Spatially heterogeneous effect of climate warming on the Arctic land ice

Maure, Damien; Kittel, Christoph; Lambin, Clara; Delhasse, Alison; Fettweis, Xavier

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4645-2023

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Spatially heterogeneous effect of climate warming on the Arctic land ice

Damien Maure, Christoph Kittel, Clara Lambin, Alison Delhasse, and Xavier Fettweis

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4645-2023-supplement

Data sets

Historical Data Government of Canada https://climate.weather.gc.ca/historical_data/search_historic_data_e.html

Stasjonsinformasjon Norsk KlimaServiceSenter https://seklima.met.no/stations/

Integrated Surface Dataset (Global) National Centers for Environmental Information https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/search/data-search/global-hourly

Custom query in ASCII ECA&D https://www.ecad.eu/dailydata/customquery.php

MAR-ERA5 reanalysis of the Arctic land ice surface mass balance between 1950 and 2020 Damien Maure https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10007946

Short summary

The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the Earth. Studies have already shown that Greenland and the Canadian Arctic are experiencing a record increase in melting rates, while Svalbard has been relatively less impacted. Looking at those regions but also extending the study to Iceland and the Russian Arctic archipelagoes, we see a heterogeneity in the melting-rate response to the Arctic warming, with the Russian archipelagoes experiencing lower melting rates than other regions.