Publications, data products, and libraries supported by CryoCloud

Publications and reports¶

Windle, A., Carroll, I., Poulin, C., Caplan, S., Werdell, J. (submitted). The PACE Data Hackweek launches a new wave of open science: how we did it (twice), and why, Oceanography.

Smith, M. M., Cardinale, C. J., Petty, A. A., & Niehaus, H. (in review). Regional Biases in Arctic Melt Ponds Between CMIP6 Models and Satellite Observations. doi: Smith et al. (2026)

Sauthoff, W., Siegfried, M. R., Venturelli, R. A., & Smith, B. E. (2026). Dynamic boundaries of Antarctic active subglacial lakes reveal underestimated water volume change and overestimated lakebed active area. Geophysical Research Letters, 53(2), e2025GL117121. doi: Sauthoff et al. (2026)

Gray, P. C., Demeaux, C. B., Chase, A., Frouin, R. J., & Boss, E. (in review). Training-domain gaps in data-driven ocean color algorithms. Geophysical Research Letters. doi: 10.22541/essoar.177195242.29468352/v1

Scheick, J., Barrett,A., Fair, Z., Katz, Z., Lopez, L., Neeley, A., Roberts, C., Smith, B., Snow, T., Wegener, R., Arendt, A. (submitted). Ten Simple Rules to Increase the Usability of Earth Observation Mission Datasets, Earth Science Informatics.

Howard, S., Katz, Z., Padman, L., Siegfried, M., Abrahams, E., Snow, T. (in review). SWOT High-Rate Raster Data Reveals Antarctic Ice Shelf Motion and Change in Response to Ocean and Ice Dynamics. Geophysical Research Letters.

Snow, T., Holdgraf, C., Sauthoff, W., Scheick, J., Abrahams, E., Millstein, J., Bhangar, S., Boettiger, C., Colliander, J., Lopez Espinosa, L. A., Holmes, E., Kennedy, J.H., Lowndes, J. S., Mandel, A. I., Yuvi, Pérez, F., Swinski, J.P., Teucher, A., Siegfried, M.R. (accepted). A path to better science through co-creation and open infrastructure. Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists.

Ganz, K., van Wagtendonk, L., Khatri-Chhetri, P., & Moskal, M. (in review). Spatially explicit forest mortality forecasts are driven by autocorrelation, not ecological context. bioRxiv, 2025-11. doi: Ganz et al. (2025)

Snow, T., Harris, A., Glassup, F., Grigsby, S., Abrahams, E., Savidge, E., Scambos, T., Lee, S., Pérez, F., Shuman, C., Abdalati, W., Siegfried, M.R. (in review). High-resolution Antarctic sea surface temperatures from Landsat enabled by cloud-native processing and novel seal-tag validation. Remote Sensing of Environment. doi: Snow et al. (2026)

Landy, J. C., C. de Rijke-Thomas, C. Nab, I. Lawrence, I. A. Glissenaar, R. D. C. Mallett, R. M. F. Hansen, A. Petty, M. C. Tsamados, A. R. Macfarlane, A. Braakmann-Folgmann, (2026). Anticipating CRISTAL: an exploration of multi-frequency satellite altimeter snow depth estimates over Arctic sea ice, The Cryosphere, 20(1), 183-208, doi: Landy et al. (2026).

Petty, A., Cardinale, C., Smith, M. (2025). Constraining CMIP6 sea ice simulations with ICESat-2, Geoscientific Model Development (GMD) 18, 6313–6340, doi: Petty et al. (2025), .

Liu, W. M. C. Tsamados, A. Petty, T. Jin, W. Chen, J. Stroeve, (2025), Enhanced Sea Ice Classification for ICESat-2 Using Combined Unsupervised and Supervised Machine Learning, Remote Sensing of Environment, 318, 114607, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2025.114607.

Wild, C., Snow, T., Dotto, T., Davis, P., Tyler, S., Scambos, T., Pettit, E., Heywood, K. (2025). Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf cavity observations reveal multiyear sea ice dynamics and deepwater warming in Pine Island Bay, West Antarctica. Ocean Science, 21(5), 2605-2629. doi: Wild et al. (2025)

Abrahams, E., McKenzie, M., Pérez, F., & Venturelli, R. (2025). Automatic identification of streamlined subglacial bedforms using machine learning: An open‐source Python approach. Boreas, 54(4), 488-505. Abrahams et al. (2024)

Fair, Z., Vuyovich, C., Neumann, T.A., Larsen, C.F., Stuefer, S.L., Mason, M., May, L. (2025). Characterizing ICESat‐2 snow depths over the boreal forests and tundra of Alaska in support of the SnowEx 2023 campaign. Water Resources Research, 61(12), e2024WR039076. doi: Fair et al. (2025)

Brencher, G., Henderson, S., and Shean, D. (2026). Quantifying degradation of the Imja Lake moraine dam with fused InSAR and SAR feature tracking time series. The Cryosphere, 20(1), 67-86. doi: Brencher et al. (2026)

Freer, B., Marsh, O., Fricker, H., Hogg, A., Siegfried, M., Floricioiu, D., Sauthoff, W., Rigby, R., Wilson, S. (2024) Coincident lake drainage and grounding line retreat at Engelhardt Subglacial Lake, West Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 129(9), e2024JF007724. doi: Freer et al. (2024)

