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Zheng Duan

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Monitoring ice variations in Qinghai Lake from 1979 to 2016 using passive microwave remote sensing data

Författare

  • Yu Cai
  • Chang Qing Ke
  • Zheng Duan

Summary, in English

Lake ice is a sensitive indicator of climate change. Based on the disparities between the brightness temperatures of lake ice and water, passive microwave data can be used to monitor the ice variations of a lake. With focus on the analysis of long time series variability of lake ice, this study extracts four characteristic dates related to lake ice (the annual freeze start, freeze completion, ablation start and ablation completion dates) for Qinghai Lake from 1979 to 2016 using Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) and Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) passive microwave brightness temperature data. The corresponding freezing duration, ablation duration, complete freezing duration and ice coverage duration are calculated. Applying Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) daily snow products, the accuracy of the results derived from passive microwave data is validated. The validation analysis shows a strong agreement (R2 ranges from 0.70 to 0.85, mean absolute error (MAE) ranges from 2.25 to 3.94 days) in the freeze start, ablation start, and ablation completion dates derived from the MODIS data and passive microwave data; the ice coverage duration also has a small error (relative error (RE) = 2.95%, MAE = 3.13 days), suggesting that the results obtained from passive microwave data are reliable. The results show that the freezing dates of Qinghai Lake have been delayed and the ablation dates have advanced. Over 38 years, the freeze start date and freeze completion date have been pushed back by 6.16 days and 2.27 days, respectively, while the ablation start date and ablation completion date have advanced by 11.24 days and 14.09 days, respectively. The freezing duration and ablation duration have shortened by 3.89 days and 2.85 days, respectively, and the complete freezing duration and ice coverage duration have shortened by 14.84 days and 21.21 days, respectively. There is a significant negative correlation between the ice coverage duration and the mean air temperature in winter.

Publiceringsår

2017-12-31

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

120-131

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Science of the Total Environment

Volym

607-608

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Environmental Sciences

Nyckelord

  • Climate warming
  • Freeze-thaw dates
  • Lake ice
  • MODIS
  • Passive microwave remote sensing
  • Qinghai Lake

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0048-9697