A darker cryosphere in a warming world

Biagio Di Mauro ()
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Nature Climate Change, 2020, vol. 10, issue 11, 979-980

Abstract: Dust and black carbon deposition in high-mountain Asia darkens snow and ice, increases sunlight absorption and causes melt — a reinforcing feedback. Now research shows the increasing importance of dust over black carbon at higher altitude, and the sensitivity of aerosol transport and delivery to Arctic sea-ice melt.

Date: 2020
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