Monitoring changes of the Antarctic Ice sheet by GRACE, ICESat and GNSS

• Published in: Contributions to Geophysics and Geodesy
• Main Authors: Fang ZOU, Robert TENZER, Samurdhika RATHNAYAKE
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Earth Science Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia 2019
• Subjects: antarctica; ice sheet; glacier; grace; icesat; Geodesy; QB275-343; Geophysics. Cosmic physics; QC801-809; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Dronning Maud Land; Amundsen Sea; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Wilkes Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; Enderby Land; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2478/congeo-2019-0021; https://doaj.org/article/be9c6de0c8e34ecbbfd2a89ef8111246

In this study, we estimate the ice mass changes, the ice elevation changes and the vertical displacements in Antarctica based on analysis of multi-geodetic datasets that involve the satellite gravimetry (GRACE), the satellite altimetry (ICESat) and the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). Acc...