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The following lists the recent preprints posted on EGUsphere with TC-related topics as well as final revised papers published recently in TC.
10 Jul 2026
Linking open-ocean polynyas and deep convection in the Southern Ocean across CMIP6 models
Shunzi Lu, Irina Marinov, and Sergey Molodtsov
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3060,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3060, 2026
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09 Jul 2026
Brief communication: Inferring Glacier Equilibrium Line Altitudes in the Europe Alps with FROST
Oskar Herrmann, Veena Prasad, Anna Zöller, Alexander R. Groos, Samuel Cook, Christian Sommer, and Johannes J. Fürst
The Cryosphere, 20, 3817–3825, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3817-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3817-2026, 2026
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09 Jul 2026
Brief communication: Rb-Sr dating and provenance of ice-drafted dropstones from the mid-Atlantic ridge at mid-latitudes (36°12’N; 33°53’W)
Thomas Gyomlai, Muriel Andreani, Emeline Caujolle, Baptiste Debret, Valentine Puzenat-Vassor, Benoit Ildefonse, and Clémentine Fellah
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3184,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3184, 2026
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09 Jul 2026
Impacts of record Antarctic sea ice losses in 2022–2023 on swell-induced flexure of ice shelves
Nathan J. Teder, Luke G. Bennetts, Phillp A. Reid, and Robert A. Massom
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3544,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3544, 2026
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08 Jul 2026
Enhanced prediction skill of Antarctic sea ice through sea ice thickness assimilation
Nicholas Williams, Yiguo Wang, and François Counillon
The Cryosphere, 20, 3795–3815, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3795-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3795-2026, 2026
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08 Jul 2026
Fibre-optic strain sensing on an alpine glacier
Robert Law, Mylène Jacquemart, Matthias Bühler, Mauro Angelo Werder, and Janosch Beer
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3329,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3329, 2026
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08 Jul 2026
Climatic controls on interannual mass balance of Arctic glaciers and ice caps
Xiaojun Ma, Matt King, Jonathan Bamber, Bin Liu, Wenke Sun, and Qiuyu Wang
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3461,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3461, 2026
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07 Jul 2026
How tropical cyclones drive extreme positive glacier mass balance in the central–eastern Himalayas
Fengying Zhang, Xuelin Gao, Shihang Bai, Ji Zhang, Jing Gao, Rinzin Lhamo, Meilin Zhu, and Huabiao Zhao
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3661,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3661, 2026
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07 Jul 2026
Century-scale impacts of ice-sheet model initialization on Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica
Daniel N. Goldberg, Paul R. Holland, and Kaitlin A. Naughten
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3779,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3779, 2026
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06 Jul 2026
Uncertainty of the satellite-retrieved sea-ice area record and its trend
Andreas Wernecke, Thomas Lavergne, Stefan Kern, and Dirk Notz
The Cryosphere, 20, 3783–3793, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3783-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3783-2026, 2026
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06 Jul 2026
On transient thermally induced stability changes in high-mountain permafrost rock walls: A semiquantitative modeling approach applied to recent landslides at Rasac (Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru, 2023) and Blatten (Swiss Alps, 2025)
Wilfried Haeberli, Denis Cohen, and Lukas U. Arenson
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2821,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2821, 2026
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03 Jul 2026
Mapping daily snow depth with machine learning and airborne lidar across two contrasting snowpacks
Caleb G. Pan, Jeremy Johnston, Jennifer M. Jacobs, and Shad O'Neel
The Cryosphere, 20, 3759–3781, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3759-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3759-2026, 2026
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03 Jul 2026
Thermokarst and Microtopography Enhance Carbon Fluxes from an Arctic Tussock Tundra Site
Kelcy Kent, Kyle Arndt, Danielle Trangmoe, Patrick Murphy, Sigrid Dengel, Margaret Torn, Oriana Chafe, Marco Montemayor, and Susan Natali
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3328,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3328, 2026
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02 Jul 2026
Last Glacial Maximum extent and subsequent retreat of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet from the Mac. Robertson Shelf
