Water stable isotopes in snow along a traverse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: insights into moisture origins, air-masses distillation history, and climatic value

• Published in: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
• Main Authors: ANDRESSA MARCHER, RONALDO T. BERNARDO, JEFFERSON C. SIMÕES, JEFFREY AUGER
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Academia Brasileira de Ciências 2022
• Subjects: water stable isotopes; surface snow; isotopic fractionation; air masses; moisture origin; WAIS; Science; Q; Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Austral; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Bellingshausen Sea; Pacific; Weddell; Pine Island Glacier; Institute Ice Stream; Möller Ice Stream; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202220210353; https://doaj.org/article/5aeedf7bd5a945b2b59bdf50d9dc68b1

Abstract This study investigated the water isotopic content (δ18O, δD, d-excess) of the surface snow along a 995 km traverse over the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from the Möller Ice Stream – Institute Ice Stream to the upper reaches of the Pine Island Glacier drainage basin. The purpose of this study w...