Insignificant change in Antarctic snowfall since the international geophysical year

Title: Insignificant change in Antarctic snowfall since the international geophysical year
Creator: Monaghan, Andrew J.; Bromwich, David H.; Kaspari, Susan D.; Morgan, V I; Oerter, Hans; Van, Ommen Tas D.; Van Der Veen , Cornelius J.; Wen, Jihong; Fogt, Rran L.; Wang, Sheng-Hung; Mayewski, Paul A.; Dixon, Daniel A.; Ekaykin, Alexy; Frezzotti, Massimo; Goodwin, Ian; Isaksson, Elisabeth
Relation: Science Vol. 313, Issue 5788, p. 827-831
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1128243
Publisher: Moses King
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2006
Description: Antarctic snowfall exhibits substantial variability over a range of time scales, 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 by combining model simulations and observations primarily 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.
Subject: Antarctic snowfall; global sea level; ice sheets; 1950s; winter warming
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/26846
Identifier: uon:1156
Identifier: ISSN:0036-8075
Language: eng
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