The Cryosphere (TC)

Co-Editors-in-Chief:

Jonathan L.

 

Bamber

,

Stephan

 

Gruber

,

G. Hilmar

 

Gudmundsson

 &

Michiel

 

Van den Broeke

Open Access – Public Peer-Review & Interactive Public Discussion – Personalized Copyright under a Creative Commons License – Moderate Article Processing Charges

Indexed in  Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science) ,  Scopus ,  ADS ,  Current Contents ,  GeoRef ,  Google Scholar and  J-Gate . Included in the  Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)  as well as in the  Bodleian Library (UK) ,  Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (D)  and  Library of Congress (USA) . Long-term e-archived in  Portico and  CLOCKSS .

Aims and Scope

The Cryosphere (TC) is an international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and discussion of research articles, short communications and review papers on all aspects of frozen water and ground on Earth and on other planetary bodies.

The main subject areas are:

• ice sheets and glaciers;
• planetary ice bodies;
• permafrost, river and lake ice;
• seasonal snowcover;
• sea ice;
• remote sensing, numerical modelling, in-situ and laboratory studies of the above and including studies of the interaction of the cryosphere with the rest of the climate system.

The Cryosphere has an innovative two-stage publication process which involves a scientific discussion forum and exploits the full potential of the Internet to:

• foster scientific discussion;
• enhance the effectiveness and transparency of scientific quality assurance;
• enable rapid publication;
• make scientific publications freely accessible.

In the first stage, papers that pass a rapid access-review by one of the editors are immediately published on the The Cryosphere Discussions (TCD) website. They are then subject to Interactive Public Discussion, during which the referee’s comments (anonymous or attributed), additional short comments by other members of the scientific community (attributed) and the author’s replies are also published in TCD. In the second stage, the peer-review process is completed and, if accepted, the final revised papers are published in TC. To ensure publication precedence for authors, and to provide a lasting record of scientific discussion, TCD and TC are both ISSN-registered, permanently archived and fully citable.

Issuing Body

The Cryosphere (TC) and The Cryosphere Discussions (TCD) are published by the Copernicus GmbH (Copernicus Publications) on behalf of the European Geosciences Union (EGU).

TC
ISSN 1994-0416
eISSN 1994-0424
http://www.the-cryosphere.net

TCD
eISSN 1994-0440
http://www.the-cryosphere-discuss.net