The Cryosphere www.the-cryosphere.net 1994-0416 1994-0424 2 2 2008 10.5194/tc-2-109-2008 http://www.the-cryosphere.net/2/109/2008/ http://www.the-cryosphere.net/2/109/2008/tc-2-109-2008.html http://www.the-cryosphere.net/2/109/2008/tc-2-109-2008.pdf 109 115 2008-09-12 Snow melting bias in microwave mapping of Antarctic snow accumulation O. Magand G. Picard ghislain.picard@lgge.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr L. Brucker M. Fily C. Genthon Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement, CNRS, Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble, 54 Rue Molière, BP 96, 38402 St Martin d'Hères Cedex, France Satellite records of microwave surface emission have been used to interpolate in-situ observations of Antarctic surface mass balance (SMB) and build continental-scale maps of accumulation. 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