the-cryosphere
Use when targeting The Cryosphere (TC) or deciding whether a snow, ice, glacier, permafrost, or sea-ice manuscript fits this EGU open-access venue with interactive public peer review. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill the-cryosphere --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# The Cryosphere (the-cryosphere) ## Journal positioning The Cryosphere is an open-access European Geosciences Union (EGU) journal, published by Copernicus, and is the disciplinary journal of record for the frozen components of the Earth system — snow, land and sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets, ice shelves, permafrost, and frozen ground. Its defining character is the EGU interactive public peer-review model: a submitted manuscript is posted as a preprint in the discussion forum (EGUsphere), where named referee comments and open community comments appear publicly alongside the authors' responses before a final acceptance decision. The journal rewards complete, rigorous cryospheric studies — observational, remote-sensing, modeling, or theoretical — addressed to the specialist cryosphere community, and values transparency and reproducibility as part of the process, not only the product. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the EGU/Copernicus The Cryosphere site. ## When to trigger - The author names The Cryosphere as the target f
- Journal positioning
- When to trigger
- Scope & topic fit
- Method & evidence bar
- Structure & house style
- Official-submission checklist
- Pre-submission self-check
- Common desk-reject triggers
- Re-routing decision
- Output format
What does the the-cryosphere skill do?
Use when targeting The Cryosphere (TC) or deciding whether a snow, ice, glacier, permafrost, or sea-ice manuscript fits this EGU open-access venue with interactive public peer review. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill the-cryosphere --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.