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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
A comparison between Envisat and ICESat sea ice thickness in the Southern Ocean233
Automated mapping of the seasonal evolution of surface meltwater and its links to climate on the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica79
The retrieval of snow properties from SLSTR Sentinel-3 – Part 1: Method description and sensitivity study75
Ground-penetrating radar imaging reveals glacier's drainage network in 3D61
Spectral induced polarization survey for the estimation of hydrogeological parameters in an active rock glacier59
Benchmarking of snow water equivalent (SWE) products based on outcomes of the SnowPEx+ Intercomparison Project52
Improving climate model skill over High Mountain Asia by adapting snow cover parameterization to complex-topography areas52
Comparing elevation and backscatter retrievals from CryoSat-2 and ICESat-2 over Arctic summer sea ice51
Quantifying the uncertainty in the Eurasian ice-sheet geometry at the Penultimate Glacial Maximum (Marine Isotope Stage 6)51
Ice-shelf freshwater triggers for the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf melt tipping point in a global ocean–sea-ice model47
A model framework for atmosphere–snow water vapor exchange and the associated isotope effects at Dome Argus, Antarctica – Part 1: The diurnal changes46
Impact of atmospheric forcing uncertainties on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice simulations in CMIP6 OMIP models44
Brief communication: Monitoring active layer dynamics using a lightweight nimble ground-penetrating radar system – a laboratory analogue test case43
Partial melting in polycrystalline ice: pathways identified in 3D neutron tomographic images41
Brief communication: Tritium concentration and age of firn accumulation in an ice cave of Mount Olympus (Greece)39
A seasonal algorithm of the snow-covered area fraction for mountainous terrain37
A lead-width distribution for Antarctic sea ice: a case study for the Weddell Sea with high-resolution Sentinel-2 images37
Sea ice reduction in the Barents–Kara Sea enhances June precipitation in the Yangtze River basin36
Responses of the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers to melt and sliding parameterizations35
Seasonal land-ice-flow variability in the Antarctic Peninsula34
Spatially heterogeneous effect of climate warming on the Arctic land ice33
Extensive and anomalous grounding line retreat at Vanderford Glacier, Vincennes Bay, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica33
Variability in Antarctic surface climatology across regional climate models and reanalysis datasets31
Observing the evolution of summer melt on multiyear sea ice with ICESat-2 and Sentinel-231
European heat waves 2022: contribution to extreme glacier melt in Switzerland inferred from automated ablation readings31
The role of föhn winds in eastern Antarctic Peninsula rapid ice shelf collapse30
Disentangling the drivers of future Antarctic ice loss with a historically calibrated ice-sheet model29
Evaluating Greenland surface-mass-balance and firn-densification data using ICESat-2 altimetry29
Mapping Antarctic crevasses and their evolution with deep learning applied to satellite radar imagery29
Modelling surface temperature and radiation budget of snow-covered complex terrain28
Impact of the melt–albedo feedback on the future evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet with PISM-dEBM-simple28
Temporal markers in a temperate ice core: insights from 3H and 137Cs profiles from the Adamello Glacier28
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
Widespread increase in discharge from west Antarctic Peninsula glaciers since 201827
A probabilistic framework for quantifying the role of anthropogenic climate change in marine-terminating glacier retreats26
Firn changes at Colle Gnifetti revealed with a high-resolution process-based physical model approach26
Climatology and surface impacts of atmospheric rivers on West Antarctica26
Multilayer observation and estimation of the snowpack cold content in a humid boreal coniferous forest of eastern Canada26
Development of a subglacial lake monitored with radio-echo sounding: case study from the eastern Skaftá cauldron in the Vatnajökull ice cap, Iceland25
Spaceborne thermal infrared observations of Arctic sea ice leads at 30 m resolution25
GLAcier Feature Tracking testkit (GLAFT): a statistically and physically based framework for evaluating glacier velocity products derived from optical satellite image feature tracking25
Sources of low-frequency variability in observed Antarctic sea ice24
Significant additional Antarctic warming in atmospheric bias-corrected ARPEGE projections with respect to control run24
The retrieval of snow properties from SLSTR Sentinel-3 – Part 2: Results and validation24
Characteristics and rarity of the strong 1940s westerly wind event over the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica24
