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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
A comparison between Envisat and ICESat sea ice thickness in the Southern Ocean269
Quantifying the uncertainty in the Eurasian ice-sheet geometry at the Penultimate Glacial Maximum (Marine Isotope Stage 6)90
Comparing elevation and backscatter retrievals from CryoSat-2 and ICESat-2 over Arctic summer sea ice68
A model framework for atmosphere–snow water vapor exchange and the associated isotope effects at Dome Argus, Antarctica – Part 1: The diurnal changes59
Partial melting in polycrystalline ice: pathways identified in 3D neutron tomographic images52
A seasonal algorithm of the snow-covered area fraction for mountainous terrain49
Spectral induced polarization survey for the estimation of hydrogeological parameters in an active rock glacier47
Variability in Antarctic surface climatology across regional climate models and reanalysis datasets42
Spatially heterogeneous effect of climate warming on the Arctic land ice42
Sea ice reduction in the Barents–Kara Sea enhances June precipitation in the Yangtze River basin38
Brief communication: Tritium concentration and age of firn accumulation in an ice cave of Mount Olympus (Greece)37
Seasonal land-ice-flow variability in the Antarctic Peninsula36
Automated mapping of the seasonal evolution of surface meltwater and its links to climate on the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica35
Responses of the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers to melt and sliding parameterizations33
Brief communication: Monitoring active layer dynamics using a lightweight nimble ground-penetrating radar system – a laboratory analogue test case33
The role of föhn winds in eastern Antarctic Peninsula rapid ice shelf collapse33
Observing the evolution of summer melt on multiyear sea ice with ICESat-2 and Sentinel-232
Mechanisms and impacts of anomalous high-salinity shelf water formation in the Ross Sea32
Disentangling the drivers of future Antarctic ice loss with a historically calibrated ice-sheet model32
Improving climate model skill over High Mountain Asia by adapting snow cover parameterization to complex-topography areas32
Modelling surface temperature and radiation budget of snow-covered complex terrain32
Mapping Antarctic crevasses and their evolution with deep learning applied to satellite radar imagery31
Modelling cold firn evolution at Colle Gnifetti, Swiss/Italian Alps30
Benchmarking of snow water equivalent (SWE) products based on outcomes of the SnowPEx+ Intercomparison Project30
Evaluating Greenland surface-mass-balance and firn-densification data using ICESat-2 altimetry30
Ice-shelf freshwater triggers for the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf melt tipping point in a global ocean–sea-ice model30
European heat waves 2022: contribution to extreme glacier melt in Switzerland inferred from automated ablation readings29
Impact of atmospheric forcing uncertainties on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice simulations in CMIP6 OMIP models29
Extensive and anomalous grounding line retreat at Vanderford Glacier, Vincennes Bay, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica28
A lead-width distribution for Antarctic sea ice: a case study for the Weddell Sea with high-resolution Sentinel-2 images28
Widespread increase in discharge from west Antarctic Peninsula glaciers since 201827
Impact of icebergs on the seasonal submarine melt of Sermeq Kujalleq27
The role of atmospheric conditions in the Antarctic sea ice extent summer minima26
Arctic sea ice radar freeboard retrieval from the European Remote-Sensing Satellite (ERS-2) using altimetry: toward sea ice thickness observation from 1995 to 202126
A probabilistic framework for quantifying the role of anthropogenic climate change in marine-terminating glacier retreats25
Grain-size evolution controls the accumulation dependence of modelled firn thickness25
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
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 excluded25
Characteristics and rarity of the strong 1940s westerly wind event over the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica25
Sensitivity of modeled snow grain size retrievals to solar geometry, snow particle asphericity, and snowpack impurities25
Brief communication: Recent estimates of glacier mass loss for western North America from laser altimetry24
The radiative and geometric properties of melting first-year landfast sea ice in the Arctic24
Distributed surface mass balance of an avalanche-fed glacier24
Kara and Barents sea ice thickness estimation based on CryoSat-2 radar altimeter and Sentinel-1 dual-polarized synthetic aperture radar24
A comparison of supraglacial meltwater features throughout contrasting melt seasons: southwest Greenland24
Radar sounding survey over Devon Ice Cap indicates the potential for a diverse hypersaline subglacial hydrological environment23
Local-scale variability of seasonal mean and extreme values of in situ snow depth and snowfall measurements23
Brief communication: Storstrømmen Glacier, northeastern Greenland, primed for end-of-decade surge23
