{"id":4535,"date":"2016-01-12T12:07:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T17:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4535"},"modified":"2016-01-18T01:12:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T06:12:11","slug":"cloudy-skies-are-enhancing-ice-sheet-melt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/cloudy-skies-are-enhancing-ice-sheet-melt\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloudy skies are enhancing ice sheet melt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cloudy night skies are enhancing the ice sheet melt in Greenland by more than 30 per cent each year, according to a new study. Researchers believe this shows the need for including accurate cloud representations in climate modelling. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The research team examined the effects of different types of clouds, such as \u201cice-only\u201d or \u201cliquid-bearing\u201d. They combined satellite remote sensing with ground-based observations with a regional climate model to determine the impact of cloud cover. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authors found both ice-only and liquid-bearing clouds limited the amount of outgoing radiation, warming the surface of the ice sheet. However this effect was strongest at night, as the\u00a0clouds\u00a0limited the refreezing of water on the ice sheet surface, enhancing annual meltwater runoff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/ncomms10266\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Nature Communications\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>January 12<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"grid grid-12 tiny-space-below\">Kristof Van Tricht,\u00a0Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven,\u00a0Leuven,\u00a0Belgium<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloudy night skies are enhancing the ice sheet melt in Greenland by more than 30 per cent each year, according to a new study. Researchers believe this shows the need for including accurate cloud representations in climate modelling. The research team examined the effects of different types of clouds, such as \u201cice-only\u201d or \u201cliquid-bearing\u201d. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[31,2451,215,176],"class_list":["post-4535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-climate-change","tag-earth-system","tag-environment","tag-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1b9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4537,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions\/4537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}