Trends, noise and reentrant long-term persistence in Arctic sea ice

Details Trends, noise and reentrant long-term persistence in Arctic sea ice Trends, noise and reentrant long-term persistence in Arctic sea ice

2011-12-01

arxiv.org/abs/1112.0294v3

Physics

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics

17 pages, 7 figures

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We examine the long-term correlations and multifractal properties of daily satellite retrievals of Arctic sea ice albedo and extent, for periods of $\sim$ 23 years and 32 years respectively. The approach harnesses a recent development called Multifractal Temporally Weighted Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (MF-TWDFA), which exploits the intuition that points closer in time are more likely to be related than distant points. In both data sets we extract multiple crossover times, as characterized by generalized Hurst exponents, ranging from synoptic to decadal. The method goes beyond treatments that assume a single decay scale process, such as a first-order autoregression, which cannot be justifiably fit to these observations. Importantly, the strength of the seasonal cycle "masks" long term correlations on time scales beyond seasonal. When removing the seasonal cycle from the original record, the ice extent data exhibits white noise behavior from seasonal to bi-seasonal time scales, whereas the clear fingerprints of the short (weather) and long ($\sim$ 7 and 9 year) time scales remain, the latter associated with the recent decay in the ice cover. Therefore, long term persistence is reentrant beyond the seasonal scale and it is not possible to distinguish whether a given ice extent minimum/maximum will be followed by a minimum/maximum that is larger or smaller in magnitude.

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