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From white to green: Snow cover loss and increased vegetation productivity in the European Alps

Published:June 2022

Author(s):Sabine B. Rumpf, Mathieu Gravey, Olivier Brönnimann, Miska Luoto, Carmen Cianfrani, Gregoire Mariethoz, Antoine Guisan

Publisher:Science

This study quantifies global warming's effects on greening (productivity gain), browning (productivity loss), and snow cover decline in the European Alps.Read More →

An Unprecedented Record Low Antarctic Sea-ice Extent during Austral Summer 2022

Published:April 2022

Author(s):Jinfei Wang, Hao Luo, Qinghua Yang, Jiping Liu, Lejiang Yu, Qian Shi & Bo Han

Publisher:Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

This study assesses the causes behind the record low 2022 Antarctic sea-ice extent.Read More →

Intense atmospheric rivers can weaken ice shelf stability at the Antarctic Peninsula

Published:April 2022

Author(s):Jonathan D. Wille, Vincent Favier, Nicolas C. Jourdain, Christoph Kittel, Jenny V. Turton, Cécile Agosta, Irina V. Gorodetskaya, Ghislain Picard, Francis Codron, Christophe Leroy-Dos Santos, Charles Amory, Xavier Fettweis, Juliette Blanchet, Vincent Jomelli & Antoine Berchet

Publisher:Communications Earth & Environment

This study shows that the most intense atmospheric rivers induce extremes in temperature, surface melt, sea-ice disintegration, or large swells that destabilize the ice shelves with 40% probability.Read More →

Mt. Everest’s highest glacier is a sentinel for accelerating ice loss

Published:February 2022

Author(s):Mariusz Potocki, Paul Andrew Mayewski, Tom Matthews, L. Baker Perry, Margit Schwikowski, Alexander M. Tait, Elena Korotkikh, Heather Clifford, Shichang Kang, Tenzing Chogyal Sherpa, Praveen Kumar Singh, Inka Koch, & Sean Birkel

Publisher:NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science

This study shows the significant and increasing role that melting and sublimation have on the mass loss of Mt. Everest’s highest glacier.Read More →

Accelerated mass loss of Himalayan glaciers since the Little Ice Age

Published:December 2021

Author(s):Ethan Lee, Jonathan L. Carrivick, Duncan J. Quincey, Simon J. Cook, William H. M. James & Lee E. Brown

Publisher:Scientific Reports

This study shows a ten-fold acceleration in Himalayan glacier ice loss.Read More →

Projected increases in population exposure of daily climate extremes in eastern China by 2050

Published:December 2021

Author(s):Shah Sun, Tan-Long Dai, Zun-Ya Wang, Jie-Ming Chou, Qing-Chen Chao, Pei-Jun Shi

Publisher:Advances in Climate Change Research

This peer-reviewed study uses climate and population growth models to project how population exposure to extreme climate conditions in eastern China will change by 2050. Read More →

Thermokarst acceleration in Arctic tundra driven by climate change and fire disturbance

Published:December 2021

Author(s):Yaping Chen, Mark J. Lara, Benjamin M. Jones, Gerald V. Frost, Feng Sheng Hu

Publisher:One Earth

This study identifies climate change as the principal driver of all thermokarst formed during 1950–2015 and predicts that climate change and wildfire will synergistically accelerate thermokarst as the Arctic transitions in this century.Read More →

Arctic Report Card 2021: Rapid and pronounced warming continues to drive the evolution of the Arctic environment

Published:December 2021

Author(s):Twila A. Moon, Matthew L. Druckenmiller, Richard L. Thoman

Publisher:NOAA

This report provides environmental information on the current state of different components of the Arctic environmental system relative to historical records.Read More →

New climate models reveal faster and larger increases in Arctic precipitation than previously projected

Published:November 2021

Author(s):Michelle R. McCrystall, Julienne Stroeve, Mark Serreze, Bruce C. Forbes, & James A. Screen

Publisher:Nature Communications

This study demonstrates that the transition from a snow- to rain-dominated Arctic in the summer and autumn is projected to occur decades earlier and at a lower level of global warming than previously thought.Read More →

Observing, Measuring, and Assessing the Consequences of Snow Drought

Published:November 2021

Author(s):Alexander R. Gottlieb and Justin S. Mankin

Publisher:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

This study evaluates the scientific challenges and uncertainties arising from differences in defining and measuring snow droughts.Read More →

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