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DOI	10.5194/tc-15-2623-2021
	Surface melting over the Greenland ice sheet derived from enhanced resolution passive microwave brightness temperatures (1979-2019)
	Colosio P.; Tedesco M.; Ranzi R.; Fettweis X.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	19940416
起始页码	2623
结束页码	2646
卷号	15 期号:6
英文摘要	Surface melting is a major component of the Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance, and it affects sea level rise through direct runoff and the modulation of ice dynamics and hydrological processes, supraglacially, englacially and subglacially. Passive microwave (PMW) brightness temperature observations are of paramount importance in studying the spatial and temporal evolution of surface melting due to their long temporal coverage (1979-present) and high temporal resolution (daily). However, a major limitation of PMW datasets has been the relatively coarse spatial resolution, which has historically been of the order of tens of kilometers. Here, we use a newly released PMW dataset (37 GHz, horizontal polarization) made available through a NASA "Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments"(MeASUREs) program to study the spatiotemporal evolution of surface melting over the Greenland ice sheet at an enhanced spatial resolution of 3.125 km. We assess the outputs of different detection algorithms using data collected by automatic weather stations (AWSs) and the outputs of the Modèle Atmosphérique Régional (MAR) regional climate model. We found that sporadic melting is well captured using a dynamic algorithm based on the outputs of the Microwave Emission Model of Layered Snowpack (MEMLS), whereas a fixed threshold of 245 K is capable of detecting persistent melt. Our results indicate that, during the reference period from 1979 to 2019 (from 1988 to 2019), surface melting over the ice sheet increased in terms of both duration, up to 4.5 (2.9) d per decade, and extension, up to 6.9 % (3.6 %) of the entire ice sheet surface extent per decade, according to the MEMLS algorithm. Furthermore, the melting season started up to 4.0 (2.5) d earlier and ended 7.0 (3.9) d later per decade. We also explored the information content of the enhanced-resolution dataset with respect to the one at 25 km and MAR outputs using a semi-variogram approach. We found that the enhanced product is more sensitive to local-scale processes, thereby confirming the potential of this new enhanced product for monitoring surface melting over Greenland at a higher spatial resolution than the historical products and for monitoring its impact on sea level rise. This offers the opportunity to improve our understanding of the processes driving melting, to validate modeled melt extent at high resolution and, potentially, to assimilate these data in climate models. © 2021 Paolo Colosio et al.
语种	英语
来源期刊	Cryosphere
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/202291
作者单位	Dicatam, Università Degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, 25121, Italy; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York, 10964, United States; Nasa Giss, New York, 10025, United States; Department of Geography, University of Liège, Liège, 4000, Belgium
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Colosio P.,Tedesco M.,Ranzi R.,et al. Surface melting over the Greenland ice sheet derived from enhanced resolution passive microwave brightness temperatures (1979-2019)[J],2021,15(6).
APA	Colosio P.,Tedesco M.,Ranzi R.,&Fettweis X..(2021).Surface melting over the Greenland ice sheet derived from enhanced resolution passive microwave brightness temperatures (1979-2019).Cryosphere,15(6).
MLA	Colosio P.,et al."Surface melting over the Greenland ice sheet derived from enhanced resolution passive microwave brightness temperatures (1979-2019)".Cryosphere 15.6(2021).