Janina Güntzel, Juliane Müller, Ralf Tiedemann, Gesine Mollenhauer, Lester Lembke-Jene, Estella Weigelt, Lasse Schopen, Niklas Wesch, Laura Kattein, Andrew N. Mackintosh, and Johann P. Klages
The Cryosphere, 20, 3739–3758, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3739-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3739-2026, 2026
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02 Jul 2026
Evaluation of MARv3.14 over the Greenland Ice Sheet
Guillaume Timmermans, Brice Noël, Christoph Kittel, Thomas Dethinne, Nicolas Ghilain, and Xavier Fettweis
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2341,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2341, 2026
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02 Jul 2026
Spatial and temporal patterns of fracture in confined landfast sea ice
Ada Loewen, Derek Mueller, Gregory Crocker, Katherine Wilson, Adrianne Mike-Qaunaq, and Andrew R. Mahoney
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3739,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3739, 2026
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02 Jul 2026
Ice-core break-off as an opportunistic seismic source on the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream
Emma Pearce, Dimitri Zigone, Coen Hofstede, Andreas Fichtner, and Olaf Eisen
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3762,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3762, 2026
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01 Jul 2026
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Review article: The Foundation-Patuxent-Academy ice stream system, Antarctica
Neil Ross, Rebecca J. Sanderson, Bernd Kulessa, Martin Siegert, Guy J. G. Paxman, Keir A. Nichols, Matthew R. Siegfried, Stewart S. R. Jamieson, Michael J. Bentley, Tom A. Jordan, Christine L. Batchelor, David Small, Olaf Eisen, Kate Winter, Robert G. Bingham, S. Louise Callard, Rachel Carr, Christine F. Dow, Helen A. Fricker, Emily Hill, Benjamin H. Hills, Coen Hofstede, Hafeez Jeofry, Felipe Napoleoni, and Wilson Sauthoff
The Cryosphere, 20, 3705–3737, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3705-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3705-2026, 2026
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30 Jun 2026
Wintertime evolution of landfast ice stability in Alaska from InSAR
Andrew Einhorn and Andrew Mahoney
The Cryosphere, 20, 3683–3704, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3683-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3683-2026, 2026
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30 Jun 2026
Thermo-hydrological and thermo-mechanical modeling of freezing soil and frost quake occurrence
Jarkko Okkonen, Christian Silbermann, Jere Remes, Dmitri Naumov, Nikita Afonin, Elena Kozlovskaya, Emma-Riikka Kokko, Kari Moisio, Tymofiy Gerasimov, and Thomas Nagel
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2611,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2611, 2026
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30 Jun 2026
Rethinking fractal scaling of sea ice deformation: the dominant role of signed-gradient cancellation
Florence L. Beaudry and L. Bruno Tremblay
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2911,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2911, 2026
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30 Jun 2026
Brief communication: Estimating diffusion length from low resolution data
Fyntan Shaw, Torben Kunz, and Thomas Laepple
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3558,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3558, 2026
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29 Jun 2026
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Detection and attribution of the role of anthropogenic climate change in industrial-era retreat of Pine Island Glacier
Alexander T. Bradley, David T. Bett, C. Rosie Williams, Robert J. Arthern, Paul R. Holland, James Byrne, Tamsin L. Edwards, and Mira Adhikari
The Cryosphere, 20, 3443–3465, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3443-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3443-2026, 2026
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29 Jun 2026
Rapid mass loss and climate-driven dynamics of the Juvfonne ice patch, Norway (2010–2025)
Liss Marie Andreassen, Ketil Isaksen, Lukas J. Monrad-Krohn, Jogscha M. Abderhalden, Luc Girod, Jessica De Marco, Bernd Etzelmüller, Simon Oldani, and Rune Strand Ødegård
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3152,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3152, 2026
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26 Jun 2026
Comparing calving laws at Greenland's three largest ice shelves
Jamie Barnett, Felicity A. Holmes, Sarah L. Greenwood, Mathieu Morlighem, Nina Kirchner, and Martin Jakobsson
The Cryosphere, 20, 3599–3617, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3599-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3599-2026, 2026
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26 Jun 2026
Winter Arctic polynyas in CMIP6 models
Céline Heuzé, Jonathan W. Rheinlænder, Tian Tian, and Carmen Hau Man Wong
