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Atmospheric Drivers of Extreme Antarctic Snowfall
Atmospheric Drivers of Extreme Antarctic Snowfall
Atmospheric Drivers of Extreme Antarctic Snowfall

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자료유형  
 학위논문 서양
최종처리일시  
20260202103115
ISBN  
9798314899182
DDC  
551.5
저자명  
Baiman, Rebecca Louise.
서명/저자  
Atmospheric Drivers of Extreme Antarctic Snowfall
발행사항  
[Sl] : University of Colorado at Boulder, 2025
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
형태사항  
136 p
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-11, Section: B.
주기사항  
Advisor: Winters, Andrew C.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado at Boulder, 2025.
초록/해제  
요약Antarctica contains the larger of Earth's two ice sheets and holds ~60% of Earth's freshwater. Antarctica has a negative mass balance meaning it is losing ice and contributing to global sea level rise. Snowfall over Antarctica adds mass to the ice sheet and thus helps to mitigate Antarctica's contribution to sea level rise. Recent research highlights the importance of extreme precipitation events, in particular, to Antarctic mass balance variability. This dissertation examines the atmospheric mechanisms, including atmospheric rivers (ARs), modulating Antarctic snowfall events. First, we use a self-organizing map to identify atmospheric environments conducive to high precipitation ARs that reach Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica. We find that ARs in this region are associated with low-high surface pressure couplets and anomalous moisture. High precipitation ARs, by comparison, are associated with more anomalous surface pressure couplets and an increase in dynamic lift that accompanies occluding cyclones. This regional study highlights the importance of synoptic-scale dynamic drivers in generating Antarctic AR precipitation and motivates a circumpolar investigation of such drivers across the Antarctic continent. To do so, we compare analog (environments with a low-high surface pressure couplet but no AR), AR, and top precipitation AR timesteps around Antarctica. We find that ARs are associated with more anomalous, poleward shifted low-high pressure couplets and larger moisture anomalies compared to analog timesteps. Top precipitation AR timesteps in every region are characterized by enhanced synoptic-scale pressure couplet anomalies but no significant increase in moisture availability. Instead, there is evidence that regionally-varying areas of tropical convection can excite Rossby wave trains that establish this anomalous dynamic environment near Antarctica. Finally, we broaden our scope beyond ARs to investigate atmospheric drivers during the top 15% of snowfall days across five regions around Antarctica. We employ a convolutional neural network to determine that the thermodynamic environment is the most important predictor of snowfall events in West Antarctica, but in East Antarctica the dynamic environment plays a more important role in identifying snowfall events. This dissertation highlights the importance of the synoptic-dynamic environment in driving Antarctic precipitation events, and submits the importance of considering multi-scale dynamics when evaluating Antarctic precipitation, and thus Antarctic surface mass balance, in present and future climates.
일반주제명  
Atmospheric sciences
일반주제명  
Meteorology
키워드  
Antarctica
키워드  
Atmospheric rivers
키워드  
Snowfall
키워드  
Convolutional neural network
기타저자  
University of Colorado at Boulder Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-11B.
전자적 위치 및 접속  
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