Fifty years of instrumental surface mass balance observations at Vostok Station, central Antarctica

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Ekaykin, Alexey A., Lipenkov, Vladimir Ya., Tebenkova, Natalia A.
• Other Authors: Russian Science Foundation
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2023
• Subjects: Vostok Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jog.2023.53; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022143023000539

Abstract We present the surface mass balance (SMB) dataset from Vostok Station's accumulation stake farms which provide the longest instrumental record of its kind obtained with a uniform technique in central Antarctica over the last 53 years. The snow build-up values at individual stakes demon...