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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.
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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22 May 2026
Mass changes of the Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet and peripheral glaciers, 2007–2021
Maud Bernat, Etienne Berthier, Amaury Dehecq, Romain Hugonnet, Joaquin M. C. Belart, Naomi Ochwat, Peter Kuipers Munneke, Elizabeth Case, Ted Scambos, Louis-Marie Gauer, and David Youssefi
The Cryosphere, 20, 3025–3049, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3025-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-3025-2026, 2026
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21 May 2026
Simulating liquid water distribution at the pore scale in snow: water retention curves and effective transport properties
Lisa Bouvet, Nicolas Allet, Neige Calonne, Frédéric Flin, and Christian Geindreau
The Cryosphere, 20, 2923–2946, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2923-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2923-2026, 2026
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21 May 2026
Enhancing lake identification in Alpine periglacial environments by leveraging the global context of transformers
Jinhao Xu, Min Feng, Yijie Sui, Yanan Su, Xuefei Zhang, Qinglin Wu, Zhimin Hu, and Ruilin Wang
The Cryosphere, 20, 2851–2870, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2851-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2851-2026, 2026
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21 May 2026
Estimating the thermodynamic contribution of post-industrial warming to recent Greenland ice sheet surface mass loss
Jonathon R. Preece, Patrick Alexander, Thomas L. Mote, Gabriel J. Kooperman, Xavier Fettweis, and Marco Tedesco
The Cryosphere, 20, 2871–2894, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2871-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2871-2026, 2026
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21 May 2026
21st century change in precipitation on the Greenland Ice Sheet using high resolution regional climate models
Fredrik Boberg, Xavier Fettweis, Nicolaj Hansen, Ruth Mottram, and Michiel R. van den Broeke
The Cryosphere, 20, 2947–2960, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2947-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2947-2026, 2026
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21 May 2026
The anomalously warm summer of 2023 over Greenland as compared to previous record melt summers of 2012 and 2019
Alexander Mchedlishvili, Marco Vountas, and Hartmut Bösch
The Cryosphere, 20, 2895–2922, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2895-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2895-2026, 2026
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20 May 2026
Radiostratigraphy and surface accumulation history of the Amundsen-Weddell Ice Divide, West Antarctica
Felipe Napoleoni, Michael J. Bentley, Neil Ross, Stewart S. R. Jamieson, José A. Uribe, Jonathan Oberreuter, Rodrigo Zamora, Andrés Rivera, Andrew M. Smith, Robert G. Bingham, and Kenichi Matsuoka
The Cryosphere, 20, 2793–2824, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2793-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2793-2026, 2026
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20 May 2026
Snow depth distributions on sea ice of different ages and thicknesses from regional field campaigns
Lanqing Huang, Julienne Stroeve, Thomas Newman, Robbie Mallett, Rosemary Willatt, Lu Zhou, Malin Johansson, Carmen Nab, and Alicia Fallows
The Cryosphere, 20, 2825–2849, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2825-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2825-2026, 2026
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20 May 2026
High-Resolution Modelling of Landfast Ice Formation and Midseason Breakout on the Siberian Shelf
Xuezhi Bai, Ziqing Dong, Kaiwen Wang, Xian Jiang, and Wenjing Zhang
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-826,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-826, 2026
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20 May 2026
Two decades of GNSS-IR observations reveal an asymmetric decline in coastal sea ice phenology of the Beaufort Sea
Minfeng Song, Xiaolei Wang, Zhenyu He, Dongzhen Jia, Ruya Xiao, and Xiufeng He
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1160,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1160, 2026
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20 May 2026
Lagged hydrological responses to glacier surface variability inferred from satellite-derived proxies in the Andes of central Chile
Ignacio Fuentes, Sebastián Morales, Nicolás Velasco, and Cristian Jordan
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2386,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2386, 2026
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20 May 2026
Snow Structure Modulates the Isotopic Imprint of Sublimation
Shaakir Dar, Olga Silantyeva, Pertti Ala-aho, Benjamin Walter, John Hult, Valtteri Hyöky, Jeffrey Welker, and Hannu Marttila
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2589,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2589, 2026
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20 May 2026
A basin-scale mapping method for crevasse depth using ICESat-2: a case study on Greenland's Sermeq Kujalleq (Jakobshavn Isbræ)
