Uplift rates from a new high-density GPS network in Palmer Land indicate significant late Holocene ice loss in the southwestern Weddell Sea.

• Published in: Geophysical Journal International
• Main Authors: Wolstencroft, M., King, M. A., Whitehouse, P. L., Bentley, M. J., Nield, G. A., King, E. C., McMillan, M., Shepherd, A., Barletta, V., Bordoni, A., Riva, R. E. M., Didova, O., Gunter, B. C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 2015
• Subjects: Sea level change; Space geodetic surveys; Global change from geodesy; Glaciology; Antarctica; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Palmer Land; Weddell; Weddell Sea; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/16341/; http://dro.dur.ac.uk/16341/1/16341.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggv327

The measurement of ongoing ice-mass loss and associated melt water contribution to sea-level change from regions such as West Antarctica is dependent on a combination of remote sensing methods. A key method, the measurement of changes in Earth's gravity via the GRACE satellite mission, requires...