The Cryosphere, 20, 3643–3682, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3643-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3643-2026, 2026
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26 Jun 2026
The new kids on the block of Arctic coasts – formation and morphodynamics of paraglacial moraine lagoons in Svalbard
Zofia Owczarek, Oskar Kostrzewa, Wojciech Piskorski, and Mateusz C. Strzelecki
The Cryosphere, 20, 3619–3642, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3619-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3619-2026, 2026
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26 Jun 2026
Systematic Analysis of Rain-on-Snow Events and Their Trends in the French Alps: Distinguishing All and Impactful Events across Mountain Ranges
Paul Fournier, Antoine Blanc, Juliette Blanchet, and Matthieu Lafaysse
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2497,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2497, 2026
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25 Jun 2026
Continuous Microstructural Characterization of a shallow East Antarctic Ice Core Using Machine Learning Super-Resolution and Micro-CT Imaging
Faramarz Bagherzadeh, Johannes Freitag, Udo Frese, and Frank Wilhelms
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3185,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3185, 2026
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25 Jun 2026
Sensitivity of grounding zone melting to subglacial discharge configuration and sediment dynamics across contrasting ice shelf cavity regimes
Paola Papapetros, Benjamin K. Galton-Fenzi, David E. Gwyther, Fabio Boeira Dias, Sue Cook, and Chen Zhao
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3435,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3435, 2026
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23 Jun 2026
Air mass origin and local impacts on Antarctic snow isotopic composition: an observation and modelling study
Agnese Petteni, Mathieu Casado, Christophe Leroy-Dos Santos, Amaelle Landais, Niels Dutrievoz, Cécile Agosta, Pete D. Akers, Joel Savarino, Andrea Spolaor, Massimo Frezzotti, and Barbara Stenni
The Cryosphere, 20, 3581–3598, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3581-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3581-2026, 2026
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23 Jun 2026
Brief communication: delivering a Digital-Twin-ready snow reanalysis
Francesco Avanzi, Hans Lievens, Michael Matiu, Paolo Filippucci, Oscar M. Baez Villanueva, Simone Gabellani, Fabio Delogu, Lorenzo Alfieri, Andrea Libertino, Pere Quintana-Seguì, Diego G. Miralles, Luca Brocca, Christian Massari, and Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2851,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2851, 2026
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23 Jun 2026
Robust attribution of global industrial-era glacier mass loss to anthropogenic climate change
Mira Berdahl, John Erich Christian, and Gerard H. Roe
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3164,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3164, 2026
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22 Jun 2026
30 m monthly glacier surface velocity mapping in the Kangri Karpo region (2015–2024) using multi-source remote sensing data fusion
Daoxun Gao, Kunpeng Wu, Yunpeng Duan, Zhaoqi Ji, Danyu Ma, Tobias Bolch, Cheng Huang, and Shiyin Liu
The Cryosphere, 20, 3559–3579, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3559-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3559-2026, 2026
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19 Jun 2026
Inferring subglacial topography using physics informed machine learning constrained by two conservation laws
Mansa Krishna, Gong Cheng, and Mathieu Morlighem
The Cryosphere, 20, 3533–3558, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3533-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3533-2026, 2026
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19 Jun 2026
From sub-daily to multi-year: permafrost ground surface deformation processes revealed by collocated multi-sensor observations at a supersite on the Tibetan Plateau
Lingxiao Wang, Wei Wan, Lin Zhao, Wei Chen, Chong Wang, Shibo Liu, Guangyue Liu, Yuanwei Wang, Junhao Qu, Defu Zou, Erji Du, Guojie Hu, Yao Xiao, Yonghua Zhao, and Minxuan Xiao
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2170,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2170, 2026
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19 Jun 2026
Dust Record from Allan Hills Blue Ice: Towards Extending the Archive to 4000 ka
Alissa Choi, Austin J. Carter, Julia Marks-Peterson, Sarah Shackleton, John A. Higgins, Edward J. Brook, Liam Kirkpatrick, Jacob I. Chalif, and Sarah M. Aarons
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2434,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2434, 2026
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17 Jun 2026
Multi-annual and seasonal patterns of Murtèl rock glacier borehole deformation, environmental controls and implications for kinematic monitoring
Giulio Saibene, Isabelle Gärtner-Roer, Jan Beutel, and Andreas Vieli
The Cryosphere, 20, 3511–3532, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3511-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3511-2026, 2026
