Recent Ice Trends in Swiss Mountain Lakes: 20-year Analysis of MODIS Imagery. (arXiv:2103.12434v3 [cs.CV] UPDATED)

Depleting lake ice is a climate change indicator, just like sea-level rise or
glacial retreat. Monitoring Lake Ice Phenology (LIP) is useful because
long-term freezing and thawing patterns serve as sentinels to understand
regional and global climate change. We report a study for the Oberengadin
region of Switzerland, where several small- and medium-sized mountain lakes are
located. We observe the LIP events, such as freeze-up, break-up and ice cover
duration, across two decades (2000-2020) from optical satellite images. We
analyse …

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