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Ice sheet surface mass balance

Book Chapter (2025)
Author(s)

Luke Trusel (The Pennsylvania State University)

Michelle L. Maclennan (British Antarctic Survey)

Rebecca Baiman (University of Colorado - Boulder)

Mahsa Bahrami (The Pennsylvania State University)

Christoph Kittel (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Université de Liège)

Rajashree T. Datta (TU Delft - Physical and Space Geodesy)

Charles Amory (Université Grenoble Alpes)

Research Group
Physical and Space Geodesy
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-25-0087.1
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Publication Year
2025
Language
English
Research Group
Physical and Space Geodesy
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Volume number
106
Pages (from-to)
S369-S371
Publisher
American Meteorological Society
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Abstract

Surface mass balance (SMB) represents the net effect of all processes that add or remove mass from the surface of an ice sheet. For the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS), snowfall is the primary SMB contributor, delivering ~2300 Gt annually (van Wessem et al. 2018; Agosta et al. 2019; Mottram et al. 2021). Sublimation represents the largest negative term in the AIS SMB, given that most surface melt refreezes within the firn (Mottram et al. 2021).

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