scholarly journals Retreat of the Antarctic Ice Sheet during the Last Interglaciation and implications for future change

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. R. Golledge ◽  
P. U. Clark ◽  
F. He ◽  
A. Dutton ◽  
C. S. M. Turney ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ice Sheet ◽  
Future Change ◽  
Antarctic Ice Sheet ◽  
The Antarctic

scholarly journals Retreat of the Antarctic Ice Sheet during the Last Interglaciation and implications for future change

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas R. Golledge ◽  
Peter U Clark ◽  
Feng He ◽  
Andrea Dutton ◽  
Chris Turney ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ice Sheet ◽  
Future Change ◽  
Antarctic Ice Sheet ◽  
The Antarctic

scholarly journals Retreat of the Antarctic Ice Sheet during the Last Interglaciation and implications for future change

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas R. Golledge ◽  
Peter U Clark ◽  
Feng He ◽  
Andrea Dutton ◽  
Chris Turney ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ice Sheet ◽  
Future Change ◽  
Antarctic Ice Sheet ◽  
The Antarctic

scholarly journals A Joint Inversion Estimate of Antarctic Ice Sheet Mass Balance Using Multi-Geodetic Data Sets

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunchun Gao ◽  
Yang Lu ◽  
Zizhan Zhang ◽  
Hongling Shi
Keyword(s):  
Mass Balance ◽  
Joint Inversion ◽  
Ice Sheet ◽  
Mass Change ◽  
West Antarctica ◽  
Amundsen Sea ◽  
Antarctic Ice Sheet ◽  
Forward Models ◽  
Uplift Rates ◽  
The Antarctic

Many recent mass balance estimates using the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and satellite altimetry (including two kinds of sensors of radar and laser) show that the ice mass of the Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) is in overall decline. However, there are still large differences among previously published estimates of the total mass change, even in the same observed periods. The considerable error sources mainly arise from the forward models (e.g., glacial isostatic adjustment [GIA] and firn compaction) that may be uncertain but indispensable to simulate some processes not directly measured or obtained by these observations. To minimize the use of these forward models, we estimate the mass change of ice sheet and present-day GIA using multi-geodetic observations, including GRACE and Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), as well as Global Positioning System (GPS), by an improved method of joint inversion estimate (JIE), which enables us to solve simultaneously for the Antarctic GIA and ice mass trends. The GIA uplift rates generated from our JIE method show a good agreement with the elastic-corrected GPS uplift rates, and the total GIA-induced mass change estimate for the AIS is 54 ± 27 Gt/yr, which is in line with many recent GPS calibrated GIA estimates. Our GIA result displays the presence of significant uplift rates in the Amundsen Sea Embayment of West Antarctica, where strong uplift has been observed by GPS. Over the period February 2003 to October 2009, the entire AIS changed in mass by −84 ± 31 Gt/yr (West Antarctica: −69 ± 24, East Antarctica: 12 ± 16 and the Antarctic Peninsula: −27 ± 8), greater than the GRACE-only estimates obtained from three Mascon solutions (CSR: −50 ± 30, JPL: −71 ± 30, and GSFC: −51 ± 33 Gt/yr) for the same period. This may imply that single GRACE data tend to underestimate ice mass loss due to the signal leakage and attenuation errors of ice discharge are often worse than that of surface mass balance over the AIS.

scholarly journals Characteristics of the Antarctic Ice-Sheet

Nature ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 183 (4675) ◽  
pp. 1575-1577 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. F. GASKELL
Keyword(s):  
Ice Sheet ◽  
Antarctic Ice Sheet ◽  
The Antarctic
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