Regional acceleration in ice mass loss from Greenland and Antarctica using GRACE time-variable gravity data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 8130-8137

  Velicogna, I ^a,b   Sutterley, T C ^a   Van Den Broeke, M R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Greenland; mass balance; remote sensing; sea level; time variable gravity

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ICE; REMOTE SENSING; SEA LEVEL;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; GREENLAND; MASS BALANCE; SURFACE MASS BALANCE; TIME-VARIABLE GRAVITY;

GRAVITATION;

ACCELERATION; GRACE; GRAVITY FIELD; MASS BALANCE; REMOTE SENSING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

AMUNDSEN SEA; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; EAST ANTARCTICA; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; QUEEN MAUD LAND; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84921510057     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061052     Document Type: Article

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