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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2589-2016
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2589-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
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
Climate Processes Section, Climate Research Division, Environment
and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Peter Toose
Climate Processes Section, Climate Research Division, Environment
and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ross Brown
Climate Processes Section, Climate Research Division, Environment
and Climate Change Canada@Ouranos, Montreal, Québec, Canada
Chris Derksen
Climate Processes Section, Climate Research Division, Environment
and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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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.
The conventional wisdom is that Arctic warming will result in an increase in the frequency of...
