Volume 14, 2020

Volume 14, 2020

02 Jan 2020
Rock glacier characteristics serve as an indirect record of multiple alpine glacier advances in Taylor Valley, Antarctica
Kelsey Winsor, Kate M. Swanger, Esther Babcock, Rachel D. Valletta, and James L. Dickson
The Cryosphere, 14, 1–16, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1-2020, 2020
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09 Jan 2020
Exploring mechanisms responsible for tidal modulation in flow of the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf
Sebastian H. R. Rosier and G. Hilmar Gudmundsson
The Cryosphere, 14, 17–37, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-17-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-17-2020, 2020
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10 Jan 2020
Micromechanical modeling of snow failure
Grégoire Bobillier, Bastian Bergfeld, Achille Capelli, Jürg Dual, Johan Gaume, Alec van Herwijnen, and Jürg Schweizer
The Cryosphere, 14, 39–49, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-39-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-39-2020, 2020
14 Jan 2020
Modeling the evolution of the structural anisotropy of snow
Silvan Leinss, Henning Löwe, Martin Proksch, and Anna Kontu
The Cryosphere, 14, 51–75, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-51-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-51-2020, 2020
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15 Jan 2020
Estimation of subsurface porosities and thermal conductivities of polygonal tundra by coupled inversion of electrical resistivity, temperature, and moisture content data
Elchin E. Jafarov, Dylan R. Harp, Ethan T. Coon, Baptiste Dafflon, Anh Phuong Tran, Adam L. Atchley, Youzuo Lin, and Cathy J. Wilson
The Cryosphere, 14, 77–91, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-77-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-77-2020, 2020
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16 Jan 2020
Feature-based comparison of sea ice deformation in lead-permitting sea ice simulations
Nils Hutter and Martin Losch
The Cryosphere, 14, 93–113, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-93-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-93-2020, 2020
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17 Jan 2020
Modeling snow slab avalanches caused by weak-layer failure – Part 1: Slabs on compliant and collapsible weak layers
Philipp L. Rosendahl and Philipp Weißgraeber
The Cryosphere, 14, 115–130, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-115-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-115-2020, 2020
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17 Jan 2020
Modeling snow slab avalanches caused by weak-layer failure – Part 2: Coupled mixed-mode criterion for skier-triggered anticracks
Philipp L. Rosendahl and Philipp Weißgraeber
The Cryosphere, 14, 131–145, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-131-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-131-2020, 2020
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17 Jan 2020
Impact of forcing on sublimation simulations for a high mountain catchment in the semiarid Andes
Marion Réveillet, Shelley MacDonell, Simon Gascoin, Christophe Kinnard, Stef Lhermitte, and Nicole Schaffer
The Cryosphere, 14, 147–163, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-147-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-147-2020, 2020
22 Jan 2020
Broadband albedo of Arctic sea ice from MERIS optical data
Christine Pohl, Larysa Istomina, Steffen Tietsche, Evelyn Jäkel, Johannes Stapf, Gunnar Spreen, and Georg Heygster
The Cryosphere, 14, 165–182, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-165-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-165-2020, 2020
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22 Jan 2020
Revisiting Austfonna, Svalbard, with potential field methods – a new characterization of the bed topography and its physical properties
Marie-Andrée Dumais and Marco Brönner
The Cryosphere, 14, 183–197, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-183-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-183-2020, 2020
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23 Jan 2020
Impact of exhaust emissions on chemical snowpack composition at Concordia Station, Antarctica
Detlev Helmig, Daniel Liptzin, Jacques Hueber, and Joel Savarino
The Cryosphere, 14, 199–209, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-199-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-199-2020, 2020
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24 Jan 2020
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A decade of variability on Jakobshavn Isbræ: ocean temperatures pace speed through influence on mélange rigidity
Ian Joughin, David E. Shean, Benjamin E. Smith, and Dana Floricioiu
The Cryosphere, 14, 211–227, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-211-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-211-2020, 2020
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27 Jan 2020
Interannual variability of summer surface mass balance and surface melting in the Amundsen sector, West Antarctica
Marion Donat-Magnin, Nicolas C. Jourdain, Hubert Gallée, Charles Amory, Christoph Kittel, Xavier Fettweis, Jonathan D. Wille, Vincent Favier, Amine Drira, and Cécile Agosta
The Cryosphere, 14, 229–249, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-229-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-229-2020, 2020
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27 Jan 2020
Brief communication: Conventional assumptions involving the speed of radar waves in snow introduce systematic underestimates to sea ice thickness and seasonal growth rate estimates
Robbie D. C. Mallett, Isobel R. Lawrence, Julienne C. Stroeve, Jack C. Landy, and Michel Tsamados
The Cryosphere, 14, 251–260, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-251-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-251-2020, 2020
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28 Jan 2020
Glacial sedimentation, fluxes and erosion rates associated with ice retreat in Petermann Fjord and Nares Strait, north-west Greenland
Kelly A. Hogan, Martin Jakobsson, Larry Mayer, Brendan T. Reilly, Anne E. Jennings, Joseph S. Stoner, Tove Nielsen, Katrine J. Andresen, Egon Nørmark, Katrien A. Heirman, Elina Kamla, Kevin Jerram, Christian Stranne, and Alan Mix
The Cryosphere, 14, 261–286, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-261-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-261-2020, 2020
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28 Jan 2020
Glaciohydraulic seismic tremors on an Alpine glacier
Fabian Lindner, Fabian Walter, Gabi Laske, and Florent Gimbert
The Cryosphere, 14, 287–308, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-287-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-287-2020, 2020
29 Jan 2020
Glacier algae accelerate melt rates on the south-western Greenland Ice Sheet
Joseph M. Cook, Andrew J. Tedstone, Christopher Williamson, Jenine McCutcheon, Andrew J. Hodson, Archana Dayal, McKenzie Skiles, Stefan Hofer, Robert Bryant, Owen McAree, Andrew McGonigle, Jonathan Ryan, Alexandre M. Anesio, Tristram D. L. Irvine-Fynn, Alun Hubbard, Edward Hanna, Mark Flanner, Sathish Mayanna, Liane G. Benning, Dirk van As, Marian Yallop, James B. McQuaid, Thomas Gribbin, and Martyn Tranter
The Cryosphere, 14, 309–330, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-309-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-309-2020, 2020
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30 Jan 2020
Comparison of modeled snow properties in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan
Edward H. Bair, Karl Rittger, Jawairia A. Ahmad, and Doug Chabot
The Cryosphere, 14, 331–347, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-331-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-331-2020, 2020
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30 Jan 2020
Sensitivity of inverse glacial isostatic adjustment estimates over Antarctica
Matthias O. Willen, Martin Horwath, Ludwig Schröder, Andreas Groh, Stefan R. M. Ligtenberg, Peter Kuipers Munneke, and Michiel R. van den Broeke
The Cryosphere, 14, 349–366, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-349-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-349-2020, 2020
30 Jan 2020
Identification of blowing snow particles in images from a Multi-Angle Snowflake Camera
Mathieu Schaer, Christophe Praz, and Alexis Berne
The Cryosphere, 14, 367–384, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-367-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-367-2020, 2020
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31 Jan 2020
Relating regional and point measurements of accumulation in southwest Greenland
Achim Heilig, Olaf Eisen, Martin Schneebeli, Michael MacFerrin, C. Max Stevens, Baptiste Vandecrux, and Konrad Steffen
The Cryosphere, 14, 385–402, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-385-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-385-2020, 2020
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04 Feb 2020
Impact of sea ice floe size distribution on seasonal fragmentation and melt of Arctic sea ice
Adam W. Bateson, Daniel L. Feltham, David Schröder, Lucia Hosekova, Jeff K. Ridley, and Yevgeny Aksenov
The Cryosphere, 14, 403–428, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-403-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-403-2020, 2020
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04 Feb 2020
Influence of sea-ice anomalies on Antarctic precipitation using source attribution in the Community Earth System Model
Hailong Wang, Jeremy G. Fyke, Jan T. M. Lenaerts, Jesse M. Nusbaumer, Hansi Singh, David Noone, Philip J. Rasch, and Rudong Zhang
The Cryosphere, 14, 429–444, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-429-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-429-2020, 2020
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05 Feb 2020
Soil moisture and hydrology projections of the permafrost region – a model intercomparison
Christian G. Andresen, David M. Lawrence, Cathy J. Wilson, A. David McGuire, Charles Koven, Kevin Schaefer, Elchin Jafarov, Shushi Peng, Xiaodong Chen, Isabelle Gouttevin, Eleanor Burke, Sarah Chadburn, Duoying Ji, Guangsheng Chen, Daniel Hayes, and Wenxin Zhang
The Cryosphere, 14, 445–459, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-445-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-445-2020, 2020
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05 Feb 2020
Effects of decimetre-scale surface roughness on L-band brightness temperature of sea ice
Maciej Miernecki, Lars Kaleschke, Nina Maaß, Stefan Hendricks, and Sten Schmidl Søbjærg
The Cryosphere, 14, 461–476, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-461-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-461-2020, 2020
05 Feb 2020
Sea ice volume variability and water temperature in the Greenland Sea
Valeria Selyuzhenok, Igor Bashmachnikov, Robert Ricker, Anna Vesman, and Leonid Bobylev
The Cryosphere, 14, 477–495, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-477-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-477-2020, 2020
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07 Feb 2020
Pan-Antarctic map of near-surface permafrost temperatures at 1 km2 scale
Jaroslav Obu, Sebastian Westermann, Gonçalo Vieira, Andrey Abramov, Megan Ruby Balks, Annett Bartsch, Filip Hrbáček, Andreas Kääb, and Miguel Ramos
The Cryosphere, 14, 497–519, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-497-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-497-2020, 2020
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11 Feb 2020
Algal growth and weathering crust state drive variability in western Greenland Ice Sheet ice albedo
Andrew J. Tedstone, Joseph M. Cook, Christopher J. Williamson, Stefan Hofer, Jenine McCutcheon, Tristram Irvine-Fynn, Thomas Gribbin, and Martyn Tranter
The Cryosphere, 14, 521–538, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-521-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-521-2020, 2020
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11 Feb 2020
Melt in Antarctica derived from Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) observations at L band
Marion Leduc-Leballeur, Ghislain Picard, Giovanni Macelloni, Arnaud Mialon, and Yann H. Kerr
The Cryosphere, 14, 539–548, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-539-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-539-2020, 2020
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12 Feb 2020
Surface melt and the importance of water flow – an analysis based on high-resolution unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data for an Arctic glacier
Eleanor A. Bash and Brian J. Moorman
The Cryosphere, 14, 549–563, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-549-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-549-2020, 2020
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13 Feb 2020
Deep learning applied to glacier evolution modelling
Jordi Bolibar, Antoine Rabatel, Isabelle Gouttevin, Clovis Galiez, Thomas Condom, and Eric Sauquet
The Cryosphere, 14, 565–584, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-565-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-565-2020, 2020
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13 Feb 2020
Supra-glacial debris cover changes in the Greater Caucasus from 1986 to 2014
Levan G. Tielidze, Tobias Bolch, Roger D. Wheate, Stanislav S. Kutuzov, Ivan I. Lavrentiev, and Michael Zemp
The Cryosphere, 14, 585–598, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-585-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-585-2020, 2020
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14 Feb 2020
Glacial-cycle simulations of the Antarctic Ice Sheet with the Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM) – Part 1: Boundary conditions and climatic forcing
Torsten Albrecht, Ricarda Winkelmann, and Anders Levermann
The Cryosphere, 14, 599–632, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-599-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-599-2020, 2020
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14 Feb 2020
Glacial-cycle simulations of the Antarctic Ice Sheet with the Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM) – Part 2: Parameter ensemble analysis
Torsten Albrecht, Ricarda Winkelmann, and Anders Levermann
The Cryosphere, 14, 633–656, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-633-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-633-2020, 2020
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14 Feb 2020
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Cryoconite: an efficient accumulator of radioactive fallout in glacial environments
Giovanni Baccolo, Edyta Łokas, Paweł Gaca, Dario Massabò, Roberto Ambrosini, Roberto S. Azzoni, Caroline Clason, Biagio Di Mauro, Andrea Franzetti, Massimiliano Nastasi, Michele Prata, Paolo Prati, Ezio Previtali, Barbara Delmonte, and Valter Maggi
The Cryosphere, 14, 657–672, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-657-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-657-2020, 2020
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17 Feb 2020
Parameter sensitivity analysis of dynamic ice sheet models – numerical computations
Gong Cheng and Per Lötstedt
The Cryosphere, 14, 673–691, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-673-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-673-2020, 2020