Mapping the extent of giant Antarctic icebergs with deep learning24
Brief communication: Recent estimates of glacier mass loss for western North America from laser altimetry24
The role of atmospheric conditions in the Antarctic sea ice extent summer minima24
Grain-size evolution controls the accumulation dependence of modelled firn thickness23
Filling and drainage of a subglacial lake beneath the Flade Isblink ice cap, northeast Greenland23
Glacier–permafrost relations in a high-mountain environment: 5 decades of kinematic monitoring at the Gruben site, Swiss Alps23
Suitability of the CICE sea ice model for seasonal prediction and positive impact of CryoSat-2 ice thickness initialization23
Impact of icebergs on the seasonal submarine melt of Sermeq Kujalleq23
Sensitivity of modeled snow grain size retrievals to solar geometry, snow particle asphericity, and snowpack impurities23
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
Local-scale variability of seasonal mean and extreme values of in situ snow depth and snowfall measurements23
A comparison of supraglacial meltwater features throughout contrasting melt seasons: southwest Greenland22
The flexural strength of bonded ice22
The radiative and geometric properties of melting first-year landfast sea ice in the Arctic22
Radar sounding survey over Devon Ice Cap indicates the potential for a diverse hypersaline subglacial hydrological environment22
Kara and Barents sea ice thickness estimation based on CryoSat-2 radar altimeter and Sentinel-1 dual-polarized synthetic aperture radar22
Distributed surface mass balance of an avalanche-fed glacier21
Reanalysis of the longest mass balance series in Himalaya using a nonlinear model: Chhota Shigri Glacier (India)21
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)21
Tree canopy and snow depth relationships at fine scales with terrestrial laser scanning21
Brief communication: Storstrømmen Glacier, northeastern Greenland, primed for end-of-decade surge21
Ice fabrics in two-dimensional flows: beyond pure and simple shear21
Lake volume and potential hazards of moraine-dammed glacial lakes – a case study of Bienong Co, southeastern Tibetan Plateau21
A framework for time-dependent ice sheet uncertainty quantification, applied to three West Antarctic ice streams21
Brief communication: The Glacier Loss Day as an indicator of a record-breaking negative glacier mass balance in 202221
Controls of outbursts of moraine-dammed lakes in the greater Himalayan region20
Estimating degree-day factors of snow based on energy flux components20
Contribution of warm and moist atmospheric flow to a record minimum July sea ice extent of the Arctic in 202020
SNICAR-ADv4: a physically based radiative transfer model to represent the spectral albedo of glacier ice20
Polarimetric radar reveals the spatial distribution of ice fabric at domes and divides in East Antarctica20
Arctic glacier snowline altitudes rise 150 m over the last 4 decades20
Modeling of surface energy balance for Icelandic glaciers using remote-sensing albedo19
Brief communication: New perspectives on the skill of modelled sea ice trends in light of recent Antarctic sea ice loss19
Satellite altimetry detection of ice-shelf-influenced fast ice19
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
Multi-decadal retreat of marine-terminating outlet glaciers in northwest and central-west Greenland19
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
Sea ice thickness from air-coupled flexural waves19
Assessment of neutrons from secondary cosmic rays at mountain altitudes – Geant4 simulations of environmental parameters including soil moisture and snow cover19
Sensitivity of the Ross Ice Shelf to environmental and glaciological controls19
Mapping seasonal snow melting in Karakoram using SAR and topographic data18
Unlocking the potential of melting calorimetry: a field protocol for liquid water content measurement in snow18
Twentieth century global glacier mass change: an ensemble-based model reconstruction18
Brief communication: Rapid  ∼  335  ×  106 m3 bed erosion after detachment of the Sedongpu Glacier (Tibet)18
Topology and spatial-pressure-distribution reconstruction of an englacial channel18
An analysis of the interaction between surface and basal crevasses in ice shelves18
A quasi-one-dimensional ice mélange flow model based on continuum descriptions of granular materials18
Giant ice rings in southern Baikal: multi-satellite data help to study ice cover dynamics and eddies under ice18
Snow cover prediction in the Italian central Apennines using weather forecast and land surface numerical models18
First observations of sea ice flexural–gravity waves with ground-based radar interferometry in Utqiaġvik, Alaska18
Brief communication: An empirical relation between center frequency and measured thickness for radar sounding of temperate glaciers18
Automated snow cover detection on mountain glaciers using spaceborne imagery and machine learning17
MMSeaIce: a collection of techniques for improving sea ice mapping with a multi-task model17
