Dark zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet controlled by distributed biologically-active impurities

The surface types that comprise the dark zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet, an area of bare ice with low albedo, are unknown. Here, the authors use UAV imagery to show that, during the melt-season, biologically active surface impurities are responsible for spatial albedo patterns and the dark zone its...

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Main Authors: Jonathan C. Ryan, Alun Hubbard, Marek Stibal, Tristram D. Irvine-Fynn, Joseph Cook, Laurence C. Smith, Karen Cameron, Jason Box
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03353-2