Amory, Charles (author), Buizert, Christo (author), Buzzard, Sammie (author), Case, Elizabeth (author), Clerx, Nicole (author), Culberg, Riley (author), Datta, Rajashree Tri (author), Lhermitte, S.L.M. (author), Wouters, B. (author) Most of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are covered with firn — the transitional material between snow and glacial ice. Firn is vital for understanding ice-sheet mass balance and hydrology, and palaeoclimate. In this Review, we synthesize knowledge of firn, including its formation, observation, modelling and relevance to ice sheets....
review 2024