Cryosphere

Papers
(The TQCC of Cryosphere is 10. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Partial melting in polycrystalline ice: pathways identified in 3D neutron tomographic images214
Spatiotemporal snow water storage uncertainty in the midlatitude American Cordillera124
Research into mechanical modeling based on characteristics of the fracture mechanics of ice cutting for scientific drilling in polar regions85
A comparison between Envisat and ICESat sea ice thickness in the Southern Ocean77
Change in the potential snowfall phenology: past, present, and future in the Chinese Tianshan mountainous region, Central Asia77
Observed mechanism for sustained glacier retreat and acceleration in response to ocean warming around Greenland68
Evaluating Greenland surface-mass-balance and firn-densification data using ICESat-2 altimetry57
Causes and evolution of winter polynyas north of Greenland53
Impacts of snow assimilation on seasonal snow and meteorological forecasts for the Tibetan Plateau52
Direct measurement of warm Atlantic Intermediate Water close to the grounding line of Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden (79° N) Glacier, northeast Greenland49
Towards modelling of corrugation ridges at ice-sheet grounding lines49
Analysis of microseismicity in sea ice with deep learning and Bayesian inference: application to high-resolution thickness monitoring49
Brief communication: Glacier mapping and change estimation using very high-resolution declassified Hexagon KH-9 panoramic stereo imagery (1971–1984)48
Surface processes and drivers of the snow water stable isotopic composition at Dome C, East Antarctica – a multi-dataset and modelling analysis47
Local analytical optimal nudging for assimilating AMSR2 sea ice concentration in a high-resolution pan-Arctic coupled ocean (HYCOM 2.2.98) and sea ice (CICE 5.1.2) model46
Environmental spaces for palsas and peat plateaus are disappearing at a circumpolar scale46
A lead-width distribution for Antarctic sea ice: a case study for the Weddell Sea with high-resolution Sentinel-2 images45
Mapping seasonal glacier melt across the Hindu Kush Himalaya with time series synthetic aperture radar (SAR)45
A seasonal algorithm of the snow-covered area fraction for mountainous terrain44
Brief communication: Weak control of snow avalanche deposit volumes by avalanche path morphology43
Brief communication: Evaluation of the snow cover detection in the Copernicus High Resolution Snow & Ice Monitoring Service42
Wind-induced seismic noise at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station41
Image classification of marine-terminating outlet glaciers in Greenland using deep learning methods41
The potential of synthetic aperture radar interferometry for assessing meltwater lake dynamics on Antarctic ice shelves40
TanDEM-X PolarDEM 90 m of Antarctica: generation and error characterization37
Automated detection and analysis of surface calving waves with a terrestrial radar interferometer at the front of Eqip Sermia, Greenland36
Mapping the aerodynamic roughness of the Greenland Ice Sheet surface using ICESat-2: evaluation over the K-transect36
Contrasting surface velocities between lake- and land-terminating glaciers in the Himalayan region36
A generalized stress correction scheme for the Maxwell elasto-brittle rheology: impact on the fracture angles and deformations36
Brief communication: Increased glacier mass loss in the Russian High Arctic (2010–2017)35
Effect of snowfall on changes in relative seismic velocity measured by ambient noise correlation35
Automated mapping of the seasonal evolution of surface meltwater and its links to climate on the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica34
An improved sea ice detection algorithm using MODIS: application as a new European sea ice extent indicator33
The retrieval of snow properties from SLSTR Sentinel-3 – Part 1: Method description and sensitivity study33
Brief communication: Thwaites Glacier cavity evolution31
Spaceborne infrared imagery for early detection of Weddell Polynya opening30
Indication of high basal melting at the EastGRIP drill site on the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream30
Upstream flow effects revealed in the EastGRIP ice core using Monte Carlo inversion of a two-dimensional ice-flow model29
Energetics of surface melt in West Antarctica29
Recent observations of superimposed ice and snow ice on sea ice in the northwestern Weddell Sea29
Experimental and model-based investigation of the links between snow bidirectional reflectance and snow microstructure29
The distribution and evolution of supraglacial lakes on 79° N Glacier (north-eastern Greenland) and interannual climatic controls29
