Regional melt-pond fraction and albedo of thin Arctic first-year drift ice in late summer

Divine, D. V.; Granskog, M. A.; Hudson, S. R.; Pedersen, C. A.; Karlsen, T. I.; Divina, S. A.; Renner, A. H. H.; Gerland, S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-255-2015

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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-255-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-255-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 1

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09 Feb 2015

Research article |

| 09 Feb 2015

Regional melt-pond fraction and albedo of thin Arctic first-year drift ice in late summer

D. V. Divine, M. A. Granskog, S. R. Hudson, C. A. Pedersen, T. I. Karlsen, S. A. Divina, A. H. H. Renner, and S. Gerland

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RC C1691: 'Review Divine et al.', Marcel Nicolaus, 31 Aug 2014
RC C1871: 'Review of Divine et al. tc-2014-107', Anonymous Referee #2, 24 Sep 2014
- AC C2498: 'Response to the comments of Reviewer 2', Dmitry Divine, 26 Nov 2014
AC C2497: 'Response to the comments of M.Nicolaus (Reviewer 1)', Dmitry Divine, 26 Nov 2014

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Short summary

Regional melt pond coverage and albedo of thin (70-90cm) first year Arctic sea ice in advanced stage of melt was estimated from a combination of low-altitude imagery and in situ measurements north of Svalbard in summer 2012. The study revealed a homogeneous melt across the study area with a typical pond fraction of 0.29 and sea-ice albedo of 0.44. A decrease in pond fraction was, however, observed in the 30km marginal ice zone, occurring in parallel with an increase in open-water coverage.