Mapping Greenland’s mass loss in space and time
The melting of polar ice sheets is a major contributor to global sea-level rise. Early estimates of the mass lost from the Greenland ice cap, based on satellite gravity data collected by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, have widely varied. Although the continentally and decadally average...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3523835 2023-05-15T16:26:13+02:00 Mapping Greenland’s mass loss in space and time Harig, Christopher Simons, Frederik J. 2012-12-04 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3523835 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23169646 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1206785109 en eng National Academy of Sciences http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3523835 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23169646 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1206785109 Physical Sciences Text 2012 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1206785109 2013-09-04T17:18:18Z The melting of polar ice sheets is a major contributor to global sea-level rise. Early estimates of the mass lost from the Greenland ice cap, based on satellite gravity data collected by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, have widely varied. Although the continentally and decadally averaged estimated trends have now more or less converged, to this date, there has been little clarity on the detailed spatial distribution of Greenland’s mass loss and how the geographical pattern has varied on relatively shorter time scales. Here, we present a spatially and temporally resolved estimation of the ice mass change over Greenland between April of 2002 and August of 2011. Although the total mass loss trend has remained linear, actively changing areas of mass loss were concentrated on the southeastern and northwestern coasts, with ice mass in the center of Greenland steadily increasing over the decade. Text Greenland Ice cap PubMed Central (PMC) Greenland Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 49 19934 19937 |
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The melting of polar ice sheets is a major contributor to global sea-level rise. Early estimates of the mass lost from the Greenland ice cap, based on satellite gravity data collected by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, have widely varied. Although the continentally and decadally averaged estimated trends have now more or less converged, to this date, there has been little clarity on the detailed spatial distribution of Greenland’s mass loss and how the geographical pattern has varied on relatively shorter time scales. Here, we present a spatially and temporally resolved estimation of the ice mass change over Greenland between April of 2002 and August of 2011. Although the total mass loss trend has remained linear, actively changing areas of mass loss were concentrated on the southeastern and northwestern coasts, with ice mass in the center of Greenland steadily increasing over the decade. |
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