Insignificant Change in Antarctic Snowfall Since the International Geophysical Year
Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: 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.
Source: Science
Institutions: National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, The Ohio State University, University of Maine, University of Newcastle Australia, Australian Antarctic Division, Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre
Language: English
Subfield: Atmospheric Science
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2128399067