The Weddell Sea Region: An Important Precipitation Channel to the Interior of the Antarctic Ice Sheet as Revealed by Glaciochemical Investigation of Surface Snow Along the Longest Trans-Antarctic Route

• Published in: Annals of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Dahe, Qin, Mayewski, Paul Andrew, Jiawen, Ren, Cunde, Xiao, Junying, Sun
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@UMaine 1999
• Subjects: Glaciogeology; Geochemistry; Glaciology; Cryology; Climate Change; Hydrology; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Antarctica; East Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Larsen Ice Shelf; South pole; Weddell Sea
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/ers_facpub/206; https://doi.org/10.3189/172756499781821012; https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/context/ers_facpub/article/1211/viewcontent/WeddellSeaRegion_ImportantPrecipitationChannel.pdf

Glaciochemical analysis of surface snow samples, collected along a profile crossing the Antarctic ice sheet from the Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula, via the Antarctic Plateau through South Pole, Vostok and Komsomolskaya to Mirny station (at the east margin of East Antarctica), shows that the...