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Wang et al. 2005

Wang, L., Sharp, M.J., Rivard, B., Marshall, S. and Burgess, D. (2005). Melt season duration on Canadian Arctic ice caps, 2000–2004. Geophysical Research Letters 32: doi: 10.1029/2005GL023962. issn: 0094-8276.

The extent and duration of summer melt on ice caps in the Queen Elizabeth Islands (QEI), Nunavut, Canada, in 2000--2004 were mapped using enhanced resolution QuikSCAT (QSCAT) scatterometer images. The mean melt duration depends mainly on surface elevation and distance from Baffin Bay. Over most ice caps, inter-annual variations in melt duration and the variation in melt duration with elevation are closely related to variations in the July 500 hPa height over the QEI. Pressure-related variability in the vertical gradient of near-surface air temperature appears to be a major control on the inter-annual variations in average melt duration.

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Keywords
Cryosphere, Snowmelt, Global Change, Remote sensing, Global Change, Instruments and techniques, Hydrology, Glaciology (0736, 0776, 1863), Atmospheric Processes, Polar meteorology

Journal
Geophysical Research Letters
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