snow-ice interface
Algal hot spots in a changing Arctic Ocean: sea ice ridges and the snow ice interface
... The snow-ice interface had no distinct biotopes within the slush ...the snow infiltration community. In the literature there are examples of snow-ice interface layers ...
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Estimating the snow depth, the snow–ice interface temperature, and the effective temperature of Arctic sea ice using Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 and ice mass balance buoy data
... sea ice Climate Change Initia- tive (CCI) project and the SPICES (Space-borne observa- tions for detecting and forecasting sea ice cover extremes) project ...the ice mass balance buoys (IMBs), and ...
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Estimating snow depth over Arctic sea ice from calibrated dual-frequency radar freeboards
... of snow penetration depth as a function of microwave wavelength (Ulaby et ...of snow penetra- tion and biases due to sampling area cannot be separated and instead correct for both simultaneously by ...
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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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Snow-driven uncertainty in CryoSat-2-derived Antarctic sea ice thickness – insights from McMurdo Sound
... sea ice, the air–snow interface, the snow–ice interface or an undefined interface between the ...the snow–ice interface is ...of snow ...
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The role of snow in the thickening processes of lake ice at Lake Abashiri, Hokkaido, Japan
... 2015/16 ice seasons (Fig. 1). During these two ice seasons, we began by ex- amining the freeze-up conditions with a small boat on the lake in December to confirm the freeze-up ...of ice blocks, lake ...
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The modelled liquid water balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet
... Greenland Ice Sheet’s (GrIS) con- tribution to 21st century sea level ...the ice sheet and its response to increasing surface ...high snow- fall ...the ice sheet, mod- elled firn temperature ...
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Snow depth on Arctic sea ice from historical in situ data
... of snow on sea ice as a function of ice type, field experiments SIMMS’95 and C-ICE’96 in the Canadian Arctic have been conducted (Iacozza and Barber, ...sea ice type and snow ...
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Effect of unsteady wind on drifting snow: first investigations
... drifting snow, wind is not always a steady flow, sometimes oscillating and producing ...drifting snow depend on the important assumption that forcing winds are steady and ...drifting snow ...
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The impact of snow depth, snow density and ice density on sea ice thickness retrieval from satellite radar altimetry: results from the ESA-CCI Sea Ice ECV Project Round Robin Exercise
... AMSR-E snow depth on sea ice is taken for the Arc- tic from the AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 ...Sea Ice Concentration, & Snow Depth Po- lar Grids product ...to snow depths below 0.45 m on ...
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Nitrate deposition and preservation in the snowpack along a traverse from coast to the ice sheet summit (Dome A) in East Antarctica
... that snow accumulation is relatively constant during the past several years at SP11 (sampled in 2012/2013), snow in the depth of ∼ 54 cm corresponds to the deposition in 2009/2010 (snow density = ...
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Report of the Sixth Session of the JSC/CLIVAR Working Group on Coupled Modelling, Victoria, Canada, 7 10 October 2002
... The model accurately reproduces the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, while not producing spurious ice sheets in the Himalayas, etc. The model uses the Triffid model for the vegetation component. A ...
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Canadian snow and sea ice: historical trends and projections
... near-future snow loss (as a percentage of cli- matological snow) is projected to occur in the shoulder sea- sons (October–November, ...in snow cover extent pro- jections because winter temperatures ...
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Archival processes of the water stable isotope signal in East Antarctic ice cores
... Greenland Ice Core Project members, 2004; NEEM Community members, ...from ice cores from Greenland and West Antarctica may not ex- tend as far into the past as from East Antarctica, high- resolution ...
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The sub-ice platelet layer and its influence on freeboard to thickness conversion of Antarctic sea ice
... sea ice. The sub-ice platelet layer forms as a result of the sea- ward advection of supercooled ice shelf water from beneath ice ...This ice shelf water provides an oceanic heat sink ...
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Sea ice CO 2dynamics and air–ice CO2 fluxes during the Sea Ice Mass Balance in the Antarctic (SIMBA) experiment – Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica
... the ice cover. Two sampling sites with contrasting characteristics of ice and snow thickness were sampled: one had little snow accumulation (from 8 to 25 cm) and larger temperature and ...
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How much snow falls on the Antarctic ice sheet?
... 2C- SNOW-PROFILE retrieves estimates of liquid-equivalent snowfall rate for profiles where 2C-PRECIP-COLUMN in- dicates “snow possible” or “snow certain”, or where 2C- PRECIP-COLUMN indicates “mixed ...
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User requirements for the snow and land ice services – CryoLand
... The ESA project Support To Science Element (STSE) North Hydrology (2010–2013) has documented user requirements related to lake/river ice observations (Fernández-Prieto et al., 2012). The document contains the ...
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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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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
... the ice thickness distribution is dis- cretized using five different categories and the thermody- namic calculations use two vertical layers of ice and one layer of ...new ice forms in open water it ...
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