Application of GRACE to the assessment of model-based estimates of monthly Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance (2003-2012)

Cryosphere

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1965-1989

  Schlegel, Nicole Jeanne ^a,b   Wiese, David N ^b   Larour, Eric Y ^b   Watkins, Michael M ^b   Box, Jason E ^c   Fettweis, Xavier ^d   Van Den Broeke, Michiel R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GRACE; ICE SHEET; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA LEVEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84986570857     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-10-1965-2016     Document Type: Article

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