Filling and drainage of a subglacial lake beneath the Flade Isblink ice cap, northeast Greenland23
An unseasonal atmospheric river drives anomalous summer snow accumulation on glaciers of the subtropical Andes23
Temporal markers in a temperate ice core: insights from 3H and 137Cs profiles from the Adamello Glacier23
Climatology and surface impacts of atmospheric rivers on West Antarctica22
Mapping the extent of giant Antarctic icebergs with deep learning22
Reanalysis of the longest mass balance series in Himalaya using a nonlinear model: Chhota Shigri Glacier (India)22
Spaceborne thermal infrared observations of Arctic sea ice leads at 30 m resolution22
Impact of the melt–albedo feedback on the future evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet with PISM-dEBM-simple22
Evaluation of the Snow Climate Change Initiative (Snow CCI) snow-covered area product within a mountain snow water equivalent reanalysis22
Lake volume and potential hazards of moraine-dammed glacial lakes – a case study of Bienong Co, southeastern Tibetan Plateau22
Glacier–permafrost relations in a high-mountain environment: 5 decades of kinematic monitoring at the Gruben site, Swiss Alps22
GLAcier Feature Tracking testkit (GLAFT): a statistically and physically based framework for evaluating glacier velocity products derived from optical satellite image feature tracking22
Multilayer observation and estimation of the snowpack cold content in a humid boreal coniferous forest of eastern Canada22
Sensitivity of the Ross Ice Shelf to environmental and glaciological controls21
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
Snow cover prediction in the Italian central Apennines using weather forecast and land surface numerical models21
Multi-decadal retreat of marine-terminating outlet glaciers in northwest and central-west Greenland21
Deep clustering in subglacial radar reflectance reveals subglacial lakes21
Unlocking the potential of melting calorimetry: a field protocol for liquid water content measurement in snow21
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)21
Mapping seasonal snow melting in Karakoram using SAR and topographic data21
Topology and spatial-pressure-distribution reconstruction of an englacial channel20
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
Ice fabrics in two-dimensional flows: beyond pure and simple shear20
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)20
A framework for time-dependent ice sheet uncertainty quantification, applied to three West Antarctic ice streams20
Giant ice rings in southern Baikal: multi-satellite data help to study ice cover dynamics and eddies under ice20
A quasi-one-dimensional ice mélange flow model based on continuum descriptions of granular materials19
Review article: Feature tracing in radio-echo sounding products of terrestrial ice sheets and planetary bodies19
Estimating degree-day factors of snow based on energy flux components19
Arctic glacier snowline altitudes rise 150 m over the last 4 decades19
Brief communication: Rapid  ∼  335  ×  106 m3 bed erosion after detachment of the Sedongpu Glacier (Tibet)19
Polarimetric radar reveals the spatial distribution of ice fabric at domes and divides in East Antarctica19
Contribution of warm and moist atmospheric flow to a record minimum July sea ice extent of the Arctic in 202019
Land- to lake-terminating transition triggers dynamic thinning of a Bhutanese glacier19
Brief communication: The Glacier Loss Day as an indicator of a record-breaking negative glacier mass balance in 202218
An analysis of the interaction between surface and basal crevasses in ice shelves18
MMSeaIce: a collection of techniques for improving sea ice mapping with a multi-task model18
Modeling of surface energy balance for Icelandic glaciers using remote-sensing albedo18
Brief communication: New perspectives on the skill of modelled sea ice trends in light of recent Antarctic sea ice loss18
Assessment of neutrons from secondary cosmic rays at mountain altitudes – Geant4 simulations of environmental parameters including soil moisture and snow cover18
Influence of snow spatial variability on cosmic ray neutron snow water equivalent (SWE): case study in a northern prairie18
Seasonality in terminus ablation rates for the glaciers in Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat)18
A regionally resolved inventory of High Mountain Asia surge-type glaciers, derived from a multi-factor remote sensing approach17
Automated snow cover detection on mountain glaciers using spaceborne imagery and machine learning17
Evaporative controls on Antarctic precipitation: an ECHAM6 model study using innovative water tracer diagnostics17
First observations of sea ice flexural–gravity waves with ground-based radar interferometry in Utqiaġvik, Alaska17
Quantifying the effects of background concentrations of crude oil pollution on sea ice albedo17
Estimating the uncertainty of sea-ice area and sea-ice extent from satellite retrievals17
Reversal of ocean gyres near ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea caused by the interaction of sea ice and wind17
SNICAR-ADv4: a physically based radiative transfer model to represent the spectral albedo of glacier ice17
