… Greenland ice sheet and its six major drainage basins. Based on laser altimetry data acquired
by the Ice… February–March 2008, ice surface height changes and their temporal variations …

… 26 individual satellite measurements of changes in the ice sheet’s volume, flow and … To
assess the surface mass change across the Greenland Ice Sheet between 1980 and 2018, we …

… volume change rate over the Greenland ice sheet equals − 147 ± 1 km 3 /year (formal error).
This signal is mainly caused by strong volume … m, a small positive volume change rate of 21 …

… with a creep instability that was raised in the introduction and would manifest itself in a
sudden volume drop of the ice sheet could not be confirmed. For all conducted simulations, the …

… Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) to sea level change. We use the mass budget method, which
quantifies ice sheet … Both radar and laser altimeters measure ice sheet volume changes, which …

… to determine ice sheet volume or mass changes include … (surface elevation change method),
observations of ice flow of … of changes in the gravity field caused by changes in ice sheet …

… Such large perturbations may easily lead to volume changes of up to two orders of magnitude
larger than the trend found in this study. In view of the possibility of such large variations, it …

… cloudiness changes in the response of the Greenland ice sheet to global warming. Changes
in accumulation or cloudiness were often neglected, or coupled to temperature changes. …

… of a changing Greenland Ice Sheet. Above the 2000-m contour, representing 70% of the
ice-sheet … The pattern of change was variable, however, with growth of 10 to 20 cm year −1 in …

Surface processes currently dominate Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) mass loss. We review
recent developments in the observation and modeling of GrIS surface mass balance (SMB), …