Quantifying spatiotemporal variability of glacier algal blooms and the impact on surface albedo in southwestern Greenland

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Wang, Shujie, Tedesco, Marco, Alexander, Patrick, Xu, Min, Fettweis, Xavier
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2020
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Greenland; The Sentinel; glacier; Ice Sheet; Jakobshavn; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2687-2020; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00052923; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00052576/tc-14-2687-2020.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/14/2687/2020/tc-14-2687-2020.pdf

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