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Polish Polar Research

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The quarterly Polish Polar Research edited by the Committee on Polar Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences is an international journal publishing original research articles presenting the results of studies carried out in polar regions.

All papers are peer-reviewed and published in English.

The Editorial Advisory Board includes renowned scientist from Poland and from abroad.

Polish Polar Research is indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded, Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, Cold Regions Bibliography, Antarctic Literature, Geological Abstracts, Polish Scientific Journals Contents - Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Quarterly Review, and Zoological Record.

Journal Metrics:
Impact Factor 2022: 1.3
CiteScore metrics from Scopus 2022: 2.4
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) 2022: 0.288
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2022: 0.512

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Dendrochronology in Cold Regions

Magdalena Opała-Owczarek (Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland) and Piotr Owczarek (Alfred Jahn Cold Regions Research Centre, University of Wroclaw, Poland) are serving as Guest Editors for this issue.

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It has been almost 100 years since the first pioneering dendrochronological research by Endrew E. Douglass and the establishment of the world's first dendrochronology laboratory at the University of Arizona (1937). Dendrochronological research has been carried out mainly in the temperate zone and has been directed towards various scientific fields: climatology, ecology, geomorphology, archaeology and several others. In the Arctic and high-mountain regions, however, dendrochronological research is limited by the lack of trees. The only woody plants are shrubs and dwarf shrubs. The enormous potential of these plants for multidisciplinary environmental research was only recognised about three decades ago. The first Polish dendrochronological studies of dwarf shrubs were started in 2007 in the vicinity of the Stanislaw Baranowski Polar Station of the University of Wroclaw and the Polish Polar Station in the Hornsund in southern Spitsbergen. The number of publications in the field of polar and alpine dendrochronology has increased rapidly in recent years, but many research problems remain unsolved.

The main goal of this thematic collection is to present new results of dendrochronological research conducted in the Arctic and high-mountain areas from different parts of the world and across the hierarchy from regional to global. Original results and reviews in the broad field of Earth sciences, where dendrochronology based on Arctic, subalpine and alpine plant analysis is the main research method, are welcome.

The submission deadline will be 30th October 2025. For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (https://journals.pan.pl/ppr/).

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us: magdalena.opala@us.edu.pl, piotr.owczarek@uwr.edu.pl.

Invitation (click here): Special Issue PPR Dendrochronology of Cold Regions

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ISSN

ISSN 0138-0338, eISSN 2081-8262

Publishers

Polish Academy of Sciences, Committee on Polar Research

Editorial Advisory Board

Robert BIALIK (Warszawa, Poland)

Magda BŁAŻEWICZ (Łódź, Poland)

Alistair CRAME (Cambridge, UK)

Josef ELSTER (České Budějovice, Czechia)

Jacek JANIA (Sosnowiec, Poland)

Cezary KABAŁA (Wrocław, Poland)

Jerónimo LÓPEZ-MARTINEZ (Madrid, Spain)

Krzysztof MIGAŁA (Wrocław, Poland)

Jerzy NAWROCKI (Warszawa, Poland)

Maria OLECH (Kraków, Poland)

Sergej OLENIN (Klaipeda, Litva)

Sandra PASSCHIER (Montclair, USA)

Jan PAWŁOWSKI (Sopot, Poland)

Żaneta POLKOWSKA (Gdańsk, Poland)

Gerhard SCHMIEDL (Hamburg, Germany)

Peter SCHWEITZER (Vienna, Austria)

Janne SOREIDE (UNIS, Svalbard)

Lech STEMPNIEWICZ (Gdańsk, Poland)

Mateusz STRZELECKI (Wrocław, Poland)

Witold SZCZUCIŃSKI (Poznań, Poland)

Slawek TULACZYK (Santa Cruz, USA)

Jan Marcin WĘSŁAWSKI (Sopot, Poland) - President

Editor-in-Chief

Wojciech MAJEWSKI (Geosciences), Institute of Paleobiology PAS, Poland

e-mail: wmaj@twarda.pan.pl

Co-Editors:

Monika KĘDRA (Life Sciences), Institute of Oceanology PAS, Poland
e-mail: kedra@iopan.gda.pl

Michał ŁUSZCZUK (Social Science and Humanities), UMCS, Poland
e-mail: michal.luszczuk@poczta.umcs.lublin.pl

Associate Editors

Piotr JADWISZCZAK (Białystok),

e-mail: piotrj@uwb.edu.pl

Ewa ŁUPIKASZA (Sosnowiec)

e-mail: ewa.lupikasza@us.edu.pl

Krzysztof ZAWIERUCHA (Poznań)

email: k.p.zawierucha@gmail.com

Editorial Advisory Board

Robert BIALIK (Warszawa, Poland)

Magda BŁAŻEWICZ (Łódź, Poland)

Alistair CRAME (Cambridge, UK)

Josef ELSTER (České Budějovice, Czechia)

Jacek JANIA (Sosnowiec, Poland)

Cezary KABAŁA (Wrocław, Poland)

Jerónimo LÓPEZ-MARTINEZ (Madrid, Spain)

