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Virtual learning environments (VLEs) in physical geography education offer significant potential to aid students in acquiring the essential skills for the environmental interpretation of glacial and periglacial environments for geoscience careers. Si...

We conducted an experiment comparing wind speeds and aerodynamic roughness length (z₀) values over three snow surface conditions, including a flat smooth surface, a wavy smooth surface, and a wavy surface with fresh snow added, using the wind simulat...

The issues that ice and snow scholars are defining and addressing are becoming more urgent, coupled with the increasing scope of such issues [...]

Sediment transport in alluvial channels has a long history of intensive research. River ice could affect sediment transport and channel morphology through the impact of various dynamic and thermal ice processes. However, studies on sediment transport...

The Earth has cooled since the early Pliocene, which was punctuated by accelerated cooling indicative of thresholds. I posit that the cooling was initiated when the Neogene uplift of the Tibetan highland caused it to ice over, augmenting the albedo....

Snow construction plays a crucial role in military operations in cold regions, providing tactical fortifications, thermal insulation, and emergency infrastructure in environments where conventional building materials are scarce or require extensive i...

Accurate assessment of compacted snow strength is critical for ensuring the safety and performance of snow runways in cold environments. The Russian Snow Penetrometer (RSP) is widely used in snow science and engineering due to its simplicity, portabi...

Supraglacial melt-lakes form and evolve along the western edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet and have proven to play a significant role in ice sheet surface hydrology and mass balance. Prior methods to quantify melt-lake volume have relied upon Landsat-...

In Antarctica, SAR interferometry has largely been used in coastal glacial areas, while in rare cases this method has been used on the Antarctic plateau. In this paper, the authors present a digital elevation and ice flow map based on SAR interferome...

The Cenozoic glaciation of Antarctica proceeded through two distinct steps around 35 and 15 million years ago. The first icing was attributed to thermal isolation due to the opening of the Drake/Tasman passages and the development of the Antarctic ci...

Fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) technology can monitor vibrational strain of vast areas with fine spatial resolution at high sampling rates. The fiber optic cable portion of DAS may directly monitor, measure, and map potentially unsafe...

Understanding the effect of cracks on ice shelf vibrations is crucial for assessing their structural integrity, predicting possible breakup events, and understanding their interactions with the surrounding environment. In this work, a novel approach...

As 2026 began, it was the middle of winter in much of the northern hemisphere [...]

A previous analysis of Antarctic acoustic data relevant to quantifying frazil contributions to sea ice accretion is reconsidered to address inconsistencies with river frazil results acquired with similar instrumentation but augmented to suppress inst...

This study assesses the impact of climate change and glacier retreat on river runoff in the high-altitude Terek River Basin using the physically based ECOMAG hydrological model. Sensitivity experiments examined the influence of glaciation, precipitat...

Glacial lakes in the Upper Indus Basin (UIB) are rapidly evolving due to accelerated glacier retreat driven by climate change. Here we present a comprehensive inventory of glacial lakes using Sentinel-1 SAR data with adaptive backscatter thresholding...

With ongoing climate transformations, reliable Arctic sea ice forecasts are essential for understanding impacts on shipping, ecosystems, and climate teleconnections. This research examines physics-free neural architectures versus physics-informed sta...

Glaciers and glacierets of the Kuznetsky Alatau Mountains are distributed at altitudes of 1200–1500 m above sea level, which is not typical for continental areas. The main factor contributing to the persistence of glaciation here is abundant wi...

Convection associated with the leading mode of subseasonal variability of the tropical atmosphere, the Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO), can excite Rossby wave trains that extend well into the extratropics and allow the MJO to modulate many comp...

In this study, we look for a relationship between the lack of drawdown dolines and the karren formation taking place on the bare surfaces of glaciokarsts. Along the profiles, the specific width and density of the most common karren such as rinnenkarr...

Glacies means “the ice” in Latin [...]

The icy satellites of the outer Solar System show surfaces strongly deformed by tectonic activity, which mostly shows wide strike-slip zones. The structural pattern recognized on such regions can be ascribed to the deformation observed on terrestrial...

Morphological problems for distinguishing between glacier ice, glacier ice with a debris cover (debris-covered glaciers), and rock glaciers are outlined with respect to recognising and mapping these features. Decimal latitude–longitude [dLL] va...

Knowledge of surface water extent is critical for ecological and disaster monitoring. However, surface water extraction from optical satellite imagery is challenging due to the impact of weather. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) can penetrate cloud cov...

Accurately quantifying the threat of collapse due to the weight of settled snow on the roof of a structure is crucial for ensuring structural safety. This quantification relies upon direct measurements of the snow water equivalent (SWE) of settled sn...

Introductory environmental science courses offer non-STEM students an entry point to address global challenges such as climate change and cryosphere preservation. Aligned with the International Year of Glacier Preservation and the Decade of Action fo...

Understanding short-term glacier motion is vital for assessing ice sheet dynamics in a warming climate. This study investigates the tidal and diurnal influences on the flow of Helheim Glacier, one of Greenland’s fastest-flowing marine-terminati...