Winter in Antarctica: dark, cold, windy, and .... wet?? Measurements and modeling of extensive wintertime surface melt
Peter Kuipers Munneke1, Adrian J Luckman2, Suzanne Louise Bevan2, Ella Gilbert3, Paul Smeets4, Michiel R van den Broeke1, Wenshan Wang5, Charles S Zender6, David W Ashmore7, Bryn P Hubbard8, Andrew Orr3 and John King9, (1)Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, (2)Swansea University, Glaciology Group, Swansea, United Kingdom, (3)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (4)Utrecht University, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, (5)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (6)Univ California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, (7)University of Liverpool, School of Environmental Sciences, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (8)Aberystwyth University, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom, (9)British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom