Publication Date:
2006-08-12
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.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Monaghan, Andrew J -- Bromwich, David H -- Fogt, Ryan L -- Wang, Sheng-Hung -- Mayewski, Paul A -- Dixon, Daniel A -- Ekaykin, Alexey -- Frezzotti, Massimo -- Goodwin, Ian -- Isaksson, Elisabeth -- Kaspari, Susan D -- Morgan, Vin I -- Oerter, Hans -- Van Ommen, Tas D -- Van der Veen, Cornelius J -- Wen, Jiahong -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Aug 11;313(5788):827-31.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Polar Meteorology Group, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16902135" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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