Snow Accumulation Dynamics at Low Wind and Moderate Katabatic Wind Locations in Antarctica

该奖项是对一个为期两年的概念验证项目的支持，该项目部署了一种新设计和测试的仪器，该仪器将能够对积雪、混合和侵蚀进行(高时间分辨率)定量测量。该仪器以固定的时间间隔在积雪表面分散惰性时间标记，从而可以定量测量积雪速度及其空间均匀性。这项工作对于解释雪坑和冰芯的古气候记录具有重要的应用价值。

This award is for support of a two year proof-of-concept project to deploy a newly designed and tested instrument which will allow quantitative measurements (with high temporal resolution) of snow accumulation, mixing and erosion. The instrument disperses inert time markers in the snow surface at fixed time intervals which allows a quantitative measure of snow accumulation rate and its spatial uniformity. This work has important applications to the interpretation of paleoclimatic records from snow pits and ice cores.