Precipitation over the Interior East Antarctic Ice Sheet Related to Midlatitude Blocking-High Activity

• Main Authors: Massom, RA, Pook, MJ, Comiso, JC, Adams, ND, Turner, J, Lachlan-Cope, T, Gibson, TT
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Meteorological Society 2004
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Palaeoclimatology; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Law Dome; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<1914:POTIEA>2.0.CO;2; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/35695

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...