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A Century Of Accumulation And Temperature Changes In Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, Elisabeth Isaksson, Wibjörn Karlén, Niels Gundestrup, Paul Andrew Mayewski, Sallie Whitlow, Mark Twickler
A Century Of Accumulation And Temperature Changes In Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, Elisabeth Isaksson, Wibjörn Karlén, Niels Gundestrup, Paul Andrew Mayewski, Sallie Whitlow, Mark Twickler
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A mass balance program was initiated in the Vestfjella-Heimefrontfjella area of western Dronning Maud Land during the austral summer of 1988–1989. As a part of this program, spatial and temporal variations in snow accumulation and temperature/stable isotopes are measured using shallow firn cores. In this paper we present surface accumulation data and discuss the climatic implications of the stable isotope records from two shallow firn cores. One 30-m-deep core, obtained about 200 km from the coast at 700 m asl (73°36′S, 12°26′W), covers the period 1932–1991. The other core was drilled at about 500 km from the coast at 2900 …