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
A regionally resolved inventory of High Mountain Asia surge-type glaciers, derived from a multi-factor remote sensing approach17
Reconstructing dynamics of the Baltic Ice Stream Complex during deglaciation of the Last Scandinavian Ice Sheet17
Quantifying the effects of background concentrations of crude oil pollution on sea ice albedo17
Land- to lake-terminating transition triggers dynamic thinning of a Bhutanese glacier17
Accumulation of legacy fallout radionuclides in cryoconite on Isfallsglaciären (Arctic Sweden) and their downstream spatial distribution17
Modeling the Greenland englacial stratigraphy17
Evaporative controls on Antarctic precipitation: an ECHAM6 model study using innovative water tracer diagnostics16
Improved monitoring of subglacial lake activity in Greenland16
Using deep learning and multi-source remote sensing images to map landlocked lakes in Antarctica16
Wave erosion, frontal bending, and calving at Ross Ice Shelf16
Dynamic crack propagation in weak snowpack layers: insights from high-resolution, high-speed photography16
Snowmelt characterization from optical and synthetic-aperture radar observations in the La Joie Basin, British Columbia16
Spectral induced polarization imaging to investigate an ice-rich mountain permafrost site in Switzerland16
Semi-automated tracking of iceberg B43 using Sentinel-1 SAR images via Google Earth Engine16
Data-driven surrogate modeling of high-resolution sea-ice thickness in the Arctic16
Impact of atmospheric rivers on Arctic sea ice variations16
Analyzing the sensitivity of a blowing snow model (SnowPappus) to precipitation forcing, blowing snow, and spatial resolution16
Brief communication: Rapid acceleration of the Brunt Ice Shelf after calving of iceberg A-8116
Mechanics and dynamics of pinning points on the Shirase Coast, West Antarctica16
Reversal of ocean gyres near ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea caused by the interaction of sea ice and wind16
Estimating the uncertainty of sea-ice area and sea-ice extent from satellite retrievals16
A Bayesian approach towards daily pan-Arctic sea ice freeboard estimates from combined CryoSat-2 and Sentinel-3 satellite observations15
Characterizing tundra snow sub-pixel variability to improve brightness temperature estimation in satellite SWE retrievals15
Inland migration of near-surface crevasses in the Amundsen Sea Sector, West Antarctica15
Modelling the evolution of Arctic multiyear sea ice over 2000–201815
Resolving glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) in response to modern and future ice loss at marine grounding lines in West Antarctica15
An empirical algorithm to map perennial firn aquifers and ice slabs within the Greenland Ice Sheet using satellite L-band microwave radiometry15
Estimation of degree of sea ice ridging in the Bay of Bothnia based on geolocated photon heights from ICESat-215
Assimilating CryoSat-2 freeboard to improve Arctic sea ice thickness estimates15
Interannual variability in Transpolar Drift summer sea ice thickness and potential impact of Atlantification15
Multi-decadal analysis of past winter temperature, precipitation and snow cover data in the European Alps from reanalyses, climate models and observational datasets15
Flexural and compressive strength of the landfast sea ice in the Prydz Bay, East Antarctic15
Modelling snowpack on ice surfaces with the ORCHIDEE land surface model: application to the Greenland ice sheet15
Penetration of interferometric radar signals in Antarctic snow15
Feasibility of retrieving Arctic sea ice thickness from the Chinese HY-2B Ku-band radar altimeter15
Constraining regional glacier reconstructions using past ice thickness of deglaciating areas – a case study in the European Alps15
Subglacial discharge effects on basal melting of a rotating, idealized ice shelf15
Strong increase in thawing of subsea permafrost in the 22nd century caused by anthropogenic climate change15
Sensitivity of the Greenland surface mass and energy balance to uncertainties in key model parameters14
The contribution of Humboldt Glacier, northern Greenland, to sea-level rise through 2100 constrained by recent observations of speedup and retreat14
Thaw-driven mass wasting couples slopes with downstream systems, and effects propagate through Arctic drainage networks14
Monitoring Arctic thin ice: a comparison between CryoSat-2 SAR altimetry data and MODIS thermal-infrared imagery14
Predicting ocean-induced ice-shelf melt rates using deep learning14
Simulating ice segregation and thaw consolidation in permafrost environments with the CryoGrid community model14
Impact of boundary conditions on the modeled thermal regime of the Antarctic ice sheet14
Slowdown of Shirase Glacier, East Antarctica, caused by strengthening alongshore winds14
Bathymetry-constrained impact of relative sea-level change on basal melting in Antarctica14
Modelling glacier mass balance and climate sensitivity in the context of sparse observations: application to Saskatchewan Glacier, western Canada14