Thermal legacy of a large paleolake in Taylor Valley, East Antarctica, as evidenced by an airborne electromagnetic survey29
New insights into the drainage of inundated ice-wedge polygons using fundamental hydrologic principles28
Ground-penetrating radar imaging reveals glacier's drainage network in 3D28
Multiscale variations in Arctic sea ice motion and links to atmospheric and oceanic conditions28
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 flow25
High-resolution topography of the Antarctic Peninsula combining the TanDEM-X DEM and Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA) mosaic25
Creep and fracture of warm columnar freshwater ice25
Comment on “Exceptionally high heat flux needed to sustain the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream” by Smith-Johnsen et al. (2020)25
Evidence of active subglacial lakes under a slowly moving coastal region of the Antarctic Ice Sheet25
The Antarctic Coastal Current in the Bellingshausen Sea25
Surface temperatures and their influence on the permafrost thermal regime in high-Arctic rock walls on Svalbard25
Melt probabilities and surface temperature trends on the Greenland ice sheet using a Gaussian mixture model25
Modelling the mass budget and future evolution of Tunabreen, central Spitsbergen24
Long-term analysis of cryoseismic events and associated ground thermal stress in Adventdalen, Svalbard24
Can changes in deformation regimes be inferred from crystallographic preferred orientations in polar ice?24
The sensitivity of landfast sea ice to atmospheric forcing in single-column model simulations: a case study at Zhongshan Station, Antarctica24
Homogeneity assessment of Swiss snow depth series: comparison of break detection capabilities of (semi-)automatic homogenization methods24
Recent contrasting behaviour of mountain glaciers across the European High Arctic revealed by ArcticDEM data24
Cross-platform classification of level and deformed sea ice considering per-class incident angle dependency of backscatter intensity23
GNSS signal-based snow water equivalent determination for different snowpack conditions along a steep elevation gradient23
Long-period variability in ice-dammed glacier outburst floods due to evolving catchment geometry23
Physical and mechanical properties of winter first-year ice in the Antarctic marginal ice zone along the Good Hope Line23
Weakening of the pinning point buttressing Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica23
Ice-shelf ocean boundary layer dynamics from large-eddy simulations23
Recovering and monitoring the thickness, density, and elastic properties of sea ice from seismic noise recorded in Svalbard23
Climate warming shortens ice durations and alters freeze and break-up patterns in Swedish water bodies23
Dam type and lake location characterize ice-marginal lake area change in Alaska and NW Canada between 1984 and 201923
Empirical correction of systematic orthorectification error in Sentinel-2 velocity fields for Greenlandic outlet glaciers23
The Antarctic contribution to 21st-century sea-level rise predicted by the UK Earth System Model with an interactive ice sheet22
Seasonal land-ice-flow variability in the Antarctic Peninsula22
Inverting ice surface elevation and velocity for bed topography and slipperiness beneath Thwaites Glacier22
Modelling surface temperature and radiation budget of snow-covered complex terrain22
Ultrasonic and seismic constraints on crystallographic preferred orientations of the Priestley Glacier shear margin, Antarctica21
A data exploration tool for averaging and accessing large data sets of snow stratigraphy profiles useful for avalanche forecasting21
Development of crystal orientation fabric in the Dome Fuji ice core in East Antarctica: implications for the deformation regime in ice sheets21
Snow water equivalent change mapping from slope-correlated synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR) phase variations21
Molecular biomarkers in Batagay megaslump permafrost deposits reveal clear differences in organic matter preservation between glacial and interglacial periods21
Influences of changing sea ice and snow thicknesses on simulated Arctic winter heat fluxes21
A new state-dependent parameterization for the free drift of sea ice20
Thermal structure of the Amery Ice Shelf from borehole observations and simulations20
An evaluation of Antarctic sea-ice thickness from the Global Ice-Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System based on in situ and satellite observations20
The role of föhn winds in eastern Antarctic Peninsula rapid ice shelf collapse20
