MASS BALANCE OF POLAR ICE FROM LONG WAVELENGTH FEATURES OF THE EARTH'S GRAVITATIONAL FIELD

• Published in: Surveys in geophysics Vol. 18; no. 2-3; pp. 313 - 326
• Main Authors: Trupin, Andrew S., Panfili, Raphael P.
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg Springer 01.05.1997; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Earth; Earth sciences; Earth, ocean, space; Exact sciences and technology; Ice thickness; Internal geophysics; Lower mantle; Marine and continental quaternary; Pleistocene; Sea level; Solid-earth geophysics, tectonophysics, gravimetry; Surficial geology; Antarctica; Greenland ice sheet; Antarctic ice sheet; Arctic region; Greenland; PN, Greenland, Greenland Ice Sheet; PS, Antarctica; AN, Greenland; gravity field; mass balance; lower mantle; thickness; upper Quaternary; harmonics; sea ice; viscoelasticity; polar regions; postglacial rebound; secular variations; Cenozoic; isostasy; wavelength; eustacy; models; Quaternary; accumulation; upper Pleistocene; viscosity; ice sheets; global change; Phanerozoic; Holocene; sea level; Pleistocene

We have used satellite solutions to the low degree zonal harmonics of the Earth's gravitational potential, and rates of surface accumulation to partially constrain, by means of repeated forward solution, the time rates of thickness change over the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets (dTA and dTG...