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Articles | Volume 13, issue 12
Articles | Volume 13, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-3405-2019
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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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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.
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