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, 2012 The cryosphere is the frozen water part of the Earth’s system. The word is derived from the Greek “kryos,” meaning cold. Snow and ice are the main ingredients of the cryosphere and may be found in many forms, including snow cover, sea ice, freshwater ice, permafrost, and continental ice masses such as glaciers and ice sheets. Snow is precipitation made
Shrinidhi Ambinakudige, Kabindra Joshi
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, 2021 AbstractSynthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides large coverage and high resolution, and it has been proven to be sensitive to both surface and near-surface features related to accumulation, ablation, and metamorphism of snow and firn. Exploiting this sensitivity, SAR polarimetry and polarimetric interferometry found application to land ice for instance
Hajnsek, Irena +6 more
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The microbiome of cryospheric ecosystems
Nature Communications, 2022 AbstractThe melting of the cryosphere is among the most conspicuous consequences of climate change, with impacts on microbial life and related biogeochemistry. However, we are missing a systematic understanding of microbiome structure and function across cryospheric ecosystems.
Massimo Bourquin +9 more
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Loss and Damage in the mountain cryosphere [PDF]
Regional Environmental Change, 2018 The mountain cryosphere, which includes glaciers, permafrost, and snow, is one of the Earth’s systems most strongly affected by climate change. In recent decades, changes in the cryosphere have been well documented in many high-mountain regions. While there are some benefits from snow and ice loss, the negative impacts, including from glacier lake ...
Christian Huggel +7 more
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The Disappearing Cryosphere: Impacts and Ecosystem Responses to Rapid Cryosphere Loss [PDF]
BioScience, 2012 The cryosphere—the portion of the Earth's surface where water is in solid form for at least one month of the year—has been shrinking in response to climate warming. The extents of sea ice, snow, and glaciers, for example, have been decreasing. In response, the ecosystems within the cryosphere and those that depend on the cryosphere have been changing ...
Fountain, Andrew G. +5 more
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GSA Today, 2017 This article provides concise documentation of the ongoing retreat of glaciers, along with the implications that the ice loss presents, as well as suggestions for geoscience educators to better convey this story to both students and citizens. We present the retreat of glaciers—the loss of ice—as emblematic of the recent, rapid contraction of the ...
Burkhart, Patrick A. +5 more
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Editorial: Cryospheric remote sensing
Frontiers in Remote Sensing, 2023 Peer ...
Zheng, Guoxiong +3 more
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APECS Alpine Cryosphere Newsletter
, 2021 APECS Alpine Cryosphere Newsletter is an international publication of the Alpine Cryosphere Group at the APECS (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists). Aiming to promote and provide a network for the broad spread of studies that increasingly characterize scientific research in the Alpine regions.
Tapia Baldis, Carla +3 more
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