Black carbon (BC) has emerged as an important short-lived climate forcer. Due to its light
absorption properties, BC can darken the snow/ice surface, affect the energy balance, and …

Environmental context Snow albedo plays an important role in the Earth environment. Light-
absorbing particles (LAPs) can significantly impact snow albedo through complex …

Black carbon (BC) from fossil fuel and biomass combustion darkens the snow and makes it
melt sooner. The BC footprint of research activities and tourism in Antarctica has likely …

Abstract Attributable to the Montreal Protocol, the most successful environmental treaty ever,
human-made ozone-depleting substances are declining and the stratospheric Antarctic …

South America is experiencing severe impacts from climate change. Although the warming
of the subcontinent closely follows the global path, the rise of temperatures has been more …

Surface albedo typically dominates the mass balance of mountain glaciers, though long-
term trends and patterns of glacier albedo are seldom explored. We calculated broadband …

Historically, glaciers have been seen as pristine environments. However, recent research
has shown that glaciers can accumulate and store contaminants over long timescales …

Abstract Glaciers in Chilean Central Andes have significatively retreated, at least, in the last
60 years. From 2004 to 2014, the largest retreat in the area (− 0.15 km 2 yr− 1) was …

Here, we present radiative forcing (RF) estimates by snow algae in the Antarctic Peninsula
(AP) region from multi-year measurements of solar radiation and ground-based …

We have investigated the source and role of light-absorbing impurities (LAIs) deposited on
the glaciers of the Olivares catchment, in Central Chile. LAIs can considerably darken …