Reconstructing dynamics of the Baltic Ice Stream Complex during deglaciation of the Last Scandinavian Ice Sheet17
Analyzing the sensitivity of a blowing snow model (SnowPappus) to precipitation forcing, blowing snow, and spatial resolution17
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
Assimilating CryoSat-2 freeboard to improve Arctic sea ice thickness estimates16
Impact of atmospheric rivers on Arctic sea ice variations16
Constraining regional glacier reconstructions using past ice thickness of deglaciating areas – a case study in the European Alps16
Accumulation of legacy fallout radionuclides in cryoconite on Isfallsglaciären (Arctic Sweden) and their downstream spatial distribution16
Snowmelt characterization from optical and synthetic-aperture radar observations in the La Joie Basin, British Columbia16
Multi-decadal analysis of past winter temperature, precipitation and snow cover data in the European Alps from reanalyses, climate models and observational datasets16
Feasibility of retrieving Arctic sea ice thickness from the Chinese HY-2B Ku-band radar altimeter16
Modelling the evolution of Arctic multiyear sea ice over 2000–201816
Penetration of interferometric radar signals in Antarctic snow16
Improved monitoring of subglacial lake activity in Greenland16
Characterizing tundra snow sub-pixel variability to improve brightness temperature estimation in satellite SWE retrievals16
Inland migration of near-surface crevasses in the Amundsen Sea Sector, West Antarctica16
Wave erosion, frontal bending, and calving at Ross Ice Shelf16
Modelling snowpack on ice surfaces with the ORCHIDEE land surface model: application to the Greenland ice sheet16
Modeling the Greenland englacial stratigraphy16
Data-driven surrogate modeling of high-resolution sea-ice thickness in the Arctic16
Insights into microphysical and optical properties of typical mineral dust within urban snowpack via wet and dry deposition in Changchun, northeastern China16
Leveraging snow probe data, lidar, and machine learning for snow depth estimation in complex-terrain environments15
Using deep learning and multi-source remote sensing images to map landlocked lakes in Antarctica15
Predicting ocean-induced ice-shelf melt rates using deep learning15
On the sensitivity of sea ice deformation statistics to plastic damage15
Detection of ice core particles via deep neural networks15
Semi-automated tracking of iceberg B43 using Sentinel-1 SAR images via Google Earth Engine15
An empirical algorithm to map perennial firn aquifers and ice slabs within the Greenland Ice Sheet using satellite L-band microwave radiometry15
Dual-frequency radar observations of snowmelt processes on Antarctic perennial sea ice by CFOSCAT and ASCAT15
Slowdown of Shirase Glacier, East Antarctica, caused by strengthening alongshore winds15
Brief communication: Rapid acceleration of the Brunt Ice Shelf after calving of iceberg A-8115
Spectral induced polarization imaging to investigate an ice-rich mountain permafrost site in Switzerland15
Subglacial discharge effects on basal melting of a rotating, idealized ice shelf15
A cold laboratory hyperspectral imaging system to map grain size and ice layer distributions in firn cores15
Generating large-scale sea ice motion from Sentinel-1 and the RADARSAT Constellation Mission using the Environment and Climate Change Canada automated sea ice tracking system15
In situ 10Be modeling and terrain analysis constrain subglacial quarrying and abrasion rates at Sermeq Kujalleq (Jakobshavn Isbræ), Greenland14
Simulating ice segregation and thaw consolidation in permafrost environments with the CryoGrid community model14
The contribution of Humboldt Glacier, northern Greenland, to sea-level rise through 2100 constrained by recent observations of speedup and retreat14
Strong increase in thawing of subsea permafrost in the 22nd century caused by anthropogenic climate change14
Impact of boundary conditions on the modeled thermal regime of the Antarctic ice sheet14
Assessment of the impact of dam reservoirs on river ice cover – an example from the Carpathians (central Europe)14
Bathymetry-constrained impact of relative sea-level change on basal melting in Antarctica14
Brief communication: Detection of glacier surge activity using cloud computing of Sentinel-1 radar data14
Quantifying frost-weathering-induced damage in alpine rocks14
Assessing the seasonal evolution of snow depth spatial variability and scaling in complex mountain terrain14
Sublimation measurements of tundra and taiga snowpack in Alaska14
Unravelling the sources of uncertainty in glacier runoff projections in the Patagonian Andes (40–56° S)14
Modelling glacier mass balance and climate sensitivity in the context of sparse observations: application to Saskatchewan Glacier, western Canada14
Monitoring Arctic thin ice: a comparison between CryoSat-2 SAR altimetry data and MODIS thermal-infrared imagery14
Resolving glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) in response to modern and future ice loss at marine grounding lines in West Antarctica14
Viscoelastic mechanics of tidally induced lake drainage in the grounding zone14
A study of sea ice topography in the Weddell and Ross seas using dual-polarimetric TanDEM-X imagery14