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17 Jun 2026
Airborne lidar and machine learning reveal decreased snow depth in burned forests
Arielle Koshkin and Adrienne M. Marshall
The Cryosphere, 20, 3467–3481, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3467-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3467-2026, 2026
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17 Jun 2026
Thermohydraulic experiments on water infiltration into frozen slopes: the role of macropores and initial water content
Julian Bauer, Sebastian Müller, Thomas Heinze, Homa Khanahmadi, and Ivo Baselt
The Cryosphere, 20, 3483–3509, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3483-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3483-2026, 2026
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17 Jun 2026
Regional Variations in Drivers of Active Layer Thickness: A Site-Scale Analysis Across Northern Hemisphere Permafrost
Yutong Lin, Bo Zhang, Haoqi Suo, and Meng Guo
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-841,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-841, 2026
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16 Jun 2026
Brief communication: Hypergravity testing of thawing rates in frozen sand
Michael H. Gardner, Simeon Buttery, Soo-Min Ham, Hamad Khan, Daniel W. Wilson, and Jason T. DeJong
The Cryosphere, 20, 3405–3413, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3405-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3405-2026, 2026
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16 Jun 2026
Thinning-induced glacier deceleration in the Zanskar Himalayas
Tirthankar Ghosh, RAAJ Ramsankaran, Felicity S. McCormack, and Andrew N. Mackintosh
The Cryosphere, 20, 3415–3433, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3415-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3415-2026, 2026
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16 Jun 2026
Brief communication: Bed mapping of southern Greenland outlet glaciers using helicopter-borne ground penetrating radar (AIRETH)
Ilaria Santin, Huw J. Horgan, Raphael Moser, Nanna Bjørnholt Karlsson, Faezeh M. Nick, Andreas Vieli, Anja Rutishauser, Hansruedi Maurer, and Daniel Farinotti
The Cryosphere, 20, 3435–3441, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3435-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3435-2026, 2026
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16 Jun 2026
Performance and Controlling Factors of Airborne LiDAR Snow Depth Estimates in Boreal Forests: Insights from NASA SnowEx 2023 Alaska Campaign
Jipeng Liu, Eunsang Cho, and Carrie M. Vuyovich
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-986,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-986, 2026
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16 Jun 2026
Simulating the permafrost thermal regime in the Northwestern Antarctic Peninsula from 1950 to 2100
Joana Baptista, Sebastian Westermann, and Gonçalo Vieira
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1914,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1914, 2026
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16 Jun 2026
High-resolution glacier mapping reveals inventory biases and terrain controls on debris-covered glaciers in the Karakoram
Xin Yang, Shiyin Liu, Fuming Xie, Jinyue Wei, Jun Zhou, Yunpeng Duan, Yiyuan Shen, Yu Zhu, Qiao Liu, Muhammad Mannan Afzal, and Muhammad Saifullah
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2836,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2836, 2026
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16 Jun 2026
Simulating jökulhlaups from an ice-marginal lake within a 2D model of subglacial drainage and basal sliding
Adam J. Hepburn, Sammie Buzzard, Andrew J. Sole, Stephen J. Livingstone, Felix Ng, Mathieu Morlighem, Elizabeth A. Bagshaw, Caroline Clason, Lisa Craw, Christine Dow, Samuel Doyle, Jonathan Hawkins, Matthew Peacey, and Robert Storrar
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2948,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2948, 2026
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16 Jun 2026
Polythermal conditions in small glaciers in the Swiss Alps
Janosch Beer, Mylène Jacquemart, Matthias Huss, Ilaria Santin, Gabriela Clara Racz, Christophe Ogier, Saskia Gindraux, Leo Hösli, Raphael Moser, James Irving, Mauro Fischer, and Daniel Farinotti
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3042,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3042, 2026
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15 Jun 2026
A high-resolution snow dataset for Switzerland (2016–2025) combining physics-based simulations and in situ observations
Moritz Oberrauch, Bertrand Cluzet, Jan Magnusson, Giulia Mazzotti, Rebecca Mott, Louis Quéno, Clare Webster, Tobias Zolles, and Tobias Jonas
The Cryosphere, 20, 3387–3403, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3387-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3387-2026, 2026
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12 Jun 2026
Late Glacial and Holocene landscape and permafrost evolution of the Barentsburg area, West Spitsbergen
