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  • 标题:Blowing snow in coastal Adélie Land, Antarctica: three atmospheric-moisture issues
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  • 作者:H. Barral ; C. Genthon ; A. Trouvilliez
  • 期刊名称:The Cryosphere
  • 印刷版ISSN:1994-0416
  • 电子版ISSN:1994-0424
  • 出版年度:2014
  • 卷号:8
  • 期号:5
  • 页码:1905-1919
  • DOI:10.5194/tc-8-1905-2014
  • 出版社:Copernicus Publications
  • 摘要:A total of 3 years of blowing-snow observations and associated meteorology along a 7 m mast at site D17 in coastal Adélie Land are presented. The observations are used to address three atmospheric-moisture issues related to the occurrence of blowing snow, a feature which largely affects many regions of Antarctica: (1) blowing-snow sublimation raises the moisture content of the surface atmosphere close to saturation, and atmospheric models and meteorological analyses that do not carry blowing-snow parameterizations are affected by a systematic dry bias; (2) while snowpack modelling with a parameterization of surface-snow erosion by wind can reproduce the variability of snow accumulation and ablation, ignoring the high levels of atmospheric-moisture content associated with blowing snow results in overestimating surface sublimation, affecting the energy budget of the snowpack; (3) the well-known profile method of calculating turbulent moisture fluxes is not applicable when blowing snow occurs, because moisture gradients are weak due to blowing-snow sublimation, and the impact of measurement uncertainties are strongly amplified in the case of strong winds.
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