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 …

Novel insights in cryptic diversity of snow and glacier ice algae communities combining 18S rRNA gene and ITS2 amplicon sequencing

D Remias, L Procházková, L Nedbalová… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Melting snow and glacier surfaces host microalgal blooms in polar and mountainous
regions. The aim of this study was to determine the dominant taxa at the species level in the …