A Satellite-Based Climatology of Wind-Induced Surface Temperature Anomalies for the Antarctic

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Günther Heinemann, Lukas Glaw, Sascha Willmes
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: katabatic winds; MODIS ice surface temperatures; ice shelves; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Ross Ice Shelf; Weddell; Byrd; Brunt Ice Shelf; Nimrod; Byrd Glacier; Nimrod Glacier; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11131539

It is well-known that katabatic winds can be detected as warm signatures in the surface temperature over the slopes of the Antarctic ice sheets. For appropriate synoptic forcing and/or topographic channeling, katabatic surges occur, which result in warm signatures also over adjacent ice shelves. Mod...