Volume 10, issue 4

Volume 10, issue 4

04 Jul 2016
Mapping snow depth in open alpine terrain from stereo satellite imagery
R. Marti, S. Gascoin, E. Berthier, M. de Pinel, T. Houet, and D. Laffly
The Cryosphere, 10, 1361–1380, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1361-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1361-2016, 2016
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08 Jul 2016
Modeling Antarctic subglacial lake filling and drainage cycles
Christine F. Dow, Mauro A. Werder, Sophie Nowicki, and Ryan T. Walker
The Cryosphere, 10, 1381–1393, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1381-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1381-2016, 2016
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08 Jul 2016
Two years with extreme and little snowfall: effects on energy partitioning and surface energy exchange in a high-Arctic tundra ecosystem
Christian Stiegler, Magnus Lund, Torben Røjle Christensen, Mikhail Mastepanov, and Anders Lindroth
The Cryosphere, 10, 1395–1413, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1395-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1395-2016, 2016
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08 Jul 2016
About the consistency between Envisat and CryoSat-2 radar freeboard retrieval over Antarctic sea ice
Sandra Schwegmann, Eero Rinne, Robert Ricker, Stefan Hendricks, and Veit Helm
The Cryosphere, 10, 1415–1425, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1415-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1415-2016, 2016
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11 Jul 2016
Brief Communication: Twelve-year cyclic surging episodes at Donjek Glacier in Yukon, Canada
Takahiro Abe, Masato Furuya, and Daiki Sakakibara
The Cryosphere, 10, 1427–1432, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1427-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1427-2016, 2016
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11 Jul 2016
Glacier melting and precipitation trends detected by surface area changes in Himalayan ponds
Franco Salerno, Sudeep Thakuri, Nicolas Guyennon, Gaetano Viviano, and Gianni Tartari
The Cryosphere, 10, 1433–1448, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1433-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1433-2016, 2016
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12 Jul 2016
Coastal dynamics and submarine permafrost in shallow water of the central Laptev Sea, East Siberia
Pier Paul Overduin, Sebastian Wetterich, Frank Günther, Mikhail N. Grigoriev, Guido Grosse, Lutz Schirrmeister, Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten, and Aleksandr Makarov
The Cryosphere, 10, 1449–1462, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1449-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1449-2016, 2016
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12 Jul 2016
Landfast ice thickness in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago from observations and models
Stephen E. L. Howell, Frédéric Laliberté, Ron Kwok, Chris Derksen, and Joshua King
The Cryosphere, 10, 1463–1475, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1463-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1463-2016, 2016
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13 Jul 2016
Inversion of geothermal heat flux in a thermomechanically coupled nonlinear Stokes ice sheet model
Hongyu Zhu, Noemi Petra, Georg Stadler, Tobin Isaac, Thomas J. R. Hughes, and Omar Ghattas
The Cryosphere, 10, 1477–1494, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1477-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1477-2016, 2016
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18 Jul 2016
Design of a scanning laser meter for monitoring the spatio-temporal evolution of snow depth and its application in the Alps and in Antarctica
Ghislain Picard, Laurent Arnaud, Jean-Michel Panel, and Samuel Morin
The Cryosphere, 10, 1495–1511, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1495-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1495-2016, 2016
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19 Jul 2016
Arctic sea-ice diffusion from observed and simulated Lagrangian trajectories
Pierre Rampal, Sylvain Bouillon, Jon Bergh, and Einar Ólason
The Cryosphere, 10, 1513–1527, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1513-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1513-2016, 2016
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19 Jul 2016
Retrieval of the thickness of undeformed sea ice from simulated C-band compact polarimetric SAR images
Xi Zhang, Wolfgang Dierking, Jie Zhang, Junmin Meng, and Haitao Lang
The Cryosphere, 10, 1529–1545, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1529-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1529-2016, 2016
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20 Jul 2016
An ice-sheet-wide framework for englacial attenuation from ice-penetrating radar data
T. M. Jordan, J. L. Bamber, C. N. Williams, J. D. Paden, M. J. Siegert, P. Huybrechts, O. Gagliardini, and F. Gillet-Chaulet
The Cryosphere, 10, 1547–1570, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1547-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1547-2016, 2016
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22 Jul 2016
Snowpack modelling in the Pyrenees driven by kilometric-resolution meteorological forecasts
Louis Quéno, Vincent Vionnet, Ingrid Dombrowski-Etchevers, Matthieu Lafaysse, Marie Dumont, and Fatima Karbou
The Cryosphere, 10, 1571–1589, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1571-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1571-2016, 2016
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25 Jul 2016
Effects of stratified active layers on high-altitude permafrost warming: a case study on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau
Xicai Pan, Yanping Li, Qihao Yu, Xiaogang Shi, Daqing Yang, and Kurt Roth
The Cryosphere, 10, 1591–1603, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1591-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1591-2016, 2016
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26 Jul 2016
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Wave climate in the Arctic 1992–2014: seasonality and trends
Justin E. Stopa, Fabrice Ardhuin, and Fanny Girard-Ardhuin
The Cryosphere, 10, 1605–1629, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1605-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1605-2016, 2016
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28 Jul 2016
Statistical indicators of Arctic sea-ice stability – prospects and limitations
Sebastian Bathiany, Bregje van der Bolt, Mark S. Williamson, Timothy M. Lenton, Marten Scheffer, Egbert H. van Nes, and Dirk Notz
The Cryosphere, 10, 1631–1645, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1631-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1631-2016, 2016
