Atmospheric and Surface Processes, and Feedback Mechanisms Determining Arctic Amplification: A Review of First Results and Prospects of the (AC) 3 …

M Wendisch, M Brückner, S Crewell… - Bulletin of the …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Mechanisms behind the phenomenon of Arctic amplification are widely discussed. To
contribute to this debate, the (AC) 3 project was established in 2016 (www. ac3-tr. de/). It …

More frequent atmospheric rivers slow the seasonal recovery of Arctic sea ice

P Zhang, G Chen, M Ting, L Ruby Leung… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
In recent decades, Arctic sea-ice coverage underwent a drastic decline in winter, when sea
ice is expected to recover following the melting season. It is unclear to what extent …

Short-and long-term variability of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets

E Hanna, D Topál, JE Box, S Buzzard… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
The variability of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets occurs on various timescales and is
important for projections of sea level rise; however, there are substantial uncertainties …

Increasing extreme melt in northeast Greenland linked to foehn winds and atmospheric rivers

KS Mattingly, JV Turton, JD Wille, B Noël… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Greenland Ice Sheet has been losing mass at an increased rate in recent
decades. In northeast Greenland, increasing surface melt has accompanied speed-ups in …

Sea level rise from West Antarctic mass loss significantly modified by large snowfall anomalies

BJ Davison, AE Hogg, R Rigby, S Veldhuijsen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mass loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is dominated by glaciers draining into the
Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE), yet the impact of anomalous precipitation on the mass …

Greenland ice sheet rainfall climatology, extremes and atmospheric river rapids

JE Box, KP Nielsen, X Yang, M Niwano… - Meteorological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Greenland rainfall has come into focus as a climate change indicator and from a variety of
emerging cryospheric impacts. This study first evaluates rainfall in five state‐of‐the‐art …

Cold season rain event has impact on Greenland's firn layer comparable to entire summer melt season

J Harper, J Saito, N Humphrey - Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Rainfall high on the Greenland Ice Sheet is an emerging phenomenon with consequences
for the thermal and structural makeup of the surface layer. We document changes to …

[HTML][HTML] The sensitivity of satellite microwave observations to liquid water in the Antarctic snowpack

G Picard, M Leduc-Leballeur, AF Banwell… - The …, 2022 - tc.copernicus.org
Surface melting on the Antarctic Ice Sheet has been monitored by satellite microwave
radiometry for over 40 years. Despite this long perspective, our understanding of the …

Improving modelled albedo over the Greenland ice sheet through parameter optimisation and MODIS snow albedo retrievals

N Raoult, S Charbit, C Dumas, F Maignan… - The …, 2023 - tc.copernicus.org
Greenland ice sheet mass loss continues to accelerate as global temperatures increase.
The surface albedo of the ice sheet determines the amount of absorbed solar energy, which …

The Arctic

RL Thoman, ML Druckenmiller… - Bulletin of the …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Arctic is one chapter from the State of the Climate in 2021 annual report and is available
from https://doi. org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0082.1. Compiled by NOAA's National Centers for …