Mark C Serreze

Biographic Data

ID5232731
NAMEMark C Serreze
GIVEN NAMESMark C
FAMILY NAMESerreze
SIGNATURESERREZE M C
AFFILIATIONSCooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
ORCID0000-0001-7670-0140
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Extreme Arctic Weather and Community Impacts in Nunavut

    Open AccessShari Fox, Alex Crawford et al.ARTICLEWeather, Climate, and Society2023

    Arctic communities are experienced with severe weather, but impacts can still be serious, particularly when the intensity or persistence of hazardous conditions is extreme. Such was the case for the community of Clyde River (Kangiqtugaapik), Nunavut, Canada, which experienced 33 blizzard days during winter 2021/22—likely the most at Clyde River since at least 1978/79. Blizzard conditions resulted from unusually frequent high winds rather than exc…

  • Arctic rain on snow events

    Open AccessMark C Serreze, Julia Gustafson et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    When rain falls on an existing cover of snow, followed by low temperatures, or falls as freezing rain, it can leave a hard crust. These Arctic rain on snow (ROS) events can profoundly influence the environment and in turn, human livelihoods. Impacts can be immediate (e.g. on human travel, herding, or harvesting) or evolve or accumulate, leading to massive starvation-induced die-offs of reindeer, caribou, and musk oxen, for example. We provide her…

  • Brave New Arctic

    Mark C SerrezeBOOKBrave New Arctic2018

    An insider account of how researchers unraveled the mystery of the thawing ArcticIn the 1990s, researchers in the Arctic noticed that floating summer sea ice had begun receding. This was accompanied by shifts in ocean circulation and unexpected changes in weather patterns throughout the world. The Arctic's perennially frozen ground, known as permafrost, was warming, and treeless tundra was being overtaken by shrubs. What was going on? Brave New A…

  • The Arctic’s rapidly shrinking sea ice cover

    Open AccessJulienne Strœve, Julienne C Stroeve et al.ARTICLEClimatic Change2012

    The sequence of extreme September sea ice extent minima over the past decade suggests acceleration in the response of the Arctic sea ice cover to external forcing, hastening the ongoing transition towards a seasonally open Arctic Ocean. This reflects several mutually supporting processes. Because of the extensive open water in recent Septembers, ice cover in the following spring is increasingly dominated by thin, first-year ice (ice formed during…

  • Processes and impacts of Arctic amplification

    Open AccessMark C Serreze, Roger G BarryARTICLEGlobal and Planetary Change2011

  • Multiple Effects of Changes in Arctic Snow Cover

    Open AccessTerry V Callaghan, Margareta Johansson et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2011Cited by: 7References: 76

  • Diagnosis of the record discharge of Arctic-draining Eurasian rivers in 2007

    Open AccessM A Rawlins, Mark C Serreze et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2009

    Aggregate annual discharge from the six largest Arctic-draining Eurasian rivers achieved an all-time record high in 2007, accentuating a long-term upward trend that argues for intensification of the Arctic hydrologic cycle. This record discharge was due in part to strong positive anomalies in late winter snow water equivalent across much of northern Eurasia. These anomalies arose in response to an unusual pattern of atmospheric circulation in lat…

  • Arctic sea ice decline

    Open AccessJulienne Strœve, M M Holland et al.ARTICLEGeophysical Research Letters2007

    From 1953 to 2006, Arctic sea ice extent at the end of the melt season in September has declined sharply. All models participating in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC AR4) show declining Arctic ice cover over this period. However, depending on the time window for analysis, none or very few individual model simulations show trends comparable to observations. If the multi‐model ensemble mean time series p…

  • Role of Land-Surface Changes in Arctic Summer Warming

    Open AccessF Stuart Chapin, Matthew Sturm et al.ARTICLEScience2005

    A major challenge in predicting Earth's future climate state is to understand feedbacks that alter greenhouse-gas forcing. Here we synthesize field data from arctic Alaska, showing that terrestrial changes in summer albedo contribute substantially to recent high-latitude warming trends. Pronounced terrestrial summer warming in arctic Alaska correlates with a lengthening of the snow-free season that has increased atmospheric heating locally by abo…

  • Catskill Mountain Water Resources

    Allan Frei, Richard L Armstrong et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the Association of…2002Cited by: 2

    We present an initial assessment of the potential impact of climate change on water supply in the Metropolitan East Coast (MEC) region of the U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change. A version of the Thornthwaite water-balance model is applied to one of six basins in the Catskill Mountains that together provide water for approximately 10 million people in New York City and other municipalities. In …

  • Observational Evidence of Recent Change in the Northern High-Latitude Environment

    Open AccessMark C Serreze, John E Walsh et al.ARTICLEClimatic Change2000