Observing and modeling ice sheet surface mass balance

JTM Lenaerts, B Medley… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Surface mass balance (SMB) provides mass input to the surface of the Antarctic and
Greenland Ice Sheets and therefore comprises an important control on ice sheet mass …

Changing state of the climate system

SK Gulev, PW Thorne, J Ahn, FJ Dentener… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
2 Chapter 2 assesses observed large-scale changes in climate system drivers, key climate
indicators and 3 principal modes of variability. Chapter 3 considers model performance and …

Stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet during the pre-industrial Holocene

RS Jones, JS Johnson, Y Lin, AN Mackintosh… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
The rate and magnitude of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) contribution to global sea-level rise
beyond 2100 ce remains highly uncertain. Past changes of the AIS, however, offer …

Increased snowfall over the Antarctic Ice Sheet mitigated twentieth-century sea-level rise

B Medley, ER Thomas - Nature Climate Change, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in accumulated snowfall over the Antarctic Ice Sheet have an immediate
and time-delayed impact on global mean sea level. The immediate impact is due to the …

Regional Antarctic snow accumulation over the past 1000 years

ER Thomas, JM Van Wessem, J Roberts… - Climate of the …, 2017 - cp.copernicus.org
Here we present Antarctic snow accumulation variability at the regional scale over the past
1000 years. A total of 79 ice core snow accumulation records were gathered and assigned …

Polar regions. chapter 3, ipcc special report on the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate

M Meredith, M Sommerkorn, S Cassotta, C Derksen… - 2019 - repository.library.noaa.gov
This chapter assesses the state of physical, biological and social knowledge concerning the
Arctic and Antarctic ocean and cryosphere, how they are affected by climate change, and …

Evaluation of current and projected Antarctic precipitation in CMIP5 models

C Palerme, C Genthon, C Claud, JE Kay, NB Wood… - Climate dynamics, 2017 - Springer
On average, the models in the Fifth Climate Model Intercomparison Project archive predict
an increase in Antarctic precipitation from 5.5 to 24.5% between 1986–2005 and 2080 …

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Antarctica: Occurrence in continental and coastal surface snow

M Vecchiato, E Argiriadis, S Zambon, C Barbante… - Microchemical …, 2015 - Elsevier
Despite geographical isolation and almost complete absence of human settlements,
Antarctica is affected by Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs): the traces of these impacts …

How much snow falls on the Antarctic ice sheet?

C Palerme, JE Kay, C Genthon, T l'Ecuyer… - The …, 2014 - tc.copernicus.org
Climate models predict Antarctic precipitation to increase during the 21st century, but their
present day Antarctic precipitation differs. A model-independent climatology of the Antarctic …

Evidence for a “Little Ice Age” glacial advance within the Antarctic Peninsula–Examples from glacially-overrun raised beaches

AR Simms, MJ Bentley, LM Simkins… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recognition of how dynamic the Antarctic ice sheets and glaciers were during the late
Holocene has grown in recent years. Proxy data suggests the presence of Neoglacial …