Representative surface snow density on the East Antarctic Plateau

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Weinhart, Alexander H., Freitag, Johannes, Hörhold, Maria, Kipfstuhl, Sepp, Eisen, Olaf
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH 2020
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Dronning Maud Land; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/53224/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/53224/1/tc-14-3663-2020.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/14/3663/2020/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.cc875138-aea9-40b5-85ef-a6a633f71e38

Surface mass balances of polar ice sheets are essential to estimate the contribution of ice sheets to sea level rise. Uncertain snow and firn densities lead to significant uncertainties in surface mass balances, especially in the interior regions of the ice sheets, such as the East Antarctic Plateau...