The Role of Atmospheric Processes in the Antarctic Ice Mass Balance

• Main Author: Michele Carmen Smith
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1995
• Subjects: Antarctic; Halley Station; The Antarctic; Antarc*; British Antarctic Survey; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.23.9050; http://www.env.leeds.ac.uk/~gmann/./Public/Smiththesis/Smithesis.ps.gz

A continent-scale appraisal of the role played by blowing snow on the Antarctic climatology and the Antarctic ice-sheet surface mass balance is the principal concern of this research. Quantitative yearly estimates of total drift transports of snow by the Antarctic surface-winds, and a respective ann...