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Precipitation in the Antarctic gradually decreased
L.N. Vasiliev
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10.3233/978-1-58603-986-8-1
Remote Sensing for a Changing Europe
Abstract

Despite forecasts that global warming will increase Antarctic snowfall, there is some evidence that exactly the opposite is true. Analysis of the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) data indicates a decrease in the accumulation on the Antarctic ice sheet over the last 29 years. The GPCP satellite remote sensing data, spanning the years 1979 to 2007, exhibits 6-year cycles in precipitation rate. Precipitation in these cycles from 1982 to 2005 has gradually decreased by 15%. This reduction is statistically significant.

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