Scheduled special issues
The following special issues are scheduled for publication in TC:
A
The Norwegian Computing Center, the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Polar View, the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC), and ESA (European Space Agency) have created an extraordinary sea ice challenge, with the aim to bring together artificial intelligence (AI) and Earth observation players to address the challenge of automated sea ice mapping
from Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data.
The objective of the AutoICE challenge is to advance the state of the art of sea ice parameter retrieval from SAR data, resulting in an increased capacity to derive more robust and accurate automated sea ice maps. In this challenge, we aim to push forward the new capability to retrieve multiple parameters, specifically, sea ice concentration, stage of development, and floe size (form). The relevance of these capabilities should also be seen in the context of the upcoming Copernicus next-generation Sentinel-1 SAR mission and the Copernicus Polar Expansion mission CIMR (Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer).
The participants of the challenge are welcome to publish their results and approaches in a special issue dedicated to it. In addition, an overview paper will be published describing the challenge and summarizing the results.
I
In October 2022 the 3rd Open Science Conference of the International Partnerships of Ice Core Sciences (IPICS) takes place in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, providing the opportunity to document the status quo of ice core research including comparative studies on other climate archives and climate models in this joint special issue of Climate of the Past and The Cryosphere: "Ice core science at the three poles".
Potential topics of contributions include the latest results from polar and high-altitude ice cores, integrative science on ice cores, climate models and other climate archives, new proxies, and other ice-core-related technology developments. In particular, we invite ice-core-related contributions on the following themes.
1. Glacial–interglacial dynamics, interglacials, and sea level
2. Holocene and the last 2000-year climate forcings and variability
3. Progress in proxy development and interpretation
4. Ice dynamics, ice sheet instability, and geophysics
5. High-alpine ice cores
6. Ice biology, basal ice, and subglacial lakes
7. Pollution records
8. Advances in drilling engineering and borehole observations
9. Timescales and methods for ice dating
10. Rapid changes and teleconnections
11. Biogeochemical cycles in the Earth system – data and models
12. New ice archives
13. The Oldest Ice challenge and the preservation of climatic signals in the deepest ice.
N
- climate-change-induced cryospheric alterations and impacts on the water cycle in northern environments, e.g. changes in the snowpack, glacier recession, permafrost thaw, stream discharge, lake size, and wildfires;
- interdisciplinary research that furthers our understanding of the nexus between hydrological, biogeochemical, and ecosystem processes in cold-region environments;
- the impacts of current (e.g. mining, logging, dam building) and past (e.g. peatland drainage/restoration) land-use changes in high-latitude regions;
- transdisciplinary research, including knowledge of Indigenous communities and other interested parties, ideally aimed at sustainable co-development of climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies;
- studies providing open tools for the development and testing of transposable models in cold-region environments;
- studies providing information on or presenting new tools for the improvement and standardization of measurement techniques and network design in northern regions.
O
T
Two closely coordinated groups (one from the USA and the other from Europe) are revisiting the Camp Century sub-ice sediment and the silty ice zone just above it using a wide variety of analytical techniques to make inferences about ice sheet behaviour, palaeo-climate, and palaeo-ecology as well as sediment transport and sourcing. The paper that kicked this off was in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 2 years ago: "A multi-million-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century" (Christ et al., 2021).
Talking among the 20+ lead investigators, we decided that the papers coming out of multiple, coordinated investigations of this historic (and still unique) ice core would be very useful to the broader community if they could be gathered into a special issue. Having these papers together would increase their impact and accessibility. Because of the wide variety of investigations being conducted on the core materials, a combined special issue including papers from both The Cryosphere and Climate of the Past will generate the most contributions and the largest readership.
Reference:
Christ, A. J., Bieman, P. R., Schaefer, J. M., Dahl-Jensen, D., Steffensen, J. P, Corbett, L. B., Peteet, D. M., Thomas, E. K., Steig, E. J., Rittenour, T. M., Tison, J.-L., Blard, P.-H., Perdrial, N., Dethier, D. P., Lini, A., Hidy, A. J., Caffee, M. W., and Southon, J.: A multi-million-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century, P. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 118, e2021442118, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2021442118, 2021.
