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Authors

Jacqueline Oehri, Universität Zürich
Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, Universität Zürich
Jin Soo Kim, Universität Zürich
Raleigh Grysko, Universität Zürich
Heather Kropp, Hamilton College
Inge Grünberg, Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung
Vitalii Zemlianskii, Universität Zürich
Oliver Sonnentag, University of Montreal
Eugénie S. Euskirchen, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Merin Reji Chacko, Universität Zürich
Giovanni Muscari, Istituto Nazionale Di Geofisica E Vulcanologia, Rome
Peter D. Blanken, University of Colorado Boulder
Joshua F. Dean, University of Bristol
Alcide di Sarra, ENEA Centro Ricerche Frascati
Richard J. Harding, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Ireneusz Sobota, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
Lars Kutzbach, Universität Hamburg
Elena Plekhanova, Universität Zürich
Aku Riihelä, Finnish Meteorological Institute
Julia Boike, Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung
Nathaniel B. Miller, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jason Beringer, The University of Western Australia
Efrén López-Blanco, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources
Paul C. Stoy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ryan C. Sullivan, Argonne National Laboratory
Marek Kejna, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
Frans Jan W. Parmentier, Universitetet i Oslo
John A. Gamon, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Mikhail Mastepanov, Aarhus Universitet
Christian Wille, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ)
Marcin Jackowicz-Korczynski, Aarhus Universitet
Dirk N. Karger, Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL
William L. Quinton, Cold Regions Research Centre
Jaakko Putkonen, University of North Dakota
Dirk van As, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Torben R. Christensen, Aarhus Universitet
Maria Z. Hakuba, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Robert S. Stone, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Stefan Metzger, National Ecological Observatory Network
Baptiste Vandecrux, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

Date of this Version

12-1-2022

Citation

Nature Communications ( 2022) 13:6379

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34049-3

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Abstract

Despite the importance of high-latitude surface energy budgets (SEBs) for land-climate interactions in the rapidly changing Arctic, uncertainties in their prediction persist. Here, we harmonize SEB observations across a network of vegetated and glaciated sites at circumpolar scale (1994–2021). Our variance-partitioning analysis identifies vegetation type as an important predictor for SEB-components during Arctic summer (June-August), compared to other SEB-drivers including climate, latitude and permafrost characteristics. Differences among vegetation types can be of similar magnitude as between vegetation and glacier surfaces and are especially high for summer sensible and latent heat fluxes. The timing of SEB-flux summer-regimes (when daily mean values exceed 0 Wm−2) relative to snow-free and -onset dates varies substantially depending on vegetation type, implying vegetation controls on snow-cover and SEB-flux seasonality. Our results indicate complex shifts in surface energy fluxes with land-cover transitions and a lengthening summer season, and highlight the potential for improving future Earth system models via a refined representation of Arctic vegetation types.

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