Large discrepancies in the estimates of ice discharge from the Antarctic Peninsula when using different ice-thickness datasets ...
<!--!introduction!--> The Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet (APIS) has become a significant contributor to sea-level rise over the last decades. It is crucial to estimate the ice discharge from the APIS outlet glaciers to understand the overall mass balance of Antarctica. In this study, we calcula...
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ftdatacite:10.57757/iugg23-2336 2023-07-23T04:15:52+02:00 Large discrepancies in the estimates of ice discharge from the Antarctic Peninsula when using different ice-thickness datasets ... Shahateet, Kaian Navarro, Francisco Seehaus, Thorsten Fürst, Johannes Braun, Matthias 2023 https://dx.doi.org/10.57757/iugg23-2336 https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5018453 unknown GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 Article ConferencePaper Oral 2023 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.57757/iugg23-2336 2023-07-03T18:06:12Z <!--!introduction!--> The Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet (APIS) has become a significant contributor to sea-level rise over the last decades. It is crucial to estimate the ice discharge from the APIS outlet glaciers to understand the overall mass balance of Antarctica. In this study, we calculated the ice discharge from the APIS outlet glaciers north of 70 ºS employing four widely used ice-thickness reconstructions. By using a common surface velocity field and flux gates, we found that the estimation of the total volumetric ice discharge between 2014 and 2017 ranges from 52 to 134 km 3 /y, with a mean of 85 ± 37 km 3 /y. The significant differences between the results of the total ice discharge, as well as a multi-model normalized root-mean-squared deviation of 1.20 for the whole data set reveal large differences and inconsistencies between the ice-thickness models. This highlights a fundamental issue: the limited availability of accurate ice-thickness measurements and the challenges faced by current ... : The 28th IUGG General Assembly (IUGG2023) (Berlin 2023) ... Conference Object Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Antarctica Ice Sheet DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Antarctic The Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula |
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<!--!introduction!--> The Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet (APIS) has become a significant contributor to sea-level rise over the last decades. It is crucial to estimate the ice discharge from the APIS outlet glaciers to understand the overall mass balance of Antarctica. In this study, we calculated the ice discharge from the APIS outlet glaciers north of 70 ºS employing four widely used ice-thickness reconstructions. By using a common surface velocity field and flux gates, we found that the estimation of the total volumetric ice discharge between 2014 and 2017 ranges from 52 to 134 km 3 /y, with a mean of 85 ± 37 km 3 /y. The significant differences between the results of the total ice discharge, as well as a multi-model normalized root-mean-squared deviation of 1.20 for the whole data set reveal large differences and inconsistencies between the ice-thickness models. This highlights a fundamental issue: the limited availability of accurate ice-thickness measurements and the challenges faced by current ... : The 28th IUGG General Assembly (IUGG2023) (Berlin 2023) ... |
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Shahateet, Kaian Navarro, Francisco Seehaus, Thorsten Fürst, Johannes Braun, Matthias |
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Large discrepancies in the estimates of ice discharge from the Antarctic Peninsula when using different ice-thickness datasets ... |
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Large discrepancies in the estimates of ice discharge from the Antarctic Peninsula when using different ice-thickness datasets ... |
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Large discrepancies in the estimates of ice discharge from the Antarctic Peninsula when using different ice-thickness datasets ... |
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Large discrepancies in the estimates of ice discharge from the Antarctic Peninsula when using different ice-thickness datasets ... |
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Large discrepancies in the estimates of ice discharge from the Antarctic Peninsula when using different ice-thickness datasets ... |
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large discrepancies in the estimates of ice discharge from the antarctic peninsula when using different ice-thickness datasets ... |
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