ABSTRACT
Dronning Maud Land (DML) is hydrologically divided into many small basins. Nivlisen basin has the second-largest ice shelf in the central DML area. One of the most important components for the estimation of the mass balance is ice thickness. The measurement of the ice sheet has been performed two times during the study period using the Ground Penetrating Radar which works on the delineation of different Earth based on the dielectric. In the case of Antarctica, the contribution of the snow accumulation through precipitation is only 25–32%, whereas drifted snow is 68–75%. Snow accumulation through precipitation further decreases towards the interior part of Antarctica which may be due to a decrease in moisture content of wind. Interior parts of Antarctica mostly receive snow accumulation in the form of drifted snow as per the data from stake networks across the study area.
