Snow and Ice Cover
Arctic climate: changes in sea ice extent outweigh changes in snow cover
... low snow cover over land (April and May), high to low sea ice cover over ocean (June), and the annual sea ice minimum (Septem- ...springtime snow cover (Robinson and Frei, ...
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The role of snow in the thickening processes of lake ice at Lake Abashiri, Hokkaido, Japan
... lake ice at mid-latitudes subject to moderate air temperature, heavy snow and abundant solar radiation even in winter, we conducted field observations at Lake Abashiri in Japan for three winters and ...
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Decreased Snow Cover Stimulates Under-Ice Primary Producers but Impairs Methanotrophic Capacity
... decreased snow cover can be expected to impact total lake metabolism and potentially increase methane emission after ice- ...shortened ice cover period with earlier ice-off (14), ...
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Biogeochemical impact of snow cover and cyclonic intrusions on the winter Weddell Sea ice pack
... Sea ice was relatively warm and permeable throughout the study area, for two main reasons: (a) the gener- alized occurrence of a relatively deep snow cover (a few tens of centimeters) and, (b) large ...
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Sea-ice evaluation of NEMO-Nordic 1.0: a NEMO–LIM3.6-based ocean–sea-ice model setup for the North Sea and Baltic Sea
... seasonally ice-covered brackish Baltic Sea. The sea-ice concentration and extent are generally well simulated when compared to the BASIS data set over 1961–1979, although there is a bias in Kattegat, which ...
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Increased Arctic sea ice volume after anomalously low melting in 2013
... in snow loading, wind-driven ice drift, and ice melting, to identify the origin of the observed inter-annual ...sea ice 65% and 42% in autumn and spring, respectively and comprise the main ...
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The relation between sea ice thickness and freeboard in the Arctic
... sea ice thickness through converting ice freeboard measurements to thickness by assuming hydro- static equilibrium (Laxon, 1994; Laxon et ...measuring ice freeboard is based on exper- iments showing ...
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Trends and abrupt changes in 104 years of ice cover and water temperature in a dimictic lake in response to air temperature, wind speed, and water clarity drivers
... blue ice, white ice, and total ice thickness and snow ...total ice, blue ice, snow ice, and snow cover are ...average ice and snow ...
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Estimating snow depth over Arctic sea ice from calibrated dual-frequency radar freeboards
... National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC, ...Sea ice type is a product of the EUMETSAT Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility (OSI SAF, ...gridded ice type fields can be ...
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Koch, Franziska (2017): Snow cover properties and soil moisture derived from GPS signals. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Geowissenschaften
... HS/SWE: As a first step, most approaches aim to derive HS and then, take density estimates into account, to calculate SWE [Tedesco, 2014]. HS and SWE approaches work quite well under dry-snow conditions but are ...
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Case study of spatial and temporal variability of snow cover, grain size, albedo and radiative forcing in the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountain snowpack derived from imaging spectroscopy
... Snow cover across the world’s mountainous regions is impor- tant for both regional climate and ...hydrology. Snow albedo, itself controlled by impurity content and grain size, is par- ticularly ...
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Origin, burial and preservation of late Pleistocene-age glacier ice in Arctic permafrost (Bylot Island, NU, Canada)
... glacier ice suggest a glaciofluvial ice-contact ...glacier ice and the overlying sedi- ment suggests that thermal erosion caused by sediment-laden water flow affected the top of the ice of ...
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Uncertainties in Arctic sea ice thickness and volume: new estimates and implications for trends
... sea ice thickness and an MYI fraction 2 degrees around the data hole, and used this function to derive in- formation about sea ice thickness within the ...sea ice thickness and volume on a basin-wide ...
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Model simulations of the modulating effect of the snow cover in a rain on snow event
... the snow cover by capillary suction and refreezing inside the ...those snow covers at the onset of rain (Table ...on snow depth (Table 1). The amount of snow melt during the rainfall ...
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Icelandic snow cover characteristics derived from a gap filled MODIS daily snow cover product
... served snow cover and MODIS daily combined snow cover ...observed snow and MODIS was ...observed snow and NDSI snow cover from ...no snow on the ground ...
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Snow in the changing sea ice systems
... Ice and snow depth variability and change in the high Arctic Ocean observed by in situ measurements.. Arctic climate change as manifest in cyclone behavior.[r] ...
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Evolutionary Conception in Snow Cover Science
... dry snow and its polymorphic (regional) ...route snow-measuring works in other plain and mountain regions of Russia: in the Center and North-West of the Russian Plain (Moscow and Ladoga regions), in the ...
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Assimilation of snow cover and snow depth into a snow model to estimate snow water equivalent and snowmelt runoff in a Himalayan catchment
... of snow extent and snow depth observations was used to calibrate model parameters using the framework de- veloped by Wanders et ...ilate snow observations into snow models ...(i.e., ...
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Albedo over rough snow and ice surfaces
... of snow and ice up to several meters high; Lliboutry, 1953), typical of several high altitude mountain glaciers and snow fields, remains less understood and lim- ited to individual ...
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Reflective properties of white sea ice and snow
... white ice albedo at direct incidence increases when the sun is approaching the horizon (see ...white ice because of the essential multiple reflections between the surface and the ...
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