Author: Carolyn Gramling / Source: Science News
Just a few powerful storms in Antarctica can have an outsized effect on how much snow parts of the southernmost continent get.
Those ephemeral storms, preserved in ice cores, might give a skewed view of how quickly the continent’s ice sheet has grown or shrunk over time.Relatively rare extreme precipitation events are responsible for more than 40 percent of the total annual snowfall across most of the continent — and in some places, as much as 60 percent, researchers report March 25 in Geophysical Research Letters.
Climatologist John Turner…
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