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Leads in Arctic pack ice enable early phytoplankton blooms below snow covered sea ice
... the ice-edge positions between April and June 2015 is shaded in grey. The ice-edge position on 25 May is indicated by the broken blue line and is representative for the bloom ...the ice edge as the ...
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The microwave emissivity variability of snow covered first-year sea ice from late winter to early summer: a model study
... of sea-ice concentration retrieval uncertainty, namely the temporal variability of the microwave emissivity of snow-covered first-year sea ice (FYI), in response to vari- able ...
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The effects of additional black carbon on the albedo of Arctic sea ice: variation with sea ice type and snow cover
... multi-year sea ice and dry and wet snow types suggesting black carbon is the dominating absorbing ...the sea ice and snow are larger than previously reported, suggesting the ...
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Snow depth on Arctic sea ice from historical in situ data
... Beaufort Sea, Elson Lagoon and Chukchi Sea (Sturm et ...of snow on sea ice as a function of ice type, field experiments SIMMS’95 and C-ICE’96 in the Canadian Arctic have ...
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Comparison of a coupled snow thermodynamic and radiative transfer model with in situ active microwave signatures of snow-covered smooth first-year sea ice
... of sea ice in the Arctic system affect the accuracy of geophysical and thermodynamic prop- erties, which are required for management strategies (Barber, 2005; Warner et ...both snow thermodynamic ...
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An improved CryoSat-2 sea ice freeboard retrieval algorithm through the use of waveform fitting
... over sea-ice-covered ...both sea ice floes and ...from sea ice regions offers ad- vantages over currently used threshold retracking methods, which are here shown to be ...
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Canadian snow and sea ice: assessment of snow, sea ice, and related climate processes in Canada's Earth system model and climate-prediction system
... Seasonal snow cover and sea ice are integral to the cul- tural identity, history, and economy of northern nations like ...and snow-covered regions, to larger-scale interactions with ...
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Improving the WRF model’s (version 3.6.1) simulation over sea ice surface through coupling with a complex thermodynamic sea ice model (HIGHTSI)
... processes, sea ice, which distinguishes the polar climate system from other parts of the earth system, is also an essential factor for a realistic simulation of polar ...is covered by sea ...
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Canadian snow and sea ice: historical trends and projections
... Canadian Sea Ice and Snow Evolution (Can- SISE) Network is a climate research network focused on de- veloping and applying state of the art observational data to advance dynamical prediction, ...
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Algal hot spots in a changing Arctic Ocean: sea ice ridges and the snow ice interface
... of snow infiltration communities is to detect them since they are covered by snow and therefore not readily visible from the surface, except at the edge of ice floes (von Quillfeldt et ...for ...
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Snow-driven uncertainty in CryoSat-2-derived Antarctic sea ice thickness – insights from McMurdo Sound
... over sea ice, the air–snow interface, the snow–ice interface or an undefined interface between the ...the snow–ice interface is ...of snow influences the CS-2 ...
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Reflective properties of white sea ice and snow
... White ice (ice with a highly scattering granular layer on top of its surface) and snow-covered ice occupy a large part of the sea ice area in the Arctic, the former in ...
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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, 2000; ...
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The CMIP6 Sea-Ice Model Intercomparison Project (SIMIP): understanding sea ice through climate-model simulations
... of sea ice in the climate ...for sea-ice-related model output following a newly de- veloped data ...of sea ice, namely the heat budget, the momentum budget and the mass ...the ...
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Arctic Ocean sea ice snow depth evaluation and bias sensitivity in CCSM
... Abstract. Sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean is a continued focus of ...the snow overlying the sea ice in the Arctic ...of snow depth biases in the Community Climate System Model ...
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A long-term and reproducible passive microwave sea ice concentration data record for climate studies and monitoring
... CDR sea ice concentration field from 9 July 1987 to 31 December 2007, local spatial standard devi- ation of the sea ice concentrations, and a quality flag ...Additional sea ice ...
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The relation between sea ice thickness and freeboard in the Arctic
... of 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- ...
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Sensitivity of Pliocene climate simulations in MRI-CGCM2.3 to respective boundary conditions
... shrunk ice sheets compared with the PlioMIP1 lead to local and remote influ- ences including snow and sea ice albedo feedback, and pole- ward heat transport due to the atmosphere and ocean ...
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Now you Sea Ice Now you Dont Low RES version.pdf
... the sea ice first arrives and the last day it ...documented sea ice decreasing fastest along the western Antarctic Peninsula ...winter sea ice extent which is the location of the ...
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Strength of forest-albedo feedback in mid-Holocene climate simulations
... of snow-covered surfaces vary strongly among the suite of general circulation models (GCMs) used in the Fourth As- sessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Meehl et ...of ...
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