Precipitation over the interior East Antarctic Ice Sheet related to midlatitude blocking-high activity

• Main Authors: Massom, Robert A., Pook, Michael J., Comiso, Josefino C., Adams, Neil, Turner, John, Lachlan-Cope, Tom, Gibson, Timothy T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Meteorological Society 2004
• Subjects: Meteorology and Climatology; Glaciology; Atmospheric Sciences; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Law Dome; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/12278/; http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/1520-0442%282004%29017%3C1914%3APOTIEA%3E2.0.CO%3B2

Intermittent atmospheric blocking-high activity in the South Tasman Sea is shown to play a key role in delivering substantial snowfall as far south as at least 75degreesS on the central East Antarctic Ice Sheet plateau. Typically, cyclones fail to penetrate this far (>1000 km) inland, and accumul...