Articles | Volume 7, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-7-549-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-7-549-2016
Short communication
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08 Jul 2016
Short communication |  | 08 Jul 2016

A Lagrangian analysis of the present-day sources of moisture for major ice-core sites

Anita Drumond, Erica Taboada, Raquel Nieto, Luis Gimeno, Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano, and Juan Ignacio López-Moreno

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A Lagrangian approach was used to identify the moisture sources for fourteen ice-core sites located worldwide for the present climate. The approach computed budgets of evaporation minus precipitation by calculating changes in the specific humidity along 10-day backward trajectories. The results indicate that the oceanic regions around the subtropical high-pressure centers provide most of moisture, and their contribution varies throughout the year following the annual cycles of the centers.
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