The role of surface energy fluxes in pan-Arctic snow cover changes

• Published in: Environmental Research Letters
• Main Authors: Shi, Xiaogang, Groisman, Pavel Ya, Déry, Stephen J., Lettenmaier, Dennis P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Arctic; Kendall
• Online Access: https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/89422/; https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/6/3/035204

We analyze snow cover extent (SCE) trends in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) northern hemisphere weekly satellite SCE data using the Mann-Kendall trend test and find that North American and Eurasian snow cover in the pan-Arctic have declined significantly in spring...