Geoid displacement about Greenland resulting from past and present-day mass changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet

Details Geoid displacement about Greenland resulting from past and present-day mass changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet Geoid displacement about Greenland resulting from past and present-day mass changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet

Mar 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004georl..3106617f&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 31, Issue 6, CiteID L06617

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Geodesy And Gravity: General Or Miscellaneous, Global Change: Solid Earth, Hydrology: Glaciology (1863)

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Predictions are presented of secular changes in the geoid arising from glacial-isostatic adjustment (GIA) following the Last Glacial Maximum and from present-day mass changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS). Geoid displacement from ongoing GIA is dominated by ice-load changes outside of Greenland at lower spherical-harmonic degrees (<30), and modified at higher degrees by the recent (last few thousand years) GIS history. Ice-margin mass changes dominate the present-day GIS geoid response, although comparable signals are obtained when considering the uncertainty range in the higher-elevation changes (>2000 m). Spatial variability is noted when the present-day GIS response is expanded to degree and order 32. This is detectable by GRACE when assuming an optimistic accuracy, but is too small by a factor of ca. 3 for an alternate accuracy estimate. Present-day GIS geoid displacement rates are generally less than the equivalent response from ice-mass changes in Antarctica, Patagonia and Alaska.

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