Antarctica-Regional Climate and Surface Mass Budget

• Published in: Current climate change reports Vol. 3; no. 4; pp. 303 - 315
• Main Authors: Favier, Vincent, Krinner, Gerhard, Amory, Charles, Gallée, Hubert, Beaumet, Julien, Agosta, Cécile
• Format: Journal Article Web Resource
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.12.2017; Springer Nature B.V; Springer Nature
• Subjects: air; Albedo; Antarctic ice sheet; Antarctic Oscillation; Antarctic region; Antarctica; anthropogenic activities; Atmosphere; Atmospheric circulation; Atmospheric circulation changes; Atmospheric models; Atmospheric processes; Atmospheric Sciences; Boundary layers; climate; Climate Change; Climate Change Management and Policy; Climate models; Climate trends; Climate variability; Climatology; Decades; Drifting snow; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth sciences & physical geography; Environment; Firn; Glaciation; Glaciology and Climate Change (T Payne; Global temperatures; ice; Ice observations; Ice sheets; Latitude; Literature reviews; Mass; Mass balance; Mass balance of ice sheets; Mass budget; Ocean circulation; Oceanography; Oceans; Physical, chemical, mathematical & earth Sciences; Physics; Physique, chimie, mathématiques & sciences de la terre; Regional analysis; Regional climates; remote sensing; Sciences de la terre & géographie physique; Sea ice; Section Editor; snow; Stable boundary layer; Surface drag; temperature; Temperature changes; Topical Collection on Glaciology and Climate Change; Trends; Uncertainty; Variability; Amundsen Sea; Ross Sea; Antarctica; Antarctic Peninsula; Indian Ocean; Antarctic region; Climate change; Surface mass balance; Antarctica; Regional modeling

We review recent literature on atmospheric, surface ocean and sea-ice observations and modeling results in the Antarctic sector and relate the observed climatic trends with the potential changes in the surface mass balance (SMB) of the ice sheet since 1900. Estimates of regional scale SMB distributi...