Role of the Arctic snow cover in high-latitude hydrological cycle asrevealed by climate model simulations
Snow is a critical component of the Arctic climate system. Over Northern Eurasia and North America the duration of snow cover is 7 to 10 months per year and a maximum snow extension is over 40% of the Northern Hemisphere land each year. Snow affects a variety of high latitude climate processes and f...
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ftunigrenoble:oai:HAL:tel-02459108v1 2024-05-12T07:52:23+00:00 Role of the Arctic snow cover in high-latitude hydrological cycle asrevealed by climate model simulations Le rôle de la couverture de neige de l'Arctique dans le cycle hydrologique de hautes latitudes révélé par les simulations des modèles climatiques Santolaria Otín, María Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes 2016-2019 (UGA 2016-2019 ) Université Grenoble Alpes Olga Zolina 2019-11-04 https://theses.hal.science/tel-02459108 https://theses.hal.science/tel-02459108/document https://theses.hal.science/tel-02459108/file/SANTOLARIA_OTIN_2019_diffusion.pdf en eng HAL CCSD NNT: 2019GREAU027 tel-02459108 https://theses.hal.science/tel-02459108 https://theses.hal.science/tel-02459108/document https://theses.hal.science/tel-02459108/file/SANTOLARIA_OTIN_2019_diffusion.pdf info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess https://theses.hal.science/tel-02459108 Climatology. Université Grenoble Alpes, 2019. English. ⟨NNT : 2019GREAU027⟩ Snow characteristics Arctic climate CMIP5 models Reanalyses Snow stations Caractéristiques de la neige Climat arctique Modèles CMIP5 Réanalyses Stations de neige [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis Theses 2019 ftunigrenoble 2024-04-18T03:37:33Z Snow is a critical component of the Arctic climate system. Over Northern Eurasia and North America the duration of snow cover is 7 to 10 months per year and a maximum snow extension is over 40% of the Northern Hemisphere land each year. Snow affects a variety of high latitude climate processes and feedbacks. High reflectivity of snow and low thermal conductivity have a cooling effect and modulates the snow-albedo feedback. A contribution from terrestrial snow to the Earth’s radiation budget at the top of the atmosphere is close to that from the sea ice. Snow also prevents large energy losses from the underlying soil and notably the ice growth and the development of seasonal permafrost. Being a natural water storage, snow plays a critical role in high latitude hydrological cycle, including evaporation and run-off. Snow is also one of the most variable components of climate system. With the Arctic warming twice as fast as the globe, the present and future variability of snow characteristics are crucially important for better understanding of the processes and changes undergoing with climate. However, our capacity to observe the terrestrial Arctic is limited compared to the mid-latitudes and climate models play very important role in our ability to understand the snow-related processes especially in the context of a warming cryosphere. In this respect representation of snow-associated feedbacks in climate models, especially during the shoulder seasons (when Arctic snow cover exhibits the strongest variability) is of a special interest.The focus of this study is on the representation of the Arctic terrestrial snow in global circulation models from Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) ensemble during the melting (March-April) and the onset (October-November) season for the period from 1979 to 2005. Snow characteristics from the general circulation models have been validated against in situ snow measurements, different satellite-based products and reanalyses.We found that snow characteristics in models have ... Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis albedo Arctic Arctique* Ice permafrost Sea ice Université Grenoble Alpes: HAL Arctic |
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Snow is a critical component of the Arctic climate system. Over Northern Eurasia and North America the duration of snow cover is 7 to 10 months per year and a maximum snow extension is over 40% of the Northern Hemisphere land each year. Snow affects a variety of high latitude climate processes and feedbacks. High reflectivity of snow and low thermal conductivity have a cooling effect and modulates the snow-albedo feedback. A contribution from terrestrial snow to the Earth’s radiation budget at the top of the atmosphere is close to that from the sea ice. Snow also prevents large energy losses from the underlying soil and notably the ice growth and the development of seasonal permafrost. Being a natural water storage, snow plays a critical role in high latitude hydrological cycle, including evaporation and run-off. Snow is also one of the most variable components of climate system. With the Arctic warming twice as fast as the globe, the present and future variability of snow characteristics are crucially important for better understanding of the processes and changes undergoing with climate. However, our capacity to observe the terrestrial Arctic is limited compared to the mid-latitudes and climate models play very important role in our ability to understand the snow-related processes especially in the context of a warming cryosphere. In this respect representation of snow-associated feedbacks in climate models, especially during the shoulder seasons (when Arctic snow cover exhibits the strongest variability) is of a special interest.The focus of this study is on the representation of the Arctic terrestrial snow in global circulation models from Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) ensemble during the melting (March-April) and the onset (October-November) season for the period from 1979 to 2005. Snow characteristics from the general circulation models have been validated against in situ snow measurements, different satellite-based products and reanalyses.We found that snow characteristics in models have ... |
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Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes 2016-2019 (UGA 2016-2019 ) Université Grenoble Alpes Olga Zolina |
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Role of the Arctic snow cover in high-latitude hydrological cycle asrevealed by climate model simulations |
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Role of the Arctic snow cover in high-latitude hydrological cycle asrevealed by climate model simulations |
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Role of the Arctic snow cover in high-latitude hydrological cycle asrevealed by climate model simulations |
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role of the arctic snow cover in high-latitude hydrological cycle asrevealed by climate model simulations |
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