Journal of Undergraduate Research
Keywords
Bayesian model, Antarctic accumulation, field measurement
College
Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department
Statistics
Abstract
Antarctica’s significance to the global climate is due to the vast amounts of water stored in its ice sheet. Indeed, its ice sheet stores enough water to increase the global sea level by about 200 feet if it were to melt. Even though radical climate change could not melt the entire Antarctic ice sheet for thousands of years, smaller, more realistic changes would still make a significant impact in the global climate, sea level, and growing seasons. For this reason, climatologists and geologists model water accumulation and loss over the Antarctic ice sheet. Accumulation, as defined here, is the net precipitation, sublimation, melt, and wind redistribution of snow.
Recommended Citation
White, Philip and Reese, Shane
(2015)
"Bayesian Model for Antarctic Accumulation and Proposing Field Measurement,"
Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2015:
Iss.
1, Article 220.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2015/iss1/220