About Glacies

Aims

Glacies (ISSN 2813-8740) is an open-access journal of scientific research on ice, published quarterly online by MDPI. Our aim is to provide an advanced forum for the research of natural, artificial, and extraterrestrial ice and snow, as well as interactions between ice, snow, and the atmospheric, oceanic, and land environment. Glacies publishes original research articles and reviews, as well as Special Issues on particular subjects.

The aim of Glacies is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. Therefore, the journal has no restrictions regarding the maximum length of papers. Full experimental details should be provided so that the results can be reproduced.

Scope

The scope of Glacies encompasses any investigation of ice and snow that includes monitoring, measurement, modelling, and remote sensing of snow and/or ice in any location, plus any educational activity related to, and the human impact of and on, ice and snow. It comprises the following research areas:

• Ice as a mineral: theoretical and applied physics and chemistry of ice; crystal formation; frost; freezing; melting; sublimation.
• Atmospheric ice: cloud processes; ice crystal formation; snow crystals; riming; precipitation; virga; radar bright band; snowflakes.
• Sea ice: sea water ice; pack ice; land fast ice; ice ridges; first-year ice; multi-year ice; ocean–ice interactions; melt ponds; leads and polynyas.
• Freshwater ice: lake ice; river ice; ice jams; ice roads; aufeis/naleds; ice floes; anchor ice; frazil ice.
• Ice sheets, ice caps and ice shelves: ice mass balance; chemistry; continental glaciers; climate change; iceberg formation and movement.
• Glaciology: glacier mass balance; glacier lakes; erosion; glaciokarsts; firn; equilibrium-line altitude; crevasses; calving, ice flow; glacier lake outburst flood/jökulhlaup; permanent snow fields.
• Permafrost and frozen ground: soil and ground frost; active layer; isolated, sporadic, discontinuous and continuous permafrost; frost heave; ice wedges; pingos; thermokarst; frost creep; cryolithology, cryosols.
• Snow hydrology: snowpack processes; spatio-temporal variability and uncertainty; geochemistry; fire and snow; snow drought; lateral flow; meltwater–soil interactions; streamflow generation.
• Paleo ice investigations: paleoglaciology; paleoclimatology; reconstructions.
• Ice and snow related hazards: periglacial activity; blowing snow; snow fences; avalanches; human travel; deicing; vehicle movement over ice and snow.
• Ice engineering: buildings in the polar zones; bridge construction; viaduct construction; coastal protection.
• Snow ecosystems: animal habitat and movement; sub-nivean space; insulation; snow algae; alpine and tundra plants.

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Glacies will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

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