An up-to-date quality-controlled surface mass balance data set for the 90°-180°E Antarctica sector and 1950-2005 period

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research
• Main Authors: Magand O., Genthon C., Fily M., Krinner G., Picard G., Frezzotti M., Ekaykin A. A.
• Other Authors: Magand, O., Genthon, C., Fily, M., Krinner, G., Picard, G., Frezzotti, M., Ekaykin, A. A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Antarctic; Rae; Antarc*; Antarctica; E. Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11590/353606; https://doi.org/10.1029/2006JD007691; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2169-8996

On the basis of thousands of surface mass balance (SMB) field measurements over the entire Antarctic ice sheet it is currently estimated that more than 2 Gt of ice accumulate each year at the surface of Antarctica. However, these estimates suffer from large uncertainties. Various problems affect Ant...