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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1491-2017
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1491-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
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10 Nov 2017
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Regional Antarctic snow accumulation over the past 1000 years
Ice Dynamics and Paleoclimate, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK CB3 0ET
J. Melchior van Wessem
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Jason Roberts
Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems, Australian Antarctic Division, Hobart, Tasmania 7050, Australia
Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 7001, Australia
Elisabeth Isaksson
Geology and Geophysics, Norwegian Polar Institute, 9296 Tromsø, Norway
Elisabeth Schlosser
Institute of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, Austrian Polar Research Institute, Vienna, Austria
Institute of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Tyler J. Fudge
Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Paul Vallelonga
Centre for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Brooke Medley
Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Jan Lenaerts
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Nancy Bertler
Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University, Wellington 6012, New Zealand
National Ice Core Research Laboratory, GNS Science, Lower Hutt 5040, New Zealand
Michiel R. van den Broeke
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Daniel A. Dixon
Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469, USA
Massimo Frezzotti
ENEA, Agenzia Nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo sostenibile, Rome, Italy
Barbara Stenni
Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy
Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes, CNR, Venice, Italy
Mark Curran
Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems, Australian Antarctic Division, Hobart, Tasmania 7050, Australia
Alexey A. Ekaykin
Climate and Environmental Research Laboratory, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, 199397, Russia
Institute of Earth Sciences, Saint Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, 199178, Russia
Data sets
Antarctic regional snow accumulation composites over the past 1000 years E. Thomas https://doi.org/10.5285/c4ecfe25-12f2-453b-ad19-49a19e90ee32
Short summary
Regional Antarctic snow accumulation derived from 79 ice core records is evaluated as part of the PAGES Antarctica 2k working group. Our results show that surface mass balance for the total Antarctic ice sheet has increased at a rate of 7 ± 0.13 Gt dec-1 since 1800 AD, representing a net reduction in sea level of ~ 0.02 mm dec-1 since 1800 and ~ 0.04 mm dec-1 since 1900 AD. The largest contribution is from the Antarctic Peninsula.
Regional Antarctic snow accumulation derived from 79 ice core records is evaluated as part of...
