Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Decreasing surface albedo signifies a growing importance of clouds for Greenland Ice Sheet meltwater production

  • J. C. Ryan,
  • L. C. Smith,
  • S. W. Cooley,
  • B. Pearson,
  • N. Wever,
  • E. Keenan,
  • J. T. M. Lenaerts

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31434-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Here the authors use remote sensing observations and machine learning to show that clouds will become increasingly important for determining the Greenland Ice Sheet’s contribution to global sea levels due to decreasing albedo in the ablation zone.