Review article: Retrogressive thaw slump characteristics and terminology14
Assessment of the impact of dam reservoirs on river ice cover – an example from the Carpathians (central Europe)14
Analyses of Peace River Shallow Water Ice Profiling Sonar data and their implications for the roles played by frazil ice and in situ anchor ice growth in a freezing river14
A cold laboratory hyperspectral imaging system to map grain size and ice layer distributions in firn cores14
A study of sea ice topography in the Weddell and Ross seas using dual-polarimetric TanDEM-X imagery14
Dual-frequency radar observations of snowmelt processes on Antarctic perennial sea ice by CFOSCAT and ASCAT14
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 system14
Unravelling the sources of uncertainty in glacier runoff projections in the Patagonian Andes (40–56° S)14
Assessing the seasonal evolution of snow depth spatial variability and scaling in complex mountain terrain14
Implications of surface flooding on airborne estimates of snow depth on sea ice14
Estimating instantaneous sea-ice dynamics from space using the bi-static radar measurements of Earth Explorer 10 candidate Harmony14
On the sensitivity of sea ice deformation statistics to plastic damage14
Brief communication: Sea-level projections, adaptation planning, and actionable science13
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 shelves13
Brief communication: Detection of glacier surge activity using cloud computing of Sentinel-1 radar data13
Two-way coupling between ice flow and channelized subglacial drainage enhances modeled marine-ice-sheet retreat13
Contrasted geomorphological and limnological properties of thermokarst lakes formed in buried glacier ice and ice-wedge polygon terrain13
Summer sea ice floe perimeter density in the Arctic: high-resolution optical satellite imagery and model evaluation13
A topographically controlled tipping point for complete Greenland ice sheet melt13
Surging of a Hudson Strait-scale ice stream: subglacial hydrology matters but the process details mostly do not13
Detection of ice core particles via deep neural networks13
Sentinel-1 detection of ice slabs on the Greenland Ice Sheet13
Quantifying frost-weathering-induced damage in alpine rocks13
Temporal variation of bacterial community and nutrients in Tibetan glacier snowpack13
What is the surface mass balance of Antarctica? An intercomparison of regional climate model estimates13
In situ 10Be modeling and terrain analysis constrain subglacial quarrying and abrasion rates at Sermeq Kujalleq (Jakobshavn Isbræ), Greenland13
A collection of wet beam models for wave–ice interaction13
Greenland's firn responds more to warming than to cooling13
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
Arctic sea ice anomalies during the MOSAiC winter 2019/2012
Seasonal snow–atmosphere modeling: let's do it12
The AutoICE Challenge12
The collapse of the Cordilleran–Laurentide ice saddle and early opening of the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada, constrained by 10Be exposure dating12
Layered seawater intrusion and melt under grounded ice12
Assessing volumetric change distributions and scaling relations of retrogressive thaw slumps across the Arctic12
Signature of the stratosphere–troposphere coupling on recent record-breaking Antarctic sea-ice anomalies12
Twenty-first century global glacier evolution under CMIP6 scenarios and the role of glacier-specific observations12
Observing glacier elevation changes from spaceborne optical and radar sensors – an inter-comparison experiment using ASTER and TanDEM-X data12
Feedback mechanisms controlling Antarctic glacial-cycle dynamics simulated with a coupled ice sheet–solid Earth model12
The evolution of Arctic permafrost over the last 3 centuries from ensemble simulations with the CryoGridLite permafrost model12
Subglacial hydrology modulates basal sliding response of the Antarctic ice sheet to climate forcing12
Brief communication: A framework to classify glaciers for water resource evaluation and management in the Southern Andes12
Fifty years of firn evolution on Grigoriev ice cap, Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan12
Assessment of Arctic seasonal snow cover rates of change12
Exploring ice sheet model sensitivity to ocean thermal forcing and basal sliding using the Community Ice Sheet Model (CISM)12
Mapping and characterization of avalanches on mountain glaciers with Sentinel-1 satellite imagery12
El Niño enhances snow-line rise and ice loss on the Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru12
A pilot study about microplastics and mesoplastics in an Antarctic glacier12
Control of the temperature signal in Antarctic proxies by snowfall dynamics12
Incorporating InSAR kinematics into rock glacier inventories: insights from 11 regions worldwide12
Extensive palaeo-surfaces beneath the Evans–Rutford region of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet control modern and past ice flow12
