Impacts of snow accumulation on air temperature measured by automatic weather stations on the Antarctic ice sheet

• Main Authors: Yongfeng, Ma, Lingen, Bian, Cunde, Xiao
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Polar Research Institute of China - PRIC 2011
• Subjects: Atmosphere; Cryosphere; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Zhongshan; Zhongshan Station; Advances in Polar Science; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Polar Science
• Online Access: http://library.arcticportal.org/2408/; http://library.arcticportal.org/2408/1/A20110103.pdf

The heights of automatic weather station (AWS) sensors over the Antarctic ice sheet are nominal and change with snow accumulation or ablation. Therefore, the measured data may not be used directly. In this study, we analyzed the impact of snow accumulation on AWS observations using continuous measur...