Greenland and Antarctica Ice Sheet Mass Changes and Effects on Global Sea Level

• Published in: Surveys in Geophysics
• Main Authors: Forsberg, René, Sørensen, Louise Sandberg, Simonsen, Sebastian Bjerregaard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Antarctica mass loss; CryoSat; Envisat; GRACE; Greenland ice sheet; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Antarctica; glacier; Greenland; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Pine Island; Thwaites Glacier; West Antarctica
• Online Access: https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/103f839f-fa22-4fb1-ae81-4c439c41cc43; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-016-9398-7; https://backend.orbit.dtu.dk/ws/files/128885687/icesheets_sealevel_issi_v3.pdf

Thirteen years of GRACE data provide an excellent picture of the current mass changes of Greenland and Antarctica, with mass loss in the GRACE period 2002–2015 amounting to 265 ± 25 GT/year for Greenland (including peripheral ice caps), and 95 ± 50 GT/year for Antarctica, corresponding to 0.72 and 0...