Glaziologie und Geophysik

Glaciology and Geophysics - Publications

Publications

In review or revision

  • A. Ooms et al. (incl. A. Zuhr), “Stratigraphic noise and post depositional effects in isotopic record of Antarctic firn: insights from a snow trench at Dome C”. Climate of the Past.
  • R. Schlegel, J. Noll, L. S. Muhle, C. T. Wild, F. M. Oraschewski, et al. (incl. R. Drews), “Evolution of basal terraces in the cold-cavity of Ekström Ice Shelf in East Antarctica”. The Cryosphere.
  • L. S. Muhle, G. Moss, R. Schlegel, et al. (incl. R. Drews), “Bayesian inference of depth-resolved radar attenuation rates and englacial temperatures”. Geophysical Research Letters.

Peer-reviewed

2026

  • K. Matsuoka et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2026, “Toward an Improved Understanding of the Antarctic Coastal Zone and Its Contribution to Future Global Sea Level”, Reviews of Geophysics, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022RG000803.
  • S. Franke et al. (incl. R. Drews, A. Zuhr), 2026, “Review Article: 30 Years of Airborne Radar Surveys on the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets by the Alfred Wegener Institute”, The Cryosphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2485-2026.
  • J. A. Bodart et al. (incl. A. M. Zuhr), 2026, “Radar Isochrones as Constraints on Paleo-Ice-Sheet Model Simulations in Two off-Divide Regions of East Antarctica”, The Cryosphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-1379-2026.
  • A. M. Zuhr et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2026, “Airborne radar reveals area-wide decadal increase of surface mass balance on the Plateau in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica”, Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL118985.

2025

  • G. Moss, L. S. Muhle, R. Drews, et al., 2025, “FNOPE: Simulation-based inference on function spaces with Fourier Neural Operators”, 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2505.22573.
  • D. Price et al. (incl. C. T. Wild), 2025, “Basal Reflectance and Melt Rates Across the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, From Grounding Line to Ice Shelf Front”, Journal of Glaciology, https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2025.10.
  • R. G. Bingham et al. (incl. R. Drews, A. C. J. Henry, F. M. Oraschewski, R. Schlegel, A. M. Zuhr), 2025, “Review article: AntArchitecture – building an age–depth model from Antarctica's radiostratigraphy to explore ice-sheet evolution”, The Cryosphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-4611-2025.
  • L. Borthwick et al. (incl. R. Schlegel), 2025, “Rift-Related Sedimentary Basin and Deeper-Seated Mafic Intrusions Modeled Beneath Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica: Influence on Glacier Dynamics”, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JB031716.
  • S. Franke et al. (incl. A. M. Zuhr), 2025, “Age–depth distribution in western Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, and Antarctic-wide comparisons of internal reflection horizons”, The Cryosphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-1153-2025.
  • A. C. J. Henry et al. (incl. V. Višnjević, R. Drews), 2025, “Predicting the Three-Dimensional Stratigraphy of an Ice Rise”, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JF007924.
  • A. C. J. Henry et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2025, “Modelling the Three-Dimensional, Diagnostic Fabric Anisotropy Field of an Ice Rise”, Journal of Glaciology, https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2025.14.
  • B. H. Hills et. al. (incl. R. Drews, M. R. Ershadi, F. M. Oraschewski), 2025, “Radar Polarimetry in Glaciology: Theory, Measurement Techniques, and Scientific Applications for Investigating the Anisotropy of Ice Masses”, Reviews of Geophysics, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024RG000842.
  • G. Moss et al. (incl. V. Višnjević, F. M. Oraschewski, R. Drews), 2025, “Simulation-Based Inference of Surface Accumulation and Basal Melt Rates of an Antarctic Ice Shelf from Isochronal Layers", Journal of Glaciology, https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2025.13.
  • F. M. Oraschewski, M. R. Ershadi, R. Drews, 2025, “Polarimetric Wide-Angle Radar Detects Competing Signatures of Ice Fabric and Structural Firn Anisotropy”, Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL113096.
  • H. D. Pritchard et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2025, “Bedmap3 Updated Ice Bed, Surface and Thickness Gridded Datasets for Antarctica”, Scientific Data, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04672-y.
  • R. Schlegel et al., 2025, “Subglacial Landscape Formation and Sediment Discharge: Relating Basal Conditions to Bedform Dimensions and Properties at Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica”, Boreas, https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.70002.
  • V. Višnjević et al. (incl. G. Moss, A. C. J. Henry, C. T. Wild, R. Drews), 2025, “Mapping the Composition of Antarctic Ice Shelves as a Metric for Their Susceptibility to Future Climate Change”, Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL112585.
  • C. T. Wild et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2025, “Monitoring Shear-Zone Weakening in East Antarctic Outlet Glaciers through Differential InSAR Measurements”, The Cryosphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-4533-2025.
  • O. Zeising et al. (incl. R. Drews, M. R. Ershadi), 2025, “Enhanced Basal Melting in Winter and Spring: Seasonal Ice--Ocean Interactions at the Ekström Ice Shelf, East Antarctica”, The Cryosphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-2837-2025.
  • Y. Zhou et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2025, “Reactivation of a Subglacial Channel Around the Grounding Zone of Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf, Antarctica”, Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL112476.
  • T. A. Scambos et al. (incl. C.T. Wild), 2025, “AMIGOS-3 multi-sensor stations and the climate, ice, and ocean conditions at Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf during 2020-2022”, Journal of Glaciology, https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2024.96.

