Brief communication: Conventional assumptions involving the speed of radar waves in snow introduce systematic underestimates to sea ice thickness and seasonal growth rate estimates

Mallett, Robbie D. C.; Lawrence, Isobel R.; Stroeve, Julienne C.; Landy, Jack C.; Tsamados, Michel

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-251-2020

Articles | Volume 14, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-251-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-251-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 1

Brief communication

|

27 Jan 2020

Brief communication |

| 27 Jan 2020

Brief communication: Conventional assumptions involving the speed of radar waves in snow introduce systematic underestimates to sea ice thickness and seasonal growth rate estimates

Robbie D. C. Mallett, Isobel R. Lawrence, Julienne C. Stroeve, Jack C. Landy, and Michel Tsamados

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-251-2020-supplement

Data sets

robbiemallett/snow_density_assumptions: Snow Density Assumptions (Version v1.0.0) R. Mallett https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3386503

Short summary

Soils store large carbon and are important for global warming. We do not know what factors are important for soil carbon storage in the alpine Andes and how they work. We studied how rainfall affects soil carbon storage related to soil structure. We found soil structure is not important, but soil carbon storage and stability controlled by rainfall are dependent on rocks under the soils. The results indicate that we should pay attention to the rocks when studying soil carbon storage in the Andes.