Brief communication: Rare ambient saturation during drifting snow occurrences at a coastal location of East Antarctica

Amory, Charles; Kittel, Christoph

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-3405-2019

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-3405-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-3405-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

Brief communication

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19 Dec 2019

Brief communication |

| 19 Dec 2019

Brief communication: Rare ambient saturation during drifting snow occurrences at a coastal location of East Antarctica

Charles Amory and Christoph Kittel

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 06 Oct 2019
- AC1: 'response to RC1', Charles Amory, 08 Oct 2019
RC2: 'Review “Brief communication: Rare ambient saturation during drifting snow occurrences in coastal East Antarctica” by Charles Amory and Christoph Kittel', Michael Lehning, 12 Oct 2019
- AC2: 'response to RC2 M. Lehning', Charles Amory, 25 Oct 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (05 Nov 2019) by Guillaume Chambon

AR by Charles Amory on behalf of the Authors (06 Nov 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (08 Nov 2019) by Guillaume Chambon

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (09 Nov 2019)

ED: Publish as is (27 Nov 2019) by Guillaume Chambon

Short summary

Snow mass fluxes and vertical profiles of relative humidity are used to document concurrent occurrences of drifting snow and near-surface air saturation at a site dominated by katabatic winds in East Antarctica. Despite a high prevalence of drifting snow conditions, we demonstrate that saturation is reached only in the most extreme wind and transport conditions and discuss implications for the understanding of surface mass and atmospheric moisture budgets of the Antarctic ice sheet.