Automated mapping of the seasonal evolution of surface meltwater and its links to climate on the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica
Surface meltwater is widespread around the Antarctic Ice Sheet margin and has the potential to influence ice shelf stability, ice flow and ice–albedo feedbacks. Our understanding of the seasonal and multi-year evolution of Antarctic surface meltwater is limited. Attempts to generate robust meltwater...
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ftleedsuniv:oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:182009 2023-05-15T13:22:03+02:00 Automated mapping of the seasonal evolution of surface meltwater and its links to climate on the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica Tuckett, P.A. Ely, J.C. Sole, A.J. Lea, J.M. Livingstone, S.J. Jones, J.M. van Wessem, J.M. 2021-12-22 text https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/182009/ https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/182009/1/Tuckett%20et%20al.%20%282021%29%20Automated%20mapping%20of%20the%20seasonal%20evolution%20of%20surface%20meltwater%20and%20its%20links%20to%20climate%20on%20the%20Amery%20Ice%20Shelf.pdf en eng Copernicus GmbH https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/182009/1/Tuckett%20et%20al.%20%282021%29%20Automated%20mapping%20of%20the%20seasonal%20evolution%20of%20surface%20meltwater%20and%20its%20links%20to%20climate%20on%20the%20Amery%20Ice%20Shelf.pdf Tuckett, P.A., Ely, J.C. orcid.org/0000-0003-4007-1500 , Sole, A.J. orcid.org/0000-0001-5290-8967 et al. (4 more authors) (2021) Automated mapping of the seasonal evolution of surface meltwater and its links to climate on the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica. The Cryosphere, 15 (12). pp. 5785-5804. ISSN 1994-0416 cc_by_4 CC-BY Article PeerReviewed 2021 ftleedsuniv 2023-01-30T22:43:41Z Surface meltwater is widespread around the Antarctic Ice Sheet margin and has the potential to influence ice shelf stability, ice flow and ice–albedo feedbacks. Our understanding of the seasonal and multi-year evolution of Antarctic surface meltwater is limited. Attempts to generate robust meltwater cover time series have largely been constrained by computational expense or limited ice surface visibility associated with mapping from optical satellite imagery. Here, we add a novel method for calculating visibility metrics to an existing meltwater detection method within Google Earth Engine. This enables us to quantify uncertainty induced by cloud cover and variable image data coverage, allowing time series of surface meltwater area to be automatically generated over large spatial and temporal scales. We demonstrate our method on the Amery Ice Shelf region of East Antarctica, analysing 4164 Landsat 7 and 8 optical images between 2005 and 2020. Results show high interannual variability in surface meltwater cover, with mapped cumulative lake area totals ranging from 384 to 3898 km2 per melt season. By incorporating image visibility assessments, however, we estimate that cumulative total lake areas are on average 42 % higher than minimum mapped values. We show that modelled melt predictions from a regional climate model provide a good indication of lake cover in the Amery region and that annual lake coverage is typically highest in years with a negative austral summer SAM index. Our results demonstrate that our method could be scaled up to generate a multi-year time series record of surface water extent from optical imagery at a continent-wide scale. Article in Journal/Newspaper Amery Ice Shelf Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica East Antarctica Ice Sheet Ice Shelf The Cryosphere White Rose Research Online (Universities of Leeds, Sheffield & York) Antarctic The Antarctic East Antarctica Austral Amery ENVELOPE(-94.063,-94.063,56.565,56.565) Amery Ice Shelf ENVELOPE(71.000,71.000,-69.750,-69.750) |
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Surface meltwater is widespread around the Antarctic Ice Sheet margin and has the potential to influence ice shelf stability, ice flow and ice–albedo feedbacks. Our understanding of the seasonal and multi-year evolution of Antarctic surface meltwater is limited. Attempts to generate robust meltwater cover time series have largely been constrained by computational expense or limited ice surface visibility associated with mapping from optical satellite imagery. Here, we add a novel method for calculating visibility metrics to an existing meltwater detection method within Google Earth Engine. This enables us to quantify uncertainty induced by cloud cover and variable image data coverage, allowing time series of surface meltwater area to be automatically generated over large spatial and temporal scales. We demonstrate our method on the Amery Ice Shelf region of East Antarctica, analysing 4164 Landsat 7 and 8 optical images between 2005 and 2020. Results show high interannual variability in surface meltwater cover, with mapped cumulative lake area totals ranging from 384 to 3898 km2 per melt season. By incorporating image visibility assessments, however, we estimate that cumulative total lake areas are on average 42 % higher than minimum mapped values. We show that modelled melt predictions from a regional climate model provide a good indication of lake cover in the Amery region and that annual lake coverage is typically highest in years with a negative austral summer SAM index. Our results demonstrate that our method could be scaled up to generate a multi-year time series record of surface water extent from optical imagery at a continent-wide scale. |
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Tuckett, P.A. Ely, J.C. Sole, A.J. Lea, J.M. Livingstone, S.J. Jones, J.M. van Wessem, J.M. Automated mapping of the seasonal evolution of surface meltwater and its links to climate on the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica |
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Tuckett, P.A. Ely, J.C. Sole, A.J. Lea, J.M. Livingstone, S.J. Jones, J.M. van Wessem, J.M. |
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Automated mapping of the seasonal evolution of surface meltwater and its links to climate on the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica |
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Automated mapping of the seasonal evolution of surface meltwater and its links to climate on the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica |
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Automated mapping of the seasonal evolution of surface meltwater and its links to climate on the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica |
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Automated mapping of the seasonal evolution of surface meltwater and its links to climate on the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica |
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Automated mapping of the seasonal evolution of surface meltwater and its links to climate on the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica |
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automated mapping of the seasonal evolution of surface meltwater and its links to climate on the amery ice shelf, antarctica |
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ENVELOPE(-94.063,-94.063,56.565,56.565) ENVELOPE(71.000,71.000,-69.750,-69.750) |
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Antarctic The Antarctic East Antarctica Austral Amery Amery Ice Shelf |
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Antarctic The Antarctic East Antarctica Austral Amery Amery Ice Shelf |
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Amery Ice Shelf Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica East Antarctica Ice Sheet Ice Shelf The Cryosphere |
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Amery Ice Shelf Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica East Antarctica Ice Sheet Ice Shelf The Cryosphere |
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