Ruijie Chang, Xi Lu, Ronggang Huang, Andrew J. Sole, Stephen J. Livingstone, Zhen Dong, Liming Jiang, Hansheng Wang, and Bisheng Yang
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2598,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2598, 2026
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19 May 2026
Assimilation of synthetic observations of radar backscatters at Ku-band improves SWE estimates
Nicolas R. Leroux, Vincent Vionnet, Courtney Bayer, Julien Meloche, Arlan Dirkson, Franck Lespinas, Mark Buehner, Marco Carrera, Benoit Montpetit, Bernard Bilodeau, Maria Abrahamowicz, and Chris Derksen
The Cryosphere, 20, 2773–2792, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2773-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2773-2026, 2026
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19 May 2026
Anatomy and Impact of a High Arctic Atmospheric River Driving Extreme Winter Rain and Snowfall
Hannah Bailey, Jason E. Box, Ben G. Kopec, Valtteri Hyöky, Hannu Marttila, Jeffrey M. Welker, Jack Kohler, Dmitry V. Divine, and Alun Hubbard
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2066,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2066, 2026
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18 May 2026
Ice motion across incised fjord landscapes
Sjur Barndon, Robert Law, Andreas Born, Thomas Chudley, and Stefanie Brechtelsbauer
The Cryosphere, 20, 2757–2772, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2757-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2757-2026, 2026
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18 May 2026
Mechanisms and Patterns of Snow–Temperature Interactions in Arid Mountains: Coupling Coordination and Lagged Responses Across Xinjiang, China
Haixing Li, Xiaolong Bao, Shiqi Lu, Yi Chu, Jun Lu, Mengge Xiao, and Xuelei Lei
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1603,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1603, 2026
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18 May 2026
Horizontal sensible heat advection increases snow melt rates: Beyond point measurements
Eli Schwat, Michael Haugeneder, Dylan Reynolds, Daniel Hogan, Ethan Gutmann, and Jessica D. Lundquist
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1633,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1633, 2026
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18 May 2026
The implementation and effectiveness of Calving Algorithms in numerical ice models (CalvingMIP)
James R. Jordan, Frank Pattyn, Daniel Abele, Torsten Albrecht, Jorge Alvarez-Solas, Jowan M. Barnes, Tijn Berends, Jorge A. Bernales, Javier Blasco, Gong Cheng, Youngmin Choi, Stephen L. Cornford, Cruz Garcia-Molina, Fabien Gillet-Chaulet, G. Hilmar Gudmundsson, Angelika Humbert, Gunter R. Leguy, William H. Lipscomb, Marisa Montoya, Daniel Moreno-Parada, Mathieu Morlighem, Tyler Pelle, Alexander Robinson, Martin Rückamp, Hélène Seroussi, Yanmei Tian, Luisa Wagner, Roderick S. W. van de Wal, Liyun Zhao, and Thomas Zwinger
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1962,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1962, 2026
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13 May 2026
Multi-Decadal Expansion of Potentially Dangerous Glacial Lakes in Central-Eastern Nepal (1992–2024): Remote Sensing Assessment and GLOF Hazard Implications
Ashok Ghimire, Susa Manandhar, Tribikram Basnet, Kumar Aryal, Sushant Dhital, Reshu Karki, Aakriti Dhakal, Nir Krakauer, and Dhiraj Pradhananga
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2402,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2402, 2026
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13 May 2026
Changes in Arctic sea ice drift speed over the last 130 years
Björn-Martin Sinnhuber
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2561,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2561, 2026
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12 May 2026
Impact of surface melt and brine infiltration on fracture toughness of ice shelves
Emma Pearce, Oliver J. Marsh, Thomas M. Mitchell, Jukka Tuhkuri, Elizabeth R. Thomas, and Siobhan Johnson
The Cryosphere, 20, 2723–2734, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2723-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2723-2026, 2026
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12 May 2026
Assessing the potential for an ice core in the southern Antarctic Peninsula to elucidate Holocene climate history
Harry J. Davis, Robert G. Bingham, Carlos Martín, Elizabeth R. Thomas, Andrew S. Hein, and Anna E. Hogg
The Cryosphere, 20, 2735–2756, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2735-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2735-2026, 2026
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12 May 2026
Effect of vibration on the elastic modulus of compacted Antarctic snow near Zhongshan Station
Fan Zhang, Tong Han, Qiming Zhang, Hao Wang, Zhenxuan Yin, Yihe Wang, Biao Hu, Xueyuan Tang, Bo Sun, and Enzhao Xiao
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2115,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2115, 2026
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11 May 2026
Consistent ridging and opening coefficients for multi-category sea ice models with modified viscous-plastic rheologies
Jean-Francois Lemieux, Damien Ringeisen, Martin Losch, William Lipscomb, and Jinro Ukita
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1362,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1362, 2026
