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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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News

13 Nov 2023 Mapping the extent of giant Antarctic icebergs with deep learning

In this study, the authors propose a deep neural network to map the extent of giant Antarctic icebergs in Sentinel-1 images automatically.

13 Nov 2023 Mapping the extent of giant Antarctic icebergs with deep learning

In this study, the authors propose a deep neural network to map the extent of giant Antarctic icebergs in Sentinel-1 images automatically.

29 Sep 2023 Changes to The Cryosphere submission routes

After 15 years of interactive discussion and open peer review in its discussion forum TCD, The Cryosphere reached out to EGUsphere in 2022 allowing additional submission routes with preprint discussions outside of TCD. As of today, discussions of TC manuscripts will only take place on EGUsphere.

29 Sep 2023 Changes to The Cryosphere submission routes

After 15 years of interactive discussion and open peer review in its discussion forum TCD, The Cryosphere reached out to EGUsphere in 2022 allowing additional submission routes with preprint discussions outside of TCD. As of today, discussions of TC manuscripts will only take place on EGUsphere.

08 Sep 2023 The stability of present-day Antarctic grounding lines – Parts 1 & 2

Stability inspection for West Antarctica shows: marine ice sheet is not destabilized yet, but possibly on a path to tipping. Please read more.

08 Sep 2023 The stability of present-day Antarctic grounding lines – Parts 1 & 2

Stability inspection for West Antarctica shows: marine ice sheet is not destabilized yet, but possibly on a path to tipping. Please read more.

Recent papers

04 Dec 2023
Improving climate model skill over High Mountain Asia by adapting snow cover parameterization to complex-topography areas
Mickaël Lalande, Martin Ménégoz, Gerhard Krinner, Catherine Ottlé, and Frédérique Cheruy
The Cryosphere, 17, 5095–5130, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-5095-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-5095-2023, 2023
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04 Dec 2023
Morphodynamics of the Mont Blanc glaciers and their recent evolution
Fabrizio Troilo, Niccolò Dematteis, Francesco Zucca, Martin Funk, and Daniele Giordan
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2771,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2771, 2023
Preprint under review for TC (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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04 Dec 2023
50 years of firn evolution on Grigoriev Ice Cap, Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan
Horst Machguth, Anja Eichler, Margit Schwikowski, Sabina Brütsch, Enrico Mattea, Sanislav Kutuzov, Martin Heule, Rykul Usubaliev, Sultan Belekov, Vladimir N. Mikhalenko, Martin Hoelzle, and Marlene Kronenberg
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2722,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2722, 2023
Preprint under review for TC (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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01 Dec 2023
Sentinel-1 Detection of Ice Slabs on the Greenland Ice Sheet
Riley Culberg, Roger J. Michaelides, and Julie Z. Miller
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2652,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2652, 2023
Preprint under review for TC (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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30 Nov 2023
Observed and modeled moulin heads in the Pâkitsoq region of Greenland suggest subglacial channel network effects
Celia Trunz, Kristin Poinar, Lauren C. Andrews, Matthew D. Covington, Jessica Mejia, Jason Gulley, and Victoria Siegel
The Cryosphere, 17, 5075–5094, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-5075-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-5075-2023, 2023
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Highlight articles

19 Oct 2023
| Highlight paper
Mapping Antarctic crevasses and their evolution with deep learning applied to satellite radar imagery
Trystan Surawy-Stepney, Anna E. Hogg, Stephen L. Cornford, and David C. Hogg
The Cryosphere, 17, 4421–4445, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4421-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4421-2023, 2023
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26 Sep 2023
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Modes of Antarctic tidal grounding line migration revealed by Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) laser altimetry
Bryony I. D. Freer, Oliver J. Marsh, Anna E. Hogg, Helen Amanda Fricker, and Laurie Padman
The Cryosphere, 17, 4079–4101, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4079-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4079-2023, 2023
Short summary Co-editor-in-chief
13 Sep 2023
| Highlight paper
Atmospheric drivers of melt-related ice speed-up events on the Russell Glacier in southwest Greenland
Timo Schmid, Valentina Radić, Andrew Tedstone, James M. Lea, Stephen Brough, and Mauro Hermann
The Cryosphere, 17, 3933–3954, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3933-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3933-2023, 2023
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29 Aug 2023
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Brief communication: The Glacier Loss Day as an indicator of a record-breaking negative glacier mass balance in 2022
Annelies Voordendag, Rainer Prinz, Lilian Schuster, and Georg Kaser
The Cryosphere, 17, 3661–3665, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3661-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3661-2023, 2023
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24 Aug 2023
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Stagnant ice and age modelling in the Dome C region, Antarctica
Ailsa Chung, Frédéric Parrenin, Daniel Steinhage, Robert Mulvaney, Carlos Martín, Marie G. P. Cavitte, David A. Lilien, Veit Helm, Drew Taylor, Prasad Gogineni, Catherine Ritz, Massimo Frezzotti, Charles O'Neill, Heinrich Miller, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, and Olaf Eisen
The Cryosphere, 17, 3461–3483, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3461-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3461-2023, 2023
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