Glaciology and Geophysics - Publications

Publications

In review or revision

  • R. Schlegel, J. Noll, L. S. Muhle, C. T. Wild, F. M. Oraschewski, (incl. R. Drews) et al., “Evolution of basal terraces in the cold-cavity of Ekström Ice Shelf in East Antarctica”. The Cryosphere.
  • L. S. Muhle, G. Moss, R. Schlegel, (incl. R. Drews) et al., “Bayesian inference of depth-resolved radar attenuation rates and englacial temperatures”. Geophysical Research Letters.
  • C. T. Wild, et al., “A Tale of Two Ice Shelves: Competing Glacial Dynamics During the Unpinning of the Dotson-Crosson Ice Shelf System, West Antarctica”. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface.
  • C. T. Wild, et al., “Variability in Antarctic Ice Shelf Basal Melting Due to Finescale Topography, Tides, and Meltwater Plume Regulation”. Science Advances.
  • G. Collao-Barrios, (incl. C. T. Wild) et al., “Tidal Influence on Flow Dynamics of Dotson Ice Shelf, West Antarctica”. The Cryosphere. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2024-1895.

Peer-reviewed

2026

  • S. Franke, (incl. R. Drews, A. Zuhr) et al., 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, (incl. A. M. Zuhr) et al., 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, (incl. R. Drews) et al., 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, (incl. C. T. Wild) et al., 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, (incl. R. Drews, A. C. J. Henry, F. M. Oraschewski, R. Schlegel, A. M. Zuhr) et al., 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, (incl. R. Schlegel) et al., 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, (incl. A. M. Zuhr) et al., 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, (incl. V. Višnjević, R. Drews) et al., 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, (incl. R. Drews) et al., 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, (incl. R. Drews, M. R. Ershadi, F. M. Oraschewski) et. al., 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, (incl. V. Višnjević, F. M. Oraschewski, R. Drews) et al., 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, (incl. R. Drews) et al., 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, (incl. G. Moss, A. C. J. Henry, C. T. Wild, R. Drews) et al., 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, (incl. R. Drews) et al., 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, (incl. R. Drews, M. R. Ershadi) et al., 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, (incl. R. Drews) et al., 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, (incl. C.T. Wild) et al., 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, (incl. R. Drews, A. C. J. Henry, F. M. Oraschewski, I. Koch) et al., 2024, “Investigating the Dynamic History of a Promontory Ice Rise Using Radar Data”, Journal of Glaciology, https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2024.70.
  • Wåhlin, A., (incl. C.T. Wild) et al., 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, (incl. R. Drews, I. Koch) et al., 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, (incl. C.T. Wild) et al., 2024, “Evolution of sub-ice-shelf channels reveals changes in ocean-driven melt in West Antarctica”, Journal of Glaciology, pp.1-15, https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2024.20.
  • The Firn Symposium team (incl. F.M. Oraschewski, R. Drews), 2024, “Firn on ice sheets”, Nat Rev Earth Environ 5, 79–99, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-023-00507-9.
  • I. Koch, (incl. R. Drews, F. Oraschewski, V. Višnjević, L.S. Muhle) et al., 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, 1-19, https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2023.93.

2023

  • T.A. Gerber, (incl. R. Drews) et al., 2023, “Crystal orientation fabric anisotropy causes directional hardening of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream”, Nat Commun 14, 2653, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38139-8.
  • D. A. Lilien, (incl. M.R. Ershadi, R. Drews) et al., 2023, “Simulating higher-order fabric structure in a coupled, anisotropic ice-flow model: application to Dome C”, Journal of Glaciology, pp. 1–20, https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2023.78.
  • A.C. Frémand, (incl. R. Drews) et al.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

  • V. Visnjevic, et al., 2022, “Predicting the steady-state isochronal stratigraphy of ice shelves using observations and modeling”,  The Cryosphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-4763-2022.
  • F.M. Oraschewski, and A. Grinsted, 2022, “Modeling enhanced firn densification due to strain softening”, The Cryosphere  16, 2683–2700, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-2683-2022.
  • A.C.J. Henry, R. Drews, C. Schannwell, and V. Višnjević, 2022, “Hysteretic evolution of ice rises and ice rumples in response to variations in sea level”, The Cryosphere, 16, 3889–3905, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3889-2022.
  • A. Oetting, (incl. R. Drews) et al., 2022,“Geomorphology and shallow sub-sea-floor structures underneath the Ekström Ice Shelf, Antarctica”, The Cryosphere, 16, 2051–2066, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-2051-2022.
  • O. Zeising, (incl. M.R. Ershadi) et al., 2023, “Improved estimation of the bulk ice crystal fabric asymmetry from polarimetric phase co-registration”, The Cryosphere, 17, 1097–1105, https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/17/1097/2023/.
  • M.R. Ershadi, (incl. R. Drews) et al., 2022, “Polarimetric radar reveals the spatial distribution of ice fabric at domes and divides in East Antarctic”, The Cryosphere, 16, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1719-2022.

2021

2020

  • M. Schaller, (incl. R. Drews) et al., 2020, “Comparison of soil characteristics from geophysical and geochemical techniques along a climate and ecological gradient, Chilean Coastal Cordillera (26° to 38° S)”,  SOIL, 6, 629–647, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-629-2020.
  • C. Schannwell, (incl. R. Drews) et al., 2020, “Quantifying the effect of ocean bed properties on ice sheet geometry over 40 000 years with a full-Stokes model”, The Cryosphere, 14, 3917–3934, 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, (incl. R. Drews) et al., 2020, “Observations of buried lake drainage on the Antarctic Ice Sheet”, Geophys. Res. Lett, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087970.
  • E. Smith, (incl. R. Drews) et al., 2020, “Detailed seismic bathymetry beneath Ekstroem Ice Shelf, Antarctica: Implications for glacial history and ice-ocean interaction”, Gephysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086187.
  • B. Hubbard, (incl. R. Drews) et al., 2020, “High resolution 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, (incl. R. Drews) et al., 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

2018

  • S. Berger, (incl. R. Drews) et al., 2017, “Detecting high spatial variability of ice-shelf basal mass balance, Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf, Antarctica”, The Cryosphere, 11, 2675–2690, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2675-2017.

2017 and before