10.1594/PANGAEA.701389
Willmes, Sascha
Sascha
Willmes
0000-0002-2710-0699
Haas, Christian
Christian
Haas
0000-0002-7674-3500
Nicolaus, Marcel
Marcel
Nicolaus
0000-0003-0903-1746
Bareiss, Jörg
Jörg
Bareiss
Onset of south summer snowmelt on Antarctic sea ice between 1988 and 2007
PANGAEA
2009
Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas (SPP1158)
Sea Ice Physics @ AWI (AWI_SeaIce)
1988-10-01T00:00:00/2008-03-26T00:00:00
en
Supplementary Publication Series of Datasets
10.1029/2008JC004919
10.1029/2007EO220002
21 datasets
application/zip
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
The annual onset of snowmelt on sea ice is essential for climate monitoring since it triggers a decrease in surface albedo that feeds back into a stronger absorption of shortwave radiation - a process known as the snowmelt-albedo feedback - and thus strongly modifies the surface energy balance during summer. Algorithms designed for the detection of snowmelt on Arctic sea ice and based on longterm passive-microwave data revealed the melt season in the Arctic from 1979 to 1998 to be significantly elongated and the onset of melt to be shifted toward earlier dates.
Supplement to: Willmes, Sascha; Haas, Christian; Nicolaus, Marcel; Bareiss, Jörg (2009): Satellite microwave observations of the interannual variability of snowmelt on sea ice in the Southern Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 114, C03006
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German Research Foundation
https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659
5472008
Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas