Antarctic regional ice loss rates from GRACE

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 266, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 140-148

  Chen, J L ^a   Wilson, C R ^a,b   Tapley, B D ^a   Blankenship, D ^b,c   Young, D ^b,c  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic Peninsula; GRACE; gravity change; ice loss; satellite gravimetry; West Antarctica

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT (GRACE); ICE LOSS; ICE MASS CHANGE; POSTGLACIAL REBOUND (PGR);

CLIMATOLOGY; GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; ICE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

DATA QUALITY; GLACIER; GRAVIMETRY; GRAVITY; ICE; POSTGLACIAL REBOUND; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

AMUNDSEN SEA; ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; QUEEN MAUD LAND; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 38349038391     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.10.057     Document Type: Article

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