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26 Feb 2020
The Arctic sea ice extent change connected to Pacific decadal variability
Xiao-Yi Yang, Guihua Wang, and Noel Keenlyside
The Cryosphere, 14, 693–708, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-693-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-693-2020, 2020
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02 Mar 2020
Towards a coupled model to investigate wave–sea ice interactions in the Arctic marginal ice zone
Guillaume Boutin, Camille Lique, Fabrice Ardhuin, Clément Rousset, Claude Talandier, Mickael Accensi, and Fanny Girard-Ardhuin
The Cryosphere, 14, 709–735, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-709-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-709-2020, 2020
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02 Mar 2020
On the relation between avalanche occurrence and avalanche danger level
Jürg Schweizer, Christoph Mitterer, Frank Techel, Andreas Stoffel, and Benjamin Reuter
The Cryosphere, 14, 737–750, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-737-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-737-2020, 2020
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02 Mar 2020
Variability scaling and consistency in airborne and satellite altimetry measurements of Arctic sea ice
Shiming Xu, Lu Zhou, and Bin Wang
The Cryosphere, 14, 751–767, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-751-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-751-2020, 2020
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04 Mar 2020
The seasonal evolution of albedo across glaciers and the surrounding landscape of Taylor Valley, Antarctica
Anna Bergstrom, Michael N. Gooseff, Madeline Myers, Peter T. Doran, and Julian M. Cross
The Cryosphere, 14, 769–788, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-769-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-769-2020, 2020
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05 Mar 2020
Solar radiative transfer in Antarctic blue ice: spectral considerations, subsurface enhancement, inclusions, and meteorites
Andrew R. D. Smedley, Geoffrey W. Evatt, Amy Mallinson, and Eleanor Harvey
The Cryosphere, 14, 789–809, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-789-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-789-2020, 2020
05 Mar 2020
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Assimilation of surface observations in a transient marine ice sheet model using an ensemble Kalman filter
Fabien Gillet-Chaulet
The Cryosphere, 14, 811–832, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-811-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-811-2020, 2020
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05 Mar 2020
Brief communication: On calculating the sea-level contribution in marine ice-sheet models
Heiko Goelzer, Violaine Coulon, Frank Pattyn, Bas de Boer, and Roderik van de Wal
The Cryosphere, 14, 833–840, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-833-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-833-2020, 2020
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06 Mar 2020
Exceptionally high heat flux needed to sustain the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream
Silje Smith-Johnsen, Basile de Fleurian, Nicole Schlegel, Helene Seroussi, and Kerim Nisancioglu
The Cryosphere, 14, 841–854, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-841-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-841-2020, 2020
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06 Mar 2020
CMIP5 model selection for ISMIP6 ice sheet model forcing: Greenland and Antarctica
Alice Barthel, Cécile Agosta, Christopher M. Little, Tore Hattermann, Nicolas C. Jourdain, Heiko Goelzer, Sophie Nowicki, Helene Seroussi, Fiammetta Straneo, and Thomas J. Bracegirdle
The Cryosphere, 14, 855–879, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-855-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-855-2020, 2020
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09 Mar 2020
Stable water isotopes and accumulation rates in the Union Glacier region, Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica, over the last 35 years
Kirstin Hoffmann, Francisco Fernandoy, Hanno Meyer, Elizabeth R. Thomas, Marcelo Aliaga, Dieter Tetzner, Johannes Freitag, Thomas Opel, Jorge Arigony-Neto, Christian Florian Göbel, Ricardo Jaña, Delia Rodríguez Oroz, Rebecca Tuckwell, Emily Ludlow, Joseph R. McConnell, and Christoph Schneider
The Cryosphere, 14, 881–904, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-881-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-881-2020, 2020
11 Mar 2020
Coupled modelling of subglacial hydrology and calving-front melting at Store Glacier, West Greenland
Samuel J. Cook, Poul Christoffersen, Joe Todd, Donald Slater, and Nolwenn Chauché
The Cryosphere, 14, 905–924, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-905-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-905-2020, 2020
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12 Mar 2020
Strong changes in englacial temperatures despite insignificant changes in ice thickness at Dôme du Goûter glacier (Mont Blanc area)
Christian Vincent, Adrien Gilbert, Bruno Jourdain, Luc Piard, Patrick Ginot, Vladimir Mikhalenko, Philippe Possenti, Emmanuel Le Meur, Olivier Laarman, and Delphine Six
The Cryosphere, 14, 925–934, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-925-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-925-2020, 2020
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12 Mar 2020
Use of Sentinel-1 radar observations to evaluate snowmelt dynamics in alpine regions
Carlo Marin, Giacomo Bertoldi, Valentina Premier, Mattia Callegari, Christian Brida, Kerstin Hürkamp, Jochen Tschiersch, Marc Zebisch, and Claudia Notarnicola
The Cryosphere, 14, 935–956, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-935-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-935-2020, 2020
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12 Mar 2020
Brief communication: Evaluation of the near-surface climate in ERA5 over the Greenland Ice Sheet
Alison Delhasse, Christoph Kittel, Charles Amory, Stefan Hofer, Dirk van As, Robert S. Fausto, and Xavier Fettweis
The Cryosphere, 14, 957–965, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-957-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-957-2020, 2020
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16 Mar 2020
Spatial and temporal variations in glacier aerodynamic surface roughness during the melting season, as estimated at the August-one ice cap, Qilian mountains, China
Junfeng Liu, Rensheng Chen, and Chuntan Han
The Cryosphere, 14, 967–984, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-967-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-967-2020, 2020
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16 Mar 2020
Twenty-first century ocean forcing of the Greenland ice sheet for modelling of sea level contribution
Donald A. Slater, Denis Felikson, Fiamma Straneo, Heiko Goelzer, Christopher M. Little, Mathieu Morlighem, Xavier Fettweis, and Sophie Nowicki
The Cryosphere, 14, 985–1008, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-985-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-985-2020, 2020
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17 Mar 2020
Pressure and inertia sensing drifters for glacial hydrology flow path measurements
Andreas Alexander, Maarja Kruusmaa, Jeffrey A. Tuhtan, Andrew J. Hodson, Thomas V. Schuler, and Andreas Kääb
The Cryosphere, 14, 1009–1023, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1009-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1009-2020, 2020
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17 Mar 2020
Quantifying iceberg calving fluxes with underwater noise
Oskar Glowacki and Grant B. Deane
The Cryosphere, 14, 1025–1042, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1025-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1025-2020, 2020
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20 Mar 2020
Brief communication: Ad hoc estimation of glacier contributions to sea-level rise from the latest glaciological observations
Michael Zemp, Matthias Huss, Nicolas Eckert, Emmanuel Thibert, Frank Paul, Samuel U. Nussbaumer, and Isabelle Gärtner-Roer
The Cryosphere, 14, 1043–1050, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1043-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1043-2020, 2020
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20 Mar 2020
Calving event size measurements and statistics of Eqip Sermia, Greenland, from terrestrial radar interferometry
Andrea Walter, Martin P. Lüthi, and Andreas Vieli
The Cryosphere, 14, 1051–1066, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1051-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1051-2020, 2020
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24 Mar 2020
Ice island thinning: rates and model calibration with in situ observations from Baffin Bay, Nunavut
Anna J. Crawford, Derek Mueller, Gregory Crocker, Laurent Mingo, Luc Desjardins, Dany Dumont, and Marcel Babin
The Cryosphere, 14, 1067–1081, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1067-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1067-2020, 2020
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25 Mar 2020
Prediction of monthly Arctic sea ice concentrations using satellite and reanalysis data based on convolutional neural networks
Young Jun Kim, Hyun-Cheol Kim, Daehyeon Han, Sanggyun Lee, and Jungho Im
The Cryosphere, 14, 1083–1104, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1083-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1083-2020, 2020
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25 Mar 2020
Detailed detection of active layer freeze–thaw dynamics using quasi-continuous electrical resistivity tomography (Deception Island, Antarctica)
Mohammad Farzamian, Gonçalo Vieira, Fernando A. Monteiro Santos, Borhan Yaghoobi Tabar, Christian Hauck, Maria Catarina Paz, Ivo Bernardo, Miguel Ramos, and Miguel Angel de Pablo
The Cryosphere, 14, 1105–1120, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1105-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1105-2020, 2020
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31 Mar 2020
Western Greenland ice sheet retreat history reveals elevated precipitation during the Holocene thermal maximum
Jacob Downs, Jesse Johnson, Jason Briner, Nicolás Young, Alia Lesnek, and Josh Cuzzone
The Cryosphere, 14, 1121–1137, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1121-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1121-2020, 2020
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02 Apr 2020
On the Green's function emergence from interferometry of seismic wave fields generated in high-melt glaciers: implications for passive imaging and monitoring
Amandine Sergeant, Małgorzata Chmiel, Fabian Lindner, Fabian Walter, Philippe Roux, Julien Chaput, Florent Gimbert, and Aurélien Mordret
The Cryosphere, 14, 1139–1171, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1139-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1139-2020, 2020
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06 Apr 2020
Permafrost distribution and conditions at the headwalls of two receding glaciers (Schladming and Hallstatt glaciers) in the Dachstein Massif, Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria
Matthias Rode, Oliver Sass, Andreas Kellerer-Pirklbauer, Harald Schnepfleitner, and Christoph Gitschthaler
The Cryosphere, 14, 1173–1186, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1173-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1173-2020, 2020
08 Apr 2020
How useful is snow accumulation in reconstructing surface air temperature in Antarctica? A study combining ice core records and climate models
Quentin Dalaiden, Hugues Goosse, François Klein, Jan T. M. Lenaerts, Max Holloway, Louise Sime, and Elizabeth R. Thomas
The Cryosphere, 14, 1187–1207, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1187-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1187-2020, 2020
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15 Apr 2020
Unprecedented atmospheric conditions (1948–2019) drive the 2019 exceptional melting season over the Greenland ice sheet
Marco Tedesco and Xavier Fettweis
The Cryosphere, 14, 1209–1223, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1209-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1209-2020, 2020
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14 Apr 2020
Multi-physics ensemble snow modelling in the western Himalaya
David M. W. Pritchard, Nathan Forsythe, Greg O'Donnell, Hayley J. Fowler, and Nick Rutter
The Cryosphere, 14, 1225–1244, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1225-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1225-2020, 2020
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15 Apr 2020
Ocean-forced evolution of the Amundsen Sea catchment, West Antarctica, by 2100
Alanna V. Alevropoulos-Borrill, Isabel J. Nias, Antony J. Payne, Nicholas R. Golledge, and Rory J. Bingham
The Cryosphere, 14, 1245–1258, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1245-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1245-2020, 2020
20 Apr 2020
Going with the floe: tracking CESM Large Ensemble sea ice in the Arctic provides context for ship-based observations
Alice K. DuVivier, Patricia DeRepentigny, Marika M. Holland, Melinda Webster, Jennifer E. Kay, and Donald Perovich
The Cryosphere, 14, 1259–1271, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1259-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1259-2020, 2020
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17 Apr 2020
The influence of water percolation through crevasses on the thermal regime of a Himalayan mountain glacier
Adrien Gilbert, Anna Sinisalo, Tika R. Gurung, Koji Fujita, Sudan B. Maharjan, Tenzing C. Sherpa, and Takehiro Fukuda
The Cryosphere, 14, 1273–1288, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1273-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1273-2020, 2020
21 Apr 2020
Accuracy and inter-analyst agreement of visually estimated sea ice concentrations in Canadian Ice Service ice charts using single-polarization RADARSAT-2
Angela Cheng, Barbara Casati, Adrienne Tivy, Tom Zagon, Jean-François Lemieux, and L. Bruno Tremblay
The Cryosphere, 14, 1289–1310, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1289-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1289-2020, 2020
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23 Apr 2020
Brief Communication: The reliability of gas extraction techniques for analysing CH4 and N2O compositions in gas trapped in permafrost ice wedges
Ji-Woong Yang, Jinho Ahn, Go Iwahana, Sangyoung Han, Kyungmin Kim, and Alexander Fedorov
The Cryosphere, 14, 1311–1324, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1311-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1311-2020, 2020
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23 Apr 2020
Multidecadal Arctic sea ice thickness and volume derived from ice age
Yinghui Liu, Jeffrey R. Key, Xuanji Wang, and Mark Tschudi
The Cryosphere, 14, 1325–1345, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1325-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1325-2020, 2020
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24 Apr 2020
Review article: How does glacier discharge affect marine biogeochemistry and primary production in the Arctic?
