Testing and application of a model for snow redistribution (Snow_Blow) in the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Mills, Stephanie C, Le Brocq, Anne, Winter, Kate, Smith, Michael, Hillier, John, Ardakova, Ekaterina, Boston, Clare, Sugden, David, Woodward, John
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Research Online 2019
• Subjects: Ellsworth Mountains; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://ro.uow.edu.au/smhpapers1/973; https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1987&context=smhpapers1

Wind-driven snow redistribution can increase the spatial heterogeneity of snow accumulation on ice caps and ice sheets, and may prove crucial for the initiation and survival of glaciers in areas of marginal glaciation. We present a snowdrift model (Snow_Blow), which extends and improves the model of...