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Articles | Volume 18, issue 4
Articles | Volume 18, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-2001-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-2001-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 4
Research article
 | 
29 Apr 2024
Research article |  | 29 Apr 2024

From snow accumulation to snow depth distributions by quantifying meteoric ice fractions in the Weddell Sea

Stefanie Arndt, Nina Maaß, Leonard Rossmann, and Marcel Nicolaus

Data sets

Snow height and air temperature on sea ice from Snow Buoy measurements Marcel Nicolaus et al. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.875638

Snow thickness measurements at ice stations during RV POLARSTERN cruise PS111 Stefanie Arndt https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.946183

Snow thickness measurements at ice stations during POLARSTERN cruise PS118 Stefanie Arndt and Christian Haas https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.928966

Stefanie Arndt and Christian Haas Stefanie Arndt and Christian Haas https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.946177

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Short summary
Antarctic sea ice maintains year-round snow cover, crucial for its energy and mass budgets. Despite its significance, snow depth remains poorly understood. Over the last decades, Snow Buoys have been deployed extensively on the sea ice to measure snow accumulation but not actual depth due to snow transformation into meteoric ice. Therefore, in this study we utilize sea ice and snow models to estimate meteoric ice fractions in order to calculate actual snow depth in the Weddell Sea.
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