Green Mountains and White Plains: The Effect of Northern Hemisphere Ice Sheets on the Global Energy Budget

The changes in the global energy budget in response to imposing an ice sheet’s topography, albedo, or topography and albedo combined are examined. The albedo of the ice sheet (here called a “White Plain”) causes an outgoing top of the atmosphere radiation anomaly over the ice sheet that is balanced...

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Published in:Journal of Climate
Main Authors: Roberts, William, Valdes, Paul
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: American Meteorological Society 2017
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Online Access:https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/35260/
https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0846.1