Brief communication: Application of a muonic cosmic ray snow gauge to monitor the snow water equivalent on alpine glaciers20
Propagating information from snow observations with CrocO ensemble data assimilation system: a 10-years case study over a snow depth observation network20
Pressurised water flow in fractured permafrost rocks revealed by borehole temperature, electrical resistivity tomography, and piezometric pressure19
Reanalyzing the spatial representativeness of snow depth at automated monitoring stations using airborne lidar data19
Comparing elevation and backscatter retrievals from CryoSat-2 and ICESat-2 over Arctic summer sea ice19
Brief communication: Identification of tundra topsoil frozen/thawed state from SMAP and GCOM-W1 radiometer measurements using the spectral gradient method19
Review article: Melt-affected ice cores for polar research in a warming world19
Towards the systematic reconnaissance of seismic signals from glaciers and ice sheets – Part 1: Event detection for cryoseismology19
The evolution of isolated cavities and hydraulic connection at the glacier bed – Part 2: A dynamic viscoelastic model19
Sensitivity of Antarctic surface climate to a new spectral snow albedo and radiative transfer scheme in RACMO2.3p319
Hydrological response of Andean catchments to recent glacier mass loss19
Observing the evolution of summer melt on multiyear sea ice with ICESat-2 and Sentinel-219
Geometric amplification and suppression of ice-shelf basal melt in West Antarctica19
Thermal infrared shadow-hiding in GOES-R ABI imagery: snow and forest temperature observations from the SnowEx 2020 Grand Mesa field campaign19
Convective heat transfer of spring meltwater accelerates active layer phase change in Tibet permafrost areas19
Influence of fast ice on future ice shelf melting in the Totten Glacier area, East Antarctica19
Regularization and L-curves in ice sheet inverse models: a case study in the Filchner–Ronne catchment19
Biases in ice sheet models from missing noise-induced drift18
Meltwater runoff and glacier mass balance in the high Arctic: 1991–2022 simulations for Svalbard18
Spectral induced polarization imaging to monitor seasonal and annual dynamics of frozen ground at a mountain permafrost site in the Italian Alps18
Change in Antarctic ice shelf area from 2009 to 201918
Arctic sea ice data assimilation combining an ensemble Kalman filter with a novel Lagrangian sea ice model for the winter 2019–202018
First results of the polar regional climate model RACMO2.418
Characterization of atmospheric methane release in the outer Mackenzie River delta from biogenic and thermogenic sources18
Quantifying the influence of snow over sea ice morphology on L-band passive microwave satellite observations in the Southern Ocean18
Towards long-term records of rain-on-snow events across the Arctic from satellite data18
Rapid sea ice changes in the future Barents Sea18
Ice-shelf freshwater triggers for the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf melt tipping point in a global ocean–sea-ice model18
Modeled variations in the inherent optical properties of summer Arctic ice and their effects on the radiation budget: a case based on ice cores from 2008 to 201617
Climatic control on seasonal variations in mountain glacier surface velocity17
Snow mechanical property variability at the slope scale – implication for snow mechanical modelling17
Subgridding high-resolution numerical weather forecast in the Canadian Selkirk mountain range for local snow modeling in a remote sensing perspective17
Evaluating the impact of enhanced horizontal resolution over the Antarctic domain using a variable-resolution Earth system model17
Two-dimensional numerical simulations of mixing under ice keels17
Modelling point mass balance for the glaciers of the Central European Alps using machine learning techniques17
Brief communication: Accurate and autonomous snow water equivalent measurements using a cosmic ray sensor on a Himalayan glacier17
Responses of the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers to melt and sliding parameterizations17
Variability in Antarctic surface climatology across regional climate models and reanalysis datasets17
Strategies for regional modeling of surface mass balance at the Monte Sarmiento Massif, Tierra del Fuego17
Sensitivity to forecast surface mass balance outweighs sensitivity to basal sliding descriptions for 21st century mass loss from three major Greenland outlet glaciers17
AutoTerm: an automated pipeline for glacier terminus extraction using machine learning and a “big data” repository of Greenland glacier termini17
Three-dimensional discrete element simulations on pressure ridge formation16
