Earth’s Cryosphere, 2011, Vol. XV, No. 4, p. 53-55

THE RADIATION HEAT BUDGET OF THE ANTARCTIC AND MARS POLAR REGIONS: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

O.N. Abramenko, I.A. Komarov, V.S. Isaev

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Geology, 1, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119991, Russia; oleg_abramenko@inbox.ru, ilya_komarov@mail.ru, tpomed@rambler.ru

The time and space radiation heat patterns have been investigated at five polar Antarctic sites (Novolazarevskaya, Molodezhnaya, Bellinshausen, Mirny, and Vostok). Similar variability appears in data from Mars polar ice caps. The reported comparative analysis allows evaluating the contributions from different thermophysical components of the radiation heat budget in the Antarctic and Mars high-latitude regions.