floe size distribution in airborne and high-resolution optical satellite images: towards an automated labelling deep learning approach11
Characterization of non-Gaussianity in the snow distributions of various landscapes11
Multi-annual and seasonal patterns of Murtèl rock glacier borehole deformation, environmental controls and implications for kinematic monitoring11
Alpine topography of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains, Antarctica, mapped from ice sheet surface morphology11
Alps-wide high-resolution 3D modelling reconstruction of glacier geometry and climatic conditions for the Little Ice Age11
Brief communication: Mountain permafrost acts as an aquitard during an infiltration experiment monitored with electrical resistivity tomography time-lapse measurements11
Updated Arctic melt pond fraction dataset and trends 2002–2023 using ENVISAT and Sentinel-3 remote sensing data11
Changes in March mean snow water equivalent since the mid-20th century and the contributing factors in reanalyses and CMIP6 climate models11
Out-of-the-box calving-front detection method using deep learning11
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