Quantifying spatiotemporal variability of ice algal blooms and the impact on surface albedo in southwest Greenland

• Main Authors: Wang, Shujie, Tedesco, Marco, Alexander, Patrick, Xu, Min, Fettweis, Xavier
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Greenland; The Sentinel; glacier; ice algae; Ice Sheet; Jakobshavn
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2019-226; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2019-226/

Albedo reduction due to light-absorbing impurities can substantially enhance ice sheet surface melt by increasing surface absorption of solar energy. Ice algae have been suggested to play a critical role in darkening the ablation zone in southwest Greenland. It was very recently found that the Senti...