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Articles | Volume 17, issue 11
Articles | Volume 17, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4779-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4779-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 17, issue 11
Research article
 | 
10 Nov 2023
Research article |  | 10 Nov 2023

Investigating the spatial representativeness of East Antarctic ice cores: a comparison of ice core and radar-derived surface mass balance over coastal ice rises and Dome Fuji

Marie G. P. Cavitte, Hugues Goosse, Kenichi Matsuoka, Sarah Wauthy, Vikram Goel, Rahul Dey, Bhanu Pratap, Brice Van Liefferinge, Thamban Meloth, and Jean-Louis Tison

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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4779-2023-supplement

Data sets

Gridded surface mass balance derived from shallow radar stratigraphy over eight ice rises along the Dronning Maud Land coast and one site in the Dome Fuji region, Antarctica Cavitte, Marie https://doi.org/10.14428/DVN/J34MQO

Physico-chemical properties of the top 120 m of two ice cores in Dronning Maud Land (East Antarctica) Sarah Wauthy, Jean-Louis Tison, Mana Inoue, Saïda El Amri, Sainan Sun, Philippe Claeys, and Frank Pattyn https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7848435

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The net accumulation of snow over Antarctica is key for assessing current and future sea-level rise. Ice cores record a noisy snowfall signal to verify model simulations. We find that ice core net snowfall is biased to lower values for ice rises and the Dome Fuji site (Antarctica), while the relative uncertainty in measuring snowfall increases rapidly with distance away from the ice core sites at the ice rises but not at Dome Fuji. Spatial variation in snowfall must therefore be considered.
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