2023
- climate-change-induced cryospheric alterations and impacts on the water cycle in northern environments, e.g. changes in the snowpack, glacier recession, permafrost thaw, stream discharge, lake size, and wildfires;
- interdisciplinary research that furthers our understanding of the nexus between hydrological, biogeochemical, and ecosystem processes in cold-region environments;
- the impacts of current (e.g. mining, logging, dam building) and past (e.g. peatland drainage/restoration) land-use changes in high-latitude regions;
- transdisciplinary research, including knowledge of Indigenous communities and other interested parties, ideally aimed at sustainable co-development of climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies;
- studies providing open tools for the development and testing of transposable models in cold-region environments;
- studies providing information on or presenting new tools for the improvement and standardization of measurement techniques and network design in northern regions.
The Norwegian Computing Center, the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Polar View, the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC), and ESA (European Space Agency) have created an extraordinary sea ice challenge, with the aim to bring together artificial intelligence (AI) and Earth observation players to address the challenge of automated sea ice mapping
from Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data.
The objective of the AutoICE challenge is to advance the state of the art of sea ice parameter retrieval from SAR data, resulting in an increased capacity to derive more robust and accurate automated sea ice maps. In this challenge, we aim to push forward the new capability to retrieve multiple parameters, specifically, sea ice concentration, stage of development, and floe size (form). The relevance of these capabilities should also be seen in the context of the upcoming Copernicus next-generation Sentinel-1 SAR mission and the Copernicus Polar Expansion mission CIMR (Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer).
The participants of the challenge are welcome to publish their results and approaches in a special issue dedicated to it. In addition, an overview paper will be published describing the challenge and summarizing the results.
Two closely coordinated groups (one from the USA and the other from Europe) are revisiting the Camp Century sub-ice sediment and the silty ice zone just above it using a wide variety of analytical techniques to make inferences about ice sheet behaviour, palaeo-climate, and palaeo-ecology as well as sediment transport and sourcing. The paper that kicked this off was in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 2 years ago: "A multi-million-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century" (Christ et al., 2021).
Talking among the 20+ lead investigators, we decided that the papers coming out of multiple, coordinated investigations of this historic (and still unique) ice core would be very useful to the broader community if they could be gathered into a special issue. Having these papers together would increase their impact and accessibility. Because of the wide variety of investigations being conducted on the core materials, a combined special issue including papers from both The Cryosphere and Climate of the Past will generate the most contributions and the largest readership.
Reference:
Christ, A. J., Bieman, P. R., Schaefer, J. M., Dahl-Jensen, D., Steffensen, J. P, Corbett, L. B., Peteet, D. M., Thomas, E. K., Steig, E. J., Rittenour, T. M., Tison, J.-L., Blard, P.-H., Perdrial, N., Dethier, D. P., Lini, A., Hidy, A. J., Caffee, M. W., and Southon, J.: A multi-million-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century, P. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 118, e2021442118, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2021442118, 2021.
2022
In October 2022 the 3rd Open Science Conference of the International Partnerships of Ice Core Sciences (IPICS) takes place in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, providing the opportunity to document the status quo of ice core research including comparative studies on other climate archives and climate models in this joint special issue of Climate of the Past and The Cryosphere: "Ice core science at the three poles".
Potential topics of contributions include the latest results from polar and high-altitude ice cores, integrative science on ice cores, climate models and other climate archives, new proxies, and other ice-core-related technology developments. In particular, we invite ice-core-related contributions on the following themes.
1. Glacial–interglacial dynamics, interglacials, and sea level
2. Holocene and the last 2000-year climate forcings and variability
3. Progress in proxy development and interpretation
4. Ice dynamics, ice sheet instability, and geophysics
5. High-alpine ice cores
6. Ice biology, basal ice, and subglacial lakes
7. Pollution records
8. Advances in drilling engineering and borehole observations
9. Timescales and methods for ice dating
10. Rapid changes and teleconnections
11. Biogeochemical cycles in the Earth system – data and models
12. New ice archives
13. The Oldest Ice challenge and the preservation of climatic signals in the deepest ice.