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Melt pond fraction and spectral sea ice albedo retrieval from MERIS data – Part 2: Case studies and trends of sea ice albedo and melt ponds in the Arctic for years 2002–2011
... of melt ponds and sea ice albedo contain information on the current state and the trend of the climate of the Arctic ...on melt pond fraction (MPF) and sea ice albedo spatial and temporal dynamics ...
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Signature of Arctic first-year ice melt pond fraction in X-band SAR imagery
... The ICE2012 campaign took place on drifting FYI north of Svalbard, in the southwestern Nansen Basin (Fig. 1), where the research vessel R/V Lance was moored up to an ice floe for 8 days. The sea ice cover in the area is ...
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A simple model for the evolution of melt pond coverage on permeable Arctic sea ice
... of melt ponds on its surface (Eicken et ...of melt ponds is essential for un- derstanding the ice-albedo feedback and, consequently, the evolution of Arctic sea ice cover in a warming ...accurate ...
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Melt pond fraction and spectral sea ice albedo retrieval from MERIS data – Part 1: Validation against in situ, aerial, and ship cruise data
... light-blue melt ponds. The nu- merical experiment showed that the melt pond fraction can be retrieved with high accuracy (error less than 1%) for the most common case of “standard” white ice and ...
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First-year sea ice melt pond fraction estimation from dual-polarisation C-band SAR – Part 1: In situ observations
... early melt, melt onset, and summer advanced melt, has been well defined for single-polarisation (VV or HH) C- band SAR, except for during advanced melt (Livingstone et ...advanced melt, ...
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Ice decay at the base of a supra-ice melt pond.
... Since all of the energy transfer terms in Equation 1 were measured or calculated independently, it is possible to obtain the residual balance term, which should ideally be zero. The sum of the energy exchanged by each ...
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Reflective properties of melt ponds on sea ice
... a melt pond: the bidirectional reflectance factor and the black- and white-sky ...the pond bot- ...the pond bidirectional reflectance requires further ...the pond albedo as the white-, ...
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Transition in the fractal geometry of Arctic melt ponds
... nected melt ponds can be computed with standard image pro- cessing tools (MATLAB Image Processing ...a melt pond is the total number of pixels corresponding to the melt pond, while the ...
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Summer sea ice characteristics and morphology in the Pacific Arctic sector as observed during the CHINARE 2010 cruise
... Figure 1 shows the cruise track and ship-based observations of sea ice and ice stations, primarily in the Chukchi Sea, Beaufort Sea, Canada Basin and Central Arctic Ocean. The underway ship-based ice observations are ...
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Melt ponds on Arctic sea ice determined from MODIS satellite data using an artificial neural network
... of melt pond distribution in early summer ...relative melt pond frac- tion in the beginning of June indicates the ice free areas later in ...of melt ponds has a strong influence on the ...
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Comparative evaluation of Penaeus monodon (Fabricius, 1798) culture in different saline grow out systems in India
... in pond II exhibited fairly higher survival (96%) than that of pond I (81%), whereas in pond III which is a high saline culture, showed comparatively poor survival ...
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Impact of Aqua Ponds on Soils of Godavari Western Delta, West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India
... The aquaculture sector in India especially shrimp farming is passing through a transitional stage and facing many problems. The condition of pond’s bottom and the exchange of substances between soil and water are ...
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Mathematical Model of a Salinity Gradient Solar Pond A. Renuka Prasad
... solar pond (iii) salt-less convecting ponds and (iv) gel and viscosity stabilized ...gradient pond is the most common type of nonconvecting solar pond ...
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A limnological assessment of Russell Pond, Woodstock, New Hampshire, Michael Bailey and Tara Davignon
... the rain especially if it is acidic (Estabrook 1996). The results from Estabrook (1996) indicate an increasing trend in alkalinity, but no change in pH in Russell Pond. This year there was a decrease in alkalinity ...
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Magmatic inclusions in the search for natural silicate salt melt immiscibility: methodology and examples
... Silicate melt - salt melt immiscibility that may occur in homogeneously trapped silicate melt inclusions after entrapment during natural cooling, or during heating experiments with no visual controls ...
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Re equilibration of melt inclusions trapped by magnesian olivine phenocrysts from subduction related magmas: petrological implications
... In essence, the dierence between the two end- member scenarios of cooling is the dierence between fractional crystallisation and equilibrium crystallisation dominated by solid. This dierence was ®rst described using ...
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Zooplankton interactions and their variability in some lentic and lotic water bodies of sub-tropical areas of Udhampur district of J&K, India
... Zooplankton are the microscopic animalcules of great importance as they act as primary and secondary links in food-chain (Hutchionson, 1967). Zooplankton community is a heterogeneous assemblage of animalcules of many ...
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Mathematical modelling the formation and evolution of melt ponds on sea ice
... There have been several empirical and theoretical studies relating mushy layers to sea ice. Wettlaufer et al. [131, 132] conducted experiments th a t simulated the initial formation of sea ice using sodium-chloride ...
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Genetic Variation among various populations of spadefoot toads (Pelobates syriacus, Boettger, 1869) at breeding sites in northern Israel
... Elrom Pond breeding site, at the highest altitude and Fara Pond, at the lowest, had the lowest identities as compared to other ...Elrom Pond and the populations of Kash Pond, Raihania ...
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Impact of impurities and cryoconite on the optical properties of the Morteratsch Glacier (Swiss Alps)
... Recent studies showed that Alpine glaciers are undergo- ing a darkening process, and this was ascribed to the impact of regional and/or global warming and to the deposition and accumulation of LAIs on the glacial surface ...
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