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There is no depth affect visible in the results, and there has been plenty of modelling of the important processes (firnification, gas age / ice age differences etc).
RealClimate 2009
reesetee commented on the word firnification
Firn describes snow above glaciers that's partly consolidated by alternate thawing and freezing but has not yet become glacier-ice. Hence firnification is the conversion of snow into firn.
February 12, 2008