Autonomous ice sheet surface mass balance measurements from cosmic rays

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: I. M. Howat, S. de la Peña, D. Desilets, G. Womack
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2018
• Subjects: Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Geology; QE1-996.5; Greenland; Summit Camp; glacier; Ice Sheet; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2099-2018; https://doaj.org/article/e2d20861880a4b4aa9cf826b7e65e193

Observations of mass accumulation and net balance on glaciers and ice sheets are sparse due to the difficulty of acquiring manual measurements and the lack of a reliable remote-sensing method. The methodology for recording the water-equivalent accumulation of snowfall using the attenuation of fast n...