Crustal uplift due to ice mass variability on Upernavik Isstrøm, west Greenland

• Published in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
• Main Authors: Nielsen, Karina, Khan, Shfaqat Abbas, Korsgaard, Niels J., Kjær, Kurt H., Wahr, John, Bevis, Michael, Stearns, Leigh A., Timm, Lars H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Elastic uplift; GPS; Ice loss; West Greenland; Greenland; Upernavik Isstrøm; Airborne Topographic Mapper; glacier; Upernavik
• Online Access: https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/2d00f096-64bd-448f-9cef-64912cad21fa; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2012.08.024

We estimate the mass loss rate of Upernavik Isstrøm (UI) using surface elevation changes between a SPOT 5 Digital Elevation Model (DEM) from 2008 and NASA's Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) data from 2010. To assess the validity of our mass loss estimate, we analyze GPS data between 2007 and 2...