Lutz Schirrmeister, Nikita Demidov, Vasily Demidov, Paul Overduin, Walter Schirrmeister, Diana Soloveva, Sergey Verkulich, and Sebastian Wetterich
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1377,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1377, 2026
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12 Jun 2026
Validation of ITS_LIVE v2.0 mountain glacier velocities using in-situ GNSS data
Jing Zhang, Yang Lei, Laurane Charrier, Amaury Dehecq, Alex S. Gardner, Luke Copland, and Christine Dow
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2541,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2541, 2026
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11 Jun 2026
A multisensor C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) approach to retrieve freeze/thaw cycles: a case study for a low Arctic environment
Charlotte Crevier, Alexandre Langlois, Chris Derksen, and Alexandre Roy
The Cryosphere, 20, 3369–3385, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3369-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3369-2026, 2026
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11 Jun 2026
Thermal regime and geometry of a hanging glacier and its interaction with permafrost: the Pointes du Mourti, Swiss Alps
Ben Robson, James Irving, Florence Magnin, Ludovic Ravanel, Coline Mollaret, Ludovic Baron, André Revil, Jessy Richard, Jérémie Gentizon, and Christophe Lambiel
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2455,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2455, 2026
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11 Jun 2026
High Spatial and temporal 3D Sea Ice Thickness Reconstruction Using Seismic Waveform Inversion and Tomography
Hooshmand Zandi, Ludovic Métivier, Romain Brossier, Sebastien Kuchly, Vasco Zanchi, Nicolas Mokus, Véronique Dansereau, Antonin Eddi, Stéphane Perrard, Dany Dumont, and Ludovic Moreau
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2519,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2519, 2026
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11 Jun 2026
Fast approximation of Antarctica’s GIA response to future ice melt with 3-D Earth structure
Jan Swierczek-Jereczek, Erica M. Lucas, Natalya Gomez, Andrew J. Lloyd, Konstantin Latychev, and Jerry X. Mitrovica
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2640,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2640, 2026
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11 Jun 2026
Brief communication: A landslide-induced winter outburst from a frozen glacial lake in the Central Himalaya
Qiao Liu, Yongsheng Yin, Jiawei Yang, Yunyi Luo, Xueyuan Lu, Hao Wang, Yin Fu, Bo Zhang, Qianqian Zheng, Dongyu Lei, Xin Wang, Shiyin Liu, Yong Nie, and Shichang Kang
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2674,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2674, 2026
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11 Jun 2026
A Shifting Balance: Dynamic and Thermodynamic Controls on Arctic Sea Ice Thickness
Luisa von Albedyll, Robert Ricker, Frank Kauker, Daniel Krogmann, and Stefan Hendricks
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3122,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3122, 2026
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10 Jun 2026
Assessing the impact of meteorological forcing and its uncertainty on snow modeling and reanalysis
Haorui Sun and Steven A. Margulis
The Cryosphere, 20, 3345–3367, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3345-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3345-2026, 2026
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09 Jun 2026
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The influence of ocean waves on Antarctic sea-ice albedo and seasonal melting, and potential coupled physical and biological feedbacks
Robert A. Massom, Phillip A. Reid, Stephen G. Warren, Bonnie Light, Donald K. Perovich, Luke G. Bennetts, Petteri Uotila, Siobhan P. O'Farrell, Michael H. Meylan, Klaus M. Meiners, Pat Wongpan, Alexander D. Fraser, Alessandro Toffoli, Giulio Passerotti, Peter G. Strutton, Sean M. T. Chua, and Melissa Fedrigo
The Cryosphere, 20, 3271–3298, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3271-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3271-2026, 2026
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05 Jun 2026
Seasonal Predictability of Antarctic Sea Ice based on a Deep-learning Approach
Gyeongmin Baek, Jiho Ko, Emilia Kyung Jin, and Jong-Seong Kug
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1556,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1556, 2026
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05 Jun 2026
Pre- and post-depositional processes affecting isotopic composition of seasonal alpine snowpacks – Austrian Alps
Jasper F. D. Lammers, Thomas Wagner, Martin Masten, Simon Seelig, Wolfgang Schöner, and Gerfried Winkler
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2190,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2190, 2026
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05 Jun 2026
New high resolution sea ice leads and floes classification in the CNES SWOT product
Gwenael Jestin, Sara Fleury, Matthias Raynal, Marta Alves, Fanny Piras, Anaëlle Treboutte, François Boy, Inès Benabdillah, Louise Yu, and Gérald Dibarboure
