Algae Drive Enhanced Darkening of Bare Ice on the Greenland Ice Sheet

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2017GL075958" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2017GL075958</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2017GL075958" target="_blank" >10.1002/2017GL075958</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Algae Drive Enhanced Darkening of Bare Ice on the Greenland Ice Sheet

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Surface ablation of the Greenland ice sheet is amplified by surface darkening caused by light-absorbing impurities such as mineral dust, black carbon, and pigmented microbial cells. We present the first quantitative assessment of the microbial contribution to the ice sheet surface darkening, based on field measurements of surface reflectance and concentrations of light-absorbing impurities, including pigmented algae, during the 2014 melt season in the southwestern part of the ice sheet. The impact of algae on bare ice darkening in the study area was greater than that of nonalgal impurities and yielded a net albedo reduction of 0.038 +/- 0.0035 for each algal population doubling. We argue that algal growth is a crucial control of bare ice darkening, and incorporating the algal darkening effect will improve mass balance and sea level projections of the Greenland ice sheet and ice masses elsewhere.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Algae Drive Enhanced Darkening of Bare Ice on the Greenland Ice Sheet

Popis výsledku anglicky

Surface ablation of the Greenland ice sheet is amplified by surface darkening caused by light-absorbing impurities such as mineral dust, black carbon, and pigmented microbial cells. We present the first quantitative assessment of the microbial contribution to the ice sheet surface darkening, based on field measurements of surface reflectance and concentrations of light-absorbing impurities, including pigmented algae, during the 2014 melt season in the southwestern part of the ice sheet. The impact of algae on bare ice darkening in the study area was greater than that of nonalgal impurities and yielded a net albedo reduction of 0.038 +/- 0.0035 for each algal population doubling. We argue that algal growth is a crucial control of bare ice darkening, and incorporating the algal darkening effect will improve mass balance and sea level projections of the Greenland ice sheet and ice masses elsewhere.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10618 - Ecology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Geophysical Research Letters

ISSN

0094-8276

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

44

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

22

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

11463-11471

Kód UT WoS článku

000419102300028

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85034216492