Exploring ice sheet model sensitivity to ocean thermal forcing and basal sliding using the Community Ice Sheet Model (CISM)13
Greenland's firn responds more to warming than to cooling13
Twenty-first century global glacier evolution under CMIP6 scenarios and the role of glacier-specific observations13
Feedback mechanisms controlling Antarctic glacial-cycle dynamics simulated with a coupled ice sheet–solid Earth model13
Snow stratigraphy observations from Operation IceBridge surveys in Alaska using S and C band airborne ultra-wideband FMCW (frequency-modulated continuous wave) radar13
Simulating the Holocene deglaciation across a marine-terminating portion of southwestern Greenland in response to marine and atmospheric forcings13
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
Flexural and compressive strength of the landfast sea ice in the Prydz Bay, East Antarctic13
Brief communication: Sea-level projections, adaptation planning, and actionable science13
El Niño enhances snow-line rise and ice loss on the Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru13
Observing glacier elevation changes from spaceborne optical and radar sensors – an inter-comparison experiment using ASTER and TanDEM-X data13
Layered seawater intrusion and melt under grounded ice13
Two-way coupling between ice flow and channelized subglacial drainage enhances modeled marine-ice-sheet retreat13
Review article: Retrogressive thaw slump characteristics and terminology13
The collapse of the Cordilleran–Laurentide ice saddle and early opening of the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada, constrained by 10Be exposure dating13
A topographically controlled tipping point for complete Greenland ice sheet melt13
Mapping and characterization of avalanches on mountain glaciers with Sentinel-1 satellite imagery13
Arctic sea ice anomalies during the MOSAiC winter 2019/2012
Temporal variation of bacterial community and nutrients in Tibetan glacier snowpack12
Using Icepack to reproduce ice mass balance buoy observations in landfast ice: improvements from the mushy-layer thermodynamics12
Brief communication: Identification of tundra topsoil frozen/thawed state from SMAP and GCOM-W1 radiometer measurements using the spectral gradient method12
Drainage and refill of an Antarctic Peninsula subglacial lake reveal an active subglacial hydrological network12
A generalized stress correction scheme for the Maxwell elasto-brittle rheology: impact on the fracture angles and deformations12
Brief communication: A framework to classify glaciers for water resource evaluation and management in the Southern Andes12
Surging of a Hudson Strait-scale ice stream: subglacial hydrology matters but the process details mostly do not12
Contrasted geomorphological and limnological properties of thermokarst lakes formed in buried glacier ice and ice-wedge polygon terrain12
Subglacial hydrology modulates basal sliding response of the Antarctic ice sheet to climate forcing12
Widespread slowdown in thinning rates of West Antarctic ice shelves12
Fine-scale variability in iceberg velocity fields and implications for an ice-associated pinniped12
Control of the temperature signal in Antarctic proxies by snowfall dynamics12
Assessing volumetric change distributions and scaling relations of retrogressive thaw slumps across the Arctic12
Geothermal heat source estimations through ice flow modelling at Mýrdalsjökull, Iceland12
Inverting ice surface elevation and velocity for bed topography and slipperiness beneath Thwaites Glacier12
Thermal infrared shadow-hiding in GOES-R ABI imagery: snow and forest temperature observations from the SnowEx 2020 Grand Mesa field campaign12
First results of the polar regional climate model RACMO2.412
Modelling GNSS-observed seasonal velocity changes of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, using the Ice-sheet and Sea-level System Model (ISSM)12
On the evolution of an ice shelf melt channel at the base of Filchner Ice Shelf, from observations and viscoelastic modeling12
Sentinel-1 detection of ice slabs on the Greenland Ice Sheet12
Extensive palaeo-surfaces beneath the Evans–Rutford region of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet control modern and past ice flow12
Seasonal snow–atmosphere modeling: let's do it12
Assessment of Arctic seasonal snow cover rates of change12
Signature of the stratosphere–troposphere coupling on recent record-breaking Antarctic sea-ice anomalies12
Fifty years of firn evolution on Grigoriev ice cap, Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan12
Incorporating InSAR kinematics into rock glacier inventories: insights from 11 regions worldwide12
Seasonality and scenario dependence of rapid Arctic sea ice loss events in CMIP6 simulations12
Ice plate deformation and cracking revealed by an in situ-distributed acoustic sensing array12
Influence of fast ice on future ice shelf melting in the Totten Glacier area, East Antarctica12
Glacial ring forms on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada12
Empirical correction of systematic orthorectification error in Sentinel-2 velocity fields for Greenlandic outlet glaciers12
