The seasonal evolution of albedo across glaciers and the surrounding landscape of the Taylor Valley, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Bergstrom, Anna, Gooseff, Michael, Myers, Madeline, Doran, Peter T.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Austral; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Taylor Valley; Antarc*; Antarctica; polar desert
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2019-146; https://www.the-cryosphere-discuss.net/tc-2019-146/

The McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDVs) of Antarctica are a polar desert ecosystem consisting of alpine glaciers, ice-covered lakes, streams, and expanses of vegetation-free rocky soil. Because average summer temperatures are close to 0 °C, glacier melt dynamics in particular, but the Dry Valley ecosystem in...