BARE ICE FIELDS DEVELOPED IN THE INLAND PART OF ANTARCTICA

• Main Authors: タカハシ シュウヘイ, エンドウ タツオ, アズマ ノブヒコ, メシダ シゲミ, Shuhei TAKAHASHI, Tatsuo ENDOH, Nobuhiko AZUMA, Shigemi MESHIDA
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Kitami Institute of Technology 1992
• Subjects: East Antarctica; Seal Rock; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar meteorology and glaciology; Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Polar Meteorology and Glaciology
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=3706; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00003706/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=3706&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

Observations of a bare ice field was carried out at Seal Rock in the S∅r Rondane area, East Antarctica. A large sublimation rate, 200 to 280mm/a, was observed on the bare ice field. Air temperature on the bare ice was about 1℃ higher than that on snow surface. The large sublimation rate was explained from the low albedo of bare ice; its value was roughly estimated from heat budget considerations. The bare ice fields were classified into 4 types according to origin.