Ground-based measurements of spatial and temporal variability of snow accumulation in East Antarctica

• Published in: Reviews of Geophysics
• Main Authors: Eisen, Olaf, Frezzotti, Massimo, Genthon, Christophe, Isaksson, Elisabeth, Magand, Olivier, van den Broeke, Michiel R., Dixon, Daniel A., Ekaykin, Alexey, Holmlund, Per, Kameda, Takao, Karlöf, Lars, Kaspari, Susan, Lipenkov, Vladimir Y., Oerter, Hans, Takahashi, Shuhei, Vaughan, David G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2008
• Subjects: Meteorology and Climatology; Glaciology; Antarctic; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; East Antarctica; Sastrugi; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/11454/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/11454/1/2006RG000218.pdf; http://www.agu.org/journals/rg/rg0802/2006RG000218/2006RG000218.pdf

The East Antarctic Ice Sheet is the largest, highest, coldest, driest, and windiest ice sheet on Earth. Understanding of the surface mass balance (SMB) of Antarctica is necessary to determine the present state of the ice sheet, to make predictions of its potential contribution to sea level rise, and...