Global Geodetic Signatures of the Antarctic Ice Sheet

Four scenarios of present day Antarctic ice sheet mass change are developed from comprehensive reviews of the available glaciological and oceanographic evidence. The gridded scenarios predict widely varying contributions to secular sea level change (xi)ranging from -1.1 to 0.45 mm/yr, and predict po...

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Main Authors: James, T. S., Ivins, E. R.
Language:English
Published: 2004
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2014/27721
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Summary:Four scenarios of present day Antarctic ice sheet mass change are developed from comprehensive reviews of the available glaciological and oceanographic evidence. The gridded scenarios predict widely varying contributions to secular sea level change (xi)ranging from -1.1 to 0.45 mm/yr, and predict polar motion m(with dot above)and time-varying low-degree gravitational coefficients J 1 that differ significantly from earlier estimates.