Permafrost degradation at two monitored palsa mires in north-west Finland16
Assessing bare-ice albedo simulated by MAR over the Greenland ice sheet (2000–2021) and implications for meltwater production estimates16
The potential of in situ cosmogenic 14CO in ice cores as a proxy for galactic cosmic ray flux variations16
The cryostratigraphy of thermo-erosion gullies in the Canadian High Arctic demonstrates the resilience of permafrost16
Improved snow property retrievals by solving for topography in the inversion of at-sensor radiance measurements16
On the relationship between δO2∕N2 variability and ice sheet surface conditions in Antarctica16
Employing automated electrical resistivity tomography for detecting short- and long-term changes in permafrost and active-layer dynamics in the maritime Antarctic16
Application of a regularised Coulomb sliding law to Jakobshavn Isbræ, western Greenland16
Assessing the potential for ice flow piracy between the Totten and Vanderford glaciers, East Antarctica16
Seasonal to decadal dynamics of supraglacial lakes on debris-covered glaciers in the Khumbu region, Nepal16
Disentangling the drivers of future Antarctic ice loss with a historically calibrated ice-sheet model16
New estimates of pan-Arctic sea ice–atmosphere neutral drag coefficients from ICESat-2 elevation data16
Estimation of stream water components and residence time in a permafrost catchment in the central Tibetan Plateau using long-term water stable isotopic data15
Antarctic contribution to future sea level from ice shelf basal melt as constrained by ice discharge observations15
Machine learning of Antarctic firn density by combining radiometer and scatterometer remote-sensing data15
Wave-triggered breakup in the marginal ice zone generates lognormal floe size distributions: a simulation study15
On the evolution of an ice shelf melt channel at the base of Filchner Ice Shelf, from observations and viscoelastic modeling15
Ice ridge density signatures in high-resolution SAR images15
A generalized photon-tracking approach to simulate spectral snow albedo and transmittance using X-ray microtomography and geometric optics15
Wind conditions for snow cornice formation in a wind tunnel15
Use of multiple reference data sources to cross-validate gridded snow water equivalent products over North America15
Drainage and refill of an Antarctic Peninsula subglacial lake reveal an active subglacial hydrological network15
Impact of atmospheric forcing uncertainties on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice simulations in CMIP6 OMIP models15
The surface energy balance during foehn events at Joyce Glacier, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica15
Weekly to monthly terminus variability of Greenland's marine-terminating outlet glaciers15
Brief communication: Tritium concentration and age of firn accumulation in an ice cave of Mount Olympus (Greece)15
Modelling GNSS-observed seasonal velocity changes of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, using the Ice-sheet and Sea-level System Model (ISSM)15
Benchmarking of snow water equivalent (SWE) products based on outcomes of the SnowPEx+ Intercomparison Project15
European heat waves 2022: contribution to extreme glacier melt in Switzerland inferred from automated ablation readings15
A random forest model to assess snow instability from simulated snow stratigraphy15
Everest South Col Glacier did not thin during the period 1984–201715
Geothermal heat source estimations through ice flow modelling at Mýrdalsjökull, Iceland14
In situ estimation of ice crystal properties at the South Pole using LED calibration data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory14
The effect of partial dissolution on sea-ice chemical transport: a combined model–observational study using poly- and perfluoroalkylated substances (PFASs)14
A 3D glacier dynamics–line plume model to estimate the frontal ablation of Hansbreen, Svalbard14
Extensive and anomalous grounding line retreat at Vanderford Glacier, Vincennes Bay, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica14
Using Icepack to reproduce ice mass balance buoy observations in landfast ice: improvements from the mushy-layer thermodynamics14
Recent warming trends of the Greenland ice sheet documented by historical firn and ice temperature observations and machine learning14
A model framework for atmosphere–snow water vapor exchange and the associated isotope effects at Dome Argus, Antarctica – Part 1: The diurnal changes14
Brief communication: A technique for making in situ measurements at the ice–water boundary of small pieces of floating glacier ice14
Improving climate model skill over High Mountain Asia by adapting snow cover parameterization to complex-topography areas14
