These data were generously provided by Michiel van den Broeke. They constitute an update to the dataset associated with the following publication: Van Wessem, J. M., Van De Berg, W. J., Noël, B. P., Van Meijgaard, E., Amory, C., Birnbaum, G., ... & Van Den Broeke, M. R. (2018). Modelling the climate and surface mass balance of polar ice sheets using RACMO2–Part 2: Antarctica (1979–2016). The Cryosphere, 12(4), 1479-1498. https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/12/1479/2018/