First Vertical Land Movement Estimates on South Georgia Island: An Impact Study on Sea Level Change from Tide Gauge and Altimetry Measurements

• Main Authors: TEFERLE, Felix Norman, HUNEGNAW, Addisu, ABRAHA, Kibrom Ebuy, Woodworth, Phil, Williams, Simon, Hibbert, Angela, Smalley, Robert, Dalziel, Ian, Lawver, Larry
• Other Authors: ULHPC - University of Luxembourg: High Performance Computing
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: South Georgia; Global Navigation Satellite System; Vertical Land Movements; Sea Level Rise; Geodetic Monitoring; Satellite Altimetry; Tide Gauges; Physical; chemical; mathematical & earth Sciences; Earth sciences & physical geography; Physique; chimie; mathématiques & sciences de la terre; Sciences de la terre & géographie physique; King Edward Point; Main Island; South Georgia Island
• Online Access: https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/33530; https://orbilu.uni.lu/bitstream/10993/33530/1/AGUFM17-G21A-0861_reduced.pdf

South Georgia Island in the Southern Atlantic Ocean has been a key location for the seismic, geomagnetic and oceanic global monitoring networks. However, no permanent geodetic monitoring station had been established there despite the lack of observations from this region within, for example, the Int...