[HTML][HTML] The size-distribution of Earth's lakes

BB Cael, DA Seekell - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
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 …

[图书][B] Mathematics and climate

H Kaper, H Engler - 2013 - SIAM
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 …

Inland water bodies in China: Features discovered in the long-term satellite data

S Feng, S Liu, Z Huang, L Jing… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

Pan-Arctic melt pond fraction trend, variability, and contribution to sea ice changes

J Feng, Y Zhang, Q Cheng, JY Tsou - Global and Planetary Change, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

[图书][B] Leveraging distortions: Explanation, idealization, and universality in science

C Rice - 2021 - books.google.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Meltwater sources and sinks for multiyear Arctic sea ice in summer

D Perovich, M Smith, B Light, M Webster - The Cryosphere, 2021 - tc.copernicus.org
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 …

Idealized models, holistic distortions, and universality

C Rice - Synthese, 2018 - Springer
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 …

Surface and melt pond evolution on landfast first‐year sea ice in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

J Landy, J Ehn, M Shields… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Abundance and morphometry changes across the high‐mountain lake‐size gradient in the tropical A ndes of S outhern E cuador

PV Mosquera, H Hampel, RF Vázquez… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Object-based detection of Arctic sea ice and melt ponds using high spatial resolution aerial photographs

X Miao, H Xie, SF Ackley, DK Perovich, C Ke - Cold Regions Science and …, 2015 - Elsevier
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 …