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Co-editors-in-chief: Chris Derksen, Olaf Eisen, Christian Haas, Christian Hauck, Nanna Bjørnholt Karlsson & Thomas Mölg

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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25 Jan 2021 Review article: Earth's ice imbalance

Satellite observations are the best method for tracking ice loss, because the cryosphere is vast and remote. Using these, and some numerical models, the authors show that Earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes (Tt) of ice since 1994.

25 Jan 2021 Review article: Earth's ice imbalance

Satellite observations are the best method for tracking ice loss, because the cryosphere is vast and remote. Using these, and some numerical models, the authors show that Earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes (Tt) of ice since 1994.

13 Jan 2021 Spectral characterization, radiative forcing and pigment content of coastal Antarctic snow algae: approaches to spectrally discriminate red and green communities and their impact on snowmelt

The authors present radiative forcing (RF) estimates by snow algae in the Antarctic Peninsula (AP) region from multi-year measurements of solar radiation and ground-based hyperspectral characterization of red and green snow algae collected during a brief field expedition in austral summer 2018.

13 Jan 2021 Spectral characterization, radiative forcing and pigment content of coastal Antarctic snow algae: approaches to spectrally discriminate red and green communities and their impact on snowmelt

The authors present radiative forcing (RF) estimates by snow algae in the Antarctic Peninsula (AP) region from multi-year measurements of solar radiation and ground-based hyperspectral characterization of red and green snow algae collected during a brief field expedition in austral summer 2018.

02 Dec 2020 Mapping the age of ice of Gauligletscher combining surface radionuclide contamination and ice flow modeling

In this paper the authors show that plutonium is an effective tracer to identify ice originating from the early 1960s at the surface of a mountain glacier after a long time within the ice flow, giving unique information on the long-term former ice motion. Combined with ice flow modelling, the dating can be extended to the entire glacier, and the authors show that an airplane which crash-landed on the Gauligletscher in 1946 will likely soon be released from the ice close to the place where pieces have emerged in recent years.

02 Dec 2020 Mapping the age of ice of Gauligletscher combining surface radionuclide contamination and ice flow modeling

In this paper the authors show that plutonium is an effective tracer to identify ice originating from the early 1960s at the surface of a mountain glacier after a long time within the ice flow, giving unique information on the long-term former ice motion. Combined with ice flow modelling, the dating can be extended to the entire glacier, and the authors show that an airplane which crash-landed on the Gauligletscher in 1946 will likely soon be released from the ice close to the place where pieces have emerged in recent years.

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Recent papers
25 Jan 2021
Review article: Earth's ice imbalance
Thomas Slater, Isobel R. Lawrence, Inès N. Otosaka, Andrew Shepherd, Noel Gourmelen, Livia Jakob, Paul Tepes, Lin Gilbert, and Peter Nienow
The Cryosphere, 15, 233–246, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-233-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-233-2021, 2021
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25 Jan 2021
High-resolution inventory to capture glacier disintegration in the Austrian Silvretta
Andrea Fischer, Bernd Seiser, Kay Helfricht, and Martin Stocker-Waldhuber
The Cryosphere Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-376,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-376, 2021
Preprint under review for TC (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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22 Jan 2021
Full crystallographic orientation (c and a axes) of warm, coarse-grained ice in a shear-dominated setting: a case study, Storglaciären, Sweden
Morgan E. Monz, Peter J. Hudleston, David J. Prior, Zachary Michels, Sheng Fan, Marianne Negrini, Pat J. Langhorne, and Chao Qi
The Cryosphere, 15, 303–324, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-303-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-303-2021, 2021
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22 Jan 2021
Geographic variation and temporal trends in ice phenology in Norwegian lakes over a century
Jan Henning L’Abée-Lund, Leif Asbjørn Vøllestad, John Edward Brittain, Ånund Sigurd Kvambekk, and Tord Solvang
The Cryosphere Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-374,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-374, 2021
Preprint under review for TC (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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22 Jan 2021
Implementation of dynamic snow density within GlobSnow snow water equivalent retrieval methodology
Pinja Venäläinen, Kari Luojus, Juha Lemmetyinen, Jouni Pulliainen, Mikko Moisander, and Matias Takala
The Cryosphere Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2021-15,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2021-15, 2021
Preprint under review for TC (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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Highlight articles
25 Jan 2021
Review article: Earth's ice imbalance
Thomas Slater, Isobel R. Lawrence, Inès N. Otosaka, Andrew Shepherd, Noel Gourmelen, Livia Jakob, Paul Tepes, Lin Gilbert, and Peter Nienow
The Cryosphere, 15, 233–246, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-233-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-233-2021, 2021
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18 Dec 2020
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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04 Dec 2020
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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01 Dec 2020
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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19 Nov 2020
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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