Frequency and distribution of winter melt events from passive microwave
satellite data in the pan-Arctic, 1988&ndash;2013

Wang, Libo; Toose, Peter; Brown, Ross; Derksen, Chris

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2589-2016

Articles | Volume 10, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2589-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2589-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 6

Research article

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03 Nov 2016

Research article |

| 03 Nov 2016

Frequency and distribution of winter melt events from passive microwave satellite data in the pan-Arctic, 1988–2013

Libo Wang, Peter Toose, Ross Brown, and Chris Derksen

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RC1: 'referee comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 Jul 2016
- AC1: 'Authors' responses', Libo Wang, 13 Sep 2016
RC2: 'Review for Frequency and distribution of winter melt events from passive microwave satellite data in the pan-Arctic, 1988-2013.', Anonymous Referee #2, 28 Jul 2016
- AC2: 'Authors' responses', Libo Wang, 13 Sep 2016
RC3: 'Review of “Frequency and distribution of winter melt events from passive microwave satellite data in the pan-Arctic, 1988-2013”', Anonymous Referee #3, 16 Aug 2016
- AC3: 'Authors' responses', Libo Wang, 13 Sep 2016

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AR by Libo Wang on behalf of the Authors (19 Sep 2016) Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (28 Sep 2016) by Claude Duguay

AR by Libo Wang on behalf of the Authors (05 Oct 2016)

Short summary

The conventional wisdom is that Arctic warming will result in an increase in the frequency of winter melt events. However, results in this study show little evidence of trends in winter melt frequency over 1988–2013 period. The frequency of winter melt events is strongly influenced by the selection of the start and end dates of winter period, and a fixed-window method for analyzing winter melt events is observed to generate false increasing trends from a shift in the timing of snow cover season.