2024

  • M. R. Ershadi et al. (incl. R. Drews, A. C. J. Henry, F. M. Oraschewski, I. Koch), 2024, “Investigating the Dynamic History of a Promontory Ice Rise Using Radar Data”, Journal of Glaciology, https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2024.70.
  • A. Wåhlin et al. (incl. C. T. Wild), 2024, “Swirls and scoops: Ice base melt revealed by multibeam imagery of an Antarctic ice shelf”, Science Advances, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adn9188
  • C. T. Wild et al., 2024, “Rift propagation signals the last act of the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf despite low basal melt rates”, Journal of Glaciology, https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2024.64.
  • M. R. Ershadi et al. (incl. R. Drews, I. Koch), 2024, “Autonomous Rover Enables Radar Profiling of Ice-Fabric Properties in Antarctica”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10516336.
  • K. E. Alley et al. (incl. C. T. Wild), 2024, “Evolution of sub-ice-shelf channels reveals changes in ocean-driven melt in West Antarctica”, Journal of Glaciology, https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2024.20.
  • The Firn Symposium team (incl. F. M. Oraschewski, R. Drews), 2024, “Firn on ice sheets”, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-023-00507-9.
  • I. Koch et al. (incl. R. Drews, F. Oraschewski, V. Višnjević, L. S. Muhle), 2023, “Radar internal reflection horizons from multisystem data re‑flect ice dynamic and surface accumulation history along the Princess Ragnhild Coast, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica”, Journal of Glaciology, https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2023.93.

2023

  • T. A. Gerber et al. (incl. M. R. Ershadi, R. Drews), 2023, “Crystal orientation fabric anisotropy causes directional hardening of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream”, Nature Communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38139-8.
  • D. A. Lilien et al. (incl. M. R. Ershadi, R. Drews), 2023, “Simulating higher-order fabric structure in a coupled, anisotropic ice-flow model: application to Dome C”, Journal of Glaciology, https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2023.78.
  • A. C. Frémand et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2023, “Antarctic Bedmap data: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) sharing of 60 years of ice bed, surface, and thickness data”, Earth System Science Data, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-2695-2023.

2022

2021

  • N. Neckel, S. Franke, V. Helm, R. Drews, and D. Jansen, 2021, “Evidence of cascading subglacial water flow at Jutulstraumen Glacier (Antarctica) derived from Sentinel-1 and ICESat-2 measurement”, Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094472.
  • R. Drews et al., 2021, “Grounding-zone flow variability of Priestley Glacier, Antarctica, in a diurnal tidal regime”, Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL093853.

2020

  • M. Schaller et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2020, “Comparison of soil characteristics from geophysical and geochemical techniques along a climate and ecological gradient, Chilean Coastal Cordillera (26° to 38° S)”, SOIL, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-629-2020.
  • C. Schannwell et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2020, “Quantifying the effect of ocean bed properties on ice sheet geometry over 40 000 years with a full-Stokes model”, The Cryosphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3917-2020.
  • R. Drews et al., 2020, “Atmospheric and oceanographic signatures in the ice-shelf channel morphology of Antarctic ice shelves”, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JF005587.
  • D. Dunmir et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2020, “Observations of buried lake drainage on the Antarctic Ice Sheet”, Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087970.
  • E. Smith et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2020, “Detailed seismic bathymetry beneath Ekstroem Ice Shelf, Antarctica: Implications for glacial history and ice-ocean interaction”, Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086187.
  • B. Hubbard et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2020, “High-resolution distributed vertical strain and velocity from repeat borehole logging by optical televiewer: Derwael Ice Rise, Antarctica”, Journal of Glaciology, https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2020.18.
  • S. Mohadjer et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2020, “Temporal variations in rockfall and rockwall retreat rates in a deglaciated valley over the last 11 ka”, Geology, https://doi.org/10.1130/G47092.1.