Everest South Col Glacier did not thin during the period 1984–201712
The evolution of Arctic permafrost over the last 3 centuries from ensemble simulations with the CryoGridLite permafrost model12
Geometric controls of tidewater glacier dynamics12
Snow water equivalent retrieval over Idaho – Part 2: Using L-band UAVSAR repeat-pass interferometry12
A collection of wet beam models for wave–ice interaction12
The AutoICE Challenge12
Summer sea ice floe perimeter density in the Arctic: high-resolution optical satellite imagery and model evaluation12
Sensitivity of Antarctic surface climate to a new spectral snow albedo and radiative transfer scheme in RACMO2.3p311
Geometric amplification and suppression of ice-shelf basal melt in West Antarctica11
Investigating seasonal and multi-decadal water/ice storage changes in the Murtèl rock glacier using time-lapse gravimetry11
A probabilistic seabed–ice keel interaction model11
Predictability of Arctic sea ice drift in coupled climate models11
Spatiotemporal snow water storage uncertainty in the midlatitude American Cordillera11
Evidence of active subglacial lakes under a slowly moving coastal region of the Antarctic Ice Sheet11
Greenland and Canadian Arctic ice temperature profiles database11
Wave-triggered breakup in the marginal ice zone generates lognormal floe size distributions: a simulation study11
Molecular biomarkers in Batagay megaslump permafrost deposits reveal clear differences in organic matter preservation between glacial and interglacial periods11
Brief communication: Increased glacier mass loss in the Russian High Arctic (2010–2017)11
Assessing the key concerns in snow storage: a case study for China11
Characterization of in situ cosmogenic 14CO production, retention and loss in firn and shallow ice at Summit, Greenland11
Probabilistic spatiotemporal seasonal sea ice presence forecasting using sequence-to-sequence learning and ERA5 data in the Hudson Bay region11
Towards long-term records of rain-on-snow events across the Arctic from satellite data11
Cross-platform classification of level and deformed sea ice considering per-class incident angle dependency of backscatter intensity11
Wind conditions for snow cornice formation in a wind tunnel11
A new state-dependent parameterization for the free drift of sea ice11
Finely resolved along-track wave attenuation estimates in the Antarctic marginal ice zone from ICESat-211
Improving model-satellite comparisons of sea ice melt onset with a satellite simulator11
Evaluation of six geothermal heat flux maps for the Antarctic Lambert–Amery glacial system11
Alpine topography of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains, Antarctica, mapped from ice sheet surface morphology11
Direct measurement of warm Atlantic Intermediate Water close to the grounding line of Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden (79° N) Glacier, northeast Greenland11
Development of crystal orientation fabric in the Dome Fuji ice core in East Antarctica: implications for the deformation regime in ice sheets11
Long-term development of a perennial firn aquifer on the Lomonosovfonna ice cap, Svalbard10
Variability in sea ice carbonate chemistry: a case study comparing the importance of ikaite precipitation, bottom-ice algae, and currents across an invisible polynya10
Formation of glacier tables caused by differential ice melting: field observation and modelling10
Lake ice break-up in Greenland: timing and spatiotemporal variability10
Spatial characterization of near-surface structure and meltwater runoff conditions across the Devon Ice Cap from dual-frequency radar reflectivity10
Loss of accumulation zone exposes dark ice and drives increased ablation at Weißseespitze, Austria10
Sea ice melt pond bathymetry reconstructed from aerial photographs using photogrammetry: a new method applied to MOSAiC data10
Out-of-the-box calving-front detection method using deep learning10
Assessing supraglacial lake depth using ICESat-2, Sentinel-2, TanDEM-X, and in situ sonar measurements over Northeast and Southwest Greenland10
Mapping liquid water content in snow at the millimeter scale: an intercomparison of mixed-phase optical property models using hyperspectral imaging and in situ measurements10
Brief communication: Mountain permafrost acts as an aquitard during an infiltration experiment monitored with electrical resistivity tomography time-lapse measurements10
Characterization of non-Gaussianity in the snow distributions of various landscapes10
Progress of the RADIX (Rapid Access Drilling and Ice eXtraction) fast-access drilling system10
Changes in March mean snow water equivalent since the mid-20th century and the contributing factors in reanalyses and CMIP6 climate models10
Glacier and rock glacier changes since the 1950s in the La Laguna catchment, Chile10
Using specularity content to evaluate eight geothermal heat flow maps of Totten Glacier10
Melt sensitivity of irreversible retreat of Pine Island Glacier10
Evaluation of snow depth retrievals from ICESat-2 using airborne laser-scanning data10
Updated Arctic melt pond fraction dataset and trends 2002–2023 using ENVISAT and Sentinel-3 remote sensing data10
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