Most of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are covered with firn—the transitional
material between snow and glacial ice. Firn is vital for understanding ice-sheet mass …

Antarctic supraglacial lakes (SGLs) have been linked to ice shelf collapse and the
subsequent acceleration of inland ice flow, but observations of SGLs remain relatively …

The Greenland Ice Sheet's (GrIS) firn layer buffers the ice sheet's contribution to sea level
rise by storing meltwater in its pore space. However, available pore space and meltwater …

Conversion of altimetry-derived ice-sheet volume change to mass requires an
understanding of the evolution of the combined ice and air content within the firn column. In …

Most of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are covered with firn—the transitional
material between snow and glacial ice. Firn is vital for understanding ice-sheet mass …

Mass balance assessments of the East Antarctic ice sheet (EAIS) are highly sensitive to
changes in firn thickness, causing substantial disagreement in estimates of its contribution to …

Quantifying the mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS), and the resulting sea level
rise, requires an understanding of inter-annual variability and associated causal …

Earth system models account for seasonal snow cover, but many do not accommodate the
deeper snowpack on ice sheets (aka firn) that slowly transforms to ice under accumulating …

This paper presents a physics-based macroscale model for the densification of dry snow
which provides for a smooth transition between densification by grain-boundary sliding …

Simulation approaches to firn densification often rely on the assumption that grain boundary
sliding is the leading process driving the first stage of densification. first developed a process …