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2569,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2569, 2026
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05 Jun 2026
From snow wetting to pond formation: Stage-resolved L-band sea ice roughness during the Arctic melt season
Suna Jo and Sungwook Hong
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2853,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2853, 2026
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04 Jun 2026
Multi-Temporal Influences of Large-Scale Atmospheric Patterns On Antarctic Coastal Polynyas
Jason Ward and Marilyn N. Raphael
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1811,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1811, 2026
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04 Jun 2026
Interannual variability of the winter sea ice edge in the Southern Ocean tuned by topography and oceanic transport
Hugues Goosse, Cecile Davrinche, Benjamin Richaud, Dániel Topál, Stephy Libera, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, Alessandro Silvano, Martin Vancoppenolle, and Pablo Ortega
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1823,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1823, 2026
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04 Jun 2026
An experiment to resolve system-scale lake ice properties shaped by environmental processes
Felix Strobel, Gregor Hillers, Tom Jilbert, John Loehr, Christian Stranne, Tahvo Oksanen, Jonathan Vänskä, Roméo Courbis, Annukka Rintamäki, Amir Sadeghi-Bagherabadi, Lasse Weißgräber, Yinshuai Ding, Marc de Langenhagen, Eduardo Valero Cano, Kwabena Atobra, Vicent Doñate Felip, Valtteri Hopiavuori, Max Kankainen, Mohammad Alem Khodadadi, Kauri Kolehmainen, Emma Makkonen, Liisa Nygrén, Eero Purhonen, Niklas Rolleberg, Jasmiina Tuomiranta, Tommi Vuorinen, Aurélien Mordret, Cédric Schmelzbach, Ludovic Moreau, Olivier Coutant, and Céline Hadziioannou
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2106,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2106, 2026
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03 Jun 2026
Sea ice data assimilation in ORAS6
Philip Browne, Eric de Boisseson, Sarah Keeley, Charles Pelletier, and Hao Zuo
The Cryosphere, 20, 3299–3311, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3299-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3299-2026, 2026
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03 Jun 2026
Learning to melt: Emulating Greenland surface melt from a polar RCM with machine learning
Elke Schlager, Sebastian Scher, Ruth H. Mottram, and Peter L. Langen
The Cryosphere, 20, 3313–3343, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3313-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3313-2026, 2026
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03 Jun 2026
Seasonal evolution of suncup roughness describes broadband albedo decay on alpine snow
Francesca Carletti, Nora Helbig, Nander Wever, Loïc Brouet, Mathias Bavay, Benjamin Walter, and Michael Lehning
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3049,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3049, 2026
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02 Jun 2026
Seasonal glacier motion variations and underlying hydro-mechanical processes at Glacier d'Argentière, French Alps
Anuar Togaibekov, Adrien Gilbert, Florent Gimbert, and Andrea Walpersdorf
The Cryosphere, 20, 3257–3270, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3257-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3257-2026, 2026
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02 Jun 2026
Effects of snow redistribution parameterization on simulated snow thickness validated by MOSAiC observations
Fengguan Gu, Changwei Liu, Bo Han, Qinghua Yang, and Jiping Liu
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2179,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2179, 2026
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02 Jun 2026
Beyond Permafrost Observation: Long-term ALT Trajectory Classification and Causal Inference Across the Circum-Arctic CALM Network
Aymane Ahajjam, Mary Soaper, Utkarsh Gupta, Andrew Wilcox, Anai Caparó Bellido, Sydney Weaver, Sheridan Parker, Shishay Kidanu, and Timothy Pasch
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2639,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2639, 2026
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02 Jun 2026
Modelling and Parameterisation of Ice-Shelf Melting in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica
Paul Holland, Adrian Jenkins, David Bett, and Suzanne Bevan
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2835,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2835, 2026
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01 Jun 2026
Inter-annual snow accumulation and meter-scale variability from trench measurements at Dome C, Antarctica
Adrien Ooms, Mathieu Casado, Ghislain Picard, Laurent Arnaud, Maria Hörhold, Andrea Spolaor, Rita Traversi, Joel Savarino, Patrick Ginot, Pete Akers, Birthe Twarloh, and Valérie Masson-Delmotte
The Cryosphere, 20, 3235–3255, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3235-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3235-2026, 2026
