Towards critical white ice conditions in lakes under global warming
Abstract The quality of lake ice is of uppermost importance for ice safety and under-ice ecology, but its temporal and spatial variability is largely unknown. Here we conducted a coordinated lake ice quality sampling campaign across the Northern Hemisphere during one of the warmest winters since 188...
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| author | Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer Ulrike Obertegger Hugo Rudebeck Ellinor Jakobsson Joachim Jansen Galina Zdorovennova Sheel Bansal Benjamin D. Block Cayelan C. Carey Jonathan P. Doubek Hilary Dugan Oxana Erina Irina Fedorova Janet M. Fischer Laura Grinberga Hans-Peter Grossart Külli Kangur Lesley B. Knoll Alo Laas Fabio Lepori Jacob Meier Nikolai Palshin Mark Peternell Merja Pulkkanen James A. Rusak Sapna Sharma Danielle Wain Roman Zdorovennov |
| author_facet | Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer Ulrike Obertegger Hugo Rudebeck Ellinor Jakobsson Joachim Jansen Galina Zdorovennova Sheel Bansal Benjamin D. Block Cayelan C. Carey Jonathan P. Doubek Hilary Dugan Oxana Erina Irina Fedorova Janet M. Fischer Laura Grinberga Hans-Peter Grossart Külli Kangur Lesley B. Knoll Alo Laas Fabio Lepori Jacob Meier Nikolai Palshin Mark Peternell Merja Pulkkanen James A. Rusak Sapna Sharma Danielle Wain Roman Zdorovennov |
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| description | Abstract The quality of lake ice is of uppermost importance for ice safety and under-ice ecology, but its temporal and spatial variability is largely unknown. Here we conducted a coordinated lake ice quality sampling campaign across the Northern Hemisphere during one of the warmest winters since 1880 and show that lake ice during 2020/2021 commonly consisted of unstable white ice, at times contributing up to 100% to the total ice thickness. We observed that white ice increased over the winter season, becoming thickest and constituting the largest proportion of the ice layer towards the end of the ice cover season when fatal winter drownings occur most often and light limits the growth and reproduction of primary producers. We attribute the dominance of white ice before ice-off to air temperatures varying around the freezing point, a condition which occurs more frequently during warmer winters. Thus, under continued global warming, the prevalence of white ice is likely to substantially increase during the critical period before ice-off, for which we adjusted commonly used equations for human ice safety and light transmittance through ice. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0333e838995b49778db6ff7cdbf965a12023-06-11T11:17:44ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232022-08-011311810.1038/s41467-022-32633-1Towards critical white ice conditions in lakes under global warmingGesa A. Weyhenmeyer0Ulrike Obertegger1Hugo Rudebeck2Ellinor Jakobsson3Joachim Jansen4Galina Zdorovennova5Sheel Bansal6Benjamin D. Block7Cayelan C. Carey8Jonathan P. Doubek9Hilary Dugan10Oxana Erina11Irina Fedorova12Janet M. Fischer13Laura Grinberga14Hans-Peter Grossart15Külli Kangur16Lesley B. Knoll17Alo Laas18Fabio Lepori19Jacob Meier20Nikolai Palshin21Mark Peternell22Merja Pulkkanen23James A. Rusak24Sapna Sharma25Danielle Wain26Roman Zdorovennov27Department of Ecology and Genetics/Limnology, Uppsala UniversityFondazione Edmund Mach, Research and Innovation CentreDepartment of Ecology and Genetics/Limnology, Uppsala UniversityDepartment of Ecology and Genetics/Limnology, Uppsala UniversityDepartment of Ecology and Genetics/Limnology, Uppsala UniversityNorthern Water Problems Institute, Karelian Research Centre RASU.S. Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research CenterCenter for Ecological Sciences, Tetra Tech, Inc.Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia TechSchool of Natural Resources & Environment, Lake Superior State UniversityCenter for Limnology, University of Wisconsin-MadisonLomonosov Moscow State UniversitySt Petersburg State UniversityDepartment of Biology, Franklin & Marshall CollegeLaboratory of Hydrobiology, Institute of Biology, University of LatviaDepartment Plankton and Microbial Ecology, Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland FisheriesCentre for Limnology, Chair of Hydrobiology and Fishery, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life- SciencesItasca Biological Station, University of MinnesotaCentre for Limnology, Chair of Hydrobiology and Fishery, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life- SciencesInstitute of Earth Sciences, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern SwitzerlandU.S. Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research CenterNorthern Water Problems Institute, Karelian Research Centre RASDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of GothenburgFinnish Environment InstituteDepartment of Biology, Queen’s UniversityDepartment of Biology, York University7 Lakes AllianceNorthern Water Problems Institute, Karelian Research Centre RASAbstract The quality of lake ice is of uppermost importance for ice safety and under-ice ecology, but its temporal and spatial variability is largely unknown. Here we conducted a coordinated lake ice quality sampling campaign across the Northern Hemisphere during one of the warmest winters since 1880 and show that lake ice during 2020/2021 commonly consisted of unstable white ice, at times contributing up to 100% to the total ice thickness. We observed that white ice increased over the winter season, becoming thickest and constituting the largest proportion of the ice layer towards the end of the ice cover season when fatal winter drownings occur most often and light limits the growth and reproduction of primary producers. We attribute the dominance of white ice before ice-off to air temperatures varying around the freezing point, a condition which occurs more frequently during warmer winters. Thus, under continued global warming, the prevalence of white ice is likely to substantially increase during the critical period before ice-off, for which we adjusted commonly used equations for human ice safety and light transmittance through ice.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32633-1 |
| spellingShingle | Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer Ulrike Obertegger Hugo Rudebeck Ellinor Jakobsson Joachim Jansen Galina Zdorovennova Sheel Bansal Benjamin D. Block Cayelan C. Carey Jonathan P. Doubek Hilary Dugan Oxana Erina Irina Fedorova Janet M. Fischer Laura Grinberga Hans-Peter Grossart Külli Kangur Lesley B. Knoll Alo Laas Fabio Lepori Jacob Meier Nikolai Palshin Mark Peternell Merja Pulkkanen James A. Rusak Sapna Sharma Danielle Wain Roman Zdorovennov Towards critical white ice conditions in lakes under global warming Nature Communications |
| title | Towards critical white ice conditions in lakes under global warming |
| title_full | Towards critical white ice conditions in lakes under global warming |
| title_fullStr | Towards critical white ice conditions in lakes under global warming |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards critical white ice conditions in lakes under global warming |
| title_short | Towards critical white ice conditions in lakes under global warming |
| title_sort | towards critical white ice conditions in lakes under global warming |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32633-1 |
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