Surface Skin Temperature and Its Trend Observations From IASI on Board MetOp Satellites

Zhou, Daniel K.; Larar, Allen M.; Liu, Xu

doi:10.1109/jstars.2020.3046421

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“…In our case, the average annual surface temperature increase was 0.43 • C decade −1 . This rate is close to the average rate of surface skin temperature increase for the Northern hemisphere, that is 0.49 • C decade −1 , estimated from satellite measurements for a period of approximately 13 years [46]. Sobrino et al [47] also estimated high rates of land surface temperature increase (average 0.36 • C decade −1 ) for the Northern hemisphere at latitudes 23.5 • -66.5 • , using satellite products for the period 2003-2016.…”

Section: Significant Changes Of Climatic Variablessupporting

confidence: 83%

Four Decades of Surface Temperature, Precipitation, and Wind Speed Trends over Lakes of Greece

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Climate change is known to affect world’s lakes in many ways. Lake warming is perhaps the most prominent impact of climate change but there is evidence that changes of precipitation and wind speed over the surface of the lakes may also have a significant effect on key limnological processes. With this study we explored the interannual trends of surface temperature, precipitation, and wind speed over 18 lakes of Greece using ERA5-Land data spanning over a period of almost four decades. We used generalized additive models (GAMs) to conduct time-series analysis in order to identify significant trends of change. Our results showed that surface temperature has significantly increased in all lakes with an average rate of change for annual temperature of 0.43 °C decade−1. With regard to precipitation, we identified significant trends for most lakes and particularly we found that precipitation decreased during the first two decades (1981–2000), but since 2000 it increased notably. Finally, wind speed did not show any significant change over the examined period with the exception for one lake. In summary, our work highlights the major climatic changes that have occurred in several freshwater bodies of Greece. Thus, it improves our understanding on how climate change may have impacted the ecology of these important ecosystems and may aid us to identify systems that are more vulnerable to future changes.

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confidence: 83%