Spring–summer albedo variations of Antarctic sea ice from 1982 to 2009

• Published in: Environmental Research Letters
• Main Authors: Zhu-De Shao, Chang-Qing Ke
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 2015
• Subjects: Antarctic sea ice region; albedo; spatiotemporal variation; trend; sea ice concentration; sea surface temperature; Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering; TD1-1066; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Science; Q; Physics; QC1-999; Amery; Amery Ice Shelf; Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Indian; Pacific; Ross Sea; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/6/064001; https://doaj.org/article/8529f0a8f9d048d2a000a7a79266f322

This study examined the spring–summer (November, December, January and February) albedo averages and trends using a dataset consisting of 28 years of homogenized satellite data for the entire Antarctic sea ice region and for five longitudinal sectors around Antarctica: the Weddell Sea (WS), the Indi...