Mark J. Hopwood, Dustin Carroll, Thorben Dunse, Andy Hodson, Johnna M. Holding, José L. Iriarte, Sofia Ribeiro, Eric P. Achterberg, Carolina Cantoni, Daniel F. Carlson, Melissa Chierici, Jennifer S. Clarke, Stefano Cozzi, Agneta Fransson, Thomas Juul-Pedersen, Mie H. S. Winding, and Lorenz Meire
The Cryosphere, 14, 1347–1383, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1347-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1347-2020, 2020
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24 Apr 2020
Satellite observations of unprecedented phytoplankton blooms in the Maud Rise polynya, Southern Ocean
Babula Jena and Anilkumar N. Pillai
The Cryosphere, 14, 1385–1398, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1385-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1385-2020, 2020
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27 Apr 2020
Getz Ice Shelf melt enhanced by freshwater discharge from beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Wei Wei, Donald D. Blankenship, Jamin S. Greenbaum, Noel Gourmelen, Christine F. Dow, Thomas G. Richter, Chad A. Greene, Duncan A. Young, SangHoon Lee, Tae-Wan Kim, Won Sang Lee, and Karen M. Assmann
The Cryosphere, 14, 1399–1408, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1399-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1399-2020, 2020
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30 Apr 2020
Towards a webcam-based snow cover monitoring network: methodology and evaluation
Céline Portenier, Fabia Hüsler, Stefan Härer, and Stefan Wunderle
The Cryosphere, 14, 1409–1423, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1409-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1409-2020, 2020
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30 Apr 2020
Brief communication: CESM2 climate forcing (1950–2014) yields realistic Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance
Brice Noël, Leonardus van Kampenhout, Willem Jan van de Berg, Jan T. M. Lenaerts, Bert Wouters, and Michiel R. van den Broeke
The Cryosphere, 14, 1425–1435, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1425-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1425-2020, 2020
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30 Apr 2020
Ground subsidence and heave over permafrost: hourly time series reveal interannual, seasonal and shorter-term movement caused by freezing, thawing and water movement
Stephan Gruber
The Cryosphere, 14, 1437–1447, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1437-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1437-2020, 2020
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05 May 2020
A model for French-press experiments of dry snow compaction
Colin R. Meyer, Kaitlin M. Keegan, Ian Baker, and Robert L. Hawley
The Cryosphere, 14, 1449–1458, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1449-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1449-2020, 2020
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05 May 2020
Spatial probabilistic calibration of a high-resolution Amundsen Sea Embayment ice sheet model with satellite altimeter data
Andreas Wernecke, Tamsin L. Edwards, Isabel J. Nias, Philip B. Holden, and Neil R. Edwards
The Cryosphere, 14, 1459–1474, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1459-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1459-2020, 2020
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05 May 2020
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Quantification of seasonal and diurnal dynamics of subglacial channels using seismic observations on an Alpine glacier
Ugo Nanni, Florent Gimbert, Christian Vincent, Dominik Gräff, Fabian Walter, Luc Piard, and Luc Moreau
The Cryosphere, 14, 1475–1496, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1475-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1475-2020, 2020
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07 May 2020
Spectral albedo measurements over snow-covered slopes: theory and slope effect corrections
Ghislain Picard, Marie Dumont, Maxim Lamare, François Tuzet, Fanny Larue, Roberta Pirazzini, and Laurent Arnaud
The Cryosphere, 14, 1497–1517, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1497-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1497-2020, 2020
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07 May 2020
An enhancement to sea ice motion and age products at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
Mark A. Tschudi, Walter N. Meier, and J. Scott Stewart
The Cryosphere, 14, 1519–1536, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1519-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1519-2020, 2020
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12 May 2020
Refractory black carbon (rBC) variability in a 47-year West Antarctic snow and firn core
Luciano Marquetto, Susan Kaspari, and Jefferson Cardia Simões
The Cryosphere, 14, 1537–1554, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1537-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1537-2020, 2020
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13 May 2020
Incorporating moisture content in surface energy balance modeling of a debris-covered glacier
Alexandra Giese, Aaron Boone, Patrick Wagnon, and Robert Hawley
The Cryosphere, 14, 1555–1577, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1555-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1555-2020, 2020
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15 May 2020
Evaluation of long-term Northern Hemisphere snow water equivalent products
Colleen Mortimer, Lawrence Mudryk, Chris Derksen, Kari Luojus, Ross Brown, Richard Kelly, and Marco Tedesco
The Cryosphere, 14, 1579–1594, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1579-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1579-2020, 2020
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26 May 2020
Combining TerraSAR-X and time-lapse photography for seasonal sea ice monitoring: the case of Deception Bay, Nunavik
Sophie Dufour-Beauséjour, Anna Wendleder, Yves Gauthier, Monique Bernier, Jimmy Poulin, Véronique Gilbert, Juupi Tuniq, Amélie Rouleau, and Achim Roth
The Cryosphere, 14, 1595–1609, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1595-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1595-2020, 2020
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26 May 2020
Using 3D turbulence-resolving simulations to understand the impact of surface properties on the energy balance of a debris-covered glacier
Pleun N. J. Bonekamp, Chiel C. van Heerwaarden, Jakob F. Steiner, and Walter W. Immerzeel
The Cryosphere, 14, 1611–1632, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1611-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1611-2020, 2020
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26 May 2020
InSAR time series analysis of seasonal surface displacement dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau
Eike Reinosch, Johannes Buckel, Jie Dong, Markus Gerke, Jussi Baade, and Björn Riedel
The Cryosphere, 14, 1633–1650, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1633-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1633-2020, 2020
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27 May 2020
Snow albedo sensitivity to macroscopic surface roughness using a new ray-tracing model
Fanny Larue, Ghislain Picard, Laurent Arnaud, Inès Ollivier, Clément Delcourt, Maxim Lamare, François Tuzet, Jesus Revuelto, and Marie Dumont
The Cryosphere, 14, 1651–1672, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1651-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1651-2020, 2020
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27 May 2020
Ice shelf rift propagation: stability, three-dimensional effects, and the role of marginal weakening
Bradley Paul Lipovsky
The Cryosphere, 14, 1673–1683, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1673-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1673-2020, 2020
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27 May 2020
Synoptic conditions and atmospheric moisture pathways associated with virga and precipitation over coastal Adélie Land in Antarctica
Nicolas Jullien, Étienne Vignon, Michael Sprenger, Franziska Aemisegger, and Alexis Berne
The Cryosphere, 14, 1685–1702, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1685-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1685-2020, 2020
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29 May 2020
Horizontal ice flow impacts the firn structure of Greenland's percolation zone
Rosemary Leone, Joel Harper, Toby Meierbachtol, and Neil Humphrey
The Cryosphere, 14, 1703–1712, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1703-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1703-2020, 2020
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29 May 2020
Drifting-snow statistics from multiple-year autonomous measurements in Adélie Land, East Antarctica
Charles Amory
The Cryosphere, 14, 1713–1725, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1713-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1713-2020, 2020
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29 May 2020
Evaluation of Arctic sea ice drift and its dependency on near-surface wind and sea ice conditions in the coupled regional climate model HIRHAM–NAOSIM
Xiaoyong Yu, Annette Rinke, Wolfgang Dorn, Gunnar Spreen, Christof Lüpkes, Hiroshi Sumata, and Vladimir M. Gryanik
The Cryosphere, 14, 1727–1746, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1727-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1727-2020, 2020
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02 Jun 2020
Remapping of Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance anomalies for large ensemble sea-level change projections
Heiko Goelzer, Brice P. Y. Noël, Tamsin L. Edwards, Xavier Fettweis, Jonathan M. Gregory, William H. Lipscomb, Roderik S. W. van de Wal, and Michiel R. van den Broeke
The Cryosphere, 14, 1747–1762, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1747-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1747-2020, 2020
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03 Jun 2020
Snow depth estimation and historical data reconstruction over China based on a random forest machine learning approach
Jianwei Yang, Lingmei Jiang, Kari Luojus, Jinmei Pan, Juha Lemmetyinen, Matias Takala, and Shengli Wu
The Cryosphere, 14, 1763–1778, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1763-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1763-2020, 2020
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03 Jun 2020
Radar measurements of blowing snow off a mountain ridge
Benjamin Walter, Hendrik Huwald, Josué Gehring, Yves Bühler, and Michael Lehning
The Cryosphere, 14, 1779–1794, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1779-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1779-2020, 2020
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04 Jun 2020
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New observations of the distribution, morphology and dissolution dynamics of cryogenic gypsum in the Arctic Ocean
Jutta E. Wollenburg, Morten Iversen, Christian Katlein, Thomas Krumpen, Marcel Nicolaus, Giulia Castellani, Ilka Peeken, and Hauke Flores
The Cryosphere, 14, 1795–1808, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1795-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1795-2020, 2020
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09 Jun 2020
The added value of high resolution in estimating the surface mass balance in southern Greenland
Willem Jan van de Berg, Erik van Meijgaard, and Lambertus H. van Ulft
The Cryosphere, 14, 1809–1827, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1809-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1809-2020, 2020
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09 Jun 2020
The RHOSSA campaign: multi-resolution monitoring of the seasonal evolution of the structure and mechanical stability of an alpine snowpack
Neige Calonne, Bettina Richter, Henning Löwe, Cecilia Cetti, Judith ter Schure, Alec Van Herwijnen, Charles Fierz, Matthias Jaggi, and Martin Schneebeli
The Cryosphere, 14, 1829–1848, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1829-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1829-2020, 2020
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10 Jun 2020
Brief communication: The influence of mica-rich rocks on the shear strength of ice-filled discontinuities
Philipp Mamot, Samuel Weber, Maximilian Lanz, and Michael Krautblatter
The Cryosphere, 14, 1849–1855, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1849-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1849-2020, 2020
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11 Jun 2020
The current state and 125 kyr history of permafrost on the Kara Sea shelf: modeling constraints
Anatoliy Gavrilov, Vladimir Pavlov, Alexandr Fridenberg, Mikhail Boldyrev, Vanda Khilimonyuk, Elena Pizhankova, Sergey Buldovich, Natalia Kosevich, Ali Alyautdinov, Mariia Ogienko, Alexander Roslyakov, Maria Cherbunina, and Evgeniy Ospennikov
The Cryosphere, 14, 1857–1873, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1857-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1857-2020, 2020
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12 Jun 2020
Global Positioning System interferometric reflectometry (GPS-IR) measurements of ground surface elevation changes in permafrost areas in northern Canada
Jiahua Zhang, Lin Liu, and Yufeng Hu
The Cryosphere, 14, 1875–1888, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1875-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1875-2020, 2020
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12 Jun 2020
CryoSat Ice Baseline-D validation and evolutions
