Continuously accelerating ice loss over Amundsen Sea catchment, West Antarctica, revealed by integrating altimetry and GRACE data

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 321-322, Issue , 2012, Pages 74-80

  Lee, Hyongki ^a   Shum, C K ^b,c   Howat, Ian M ^b,c   Monaghan, Andrew ^d   Ahn, Yushin ^e   Duan, Jianbin ^b   Guo, Jun Yi ^b   Kuo, Chung Yen ^f   Wang, Lei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Amundsen Sea sector; Envisat; Firn density; GRACE; Ice mass loss

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED MASS; AMUNDSEN SEA; ANTARCTICA; COLUMN DENSITY; ENVISAT; GLACIAL ISOSTATIC ADJUSTMENTS; GRACE; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; ICE DYNAMICS; ICE FLOW; ICE LOSS; ICE MASS LOSS; ICE SHEET; ICE-SHEET ELEVATION; MASS BALANCE ESTIMATES; MASS CHANGE; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA LEVEL RISE; SNOWFALL TRENDS; TIME-SCALES;

CATCHMENTS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEA LEVEL; SNOW;

ICE;

ENVISAT-1; FIRN; FLOW VELOCITY; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GLACIOISOSTASY; GRACE; ICE MECHANICS; ICE MOVEMENT; ICE SHEET; ICE THICKNESS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW ACCUMULATION;

AMUNDSEN SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84862804408     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.12.040     Document Type: Article

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