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Research article
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19 Feb 2021
Research article |
| 19 Feb 2021
| 19 Feb 2021
Trends and spatial variation in rain-on-snow events over the Arctic Ocean during the early melt season
College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Cunde Xiao
State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology,
Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Jiping Liu
Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University at
Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY, USA
Qiang Wang
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
Shifeng Pan
College of atmospheric science, Nanjing University of Information
Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Physical Oceanography Laboratory, Ocean University of China, 238
Songling Road, Qingdao 266100, China
Xiaojun Yuan
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, 61 Route 9W,
Palisades, NY 10964, USA
Minghu Ding
Institute of Tibetan Plateau and Polar Meteorology, Chinese Academy of
Meteorological Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Feng Zhang
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438,
China/Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute, Shanghai 200232, China
Kai Xue
College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Peter A. Bieniek
International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks,
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7340, USA
Hajo Eicken
International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks,
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7340, USA
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Latest update: 17 Sep 2025
Short summary
Rain-on-snow (ROS) events can accelerate the surface ablation of sea ice, greatly influencing the ice–albedo feedback. We found that spring ROS events have shifted to earlier dates over the Arctic Ocean in recent decades, which is correlated with sea ice melt onset in the Pacific sector and most Eurasian marginal seas. There has been a clear transition from solid to liquid precipitation, leading to a reduction in spring snow depth on sea ice by more than −0.5 cm per decade since the 1980s.
Rain-on-snow (ROS) events can accelerate the surface ablation of sea ice, greatly influencing...