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08 May 2026
Ensemble numerical simulation of permafrost thermal regimes over the Tibetan Plateau using the Flexible Permafrost Model: 1950–2023
Wen Sun and Bin Cao
The Cryosphere, 20, 2681–2702, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2681-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2681-2026, 2026
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08 May 2026
A model of water extraction from the subglacial hydrologic system under idealized conditions
Colin R. Meyer, Katarzyna L. P. Warburton, Aleah N. Sommers, and Brent M. Minchew
The Cryosphere, 20, 2659–2680, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2659-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2659-2026, 2026
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08 May 2026
A spatiotemporal analysis of errors in InSAR SWE measurements caused by non-snow phase changes
Ross Palomaki, Zachary Hoppinen, and Hans-Peter Marshall
The Cryosphere, 20, 2703–2721, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2703-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2703-2026, 2026
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08 May 2026
Modeling the refractive index profile n(z) of polar ice for ultra-high energy neutrino experiments
Kenneth Couberly, Dave Besson, and the ARA Collaboration
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1678,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1678, 2026
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08 May 2026
The missing drifts: Widespread and systematic underestimation of heterogeneity in mountain snow density and SWE across scales
Elijah N. Boardman, Karen L. Boardman, Christopher A. Jones, Sean D. Shipman, John A. Whiting, Joseph W. Boardman, and Adrian A. Harpold
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1933,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1933, 2026
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08 May 2026
Quantifying the Role of Parametric Uncertainty in Projections of Large-Scale Glacier Change
Megan C. James, Tamsin L. Edwards, Tom Matthews, Alexander T. Bradley, James F. O'Neill, and Harry Zekollari
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2069,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2069, 2026
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08 May 2026
Dual frequency airborne SAR experiment on snow water equivalent retrieval in Alpine terrain
Helmut Rott, Thomas Nagler, Markus Hetzenecker, Ralf Horn, Jens Fischer, and Julia Kubanek
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2104,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2104, 2026
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08 May 2026
Brief Communication: Comparing ICESat-2 Altimetry and COSMO-SkyMed Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry Grounding Zone Products over Antarctica
Ankita Vashishtha and Pietro Milillo
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2429,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2429, 2026
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06 May 2026
The PolarRES dataset: a state-of-the-art regional climate model ensemble for understanding Antarctic climate
Ella Gilbert, José Abraham Torres-Alavez, Marte G. Hofsteenge, Willem Jan van de Berg, Fredrik Boberg, Ole Bøssing Christensen, Christiaan Timo van Dalum, Xavier Fettweis, Siddharth Gumber, Nicolaj Hansen, Christoph Kittel, Clara Lambin, Damien Maure, Ruth Mottram, Martin Olesen, Andrew Orr, Tony Phillips, Maurice van Tiggelen, Kristiina Verro, and Priscilla A. Mooney
The Cryosphere, 20, 2629–2658, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2629-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2629-2026, 2026
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06 May 2026
Investigating the transition in ice-dynamics from a land- to lake-terminating glacier using a simple glacier dynamics model
Jaime Otero, Daniel Goldberg, Peter Nienow, and Yefan Wang
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2298,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2298, 2026
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05 May 2026
Super-resolution of Arctic Sea Ice thickness using a conditional diffusion model
Julien Brajard, Anton Korosov, Fabio Mangini, Richard Davy, and Yiguo Wang
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2318,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2318, 2026
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30 Apr 2026
The Eurasian and North American ice sheets at the Last and Penultimate glacial maxima: coupled atmosphere–ice sheet model sensitivity and calibration
Violet L. Patterson, Lauren J. Gregoire, Ruza F. Ivanovic, Niall Gandy, Stephen Cornford, Jonathan Owen, Sam Sherriff-Tadano, and Robin S. Smith
The Cryosphere, 20, 2589–2628, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2589-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2589-2026, 2026
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30 Apr 2026
Characterizing melt ponds on sea ice in the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM2)
Caixin Wang, Jens Debernard, and Keguang Wang
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1525,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1525, 2026
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30 Apr 2026
