Global Outlook for Ice and Snow: Chapter 3 - Why are ice and snow changing?
Changes in ice and snow are influenced by variability within the climate system itself and by external factors such as greenhouse gases, solar variability, and volcanic dust – factors that act on time scales from months to hundreds of thousands of years. During the 21st century, the most important e...
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ftunep:oai:wedocs.unep.org:20.500.11822/14474 2023-05-15T13:11:34+02:00 Global Outlook for Ice and Snow: Chapter 3 - Why are ice and snow changing? United Nations Environment Programme Science Division Global 2017-02-02T09:20:20Z Text application/pdf https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/14474 English eng United Nations Environment Programme Global Outlook for Ice and Snow 978-92-807-2799-9 DEW/0924/NA https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/14474 Public ICE Climate change Ecosystem management Environmental Governance Environment under review snow Chapters and Articles 2017 ftunep 2022-12-31T14:09:54Z Changes in ice and snow are influenced by variability within the climate system itself and by external factors such as greenhouse gases, solar variability, and volcanic dust – factors that act on time scales from months to hundreds of thousands of years. During the 21st century, the most important external influence on high latitude climate and on ice and snow conditions will be the increase in greenhouse gases. Natural climate variability will still impose regional, decadal, and year-to-year differences, and feedbacks will become increasingly important in the climate system. Before 2050 the ice albedo feedback will accelerate the loss of Arctic sea ice. Warmer temperatures will reduce the area of snow cover and produce an earlier melt in snow-covered regions. This reduced snow cover will itself speed up warming http://www.unep.org/geo/geo_ice/ Other/Unknown Material albedo Arctic Climate change Sea ice UNEP Document Repository (UN Environment Programme) Arctic |
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Changes in ice and snow are influenced by variability within the climate system itself and by external factors such as greenhouse gases, solar variability, and volcanic dust – factors that act on time scales from months to hundreds of thousands of years. During the 21st century, the most important external influence on high latitude climate and on ice and snow conditions will be the increase in greenhouse gases. Natural climate variability will still impose regional, decadal, and year-to-year differences, and feedbacks will become increasingly important in the climate system. Before 2050 the ice albedo feedback will accelerate the loss of Arctic sea ice. Warmer temperatures will reduce the area of snow cover and produce an earlier melt in snow-covered regions. This reduced snow cover will itself speed up warming http://www.unep.org/geo/geo_ice/ |
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Global Outlook for Ice and Snow: Chapter 3 - Why are ice and snow changing? |
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