Ice Sheets and Sea Level: Thinking Outside the Box
Until quite recently, the mass balance (MB) of the great ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica was poorly known and often treated as a residual in the budget of oceanic mass and sea level change. Recent developments in regional climate modelling and remote sensing, especially altimetry, gravimetry...
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ftcdlib:oai:escholarship.org/ark:/13030/qt0608b0w0 2023-05-15T13:39:57+02:00 Ice Sheets and Sea Level: Thinking Outside the Box van den Broeke, MR Bamber, J Lenaerts, J Rignot, E 495 - 505 2011-09-01 application/pdf https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0608b0w0 unknown eScholarship, University of California qt0608b0w0 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0608b0w0 CC-BY CC-BY Surveys in Geophysics, vol 32, iss 4-5 Greenland Antarctica Mass balance Sea level Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences Astronomical and Space Sciences Geophysics article 2011 ftcdlib 2020-03-20T23:55:55Z Until quite recently, the mass balance (MB) of the great ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica was poorly known and often treated as a residual in the budget of oceanic mass and sea level change. Recent developments in regional climate modelling and remote sensing, especially altimetry, gravimetry and InSAR feature tracking, have enabled us to specifically resolve the ice sheet mass balance components at a near-annual timescale. The results reveal significant mass losses for both ice sheets, caused by the acceleration of marine-terminating glaciers in southeast, west and northwest Greenland and coastal West Antarctica, and increased run-off in Greenland. At the same time, the data show that interannual variability is very significant, masking the underlying trends. © 2011 The Author(s). Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Greenland Ice Sheet West Antarctica University of California: eScholarship Greenland West Antarctica |
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Until quite recently, the mass balance (MB) of the great ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica was poorly known and often treated as a residual in the budget of oceanic mass and sea level change. Recent developments in regional climate modelling and remote sensing, especially altimetry, gravimetry and InSAR feature tracking, have enabled us to specifically resolve the ice sheet mass balance components at a near-annual timescale. The results reveal significant mass losses for both ice sheets, caused by the acceleration of marine-terminating glaciers in southeast, west and northwest Greenland and coastal West Antarctica, and increased run-off in Greenland. At the same time, the data show that interannual variability is very significant, masking the underlying trends. © 2011 The Author(s). |
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van den Broeke, MR Bamber, J Lenaerts, J Rignot, E |
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Ice Sheets and Sea Level: Thinking Outside the Box |
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