Stable water isotopes and accumulation rates in the Union Glacier region, West Antarctica over the last 35 years

• Main Authors: Hoffmann, Kirstin, Fernandoy, Francisco, Meyer, Hanno, Thomas, Elizabeth R., Aliaga, Marcelo, Tetzner, Dieter, Freitag, Johannes, Opel, Thomas, Arigony-Neto, Jorge, Göbel, Christian Florian, Jaña, Ricardo, Rodríguez Oroz, Delia, Tuckwell, Rebecca, Ludlow, Emily, McConnell, Joseph R., Schneider, Christoph
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Ellsworth Mountains; The Antarctic; Union Glacier; Weddell; Weddell Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2018-161; https://www.the-cryosphere-discuss.net/tc-2018-161/

West Antarctica is well-known as a region that is highly susceptible to atmospheric and oceanic warming. However, due to the lack of long–term and in–situ meteorological observations little is known about the magnitude of the warming and the meteorological conditions in the region at the intersectio...