Acceleration of the Greenland ice sheet mass loss as observed by GRACE: Confidence and sensitivity

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 364, Issue , 2013, Pages 24-29

  Svendsen, P L ^a   Andersen, O B ^a   Nielsen, A A ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Confidence intervals; GRACE; Greenland; Mass loss

Indexed keywords

CANADIAN ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA PRODUCTS; DATA SETS; GRACE; GRACE MISSION; GRAVIMETRIC DATA; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; LASER ALTIMETRY; LEAKAGE EFFECTS; MASS CHANGE; MASS LOSS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UPPER BOUND;

GEOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ACCELERATION;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GRACE; GRAVIMETRY; ICE SHEET; ICESAT; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARCTIC; CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 84873242239     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.12.010     Document Type: Article

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