Apparent ice accumulation rate in East Antarctica: Relation with temperature and thinning pattern ...
We present here formal evidence of a strong linkage between temperature and East Antarctic ice accumulation over the past eight hundred kiloyears, after accounting for thinning. The conclusions are based on statistical analysis of a proposed empirical model based on ice core data from multiple locat...
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arXiv
2023
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2309.14373 https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14373 |
| Summary: | We present here formal evidence of a strong linkage between temperature and East Antarctic ice accumulation over the past eight hundred kiloyears, after accounting for thinning. The conclusions are based on statistical analysis of a proposed empirical model based on ice core data from multiple locations with ground topography ranging from local peaks to local valleys. The method permits adjustment of the apparent accumulation rate for a very general thinning process of ice sheet over the ages, is robust to any misspecification of the age scale, and does not require delineation of the accumulation rate from thinning. Records show 5% to 8% increase in the accumulation rate for every 1${}^\circ$C rise in temperature. This is consistent with the theoretical expectation on the average rate of increase in moisture absorption capacity of the atmosphere with rise in temperature, as inferred from the Clausius-Clapeyron equation. This finding reinforces indications of the resilience of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to the ... |
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