Examining Atmospheric River Life Cycles in East Antarctica

• Main Authors: Wille, Jonathan D., Pohl, Benjamin, Favier, Vincent, Winters, Andrew C., Baiman, Rebecca, Cavallo, Steven M., Leroy-Dos Santos, Christophe, Clem, Kyle, Udy, Danielle G., Vance, Tessa R., Gorodetskaya, Irina, Codron, Francis, Berchet, Antoine
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2024
• Subjects: atmospheric rivers; Antarctica; atmospheric dynamics; atmospheric blocking; diabatic processes; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Dumont d'Urville; Dumont-d'Urville; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/670426; https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000670426

During atmospheric river (AR) landfalls on the Antarctic ice sheet, the high waviness of the circumpolar polar jet stream allows for subtropical air masses to be advected toward the Antarctic coastline. These rare but high-impact AR events are highly consequential for the Antarctic mass balance; yet...