Climate dependent contrast in surface mass balance in East Antarctica over the past 216 ka

• Published in: Journal of Glaciology
• Main Authors: F. PARRENIN, S. FUJITA, A. ABE-OUCHI, K. KAWAMURA, V. MASSON-DELMOTTE, H. MOTOYAMA, F. SAITO, M. SEVERI, B. STENNI, R. UEMURA, E. W. WOLFF
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2016
• Subjects: ice cores; surface mass balance; vertical thinning; volcanic synchronization; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Meteorology. Climatology; QC851-999; Antarctic; Dome Fuji; East Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; EPICA; ice core; Ice Sheet; Journal of Glaciology
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2016.85; https://doaj.org/article/7af8b4dffc5e4981ac3089eb1f59001e

Documenting past changes in the East Antarctic surface mass balance is important to improve ice core chronologies and to constrain the ice-sheet contribution to global mean sea-level change. Here we reconstruct past changes in the ratio of surface mass balance (SMB ratio) between the EPICA Dome C (E...