Marco Meloni, Jerome Bouffard, Tommaso Parrinello, Geoffrey Dawson, Florent Garnier, Veit Helm, Alessandro Di Bella, Stefan Hendricks, Robert Ricker, Erica Webb, Ben Wright, Karina Nielsen, Sanggyun Lee, Marcello Passaro, Michele Scagliola, Sebastian Bjerregaard Simonsen, Louise Sandberg Sørensen, David Brockley, Steven Baker, Sara Fleury, Jonathan Bamber, Luca Maestri, Henriette Skourup, René Forsberg, and Loretta Mizzi
The Cryosphere, 14, 1889–1907, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1889-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1889-2020, 2020
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15 Jun 2020
Improved GNSS-R bi-static altimetry and independent digital elevation models of Greenland and Antarctica from TechDemoSat-1
Jessica Cartwright, Christopher J. Banks, and Meric Srokosz
The Cryosphere, 14, 1909–1917, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1909-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1909-2020, 2020
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15 Jun 2020
Improving sub-canopy snow depth mapping with unmanned aerial vehicles: lidar versus structure-from-motion techniques
Phillip Harder, John W. Pomeroy, and Warren D. Helgason
The Cryosphere, 14, 1919–1935, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1919-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1919-2020, 2020
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15 Jun 2020
Opportunistic evaluation of modelled sea ice drift using passively drifting telemetry collars in Hudson Bay, Canada
Ron R. Togunov, Natasha J. Klappstein, Nicholas J. Lunn, Andrew E. Derocher, and Marie Auger-Méthé
The Cryosphere, 14, 1937–1950, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1937-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1937-2020, 2020
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18 Jun 2020
Surface emergence of glacial plumes determined by fjord stratification
Eva De Andrés, Donald A. Slater, Fiamma Straneo, Jaime Otero, Sarah Das, and Francisco Navarro
The Cryosphere, 14, 1951–1969, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1951-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1951-2020, 2020
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18 Jun 2020
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Changes of the Arctic marginal ice zone during the satellite era
Rebecca J. Rolph, Daniel L. Feltham, and David Schröder
The Cryosphere, 14, 1971–1984, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1971-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1971-2020, 2020
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18 Jun 2020
Brief Communication: Update on the GPS reflection technique for measuring snow accumulation in Greenland
Kristine M. Larson, Michael MacFerrin, and Thomas Nylen
The Cryosphere, 14, 1985–1988, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1985-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1985-2020, 2020
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18 Jun 2020
A quasi-annual record of time-transgressive esker formation: implications for ice-sheet reconstruction and subglacial hydrology
Stephen J. Livingstone, Emma L. M. Lewington, Chris D. Clark, Robert D. Storrar, Andrew J. Sole, Isabelle McMartin, Nico Dewald, and Felix Ng
The Cryosphere, 14, 1989–2004, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1989-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1989-2020, 2020
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24 Jun 2020
Glacier runoff variations since 1955 in the Maipo River basin, in the semiarid Andes of central Chile
Álvaro Ayala, David Farías-Barahona, Matthias Huss, Francesca Pellicciotti, James McPhee, and Daniel Farinotti
The Cryosphere, 14, 2005–2027, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2005-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2005-2020, 2020
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24 Jun 2020
Satellite-retrieved sea ice concentration uncertainty and its effect on modelling wave evolution in marginal ice zones
Takehiko Nose, Takuji Waseda, Tsubasa Kodaira, and Jun Inoue
The Cryosphere, 14, 2029–2052, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2029-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2029-2020, 2020
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24 Jun 2020
Spectral attenuation of ocean waves in pack ice and its application in calibrating viscoelastic wave-in-ice models
Sukun Cheng, Justin Stopa, Fabrice Ardhuin, and Hayley H. Shen
The Cryosphere, 14, 2053–2069, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2053-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2053-2020, 2020
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25 Jun 2020
Measuring the location and width of the Antarctic grounding zone using CryoSat-2
Geoffrey J. Dawson and Jonathan L. Bamber
The Cryosphere, 14, 2071–2086, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2071-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2071-2020, 2020
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29 Jun 2020
Physically based model of the contribution of red snow algal cells to temporal changes in albedo in northwest Greenland
Yukihiko Onuma, Nozomu Takeuchi, Sota Tanaka, Naoko Nagatsuka, Masashi Niwano, and Teruo Aoki
The Cryosphere, 14, 2087–2101, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2087-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2087-2020, 2020
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30 Jun 2020
Large-scale englacial folding and deep-ice stratigraphy within the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Neil Ross, Hugh Corr, and Martin Siegert
The Cryosphere, 14, 2103–2114, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2103-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2103-2020, 2020
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30 Jun 2020
Past ice sheet–seabed interactions in the northeastern Weddell Sea embayment, Antarctica
Jan Erik Arndt, Robert D. Larter, Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, Simon H. Sørli, Matthias Forwick, James A. Smith, and Lukas Wacker
The Cryosphere, 14, 2115–2135, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2115-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2115-2020, 2020
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01 Jul 2020
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Landfast sea ice material properties derived from ice bridge simulations using the Maxwell elasto-brittle rheology
Mathieu Plante, Bruno Tremblay, Martin Losch, and Jean-François Lemieux
The Cryosphere, 14, 2137–2157, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2137-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2137-2020, 2020
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02 Jul 2020
Modeling the annual cycle of daily Antarctic sea ice extent
Mark S. Handcock and Marilyn N. Raphael
The Cryosphere, 14, 2159–2172, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2159-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2159-2020, 2020
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06 Jul 2020
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The MOSAiC ice floe: sediment-laden survivor from the Siberian shelf
Thomas Krumpen, Florent Birrien, Frank Kauker, Thomas Rackow, Luisa von Albedyll, Michael Angelopoulos, H. Jakob Belter, Vladimir Bessonov, Ellen Damm, Klaus Dethloff, Jari Haapala, Christian Haas, Carolynn Harris, Stefan Hendricks, Jens Hoelemann, Mario Hoppmann, Lars Kaleschke, Michael Karcher, Nikolai Kolabutin, Ruibo Lei, Josefine Lenz, Anne Morgenstern, Marcel Nicolaus, Uwe Nixdorf, Tomash Petrovsky, Benjamin Rabe, Lasse Rabenstein, Markus Rex, Robert Ricker, Jan Rohde, Egor Shimanchuk, Suman Singha, Vasily Smolyanitsky, Vladimir Sokolov, Tim Stanton, Anna Timofeeva, Michel Tsamados, and Daniel Watkins
The Cryosphere, 14, 2173–2187, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2173-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2173-2020, 2020
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07 Jul 2020
Satellite-based sea ice thickness changes in the Laptev Sea from 2002 to 2017: comparison to mooring observations
H. Jakob Belter, Thomas Krumpen, Stefan Hendricks, Jens Hoelemann, Markus A. Janout, Robert Ricker, and Christian Haas
The Cryosphere, 14, 2189–2203, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2189-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2189-2020, 2020
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13 Jul 2020
Impact of West Antarctic ice shelf melting on Southern Ocean hydrography
Yoshihiro Nakayama, Ralph Timmermann, and Hartmut H. Hellmer
The Cryosphere, 14, 2205–2216, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2205-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2205-2020, 2020
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15 Jul 2020
Aerogeophysical characterization of an active subglacial lake system in the David Glacier catchment, Antarctica
Laura E. Lindzey, Lucas H. Beem, Duncan A. Young, Enrica Quartini, Donald D. Blankenship, Choon-Ki Lee, Won Sang Lee, Jong Ik Lee, and Joohan Lee
The Cryosphere, 14, 2217–2233, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2217-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2217-2020, 2020
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16 Jul 2020
The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) high-priority candidate mission
Michael Kern, Robert Cullen, Bruno Berruti, Jerome Bouffard, Tania Casal, Mark R. Drinkwater, Antonio Gabriele, Arnaud Lecuyot, Michael Ludwig, Rolv Midthassel, Ignacio Navas Traver, Tommaso Parrinello, Gerhard Ressler, Erik Andersson, Cristina Martin-Puig, Ole Andersen, Annett Bartsch, Sinead Farrell, Sara Fleury, Simon Gascoin, Amandine Guillot, Angelika Humbert, Eero Rinne, Andrew Shepherd, Michiel R. van den Broeke, and John Yackel
The Cryosphere, 14, 2235–2251, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2235-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2235-2020, 2020
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20 Jul 2020
Present-day and future Greenland Ice Sheet precipitation frequency from CloudSat observations and the Community Earth System Model
Jan T. M. Lenaerts, M. Drew Camron, Christopher R. Wyburn-Powell, and Jennifer E. Kay
The Cryosphere, 14, 2253–2265, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2253-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2253-2020, 2020
21 Jul 2020
Satellite-observed monthly glacier and snow mass changes in southeast Tibet: implication for substantial meltwater contribution to the Brahmaputra
Shuang Yi, Chunqiao Song, Kosuke Heki, Shichang Kang, Qiuyu Wang, and Le Chang
The Cryosphere, 14, 2267–2281, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2267-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2267-2020, 2020
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21 Jul 2020
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Results of the third Marine Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project (MISMIP+)
Stephen L. Cornford, Helene Seroussi, Xylar S. Asay-Davis, G. Hilmar Gudmundsson, Rob Arthern, Chris Borstad, Julia Christmann, Thiago Dias dos Santos, Johannes Feldmann, Daniel Goldberg, Matthew J. Hoffman, Angelika Humbert, Thomas Kleiner, Gunter Leguy, William H. Lipscomb, Nacho Merino, Gaël Durand, Mathieu Morlighem, David Pollard, Martin Rückamp, C. Rosie Williams, and Hongju Yu
The Cryosphere, 14, 2283–2301, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2283-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2283-2020, 2020
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22 Jul 2020
Repeated ice streaming on the northwest Greenland continental shelf since the onset of the Middle Pleistocene Transition
Andrew M. W. Newton, Mads Huuse, Paul C. Knutz, and David R. Cox
The Cryosphere, 14, 2303–2312, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2303-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2303-2020, 2020
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22 Jul 2020
Lateral meltwater transfer across an Antarctic ice shelf
Rebecca Dell, Neil Arnold, Ian Willis, Alison Banwell, Andrew Williamson, Hamish Pritchard, and Andrew Orr
The Cryosphere, 14, 2313–2330, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2313-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2313-2020, 2020
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23 Jul 2020
Experimental protocol for sea level projections from ISMIP6 stand-alone ice sheet models
Sophie Nowicki, Heiko Goelzer, Hélène Seroussi, Anthony J. Payne, William H. Lipscomb, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Cécile Agosta, Patrick Alexander, Xylar S. Asay-Davis, Alice Barthel, Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Richard Cullather, Denis Felikson, Xavier Fettweis, Jonathan M. Gregory, Tore Hattermann, Nicolas C. Jourdain, Peter Kuipers Munneke, Eric Larour, Christopher M. Little, Mathieu Morlighem, Isabel Nias, Andrew Shepherd, Erika Simon, Donald Slater, Robin S. Smith, Fiammetta Straneo, Luke D. Trusel, Michiel R. van den Broeke, and Roderik van de Wal
The Cryosphere, 14, 2331–2368, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2331-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2331-2020, 2020
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23 Jul 2020
The Arctic Ocean Observation Operator for 6.9 GHz (ARC3O) – Part 1: How to obtain sea ice brightness temperatures at 6.9 GHz from climate model output
Clara Burgard, Dirk Notz, Leif T. Pedersen, and Rasmus T. Tonboe
The Cryosphere, 14, 2369–2386, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2369-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2369-2020, 2020
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23 Jul 2020
The Arctic Ocean Observation Operator for 6.9 GHz (ARC3O) – Part 2: Development and evaluation
Clara Burgard, Dirk Notz, Leif T. Pedersen, and Rasmus T. Tonboe
