Spatiotemporal variability of ice algal blooms in southwest Greenland and its impact on bare ice albedo based on MERIS and MODIS satellite observations

Shujie Wang1, Marco Tedesco2,3, Patrick M Alexander3,4 and Min Xu5, (1)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (4)Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, (5)The University of Alabama, Department of Geography, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States