COMPARISON OF GRACE DERIVED GREENLAND MASS WASTING TO NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE FROM MERRA-2 REANALYSIS

• Main Author: Getraer, Benjamin
• Other Authors: Resplandy, Laure, Simons, Frederik
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Greenland; Merra; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01gh93h234p

Melting ice from the Greenland Ice Sheet has accounted for an increasing percentage— now estimated at 25%—of rising global mean sea-level since the early 1990s. As recently as 2016, gravimetric and altimetric studies of Greenland melting rates found increasing rates of ice loss, which have not been...