Increasing Antarctic Ice Mass to Help Offset Sea Level Rise
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Liquid Water Availability
2.2. Excess Water Vapor over Antarctica
Log10 es = −7.90298 (373.16/T − 1) + 5.02808 Log10(373.16/T) − 1.3816 × 10−7 (1011.344 (1−T/373.16) − 1) + 8.1328 × 10−3 (10−3.49149 (373.16/T−1) − 1) + Log10(1013.246) | (1) |
Log10 esi = −9.09718 (273.16/T − 1) − 3.56654 Log10(273.16/T) + 0.876793 (1 − T/273.16) + Log10(6.1071) | (2) |
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Frequency of Vapor Removal | EoC Excess Water (kg/m2) | EoC Excess Water with Dry Bias Correction (kg/m2) | EoC Cloud Liquid Water Removed (kg/m2) | EoC SLR Offset (cm) | EoC SLR Offset with Dry Bias Correction (cm) | EoC Cloud SLR Offset (cm) |
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Daily | 2700 | 10,800 | 570 | 2.6 | 10.4 | 0.6 |
Weekly | 390 | 1540 | 570 | 0.37 | 1.5 | 0.6 |
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Larson, E.J.L.; Rosenlof, K.H.; Gao, R.-S. Increasing Antarctic Ice Mass to Help Offset Sea Level Rise. Atmosphere 2023, 14, 1564. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14101564
Larson EJL, Rosenlof KH, Gao R-S. Increasing Antarctic Ice Mass to Help Offset Sea Level Rise. Atmosphere. 2023; 14(10):1564. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14101564
Chicago/Turabian StyleLarson, Erik J. L., Karen H. Rosenlof, and Ru-Shan Gao. 2023. "Increasing Antarctic Ice Mass to Help Offset Sea Level Rise" Atmosphere 14, no. 10: 1564. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14101564