Variability and Climatic Significance of Snow in the Artic  Basin
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The snow on top of the Arctic pack ice is an important                  factor of the summer climates in the northern high latitudes,                   with implications for the long-term mass balance and stability of               the ice and potential impact on other parts of the world.  Its                  state may also serve as an indicator of climatic change induced                 by increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide.  This               effort will focus on production of a gridded ten-year data set of               snow melt and surface albedo in the Arctic Basin from DMSP                      satellite imagery.  The project is important because such a data                base would be invaulable in scientific studies of the complex                   ice-albedo feedback effects and may eventually lead to better                   formulation of such processes in numerical models of the climate                system.
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