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Albedo evolution of seasonal Arctic sea ice by Perovich, Donald K., Polashenski, Christopher

“…There is an ongoing shift in the Arctic sea ice cover from multiyear ice to seasonal ice. Here we examine the impact of this shift on sea ice albedo. Our…”
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The mechanisms of sea ice melt pond formation and evolution by Polashenski, Chris, Perovich, Donald, Courville, Zoe

“…A series of observations were made on melting first year, landfast Arctic sea ice near Barrow, Alaska to explore the seasonal evolution of melt pond coverage…”
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Arctic sea ice in transformation: A review of recent observed changes and impacts on biology and human activity by Meier, Walter N., Hovelsrud, Greta K., van Oort, Bob E.H., Key, Jeffrey R., Kovacs, Kit M., Michel, Christine, Haas, Christian, Granskog, Mats A., Gerland, Sebastian, Perovich, Donald K., Makshtas, Alexander, Reist, James D.

“…Sea ice in the Arctic is one of the most rapidly changing components of the global climate system. Over the past few decades, summer areal extent has declined…”
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The spatial distribution of solar radiation under a melting Arctic sea ice cover by Frey, Karen E., Perovich, Donald K., Light, Bonnie

“…The sea ice cover of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas is currently undergoing a fundamental shift from multiyear ice to first‐year ice. Field observations of sea…”
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Anatomy of a late spring snowfall on sea ice by Perovich, Donald, Polashenski, Christopher, Arntsen, Alexandra, Stwertka, Carolyn

“…Spring melt initiation is a critical process for Arctic sea ice. Melting conditions decrease surface albedo at a time of high insolation, triggering powerful…”
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Impact of snow accumulation on CryoSat-2 range retrievals over Arctic sea ice: An observational approach with buoy data by Ricker, Robert, Hendricks, Stefan, Perovich, Donald K., Helm, Veit, Gerdes, Rüdiger

“…Radar altimetry measurements of the current satellite mission CryoSat‐2 show an increase of Arctic sea ice thickness in autumn 2013, compared to previous years…”
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Increasing solar heating of the Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas, 1979–2005: Attribution and role in the ice-albedo feedback by Perovich, Donald K., Light, Bonnie, Eicken, Hajo, Jones, Kathleen F., Runciman, Kay, Nghiem, Son V.

“…Over the past few decades the Arctic sea ice cover has decreased in areal extent. This has altered the solar radiation forcing on the Arctic…”
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Regional variability in sea ice melt in a changing Arctic by Perovich, Donald K., Richter-Menge, Jacqueline A.

“…In recent years, the Arctic sea ice cover has undergone a precipitous decline in summer extent. The sea ice mass balance integrates heat and provides insight…”
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Sunlight, clouds, sea ice, albedo, and the radiative budget: the umbrella versus the blanket by Perovich, Donald K

“…The surface radiation budget of the Arctic Ocean plays a central role in summer ice melt and is governed by clouds and surface albedo. I calculated the net…”
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Sunlight, water, and ice: Extreme Arctic sea ice melt during the summer of 2007 by Perovich, Donald K., Richter-Menge, Jacqueline A., Jones, Kathleen F., Light, Bonnie

“…The summer extent of the Arctic sea ice cover, widely recognized as an indicator of climate change, has been declining for the past few decades reaching a…”
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Changing ice and changing light: trends in solar heat input to the upper Arctic ocean from 1988 to 2014 by Perovich, Donald, Light, Bonnie, Dickinson, Suzanne

“…The Arctic sea-ice cover has undergone a significant decline in recent decades. The melt season is starting earlier, ice is thinner and seasonal ice dominates…”
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ADVANCING POLAR PREDICTION CAPABILITIES ON DAILY TO SEASONAL TIME SCALES by Jung, Thomas, Gordon, Neil D., Bauer, Peter, Bromwich, David H., Chevallier, Matthieu, Day, Jonathan J., Dawson, Jackie, Doblas-Reyes, Francisco, Fairall, Christopher, Goessling, Helge F., Holland, Marika, Inoue, Jun, Iversen, Trond, Klebe, Stefanie, Lemke, Peter, Losch, Martin, Makshtas, Alexander, Mills, Brian, Nurmi, Pertti, Perovich, Donald, Reid, Philip, Renfrew, Ian A., Smith, Gregory, Svensson, Gunilla, Tolstykh, Mikhail, Yang, Qinghua

“…The polar regions have been attracting more and more attention in recent years, fueled by the perceptible impacts of anthropogenic climate change. Polar…”
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Transmission and absorption of solar radiation by Arctic sea ice during the melt season by Light, Bonnie, Grenfell, Thomas C., Perovich, Donald K.

