Globally, there are millions of small lakes, but a small number of large lakes. Most key
ecosystem patterns and processes scale with lake size, thus this asymmetry between area …

Understanding the Earth's climate system and predicting its behavior under a range of “what
if” scenarios are among the greatest challenges for science today. The stakes are high, and …

Water bodies (WBs), such as lakes, ponds, and impoundments, provide essential ecosystem
services for human society, yet their characteristics and changes over large areas remain …

Abstract Because the Pan-Arctic melt pond significantly influences the mass balance of sea
ice, analyzing changes in the Pan-Arctic melt pond can offer insights into the Arctic sea ice …

An examination of how scientists deliberately and justifiably use pervasive distortions of
relevant features to explain and understand natural phenomena. A fundamental rule of logic …

On Arctic sea ice, the melt of snow and sea ice generate a summertime flux of fresh water to
the upper ocean. The partitioning of this meltwater to storage in melt ponds and deposition …

In this paper, I first argue against various attempts to justify idealizations in scientific models
that explain by showing that they are harmless and isolable distortions of irrelevant features …

The evolution of landfast sea ice melt pond coverage, surface topography, and mass
balance was studied in the Canadian Arctic during May–June 2011 and 2012, using a …

The number, size, and shape of lakes are key determinants of the ecological functionality of
a lake district. The lake area scaling relationships with lake number and volume enable …

High resolution aerial photographs used to detect and classify sea ice features can provide
accurate physical parameters to refine, validate, and improve climate models. However …