Articles | Volume 11, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2411-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2411-2017
Research article
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01 Nov 2017
Research article |  | 01 Nov 2017

Observationally constrained surface mass balance of Larsen C ice shelf, Antarctica

Peter Kuipers Munneke, Daniel McGrath, Brooke Medley, Adrian Luckman, Suzanne Bevan, Bernd Kulessa, Daniela Jansen, Adam Booth, Paul Smeets, Bryn Hubbard, David Ashmore, Michiel Van den Broeke, Heidi Sevestre, Konrad Steffen, Andrew Shepherd, and Noel Gourmelen

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AR by Peter Kuipers Munneke on behalf of the Authors (05 Jul 2017)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (17 Jul 2017) by Kenichi Matsuoka
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (28 Jul 2017)
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (07 Aug 2017)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (21 Aug 2017) by Kenichi Matsuoka
AR by Peter Kuipers Munneke on behalf of the Authors (29 Aug 2017)  Manuscript 
ED: Publish as is (08 Sep 2017) by Kenichi Matsuoka
AR by Peter Kuipers Munneke on behalf of the Authors (12 Sep 2017)  Manuscript 
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Short summary
How much snow falls on the Larsen C ice shelf? This is a relevant question, because this ice shelf might collapse sometime this century. To know if and when this could happen, we found out how much snow falls on its surface. This was difficult, because there are only very few measurements. Here, we used data from automatic weather stations, sled-pulled radars, and a climate model to find that melting the annual snowfall produces about 20 cm of water in the NE and over 70 cm in the SW.