Climate change and Northern Hemisphere lake and river ice phenology from 1931–2005

Newton, Andrew M. W.; Mullan, Donal J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2211-2021

Articles | Volume 15, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2211-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2211-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 5

Research article

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10 May 2021

Research article |

| 10 May 2021

Climate change and Northern Hemisphere lake and river ice phenology from 1931–2005

Andrew M. W. Newton and Donal J. Mullan

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RC1: 'tc-2020-172', John Magnuson, 02 Sep 2020
- AC1: 'Reviewer Response', Andrew Newton, 30 Nov 2020
RC2: 'Reviewer comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Oct 2020
- AC1: 'Reviewer Response', Andrew Newton, 30 Nov 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (10 Dec 2020) by Claude Duguay

AR by Andrew Newton on behalf of the Authors (01 Mar 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (16 Mar 2021) by Claude Duguay

AR by Andrew Newton on behalf of the Authors (25 Mar 2021) Manuscript

Short summary

This paper investigates changes in the dates of ice freeze-up and breakup for 678 Northern Hemisphere lakes and rivers from 1931–2005. From 3510 time series, the results show that breakup dates have gradually occurred earlier through time, whilst freeze-up trends have tended to be significantly more variable. These data combined show that the number of annual open-water days has increased through time for most sites, with the magnitude of change at its largest in more recent years.