Applications of unmanned aerial vehicles in cryosphere: Latest advances and prospects

C Gaffey, A Bhardwaj - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Owing to usual logistic hardships related to field-based cryospheric research, remote
sensing has played a significant role in understanding the frozen components of the Earth …

Albedo reduction as an important driver for glacier melting in Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas

Y Zhang, T Gao, S Kang, D Shangguan, X Luo - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Commonly known as the Asian Water Tower, glaciers in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) and its
surrounding regions are vital to the regional water cycle and water resources in the …

Greenland ice sheet rainfall, heat and albedo feedback impacts from the mid‐August 2021 atmospheric river

JE Box, A Wehrlé, D van As, RS Fausto… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Rainfall at the Greenland ice sheet Summit 14 August 2021, was delivered by an
atmospheric river (AR). Extreme surface ablation expanded the all‐Greenland bare ice area …

Mineral phosphorus drives glacier algal blooms on the Greenland Ice Sheet

J McCutcheon, S Lutz, C Williamson, JM Cook… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is a leading cause of land-ice mass loss and
cryosphere-attributed sea level rise. Blooms of pigmented glacier ice algae lower ice albedo …

SNICAR-ADv3: a community tool for modeling spectral snow albedo

MG Flanner, JB Arnheim, JM Cook… - Geoscientific Model …, 2021 - gmd.copernicus.org
The Snow, Ice, and Aerosol Radiative (SNICAR) model has been used in various capacities
over the last 15 years to model the spectral albedo of snow with light-absorbing constituents …

Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important terrestrial carbon sink

A Gray, M Krolikowski, P Fretwell, P Convey… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
We present the first estimate of green snow algae community biomass and distribution along
the Antarctic Peninsula. Sentinel 2 imagery supported by two field campaigns revealed 1679 …

Fire and ice: The impact of wildfire‐affected albedo and irradiance on glacier melt

C Aubry‐Wake, A Bertoncini, JW Pomeroy - Earth's Future, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfire occurrence and severity is predicted to increase in the upcoming decades with
severe negative impacts on human societies. The impacts of upwind wildfire activity on …

Saharan dust and giant quartz particle transport towards Iceland

G Varga, P Dagsson-Waldhauserová, F Gresina… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Mineral dust emissions from Saharan sources have an impact on the atmospheric
environment and sedimentary units in distant regions. Here, we present the first systematic …

Biological albedo reduction on ice sheets, glaciers, and snowfields

S Hotaling, S Lutz, RJ Dial, AM Anesio, LG Benning… - Earth-science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The global cryosphere, Earth's frozen water, is in precipitous decline. The ongoing and
predicted impacts of cryosphere loss are diverse, ranging from disappearance of entire …

Glacier algae foster ice-albedo feedback in the European Alps

B Di Mauro, R Garzonio, G Baccolo, A Franzetti… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The melting of glaciers and ice sheets is nowadays considered a symbol of climate change.
Many complex mechanisms are involved in the melting of ice, and, among these processes …