Insignificant change in Antarctic snowfall since the International Geophysical Year


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Antarctic snowfall exhibits substantial variability over a range of timescales, with consequent impacts on global sea level and the mass balance of the ice sheets. To assess how snowfall has affected the thickness of the ice sheets in Antarctica and to provide an extended perspective, we derived a 50-year time series of snowfall accumulation over the continent is derived by combining model simulations and observations primilarly from ice cores. There has been no statistically significant change in snowfall since the 1950s indicating that Antarctic precipitation is not mitigating global sea level rise as expected, despite recent winter warming of the overlying atmosphere.



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DOI 10.1126/science.1128243

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Monaghan, A. J. , Bromwich, D. H. , Fogt, R. L. , Wang, S. H. , Mayewski, P. A. , Dixon, D. A. , Ekaykin, A. , Frezzotti, M. , Goodwin, I. , Isaksson, E. , Kaspari, S. D. , Morgan, V. I. , Oerter, H. , van Ommen, T. D. , Veen, C. and Wen, J. (2006): Insignificant change in Antarctic snowfall since the International Geophysical Year , Science, 313 (5788), pp. 827-831 . doi: 10.1126/science.1128243


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