2019

  • M. Morlighem et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2019, “Deep glacial troughs and stabilizing ridges unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet”, Nature Geoscience, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0510-8.
  • C. Schannwell et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2019, “Kinematic response of ice-rise divides to changes in oceanic and atmospheric forcing”, The Cryosphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2673-2019.
  • S. Sun et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2019, “Topographic shelf waves control seasonal melting near Antarctic ice shelf grounding lines”, Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083881.

2018 and before

  • S. Berger et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2017, “Detecting high spatial variability of ice-shelf basal mass balance, Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf, Antarctica”, The Cryosphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2675-2017.
  • R. Drews et al., 2017, “Actively evolving subglacial conduits and eskers initiate ice shelf channels at an Antarctic grounding line”, Nature Communications,  https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15228.
  • J. T. M. Lenaerts et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2016, “Meltwater produced by wind–albedo interaction stored in an East Antarctic ice shelf”, Nature Climate Change, https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3180.
  • L. Favier et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2016, “Dynamic influence of pinning points on marine ice-sheet stability: a numerical study in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica”, The Cryosphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2623-2016.
  • M. Philippe et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2016, “Ice core evidence for a 20th century increase in surface mass balance in coastal Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica”, The Cryosphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2501-2016.
  • D. Callens et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2016, “Temporally stable surface mass balance asymmetry across an ice rise derived from radar internal reflection horizons through inverse modelling”, Journal of Glaciology, https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2016.41.
  • R. Drews et al., 2016, “Constraining variable density of ice shelves using wide-angle radar measurements”, The Cryosphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-811-2016.
  • S. Berger et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2016, “The control of an uncharted pinning point on the flow of an Antarctic ice shelf”, Journal of Glaciology, https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2016.7.
  • K. Matsuoka et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2015, “Antarctic ice rises and rumples: their properties and significance for ice-sheet dynamics and evolution”, Earth Science Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.09.004.
  • R. Drews, 2015, “Evolution of ice-shelf channels in Antarctic ice shelves”, The Cryosphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-1169-2015.
  • R. Drews et al., 2015, “Evolution of Derwael Ice Rise in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, over the last millennia”, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JF003246.
  • J. T. M. Lenaerts et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2014, “High variability of climate and surface mass balance induced by Antarctic ice rises”, Journal of Glaciology, https://doi.org/10.3189/2014JoG14J040.
  • R. Drews et al., 2013, “Characterization of glaciological conditions at Halvfarryggen ice dome, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica”, Journal of Glaciology, https://doi.org/10.3189/2013JoG12J134.
  • N. Neckel et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2012, “Basal melting at the Ekström Ice Shelf mapped by SAR interferometry using the mass continuity assumption”, Annals of Glaciology, https://doi.org/10.3189/2012AoG60A167.
  • R. Drews et al., 2012, “Potential mechanisms for anisotropy in ice-penetrating radar data”, Journal of Glaciology, https://doi.org/10.3189/2012JoG11J114.
  • R. Bindschadler et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2011, “Getting around Antarctica: new high-resolution mappings of the grounded and freely-floating boundaries of the Antarctic ice sheet created for the International Polar Year”, The Cryosphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-5-569-2011.
  • B. Drews et al. (incl. R. Drews), 2010, “Ultrasonographic Monitoring of Fetal Development in Unrestrained Bonobos (Pan paniscus) at the Milwaukee County Zoo”, Zoo Biology, https://doi.org/10.1002/zoo.20304.
  • R. Drews et al., 2009, “Layer disturbances and the radio-echo free zone in ice sheets”, The Cryosphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-3-195-2009.
  • R. Drews et al., 2009, “A Spatially Adjusted Elevation Model in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, based on Differential SAR Interferometry”, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing, https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2009.2016081.