Climatology and Surface Impacts of Atmospheric Rivers on West Antarctica

• Main Authors: Maclennan, Michelle L., Lenaerts, Jan T. M., Shields, Christine A., Hoffman, Andrew O., Wever, Nander, Thompson-Munson, Megan, Winters, Andrew C., Pettit, Erin C., Scambos, Theodore A., Wille, Jonathan D.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; West Antarctica; Amundsen Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Byrd; Marie Byrd Land; Merra; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2022-101; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2022-101/

Atmospheric rivers (ARs) transport large amounts of moisture from the mid- to high-latitudes and they are a primary driver of the most extreme snowfall events on Antarctica. ARs also raise surface temperatures when they make landfall over Antarctica, leading to surface melting. In this study, we cha...