Mapping snow cover and snow depth across the Lake Limnopolar watershed on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, Maritime Antarctica

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Fassnacht, S. R., López-Moreno, Juan I., Toro, M., Hultstrand, D. M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2013
• Subjects: Antarctic; Byers; Byers peninsula; Las Palmas; Livingston Island; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/82586; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102012001216

Few parts of Antarctica are not permanently covered in ice. The retreat of the ice sheet from Byers Peninsula on western Livingston Island, Maritime Antarctica, has provided a new area of seasonal snow cover. Snow surveys were conducted in late November 2008 at the time of peak accumulation across t...