Recent ice cap snowmelt in Russian High Arctic and anti-correlation with late summer sea ice extent
Glacier surface melt dynamics throughout Novaya Zemlya (NovZ) and Severnaya Zemlya (SevZ) serve as a good indicator of ice mass ablation and regional climate change in the Russian High Arctic. Here we report trends of surface melt onset date (MOD) and total melt days (TMD) by combining multiple reso...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:85a535ff7f7141ce847e16dbd8313b75 2023-09-05T13:17:09+02:00 Recent ice cap snowmelt in Russian High Arctic and anti-correlation with late summer sea ice extent Meng Zhao Joan Ramage Kathryn Semmens Friedrich Obleitner 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/4/045009 https://doaj.org/article/85a535ff7f7141ce847e16dbd8313b75 EN eng IOP Publishing https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/4/045009 https://doaj.org/toc/1748-9326 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/4/045009 1748-9326 https://doaj.org/article/85a535ff7f7141ce847e16dbd8313b75 Environmental Research Letters, Vol 9, Iss 4, p 045009 (2014) Novaya Zemlya Severnaya Zemlya glacier snowmelt passive microwave active microwave Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering TD1-1066 Environmental sciences GE1-350 Science Q Physics QC1-999 article 2014 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/4/045009 2023-08-13T00:37:22Z Glacier surface melt dynamics throughout Novaya Zemlya (NovZ) and Severnaya Zemlya (SevZ) serve as a good indicator of ice mass ablation and regional climate change in the Russian High Arctic. Here we report trends of surface melt onset date (MOD) and total melt days (TMD) by combining multiple resolution-enhanced active and passive microwave satellite datasets and analyze the TMD correlations with local temperature and regional sea ice extent. The glacier surface snowpack on SevZ melted significantly earlier (−7.3 days/decade) from 1992 to 2012 and significantly longer (7.7 days/decade) from 1995 to 2011. NovZ experienced large interannual variability in MOD, but its annual mean TMD increased. The snowpack melt on NovZ is more sensitive to temperature fluctuations than SevZ in recent decades. After ruling out the regional temperature influence using partial correlation analysis, the TMD on both archipelagoes is statistically anti-correlated with regional late summer sea ice extent, linking land ice snowmelt dynamics to regional sea ice extent variations. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Ice cap Novaya Zemlya Sea ice Severnaya Zemlya Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Severnaya Zemlya ENVELOPE(98.000,98.000,79.500,79.500) Environmental Research Letters 9 4 045009 |
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Glacier surface melt dynamics throughout Novaya Zemlya (NovZ) and Severnaya Zemlya (SevZ) serve as a good indicator of ice mass ablation and regional climate change in the Russian High Arctic. Here we report trends of surface melt onset date (MOD) and total melt days (TMD) by combining multiple resolution-enhanced active and passive microwave satellite datasets and analyze the TMD correlations with local temperature and regional sea ice extent. The glacier surface snowpack on SevZ melted significantly earlier (−7.3 days/decade) from 1992 to 2012 and significantly longer (7.7 days/decade) from 1995 to 2011. NovZ experienced large interannual variability in MOD, but its annual mean TMD increased. The snowpack melt on NovZ is more sensitive to temperature fluctuations than SevZ in recent decades. After ruling out the regional temperature influence using partial correlation analysis, the TMD on both archipelagoes is statistically anti-correlated with regional late summer sea ice extent, linking land ice snowmelt dynamics to regional sea ice extent variations. |
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Recent ice cap snowmelt in Russian High Arctic and anti-correlation with late summer sea ice extent |
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Recent ice cap snowmelt in Russian High Arctic and anti-correlation with late summer sea ice extent |
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Recent ice cap snowmelt in Russian High Arctic and anti-correlation with late summer sea ice extent |
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Recent ice cap snowmelt in Russian High Arctic and anti-correlation with late summer sea ice extent |
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Recent ice cap snowmelt in Russian High Arctic and anti-correlation with late summer sea ice extent |
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recent ice cap snowmelt in russian high arctic and anti-correlation with late summer sea ice extent |
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