Towards the inversion of GRACE gravity fields for present-day ice-mass changes and glacial-isostatic adjustment in North America and Greenland

Journal of Geodynamics

Volumn 59-60, Issue , 2012, Pages 49-63

  Sasgen, Ingo ^a   Klemann, Volker ^a,b   Martinec, Zdeněk ^c  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Glacial history; Glacial isostatic adjustment; GRACE; Greenland; Ice mass balance; Joint inversion; Mantle viscosity

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; ALTIMETRY; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA INVERSION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORWARD MODELING; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GLACIOISOSTASY; GRACE; GRAVITY FIELD; ICESAT; MANTLE PLUME; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SMOOTHING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VISCOSITY;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; CANADA; GREENLAND; HUDSON BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84863811669     PISSN: 02643707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jog.2012.03.004     Document Type: Article

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