Wåhlin, A., Alley, K.E., Begeman, C., Hegrenæs, Ø., Yuan, X., Graham, A.G.C., Hogan, K., Davis, P.E.D., Dotto, T. S., Eayrs, C., Hall, RA., Holland, D., Kim, T.W., Larter, R., Ling, L., Muto, A., Pettit, E.C., Schmidt, B.E., Snow, T., Stedt, F., Washam, P. M., Wahlgren, S., Wild, C., Wellner, J., Zheng, Y., Heywood, K.J. (2024). Swirls and scoops: Ice base melt revealed by multibeam imagery of an Antarctic ice shelf, Science Advances, 10(31). Wåhlin et al. (2024)

Abrahams, E., Snow, T., Pérez, F., Siegfried, M. R. (2024). A Concise Augmentation Strategy for Preserving Spatial Context in Tiled Imagery for Earth Observation, Machine Learning for Remote Sensing Workshop {ML4RS} at The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations, {ICLR} 2024, Vienna, Austria, May 7-11, 2024. arXiv:2404.10927

Savidge, E., Snow, T., Siegfried, M. R. (2023). Multi-decadal Record of Sensible-Heat Polynya Variability from Satellite Optical and Thermal Imagery at Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica, Geophysical Research Letters. Savidge et al. (2023)

Savidge, E., Snow, T., Siegfried, M. R., Zheng, Y., Bôas, A., Bortolotto, G. A., Boehme, L., Alley, K. E. (2023). Wintertime Polynya Structure and Variability at Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica, from Thermal Remote Sensing and Seal-borne Observations, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. Savidge et al. (2023) Analysis code: Savidge et al. (2023)

Snow, T., Zhang, W., Schreiber, E., Siegfried, M., Abdalati, W., Scambos, T. (2023). Alongshore winds force warm Atlantic Water toward Helheim Glacier in southeast Greenland, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128 (9). Snow et al. (2023)

Millstein, J., Snow, T., Sauthoff, W., Scheick, J., & Siegfried, M. (2023). CryoCloud: Accelerating Discovery for NASA Cryosphere Communities with Open-Cloud Infrastructure (NASA Request for Information). Zenodo. Millstein et al. (2023)

Chu, W., Bartholomaus, T., MacGregor, J., Morlighem, M., & Walden, V. (2023). Report on the 2023 Future of Greenland ice Sheet Science (FOGSS) Workshop: Unifying Themes, Cross-Cutting Priorities, and Future Directions.

Media¶

Snow, T. M. (2026, February 13). Scaling Earth System Science: Open data and CryoCloud. In The Data Science Education Podcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scaling-earth-system-science-open-data-and-cryocloud/id1728389464?i=1000749622495

Sauthoff, W., T. Snow, J. D. Millstein, J. Colliander, and M. R. Siegfried (2024), Democratizing science in the cloud, Eos, 105, Sauthoff et al. (2024).

Wong, J. (2024). “Keeping PACE with GPU enabled compute to detect global cloud cover using satellite data.” 2i2c Blog, https://2i2c.org/blog/2024/pace-hackweek.

Fisher, M., Stafford, T. (2019) “Desktop GIS Software in the Cloud with JupyterHub.” Jupyter Blog, https://blog.jupyter.org/desktop-gis-software-in-the-cloud-with-jupyterhub-ddced297019a.

Data products¶

Verboncoeur, H., Siegfried, M., Holschuh, N., Winberry, P., Byrne, D., Sauthoff, W., Sutterley, T., & Medley, B. (2024). Crary Ice Rise region dh/dt estimates [Data set]. In Journal of Glaciology. Zenodo. Verboncoeur et al. (2024)

Sauthoff, W., & Siegfried, M. R. (2025). Subglacial Hydropotential of Antarctica (v1.0-data) [Data set]. Zenodo. Sauthoff & Siegfried (2025)

Kurtz, N., Martino, A. J. & Pingel, A. (2026). ATLAS/ICESat-2 ATL02 Linear Impulse Response. (ATL02_ANC_LIR, Version 1). [Data Set]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. Martino & Pingel (2026)

Sauthoff, W., & Siegfried, M. R. (2025). wsauthoff/Sauthoff-2025-GRL: Code and Data for “Dynamic Boundaries of Antarctic Active Subglacial Lakes Reveal Underestimated Water Volume Change and Overestimated Lakebed Active Area” (v1.0). Zenodo. Wilson Sauthoff & Siegfried (2025)

Sauthoff, W., & Freer, B. (2024). Subglacial water flow paths beneath Whillans Ice Plain, West Antarctica (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. Sauthoff & Freer (2024)

Open source libraries¶

xarray-sweep from Jonny Kingslake to help in running ensembles of models or data analysis tasks with xarray.

icepyx from Jessica Scheick and others - Python tools for obtaining and working with ICESat-2 data

bedfinder from Marion Mackenzie and Ellianna Abrahams - Python library for the Automatic Detection of Glacially-derived Bedforms

earthaccess from Luis Lopez and others - Python library to search for, and download or stream NASA Earth science data with just a few lines of code

FlipNSlide from Ellianna Abrahams and others - Python library that improves image tiling and augmentation for geospatial machine learning applications

SlideRule and sliderule-python from David Shean, JP Soinski and others - Python client and notebooks that make it easier to interact with SlideRule Earth on-demand data

ITS_LIVE-Downloader-Tracker from Victor Devaux-Chupin and others - a Python library for a ITS_LIVE datacube downloader & tracker/strains calculator

Jupyter-GIS by Matthew Fisher and others - A Python JupyterLab extension for collaborative GIS

QGreenland by Twila Moon and others - A free QGIS mapping tool that combines key datasets into a unified, all-in-one GIS analysis and visualization environment for offline and online use.