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Articles | Volume 14, issue 11
Articles | Volume 14, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3663-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3663-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 14, issue 11
Research article
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05 Nov 2020
Research article |  | 05 Nov 2020

Representative surface snow density on the East Antarctic Plateau

Alexander H. Weinhart, Johannes Freitag, Maria Hörhold, Sepp Kipfstuhl, and Olaf Eisen

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From 1 m snow profiles along a traverse on the East Antarctic Plateau, we calculated a representative surface snow density of 355 kg m−3 for this region with an error less than 1.5 %. This density is 10 % higher and density fluctuations seem to happen on smaller scales than climate model outputs suggest. Our study can help improve the parameterization of surface snow density in climate models to reduce the error in future sea level predictions.
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