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Snowfall brightens Antarctic future

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Snowpacks absorb more sunlight as they warm. The Antarctic Plateau may buck this trend over the twenty-first century as increased snowfall there inhibits the snowpack from dimming.

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Figure 1: Snow surface and crystals.

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C.S.Z. acknowledges support from NASA ACCESS-NNX12AF48A.

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  1. Charles S. Zender is in the Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-3100, USA,

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Zender, C. Snowfall brightens Antarctic future. Nature Clim Change 2, 770–771 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1730

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