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28 Dec 2025
Brief Communication: Mass Balance of Glaciers in the Eastern Hindu Kush from 1979 to 2002 using KH-9 Panoramic and SPOT-5 stereo imagery
Azka Ramzan and Sajid Ghuffar
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5287,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5287, 2025
Preprint under review for TC (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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15 Dec 2025
Brief Communication: Limitations of Medical X-ray Computed Tomography for Estimating Ice Content in Permafrost Samples
Mahya Roustaei, Jonas Darey, Zakieh Mohammadi, and Daniel Fortier
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5409,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5409, 2025
Preprint under review for TC (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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09 Dec 2025
Brief communication: Uncertainties in Southern Ocean sea surface conditions and their impact on Antarctic climate over 1958–1978
Quentin Dalaiden and Ingo Bethke
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5634,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5634, 2025
Preprint under review for TC (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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08 Dec 2025
Brief communication: Tropical glaciers on Puncak Jaya (Irian Jaya/West Papua, Indonesia) close to extinction
David Ibel, Thomas Mölg, and Christian Sommer
The Cryosphere, 19, 6629–6637, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-6629-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-6629-2025, 2025
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03 Dec 2025
Brief communication: Annual variability of the atmospheric circulation at large spatial scale reconstructed from a data assimilation framework cannot explain local East Antarctic ice rises' surface mass balance records
Marie G. P. Cavitte, Hugues Goosse, Quentin Dalaiden, and Nicolas Ghilain
The Cryosphere, 19, 6483–6492, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-6483-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-6483-2025, 2025
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18 Nov 2025
Brief communication: Tides and damage as drivers of lake drainages on Shackleton Ice Shelf
Julius Sommer, Maaike Izeboud, Sophie de Roda Husman, Bert Wouters, and Stef Lhermitte
The Cryosphere, 19, 5903–5912, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-5903-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-5903-2025, 2025
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18 Nov 2025
Brief communication: Sharp precipitation gradient on the southern edge of the Tibetan Plateau during cold season
Titouan Biget, Fanny Brun, Walter Immerzeel, Léo Martin, Hamish Pritchard, Emily Collier, Yanbin Lei, and Tandong Yao
The Cryosphere, 19, 5863–5870, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-5863-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-5863-2025, 2025
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10 Nov 2025
Brief communication: Decadal changes in topography, surface water and subsurface structure across an Arctic coastal tundra site
Jonathan A. Bachman, John Lamb, Craig Ulrich, Neslihan Taş, and Baptiste Dafflon
The Cryosphere, 19, 5499–5508, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-5499-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-5499-2025, 2025
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07 Nov 2025
Brief communication: Updated grounding line mapping in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica, from 1-day repeat Sentinel-1 SAR data
Jonas Kvist Andersen, Romain Millan, Eric Rignot, Bernd Scheuchl, Jean Baptiste Barré, and Anders Anker Bjørk
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4471,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4471, 2025
Preprint under review for TC (discussion: open, 2 comments)
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24 Oct 2025
Brief communication: Evaluation of the ESA CCI+ ESMR v1.1 sea-ice concentration product
Stefan Kern
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5222,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5222, 2025
Revised manuscript under review for TC (discussion: final response, 4 comments)
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14 Oct 2025
Brief communication: Reanalyses underperform in cold regions, raising concerns for climate services and research
Bin Cao and Stephan Gruber
The Cryosphere, 19, 4525–4532, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-4525-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-4525-2025, 2025
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07 Oct 2025
Brief communication: Enabling open cryosphere research with Ghub
Joseph P. Tulenko, Sophie A. Goliber, Renette Jones-Ivey, Justin Quinn, Abani Patra, Kristin Poinar, Sophie Nowicki, Beata M. Csatho, and Jason P. Briner
The Cryosphere, 19, 4327–4333, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-4327-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-4327-2025, 2025
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02 Oct 2025
Brief communication: Use of lightweight and low-cost steel net electrodes for electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) surveys performed on coarse-blocky surface environments
Mirko Pavoni, Luca Peruzzo, Jacopo Boaga, Alberto Carrera, Ilaria Barone, and Alexander Bast
The Cryosphere, 19, 4141–4148, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-4141-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-4141-2025, 2025
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29 Sep 2025
Brief Communication: Hypergravity Testing of Thawing Rates in Frozen Sand
Michael H. Gardner, Simeon Buttery, Soo-Min Ham, Hamad Khan, Daniel W. Wilson, and Jason T. DeJong
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2965,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2965, 2025
Preprint under review for TC (discussion: open, 3 comments)
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16 Sep 2025
Brief communication: Daily, gap-free snow cover information based on a combination of NPP VIIRS and MODIS data
Andreas J. Dietz and Sebastian Roessler
The Cryosphere, 19, 3873–3877, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-3873-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-3873-2025, 2025
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10 Sep 2025
Brief communication: The Danish replicate drilling system – results from the first field test
Julien Westhoff, Grant Vernon Boeckmann, Nicholas Mossor Rathmann, and Steffen Bo Hansen
The Cryosphere, 19, 3623–3630, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-3623-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-3623-2025, 2025
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26 Aug 2025
Brief Communication: Sensitivity analysis of peak water to ice thickness and temperature: A case study in the Western Kunlun Mountains of the Tibetan plateau
Lucille Gimenes, Romain Millan, Nicolas Champollion, and Jordi Bolibar
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-3460,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-3460, 2025
Revised manuscript accepted for TC (discussion: final response, 8 comments)
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25 Aug 2025
Brief communication: Representation of heat conduction into ice in marine ice shelf melt modelling
Jonathan Wiskandt and Nicolas C. Jourdain
The Cryosphere, 19, 3253–3258, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-3253-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-3253-2025, 2025
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06 Aug 2025
Brief communication: Estimating Antarctic surface melt rates using passive microwave data calibrated with weather station observations
Valeria Di Biase, Peter Kuipers Munneke, Bert Wouters, Michiel R. van den Broeke, and Maurice van Tiggelen
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2900,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2900, 2025
Revised manuscript accepted for TC (discussion: final response, 4 comments)
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04 Aug 2025
Brief communication: Stream microbes preferentially respire young carbon within the ancient glacier dissolved organic carbon pool
Amy D. Holt, Jason B. Fellman, Anne M. Kellerman, Eran Hood, Samantha H. Bosman, Amy M. McKenna, Jeffery P. Chanton, and Robert G. M. Spencer
The Cryosphere, 19, 2769–2777, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-2769-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-2769-2025, 2025
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01 Aug 2025
Brief Communication: Evaluating Snow Depth Measurements from Ground-Penetrating Radar and Airborne Lidar in Boreal Forest and Tundra Environments during the NASA SnowEx 2023 Campaign
Kajsa Holland-Goon, Randall Bonnell, Daniel McGrath, W. Brad Baxter, Tate Meehan, Ryan Webb, Chris Larsen, Hans-Peter Marshall, Megan Mason, and Carrie Vuyovich
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2435,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2435, 2025
Preprint under review for TC (discussion: final response, 4 comments)
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11 Jul 2025
Brief communication: Sensitivity of Antarctic ice shelf melting to ocean warming across basal melt models
Erwin Lambert and Clara Burgard
The Cryosphere, 19, 2495–2505, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-2495-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-2495-2025, 2025
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