Krzysztof MIGAŁA (Wrocław, Poland)

Jerzy NAWROCKI (Warszawa, Poland)

Maria OLECH (Kraków, Poland)

Sergej OLENIN (Klaipeda, Litva)

Sandra PASSCHIER (Montclair, USA)

Jan PAWŁOWSKI (Sopot, Poland)

Żaneta POLKOWSKA (Gdańsk, Poland)

Gerhard SCHMIEDL (Hamburg, Germany)

Peter SCHWEITZER (Vienna, Austria)

Janne SOREIDE (UNIS, Svalbard)

Lech STEMPNIEWICZ (Gdańsk, Poland)

Mateusz STRZELECKI (Wrocław, Poland)

Witold SZCZUCIŃSKI (Poznań, Poland)

Slawek TULACZYK (Santa Cruz, USA)

Jan Marcin WĘSŁAWSKI (Sopot, Poland) - President

Geosciences
Wojciech MAJEWSKI
e-mail: wmaj@twarda.pan.pl
phone: (48 22) 697 88 53

Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
ul. Twarda 51/55
00-818 Warszawa, POLAND

Life Sciences
Monika KĘDRA
e-mail: kedra@iopan.gda.pl
phone: (48 58) 731 17 79

Instytut Oceanologii PAN
Powstańców Warszawy 55
81-712 Sopot, POLAND, P.O. Box 148

Social Science and Hummanities
Michał ŁUSZCZUK
e-mail: michal.luszczuk@poczta.umcs.lublin.pl
phone: (48 81) 537 68 99

Instytut Geografii Społeczno-Ekonomicznej i Gospodarki Przestrzennej UMCS
Al. Kraśnicka 2D
20-718 Lublin, POLAND

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Polish Polar Research | Accepted articles

1 Influence of basal melting on ice surface fracture and glacier retreat: A case study at Pine Island Glacier

Boya Yan , Baojun Zhang , Pei Jiang , Qian Li , Yunsi Wu , Mingliang Liu

Polish Polar Research | Accepted articles | DOI: 10.24425/ppr.2025.153921

Keywords: Antarctic basal melt rate ice shelf retreat fracture ice flow model ice flow velocity

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Abstract

Pine Island Glacier (PIG) is one of the most dynamic ice streams in West Antarctica, with significant basal melting and ice shelf retreat profoundly influencing its behavior. In this study, through remote sensing imagery and ice flow velocity data, we identified two major retreats of the PIG ice shelf in 2015 and 2018, and notable fluctuations in the ice flow velocities of PIG ice flow from 2013 to 2018. Analysis of CryoSat-2 data revealed that the annual average basal melt rate of the ice shelf peaked at ~14±0.8 m yr–1 in 2016. We conducted simulations using an ice flow model to assess the effects of ice shelf retreat and basal melting. The results showed that the significant acceleration of ice flow on PIG in 2018 was due to the removal of the compressive arch during the 2018 ice shelf retreat, causing large dynamic changes. The deceleration in 2016 was attributed to substantial basal melting, which reduced the longitudinal force and weakened the ice shelf’s buttressing force, leading to an acceleration in 2017. Furthermore, extensive basal melting promoted the development of surface fractures on the southern side of the main ice shelf, contributing to the significant retreat observed in 2018. Consequently, a “melting-fracture-collapse-acceleration” process has been identified, which is supposed to occur in ice shelves with significant basal melting. A sudden decrease in the surface flow velocity of an ice shelf may serve as an early warning for an accelerated rate of mass loss in the ice shelf system.

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Boya Yan

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Baojun Zhang

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Pei Jiang

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Qian Li

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Yunsi Wu

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Mingliang Liu

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Chinese Antarctic Center of Surveying and Mapping, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, Hubei Province, 430079, China
Key Laboratory of Polar Environment Monitoring and Public Governance (Wuhan University), 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, Hubei Province, 430079, China
School of Pharmacy, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, 188 Tanhualin Road, Wuhan, Hubei Province, 430065, China

Instructions for authors

The quarterly Polish Polar Research invites original scientific papers dealing with all aspects of polar research. The journal aims to provide a forum for publication of high-quality research papers, which are of international interest.

We warmly welcome review papers and proposals for thematic Special Issues.

Articles must be written in English. Authors are requested to have their manuscript read by a person fluent in English before submission. They should not be longer than 30 typescript pages, including tables, figures and references. However, upon request, longer manuscripts may be considered for publication. All papers are peer-reviewed. With a submitted manuscript, authors should provide e-mail addresses of at least three suggested reviewers.

Submission of the manuscript should be supported with a declaration that the work described has not been published previously nor is under consideration by another journal.

For text submission, Word file format is preferred. Please use the PPRes style template when preparing the final version of your paper. Pay special attention to writing correctly the list of references with doi. Manuscripts which are not prepared in line with the template will be returned to the authors. Please submit your manuscripts using our online submission system.

The journal does not have article processing charges (APCs) nor article submission charges. No honorarium will be paid to authors for publishing papers.