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Research article
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20 Nov 2014
Research article |
| 20 Nov 2014
Snowmelt onset over Arctic sea ice from passive microwave satellite data: 1979–2012
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 214 Bessey Hall, Lincoln, Nebraska, 68588-0340, USA
M. R. Anderson
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 214 Bessey Hall, Lincoln, Nebraska, 68588-0340, USA
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- Arctic Sea Ice Melt Onset Timing From Passive Microwave‐Based and Surface Air Temperature‐Based Methods A. Bliss & M. Anderson https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD028676
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- Delay in Arctic Sea Ice Freeze-Up Linked to Early Summer Sea Ice Loss: Evidence from Satellite Observations L. Zheng et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13112162
- Arctic sea ice coverage from 43 years of satellite passive-microwave observations C. Parkinson https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2022.1021781
- Estimating melt onset over Arctic sea ice from time series multi-sensor Sentinel-1 and RADARSAT-2 backscatter S. Howell et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.04.031
- Passive Microwave Melt Onset Retrieval Based on a Variable Threshold: Assessment in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago S. Marshall et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11111304
- Concentrations and Composition of Hydrocarbons in Ice and Surface Microlayer of the Barents and Kara Seas in July–August 2024 I. Nemirovskaya et al. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X25608284
- Spatio-temporal analysis of the melt onset dates over Arctic sea ice from 1979 to 2017 S. Liang et al. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13131-021-1827-x
- Detection of melt onset over the northern Canadian Arctic Archipelago sea ice from RADARSAT, 1997–2014 M. Mahmud et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2016.03.003
- An Empirical Algorithm for Mitigating the Sea Ice Effect in SMAP Radiometer for Sea Surface Salinity Retrieval in the Arctic Seas W. Tang et al. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3127470
- Observations of sea ice melt from Operation IceBridge imagery N. Wright et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3523-2020
- Asymmetry variations in Arctic summer onset and ending: Role of sea-ice melting X. Yang et al. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac9dad
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Short summary
A new version of the Snow Melt Onset Over Arctic Sea Ice from SMMR and SSM/I-SSMIS Brightness Temperatures is now available. From this data set, a statistical summary of melt onset (MO) dates on Arctic sea ice is presented. Significant trends indicate that MO is occurring 6.6days/decade earlier in the year for the Arctic while regional trends in MO are as great as 11.8days/decade earlier in the East Siberian Sea. The Bering Sea is an outlier where MO is occurring 3.1days/decade later.
A new version of the Snow Melt Onset Over Arctic Sea Ice from SMMR and SSM/I-SSMIS Brightness...