The Cryosphere, 14, 2387–2407, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2387-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2387-2020, 2020
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27 Jul 2020
Statistical predictability of the Arctic sea ice volume anomaly: identifying predictors and optimal sampling locations
Leandro Ponsoni, François Massonnet, David Docquier, Guillian Van Achter, and Thierry Fichefet
The Cryosphere, 14, 2409–2428, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2409-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2409-2020, 2020
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27 Jul 2020
Using a composite flow law to model deformation in the NEEM deep ice core, Greenland – Part 1: The role of grain size and grain size distribution on deformation of the upper 2207 m
Ernst-Jan N. Kuiper, Ilka Weikusat, Johannes H. P. de Bresser, Daniela Jansen, Gill M. Pennock, and Martyn R. Drury
The Cryosphere, 14, 2429–2448, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2429-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2429-2020, 2020
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27 Jul 2020
Using a composite flow law to model deformation in the NEEM deep ice core, Greenland – Part 2: The role of grain size and premelting on ice deformation at high homologous temperature
Ernst-Jan N. Kuiper, Johannes H. P. de Bresser, Martyn R. Drury, Jan Eichler, Gill M. Pennock, and Ilka Weikusat
The Cryosphere, 14, 2449–2467, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2449-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2449-2020, 2020
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28 Jul 2020
Satellite passive microwave sea-ice concentration data set inter-comparison for Arctic summer conditions
Stefan Kern, Thomas Lavergne, Dirk Notz, Leif Toudal Pedersen, and Rasmus Tonboe
The Cryosphere, 14, 2469–2493, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2469-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2469-2020, 2020
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31 Jul 2020
Historical Northern Hemisphere snow cover trends and projected changes in the CMIP6 multi-model ensemble
Lawrence Mudryk, María Santolaria-Otín, Gerhard Krinner, Martin Ménégoz, Chris Derksen, Claire Brutel-Vuilmet, Mike Brady, and Richard Essery
The Cryosphere, 14, 2495–2514, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2495-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2495-2020, 2020
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31 Jul 2020
The contrasting response of outlet glaciers to interior and ocean forcing
John Erich Christian, Alexander A. Robel, Cristian Proistosescu, Gerard Roe, Michelle Koutnik, and Knut Christianson
The Cryosphere, 14, 2515–2535, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2515-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2515-2020, 2020
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03 Aug 2020
Observation of an optical anisotropy in the deep glacial ice at the geographic South Pole using a laser dust logger
Martin Rongen, Ryan Carlton Bay, and Summer Blot
The Cryosphere, 14, 2537–2543, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2537-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2537-2020, 2020
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10 Aug 2020
Surface energy fluxes on Chilean glaciers: measurements and models
Marius Schaefer, Duilio Fonseca-Gallardo, David Farías-Barahona, and Gino Casassa
The Cryosphere, 14, 2545–2565, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2545-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2545-2020, 2020
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12 Aug 2020
A linear model to derive melt pond depth on Arctic sea ice from hyperspectral data
Marcel König and Natascha Oppelt
The Cryosphere, 14, 2567–2579, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2567-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2567-2020, 2020
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12 Aug 2020
The ERA5-Land soil temperature bias in permafrost regions
Bin Cao, Stephan Gruber, Donghai Zheng, and Xin Li
The Cryosphere, 14, 2581–2595, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2581-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2581-2020, 2020
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13 Aug 2020
Applying artificial snowfall to reduce the melting of the Muz Taw Glacier, Sawir Mountains
Feiteng Wang, Xiaoying Yue, Lin Wang, Huilin Li, Zhencai Du, Jing Ming, and Zhongqin Li
The Cryosphere, 14, 2597–2606, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2597-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2597-2020, 2020
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20 Aug 2020
Thermokarst lake inception and development in syngenetic ice-wedge polygon terrain during a cooling climatic trend, Bylot Island (Nunavut), eastern Canadian Arctic
Frédéric Bouchard, Daniel Fortier, Michel Paquette, Vincent Boucher, Reinhard Pienitz, and Isabelle Laurion
The Cryosphere, 14, 2607–2627, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2607-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2607-2020, 2020
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20 Aug 2020
Classification of sea ice types in Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar images
Jeong-Won Park, Anton Andreevich Korosov, Mohamed Babiker, Joong-Sun Won, Morten Wergeland Hansen, and Hyun-Cheol Kim
The Cryosphere, 14, 2629–2645, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2629-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2629-2020, 2020
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20 Aug 2020
A 14.5-million-year record of East Antarctic Ice Sheet fluctuations from the central Transantarctic Mountains, constrained with cosmogenic 3He, 10Be, 21Ne, and 26Al
Allie Balter-Kennedy, Gordon Bromley, Greg Balco, Holly Thomas, and Margaret S. Jackson
The Cryosphere, 14, 2647–2672, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2647-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2647-2020, 2020
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21 Aug 2020
Clouds damp the radiative impacts of polar sea ice loss
Ramdane Alkama, Patrick C. Taylor, Lorea Garcia-San Martin, Herve Douville, Gregory Duveiller, Giovanni Forzieri, Didier Swingedouw, and Alessandro Cescatti
The Cryosphere, 14, 2673–2686, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2673-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2673-2020, 2020
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27 Aug 2020
Quantifying spatiotemporal variability of glacier algal blooms and the impact on surface albedo in southwestern Greenland
Shujie Wang, Marco Tedesco, Patrick Alexander, Min Xu, and Xavier Fettweis
The Cryosphere, 14, 2687–2713, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2687-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2687-2020, 2020
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27 Aug 2020
Brief communication: Evaluating Antarctic precipitation in ERA5 and CMIP6 against CloudSat observations
Marie-Laure Roussel, Florentin Lemonnier, Christophe Genthon, and Gerhard Krinner
The Cryosphere, 14, 2715–2727, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2715-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2715-2020, 2020
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27 Aug 2020
Drivers for Atlantic-origin waters abutting Greenland
Laura C. Gillard, Xianmin Hu, Paul G. Myers, Mads Hvid Ribergaard, and Craig M. Lee
The Cryosphere, 14, 2729–2753, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2729-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2729-2020, 2020
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28 Aug 2020
Quantifying the impact of synoptic weather types and patterns on energy fluxes of a marginal snowpack
Andrew J. Schwartz, Hamish A. McGowan, Alison Theobald, and Nik Callow
The Cryosphere, 14, 2755–2774, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2755-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2755-2020, 2020
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31 Aug 2020
Seasonal and interannual variability of landfast sea ice in Atka Bay, Weddell Sea, Antarctica
Stefanie Arndt, Mario Hoppmann, Holger Schmithüsen, Alexander D. Fraser, and Marcel Nicolaus
The Cryosphere, 14, 2775–2793, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2775-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2775-2020, 2020
01 Sep 2020
Warm-air entrainment and advection during alpine blowing snow events
Nikolas O. Aksamit and John W. Pomeroy
The Cryosphere, 14, 2795–2807, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2795-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2795-2020, 2020
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02 Sep 2020
Brief communication: Mapping Greenland's perennial firn aquifers using enhanced-resolution L-band brightness temperature image time series
Julie Z. Miller, David G. Long, Kenneth C. Jezek, Joel T. Johnson, Mary J. Brodzik, Christopher A. Shuman, Lora S. Koenig, and Ted A. Scambos
The Cryosphere, 14, 2809–2817, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2809-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2809-2020, 2020
02 Sep 2020
A kinematic formalism for tracking ice–ocean mass exchange on the Earth's surface and estimating sea-level change
Surendra Adhikari, Erik R. Ivins, Eric Larour, Lambert Caron, and Helene Seroussi
The Cryosphere, 14, 2819–2833, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2819-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2819-2020, 2020
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03 Sep 2020
Soil respiration of alpine meadow is controlled by freeze–thaw processes of active layer in the permafrost region of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau
Junfeng Wang, Qingbai Wu, Ziqiang Yuan, and Hojeong Kang
The Cryosphere, 14, 2835–2848, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2835-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2835-2020, 2020
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04 Sep 2020
Strain response and energy dissipation of floating saline ice under cyclic compressive stress
Mingdong Wei, Arttu Polojärvi, David M. Cole, and Malith Prasanna
The Cryosphere, 14, 2849–2867, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2849-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2849-2020, 2020
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09 Sep 2020
New gravity-derived bathymetry for the Thwaites, Crosson, and Dotson ice shelves revealing two ice shelf populations
Tom A. Jordan, David Porter, Kirsty Tinto, Romain Millan, Atsuhiro Muto, Kelly Hogan, Robert D. Larter, Alastair G. C. Graham, and John D. Paden
The Cryosphere, 14, 2869–2882, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2869-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2869-2020, 2020
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09 Sep 2020
Revealing the former bed of Thwaites Glacier using sea-floor bathymetry: implications for warm-water routing and bed controls on ice flow and buttressing
Kelly A. Hogan, Robert D. Larter, Alastair G. C. Graham, Robert Arthern, James D. Kirkham, Rebecca L. Totten, Tom A. Jordan, Rachel Clark, Victoria Fitzgerald, Anna K. Wåhlin, John B. Anderson, Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, Frank O. Nitsche, Lauren Simkins, James A. Smith, Karsten Gohl, Jan Erik Arndt, Jongkuk Hong, and Julia Wellner
The Cryosphere, 14, 2883–2908, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2883-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2883-2020, 2020
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04 Sep 2020
Anthropogenic climate change versus internal climate variability: impacts on snow cover in the Swiss Alps
Fabian Willibald, Sven Kotlarski, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, and Ralf Ludwig
The Cryosphere, 14, 2909–2924, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2909-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2909-2020, 2020
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10 Sep 2020
Snow depth mapping from stereo satellite imagery in mountainous terrain: evaluation using airborne laser-scanning data
César Deschamps-Berger, Simon Gascoin, Etienne Berthier, Jeffrey Deems, Ethan Gutmann, Amaury Dehecq, David Shean, and Marie Dumont
The Cryosphere, 14, 2925–2940, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2925-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2925-2020, 2020
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10 Sep 2020
Brief Communication: Mesoscale and submesoscale dynamics in the marginal ice zone from sequential synthetic aperture radar observations
Igor E. Kozlov, Evgeny V. Plotnikov, and Georgy E. Manucharyan
The Cryosphere, 14, 2941–2947, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2941-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2941-2020, 2020
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10 Sep 2020
A model for interaction between conduits and surrounding hydraulically connected distributed drainage based on geomorphological evidence from Keewatin, Canada
Emma L. M. Lewington, Stephen J. Livingstone, Chris D. Clark, Andrew J. Sole, and Robert D. Storrar
The Cryosphere, 14, 2949–2976, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2949-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2949-2020, 2020
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14 Sep 2020
Seasonal transition dates can reveal biases in Arctic sea ice simulations
Abigail Smith, Alexandra Jahn, and Muyin Wang
The Cryosphere, 14, 2977–2997, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2977-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2977-2020, 2020
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15 Sep 2020
