Effect of GIA models with 3D composite mantle viscosity on GRACE mass balance estimates for Antarctica

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 414, Issue , 2015, Pages 134-143

  van der Wal, Wouter ^a   Whitehouse, Pippa L ^b   Schrama, Ernst J O ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Glacial rebound; GRACE; Mantle rheology; Time variable gravity; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GRAVITATION; SEISMOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISCOSITY;

ANTARCTICA; GLACIAL REBOUND; GRACE; MANTLE RHEOLOGY; TIME-VARIABLE GRAVITY;

ICE;

GLACIAL REBOUND; GRACE; GRAVITY FIELD; ICE THICKNESS; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MASS BALANCE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RHEOLOGY; UPLIFT; VISCOSITY;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84921954327     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.01.001     Document Type: Article

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