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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-593-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-593-2024
Research article
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12 Feb 2024
Research article |  | 12 Feb 2024

Extreme events of snow grain size increase in East Antarctica and their relationship with meteorological conditions

Claudio Stefanini, Giovanni Macelloni, Marion Leduc-Leballeur, Vincent Favier, Benjamin Pohl, and Ghislain Picard

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Local and large-scale meteorological conditions have been considered in order to explain some peculiar changes of snow grains on the East Antarctic Plateau from 2000 to 2022, by using remote sensing observations and reanalysis. We identified some extreme grain size events on the highest ice divide, resulting from a combination of conditions of low wind speed and low temperature. Moreover, the beginning of seasonal grain growth has been linked to the occurrence of atmospheric rivers.
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