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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2026-2598</article-id>
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<article-title>A basin-scale mapping method for crevasse depth using ICESat-2: a case study on Greenland&apos;s Sermeq Kujalleq (Jakobshavn Isbr&amp;aelig;)</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Chang</surname>
<given-names>Ruijie</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Lu</surname>
<given-names>Xi</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Huang</surname>
<given-names>Ronggang</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Sole</surname>
<given-names>Andrew J.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5290-8967</ext-link>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Livingstone</surname>
<given-names>Stephen J.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7240-5037</ext-link>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Dong</surname>
<given-names>Zhen</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0152-3300</ext-link>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Jiang</surname>
<given-names>Liming</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1127-9823</ext-link>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wang</surname>
<given-names>Hansheng</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Yang</surname>
<given-names>Bisheng</given-names>
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<addr-line>State Key Laboratory of Precision Geodesy, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China</addr-line>
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<addr-line>School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9AL, UK</addr-line>
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<addr-line>School of Geography and Planning, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK</addr-line>
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<addr-line>State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China</addr-line>
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<addr-line>College of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>20</day>
<month>05</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>33</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Ruijie Chang et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Surface crevasses across the Greenland Ice Sheet remain a major source of uncertainty in understanding mass loss processes, including calving, ice flow, and meltwater routing. Most previous studies have primarily focused on the two-dimensional characteristics of surface crevasses on the Greenland Ice Sheet, measurement of crevasse depth, especially from catchment to ice-sheet scale, is limited, thereby limiting our ability to quantify their impact on ice-sheet stability and surface hydrology. The ICESat-2 ATL03 data (0.7 m resolution) provide an unprecedented opportunity to measure crevasse depths, yet large-scale applications are hindered by challenges such as massive data volume and noises. Here, we develop an automated and efficient ICESat-2 method for crevasse depth estimation that rapidly identifies crevassed regions using a novel roughness index, retrieves signal photons via a similarity-based weighted density approach, and extracts crevasses for depth estimation using a local extrema method. A total of 18,775 crevasse locations were detected from 2,286 beams on Sermeq Kujalleq in 2019. The average crevasse depth is 7.20 &amp;plusmn; 0.03 m, with depth maxima occurring at approximately 20 km and 10 km inland in the south and north ice streams, respectively.&amp;nbsp;Crevasses in the northern ice stream are mainly distributed below 600 m a.s.l, whereas those in the southern ice stream predominantly occur below 900 m a.s.l. Compared to IceBridge ATM data, the RMSE of crevasse depths estimated from the ATL03 product is 0.97&amp;nbsp;m, 5.30 m lower than that from ATL06.&amp;nbsp;In addition, ATL03-derived depths are approximately 28% and 30% deeper than those from ATL06 and ArcticDEM. This study enables metre-scale crevasses to be incorporated into large-scale analyses of ice dynamics and calving, and highlights the potential of ICESat-2 for large-scale crevasse depth estimation, providing valuable insights for global crevasse mapping.</p>
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