Unprecedented mass gain over the Antarctic ice sheet between 2021 and 2022 caused by large precipitation anomalies

• Published in: Environmental Research Letters
• Main Authors: Wei Wang, Yunzhong Shen, Qiujie Chen, Fengwei Wang
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 2023
• Subjects: Antarctic ice sheet; mass balance; GRACE/GRACE-FO; sea level change; climate change; Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering; TD1-1066; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Science; Q; Physics; QC1-999; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Queen Mary Land; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Wilhelm II Land; Wilkes Land; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Queen Mary land
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad0863; https://doaj.org/article/22e313ca8b174596a39935392170e449

The Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) is susceptible to global climate change, and its mass loss has been 92 ± 18 Gt yr ^−1 between 1992 and 2020. Given the current intensive global warming, we investigate the AIS mass changes from January 2003 to December 2022, using the newly released satellite gravimetry...