Climatology and spatial distribution of Northern Hemisphere cryo-cover ...
This manuscript examines sea ice and snow cover (here defined as “cryo- cover”) across the Northern Hemisphere through a series of three studies. Cryo-cover is unique in that it is both a responder to climate (sensitive to temperature) but is also a climate forcer (via impacting the radiation balanc...
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University of Delaware
2022
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.58088/esqe-pb53 https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/31568 |
| Summary: | This manuscript examines sea ice and snow cover (here defined as “cryo- cover”) across the Northern Hemisphere through a series of three studies. Cryo-cover is unique in that it is both a responder to climate (sensitive to temperature) but is also a climate forcer (via impacting the radiation balance), therefore understanding its complex interactions and how they vary temporally and spatially are imperative for many applications within the atmospheric, environmental, and hydrologic sciences. ☐ The first study builds a climatology of cryo-cover using three datasets: the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Sea Ice Extent (1979 – 2020), the Rutgers Global Snow Lab (GSL) Snow Cover Extent (1979 – 2020), and the MeaSuREs State of the Cryosphere (1979 – 2012) products. Temporal trends of cryo-cover, both as a combined and as separate components are analyzed, and a derived cryo-cover concentration dataset is created using the MeaSuREs values. From these values cryo-cover is classified to be either stable ... |
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