Empirical estimation of present-day Antarctic glacial isostatic adjustment and ice mass change

Cryosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 743-760

  Gunter, B C ^a,b   Didova, O ^a   Riva, R E M ^a   Ligtenberg, S R M ^c   Lenaerts, J T M ^c   King, M A ^d,e   Van Den Broeke, M R ^c   Urban, T ^f  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GPS; GRACE; ICE SHEET; ISOSTASY; MASS BALANCE; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY;

AMUNDSEN SEA; ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84899564285     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-8-743-2014     Document Type: Article

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