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eISSN: TC 1994-0424, TCD 1994-0440
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The main subject areas are ice sheets and glaciers, permafrost, river and lake ice, seasonal snow cover, and sea ice, including remote sensing, numerical modeling, in situ, and laboratory approaches, and studies of the interaction of the cryosphere with the Earth system. Manuscripts with a focus on cryospheric research that include perspectives from social science, humanities, and other disciplines outside the natural sciences are also welcome.
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13 Feb 2026
Exploring the conditions conducive to convection within the Greenland Ice Sheet
Convection has been previously, yet contentiously, suggested for ice sheets, but never before comprehensively explored using numerical models. The authors use mantle dynamics code to test the hypothesis that convection gives rise to enigmatic plume-like features observed in radio-stratigraphy observations of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Please read more. 
13 Feb 2026
Exploring the conditions conducive to convection within the Greenland Ice Sheet
Convection has been previously, yet contentiously, suggested for ice sheets, but never before comprehensively explored using numerical models. The authors use mantle dynamics code to test the hypothesis that convection gives rise to enigmatic plume-like features observed in radio-stratigraphy observations of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Please read more.
23 Mar 2026
Glacier surge activity over Svalbard from 1992 to 2025 interpreted using heritage satellite radar missions and Sentinel-1
Tazio Strozzi, Erik Schytt Mannerfelt, Oliver Cartus, Maurizio Santoro, Thomas Schellenberger, and Andreas Kääb
The Cryosphere, 20, 1679–1697, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-1679-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-1679-2026, 2026
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20 Mar 2026
Distinct Phototrophic Community Structure on a Central Asian Glacier: Predominance of Filamentous Cyanobacteria and Absence of Glacier Algae (Ancylonema spp.)
Yunjie Chen, Nozomu Takeuchi, Sota Tanaka, Saifei Li, Weizhen Zhang, Xingyu Huang, and Zhongqin Li
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1281,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1281, 2026
Preprint under review for TC (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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11 Feb 2026
Water vapour isotope anomalies during an atmospheric river event at Dome C, East Antarctica
Niels Dutrievoz, Cécile Agosta, Cécile Davrinche, Amaëlle Landais, Sebastien Nguyen, Étienne Vignon, Inès Ollivier, Christophe Leroy-Dos Santos, Elise Fourré, Mathieu Casado, Jonathan Wille, Vincent Favier, Bénédicte Minster, and Frédéric Prié
The Cryosphere, 20, 1025–1046, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-1025-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-1025-2026, 2026
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21 Jan 2026
Inferring the ice sheet sliding law from seismic observations: A Pine Island Glacier case study
Kevin Hank, Robert J. Arthern, C. Rosie Williams, Alex M. Brisbourne, Andrew M. Smith, James A. Smith, Anna Wåhlin, and Sridhar Anandakrishnan
The Cryosphere, 20, 495–510, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-495-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-495-2026, 2026
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18 Nov 2025
Recent history and future demise of Jostedalsbreen, the largest ice cap in mainland Europe
Henning Åkesson, Kamilla Hauknes Sjursen, Thomas Vikhamar Schuler, Thorben Dunse, Liss Marie Andreassen, Mette Kusk Gillespie, Benjamin Aubrey Robson, Thomas Schellenberger, and Jacob Clement Yde
The Cryosphere, 19, 5871–5902, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-5871-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-5871-2025, 2025
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