Mass, Volume and Velocity of the Antarctic Ice Sheet: Present-Day Changes and Error Effects

• Published in: Surveys in Geophysics
• Main Authors: Groh, A., Ewert, H., Rosenau, R., Fagiolini, E., Gruber, C., Floricioiu, D., Abdel Jaber, W., Linow, Stefanie, Flechtner, F., Eineder, M., Dierking, Wolfgang, Dietrich, R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2014
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; East Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Thwaites Glacier
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/35240/; http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10712-014-9286-y; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.43245

This study examines present-day changes of the Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) by means of different data sets. We make use of monthly gravity field solutions acquired by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) to study mass changes of the AIS for a 10-year period. In addition to "standar...