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Changes in sea ice conditions and atmospheric circulation over the Southern Ocean play an important role in modulating Antarctic climate. However, observations of both sea ice and wind conditions are limited in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, both temporally and spatially…
Abstract Since it is the largest glacier system in Antarctica, the Lambert Glacier basin plays an important role in the mass balance of the overall Antarctic ice sheet.
An assessment of the glaciological and meteorological characteristics of Dome A, the … summit of the East Antarctic ice sheet, is made based on field investigations during the austral summer of … 2004/05.
Lowest temperature and snow accumulation rate are preconditions for retrieving the oldest ice core … from the polar ice sheets. The 10-m depth firn temperature at Dome A, the summit of the Antarctic Ice … Sheet, recorded by an automatic weather station (AWS) was −58.3 in 2005 and −58.2 in 2006…
Surface snow accumulation along the Chinese ITASE traverse line was measured using … bamboo stakes. Stakes along the initial (coastal) 300 km of the line were installed in 1997. The stake network was extended to 465 km in 1998, to 1100 km in 1999 and finally to 1228 … km (from the coast to Dome A)…