British scientists found that Antarctica’s western ice sheet has seen record levels of snowfall in the last 30 years. These findings come just days after U.S. scientists published findings that Antarctica’s ice was growing, not shrinking.
A study published by the British Antarctic Survey found that while the West Antarctic ice sheet has been shrinking in recent decades, 300 years of ice core “records show a dramatic increase in snow accumulation during the twentieth century” due to intensifying storms in the Amundsen Sea Low (ASL) since the beginning of the 20th Century.
“Since the record is 300 years long, we can see that the amount of snow that has been accumulating in this region since the 1990s is the highest we have seen in the last 300 years. The 20th century increases look unusual,” Elizabeth Thomas, a BAS paleoclimatologist and lead author of the new study, said in a statement.
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