Estimating statistical errors in retrievals of ice velocity and deformation parameters from satellite images and buoy arrays
Wolfgang Dierking, Harry L. Stern, and Jennifer K. Hutchings
The Cryosphere, 14, 2999–3016, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2999-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2999-2020, 2020
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15 Sep 2020
Bayesian calibration of firn densification models
Vincent Verjans, Amber A. Leeson, Christopher Nemeth, C. Max Stevens, Peter Kuipers Munneke, Brice Noël, and Jan Melchior van Wessem
The Cryosphere, 14, 3017–3032, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3017-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3017-2020, 2020
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17 Sep 2020
| Highlight paper
ISMIP6 Antarctica: a multi-model ensemble of the Antarctic ice sheet evolution over the 21st century
Hélène Seroussi, Sophie Nowicki, Antony J. Payne, Heiko Goelzer, William H. Lipscomb, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Cécile Agosta, Torsten Albrecht, Xylar Asay-Davis, Alice Barthel, Reinhard Calov, Richard Cullather, Christophe Dumas, Benjamin K. Galton-Fenzi, Rupert Gladstone, Nicholas R. Golledge, Jonathan M. Gregory, Ralf Greve, Tore Hattermann, Matthew J. Hoffman, Angelika Humbert, Philippe Huybrechts, Nicolas C. Jourdain, Thomas Kleiner, Eric Larour, Gunter R. Leguy, Daniel P. Lowry, Chistopher M. Little, Mathieu Morlighem, Frank Pattyn, Tyler Pelle, Stephen F. Price, Aurélien Quiquet, Ronja Reese, Nicole-Jeanne Schlegel, Andrew Shepherd, Erika Simon, Robin S. Smith, Fiammetta Straneo, Sainan Sun, Luke D. Trusel, Jonas Van Breedam, Roderik S. W. van de Wal, Ricarda Winkelmann, Chen Zhao, Tong Zhang, and Thomas Zwinger
The Cryosphere, 14, 3033–3070, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3033-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3033-2020, 2020
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17 Sep 2020
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The future sea-level contribution of the Greenland ice sheet: a multi-model ensemble study of ISMIP6
Heiko Goelzer, Sophie Nowicki, Anthony Payne, Eric Larour, Helene Seroussi, William H. Lipscomb, Jonathan Gregory, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Andrew Shepherd, Erika Simon, Cécile Agosta, Patrick Alexander, Andy Aschwanden, Alice Barthel, Reinhard Calov, Christopher Chambers, Youngmin Choi, Joshua Cuzzone, Christophe Dumas, Tamsin Edwards, Denis Felikson, Xavier Fettweis, Nicholas R. Golledge, Ralf Greve, Angelika Humbert, Philippe Huybrechts, Sebastien Le clec'h, Victoria Lee, Gunter Leguy, Chris Little, Daniel P. Lowry, Mathieu Morlighem, Isabel Nias, Aurelien Quiquet, Martin Rückamp, Nicole-Jeanne Schlegel, Donald A. Slater, Robin S. Smith, Fiamma Straneo, Lev Tarasov, Roderik van de Wal, and Michiel van den Broeke
The Cryosphere, 14, 3071–3096, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3071-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3071-2020, 2020
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17 Sep 2020
The role of history and strength of the oceanic forcing in sea level projections from Antarctica with the Parallel Ice Sheet Model
Ronja Reese, Anders Levermann, Torsten Albrecht, Hélène Seroussi, and Ricarda Winkelmann
The Cryosphere, 14, 3097–3110, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3097-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3097-2020, 2020
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17 Sep 2020
| Highlight paper
A protocol for calculating basal melt rates in the ISMIP6 Antarctic ice sheet projections
Nicolas C. Jourdain, Xylar Asay-Davis, Tore Hattermann, Fiammetta Straneo, Hélène Seroussi, Christopher M. Little, and Sophie Nowicki
The Cryosphere, 14, 3111–3134, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3111-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3111-2020, 2020
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16 Sep 2020
Modelling regional glacier length changes over the last millennium using the Open Global Glacier Model
David Parkes and Hugues Goosse
The Cryosphere, 14, 3135–3153, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3135-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3135-2020, 2020
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16 Sep 2020
Evaluating permafrost physics in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6 (CMIP6) models and their sensitivity to climate change
Eleanor J. Burke, Yu Zhang, and Gerhard Krinner
The Cryosphere, 14, 3155–3174, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3155-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3155-2020, 2020
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18 Sep 2020
An analysis of instabilities and limit cycles in glacier-dammed reservoirs
Christian Schoof
The Cryosphere, 14, 3175–3194, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3175-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3175-2020, 2020
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21 Sep 2020
How much snow falls in the world's mountains? A first look at mountain snowfall estimates in A-train observations and reanalyses
Anne Sophie Daloz, Marian Mateling, Tristan L'Ecuyer, Mark Kulie, Norm B. Wood, Mikael Durand, Melissa Wrzesien, Camilla W. Stjern, and Ashok P. Dimri
The Cryosphere, 14, 3195–3207, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3195-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3195-2020, 2020
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22 Sep 2020
Brief communication: Time step dependence (and fixes) in Stokes simulations of calving ice shelves
Brandon Berg and Jeremy Bassis
The Cryosphere, 14, 3209–3213, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3209-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3209-2020, 2020
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24 Sep 2020
Towards understanding the pattern of glacier mass balances in High Mountain Asia using regional climatic modelling
Remco J. de Kok, Philip D. A. Kraaijenbrink, Obbe A. Tuinenburg, Pleun N. J. Bonekamp, and Walter W. Immerzeel
The Cryosphere, 14, 3215–3234, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3215-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3215-2020, 2020
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29 Sep 2020
Possible biases in scaling-based estimates of glacier change: a case study in the Himalaya
Argha Banerjee, Disha Patil, and Ajinkya Jadhav
The Cryosphere, 14, 3235–3247, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3235-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3235-2020, 2020
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02 Oct 2020
Seasonal and interannual variability of melt-season albedo at Haig Glacier, Canadian Rocky Mountains
Shawn J. Marshall and Kristina Miller
The Cryosphere, 14, 3249–3267, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3249-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3249-2020, 2020
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02 Oct 2020
Monitoring the seasonal changes of an englacial conduit network using repeated ground-penetrating radar measurements
Gregory Church, Melchior Grab, Cédric Schmelzbach, Andreas Bauder, and Hansruedi Maurer
The Cryosphere, 14, 3269–3286, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3269-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3269-2020, 2020
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02 Oct 2020
Temporal and spatial variability in surface roughness and accumulation rate around 88° S from repeat airborne geophysical surveys
Michael Studinger, Brooke C. Medley, Kelly M. Brunt, Kimberly A. Casey, Nathan T. Kurtz, Serdar S. Manizade, Thomas A. Neumann, and Thomas B. Overly
The Cryosphere, 14, 3287–3308, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3287-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3287-2020, 2020
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02 Oct 2020
Sensitivity of Greenland ice sheet projections to spatial resolution in higher-order simulations: the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) contribution to ISMIP6 Greenland using the Ice-sheet and Sea-level System Model (ISSM)
Martin Rückamp, Heiko Goelzer, and Angelika Humbert
The Cryosphere, 14, 3309–3327, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3309-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3309-2020, 2020
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06 Oct 2020
Frazil ice growth and production during katabatic wind events in the Ross Sea, Antarctica
Lisa Thompson, Madison Smith, Jim Thomson, Sharon Stammerjohn, Steve Ackley, and Brice Loose
The Cryosphere, 14, 3329–3347, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3329-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3329-2020, 2020
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07 Oct 2020
Intercomparison of surface meltwater routing models for the Greenland ice sheet and influence on subglacial effective pressures
Kang Yang, Aleah Sommers, Lauren C. Andrews, Laurence C. Smith, Xin Lu, Xavier Fettweis, and Manchun Li
The Cryosphere, 14, 3349–3365, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3349-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3349-2020, 2020
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09 Oct 2020
Impact of coastal East Antarctic ice rises on surface mass balance: insights from observations and modeling
Thore Kausch, Stef Lhermitte, Jan T. M. Lenaerts, Nander Wever, Mana Inoue, Frank Pattyn, Sainan Sun, Sarah Wauthy, Jean-Louis Tison, and Willem Jan van de Berg
The Cryosphere, 14, 3367–3380, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3367-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3367-2020, 2020
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12 Oct 2020
The mechanical origin of snow avalanche dynamics and flow regime transitions
Xingyue Li, Betty Sovilla, Chenfanfu Jiang, and Johan Gaume
The Cryosphere, 14, 3381–3398, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3381-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3381-2020, 2020
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15 Oct 2020
Brief communication: Glacier thickness reconstruction on Mt. Kilimanjaro
Catrin Stadelmann, Johannes Jakob Fürst, Thomas Mölg, and Matthias Braun
The Cryosphere, 14, 3399–3406, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3399-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3399-2020, 2020
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16 Oct 2020
Diagnosing the sensitivity of grounding-line flux to changes in sub-ice-shelf melting
Tong Zhang, Stephen F. Price, Matthew J. Hoffman, Mauro Perego, and Xylar Asay-Davis
The Cryosphere, 14, 3407–3424, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3407-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3407-2020, 2020
17 Oct 2020
Variability in glacier albedo and links to annual mass balance for the gardens of Eden and Allah, Southern Alps, New Zealand
Angus J. Dowson, Pascal Sirguey, and Nicolas J. Cullen
The Cryosphere, 14, 3425–3448, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3425-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3425-2020, 2020
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17 Oct 2020
Deep ice layer formation in an alpine snowpack: monitoring and modeling
Louis Quéno, Charles Fierz, Alec van Herwijnen, Dylan Longridge, and Nander Wever
The Cryosphere, 14, 3449–3464, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3449-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3449-2020, 2020
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19 Oct 2020
Toward a method for downscaling sea ice pressure for navigation purposes
Jean-François Lemieux, L. Bruno Tremblay, and Mathieu Plante
The Cryosphere, 14, 3465–3478, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3465-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3465-2020, 2020
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21 Oct 2020
Brief communication: Arctic sea ice thickness internal variability and its changes under historical and anthropogenic forcing
Guillian Van Achter, Leandro Ponsoni, François Massonnet, Thierry Fichefet, and Vincent Legat
The Cryosphere, 14, 3479–3486, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3479-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3479-2020, 2020
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22 Oct 2020
Surface velocity of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS): assessment of interior velocities derived from satellite data by GPS
Christine S. Hvidberg, Aslak Grinsted, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Anders Kusk, Jonas Kvist Andersen, Niklas Neckel, Anne Solgaard, Nanna B. Karlsson, Helle Astrid Kjær, and Paul Vallelonga
The Cryosphere, 14, 3487–3502, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3487-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3487-2020, 2020
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22 Oct 2020
On the importance of snowpack stability, the frequency distribution of snowpack stability, and avalanche size in assessing the avalanche danger level
Frank Techel, Karsten Müller, and Jürg Schweizer
The Cryosphere, 14, 3503–3521, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3503-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3503-2020, 2020
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26 Oct 2020
Observations of sea ice melt from Operation IceBridge imagery
Nicholas C. Wright, Chris M. Polashenski, Scott T. McMichael, and Ross A. Beyer
The Cryosphere, 14, 3523–3536, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3523-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3523-2020, 2020
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27 Oct 2020