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29 Jul 2016
Isotopic exchange on the diurnal scale between near-surface snow and lower atmospheric water vapor at Kohnen station, East Antarctica
François Ritter, Hans Christian Steen-Larsen, Martin Werner, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Anais Orsi, Melanie Behrens, Gerit Birnbaum, Johannes Freitag, Camille Risi, and Sepp Kipfstuhl
The Cryosphere, 10, 1647–1663, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1647-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1647-2016, 2016
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01 Aug 2016
An automated methodology for differentiating rock from snow, clouds and sea in Antarctica from Landsat 8 imagery: a new rock outcrop map and area estimation for the entire Antarctic continent
Alex Burton-Johnson, Martin Black, Peter T. Fretwell, and Joseph Kaluza-Gilbert
The Cryosphere, 10, 1665–1677, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1665-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1665-2016, 2016
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02 Aug 2016
Greenland annual accumulation along the EGIG line, 1959–2004, from ASIRAS airborne radar and neutron-probe density measurements
Thomas B. Overly, Robert L. Hawley, Veit Helm, Elizabeth M. Morris, and Rohan N. Chaudhary
The Cryosphere, 10, 1679–1694, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1679-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1679-2016, 2016
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04 Aug 2016
Thermal impacts of engineering activities and vegetation layer on permafrost in different alpine ecosystems of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, China
Qingbai Wu, Zhongqiong Zhang, Siru Gao, and Wei Ma
The Cryosphere, 10, 1695–1706, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1695-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1695-2016, 2016
10 Aug 2016
MABEL photon-counting laser altimetry data in Alaska for ICESat-2 simulations and development
Kelly M. Brunt, Thomas A. Neumann, Jason M. Amundson, Jeffrey L. Kavanaugh, Mahsa S. Moussavi, Kaitlin M. Walsh, William B. Cook, and Thorsten Markus
The Cryosphere, 10, 1707–1719, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1707-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1707-2016, 2016
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11 Aug 2016
Evaluation of air–soil temperature relationships simulated by land surface models during winter across the permafrost region
Wenli Wang, Annette Rinke, John C. Moore, Duoying Ji, Xuefeng Cui, Shushi Peng, David M. Lawrence, A. David McGuire, Eleanor J. Burke, Xiaodong Chen, Bertrand Decharme, Charles Koven, Andrew MacDougall, Kazuyuki Saito, Wenxin Zhang, Ramdane Alkama, Theodore J. Bohn, Philippe Ciais, Christine Delire, Isabelle Gouttevin, Tomohiro Hajima, Gerhard Krinner, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Paul A. Miller, Benjamin Smith, Tetsuo Sueyoshi, and Artem B. Sherstiukov
The Cryosphere, 10, 1721–1737, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1721-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1721-2016, 2016
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11 Aug 2016
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Annual Greenland accumulation rates (2009–2012) from airborne snow radar
Lora S. Koenig, Alvaro Ivanoff, Patrick M. Alexander, Joseph A. MacGregor, Xavier Fettweis, Ben Panzer, John D. Paden, Richard R. Forster, Indrani Das, Joesph R. McConnell, Marco Tedesco, Carl Leuschen, and Prasad Gogineni
The Cryosphere, 10, 1739–1752, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1739-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1739-2016, 2016
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17 Aug 2016
Similitude of ice dynamics against scaling of geometry and physical parameters
Johannes Feldmann and Anders Levermann
The Cryosphere, 10, 1753–1769, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1753-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1753-2016, 2016
17 Aug 2016
Anisotropy of seasonal snow measured by polarimetric phase differences in radar time series
Silvan Leinss, Henning Löwe, Martin Proksch, Juha Lemmetyinen, Andreas Wiesmann, and Irena Hajnsek
The Cryosphere, 10, 1771–1797, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1771-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1771-2016, 2016
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18 Aug 2016
A simple equation for the melt elevation feedback of ice sheets
Anders Levermann and Ricarda Winkelmann
The Cryosphere, 10, 1799–1807, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1799-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1799-2016, 2016
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22 Aug 2016
Rapid glacial retreat on the Kamchatka Peninsula during the early 21st century
Colleen M. Lynch, Iestyn D. Barr, Donal Mullan, and Alastair Ruffell
The Cryosphere, 10, 1809–1821, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1809-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1809-2016, 2016
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22 Aug 2016
Mapping and assessing variability in the Antarctic marginal ice zone, pack ice and coastal polynyas in two sea ice algorithms with implications on breeding success of snow petrels
Julienne C. Stroeve, Stephanie Jenouvrier, G. Garrett Campbell, Christophe Barbraud, and Karine Delord
The Cryosphere, 10, 1823–1843, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1823-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1823-2016, 2016
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22 Aug 2016
Reduced melt on debris-covered glaciers: investigations from Changri Nup Glacier, Nepal
Christian Vincent, Patrick Wagnon, Joseph M. Shea, Walter W. Immerzeel, Philip Kraaijenbrink, Dibas Shrestha, Alvaro Soruco, Yves Arnaud, Fanny Brun, Etienne Berthier, and Sonam Futi Sherpa
The Cryosphere, 10, 1845–1858, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1845-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1845-2016, 2016
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25 Aug 2016
Multilevel spatiotemporal validation of snow/ice mass balance and runoff modeling in glacierized catchments
Florian Hanzer, Kay Helfricht, Thomas Marke, and Ulrich Strasser
The Cryosphere, 10, 1859–1881, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1859-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1859-2016, 2016
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25 Aug 2016
Persistence and variability of ice-stream grounding lines on retrograde bed slopes
Alexander A. Robel, Christian Schoof, and Eli Tziperman
The Cryosphere, 10, 1883–1896, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1883-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1883-2016, 2016
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