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01 Jun 2026
Blowing snow contributions to the Arctic snow-on-sea ice budget using ICESat-2 observations
Joseph Robinson, Lyatt Jaeglé, Stephen P. Palm, and Glen E. Liston
The Cryosphere, 20, 3217–3233, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3217-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3217-2026, 2026
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01 Jun 2026
A novel database of Antarctic meteorological extremes over key ice shelves during 1995–2023
Ian Simpson, Edward Hanna, Ryan S. Williams, Linh Luu, Andrew Orr, Julie Jones, Xavier Fettweis, Jose Abraham Torres Alavez, Ole Bøssing Christensen, Ella Gilbert, Sid Gumber, Christoph Kittel, Sihan Li, Damien Maure, Ruth Mottram, Tony Phillips, Willem Jan van de Berg, and Kristiina Verro
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2270,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2270, 2026
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01 Jun 2026
Seasonal surface melt onset and firn freeze-up across the central Wrangell and St. Elias Mountains
Ingalise Kindstedt, Andrew Johnson, Kristin M. Schild, Luke Copland, Christine Dow, Alison Criscitiello, Dominic Winski, Karl Kreutz, and Seth Campbell
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2431,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2431, 2026
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01 Jun 2026
Snow depth retrieval over Pan-Arctic sea ice (2012–2021) using multi-source data and machine learning models
Mengmeng Li, Jianwei Ma, Yang Li, Juha Karvonen, Bin Cheng, Yingfei Wang, Haili Li, Yafei Nie, and Zheng Duan
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2504,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2504, 2026
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29 May 2026
Increasing precipitation due to climate change could partially offset the impact of warming on glacier loss in the monsoon-influenced Himalaya until 2100 CE
Anya M. Schlich-Davies, Ann V. Rowan, Andrew N. Ross, Duncan J. Quincey, and Vivi K. Pedersen
The Cryosphere, 20, 3151–3186, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3151-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3151-2026, 2026
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29 May 2026
Machine learning for snow depth estimation over the European Alps, using Sentinel-1 observations, meteorological forcing data and process-based model simulations
Lucas Boeykens, Devon Dunmire, Jonas-Frederik Jans, Willem Waegeman, Gabriëlle De Lannoy, Ezra Beernaert, Niko E. C. Verhoest, and Hans Lievens
The Cryosphere, 20, 3187–3216, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3187-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3187-2026, 2026
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29 May 2026
PIXAL: a physics-inspired explainable machine learning architecture for Greenland ice albedo modeling
Raf Antwerpen, Marco Tedesco, Pierre Gentine, Willem Jan van de Berg, and Xavier Fettweis
The Cryosphere, 20, 3131–3149, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3131-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3131-2026, 2026
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29 May 2026
Recovery of Strength in Thermally Cracked Freshwater and Salt-Water Ice
Andrii Murdza, Erland M. Schulson, and Carl E. Renshaw
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2464,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2464, 2026
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28 May 2026
Seasonal mass balance drivers for Swiss glaciers over 2010–2024 inferred from remote-sensing observations and modelling
Aaron Cremona, Matthias Huss, Johannes Marian Landmann, Mauro Marty, Marijn van der Meer, Christian Ginzler, and Daniel Farinotti
The Cryosphere, 20, 3111–3130, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3111-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3111-2026, 2026
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28 May 2026
Mesoscale ice–atmosphere–ocean coupling processes drive interannual-to-decadal timescale shift of Bering Sea January sea ice variability
Weibo Wang, Chunsheng Jing, and Junpeng Zhang
The Cryosphere, 20, 3091–3110, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3091-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3091-2026, 2026
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28 May 2026
Langmuir turbulence in the Arctic Ocean: insights from a coupled sea ice–wave model
Aikaterini Tavri, Chris Horvat, Brodie Pearson, Guillaume Boutin, Anne Hansen, and Ara Lee
The Cryosphere, 20, 3073–3089, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3073-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3073-2026, 2026
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28 May 2026
Redistribution of frost weathering across Spain under recent climate warming
Carlos Gabriel Morales, María Teresa Ortega, and Javier Martínez-Martínez
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1044,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1044, 2026
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28 May 2026
Assessment of Snow Depth Retrievability from Passive Microwave Observations over Arctic Sea Ice: A Global Sensitivity Analysis
