Four decades of Antarctic Ice Sheet mass balance from 1979–2017

• Main Authors: Rignot, Eric, Mouginot, Jérémie, Scheuchl, Bernd, van den Broeke, Michiel, van Wessem, Melchior J, Morlighem, Mathieu
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2019
• Subjects: Climate Action; glaciology; Antarctica; remote sensing; climate change; sea-level rise; Antarctic; Bellingshausen Sea; East Antarctica; The Antarctic; West Antarctica; Wilkes Land; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/68p1n8x1

We use updated drainage inventory, ice thickness, and ice velocity data to calculate the grounding line ice discharge of 176 basins draining the Antarctic Ice Sheet from 1979 to 2017. We compare the results with a surface mass balance model to deduce the ice sheet mass balance. The total mass loss i...