Snow on the Ross Ice Shelf: comparison of reanalyses and observations from automatic weather stations

Snow accumulation measurements from automatic weather stations (AWS) around the Ross Ice Shelf (RIS), Antarctica, are used to provide a new set of ground-based observations which are compared to precipitation from the ECMWF ERA-Interim and NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis-2 datasets. The high temporal resolutio...

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Main Authors: L. Cohen, S. Dean
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2013-09-01
Series:The Cryosphere
Online Access:http://www.the-cryosphere.net/7/1399/2013/tc-7-1399-2013.pdf