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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-865-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-865-2023
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
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21 Feb 2023
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Climatology and surface impacts of atmospheric rivers on West Antarctica
Michelle L. Maclennan
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Jan T. M. Lenaerts
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Christine A. Shields
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Andrew O. Hoffman
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Nander Wever
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Megan Thompson-Munson
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Andrew C. Winters
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Erin C. Pettit
College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
Theodore A. Scambos
Earth Science and Observation Center, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Jonathan D. Wille
Institut des Géosciences de l'Environment, Université Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France
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Atmospheric rivers are short-lived events that can have important impacts on the ice sheets but are not well resolved in climate models. They give rise to ice shelf loss and widespread melt in some areas but ice gain in others. The region of interest of this paper, Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, is one of the most important to understand in detail given potential sea level rise impacts and this study is therefore of interest to stakeholders and the general public as well as scientists concerned with atmosphere ice sheet interactions. The paper also sheds light on synoptic situations that lead to ARs and it is therefore of broad general scientific interest.
Atmospheric rivers are short-lived events that can have important impacts on the ice sheets but...
Short summary
Atmospheric rivers are air masses that transport large amounts of moisture and heat towards the poles. Here, we use a combination of weather observations and models to quantify the amount of snowfall caused by atmospheric rivers in West Antarctica which is about 10 % of the total snowfall each year. We then examine a unique event that occurred in early February 2020, when three atmospheric rivers made landfall over West Antarctica in rapid succession, leading to heavy snowfall and surface melt.
Atmospheric rivers are air masses that transport large amounts of moisture and heat towards the...
