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Articles | Volume 14, issue 7
Articles | Volume 14, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2495-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2495-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 14, issue 7
Research article
 | 
31 Jul 2020
Research article |  | 31 Jul 2020

Historical Northern Hemisphere snow cover trends and projected changes in the CMIP6 multi-model ensemble

Lawrence Mudryk, María Santolaria-Otín, Gerhard Krinner, Martin Ménégoz, Chris Derksen, Claire Brutel-Vuilmet, Mike Brady, and Richard Essery

Data sets

Northern Hemisphere Blended Snow Extent and Snow Mass Time Series L. Mudryk https://doi.org/10.18164/cc133287-1a07-4588-b3b8-40d714edd90e

Model code and software

Data references for specific model and experiment combinations Earth System Grid Federation http://bit.ly/CMIP6_Citation_Search

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Short summary
We analyze how well updated state-of-the-art climate models reproduce observed historical snow cover extent and snow mass and how they project that these quantities will change up to the year 2100. Overall the updated models better represent historical snow extent than previous models, and they simulate stronger historical trends in snow extent and snow mass. They project that spring snow extent will decrease by 8 % for each degree Celsius that the global surface air temperature increases.
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