Elastic uplift in southeast Greenland due to rapid ice mass loss

This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from "http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com". [1] The rapid unloading of ice from the southeastern sector of the Greenland ice sheet between 2001 and 2006 caused an elastic uplift of ∼35 mm at a GPS site in Kulusuk. Most of the u...

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Published in:Geophysical Research Letters
Main Authors: Khan, Shfaqat Abbas, Wahr, John, Stearns, Leigh A., Hamilton, Gordon S., van Dam, Tonie, Larson, Kristine M., Francis, Olivier
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: American Geophysical Union 2015
Subjects:
ice mass loss
GPS
elastic uplift
Greenland
glacier
Ice Sheet
Kulusuk
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/17213
https://doi.org/10.1029/2007GL031468
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Summary:This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from "http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com". [1] The rapid unloading of ice from the southeastern sector of the Greenland ice sheet between 2001 and 2006 caused an elastic uplift of ∼35 mm at a GPS site in Kulusuk. Most of the uplift results from ice dynamic-induced volume losses on two nearby outlet glaciers. Volume loss from Helheim Glacier, calculated from sequential digital elevation models, contributes about ∼16 mm of the observed uplift, with an additional ∼5 mm from volume loss of Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier. The remaining uplift signal is attributed to significant melt-induced ice volume loss from the ice sheet margin along the southeast coast between 62°N and 66°N.

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