Thinning and surface mass balance patterns of two neighbouring debris-covered glaciers in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau14
Greenland and Canadian Arctic ice temperature profiles database14
Assimilation of satellite swaths versus daily means of sea ice concentration in a regional coupled ocean–sea ice model14
Spectral induced polarization survey for the estimation of hydrogeological parameters in an active rock glacier14
A large-scale high-resolution numerical model for sea-ice fragmentation dynamics14
Multidecadal variability and predictability of Antarctic sea ice in the GFDL SPEAR_LO model14
AWI-ICENet1: a convolutional neural network retracker for ice altimetry14
Extreme events of snow grain size increase in East Antarctica and their relationship with meteorological conditions14
Responses of dissolved organic carbon to freeze–thaw cycles associated with the changes in microbial activity and soil structure14
The stability of present-day Antarctic grounding lines – Part 1: No indication of marine ice sheet instability in the current geometry14
The effect of landfast sea ice buttressing on ice dynamic speedup in the Larsen B embayment, Antarctica14
Ice plate deformation and cracking revealed by an in situ-distributed acoustic sensing array14
Multiscale modeling of heat and mass transfer in dry snow: influence of the condensation coefficient and comparison with experiments14
Englacial architecture of Lambert Glacier, East Antarctica13
Quantifying the uncertainty in the Eurasian ice-sheet geometry at the Penultimate Glacial Maximum (Marine Isotope Stage 6)13
Exploring the role of snow metamorphism on the isotopic composition of the surface snow at EastGRIP13
Seasonal and interannual variability of the landfast ice mass balance between 2009 and 2018 in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica13
Mapping Antarctic crevasses and their evolution with deep learning applied to satellite radar imagery13
Evaluation of snow cover properties in ERA5 and ERA5-Land with several satellite-based datasets in the Northern Hemisphere in spring 1982–201813
Spatio-temporal reconstruction of winter glacier mass balance in the Alps, Scandinavia, Central Asia and western Canada (1981–2019) using climate reanalyses and machine learning13
Broadband spectral induced polarization for the detection of Permafrost and an approach to ice content estimation – a case study from Yakutia, Russia13
Spatially heterogeneous effect of climate warming on the Arctic land ice13
Modeling seasonal-to-decadal ocean–cryosphere interactions along the Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica13
How do tradeoffs in satellite spatial and temporal resolution impact snow water equivalent reconstruction?13
Brief communication: Monitoring active layer dynamics using a lightweight nimble ground-penetrating radar system – a laboratory analogue test case13
Reversible ice sheet thinning in the Amundsen Sea Embayment during the Late Holocene13
Temporospatial variability of snow's thermal conductivity on Arctic sea ice12
Sensitivity of modeled snow grain size retrievals to solar geometry, snow particle asphericity, and snowpack impurities12
A long-term proxy for sea ice thickness in the Canadian Arctic: 1996–202012
High-resolution 4D electrical resistivity tomography and below-ground point sensor monitoring of High Arctic deglaciated sediments capture zero-curtain effects, freeze–thaw transitions, and mid-winter12
Sudden large-volume detachments of low-angle mountain glaciers – more frequent than thought?12
Radiocarbon dating of alpine ice cores with the dissolved organic carbon (DOC) fraction12
An inter-comparison of the mass budget of the Arctic sea ice in CMIP6 models12
Modelling the development and decay of cryoconite holes in northwestern Greenland12
Extent, duration and timing of the sea ice cover in Hornsund, Svalbard, from 2014–202312
Sea-ice variations and trends during the Common Era in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic Ocean12
A simple parametrization of mélange buttressing for calving glaciers12
Two-dimensional liquid water flow through snow at the plot scale in continental snowpacks: simulations and field data comparisons12
Estimating parameters in a sea ice model using an ensemble Kalman filter12
Physical properties of shallow ice cores from Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands12
Diverging responses of high-latitude CO2 and CH4 emissions in idealized climate change scenarios12
Impact of the sampling procedure on the specific surface area of snow measurements with the IceCube12
