Revisiting GRACE Antarctic ice mass trends and accelerations considering autocorrelation

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 385, Issue , 2014, Pages 12-21

  Williams, Simon D P ^a   Moore, Philip ^b   King, Matt A ^b,c   Whitehouse, Pippa L ^d  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Antarctica; Confidence intervals; GRACE; Stochastic modeling

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; AUTO REGRESSIVE MODELS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GRACE; ICE-MASS CHANGES; NOISE UNCERTAINTIES; REGRESSION MODEL; TIME CORRELATIONS;

AUTOCORRELATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; TIME SERIES; WHITE NOISE;

ACCELERATION;

ACCELERATION; AUTOCORRELATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GRACE; ICE SHEET; NUMERICAL MODEL; STOCHASTICITY;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84887005276     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.10.016     Document Type: Article

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