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Co-editors-in-chief: Chris Derksen, Christian Haas, Christian Hauck, Nanna Bjørnholt Karlsson & Thomas Mölg
eISSN: TC 1994-0424, TCD 1994-0440

The Cryosphere (TC) is a not-for-profit 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 snow cover, 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.

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27 Feb 2023 Seasonal and interannual variability of the landfast ice mass balance between 2009 and 2018 in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica

The observed annual maximum landfast ice (LFI) thickness off Zhongshan (Davis) was 1.59±0.17?m (1.64±0.08?m). Larger interannual and local spatial variabilities for the seasonality of LFI were identified at Zhongshan, with the dominant influencing factors of air temperature anomaly, snow atop, local topography and wind regime, and oceanic heat flux. The variability of LFI properties across the study domain prevailed at interannual timescales, over any trend during the recent decades.

27 Feb 2023 Seasonal and interannual variability of the landfast ice mass balance between 2009 and 2018 in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica

The observed annual maximum landfast ice (LFI) thickness off Zhongshan (Davis) was 1.59±0.17?m (1.64±0.08?m). Larger interannual and local spatial variabilities for the seasonality of LFI were identified at Zhongshan, with the dominant influencing factors of air temperature anomaly, snow atop, local topography and wind regime, and oceanic heat flux. The variability of LFI properties across the study domain prevailed at interannual timescales, over any trend during the recent decades.

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Recent papers
23 Mar 2023
Brief communication: The Glacier Loss Day as indicator for extreme glacier melt in 2022
Annelies Voordendag, Rainer Prinz, Lilian Schuster, and Georg Kaser
The Cryosphere Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2023-49,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2023-49, 2023
Preprint under review for TC (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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23 Mar 2023
Brief communication: Surface energy balance differences over Greenland between ERA5 and ERA-Interim
Uta Krebs-Kanzow, Christian B. Rodehacke, and Gerrit Lohmann
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-525,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-525, 2023
Preprint under review for TC (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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22 Mar 2023
Analysis of microseismicity in sea ice with deep learning and Bayesian inference: application to high-resolution thickness monitoring
Ludovic Moreau, Léonard Seydoux, Jérôme Weiss, and Michel Campillo
The Cryosphere, 17, 1327–1341, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-1327-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-1327-2023, 2023
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22 Mar 2023
Foehn Winds at Pine Island Glacier and their role in Ice Changes
Diana Francis, Ricardo Fonseca, Kyle S. Mattingly, Stef Lhermitte, and Catherine Walker
The Cryosphere Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2023-46,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2023-46, 2023
Preprint under review for TC (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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21 Mar 2023
Snow sensitivity to temperature and precipitation change during compound cold–hot and wet–dry seasons in the Pyrenees
Josep Bonsoms, Juan Ignacio López-Moreno, and Esteban Alonso-González
The Cryosphere, 17, 1307–1326, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-1307-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-1307-2023, 2023
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Highlight articles
21 Feb 2023
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Climatology and surface impacts of atmospheric rivers on West Antarctica
Michelle L. Maclennan, Jan T. M. Lenaerts, Christine A. Shields, Andrew O. Hoffman, Nander Wever, Megan Thompson-Munson, Andrew C. Winters, Erin C. Pettit, Theodore A. Scambos, and Jonathan D. Wille
The Cryosphere, 17, 865–881, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-865-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-865-2023, 2023
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01 Feb 2023
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Slowdown of Shirase Glacier, East Antarctica, caused by strengthening alongshore winds
Bertie W. J. Miles, Chris R. Stokes, Adrian Jenkins, Jim R. Jordan, Stewart S. R. Jamieson, and G. Hilmar Gudmundsson
The Cryosphere, 17, 445–456, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-445-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-445-2023, 2023
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04 Nov 2022
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Improving interpretation of sea-level projections through a machine-learning-based local explanation approach
Jeremy Rohmer, Remi Thieblemont, Goneri Le Cozannet, Heiko Goelzer, and Gael Durand
The Cryosphere, 16, 4637–4657, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-4637-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-4637-2022, 2022
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07 Oct 2022
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The Antarctic contribution to 21st-century sea-level rise predicted by the UK Earth System Model with an interactive ice sheet
Antony Siahaan, Robin S. Smith, Paul R. Holland, Adrian Jenkins, Jonathan M. Gregory, Victoria Lee, Pierre Mathiot, Antony J.​​​​​​​ Payne, Jeff K.​​​​​​​ Ridley, and Colin G. Jones
The Cryosphere, 16, 4053–4086, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-4053-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-4053-2022, 2022
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29 Aug 2022
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The impact of climate oscillations on the surface energy budget over the Greenland Ice Sheet in a changing climate
Tiago Silva, Jakob Abermann, Brice Noël, Sonika Shahi, Willem Jan van de Berg, and Wolfgang Schöner
The Cryosphere, 16, 3375–3391, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3375-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3375-2022, 2022
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