Surface meltwater production using an empirical relationship between radar backscatter from the QuikSCAT satellite and melt calculated from in situ energy balance observations. Resolution: ~5 km. Averaging period: 1999–2009. Unit: mm weq yr-1 (= kg m-2 yr-1)

Trusel, L. D., K. E. Frey, S. B. Das, P. Kuipers Munneke, and M. R. van den Broeke, 2013: Satellite-based estimates of Antarctic surface meltwater fluxes, Geophysical Research Letters 40, 6148–6153, doi:10.1002/2013GL058138.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013GL058138/abstract

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Editor
Glaciology
Michiel van den Broeke
m.r.vandenbroeke@uu.nl

Author
Luke Trusel
trusel@rowan.edu