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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
Volume 115, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD013410
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- Austrian Science Funds (FWF) [V31-N10]
- U.S. National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs
- UCAR and Lower Atmosphere Facilities Oversight Section
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High-resolution Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System archive data were used to investigate high-precipitation events at the deep ice core drilling site Kohnen Station, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, during the period 2001-2006. The precipitation is found to be highly episodic, with, on average, approximately eight high-precipitation events per year that can bring more than half of the total annual accumulation. The duration of the events varies between 1 day and about 1 week. On most days in the remaining time of the year, however, daily precipitation sums are about one order of magnitude smaller than that for the high-precipitation events. Synoptic weather patterns causing these events were directly connected to frontal systems of cyclones in only 20% of the 51 investigated cases. The majority of the events occurred in connection with (blocking) anticyclones and correspondingly amplified Rossby waves, which lead to advection of warm, moist air from relatively low latitudes. Possible changes in the seasonality and frequency of these events in a different climate can lead to a bias in ice core properties and might also strongly influence the mass balance of the Antarctic continent and thus global sea level change.
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