Delayed Antarctic melt season reduces albedo feedback

• Published in: National Science Review
• Main Authors: Liang, Lei, Guo, Huadong, Liang, Shuang, Li, Xichen, Moore, John C., Li, Xinwu, Cheng, Xiao, Wu, Wenjin, Liu, Yan, Rinke, Annette, Jia, Gensuo, Pan, Feifei, Gong, Chen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2023
• Subjects: Antarctic ice sheet; snowmelt; season delay; sea ice; solar irradiance; Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwad157; https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2201675/

Article discusses how Antarctica's response to climate change varies greatly both spatially and temporally. The authors used a 43-year record of Antarctic snow melt seasons from space-borne microwave radiometers with a machine-learning algorithm to show that both the onset and the end of the melt season are being delayed.