Contribution of light-absorbing impurities in snow to Greenland's darkening since 2009

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 509-512

  Dumont, M ^a   Brun, E ^b   Picard, G ^b,c   Michou, M ^b   Libois, Q ^b,c   Petit, J R ^b,c   Geyer, M ^b   Morin, S ^a   Josse, B ^b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBANCE; ALBEDO; DARK; DUST; ICE SHEET; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW COVER; SOLAR RADIATION; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84903532934     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2180     Document Type: Article

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