Ziyu Yan, Yufang Ye, Georg Heygster, Bin Cheng, Carolina Gabarró, Ferran Hernández-Macià, and Xiao Cheng
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1680,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1680, 2026
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28 May 2026
Inferring on-glacier meteorology from physical modeling and remote sensing
Shaoting Ren, Evan S. Miles, Michael McCarthy, Achille Jouberton, Thomas E. Shaw, Pascal Buri, Marin Kneib, Prateek Gantayat, Anneli Guthke, and Francesca Pellicciotti
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2524,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2524, 2026
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27 May 2026
Accurate assessment of surface mass balance based on stake observations and model correction at Dome A, East Antarctica
Xiyue Zhang, Minghu Ding, Diyi Yang, Bin Cheng, Ian Allison, Kongju Zhu, Yuande Yang, Xiangbin Cui, Petra Heil, Chuanjin Li, and Cunde Xiao
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2150,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2150, 2026
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27 May 2026
Lagged Responses of Seasonally Frozen Ground on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to Extreme Heat Events
Ting Zhang, Tingbin Zhang, Xianglong Ma, Guihau Yi, and Xianhang Zhou
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2202,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2202, 2026
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27 May 2026
Brief communication：Delayed Ice Avalanches Triggered by Earthquakes: A Strain-rate Dependent Strengthening Mechanism
Xuanmei Fan, Shaochi Peng, Wensong Wang, and Qing Pan
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2367,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2367, 2026
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27 May 2026
The Role of the Atmosphere during the 2023 Antarctic Sea Ice Minimum
Matthew Goodwin, Adam Bateson, and Jake Aylmer
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2719,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2719, 2026
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27 May 2026
Combined assimilation of Sentinel-2 snow cover fraction and snow station data improves fully distributed snow simulation across multiple spatial scales
Moritz Oberrauch, Bertrand Cluzet, Jan Magnusson, Gabriele Schwaizer, and Tobias Jonas
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2725,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2725, 2026
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26 May 2026
Improved workflow for customized ICESat-2 ATL06 elevations captures seasonal mountain snow depths at sub-kilometer scale
Karina Zikan, Ellyn M. Enderlin, Hans-Peter Marshall, and Shad O'Neel
The Cryosphere, 20, 3051–3072, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3051-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3051-2026, 2026
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26 May 2026
Temperature sensitivity of snow viscoplasticity: evidence from controlled creep experiments
Louis Védrine, Marius Brun, Mathis Bozon, Benoît Laurent, and Pascal Hagenmuller
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2612,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2612, 2026
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22 May 2026
An ice-sheet modelling framework to determine vulnerable regions of the Greenland Ice Sheet in the past
Benjamin A. Keisling, Joerg M. Schaefer, Robert M. DeConto, Jason P. Briner, Nicolás E. Young, Caleb K. Walcott-George, Gisela Winckler, Allie Balter-Kennedy, and Sridhar Anandakrishnan
The Cryosphere, 20, 2961–2976, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2961-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2961-2026, 2026
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22 May 2026
Estimation of snow depth from AMSR-2 based on an AutoML method over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Xuan Li, Fan Xu, Chen Zhang, Tao Che, Liyun Dai, and Yanli Zhang
The Cryosphere, 20, 2977–2997, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2977-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2977-2026, 2026
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22 May 2026
Future Retreat of Great Aletsch Glacier and Hintereisferner – application of a full-Stokes model to two valley glaciers in the European Alps
Martin Rückamp, Gong Cheng, Karlheinz Gutjahr, Marco Möller, Petri K. E. Pellikka, and Christoph Mayer
The Cryosphere, 20, 2999–3024, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2999-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2999-2026, 2026
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22 May 2026
Soil microwave background retrieval and snow sensitivity from multi-frequency SAR observations over an agro-forested environment in northern Ontario
Alex Gélinas, Benoît Montpetit, Julien Meloche, Peter Toose, Zeinab Akhavan, Wei Wang, Richard Kelly, Alexandre Langlois, and Alexandre Roy
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-656,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-656, 2026
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