A doubling in snow accumulation in the western Antarctic Peninsula since 1850

[1] We present results from a new medium depth (136 metres) ice core drilled in a high accumulation site (73.59S, 70.36W) on the south-western Antarctic Peninsula during 2007. The Gomez record reveals a doubling of accumulation since the 1850s, from a decadal average of 0.49 mweq y 1 in 1855–1864 to...

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Main Authors: Elizabeth R. Thomas, Gareth J. Marshall, Joseph R. Mcconnell
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.464.7629
http://ruby.fgcu.edu/courses/twimberley/EnviroPhilo/Doubling.pdf