Sensitivity of ice loss to uncertainty in flow law parameters in an idealized one-dimensional geometry
Maria Zeitz, Anders Levermann, and Ricarda Winkelmann
The Cryosphere, 14, 3537–3550, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3537-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3537-2020, 2020
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27 Oct 2020
The 2020 Larsen C Ice Shelf surface melt is a 40-year record high
Suzanne Bevan, Adrian Luckman, Harry Hendon, and Guomin Wang
The Cryosphere, 14, 3551–3564, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3551-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3551-2020, 2020
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29 Oct 2020
Systematic bias of Tibetan Plateau snow cover in subseasonal-to-seasonal models
Wenkai Li, Shuzhen Hu, Pang-Chi Hsu, Weidong Guo, and Jiangfeng Wei
The Cryosphere, 14, 3565–3579, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3565-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3565-2020, 2020
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31 Oct 2020
Investigation of spatial and temporal variability of river ice phenology and thickness across Songhua River Basin, northeast China
Qian Yang, Kaishan Song, Xiaohua Hao, Zhidan Wen, Yue Tan, and Weibang Li
The Cryosphere, 14, 3581–3593, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3581-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3581-2020, 2020
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31 Oct 2020
Observation-derived ice growth curves show patterns and trends in maximum ice thickness and safe travel duration of Alaskan lakes and rivers
Christopher D. Arp, Jessica E. Cherry, Dana R. N. Brown, Allen C. Bondurant, and Karen L. Endres
The Cryosphere, 14, 3595–3609, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3595-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3595-2020, 2020
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02 Nov 2020
Sea ice drift and arch evolution in the Robeson Channel using the daily coverage of Sentinel-1 SAR data for the 2016–2017 freezing season
Mohammed E. Shokr, Zihan Wang, and Tingting Liu
The Cryosphere, 14, 3611–3627, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3611-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3611-2020, 2020
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02 Nov 2020
Mapping the grounding zone of Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica, from ICESat-2 laser altimetry
Tian Li, Geoffrey J. Dawson, Stephen J. Chuter, and Jonathan L. Bamber
The Cryosphere, 14, 3629–3643, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3629-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3629-2020, 2020
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04 Nov 2020
Evaluation of a new snow albedo scheme for the Greenland ice sheet in the Regional Atmospheric Climate Model (RACMO2)
Christiaan T. van Dalum, Willem Jan van de Berg, Stef Lhermitte, and Michiel R. van den Broeke
The Cryosphere, 14, 3645–3662, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3645-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3645-2020, 2020
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05 Nov 2020
Representative surface snow density on the East Antarctic Plateau
Alexander H. Weinhart, Johannes Freitag, Maria Hörhold, Sepp Kipfstuhl, and Olaf Eisen
The Cryosphere, 14, 3663–3685, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3663-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3663-2020, 2020
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05 Nov 2020
DeepBedMap: a deep neural network for resolving the bed topography of Antarctica
Wei Ji Leong and Huw Joseph Horgan
The Cryosphere, 14, 3687–3705, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3687-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3687-2020, 2020
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05 Nov 2020
High-resolution simulations of interactions between surface ocean dynamics and frazil ice
Agnieszka Herman, Maciej Dojczman, and Kamila Świszcz
The Cryosphere, 14, 3707–3729, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3707-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3707-2020, 2020
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05 Nov 2020
Tracing devastating fires in Portugal to a snow archive in the Swiss Alps: a case study
Dimitri Osmont, Sandra Brugger, Anina Gilgen, Helga Weber, Michael Sigl, Robin L. Modini, Christoph Schwörer, Willy Tinner, Stefan Wunderle, and Margit Schwikowski
The Cryosphere, 14, 3731–3745, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3731-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3731-2020, 2020
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12 Nov 2020
Possible impacts of a 1000 km long hypothetical subglacial river valley towards Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland
Christopher Chambers, Ralf Greve, Bas Altena, and Pierre-Marie Lefeuvre
The Cryosphere, 14, 3747–3759, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3747-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3747-2020, 2020
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06 Nov 2020
Simultaneous estimation of wintertime sea ice thickness and snow depth from space-borne freeboard measurements
Hoyeon Shi, Byung-Ju Sohn, Gorm Dybkjær, Rasmus Tage Tonboe, and Sang-Moo Lee
The Cryosphere, 14, 3761–3783, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3761-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3761-2020, 2020
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06 Nov 2020
The firn meltwater Retention Model Intercomparison Project (RetMIP): evaluation of nine firn models at four weather station sites on the Greenland ice sheet
Baptiste Vandecrux, Ruth Mottram, Peter L. Langen, Robert S. Fausto, Martin Olesen, C. Max Stevens, Vincent Verjans, Amber Leeson, Stefan Ligtenberg, Peter Kuipers Munneke, Sergey Marchenko, Ward van Pelt, Colin R. Meyer, Sebastian B. Simonsen, Achim Heilig, Samira Samimi, Shawn Marshall, Horst Machguth, Michael MacFerrin, Masashi Niwano, Olivia Miller, Clifford I. Voss, and Jason E. Box
The Cryosphere, 14, 3785–3810, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3785-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3785-2020, 2020
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09 Nov 2020
Recent changes in pan-Antarctic region surface snowmelt detected by AMSR-E and AMSR2
Lei Zheng, Chunxia Zhou, Tingjun Zhang, Qi Liang, and Kang Wang
The Cryosphere, 14, 3811–3827, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3811-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3811-2020, 2020
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09 Nov 2020
Sub-permafrost methane seepage from open-system pingos in Svalbard
Andrew J. Hodson, Aga Nowak, Mikkel T. Hornum, Kim Senger, Kelly Redeker, Hanne H. Christiansen, Søren Jessen, Peter Betlem, Steve F. Thornton, Alexandra V. Turchyn, Snorre Olaussen, and Alina Marca
The Cryosphere, 14, 3829–3842, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3829-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3829-2020, 2020
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10 Nov 2020
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Review article: Geothermal heat flow in Antarctica: current and future directions
Alex Burton-Johnson, Ricarda Dziadek, and Carlos Martin
The Cryosphere, 14, 3843–3873, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3843-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3843-2020, 2020
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10 Nov 2020
Temperature and strain controls on ice deformation mechanisms: insights from the microstructures of samples deformed to progressively higher strains at −10, −20 and −30 °C
Sheng Fan, Travis F. Hager, David J. Prior, Andrew J. Cross, David L. Goldsby, Chao Qi, Marianne Negrini, and John Wheeler
The Cryosphere, 14, 3875–3905, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3875-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3875-2020, 2020
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11 Nov 2020
Permafrost thawing exhibits a greater influence on bacterial richness and community structure than permafrost age in Arctic permafrost soils
Mukan Ji, Weidong Kong, Chao Liang, Tianqi Zhou, Hongzeng Jia, and Xiaobin Dong
The Cryosphere, 14, 3907–3916, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3907-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3907-2020, 2020
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11 Nov 2020
Quantifying the effect of ocean bed properties on ice sheet geometry over 40 000 years with a full-Stokes model
Clemens Schannwell, Reinhard Drews, Todd A. Ehlers, Olaf Eisen, Christoph Mayer, Mika Malinen, Emma C. Smith, and Hannes Eisermann
The Cryosphere, 14, 3917–3934, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3917-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3917-2020, 2020
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11 Nov 2020
GrSMBMIP: intercomparison of the modelled 1980–2012 surface mass balance over the Greenland Ice Sheet
Xavier Fettweis, Stefan Hofer, Uta Krebs-Kanzow, Charles Amory, Teruo Aoki, Constantijn J. Berends, Andreas Born, Jason E. Box, Alison Delhasse, Koji Fujita, Paul Gierz, Heiko Goelzer, Edward Hanna, Akihiro Hashimoto, Philippe Huybrechts, Marie-Luise Kapsch, Michalea D. King, Christoph Kittel, Charlotte Lang, Peter L. Langen, Jan T. M. Lenaerts, Glen E. Liston, Gerrit Lohmann, Sebastian H. Mernild, Uwe Mikolajewicz, Kameswarrao Modali, Ruth H. Mottram, Masashi Niwano, Brice Noël, Jonathan C. Ryan, Amy Smith, Jan Streffing, Marco Tedesco, Willem Jan van de Berg, Michiel van den Broeke, Roderik S. W. van de Wal, Leo van Kampenhout, David Wilton, Bert Wouters, Florian Ziemen, and Tobias Zolles
The Cryosphere, 14, 3935–3958, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3935-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3935-2020, 2020
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12 Nov 2020
Parameterizing anisotropic reflectance of snow surfaces from airborne digital camera observations in Antarctica
Tim Carlsen, Gerit Birnbaum, André Ehrlich, Veit Helm, Evelyn Jäkel, Michael Schäfer, and Manfred Wendisch
The Cryosphere, 14, 3959–3978, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3959-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3959-2020, 2020
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13 Nov 2020
Numerical modeling of the dynamics of the Mer de Glace glacier, French Alps: comparison with past observations and forecasting of near-future evolution
Vincent Peyaud, Coline Bouchayer, Olivier Gagliardini, Christian Vincent, Fabien Gillet-Chaulet, Delphine Six, and Olivier Laarman
The Cryosphere, 14, 3979–3994, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3979-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3979-2020, 2020
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14 Nov 2020
Simulating optical top-of-atmosphere radiance satellite images over snow-covered rugged terrain
Maxim Lamare, Marie Dumont, Ghislain Picard, Fanny Larue, François Tuzet, Clément Delcourt, and Laurent Arnaud
The Cryosphere, 14, 3995–4020, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3995-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3995-2020, 2020
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14 Nov 2020
Geothermal heat flux from measured temperature profiles in deep ice boreholes in Antarctica
Pavel Talalay, Yazhou Li, Laurent Augustin, Gary D. Clow, Jialin Hong, Eric Lefebvre, Alexey Markov, Hideaki Motoyama, and Catherine Ritz
The Cryosphere, 14, 4021–4037, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4021-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4021-2020, 2020
16 Nov 2020
Modelling the evolution of Djankuat Glacier, North Caucasus, from 1752 until 2100 CE
Yoni Verhaegen, Philippe Huybrechts, Oleg Rybak, and Victor V. Popovnin
The Cryosphere, 14, 4039–4061, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4039-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4039-2020, 2020
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16 Nov 2020
Small-scale spatial variability in bare-ice reflectance at Jamtalferner, Austria
Lea Hartl, Lucia Felbauer, Gabriele Schwaizer, and Andrea Fischer
The Cryosphere, 14, 4063–4081, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4063-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4063-2020, 2020
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18 Nov 2020
Reconciling the surface temperature–surface mass balance relationship in models and ice cores in Antarctica over the last 2 centuries
Marie G. P. Cavitte, Quentin Dalaiden, Hugues Goosse, Jan T. M. Lenaerts, and Elizabeth R. Thomas
The Cryosphere, 14, 4083–4102, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4083-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4083-2020, 2020
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18 Nov 2020
Distribution and seasonal evolution of supraglacial lakes on Shackleton Ice Shelf, East Antarctica
Jennifer F. Arthur, Chris R. Stokes, Stewart S. R. Jamieson, J. Rachel Carr, and Amber A. Leeson
The Cryosphere, 14, 4103–4120, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4103-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4103-2020, 2020
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18 Nov 2020
Sharp contrasts in observed and modeled crevasse patterns at Greenland's marine terminating glaciers
Ellyn M. Enderlin and Timothy C. Bartholomaus
The Cryosphere, 14, 4121–4133, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4121-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4121-2020, 2020
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19 Nov 2020
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Distinguishing the impacts of ozone and ozone-depleting substances on the recent increase in Antarctic surface mass balance