Simulating the Holocene deglaciation across a marine-terminating portion of southwestern Greenland in response to marine and atmospheric forcings12
Snow stratigraphy observations from Operation IceBridge surveys in Alaska using S and C band airborne ultra-wideband FMCW (frequency-modulated continuous wave) radar12
Evidence of active subglacial lakes under a slowly moving coastal region of the Antarctic Ice Sheet11
Characterization of non-Gaussianity in the snow distributions of various landscapes11
Using Icepack to reproduce ice mass balance buoy observations in landfast ice: improvements from the mushy-layer thermodynamics11
Thwaites Glacier thins and retreats fastest where ice-shelf channels intersect its grounding zone11
On the evolution of an ice shelf melt channel at the base of Filchner Ice Shelf, from observations and viscoelastic modeling11
Assessing the key concerns in snow storage: a case study for China11
Development of crystal orientation fabric in the Dome Fuji ice core in East Antarctica: implications for the deformation regime in ice sheets11
Cross-platform classification of level and deformed sea ice considering per-class incident angle dependency of backscatter intensity11
Geothermal heat source estimations through ice flow modelling at Mýrdalsjökull, Iceland11
Greenland and Canadian Arctic ice temperature profiles database11
Direct measurement of warm Atlantic Intermediate Water close to the grounding line of Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden (79° N) Glacier, northeast Greenland11
Brief communication: Mountain permafrost acts as an aquitard during an infiltration experiment monitored with electrical resistivity tomography time-lapse measurements11
Influence of fast ice on future ice shelf melting in the Totten Glacier area, East Antarctica11
First results of the polar regional climate model RACMO2.411
Recent observations of superimposed ice and snow ice on sea ice in the northwestern Weddell Sea11
Inverting ice surface elevation and velocity for bed topography and slipperiness beneath Thwaites Glacier11
A probabilistic seabed–ice keel interaction model11
Out-of-the-box calving-front detection method using deep learning11
A computationally efficient statistically downscaled 100 m resolution Greenland product from the regional climate model MAR11
Molecular biomarkers in Batagay megaslump permafrost deposits reveal clear differences in organic matter preservation between glacial and interglacial periods11
Ice plate deformation and cracking revealed by an in situ-distributed acoustic sensing array11
Spatiotemporal snow water storage uncertainty in the midlatitude American Cordillera11
Towards long-term records of rain-on-snow events across the Arctic from satellite data11
Brief communication: Identification of tundra topsoil frozen/thawed state from SMAP and GCOM-W1 radiometer measurements using the spectral gradient method11
A generalized stress correction scheme for the Maxwell elasto-brittle rheology: impact on the fracture angles and deformations11
Energetics of surface melt in West Antarctica11
Drainage and refill of an Antarctic Peninsula subglacial lake reveal an active subglacial hydrological network11
Wind conditions for snow cornice formation in a wind tunnel11
Geometric amplification and suppression of ice-shelf basal melt in West Antarctica11
Modelling GNSS-observed seasonal velocity changes of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, using the Ice-sheet and Sea-level System Model (ISSM)11
Improving model-satellite comparisons of sea ice melt onset with a satellite simulator11
Reassessing seasonal sea ice predictability of the Pacific-Arctic sector using a Markov model11
Evaluation of snow depth retrievals from ICESat-2 using airborne laser-scanning data11
Wave-triggered breakup in the marginal ice zone generates lognormal floe size distributions: a simulation study11
Glacial ring forms on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada11
Thermal infrared shadow-hiding in GOES-R ABI imagery: snow and forest temperature observations from the SnowEx 2020 Grand Mesa field campaign11
Brief communication: Increased glacier mass loss in the Russian High Arctic (2010–2017)11
Everest South Col Glacier did not thin during the period 1984–201711
Creep and fracture of warm columnar freshwater ice11
A new state-dependent parameterization for the free drift of sea ice11
Sensitivity of Antarctic surface climate to a new spectral snow albedo and radiative transfer scheme in RACMO2.3p311
Empirical correction of systematic orthorectification error in Sentinel-2 velocity fields for Greenlandic outlet glaciers11
Grain growth of ice doped with soluble impurities10
Ice roughness estimation via remotely piloted aircraft and photogrammetry10
Evaluating snow depth retrievals from Sentinel-1 volume scattering over NASA SnowEx sites10
Behavior of saline ice under cyclic flexural loading10
Lake ice break-up in Greenland: timing and spatiotemporal variability10
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