“…The partitioning of incident solar radiation between sea ice, ocean, and atmosphere strongly affects the Arctic energy balance during summer. In addition to…”
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Massive Phytoplankton Blooms Under Arctic Sea Ice by Arrigo, Kevin R., Perovich, Donald K., Pickart, Robert S., Brown, Zachary W., van Dijken, Gert L., Lowry, Kate E., Mills, Matthew M., Palmer, Molly A., Balch, William M., Bahr, Frank, Bates, Nicholas R., Benitez-Nelson, Claudia, Bowler, Bruce, Brownlee, Emily, Ehn, Jens K., Frey, Karen E., Garley, Rebecca, Laney, Samuel R., Lubelczyk, Laura, Mathis, Jeremy, Matsuoka, Atsushi, Mitchell, B. Greg, Moore, G. W. K., Ortega-Retuerta, Eva, Pal, Sharmila, Polashenski, Chris M., Reynolds, Rick A., Schieber, Brian, Sosik, Heidi M., Stephens, Michael, Swift, James H.

“…Phytoplankton blooms over Arctic Ocean continental shelves are thought to be restricted to waters free of sea ice. Here, we document a massive phytoplankton…”
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THE CHANGING ARCTIC SEA ICE COVER by PEROVICH, DONALD K.

“…Arctic sea ice cover has declined over the past few decades. The end of summer September ice extent reached a record minimum in 2007. While there has been a…”
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Loss of sea ice in the Arctic by Perovich, Donald K, Richter-Menge, Jacqueline A

“…The Arctic sea ice cover is in decline. The areal extent of the ice cover has been decreasing for the past few decades at an accelerating rate. Evidence also…”
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Essential gaps and uncertainties in the understanding of the roles and functions of Arctic sea ice by Gerland, Sebastian, Barber, David, Meier, Walt, Mundy, Christopher J, Holland, Marika, Kern, Stefan, Li, Zhijun, Michel, Christine, Perovich, Donald K, Tamura, Takeshi

“…While Arctic sea ice is changing, new observation methods are developed and process understanding improves, whereas gaps in observations and understanding…”
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Phytoplankton blooms beneath the sea ice in the Chukchi sea by Arrigo, Kevin R., Perovich, Donald K., Pickart, Robert S., Brown, Zachary W., van Dijken, Gert L., Lowry, Kate E., Mills, Matthew M., Palmer, Molly A., Balch, William M., Bates, Nicholas R., Benitez-Nelson, Claudia R., Brownlee, Emily, Frey, Karen E., Laney, Samuel R., Mathis, Jeremy, Matsuoka, Atsushi, Greg Mitchell, B., Moore, G.W.K., Reynolds, Rick A., Sosik, Heidi M., Swift, James H.

“…In the Arctic Ocean, phytoplankton blooms on continental shelves are often limited by light availability, and are therefore thought to be restricted to waters…”
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Seasonal evolution and interannual variability of the local solar energy absorbed by the Arctic sea ice–ocean system by Perovich, Donald K., Nghiem, Son V., Markus, Thorsten, Schweiger, Axel

“…The melt season of the Arctic sea ice cover is greatly affected by the partitioning of the incident solar radiation between reflection to the atmosphere and…”
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Seasonality of spectral albedo and transmittance as observed in the Arctic Transpolar Drift in 2007 by Nicolaus, Marcel, Gerland, Sebastian, Hudson, Stephen R., Hanson, Susanne, Haapala, Jari, Perovich, Donald K.

“…The first continuous and high temporal resolution record of spectral albedo and transmittance of snow and sea ice in the Arctic Ocean over an entire summer…”
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