Annual variation of coastal uplift in Greenland as an indicator of variable and accelerating ice mass loss

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1569-1589

  Yang, Qian ^a   Wdowinski, Shimon ^b   Dixon, Timothy H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

climatic forcings; GPS vertical displacement; Greenland's ice sheet; seasonal melting

Indexed keywords

GLACIERS; HIGH PASS FILTERS;

ANNUAL VARIATIONS; FORCINGS; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; ICE SHEET; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; SUB-SURFACE OCEAN; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS;

MELTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE FORCING; COASTAL ZONE; GPS; ICE SHEET; MELTING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84879666805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ggge.20089     Document Type: Article

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