Precipitation over the Interior East Antarctic Ice Sheet Related to Midlatitude Blocking-High Activity
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 75S on the central East Antarctic Ice Sheet plateau. Typically, cyclones fail to penetrate this far (> 1000 km) inland, and accumulation...
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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American Meteorological Society
2004
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<1914:POTIEA>2.0.CO;2 http://ecite.utas.edu.au/35695 |