Warming events projected to become more frequent and last longer across Antarctica ...

• Main Authors: Feron, Sarah, Cordero, Raúl R., Damiani, Alessandro, Malhotra, Avni, Seckmeyer, Gunther, Llanillo, Pedro
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: [London] : Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature 2021
• Subjects: Antarctica; climate; ice shelf; seashore; warming; Dewey Decimal Classification500 | Naturwissenschaften; Dewey Decimal Classification600 | Technik; Antarctic; Dewey; East Antarctica; The Antarctic; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15488/14311; https://www.repo.uni-hannover.de/handle/123456789/14425

Summer temperatures are often above freezing along the Antarctic coastline, which makes ice shelves and coastal snowpacks vulnerable to warming events (understood as periods of consecutive days with warmer than usual conditions). Here, we project changes in the frequency, duration and amplitude of s...