Surface and snowdrift sublimation estimates at the Belgian Antarctic station Princess Elisabeth, Dronning Maud Land: role in the surface mass balance

In the near-coastal regions of Antarctica, a significant fraction of the snow precipitating onto the surface, is removed again through sublimation – the direct conversion of solid snow particles into water vapour– either directly from the surface or of the drifting snow particles. Meteorological obs...

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Main Authors: Thiery, Wim, Gorodetskaya, Irina, Bintanja, Richard, Van Lipzig, Nicole, van den Broeke, Michiel
Format: Conference Object
Language:English
Published: 2011
Subjects:
Antarctica
boundary-layer meteorology
snowdrift
sublimation
automatic weather stations
Antarctic
Dronning Maud Land
East Antarctica
Antarc*
Online Access:https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/318535
https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/318535/3//paper.pdf
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Summary:In the near-coastal regions of Antarctica, a significant fraction of the snow precipitating onto the surface, is removed again through sublimation – the direct conversion of solid snow particles into water vapour– either directly from the surface or of the drifting snow particles. Meteorological observations from an Automatic Weather Station (AWS) near the Belgian research station Princess Elisabeth (PE) in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, are used to study surface and snowdrift sublimation and to assess their impacts on both the surface mass balance and the surface energy balance. The results for PE are each time compared to three other AWSs in Dronning Maud Land for which longer datasets are available. status: published

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