Antarctica can be called a desert because of its lack of precipitation (this is the amount of rain, snow, sleet or hail that falls from the sky). It has less precipitation than any other desert ...

Research Interests: Thwaites Glacier, surface mass balance, extreme snowfall events, Antarctic atmospheric rivers I research the impacts of snowfall and extreme precipitation events on the surface ...

Many people think of deserts like the Sahara, but Antarctica receives even less precipitation. Some parts of it, like the ...

the Southern Ocean—between Antarctica and other continents—will eventually release heat absorbed from the atmosphere, leading to projected long-term increases in precipitation over East Asia ...