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The impact of snow and sea ice variations on global climate change / Tamara Shapiro Ledley.
Title: | The impact of snow and sea ice variations on global climate change / Tamara Shapiro Ledley. |
Author(s): | Ledley, Tamara Shapiro. |
Date: | 1991. |
Publisher: | Fairbanks, AK: University of Alaska, Geophysical Institute/Centre for Global Change and Arctic System Research |
In: | International Conference on the Role of the Polar Regions in Global Change : proceedings of a conference held June 11-15, 1990 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. (1991.), Vol. 1. |
Abstract: | Effect of addition of snow to sea ice on effect on climate, as shown by coupled energy balance climate--sea-ice model, introduces three major competing elements: snow acts as insulator, keeping ice warm and thin, and so producing warming effect on climate; snow has lower volumetric specific heat than ice, causing it to cool in winter and warm in summer more rapidly than ice; and snow has higher albedo than ice, causing reduction in absorbed solar energy by entire Earth--stmosphere system, and thus cause cooling of climate. Suggests that albedo effect is dominant, so that snow cools climate. |
Notes: | In: International Conference on the Role of the Polar Regions in Global Change : proceedings of a conference held June 11-15, 1990 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Vol. 1. / Gunter Weller, Cindy L. Wilson, Barbara A.B. Severin, eds. |
Keywords: | 551.578.46 -- Snow cover and snow patches. 536 -- Heat. 551.521 -- Radiation, atmospheric. 551.58 -- Climatology. 551.583 -- Climatic changes. 551.588.5 -- Climate, relationship with ice. 551.326.7 -- Sea ice. 551.465.7 -- Oceanography, energy budget. E9 -- Glaciology: meteorology and climatology. |
SPRI record no.: | 114729 |
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