Mapping the extent of giant Antarctic icebergs with deep learning12
Thermal regime of the Grigoriev ice cap and the Sary-Tor glacier in the inner Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan12
Using avalanche problems to examine the effect of large-scale atmosphere–ocean oscillations on avalanche hazard in western Canada12
The regional-scale surface mass balance of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica, over the period 2005–2014, derived from airborne radar soundings and neutron probe measurements12
The GRISLI-LSCE contribution to the Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project for phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (ISMIP6) – Part 2: Projections of the Antarctic ice sheet evolution12
Snow depth mapping with unpiloted aerial system lidar observations: a case study in Durham, New Hampshire, United States12
Thinning leads to calving-style changes at Bowdoin Glacier, Greenland12
Misidentified subglacial lake beneath the Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic: a new interpretation from seismic and electromagnetic data11
Characteristics and rarity of the strong 1940s westerly wind event over the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica11
Mass changes of the northern Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet derived from repeat bi-static synthetic aperture radar acquisitions for the period 2013–201711
Calving front monitoring at a subseasonal resolution: a deep learning application for Greenland glaciers11
The role of atmospheric conditions in the Antarctic sea ice extent summer minima11
A conceptual model for glacial lake bathymetric distribution11
Spatial characteristics of frazil streaks in the Terra Nova Bay Polynya from high-resolution visible satellite imagery11
Hysteresis of idealized, instability-prone outlet glaciers in response to pinning-point buttressing variation11
Mapping geodetically inferred Antarctic ice surface height changes into thickness changes: a sensitivity study11
Brief communication: An ice-debris avalanche in the Nupchu Valley, Kanchenjunga Conservation Area, eastern Nepal11
Underestimation of oceanic carbon uptake in the Arctic Ocean: ice melt as predictor of the sea ice carbon pump11
A computationally efficient statistically downscaled 100 m resolution Greenland product from the regional climate model MAR11
Observations of preferential summer melt of Arctic sea-ice ridge keels from repeated multibeam sonar surveys11
Late Holocene glacier and climate fluctuations in the Mackenzie and Selwyn mountain ranges, northwestern Canada11
Out-of-the-box calving-front detection method using deep learning11
Co-registration and residual correction of digital elevation models: a comparative study11
Monitoring glacier calving using underwater sound11
Retrieval of sea ice drift in the Fram Strait based on data from Chinese satellite HaiYang (HY-1D)11
Arctic sea ice radar freeboard retrieval from the European Remote-Sensing Satellite (ERS-2) using altimetry: toward sea ice thickness observation from 1995 to 202111
Sources of low-frequency variability in observed Antarctic sea ice11
Brief communication: Comparison of the performance of thermistors and digital temperature sensors in a mountain permafrost borehole11
The long-term sea-level commitment from Antarctica11
Review article: Terrestrial dissolved organic carbon in northern permafrost11
Suitability of the CICE sea ice model for seasonal prediction and positive impact of CryoSat-2 ice thickness initialization11
Impact of shallow sills on circulation regimes and submarine melting in glacial fjords11
The evolution of future Antarctic surface melt using PISM-dEBM-simple11
The effects of assimilating a sub-grid-scale sea ice thickness distribution in a new Arctic sea ice data assimilation system11
Deformation lines in Arctic sea ice: intersection angle distribution and mechanical properties11
Modelling the historical and future evolution of six ice masses in the Tien Shan, Central Asia, using a 3D ice-flow model11
Spatial variation in the specific surface area of surface snow measured along the traverse route from the coast to Dome Fuji, Antarctica, during austral summer11
Towards large-scale daily snow density mapping with spatiotemporally aware model and multi-source data10
Evaluating simplifications of subsurface process representations for field-scale permafrost hydrology models10
Long-term firn and mass balance modelling for Abramov Glacier in the data-scarce Pamir Alay10
Modulation of the seasonal cycle of the Antarctic sea ice extent by sea ice processes and feedbacks with the ocean and the atmosphere10
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