Consistent patterns of Antarctic ice sheet interannual variations from ENVISAT radar altimetry and GRACE satellite gravimetry

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 863-876

  Horwath, Martin ^a,b,c   Legrésy, Benoît ^a   Rémy, Frédérique ^a   Blarel, Fabien ^a   Lemoine, Jean Michel ^b  

^a LEGOS   (France)

^b CNES   (France)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Glaciology; Global change from geodesy; Satellite geodesy; Sea level change; Time variable gravity

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; GLACIOLOGY; GLOBAL CHANGE; SATELLITE GEODESY; SEALEVEL CHANGE; TIME-VARIABLE GRAVITY;

GEODESY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; GRAVIMETERS; ICE; RADAR; SEA LEVEL;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ENVISAT-1; GEODESY; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GLACIOLOGY; GRACE; GRAVIMETRY; ICE SHEET; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84859705622     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05401.x     Document Type: Article

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