Surface water, vegetation, and fire as drivers of the terrestrial Arctic-boreal albedo feedback

The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average, due in part to the albedo feedbacks of a diminishing cryosphere. As snow cover extent decreases, the underlying land is exposed, which has lower albedo and therefore absorbs more radiation, warming the surface and causing a positive feedback...

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Published in:	Environmental Research Letters
Main Authors:	E E Webb, M M Loranty, J W Lichstein
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IOP Publishing 2021-01-01
Subjects:	albedo Arctic boreal surface water permafrost climate change
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac14ea