Rei Chemke, Michael Previdi, Mark R. England, and Lorenzo M. Polvani
The Cryosphere, 14, 4135–4144, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4135-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4135-2020, 2020
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19 Nov 2020
Proglacial icings as records of winter hydrological processes
Anna Chesnokova, Michel Baraër, and Émilie Bouchard
The Cryosphere, 14, 4145–4164, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4145-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4145-2020, 2020
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24 Nov 2020
The influence of föhn winds on annual and seasonal surface melt on the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica
Jenny V. Turton, Amélie Kirchgaessner, Andrew N. Ross, John C. King, and Peter Kuipers Munneke
The Cryosphere, 14, 4165–4180, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4165-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4165-2020, 2020
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25 Nov 2020
Long-term surface energy balance of the western Greenland Ice Sheet and the role of large-scale circulation variability
Baojuan Huai, Michiel R. van den Broeke, and Carleen H. Reijmer
The Cryosphere, 14, 4181–4199, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4181-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4181-2020, 2020
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25 Nov 2020
Analyzing links between simulated Laptev Sea sea ice and atmospheric conditions over adjoining landmasses using causal-effect networks
Zoé Rehder, Anne Laura Niederdrenk, Lars Kaleschke, and Lars Kutzbach
The Cryosphere, 14, 4201–4215, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4201-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4201-2020, 2020
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26 Nov 2020
Subglacial permafrost dynamics and erosion inside subglacial channels driven by surface events in Svalbard
Andreas Alexander, Jaroslav Obu, Thomas V. Schuler, Andreas Kääb, and Hanne H. Christiansen
The Cryosphere, 14, 4217–4231, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4217-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4217-2020, 2020
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02 Dec 2020
Mapping the age of ice of Gauligletscher combining surface radionuclide contamination and ice flow modeling
Guillaume Jouvet, Stefan Röllin, Hans Sahli, José Corcho, Lars Gnägi, Loris Compagno, Dominik Sidler, Margit Schwikowski, Andreas Bauder, and Martin Funk
The Cryosphere, 14, 4233–4251, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4233-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4233-2020, 2020
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27 Nov 2020
Using ICESat-2 and Operation IceBridge altimetry for supraglacial lake depth retrievals
Zachary Fair, Mark Flanner, Kelly M. Brunt, Helen Amanda Fricker, and Alex Gardner
The Cryosphere, 14, 4253–4263, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4253-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4253-2020, 2020
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27 Nov 2020
Experimental evidence for a universal threshold characterizing wave-induced sea ice break-up
Joey J. Voermans, Jean Rabault, Kirill Filchuk, Ivan Ryzhov, Petra Heil, Aleksey Marchenko, Clarence O. Collins III, Mohammed Dabboor, Graig Sutherland, and Alexander V. Babanin
The Cryosphere, 14, 4265–4278, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4265-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4265-2020, 2020
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01 Dec 2020
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The catastrophic thermokarst lake drainage events of 2018 in northwestern Alaska: fast-forward into the future
Ingmar Nitze, Sarah W. Cooley, Claude R. Duguay, Benjamin M. Jones, and Guido Grosse
The Cryosphere, 14, 4279–4297, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4279-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4279-2020, 2020
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01 Dec 2020
Large and irreversible future decline of the Greenland ice sheet
Jonathan M. Gregory, Steven E. George, and Robin S. Smith
The Cryosphere, 14, 4299–4322, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4299-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4299-2020, 2020
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02 Dec 2020
Local-scale variability of snow density on Arctic sea ice
Joshua King, Stephen Howell, Mike Brady, Peter Toose, Chris Derksen, Christian Haas, and Justin Beckers
The Cryosphere, 14, 4323–4339, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4323-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4323-2020, 2020
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02 Dec 2020
Ground ice, organic carbon and soluble cations in tundra permafrost soils and sediments near a Laurentide ice divide in the Slave Geological Province, Northwest Territories, Canada
Rupesh Subedi, Steven V. Kokelj, and Stephan Gruber
The Cryosphere, 14, 4341–4364, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4341-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4341-2020, 2020
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02 Dec 2020
Detecting seasonal ice dynamics in satellite images
Chad A. Greene, Alex S. Gardner, and Lauren C. Andrews
The Cryosphere, 14, 4365–4378, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4365-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4365-2020, 2020
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04 Dec 2020
Satellite observations of snowfall regimes over the Greenland Ice Sheet
Elin A. McIlhattan, Claire Pettersen, Norman B. Wood, and Tristan S. L'Ecuyer
The Cryosphere, 14, 4379–4404, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4379-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4379-2020, 2020
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04 Dec 2020
Surface-based Ku- and Ka-band polarimetric radar for sea ice studies
Julienne Stroeve, Vishnu Nandan, Rosemary Willatt, Rasmus Tonboe, Stefan Hendricks, Robert Ricker, James Mead, Robbie Mallett, Marcus Huntemann, Polona Itkin, Martin Schneebeli, Daniela Krampe, Gunnar Spreen, Jeremy Wilkinson, Ilkka Matero, Mario Hoppmann, and Michel Tsamados
The Cryosphere, 14, 4405–4426, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4405-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4405-2020, 2020
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04 Dec 2020
Parameter optimization in sea ice models with elastic–viscoplastic rheology
Gleb Panteleev, Max Yaremchuk, Jacob N. Stroh, Oceana P. Francis, and Richard Allard
The Cryosphere, 14, 4427–4451, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4427-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4427-2020, 2020
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04 Dec 2020
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The Antarctic sea ice cover from ICESat-2 and CryoSat-2: freeboard, snow depth, and ice thickness
Sahra Kacimi and Ron Kwok
The Cryosphere, 14, 4453–4474, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4453-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4453-2020, 2020
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04 Dec 2020
Last glacial ice sheet dynamics offshore NE Greenland – a case study from Store Koldewey Trough
Ingrid Leirvik Olsen, Tom Arne Rydningen, Matthias Forwick, Jan Sverre Laberg, and Katrine Husum
The Cryosphere, 14, 4475–4494, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4475-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4475-2020, 2020
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08 Dec 2020
The role of electrical conductivity in radar wave reflection from glacier beds
Slawek M. Tulaczyk and Neil T. Foley
The Cryosphere, 14, 4495–4506, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4495-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4495-2020, 2020
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10 Dec 2020
Subglacial lakes and hydrology across the Ellsworth Subglacial Highlands, West Antarctica
Felipe Napoleoni, Stewart S. R. Jamieson, Neil Ross, Michael J. Bentley, Andrés Rivera, Andrew M. Smith, Martin J. Siegert, Guy J. G. Paxman, Guisella Gacitúa, José A. Uribe, Rodrigo Zamora, Alex M. Brisbourne, and David G. Vaughan
The Cryosphere, 14, 4507–4524, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4507-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4507-2020, 2020
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10 Dec 2020
The cryostratigraphy of the Yedoma cliff of Sobo-Sise Island (Lena delta) reveals permafrost dynamics in the central Laptev Sea coastal region during the last 52 kyr
Sebastian Wetterich, Alexander Kizyakov, Michael Fritz, Juliane Wolter, Gesine Mollenhauer, Hanno Meyer, Matthias Fuchs, Aleksei Aksenov, Heidrun Matthes, Lutz Schirrmeister, and Thomas Opel
The Cryosphere, 14, 4525–4551, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4525-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4525-2020, 2020
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15 Dec 2020
Quantification of the radiative impact of light-absorbing particles during two contrasted snow seasons at Col du Lautaret (2058 m a.s.l., French Alps)
François Tuzet, Marie Dumont, Ghislain Picard, Maxim Lamare, Didier Voisin, Pierre Nabat, Mathieu Lafaysse, Fanny Larue, Jesus Revuelto, and Laurent Arnaud
The Cryosphere, 14, 4553–4579, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4553-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4553-2020, 2020
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16 Dec 2020
Measurements and modeling of snow albedo at Alerce Glacier, Argentina: effects of volcanic ash, snow grain size, and cloudiness
Julián Gelman Constantin, Lucas Ruiz, Gustavo Villarosa, Valeria Outes, Facundo N. Bajano, Cenlin He, Hector Bajano, and Laura Dawidowski
The Cryosphere, 14, 4581–4601, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4581-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4581-2020, 2020
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18 Dec 2020
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Brief communication: Heterogenous thinning and subglacial lake activity on Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica
Andrew O. Hoffman, Knut Christianson, Daniel Shapero, Benjamin E. Smith, and Ian Joughin
The Cryosphere, 14, 4603–4609, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4603-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4603-2020, 2020
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18 Dec 2020
Projecting circum-Arctic excess-ground-ice melt with a sub-grid representation in the Community Land Model
Lei Cai, Hanna Lee, Kjetil Schanke Aas, and Sebastian Westermann
The Cryosphere, 14, 4611–4626, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4611-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4611-2020, 2020
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21 Dec 2020
Numerical modelling of permafrost spring discharge and open-system pingo formation induced by basal permafrost aggradation
Mikkel Toft Hornum, Andrew Jonathan Hodson, Søren Jessen, Victor Bense, and Kim Senger
The Cryosphere, 14, 4627–4651, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4627-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4627-2020, 2020
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21 Dec 2020
The role of vadose zone physics in the ecohydrological response of a Tibetan meadow to freeze–thaw cycles
Lianyu Yu, Simone Fatichi, Yijian Zeng, and Zhongbo Su
The Cryosphere, 14, 4653–4673, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4653-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4653-2020, 2020
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21 Dec 2020
Spring melt pond fraction in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago predicted from RADARSAT-2
Stephen E. L. Howell, Randall K. Scharien, Jack Landy, and Mike Brady
The Cryosphere, 14, 4675–4686, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4675-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4675-2020, 2020
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21 Dec 2020
Snow cover duration trends observed at sites and predicted by multiple models
Richard Essery, Hyungjun Kim, Libo Wang, Paul Bartlett, Aaron Boone, Claire Brutel-Vuilmet, Eleanor Burke, Matthias Cuntz, Bertrand Decharme, Emanuel Dutra, Xing Fang, Yeugeniy Gusev, Stefan Hagemann, Vanessa Haverd, Anna Kontu, Gerhard Krinner, Matthieu Lafaysse, Yves Lejeune, Thomas Marke, Danny Marks, Christoph Marty, Cecile B. Menard, Olga Nasonova, Tomoko Nitta, John Pomeroy, Gerd Schädler, Vladimir Semenov, Tatiana Smirnova, Sean Swenson, Dmitry Turkov, Nander Wever, and Hua Yuan
The Cryosphere, 14, 4687–4698, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4687-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4687-2020, 2020
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22 Dec 2020
Spatio-temporal flow variations driving heat exchange processes at a mountain glacier
Rebecca Mott, Ivana Stiperski, and Lindsey Nicholson
The Cryosphere, 14, 4699–4718, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4699-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4699-2020, 2020
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23 Dec 2020
Scoring Antarctic surface mass balance in climate models to refine future projections
Tessa Gorte, Jan T. M. Lenaerts, and Brooke Medley
The Cryosphere, 14, 4719–4733, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4719-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4719-2020, 2020
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