Absolute gravity calibration of GPS velocities and glacial isostatic adjustment in mid-continent North America

Details Absolute gravity calibration of GPS velocities and glacial isostatic adjustment in mid-continent North America Absolute gravity calibration of GPS velocities and glacial isostatic adjustment in mid-continent North America

Dec 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011georl..3824311m&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 38, Issue 24, CiteID L24311

Physics

Geodesy And Gravity: Time Variable Gravity (7223, 7230), Geodesy And Gravity: Reference Systems, Geodesy And Gravity: Satellite Geodesy: Technical Issues (6994, 7969), Geodesy And Gravity: Integrations Of Techniques, Tectonophysics: Dynamics: Gravity And Tectonics

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We examine absolute gravity (AG) and vertical Global Positioning System (GPS) time series between 1995 and 2010 at eight collocated sites in mid-continent North America. The comparison of AG and GPS rates aligned to ITRF2005 yields a gravity/uplift ratio of -0.17 ± 0.01 μGal mm-1 (1 μGal = 10 nm s-2) and an intercept of -0.1 ± 0.5 mm yr-1. In contrast, aligning the GPS velocities to ITRF2000 results in a gravity/uplift intercept of -1.3 ± 0.5 mm yr-1. The near-zero gravity/uplift offset for the ITRF2005 (or ITRF2008) results shows a good alignment of the GPS vertical velocities to Earth's center of mass, and confirms that GPS velocities in this reference frame can be compared to predictions of geodynamic processes such as glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) or sea-level rise. The observed gravity/uplift ratio is consistent with GIA model predictions. The ratio remains constant in regions of fast and slow uplift, indicating that GIA is the primary driving process and that additional processes such as local hydrology have a limited impact on a decadal time-scale. Combining AG and GPS measurements can provide significant constraints for geodetic, geodynamic, and hydrological studies.

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