Cryospheric mass variations from GRACE

• Main Author: Skår, Karoline
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås 2015
• Subjects: Geodesy; Geomatics; Geomatikk; GRACE; Mass variations; Spherical harmonics; Cryosphere; Satellite geodesy; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Geosciences: 450; Canada; Greenland; Verdier; Antarc*; Antarctica; Antarktis*; Fennoscandia; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/294051

The Earth’s gravity field is constantly changing due to mass redistribution from ice melting in the cryosphere and geophysical processes. With use of data from dedicated gravity satellite missions variations in the Earth’s gravity field over a time series can be determined. This thesis tries to give...