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) phase data assimilation for Bayesian snow water equivalent estimation
Steven A. Margulis, Maya Hildebrand, Xiaolan Xu, Manuela Girotto, Hans-Peter Marshall, Rashmi Shah, Elias Deeb, Simon Yueh, Dara Entekhabi, and Jessica Lundquist
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1594,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1594, 2026
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29 Apr 2026
Understanding slow glacier flow under climate change: A case study on Vernagtferner, Austria
Theresa Dobler, Wilfried Hagg, Martin Rückamp, Thorsten Seehaus, and Christoph Mayer
The Cryosphere, 20, 2531–2555, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2531-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2531-2026, 2026
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29 Apr 2026
The importance of initial conditions in seasonal predictions of Antarctic sea ice
Elio Campitelli, Ariaan Purich, Julie Arblaster, Eun-Pa Lim, Matthew C. Wheeler, and Phillip Reid
The Cryosphere, 20, 2557–2587, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2557-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2557-2026, 2026
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29 Apr 2026
Impact of blowing snow on the surface radiation balance near the western margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Samuel M. Tax, Maurice van Tiggelen, Thirza N. Feenstra, Paul C. J. P. Smeets, Srinidhi N. Gadde, Christiaan T. van Dalum, Willem Jan van de Berg, and Michiel R. van den Broeke
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1926,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1926, 2026
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29 Apr 2026
Improved subglacial boundary conditions near Dome C, Antarctica, through rigorous integration of multi-campaign radar data and an ensemble stochastic simulation approach
Calvin Shackleton, Kenichi Matsuoka, Brett Fraysher, Joohan Lee, Jørgen Dall, Allain Rapadas, Prasad Gogineni, Drew Taylor, Hyeon Tae Ju, Changhyun Chung, and Anders Kusk
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2357,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2357, 2026
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28 Apr 2026
Seasonal icings reveal subsurface water drainage of a Greenland Ice Sheet outlet glacier
Rebecca McCerery, Joseph A. Graly, Christopher L. Hansen, Kate Winter, William P. Gilhooly III, Trinity L. Hamilton, Moses Jatta, Jeff R. Havig, Felipe Napoleoni, Alicia M. Rutledge, Matthew Terrell, Tanya M. Trott, Kayla Woodie, Bernd Kulessa, Sevi Modestou, Hannah Bahrani, Tori Kennedy, Alexandra Messerli, and Kathy Licht
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2131,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2131, 2026
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27 Apr 2026
Simulating the effect of natural convection in a tundra snow cover
Mahdi Jafari and Michael Lehning
The Cryosphere, 20, 2439–2467, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2439-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2439-2026, 2026
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27 Apr 2026
Impact of spatial resolution on large-scale ice cover modelling of mountainous regions
Helen Werner, Dirk Scherler, Tancrède P. M. Leger, Guillaume Jouvet, and Ricarda Winkelmann
The Cryosphere, 20, 2469–2484, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2469-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2469-2026, 2026
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27 Apr 2026
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Review article: 30 years of airborne radar surveys on the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets by the Alfred Wegener Institute
Steven Franke, Daniel Steinhage, Veit Helm, Tobias Binder, Uwe Nixdorf, Heinrich Miller, Angelika Humbert, Daniela Jansen, Graeme Eagles, Hannes Eisermann, Wilfried Jokat, Antonia Ruppel, Reinhard Drews, Alexandra Zuhr, Amelie Driemel, Andreas Walter, Peter Konopatzky, Robin Heß, Antonie Haas, Roland Koppe, Pascal H. Andreas, and Olaf Eisen
The Cryosphere, 20, 2485–2530, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2485-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2485-2026, 2026
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27 Apr 2026
Numerical modeling on the mechanisms of chlorine chemistry in snowpack and their impact on secondary atmospheric pollution
Shengjin Xie, Xuelei Zhang, Aijun Xiu, Hong Qi, Shengrui Tong, Qianjie Chen, Chao Gao, Hongmei Zhao, Shichun Zhang, Stephen Dauda Yabo, Yiming Liu, Siting Li, and Mengduo Zhang
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5338,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5338, 2026
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27 Apr 2026
Lake Ice Thickness retrieval using TanDEM-X immediate interferometry
Peilin Chen, Grant Gunn, and Sukhdip Kharoud
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1980,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1980, 2026
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27 Apr 2026
Iceberg B09B grounding: a plausible trigger for more persistent marine cold-spells off Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica
Raven Quilestino-Olario, Sonja Berg, Martin Melles, and Bernd Wagner
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2171,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2171, 2026
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