Present and Future of Rainfall in Antarctica
International audience While most precipitation in Antarctica falls as snow, little is known about liquid precipitation, although it can have ecological and climatic impacts. This study combines meteorological reports at 10 stations with the ERA5 reanalysis to provide a climatological characterizati...
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ftunivnantes:oai:HAL:insu-03726951v1 2023-05-15T13:31:27+02:00 Present and Future of Rainfall in Antarctica Vignon, É. Roussel, M. -L. Gorodetskaya, I. V. Genthon, C. Berne, A. Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD) Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL) 2021 https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-03726951 https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-03726951/document https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-03726951/file/Geophysical%20Research%20Letters%20-%202021%20-%20Vignon%20-%20Present%20and%20Future%20of%20Rainfall%20in%20Antarctica.pdf https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL092281 en eng HAL CCSD info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1029/2020GL092281 insu-03726951 https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-03726951 https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-03726951/document https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-03726951/file/Geophysical%20Research%20Letters%20-%202021%20-%20Vignon%20-%20Present%20and%20Future%20of%20Rainfall%20in%20Antarctica.pdf BIBCODE: 2021GeoRL.4892281V doi:10.1029/2020GL092281 http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/licences/copyright/ info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess Geophysical Research Letters https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-03726951 Geophysical Research Letters, 2021, 48, ⟨10.1029/2020GL092281⟩ [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2021 ftunivnantes https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL092281 2022-08-09T23:33:19Z International audience While most precipitation in Antarctica falls as snow, little is known about liquid precipitation, although it can have ecological and climatic impacts. This study combines meteorological reports at 10 stations with the ERA5 reanalysis to provide a climatological characterization of rainfall occurrence over Antarctica. Along the East Antarctic coast, liquid precipitation occurs 22 days per year at most and coincides with maritime intrusions and blocking anticyclones. Over the north western Antarctic Peninsula, rainfall occurs more than 50 days per year on average and the recent summer cooling was accompanied by a decrease of −35 annual rainy days per decade between 1998 and 2015 at Faraday Vernadsky. Projections from seven latest generation climate models reveal that Antarctic coasts will experience a warming and more frequent and intense rainfall by the end of the century. Rainfall is expected to impact new regions of the continent, increasing their vulnerability to melting by the preconditioning of surface snow. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Antarctica Université de Nantes: HAL-UNIV-NANTES Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Faraday ENVELOPE(-64.256,-64.256,-65.246,-65.246) Geophysical Research Letters 48 8 |
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International audience While most precipitation in Antarctica falls as snow, little is known about liquid precipitation, although it can have ecological and climatic impacts. This study combines meteorological reports at 10 stations with the ERA5 reanalysis to provide a climatological characterization of rainfall occurrence over Antarctica. Along the East Antarctic coast, liquid precipitation occurs 22 days per year at most and coincides with maritime intrusions and blocking anticyclones. Over the north western Antarctic Peninsula, rainfall occurs more than 50 days per year on average and the recent summer cooling was accompanied by a decrease of −35 annual rainy days per decade between 1998 and 2015 at Faraday Vernadsky. Projections from seven latest generation climate models reveal that Antarctic coasts will experience a warming and more frequent and intense rainfall by the end of the century. Rainfall is expected to impact new regions of the continent, increasing their vulnerability to melting by the preconditioning of surface snow. |
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Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD) Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL) |
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Present and Future of Rainfall in Antarctica |
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Present and Future of Rainfall in Antarctica |
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