Accelerated ice mass depletion revealed by low-degree gravity field from satellite laser ranging: Greenland, 1991-2011

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 4662-4667

  Matsuo, Koji ^a,b   Chao, Benjamin F ^b   Otsubo, Toshimichi ^c   Heki, Kosuke ^d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Greenland; satellite geodesy; SLR; time variable gravity

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GRAVIMETERS; GRAVITATION; ICE; TRACKING (POSITION);

GLACIAL ISOSTATIC ADJUSTMENTS; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; GREENLAND; ICE-MASS CHANGES; SATELLITE GEODESY; SATELLITE LASER RANGING; SATELLITE LASER RANGING DATUM; TIME-VARIABLE GRAVITY;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

EID: 84883702724     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50900     Document Type: Article

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