Correction to: Alternative graphical displays for the monitoring of epidemic outbreaks, with application to COVID-19 mortality.

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Alternative graphical displays for the monitoring of epidemic outbreaks, with application to COVID-19 mortality.

Background: Classic epidemic curves - counts of daily events or cumulative events over time -emphasise temporal changes in the growth or size of epidemic outbreaks. Like any graph, these curves have limitations: they are impractical for comparisons of large and small outbreaks or of asynchronous outbreaks, and they do not display the relative growth rate of the epidemic. Our aim was to propose two additional graphical displays for the monitoring of epidemic outbreaks that overcome these limitations.

Katabatic winds diminish precipitation contribution to the Antarctic ice mass balance.

Snowfall in Antarctica is a key term of the ice sheet mass budget that influences the sea level at global scale. Over the continental margins, persistent katabatic winds blow all year long and supply the lower troposphere with unsaturated air. We show that this dry air leads to significant low-level sublimation of snowfall.