Science
New way to measure Antarctic snowfall helps predict the ice sheet’s survival – National Geographic
A new satellite finds a surprise: Atmospheric rivers of moisture can dump huge amounts of snow over Antarctica, and now we can track it incredibly closely.
A new way of studying Antarcticas weather, not from Earths surface but from space, is revealing a phenomenon that could help determine how quickly the enormous ice sheet melts in a warming world.
The study, published on Tuesday in Geophysical Research Letters, focuses on atmospheric rivers, huge belts of water vapor that form over tropical and subtropical oceans, then ride the winds that encircle the planet, delivering sometimes copious amounts of rain and snow. One famous atmospheric river, called…
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