Springtime Melt Onset on Arctic Sea Ice from Satellite Observations and Related Atmospheric Conditions

• Main Author: Bliss, Angela C
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2015
• Subjects: Arctic; Sea Ice; Passive Microwave; Climate; Melt; Melt Onset; Remote Sensing; Climate Change; Atmospheric Sciences; Meteorology; Bering Sea; East Siberian Sea; Climate change; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/geoscidiss/71; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/geoscidiss/article/1071/viewcontent/ABliss_Dissertation_Final.pdf

The timing of snowmelt onset (MO) on Arctic sea ice derived from passive microwave satellite data is examined by determining the melting area (in km2) on a daily basis for the spring and summer melt season months over the 1979 – 2012 data record. The date of MO on Arctic sea ice has important implic...